tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025823345504498692024-03-23T12:08:12.337-04:00 Max Shimba MinistriesI am a wide-eyed, sanctified, blood-bought, Spirit-taught, Bible-totin', Scripture-quotin', Satan-blastin', sin-trashin', Christ-followin' Pride-swallowin', hard-praying', truth-conveyin', faith-walking, gospel-talkin', bonafide big-time believer! And proud of itMAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4039125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-35523923751588291222024-02-16T08:39:00.000-05:002024-02-16T08:39:02.062-05:00FORMER MUSLIM EVANGELIST MUSA BELLO ARRESTED BY NIGERIAN POLICE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNf5KG5K-IPlINZ8WhNgS1YPCHT-fj_FtGdLcHSaGxRoSHjuVgeD3pEn5C1h18p_f1uoyMAsyNYvNy0LW13t71snpOksodgfnavGLfepxKiy6m2U8WbLgceWn3isi0jP8PeMmuVRHG8dAqzKOThaPUMpbJiyPsUxvmRJh2PigvfYF7x3Ib8oAXMSSV/s720/FB_IMG_1708043644071.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNf5KG5K-IPlINZ8WhNgS1YPCHT-fj_FtGdLcHSaGxRoSHjuVgeD3pEn5C1h18p_f1uoyMAsyNYvNy0LW13t71snpOksodgfnavGLfepxKiy6m2U8WbLgceWn3isi0jP8PeMmuVRHG8dAqzKOThaPUMpbJiyPsUxvmRJh2PigvfYF7x3Ib8oAXMSSV/s320/FB_IMG_1708043644071.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>**URGENT UPDATE** </p><p><br /></p><p>**FORMER MUSLIM EVANGELIST MUSA BELLO ARRESTED BY NIGERIAN POLICE**</p><p><br /></p><p>Shimba TV, New York has received distressing news regarding the arrest of ex-Muslim evangelist Musa Bello by the Nigerian police. False accusations by Muslims have led to his arrest, and reports indicate that he has suffered severe beatings while in police custody. Regrettably, his assistant has already been killed.</p><p><br /></p><p>We urgently appeal to the United Nations to intervene in this grave injustice. This incident is a clear case of Christian persecution in Nigeria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shimba TV </p><p>New York, NY 10005</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-49685153552642081162024-02-03T16:49:00.001-05:002024-02-03T16:49:17.729-05:00100 Bible Verses about Worshipping Jesus<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAG_gbwipvIegsDyUbiT9GrfKZok71yYE0FnBgmv-495aGOjiYEpcxHHF0sVqw0JAAA5kNLX6nFb95iauVRwTRLFeY4z2Q6HyIusB5kGvtbdZviWB2iJdL6Q5BHQe4fWS5X_3xclc5Qd2QFVo_npfyAQNE4UbFdC4cbPJ9KQxjXxeY5wyPmegUmqV/s720/FB_IMG_1704071586090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAG_gbwipvIegsDyUbiT9GrfKZok71yYE0FnBgmv-495aGOjiYEpcxHHF0sVqw0JAAA5kNLX6nFb95iauVRwTRLFeY4z2Q6HyIusB5kGvtbdZviWB2iJdL6Q5BHQe4fWS5X_3xclc5Qd2QFVo_npfyAQNE4UbFdC4cbPJ9KQxjXxeY5wyPmegUmqV/s320/FB_IMG_1704071586090.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> WE WORSHIP JESUS OUR LORD AND GOD<p></p><p><br /></p><p>100 Bible Verses about Worshipping Jesus</p><p> </p><p>Matthew 28:9 ESV /</p><p>And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 1:6 ESV /</p><p>And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 14:33 ESV / </p><p>And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”</p><p><br /></p><p>John 9:38 ESV /</p><p>He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 1:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes </p><p>But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 2:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes </p><p>And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 4:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes </p><p>God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Luke 24:52 ESV / 29 helpful votes </p><p>And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 4:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes </p><p>Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”</p><p><br /></p><p>Psalm 95:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes </p><p>Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!</p><p><br /></p><p>John 1:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes </p><p>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 1:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes </p><p>He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 10:30 ESV / 26 helpful votes </p><p>I and the Father are one.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes </p><p>So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,</p><p><br /></p><p>John 4:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes </p><p>But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 28:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes </p><p>And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 8:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes </p><p>And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Genesis 1:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes </p><p>Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p><p><br /></p><p>1 John 5:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes </p><p>And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 14:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes </p><p>Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Titus 2:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes </p><p>Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 22:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes </p><p>I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”</p><p><br /></p><p>John 20:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes </p><p>Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”</p><p><br /></p><p>John 1:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes </p><p>All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 21:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes </p><p>And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes </p><p>Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 19:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes </p><p>Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 1:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes </p><p>The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,</p><p><br /></p><p>John 1:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes </p><p>And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes </p><p>“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes </p><p>Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes </p><p>For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 1:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes </p><p>For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 20:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes </p><p>Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”</p><p><br /></p><p>John 14:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes </p><p>You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes </p><p>“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.</p><p><br /></p><p>Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes </p><p>For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 5:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes </p><p>And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes </p><p>But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Matthew 28:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes </p><p>And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Psalm 150:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes </p><p>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!</p><p><br /></p><p>Psalm 29:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes </p><p>Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 1:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 2:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,</p><p><br /></p><p>John 17:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 4:23-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Luke 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes </p><p>And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 5:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:9-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 17:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Psalm 34:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes </p><p>Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 11:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 3:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 10:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes </p><p>Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 4:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>The twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 1:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>Saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”</p><p><br /></p><p>James 1:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Timothy 4:1-6:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 1:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 14:11-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 12:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 11:36 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.</p><p><br /></p><p>John 1:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes </p><p>No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 22:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 4:8-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,</p><p><br /></p><p>Colossians 3:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippians 4:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 15:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 14:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Acts 16:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Psalm 63:3-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes </p><p>Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 22:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>But he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 22:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 17:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 11:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 7:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,</p><p><br /></p><p>Revelation 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans 10:1-13:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Acts 16:1-25:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes </p><p>Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Acts 2:46-47 ESV / </p><p>And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Contact me: maxshimbaministries@gmail.com</p><p>Shimba Theological Institute</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-9367799979450006582024-01-28T18:03:00.001-05:002024-01-28T18:03:02.300-05:00TESTIMONY <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwZ0o-TzvpWrtX7mt7RM7h10bIkgWprmBG6eNyOdwndhEXaLj3S4O0sxGkcKc-vstm5ajgtecw5IVbuoQCBUw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-89392476840721499322024-01-28T18:01:00.003-05:002024-01-28T18:01:25.203-05:00BBC LIES EXPOSED <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXBbfWFxm5EgJoHSYG8x-oVVsj9gLXlKi8GDjoaqICUuAYKIEjYCWm-YsbU-ybs4qin9RbCnB5czZCVgr1Ug' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-38240354501627962782024-01-28T18:00:00.001-05:002024-01-28T18:00:03.981-05:00THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLE <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxIwBl_XcuU9UJ5ccI6eaaLpMsfCQlyrxmpsRvQCrXfoLC1hOTTyW5FslqM62FNlhJhYtsRzKyg50chn4XSOw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-38229161436478055572024-01-28T17:59:00.000-05:002024-01-28T17:59:23.374-05:00ALLAH IS NOT GOD OF THE BIBLE <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzw7CFFKpgBc32r31eI710sVOjMlSSlpx-nuqq2P67PT0z8BZ_e_CrBXK-KNWCU3hRllPWRcRfZIsN_VPxjxg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-13453255800210739672024-01-28T17:58:00.001-05:002024-01-28T17:58:02.106-05:00DOES GOD EXIST? YES<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dza6VeGrhdQX1l9qkNUw7sYK9o138DvIICxFY0t51-Ko7S91zRDnI0w_QCpWxupV5pmzoGZAkB5saTILFKJgw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-26856323626708624732024-01-28T17:57:00.000-05:002024-01-28T17:57:00.166-05:00PRESIDENT MUSEVENI ON GAY LGBTQ RIGHTS <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyHRDJ2NITb1P__uiJAU124w09ZPKoB2pzM4RWcfidPiXjSxyh0RglAOgH9sHRJ3kuEje6uv3pwRgBSRI86FQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-80999350959861659462024-01-28T17:55:00.002-05:002024-01-28T17:55:59.959-05:00THERR IS NO SUCH A THING LIKE HOLY QURAN <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxYayi49vbtWThtOgOsgACvSkyu2GxXiHJDR4nksg9ZHaSyRJuc9pRIzi1LW1GzMVsTSZfH0IPV8iYrrQm7Fg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-3451035106088503322024-01-28T17:53:00.000-05:002024-01-28T17:53:00.672-05:00BEAT YOUR WIFE WITH A BROOM/STRAW* 😁👇<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DUWeJUC-V61UG6uaZbVaWzBh5DDlYTfyYWZBr-KdFy7lsrtHUz3a6B7iZxtSwUvIurvZzU6yFltyYwu5OpBxMTDBZh-J8R7nmv_4elGczvNFe8TsAj4SLcS5JHQ_HBySwdlG9pyO5GmGkRk2ZW-HKEQCNP-y50iZAKx8URY1Ug-7YO16JFA4e-J_/s741/FB_IMG_1702632873361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DUWeJUC-V61UG6uaZbVaWzBh5DDlYTfyYWZBr-KdFy7lsrtHUz3a6B7iZxtSwUvIurvZzU6yFltyYwu5OpBxMTDBZh-J8R7nmv_4elGczvNFe8TsAj4SLcS5JHQ_HBySwdlG9pyO5GmGkRk2ZW-HKEQCNP-y50iZAKx8URY1Ug-7YO16JFA4e-J_/s320/FB_IMG_1702632873361.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br /> *BEAT YOUR WIFE WITH A BROOM/STRAW*<p></p><p>😁👇</p><p>*ALLAH KNOWS BEST* </p><p><br /></p><p>*Sura 38:44* </p><p><br /></p><p>Muhammad Sarwar</p><p>We told him, *"Take a handful of straw. Strike your wife* with it to fulfill your oath </p><p><br /></p><p>Hilali & Khan"</p><p>And take in your hand a bundle of thin grass and *strike therewith (your wife),* and break not your oath </p><p><br /></p><p>Amhad Khan</p><p>And We said, *“Take a broom in your hand and strike her* with it, and do not break your vow”</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-11301709484342376892024-01-28T17:42:00.003-05:002024-01-28T17:42:43.527-05:00ALLAH WILL INHERIT THE WEALTH OF IT'S SLAVES<p> *POOR ALLAH WILL INHERIT THE WEALTH OF IT'S SLAVES, THEN GIVE IT ALL TO IT'S SLAVES IN IT'S POVERTY STRICKEN BROTHEL/JANNAH* </p><p><br /></p><p>Sura 19:80 </p><p><br /></p><p>Hilali & Khan</p><p>And *We shall inherit* from him (at his death) all that he talks of (i.e. wealth and children 🤣👉 *which We have bestowed upon him in this world),* </p><p><br /></p><p>Maududi</p><p>and *We shall inherit all the resources* and hosts of which he boasts </p><p><br /></p><p>*19.80 Abbas - Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs*</p><p>(And We shall inherit from him that whereof he spake) *in Paradise and 👉give it to the believers,* </p><p><br /></p><p>😅👇</p><p>*NO WONDER ALLAH DEMANDS DEATH TO HUMANITY, IT NEEDS THE WEALTH OF HUMANITY*</p><p>😁☝👇</p><p>*ALLAH IN WONDERLAND*</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-41888553088836294212024-01-28T17:41:00.003-05:002024-01-28T17:41:35.527-05:00ALLAH OWNS THE EARTH* 😁🤓 <p> *ALLAH OWNS THE EARTH*</p><p>😁🤓 </p><p><br /></p><p>*Quran 7:128*</p><p>indeed the Owner of the earth is Allah</p><p>*Quran 6:12*</p><p>Say, "To whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and earth?" </p><p>🤣👉Say, "To Allah </p><p><br /></p><p>*NO WAIT - ALLAH WILL "INHERIT" THE EARTH* </p><p>🥴😉🥳 </p><p><br /></p><p>*Quran 19:40*</p><p>*Ultimately,* 👉 *We shall inherit the earth and whatever is on it*</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-74692999485564294532024-01-28T17:40:00.003-05:002024-01-28T17:40:44.562-05:00ALLAH IS A RULER OF MUHAMMADANS <p> *ISCAM*</p><p>🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥</p><p>*NO ONE HAS AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS EXCEPT ALLAH*</p><p>👇👇👇👇 </p><p><br /></p><p>*Sura 18:26*</p><p>*Hilali & Khan*</p><p>Say: "Allah knows best..</p><p>They have no Wali (Helper, Disposer of affairs, Protector, etc.) other than Him, *and He makes none to share in His Decision and His Rule."