| The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 12:33pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
The History of the Barnabas Gospel Muslims fondly suppose that this Gospel has been denounced in the Christian world solely because of its Islamic character. It is truer to say that this is the only real reason why it has attracted so much publicity in the Muslim world. The external and internal evidences around the book give a far better reason for rejecting it. They prove conclusively that it was compiled only a few centuries ago as a deliberate forgery to impose both Qur’anic and traditional Muslim dogmas on the life of Jesus as it is described in the four genuine Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Unlike these books which are between twenty and forty pages each, the Gospel of Barnabas is 273 pages long.
Much of its teaching is repetitive of Biblical teaching, though adapted to suit Islamic preferences. For example, when ten lepers were healed on one occasion by Jesus, the only one to return was a Samaritan who fell at his feet, giving him thanks (Luke 17.16). The Gospel of Barnabas conveniently states that he was an Ishmaelite! The rest of its teaching, however, consists of legendary and fanciful stories and forged teachings of Jesus of no historical value at all. Let us consider a few of its typical Islamic teachings.Islamic Teachings of the Barnabas Gospel 1. Jesus Denied that he was the Son of God The Gospel of Barnabas repeats the incident where Jesus asked his disciples, firstly, who the multitudes thought he was and, secondly, who they thought he was (Matthew 16.13-20). When Peter answered that he was the Son of God, Jesus responded that he was blessed because his Father in heaven had revealed this to him. In the Gospel of Barnabas, however, while Peter is correctly recorded as declaring that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, the answer of Jesus to him was totally different. Jesus is supposed to have declared to Peter "Begone and depart from me, because thou art the devil and seekest to cause me offence!" He then is reputed to have told all his disciples to beware because "I have won from God a great curse against those who believe this" {And just how many people did he bless with a curse? And why did the Jews attempt to stone Him a Number of times onthis basis?} (Gospel of Barnabas, para 70). 2. Judas was Crucified in Place of Jesus The Muslim doctrine that Jesus was taken alive from the earth just before he was due to be arrested while someone else was made to look like him and was crucified in his place is repeated in this Gospel, only it specifically makes the victim Judas Iscariot. It was only some centuries after Muhammad that the Muslim world first taught this theory, [size=14pt]invented[/size] to justify the crucifixion of a bystander who might otherwise have seemed to be an innocent substitute.{AGAIN WE ASK FOR WHAT OFFENCE WAS HE TO BE KILLED?} The Gospel of Barnabas teaches that when Judas arrived with soldiers to arrest Jesus, God sent four angels to take Jesus out of the world into the third heaven while Judas "was so changed in speech and in face to be like Jesus" that Barnabas and the other disciples believed him to actually be Jesus (Gospel of Barnabas, para 216). Judas was duly crucified in his place. {LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?} 3. Jesus Predicted the Coming of Muhammad by Name In many places Jesus is said to have declared the coming of Muhammad by name, as in this statement made after he said he would first have to endure the infamy that he had been crucified: "But when Mohammed shall come, the sacred messenger of God, that infamy shall be taken away" (Gospel of Barnabas, para 112). {JESUS ALWAYS STATED FUTURE EVENTS ACCORDING TO OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES AND PROMISES;WHICH ONE BACKS THIS?} {BESIDES, WHAT WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY HIS NOT DYING, WAS HE NOT A MERE PROPHET?} These are some of the central Islamic features of the Gospel of Barnabas where its teaching contradicts the contents of the four Biblical Gospels. Numerous other Islamic influences can be found throughout the book, such as the claim that the covenantal promise to Abraham was made in Ishmael and not Isaac (para 191) {WHY THEN WAS THE PROMISE NEITHER REITERATED NOR CLAIMED BY THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN DID THE PROPHECY OF A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES COME TO ISRAEL AND NOT THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN WAS GOD'S PROMISE OF THE LAND AND VICTORY OVER ENEMIES AND DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT FULFILLED ON ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS?} Medieval Sources of the Gospel of Barnabas [size=13pt] It is not hard to prove to Muslims that this Gospel was first compiled many centuries after the times of both Jesus and Muhammad.[/size] Three of examples of medieval influences will be considered here. 1. The Centenary Year of Jubilee One of the laws Moses gave to the people of Israel was that a jubilee year was to observed twice every century when slaves would be liberated and debts cancelled. God ordained it in these words: A jubilee year shall that fiftieth year be to you. Leviticus 25.11 About 1300 AD Pope Boniface the Eighth decreed that the jubilee year should be reintroduced but that it should only be held at the turn of each century, that is, once every hundred years. After his death, however, Pope Clemens the Sixth decreed that the jubilee year should revert to every fifty years following the Biblical decree and there was talk thereafter of reducing it further. In the Gospel of Barnabas this saying is attributed to Jesus:
And then through all the world will God be worshipped, and mercy received, insomuch that the year of jubilee, which now cometh every hundred years, shall by the Messiah be reduced to every year in every place. Gospel of Barnabas, para 82
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The anachronism is obvious - [b]the author of the Gospel of Barnabas could only have spoken of the jubilee year coming every hundred years if he knew of the decree of Pope Boniface. Whoever wrote this Gospel makes Jesus repeat a proclamation which was only made at least thirteen centuries after his time! This proves that the Gospel is a forgery of not earlier than the 14th century AD.
2. Quotations from Dante’s Inferno Dante was an Italian who lived at about the same time as Pope Boniface. He wrote a well-known classic titled Divina Comedia - the "Divine Comedy". It was a fantasy about hell, purgatory and heaven according to the beliefs of his time. Many passages in the Gospel of Barnabas show a dependence on his work, one of which is a saying attributed to Jesus of the prophets of old: Readily and with gladness they went to their death, so as not to offend against the law of God given by Moses his servant, and go and serve false and lying gods. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23 The expression dei falsi e lugiardi (false and lying gods) is found elsewhere in the Gospel of Barnabas. Jesus is recorded as again using this phrase (para 78) while Herod is also said by the author to have " adored the false and lying gods" (para 217). The cliche is found in neither the Bible nor the Qur’an but is a direct quote from Dante! (Inferno 1.72).In its actual descriptions of heaven and hell the Gospel of Barnabas follows Dante exactly while contradicting the Qur’an. [/b]Jesus is said to have declared to Simon Peter:
Know ye therefore that hell is one, yet hath seven centres one below another. Hence, even as sin is of seven kinds, for as seven gates of hell hath Satan generated it: so there are seven punishments therein. Gospel of Barnabas, para 135
Dante gives precisely this description in the fifth and sixth cantos of his Inferno. [b]Speaking of the heavens the Gospel of Barnabas states that they are nine and that Paradise itself is greater than all of them together (para 178). This again parallels Dante who also speaks of nine heavens with an Empyrean, a tenth heaven above them all. These depictions of heaven, however, directly contradict the Qur’an which teaches that after Allah had created the earth, he fashioned paradise as seven heavens (Surah 2.29).3. The Medieval Environment of the Gospel Other passages from the Gospel show that the author was more at home in the climate and seasons of southern Europe than in the land of Palestine. He makes Jesus speak of how beautiful the world is in summer-time when the harvest and fruit abound (para 169). This is a fair description of Italy in summer but not of Palestine where the rain falls in winter and the fields are parched in summer.
Likewise the Gospel of Barnabas speaks of storing wine in wooden wine-casks (para 152), a common practice in medieval Europe but not in first-century Palestine where wine was stored in skins (Matthew 9.17). Further proof of the author’s ignorance of the geography of Palestine is found in this statement: Having arrived at the city of Nazareth the seamen spread through the city all that Jesus had wrought. Gospel of Barnabas, para 20 In this passage Nazareth is represented as a harbour on the Lake of Galilee. After this Jesus is said to have gone "up to Capernaum". Every disciple of Jesus would have known that Capernaum was the city on the shores of the lake while Nazareth is up in the hills. Jesus would have gone up from Capernaum to Nazareth, not the other way around as the Gospel of Barnabas has it. These evidences all prove that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery compiled in southern Europe sometime around the 16th century after Christ. Let us proceed to examine other evidences that discount the authenticity of this book that calls itself a Gospel. Other Evidences Against its Authenticity Muslim: The Gospel of Barnabas must be the true Gospel since it teaches that Jesus was not to be the final messenger of God to mankind but that this honour would be reserved to our holy Prophet Muhammad who he said would follow after him. There are numerous other evidences against the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas, some of which derive from the very passages where Jesus is said to have foretold the coming of Muhammad. It is very interesting to note that this Gospel makes no mention of John the Baptist - a striking omission, considering the attention given to him as a contemporary prophet to Jesus in the Biblical Gospels. Instead sayings of John are attributed to Jesus, such as "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’" (John 1.23) which is ascribed to Jesus in the Gospel of Barnabas together with the whole conversation that surrounds it (para 42). The author of this Gospel conveniently, but very erroneously, makes Jesus say of Muhammad what John actually said of him. The Messiah - Jesus or Muhammad? John the Baptist denied that he was the Messiah when challenged by the Jewish leaders (John 1.20). The Gospel of Barnabas makes Jesus deny the same thing in much the same words:
Jesus confessed and said the truth: ‘I am not the Messiah ... I am indeed sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation; but after me shall come the Messiah’. Gospel of Barnabas, paras 42, 82
Who was to be the coming Messiah, then? Elsewhere the Gospel makes Jesus say "The name of the Messiah is Admirable ... God said: Wait Mohammed; for thy sake I will to create paradise ... Mohammed is his blessed name" (para 97). [size=14pt]Here the author of the Gospel of Barnabas completely overreaches himself for the Qur’an clearly states, no less than eleven times, that Jesus alone is the Messiah. The Bible confirms this too on many occasions (John 4.26, Matthew 16.20) and one quotation from the Qur’an will be sufficient to prove the point: O Mary! Lo! Allah gives you glad tidings of a Word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the hereafter. Surah 3.45[/size] The title here is Al-Masih, "the Messiah", and Jesus himself is called Al-Masihu Isa, "the Messiah Jesus", elsewhere in the book (Surah 4.171). [size=14pt]So the Gospel of Barnabas incontrovertibly contradicts the Qur’an when it declares that Muhammad was to be the Messiah. No Muslim can be true to his own holy book while at the same time trying to defend the Gospel of Barnabas as an authentic Gospel. [/size]  What is very interesting here is the discovery that this Gospel not only contradicts the Qur’an but also itself. In the prologue to the book it speaks of "Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ" and states that it is the [size=14pt]"true Gospel of Jesus, called Christ". The author does not seem to have been aware that Messiah and Christ are interchangeable terms, meaning the same thing[/size]. The latter derives from the Greek word Christos which is a translation of the original Hebrew word Mashiah.Contradictions between the Barnabas Gospel and the Qur’an There are other [size=13pt]contradictions between the Qur’an and the Gospel of Barnabas which cannot be satisfactorily explained. One relates to the birth of Jesus as it is told in each book. The Gospel says this about the moment of his delivery: The virgin was surrounded by a light exceeding bright and brought forth her son without pain. Gospel of Barnabas, para 3 This statement has no Biblical equivalent but parallels Catholic beliefs of the Middle Ages.[/size] It is further evidence that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery composed up to fifteen centuries after the time of Christ. [size=14pt] What is significant for Muslims, however, is that it totally disagrees with the Qur’an which says of Mary and the birth of Jesus:
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. Surah 19.23
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There is little room here for Muslims to maintain their cherished belief that they have, in the Gospel of Barnabas, an original Gospel which is consistent with the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. It is not surprising that many Muslim scholars have, in recent times, rejected the Gospel as a forgery. Nonetheless there are still many Muslim writers, often well aware of the overwhelming evidences against it, who still promote it as an authentic text. 6 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 12:33pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Another typical contradiction between the two books is found in the statement in the Gospel of Barnabas about the angels of God on the last days before the great Judgment: "The fifteenth day the holy angels shall die, and God alone shall remain alive" (para 53). The Qur’an knows nothing about the death of angels but states that eight of them shall bear the throne of Allah on the Last Day (Surah 69.17).