* </p><p><br /></p><p>*Maududi*</p><p>The creatures have no other guardian than Him; *He allows none to share His authority."* </p><p><br /></p><p>*NO NO - ALLAH AND IT'S GOD MAKES DECISIONS - NO ONE CAN DISOBEY MU-HAM-MADD*</p><p>😁😁👇👇👇 </p><p><br /></p><p>*Sura 33:36*</p><p>Ahmad Ali</p><p>No believing men and women have any choice in a matter *after God and His Apostle have decided it.* Whoever disobeys *God and His Apostle* has clearly lost the way and gone astray </p><p><br /></p><p>*ISLAM EXPOSES ISLAM - WE DON'T NEED TO LIFT A FINGER*</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-38841042247168808552024-01-28T17:38:00.001-05:002024-01-28T17:38:05.659-05:00What was Man Created From?<div>*CONFUSION, CONTRADICTIONS AND INCONSISTENCIES IN THE QURAN*</div><div><br /></div><div>*What was Man Created From?*</div><div><br /></div><div>Now let us have a look at the verses:</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-`alaq 96:1-2 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ ﴿١﴾ خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ﴿٢﴾</div><div><br /></div><div>Proclaim, in the name of thy Lord, *Who created — created man from `alaq.*</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Anbiaa 21:30 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَيٍّ ۖ</div><div><br /></div><div>*We made all living things from water.*</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Noor 24:45 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>وَاللَّـهُ خَلَقَ كُلَّ دَابَّةٍ مِّن مَّاءٍ ۖ</div><div><br /></div><div>And Allah created all living things from water</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Furqaan 25:54 reads as: </div><div><br /></div><div>وَهُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ بَشَرًا</div><div><br /></div><div>It is He, Who created man from water.</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Hijr 15:26 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ مِن صَلْصَالٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ</div><div><br /></div><div>*And We created man from sounding (extremely dry) clay of black stinking mud.*</div><div><br /></div><div>Aal Imraan 3:59 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَىٰ عِندَ اللَّـهِ كَمَثَلِ آدَمَ ۖ خَلَقَهُ مِن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ</div><div><br /></div><div>[The creation of] Jesus, in the sight of Allah, is like [that of] Adam. *He created him from dust and then said to him ‘Be’ and he was*.</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Room 30: 20 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ إِذَا أَنتُم بَشَرٌ تَنتَشِرُونَ</div><div><br /></div><div>And among His signs is that He created you *from dust*</div><div><br /></div><div>Faatir 35:11 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>وَاللَّـهُ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍ</div><div><br /></div><div>And Allah created you from dust</div><div><br /></div><div>Maryam 19:67 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>أَوَلَا يَذْكُرُ الْإِنسَانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْئًا</div><div><br /></div><div>Does man not take heed [from the fact] that We created him [while] before that he was nothing?</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Toor 52: 35 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ</div><div><br /></div><div>*Were they created out of nothing? Or were they themselves their own creators?*</div><div><br /></div><div>Hu’d 11:61 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>هُوَ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ وَاسْتَعْمَرَكُمْ فِيهَا</div><div><br /></div><div>It was He who raised you up from the earth and gave you means to dwell upon it</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Nahl 16:4 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ</div><div><br /></div><div>*He created man from a drop [of semen].*</div><div><br /></div><div>Al-Qiyamah 75: 37 reads as:</div><div><br /></div><div>أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةً مِّن مَّنِيٍّ يُمْنَىٰ</div><div><br /></div><div>*Was he not a drop of ejaculated semen?*</div><div><br /></div><div>*WHAT WAS MAN CREATED FROM?*</div><div><br /></div><div>I wonder how you would look if I said “I made a cake from nothing” since Sura 19:67 says:</div><div><br /></div><div>But does not man call to mind that We created him before out of nothing?</div><div><br /></div><div>— Sura 19: 67 [wrongly written as 3: 47]</div><div>which fits together with the above mentioned *“be and it is” (3:47).*</div><div><br /></div><div>Although you might mention different ingredients at different verses, but none of those goes together with “nothing”.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let us continue with references:</div><div><br /></div><div>Allah createth what He willeth: When he hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, *“Be,” and it is!*</div><div>— Sura 3:47</div><div><br /></div><div>He just says the word *“be”* and it is, there is no making a mess with water, clay, blood clots or dust, just a clean “there it is”. Right?</div><div><br /></div><div>ALLAH IS THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION AND IS NOT GOD OF THE BIBLE WHO CREATED EVERYTHING. </div><div><br /></div><div>Shalom </div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Max Shimba for Max Shimba Ministries Org</div>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-45522919170422862992023-04-06T13:39:00.000-04:002023-04-06T13:39:07.117-04:00WAS MUHAMMAD PROPHESIED IN THE BIBLE?<p><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">SURAH 61:6</b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muslims believe that the coming of Muhammad was foretold in the Bible. For centuries, Muslims have tried to find predictions of the coming of Muhammad in the Bible. This expectation of theirs stems from the following two verses in the Qur’an:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 7:157:</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">which are with them. He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong. (Pickthall)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: “O Children of Israel! I am the messenger of Allah sent to you, confirming the Law which came before me, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">and giving Glad Tidings of a Messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.” But when he came to them with Clear Signs, they said, “This is evident sorcery!” (Yusuf Ali)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Muhammad” </b></i>appears four times in the entire Qur’an. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 3:144</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 33:40</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 47:2</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 48:29</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> However, in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i> we find <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus</b></i> speaking of a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Messenger</b></i> who is to come after him by the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad.”</b></i> Muslim theologians have understood this to be a reference to Muhammad. If <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Muhammad”</b></i> was truly the one whom Jesus was referring to in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i>, why does not the Qur’an use his actual name in that verse? There is no valid reason not to use the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Muhammad”</b></i> since that is the only name by which the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prophet of Islam</b></i> is identified in the entire Qur’an. Thus, Muslims must ask themselves why is it that in the entire Qur’an, not once is the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prophet of Islam</b></i> addressed as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> Instead he is only identified by his proper name, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Muhammad.”</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is also important to understand that the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> and the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Muhammad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> do not precisely mean the same thing. The name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Muhammad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> is a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">proper noun </b></i>while <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> as expressed in the original Arabic is an<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">adjective. </b></i>In Arabic, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> simply means <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“to possess a praiseworthy quality” </b></i>or<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “a quality for which one is praised.” </b></i>The Qur’an identifies Jesus as the one narrating the prophecy in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> As such, the name uttered by Jesus in his own vernacular language would not have been the Arabic <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad.”</b></i> Substantiating this fact, some well recognized translations of the Qur’an completely omit the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"></i></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">And when Jesus, son of Mary, said: “O children of Israel, I am God’s messenger to you, authenticating what is present with me of the Torah and bringing good news of a messenger to come after me </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">whose name will be acclaimed</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.” But when he showed them the clear proofs, they said: “This is clearly magic.” (Modern Literal Translation)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Children of Israel! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah unto you, confirming that which was revealed before me in the Torah, and bringing good tidings of a messenger who cometh after me, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">whose name is the Praised One</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Yet when he hath come unto them with clear proofs, they say: This is mere magic.” (Pickthall)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moreover, if the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad”</b></i> truly represents a proper name of another prophet to come after Jesus, we would undoubtedly witness an abundance of recorded documents testifying to this fact. It is also very likely that many followers of Jesus would have named their sons as such–hoping that their child would turn out to be God’s foretold messenger. Many others would also adopt the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad”</b></i> claiming to fulfill this prophecy. There is not a hint that anything of this sort ever occurred in the entire history of Christianity. In fact the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> is alien to the early Christians.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the authorities on the Qur’an, one of the most well known was <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ubai ibn Ka’b.</b></i> He was a close companion of Muhammad and served as a personal <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">scribe</b></i> for him. He was known for his excellent recitation of the Qur’an and was given the title, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Master Reciter.”</b></i> Muhammad personally qualified only four persons by name with the knowledge to teach the recitation of the Qur’an. And <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ubai ibn Ka’b</b></i> was one of them. Muhammad specifically directed the early Muslims to learn the recitation of the Qur’an from any one of these four.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 57, Hadith Number 103:</b></span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Narrated By Masruq: ‘Abdullah (bin Mas’ud) was mentioned before ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr. The latter said, “That is a man I continue to love because I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘Learn the recitation of the Qur’an from any of these four persons: ‘Abdullah bin Masud, Salim the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifa, </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ubai bin Ka’b,</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and Muadh bin Jabal.’”</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is important for Muslims to note that the codices of the Qur’an by <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ubai ibn Ka’b</b></i> recite the text in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i> quite differently. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ubai ibn Ka’b</b></i> completely omits the conclusion which states <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“his name will be Ahmad” </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ismuhu ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">) </i>and in its place records Jesus as announcing a prophet who would bear the seal of Allah from among his prophets and messengers <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">khatumullaahu bihil-anbiyaa’ wal-rusuli</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i>. Why would this erudite and entrusted <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">scribe</b></i> of Muhammad completely omit the name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad”</b></i> if there is no valid reason for him to do so?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Believing strongly in the infallibility of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 7:157 </b></i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </i>Muslims have searched with determination for evidences to prove that prophecies about Muhammad can indeed be found in the Bible. In fact, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 7:157</b></i> seems to suggest that prophecies regarding Muhammad can be found easily in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Torah and the</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel.”</b></i> However, when Muslims began searching for these prophecies in the Bible, they came away disappointed. They discovered that it was Jesus and not Muhammad who is the center of many of the prophecies in the Bible. And disappointment led to desperation. To overcome this dilemma, Muslims began attacking the authenticity of the Bible. They blasphemously accuse the Bible of becoming corrupted at the hands of the Jews and the Christians. They had to but propagate this lie in order to justify their failure to find any reference of Muhammad in the Bible.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically, by hurling accusations against the Bible, they have turned against Allah. Why do we say that? It is because of two very important facts that are taught in the Qur’an. Firstly, the Qur’an itself testifies that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel </b></i>are the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Words of Allah</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:44: “</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lo! </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">We did reveal the</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, wherein is </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">guidance</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and a </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">light.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Pickthall)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:46:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “And We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow in their footsteps, confirming that which was (revealed) before him in the Torah, and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">We bestowed on him the</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> wherein is </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">guidance</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and a </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">light</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, confirming that which was (revealed) before it in the Torah – a guidance and an admonition unto those who ward off (evil).” (Pickthall)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 3:3-4:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “He sent down </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Law</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (of Moses) and the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (of Jesus) before this, as </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">a guide to mankind.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Yusuf Ali)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And secondly,<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>the Qur’an teaches in no uncertain terms that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“none can change the Words of Allah.”</b></i></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 6:115:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Perfect are the </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">words of thy Lord</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in truthfulness and justice; </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">no man can change His words;</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing. (Arberry)</i></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:64: “None can change the Words of Allah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. This is indeed the Supreme Triumph.” (Pickthall)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 18:27:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord; </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">none can change His Words</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him.” (Yusuf Ali)</i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"></i></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, the accusation by Muslims that the Bible was altered to remove Muhammad’s name is not only baseless but it also violates the teachings of Allah in the Qur’an. Nonetheless, Muslims contend that even though one may not find Muhammad’s name in the Bible today, there are enough evidences in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel </b></i>to substantiate the legitimacy of Muhammad’s prophethood to all mankind, including Christians. Is this claim by Muslims true?</p><p align="CENTER" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">PARAKLETOS” OR “PERIKLUTOS”</b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Greek term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> which appears in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> is translated as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helpe</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">r</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">,” “Comforter,” </b></i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Counselor”</b></i> in the English translations of the Bible. And the Bible itself identifies the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helpe</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">r</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">” </b></i>as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Holy Spirit”</b></i> or the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Spirit of Truth.”</b></i> Christians clearly understand that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> refers to the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In total disagreement with this firmly established position of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Testament </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scriptures</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> some Muslims argue that the correct word should be <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> instead of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i> The reason for this hypothetical claim by Muslims is because the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i>” which means the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Praised One”</b></i> can be conveniently translated as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i> in Arabic. However, this claim by Muslims is untenable for many reasons. One reason is the fact that we have in existence complete <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Testament manuscripts </b></i>which predate the Qur’an by centuries which do not support such an assumption.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have in our possession today more than <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">24,000</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ancient manuscripts </b></i>of portions of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Testament Scriptures. </b></i>Included among these <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ancient</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">manuscripts</b></i> are numerous copies of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John. </b></i>And every single manuscript of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> uses the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parakletos”</b></i> in their text. Not one of these manuscripts contains the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos.”</b></i> Well, how do Muslims know it is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> and not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parakletos”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">? </i>Can they provide a single manuscript evidence to substantiate their claim? Without providing a single shred of evidence, Muslims assume that it should be <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos.”</b></i> By denying thousands of authentic manuscript evidences, Muslims hope to somehow find support for the veracity of Muhammad in the Bible.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In spite of the absence of any real evidence to support their claim, Muslims still maintain that the verses which speak about the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> are actually prophecies about Muhammad. In particular, they refer to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16</b></i> where the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> appears in the original Greek. Without any evidence to substantiate their claim, Muslims allege that the Greek word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is a textual corruption. As stated above, there is not a single shred of evidence in favor of this unfounded speculation that the original Greek word was <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos.”</b></i> All <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ancient manuscripts </b></i>of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greek Scriptures</b></i> that we have with us today only uses the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> and not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> as Muslims claim. And we have <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">thousands</b></i> of these manuscripts <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">pre-dating</b></i> Islam. Thus, the charge of textual corruption is without historical or textual support. Jesus clearly did not use the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos”</b></i> but <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.” </b></i>This is proven by the following verses of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> with the original Greek terminology in parenthesis:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:15-18:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">allon parakleton</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">) to be with you forever—the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:25-26:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">de parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">), which is the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 15:26-27:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> But when the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ho parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">comes, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which proceeded from the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 16:7: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth, it is for your benefit I am going away. For if I do not go away, the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ho parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">) will by no means come to you; but if I do go my way, I will send him to you.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whenever Muslims are unable to defend their position, they typically hurl false accusations. One very common allegation is that the Christians have corrupted the Bible. Think! What reasons would Christians have to corrupt the original word centuries <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">before</b></i> the arrival of Muhammad or Islam? How would they have known that someone would come some 600 years later and claim that he is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad”</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)? </i>And supposedly for this reason, they maliciously changed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> How ridiculous can Muslims become? And since our <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">present </b></i>Bible is identical to the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ancient manuscripts</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> which <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">predates</b></i> Islam, it proves that no changes were made to the Bible as Muslims falsely claim. Furthermore, how are Muslims going to reconcile their baseless accusation of corruption with Allah’s declaration in the Qur’an that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“None can change the Words of Allah”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:64</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)?</i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The statement of Allah in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:64</b></i> will only make sense if the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i> remain unchanged for all eternity. Should these Scriptures undergo any changes during any period of time in the history of mankind, then Allah becomes a liar and the Qur’an becomes false. Muslims now have to decide between calling Allah a liar and accepting the Bible as the authentic unchanged <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Word of God.</b></i> They have to now choose between <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> and<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Periklutos.”</b></i></p><p align="CENTER" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE PARAKLETOS REVEAL ITS IDENTITY</b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muslims claim that it is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> and not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>that was used originally in the Bible. In order to expose this absurd allegation, it is important to focus on the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature </b></i>and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i> Only then we can determine whether <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is the correct word or <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> as Muslims claim.<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>Therefore, to know the true identity, it is essential to study the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>of the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Parakletos” </b></i>as recorded in the Holy Bible. Why? This is because the Muslim argument is centered on the supposed falsification of the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>and not the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>or the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>as described in the Bible. It is important to note that the Muslim argument in favor of Muhammad is very much reliant on the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature </b></i>and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>as described in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Take away the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>and<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>Muslims are left with nothing to prove that it is Muhammad who is prophesied in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Thus, a critical analysis of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>and the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> functions</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>will prove whether Muhammad was really the one whom Jesus spoke about.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We will now analyze both the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">functions</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>to determine if Muhammad fits the description. We will do this by examining the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">functions</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos” </b></i>as<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>presented by Jesus Christ in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Since Muslims quote from the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Gospel of John </b></i>to validate Muhammad’s prophethood, they must stay with the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>if they are sincere in their claim<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> We will now provide <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seven Reasons</b></i> why Islam is absolutely wrong about the identity of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i></p><ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE NATURE OF THE PARAKLETOS AND ITS PURPOSE</b></p></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A careful reading of all the texts where the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> appears shows that it is the only term that correctly suits the intended purpose of this word in the Holy Bible. While some Muslims admit that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is the correct word, they still claim that Muhammad was the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> whom Jesus was referring to in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26</b></i>. Let us briefly examine some of the texts that refer to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>We will carry out this evaluation in a truly exegetical manner in order to establish conclusively whether Muhammad is indeed the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>whose coming Jesus foretold:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> But </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Helper, which is the</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, whom the Father will send in my name.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16-17:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And I will ask the Father and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">he will give you another Helper to be with you forever—the Spirit of Truth.</b></i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 15:26:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> But when </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">comes, whom I will send unto you from the Father, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">even the</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is quite evident from the above cited verses that the terms <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth</b></i> are one and the same. It is also evident that Jesus is speaking of the same <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>in each instance. The one obvious fact that emerges in all these verses is that the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>is a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> The fact that Jesus speaks of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i> in the masculine gender in no way suggests that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> must be a human as some Muslims try to imply. It must be remembered that the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> is a translation of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> which is a masculine noun in Greek. Since Jesus personified the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> when speaking of its <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper,”</b></i> the apostle John correctly used the masculine personal pronoun when speaking of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit </b></i>as the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Helper.”</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As we can see Jesus described the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Spirit of Truth”</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ruh-ul-Haqq</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Holy Spirit”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ruh-ul-Quddus</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">).</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ruh </b></i>means <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i> in Arabic. It is certainly impossible to identify Muhammad as a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit.</b></i> Nowhere in the Qur’an is Muhammad referred to or described as a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ruh</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> by Allah. And Muhammad himself admits in the Qur’an that he is nothing more than a mere<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">human</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 17:93:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Say, “I proclaim the Purity of my Lord. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am nothing but human</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a messenger.” (M. T. Usmani)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clearly, Muhammad cannot be the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> that Jesus promised. When we take into consideration all the Biblical verses that reveal the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>we find numerous reasons why the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> simply cannot be Muhammad. Consider now the following additional evidences. When Jesus spoke to his Disciples, he clarified that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>would come to them during their <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">life time</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> In fact, Jesus told them not to depart from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 1:4-5:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “And while he was meeting with them he gave them the orders: “</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do not withdraw from Jerusalem, but keep waiting for what the Father has promised</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, about which you heard from me; John, indeed, baptized with water, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">but you will be baptized in Holy Spirit </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">not many days after this</b></u></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In obedience, the Disciples waited in Jerusalem. Just <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ten days</b></i> later, they received the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> The presence of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> was manifested when all those who waited were <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“filled with the Holy Spirit.”</b></i> The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> was certainly not sent to the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meccans</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Medinans</b></i> or the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Arabians</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> If the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> is actually referring to Muhammad, then the Disciples would have to wait in Jerusalem for some 600 years. And can the Disciples be <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“filled” </b></i>with Muhammad? Now, read for yourself the account of what happened to the Disciples in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 2:1-4:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Now while the day of the festival of Pentecost was in progress they were all together at the same place, and suddenly there occurred from heaven a noise just like that of a rushing stiff breeze, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting. And tongues as if of fire became visible to them and were distributed about, and one sat upon each one of them, and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">they all became filled with Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and started to speak with different tongues, just as the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> was granting them to make utterance.”</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This event occurred in the year <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">33 C.E.</b></i> Up to this point in time, none of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christian Greek Scriptures</b></i> had been written. And just as Jesus promised, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> was now available to ensure that all the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">divine truths</b></i> that had to be recorded in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christian Greek Scriptures</b></i> would be accurate and trustworthy. Since Jesus was no longer physically with his followers, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> assisted them to call to mind all the things that Jesus had said and taught while he was with them. In fact, Jesus clearly foretold this particular <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">bring back to your minds all the things I told you.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Furthermore, Jesus also foretold that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> would empower his Disciples to preach the Gospel to the most distant parts of the earth:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 1:8:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> But you will receive power when the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> comes on you; </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fact that Christianity spread to the four corners of the earth proves the truthfulness of the words of Jesus regarding the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Based upon what Jesus explicitly taught in the Bible, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>cannot be Muhammad. Moreover, Islam erroneously identifies the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>as the angel Gabriel. This further disproves Muhammad as the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the above Biblical verses, it is evident that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>is the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit.</b></i> There is no ambiguity about this. Jesus himself plainly identified the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>as God’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Thus, it is obvious that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> which is the powerful <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">active force</b></i> of God is not a human being as suggested by Muslims. Muslims have a habit of using verses that only fit their agenda while ignoring other verses, even when the very next verse in the text proves the absurdity of their position. Sometimes even within a verse, the select what they need and reject the rest. This is utter dishonesty.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As mentioned above, Jesus commanded his disciples not to depart from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </i>He told them to wait there for the fulfillment of the promise. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 1:4-5</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> From this account we can see that Jesus clearly identified the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">exact place</b></i> where the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>would initially become operative. Jesus specifically pointed to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</b></i> and not to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mecca</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Are Muslim scholars now going to say that Christians also changed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Mecca”</b></i> to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Jerusalem”</b></i> in the Holy Bible?</p><ol start="2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 14:16: “HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER”</b></p></li></ol><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And I will ask the Father and he will give you </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">another helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to be with you forever.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If the Muslims allegation that the original word was <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos” </b></i>and that the Christians have changed it to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is true, then <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16</b></i> would read: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“He will give you another Ahmad.”</b></i> Who then was the first <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</i> Even Jesus is never called the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos”</b></i> in the Bible. This word does not appear anywhere in the Bible. Since Jesus was never given that title, it would be utterly senseless for him to say:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Father will give you another ‘Periklutos’</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The more Muslims try to prove their point, the more absurd their position becomes. In contrast to the absurdity of the Muslim position, a<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>comparative study of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16 </b></i>with<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 1 John 2:1 </b></i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 16:12-13</b></i> clearly proves that the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>is the only word that correctly describes the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i> The Bible states in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 John 2:1</b></i> that Christians have a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> with the Father who is none other than Jesus Christ:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 John 2:1</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">: My little children, I am writing you these things that you may not commit a sin. And yet, if anyone does commit a sin, we have a </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> with the Father, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus Christ</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a righteous one.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now compare the above verse with the words of Jesus in the following verses:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 16:12-13:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “I have many things yet to say to you, but you are not able to bear them at present. But, when the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> arrives, he will guide you into all the truth.”</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In other words, Jesus is saying to his Disciples:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have been your </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">and I have many things to tell you but you are not able to bear them at present. Don’t worry, I have asked the Father to send you </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">another Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to guide you into all the truth.”</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See how the word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>fits so perfectly within the framework of the teachings of Jesus. Let’s recap. The Greek word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> means <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper.”</b></i> Jesus is our <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>with the Father. So Jesus Christ is our <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.” </b></i>And he promised to give his Disciples <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“another</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper”</b></i> when he is away from them.<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>Thus, it is logical for Jesus to promise <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“another</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parakletos”</b></i> since he himself is described as the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> of his followers. It is completely illogical to suggest that he would speak of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“another Periklutos </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">praised one</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> when the word was never used to describe him in the first place.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, the context itself dictates that the only appropriate term that can rightly be used here is<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> and not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos” </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">praised one</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">). </i>Just as Jesus Christ was our <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper,”</b></i> the Father promised to give us another <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> when Jesus is no longer with us. The Muslim <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos”</b></i> is not only out of place contextually but it is also devoid of any rationality. The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>cannot be anything other than the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit.</b></i> Ironically, Muslim scholars are proud to identify Muhammad as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> while denying that Jesus used this term in the first place.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>The suggestions of these Muslim scholars expose their ignorance of the Greek language, their poorness of thought, and their deliberate deception. A study of the Qur’an itself reveals that Muhammad simply cannot be the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></p><ol start="3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 14:16: “TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER”</b></p></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whenever Muslims quote <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> they will only refer to the first part of the verse:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I will request the Father and he will give you another Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">…</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"></b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But they will deceptively leave out the part that follows immediately:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">to be with you forever.”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muslims know that quoting the second part of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16 </b></i>will result in theological difficulties for them. Thus, Muslims rely on deception to validate their claim. In other words, Muslims try to smuggle Muhammad into the Bible. When Muhammad came he did not stay <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">forever</b></i> with anyone, let alone with the Disciples of Jesus. In the Qur’an Muhammad is commanded to openly confess that he is only a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“mortal” </b></i>just like any one of us:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 18:110: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Say (O Prophet): “</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am but a mortal man</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> like all of you.” (Asad)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muhammad’s prophetic career lasted about <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">23 years</b></i> and he died in 632 C.E. He lived on this earth for 63 years–not forever. His tomb is in Medina. According to the theology of Islam, Muhammad will be resurrected on the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Day of Resurrection”</b></i> which occurs at the time of the end. Does Muhammad fit the description of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</i> Hardly! As we can see Muhammad cannot be the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper.”</b></i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the other hand, Jesus said that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> would remain with his faithful disciples <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">forever</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> Thus, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> would reside with true Christians forever. In other words, it will be with each successive generation of faithful Christians. And as stated earlier, the Disciples of Jesus did receive the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> At Pentecost 33 C.E., the apostle Peter testified to the out-pouring of God’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> upon the Disciples of Jesus Christ:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 2:32-33:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “This Jesus whom God resurrected, of which fact we are all witnesses. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Therefore because he was exalted to the right hand of God and received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this which you see and hear.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The word <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> clearly means the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> and it actually makes sense every time it is understood accurately. It is really incredible that Muslims go through a Book they believe have been corrupted and search for Muhammad somewhere in it to verify his prophethood.</p><ol start="4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 14:17: “IT REMAINS WITH YOU AND IS IN YOU.”</b></p></li></ol><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:17:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “The </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of Truth</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. You know it, because </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">it</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">remains with you</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">is in you</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</i></p></blockquote><p align="LEFT" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus clearly identified the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Spirit of Truth.”</b></i> The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Spirit of Truth” </b></i>or <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>cannot be seen by the world because it neither sees it nor knows it. And Jesus spoke to his Disciples in the present tense saying: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">You know it</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, because </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">it remains with you</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">is in you.”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>Yes!<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>The Disciples were already familiar with the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit. </b></i>They had already witnessed the powerful works Jesus performed through the operation of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit </b></i>when he was with them.<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>And they themselves performed miraculous works by means of the operation of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew10:5-8</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> Therefore, not only were they acquainted with the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>but they also experienced a measure of the gift of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit. </b></i>That is why Jesus could say to his Disciples <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“it remains with you and</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">is in you</b></u></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>However<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </b>what<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>Jesus promised to his Disciples in<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> John 14:16</b></i> is the fuller gift of the<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Holy Spirit. </b></i>They had yet to receive the anointing with <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit </b></i>that Jesus spoke of in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 7:39</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, he said this concerning the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which those who put faith in him </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">were about to receive</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">; for as yet there was </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">no</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.</i></p></blockquote><p align="LEFT" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Once they were anointed with the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> that Jesus promised in<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> John 14:16</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>they received the gift of the heavenly calling and the adoption as spirit-begotten sons of God. They could now also understand more fully the meaning of the many things that Christ spoke to them:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Romans 8:14-17:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> For all who are led by God’s spirit are indeed God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but you received </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">a spirit of adoption as sons</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, by which spirit we cry out: </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Abba,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Father!” The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God’s children</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. If, then, we are children, we are also heirs—heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ—provided we suffer together so that we may also be glorified together.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Spirit of Truth” </b></i>is said to be <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>the Disciples. The Greek word used here for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“in”</b></i> is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“en”</b></i> which means <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“right inside.”</b></i> So Jesus was saying to his Disciples that the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> was already <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“right inside”</b></i> them. This is a death-blow to the Muslim claim that Muhammad is the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> for two very important reasons. <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">One</b>, Muhammad did not live during the time of the Disciples of Jesus. <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Two</b>, at no time was Muhammad <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>the Disciples of Jesus or <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>anyone else for that matter. On the other hand, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> filled the Disciples of Jesus at Pentecost and has remained <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>every succeeding generations of faithful Christians ever since. Therefore, we can clearly understand that Jesus could not have promised to send another human messenger but the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> who was to come and dwell <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>his faithful Disciples. This vital role of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>as the indwelling <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> is also confirmed by a number of verses in the Holy Bible:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 Corinthians 6:19-20:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> What! </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do you not know that the body of you people is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you,</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> which you have from God? Also, you do not belong to yourselves, for you were bought with a price. By all means, glorify God in the body of you people.</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 Thessalonians 4:7-8:</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">For God called us, not with allowance for uncleanness, but in connection with sanctification. So, then, the man that shows disregard is disregarding, not man, but </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God, who puts his Holy Spirit in you.</b></i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ephesians 1:13:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> But you also hoped in him after you heard the word of truth, the good news about your salvation. By means of him also, after you believed, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This shows that the indwelling of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>is a spiritual reality–not a physical one. This can never be said of Muhammad. A human messenger cannot come and dwell <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>any one of us. And certainly not forever! The Qur’an falsely claims that Jesus will send <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ahmad”–</b></i>the founder of Islam–to his Disciples. On no account could <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i> or <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Muhammad</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>dwell within each Disciple of Jesus. And that is exactly what the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> describes the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> will do. Muhammad, a physical being, evidently could not dwell inside of anyone, let alone the Disciples of Jesus. Also, we know that Muhammad died and is no longer in this world, so how is it possible for him to abide with us or in us forever? So it is very obvious that the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is not a mortal human being but the everlasting <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> of God. Only the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> can be <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">in”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>all the faithful Christians at the<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">same time</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </i>This certainly cannot be true of Muhammad.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once again the inconsistent methodology used by Muslims becomes apparent. Where they believe the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> can be used to support the Qur’an, it is automatically viewed as authentic, and where it does not, it is immediately viewed as corrupted. In short, we can see that Muslims have no real concern for an honest understanding or application of the Biblical verses. The verses are arbitrarily and selectively used by Muslims to suit the Qur’an. And even then, Muslims have failed to prove that Muhammad is the promised </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i></span></span></p><ol start="5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 14:26: “WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS”</b></p></li></ol><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">which the Father will send</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in my name </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">will teach you all things</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and bring back to your minds all the things I told you.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> originates from the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i> who is the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grand Instructor</b></i> of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“all things.”</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah 30:20</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i> As such, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helper”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>from the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i> is able to teach the Disciples of Jesus <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“all things”</b></i> that are necessary for their salvation. With the outpouring of God’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i> upon the Disciples in 33 C.E., the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> became operational. The Bible records how new doctrines were revealed or clarified to the Christian congregation through the operation of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit.</b></i> These new doctrines were diligently recorded down in what is now known as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christian Greek Scriptures.</b></i></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 Peter 1:21:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">but men spoke from God as they were borne along by Holy Spirit.”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since what was written in the<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bible</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>is inspired by God’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> it became a complete guidance for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“all things”</b></i> that a Christian needs to know to attain his or her salvation.</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 Timothy 3:16-17:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">All Scripture is inspired of God</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">completely equipped</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">for every good work.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, when we read through the Qur’an we come across numerous verses which reveal the extent of Muhammad’s ignorance regarding fundamental spiritual truths of God. Consider now the following example:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 17:85:</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">They ask you (O Muhammad), about the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">soul</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Say, “The </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">soul</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is of the affair of my Lord. And mankind has not been given of knowledge except a little.” (Sahih International)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is obvious that Muhammad had very little knowledge about the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“soul.”</b></i> Otherwise, he would not have evaded the questions of the inquirers. Understanding the concept of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“soul”</b></i> is a must to comprehend many of the basic truths regarding our salvation. Additionally, Allah even told Muhammad that if he has any doubts as to what Allah have revealed to him, then he should ask those who have been reading the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:94:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“And if thou (Muhammad) art in doubt</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> concerning that which We reveal unto thee, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">then question those who read the Scripture that was before thee.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Verily the Truth from thy Lord hath come unto thee. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">So be not thou of the waverers.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Pickthall)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allah is commanding Muhammad to ask ordinary Jews and Christians for clarification if he has any doubts. Why? This is because the Bible is the authentic Word of God. If Muhammad is the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> as Muslims believe, does it not surprise you to learn that this <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>who is supposed to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“teach you all things</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> has to be, instead, taught by ordinary Jews and Christians? The fact is that the true <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> has indeed equipped even ordinary Christians with sufficient knowledge to educate Muhammad. In another development, some Arabs wanted to know about the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">hereafter.</b></i> They came to Muhammad and inquired as to what will happen in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">hereafter.</b></i> To the utter disappointment of his inquirers, Allah commanded Muhammad to confess the following:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 46:9:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Say: I am not the first of the messengers, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">and I do not know what will be done with me or with you.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Shakir)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This pseudo <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>was unable to help his inquirers. They wanted words of assurance from Muhammad regarding the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">hereafter </b></i>but he was unable to comfort them. Muhammad could not enlighten them about the truths of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">hereafter </b></i>because he simply does not know. How is it possible when he does not even know about the prospect of his own life in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">hereafter</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</i> Imagine, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> who is supposed to guide Muslims into all truths is uncertain of his own future. While Muhammad was unaware of what the future holds, the true <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper” </b></i>which was sent to the Disciples of Jesus not only guided them <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“in all the truth” </b></i>but it also revealed to them of things <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“yet to come</b></i>.<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 16:13:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “And </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">he will declare to you of the things coming</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With the aid of God’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Spirit,</b></i> the Disciples foretold future events with remarkable precision:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 11:28:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> One of them named Agabus rose and</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">prophesied through the Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that a severe famine would affect the entire </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">inhabited</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">earth; which, for that matter, did take place in the time </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">while Claudius was emperor.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This prophecy was fulfilled during the reign of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Emperor Claudius</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (41-54 C.E.). </i>The Jewish historian <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Josephus</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>referred to this <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“great famine”</b></i> in his renowned historical works. – <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jewish</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Antiquities</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> XX, 51 (ii, 5); XX, 101 (v, 2).</i></p><ol start="6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 14:26: “WILL BRING BACK TO YOUR MINDS”</b></p></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another vital <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> is to bring back to the minds of the followers of Jesus Christ all the things that he had taught them:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the Helper, the Holy Spirit</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things and </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">bring back to your minds all the things I told you.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muhammad completely failed in this vital <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> to bring back to the minds of the followers of Jesus all the things that he had taught them. In fact, Muhammad contradicted many of the basic teachings of Jesus Christ. Though there are many such contradictory teachings that Muhammad taught, we will consider just one example to prove our point. Compare the following teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Muhammad. Jesus taught:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew 5:44:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “However, I say to you: </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Continue to love your enemies</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and to pray for those persecuting you.”</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew 26:52:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Then Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Muhammad taught:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 9:29:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fight those who believe not in Allah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. (Yusuf Ali)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 9:123:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “O you who believe!</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Shakir)</i></p><h3 class="western" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2913em; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tabari VIII:38:</span></em><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></em></strong><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Messenger of Allah commanded that all of the Jewish men and boys who had reached puberty </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">should be beheaded</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.”</span></h3></blockquote><p align="LEFT" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As we can see, Muhammad taught and sanctioned the very sins that were contrary to the divine teachings of Jesus Christ. Not only did Jesus teach his Disciples to refrain from practicing such acts of violence as Muhammad did but he also cautioned them against even manifesting such a destructive spirit. Can it then be said that Muhammad was sent to call to mind the teachings of Jesus to his Disciples? Now we will consider another vital reason why Muhammad cannot be the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i></p><ol start="7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="CENTER" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOHN 15:26: “FROM THE FATHER”</b></p></li></ol><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> states explicitly that </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">originator </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i></span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let us look at some verses to prove this point:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 15:26:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “When the Helper arrives that I will send you </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">from the Father</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the Spirit of Truth, which proceeds </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">from the Father</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, that one will bear witness about me.”</i></p><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will request</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">the</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Father</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and he will give you another Helper.”</i></p><p align="LEFT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:26: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, which the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">will send in my name.”</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no doubt who is the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">originator</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos.”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However,</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Qur’an teaches that the Allah who sent Muhammad is not the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of anyone. The following Qur’anic verses completely deny the possibility for humans to attain a loving relationship with God as their heavenly </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:18:</b></i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">And the Jews and the Christians say: We are the sons of Allah and His beloved ones.</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Say: </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why does He then chastise you for your faults?</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Nay, you are mortals from among those whom He has created. (Shakir)</i></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 9:30:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old.</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they! (Pickthall)</i></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:68:</b></i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">They say: Allah hath taken (unto Him) a son – Glorified be He! He hath no needs!</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. Ye have no warrant for this. Tell ye concerning Allah that which ye know not? (Pickthall)</i></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 17:111:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And say: </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son,</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and Who hath no partner in the Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence. (Pickthall)</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The above verses of the Qur’an clearly show that Allah is not the</span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of Jesus. Neither is he the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the Jews or the Christians. Therefore, it is evident that the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> who promised to send the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i></span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">through Jesus Christ cannot be the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allah</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the Qur’an who sent Muhammad. Hence, the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that Jesus promised from the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cannot be Muhammad.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, if Muslims assert that Muhammad is the one whom Jesus promised, then they have to also accept that Muhammad came from the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father.</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, if Muslims were to accept that Muhammad came from </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> then they have to deny </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the teachings of the Qur’an. As usual, the claims of the Qur’an entrap Muslims and place them in a dilemma. The Holy Bible is consistent and clear on this matter:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moses</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>addressed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>as<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>his<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deuteronomy 32:6:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Is it to Jehovah that you keep doing this way, O foolish and unwise people? </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is he not your Father who has produced you,</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> He who made you and proceeded to give you stability?</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Israel</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> addressed </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as their </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah 63:16:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> For </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">you are our Father</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">; although Abraham himself may not have known us and Israel himself may not recognize us, you, O Jehovah, are our Father. Our Repurchaser of long ago is your name.</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christians</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>address <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i> as their<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Father</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew 6:9-10:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “‘</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in the heavens let your name be sanctified. Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth. Give us today our bread for this day; and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus</b></i> addressed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i> as his <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 17:11:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Also, I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to you. </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Holy Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are.</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In contrast, centuries later Muhammad comes along and denies </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to anyone. According to the Qur’an it is blasphemous to consider </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">God</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as a </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 10:68:</b></i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">They say, ‘God has children!’</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> May He be exalted! He is the Self-Sufficient One; everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">You have no authority to say this. How dare you say things about God without any knowledge?</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Abdel Haleem)</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, the Allah who sent Muhammad as a messenger to the Muslims cannot be the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who sent Jesus:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 20:21:</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Jesus, therefore, said to them again: “May you have peace. </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Just as the Father has sent me forth,</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> I also am sending you.</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> clearly teaches that it is the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> who is the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">originator</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper.”</b></i></span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:16-17; John 15:26-27</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">) </i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As such, Muhammad does not qualify to be the promised</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> because he denies the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> How can someone who denies the very source of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> be the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">99 names</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of Allah, not one of them is called </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is illogical for Muslims to argue that Muhammad is the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> whom the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">has promised to send</span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">when Islam denies the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Given these facts, Muslims who say that Muhammad is the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> should reexamine their position.</span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE ABSURDITY OF THE MUSLIM CLAIM</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it not ironical that Muslims have to rely on the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> to authenticate the prophethood of Muhammad when this same <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i> also teaches that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">is the</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Son of God</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 20:31</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">),</i> that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">put to death</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 19:17</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">),</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">buried</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 19:38-42</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">),</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">was resurrected</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 2:22</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)?</i> All these events are in direct conflict with the teachings of the Qur’an. Furthermore, in the very chapters to which Muslims appeal for their predictions about Muhammad, we find <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus</b></i> proclaiming that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">he is the only way to God</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 14:6</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">) </i>It makes us wonder why Muslims appeal to a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i> that is so diametrically opposed to Islam. And it also makes us wonder why Muslims refuse to accept the rest of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Word of God</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</i> Why do they accept some parts and reject the rest? Do they not know that by doing so they are subverting the very teachings of Allah in the Qur’an?</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 2:85: “Then is it only a part of the Book that you believe in, and do you reject the rest? </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">But what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life? – </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">And on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what you do.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Yusuf Ali)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If Muslims submit to the above teachings of the Qur’an and accept the complete Bible as the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Word of God,</b></i> then they have to reject the Qur’an since it contradicts the Bible. However, if they reject the above teachings of the Qur’an and boldly deny parts of the Bible, then they are no longer Muslims. This is the dilemma for the Muslims. And Muslim scholars know this. Muslims lose if they do and Muslims lose if they don’t. Muslims must consider if they want to rest their salvation in a religion as blasphemous as this.</p><p align="CENTER" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">A VITAL TRUTH FOR SINCERE MUSLIMS TO CONSIDER</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before we conclude this article we want Muslims to consider one very important Surah in the Qur’an that is significantly linked to our discussion. Read the following Surah carefully:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 32:23:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We did indeed give the Book to Moses, so do not be in doubt of its reaching you</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel.” (Bilal Muhammad)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">We did indeed aforetime give the Book to Moses:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be not then in</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">doubt of its reaching you</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">:</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And we made it a guide to the Children of Israel.” (Yusuf Ali)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Allah told Muhammad, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be not then in</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">doubt of its reaching you,”</b></i> it is obvious that Allah was speaking of the uncorrupted, authentic copy of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book of Torah</b></i> that he gave to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moses.</b></i> It will certainly be absurd for Allah to say above words if the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book of Moses </b></i>were to reach Muhammad with changes or alterations in it. If it is possible for uncorrupted copies of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>that were written centuries before the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>to be<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>available to Muhammad, then we can be confident that authentic copies of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i> must also be available to him. The Qur’an itself proves consistently that preserved copies of both the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i> were available during the time of Muhammad. The following Surahs in the Qur’an substantiate this fact:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:46-47:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> We caused Jesus, son of Mary to follow in their footsteps, fulfilling what had been revealed before him in the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. We gave him the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which contained guidance and light, fulfilling what was revealed before it in the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">: a guide and an admonition to the God-fearing. Therefore, let those who follow the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> judge according to what God has revealed in it. Those who do not judge by what God has sent down are rebellious. (W. Khan)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:66:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> And if they had followed the teachings of the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and what has been sent down to them by their Lord, they would surely have enjoyed blessings from the heavens above and the earth below their feet. (Ahmed Ali)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5:68:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Say: “O followers of the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bible</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">! You have no valid ground for your beliefs – unless you truly </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">observe</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torah</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and all that has been bestowed from on high upon you by your Sustainer!” (Asad)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How would it be possible for Allah to command the Jews and Christians of Muhammad’s day to </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“observe the Torah and the Gospel” </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">if these Scriptures had already become corrupted by then? </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 5</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is also known as </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah Al-Maidah.</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah Al-Maidah</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was revealed during the period spanning the last five years of Muhammad’s life. Muhammad’s prophetic career lasted </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">twenty-three</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> years and this </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> was revealed piecemeal from the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">eighteenth</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">twenty-third year.</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">third verse</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of this </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was revealed during his last pilgrimage or as Muslims call it, </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“the Farewell Pilgrimage,” </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">which he performed shortly before his death. Thus, even at this late stage of the Qur’an’s revelation, the Bible remained untouched by corruption.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What can we learn from the above Qur’anic verses? They prove that authentic copies of the Bible existed at the time of Muhammad. Not only the</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Torah </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and the</span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Gospel</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> were in the possession of the Jews and the Christians but as the following Qur’anic verses show, they were also available to the Muslims. But more importantly, Allah even commands the Muslims to believe in them:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 2:136:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Say (O Muslims): ‘</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">We believe in</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allah and that which is revealed unto us</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac and Jacob, and the tribes </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">and that which Moses and Jesus received, </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">and that which the prophets received from their Lord. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">We make no distinctions between any of them,</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and unto Him we have surrendered.” (Pickthall)</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 4:136:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Believers</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, hold on to your faith in God and His Messenger, as well as the Book that He has gradually sent down to His Messenger, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">as well as the Book that He sent down before.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">He who denies</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> God, His angels, </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">His Books</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, His Messengers, and the Last Day </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">has gone far astray</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. (Safi Kaskas)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the above Qur’anic verses point to one very important fact. If the claim that Jesus specifically foretold the coming of a messenger named </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmad</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is actually true, then an examination of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at the time of Muhammad could easily verify the existence of this specific prophecy of Muhammad in the Bible.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>was revealed, Muhammad could have easily obtained the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>and identify the relevant passages that prophesied about him. And he could have easily enumerated the relevant passages of the Bible as evidence for all future generations. The specific chapters and verses of the Bible where these astounding prophecies are revealed would surely be recorded in the annals of the early Islamic sources. Such remarkable evidences as these would be recorded without fail in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hadiths</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sira</b></i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tafsirs </b></i>of the great Muslim scholars.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muhammad could have also shared such important evidences with the early Muslim followers. There would be numerous eye witnesses’ accounts of early Muslims who were privileged to see with their own eyes the prophecies about their Prophet in the previous Scriptures of God. The names of these eye-witnesses would also be recorded in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hadiths</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sira</b></i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tafsirs</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>If not all, at least the names of Muhammad’s closest and most important Companions such as the first two Caliphs of Islam–<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caliph Abu Bakr</b></i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caliph Omar</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i> But nothing of this sort happened. There is no evidence in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hadiths</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sira</b></i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tafsirs</b></i> to show that Muhammad did any of the things mentioned above. Not a single testimony validating <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>by any of the contemporaries of Muhammad can be found in the early sources of Islam.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moreover, since <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i> is supposed to be a direct quotation from Jesus, Muhammad could have easily located the specific chapter and verse where Jesus said those words in the Bible. If this simple exercise was carried out, Muslims would have been spared the effort of trying to figure out where in the world the prophecy of Muhammad is recorded in the Bible. This simple exercise was never carried out because there was nothing in the Bible that remotely supported the claim made in this Qur’anic verse. Muhammad avoided giving any specific details because he knew that his claims would not stand up to scrutiny. Such important testimonies would not be overlooked if they were true. The problem with <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 61:6</b></i> is that Jesus never made this prediction.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, let us compare Muhammad’s false claim that he was prophesied in the earlier Scriptures with the true claim of Jesus. Jesus not only pointed out the exact verses in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Old Testament</b></i> that prophesied about him but he also publicly showed these verses to his listeners:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luke 4:16-21: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been reared; and, according to his custom on the Sabbath day, he entered into the synagogue, and he stood up to read. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">So the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed him, and he opened the scroll and found the place where it was written: “Jehovah’s spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release, to preach Jehovah’s acceptable year.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> With that he rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were intently fixed upon him. Then he started to say to them: </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Today this Scripture that you just heard is fulfilled.”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus specifically quoted from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah 61:1-2.</b></i> And the Qur’an admits that Jesus fulfilled these prophecies that were recorded about him in the<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scroll of Isaiah</b></i>:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 3:49:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> As a messenger to the Children of Israel: “I come to you with a </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sign</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> from your Lord… </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">I restore vision to the blind, heal the leprous, and I revive the dead by God’s leave</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">. I can tell you what you eat, and what you store in your homes. </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">This should be a proof for you,</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> if you are believers.” (Khalifa)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, the Qur’an also records Jesus as saying:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">3:50: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I have come to you, to attest the Law which was before me. And to make lawful to you part of what was before forbidden to you; </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have come to you with a Sign from your Lord. So fear God, and</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">obey me.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Yusuf Ali)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are more than enough evidences to proof that Jesus never prophesied about the coming of a prophet (a mortal man) after him. Even so, the evidences provided here are not exhaustive as there are still many more facts to prove why Muhammad cannot be the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> We encourage Muslims to read <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John Chapters 14-16</b></i> in their entirety to have a clear understanding of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> The <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nature</b></i> and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">functions</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Helper”</b></i> as described in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gospel of John</b></i> clearly demonstrate that Muhammad simply cannot be the promised <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</b></i> In conclusion, we will look at one important <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i> of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> and compare it with Muhammad:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">John 16:13: </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, when the </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spirit of the Truth </b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">arrives,</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> he will guide you into all the truth.</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One very important </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">function</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i></span> is to<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“guide”</b></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>the followers of Jesus<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“into all the truth.” </b></i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now compare the above stated purpose of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with the confession of the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos” </b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahmed</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 72:21.</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Muslims who believe that Muhammad is the promised Prophet whose coming is prophesied in the Bible should seriously consider the confession made by him in the following Qur’anic verse. Your salvation depends very much on how you respond to this confession of Muhammad. </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Muhammad</b></i></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Periklutos”</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00000a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> confessed:</span></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Surah 72:21:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is not in my power to</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> cause you harm or </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">bring you good by guiding you to the Straight Path.”</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (Ali Unal)</i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Parakletos”</b></i> provided guidance to the followers of Jesus,<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Periklutos”</b></i> admits that he <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">cannot</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">guide</b></i> anyone. By his very own confession, Muhammad admitted that he <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">cannot</b></i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">guide</b></i> Muslims to the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Straight Path”</b></i> of salvation. Will it be sensible for Muslims to place their eternal salvation in this man?<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>It will be wise for Muslims to leave Muhammad and accept the invitation of Jesus Christ:</p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 24px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mark 10:21:</b></i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Come be my follower.”</b></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Jesus gives us a compelling reason to accept his invitation. Jesus said: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”—John 14:6</b></i></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-51842507890746882652023-02-22T17:39:00.002-05:002023-02-22T17:39:13.258-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN ||AL AWWAL AL AKHIR|| DR. MAX SHIMBA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Md3ZN99GLi8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Md3ZN99GLi8"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-83447490849706147612023-02-21T12:43:00.002-05:002023-02-21T12:43:43.360-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN || AL HAQQ || DR. MAX SHIMBA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xsJk-QTYbEw" width="320" youtube-src-id="xsJk-QTYbEw"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-33973223611032235042023-02-20T08:05:00.002-05:002023-02-20T08:05:36.284-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN: INHERITOR AL WARITH<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2qlvhehbSC0" width="320" youtube-src-id="2qlvhehbSC0"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-72114814765458179212023-02-19T08:52:00.001-05:002023-02-19T08:52:18.801-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN: RESSURECTOR AL-BAITH<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZVCF3H9OLFk" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZVCF3H9OLFk"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-56202460909628069292023-02-18T16:40:00.003-05:002023-02-18T16:40:39.937-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN <p> Jesus claimed to be God. The apostles also described him as divine. Jesus claimed to have divine attributes or names that are also the divine names of Al-Lah. If you deny these attributes as divine you deny Allah and deserve punishment for apostasy.</p><p><br /></p><p>☪️Al Haqq: truth (الحق) - Jesus is the truth (John 14:6)</p><p>☪️Al Ba'ith: resurrection (الباعث) - Jesus is resurrection (Jonh 11:25-26)</p><p>☪️ Al Awwal: the First (الأول) Al Akhir: the Final (الآخر) - Jesus is the First and the Last; alpha & omega (Revelation 22:13,16) (Isaiah 41:4)</p><p>☪️ Al Malik: King (الملك) - Jesus is the King (Revelation 17:14)</p><p>☪️Al Hadi: Guide (الهادي) - Jesus is Guide (John 10:9, 14:6)</p><p>☪️An Nur: the Light (النور) - Jesus is the Light (Jonh 8:12)</p><p>☪️Al Hakam: the Judge (الحكم) - Jesus is the Judge (Acts 10:42)</p><p>☪️ Al 'Adl: the Just (العدل) - Jesus is the Just (John 10:11) (Acts.17:31)</p><p>☪️Al Wadud: the Kind (الودود) - Jesus is the Kind (Luke 18:18)</p><p>☪️ Al Hakim: the Wise (الحكيم) - Jesus is the Wise (1 Corinthians 1:30)</p><p>☪️Al Muhyi: the Lifegiver (المحيي) - Jesus is the Lifegiver (John 6:40)</p><p>☪️ Kalimatu-allah: eternal word of God (quran) - Jesus is the word of God (Jonh 1:1)</p><p>☪️ Ruhu-allah: Spirit of allah(quran) - God is spirit (John 4:24)</p><p>☪️ An-Nasir or As-Samad: the Keeper, Sustainer (ننصر) - Jesus is the Keeper (Hebrews 1:3)</p><p>☪️ Al-Warith- The heir, inheritor (Hebrews 1:2; Matt 28:18)</p><p><br /></p><p>Repent muslims leave pagan false prophet and come to Lord Jesus Christ.</p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-32000892000955745402023-02-18T09:06:00.002-05:002023-02-18T09:06:27.773-05:00YESU NI MUNGU KATIKA BIBLIA NA QURAN 101:1 YESU NI MFALME WA WAFALME <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QlXBsfvOEIY" width="320" youtube-src-id="QlXBsfvOEIY"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-5305154230717336222023-02-18T09:05:00.001-05:002023-02-18T09:05:03.577-05:00YESU NI MUNGU KATIKA BIBLIA NA QURAN 101:2 YESU NI UFUFUO "AL BAETH"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6YMZmQFBkJE" width="320" youtube-src-id="6YMZmQFBkJE"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-63256995817899612062023-02-18T09:04:00.002-05:002023-02-18T09:04:18.397-05:00YESU NI MUNGU KATIKA BIBLIA NA QURAN 101:2 YESU NI UFUFUO "AL BAETH"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6YMZmQFBkJE" width="320" youtube-src-id="6YMZmQFBkJE"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-16821212494324407222023-02-18T09:03:00.002-05:002023-02-18T09:03:32.287-05:00YESU NI MUNGU KATIBA BIBLIA NA QURAN 101:3 YESU NI MRITHI WA YOTE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mi2_1UGARDk" width="320" youtube-src-id="Mi2_1UGARDk"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-702582334550449869.post-62332963056113159192023-02-18T09:02:00.002-05:002023-02-18T11:10:15.042-05:00JESUS IS GOD IN THE QURAN - KING OF KINGS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YvkHGkZou0A" width="320" youtube-src-id="YvkHGkZou0A"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>MAX SHIMBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143915420589793870noreply@blogger.com0