Again the Gospel of Barnabas states that on the thirteenth day of the final period before the end, all mankind will die and every living thing on the earth shall perish (para 53) whereas the Qur’an states that men will be alive until the last day, the great Day of Judgment, when the trumpet shall sound and "every man will have enough concerns on that day to make him heedless of others" (Surah 80.37).
In witness with Muslims it should be easy to get the Gospel of Barnabas dispensed with once these evidences are produced to them. The book is a counterfeit of no value which has been promoted by Muslims as a red herring across the path of genuine Christian-Muslim apologetics.
Throughout the book its author is said to have been one of the twelve disciples of Jesus yet it is well known that the real Barnabas only appears on the scene after the death and resurrection of Jesus and, furthermore, that he only received his name as a result of an incident that took place much later. The evidence is found in the following passage: [b]Thus Joseph who was [size=14pt]surnamed by the apostles Barnabas[[/size]/b] (which means, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field which belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet. Acts 4.36-37 {MEANING THERE WAS NO MAN NAMED BARNABAS TILL AFTER CHRIST ASCENDED, THEN THE APOSTLES SURNAMED A MAN CALLED JOSEPH, BARNABAS!!!} It was only when this man Joseph encouraged the early Church by donating the proceeds of the sale of his property to the disciples of Jesus that he was given the surname bar-nabas. Thereafter he is a prominent personality in the record of the initial development of the Church and is mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament (Galatians 2.9). He was most certainly not one of the original twelve, however, whose names are all recorded in two of the Gospels (Matthew 10.2-4, Luke 6.14-16). He is not mentioned at all in the four Gospels and the composer of this forgery has, as it were, left his fingerprints on its text by including what is a glaring anachronism. Jesus is said to have called him by name on numerous occasions of which the following passage is an example:
Jesus answered: ‘Be not sore grieved, Barnabas, for those whom God hath chosen before the creation of the world shall not perish’. Gospel of Barnabas, para 19
Such an address before Jesus ascended to heaven was impossible if he only received the title some time after the event. [/color] The Probable Authorship of the Barnabas Gospel [size=13pt]
Whoever the author was it is clear that he was very conversant with the land of Spain and its environment. He could well have been a Spanish Muslim forcibly converted to Christianity around the time of the Spanish Inquisition who took private revenge by compiling an Islamic Gospel. He might well have written it first in Italian to give it a more authentic appearance before translating it into his own language. There is clear evidence of Spanish influence in this quote attributed to Jesus:
For he would get in change a piece of gold must have sixty mites. Gospel of Barnabas, para 54
The Italian version divides the golden denarius into sixty minuti. These coins were of Spanish origin dating from the pre-Islamic Visigothic period and betray a Spanish influence behind the Gospel.
[/size] His fate at the hand of Peretti once he became Pope may have led him to compose this Gospel as an act of private revenge against him, especially if he had subsequently converted to Islam. What we do know is that it most certainly could not have been written by the Apostle Barnabas who was at no time one of the immediate disciples of Jesus. If the Gospel of Barnabas serves any purpose it is perhaps to prove that [size=14pt][b]it is impossible to compose a life of Jesus consistent with the factual evidences of his life and teachings as found in the four true Gospels which at the same time promotes him as a prophet of Islam. The book fails dismally in its attempt to do precisely [/b]this.
[/size]In conversation with Muslims it is important to dispose of this Gospel as soon as possible. It offers no useful contribution to the field of Christian-Muslim apologetics. Paul and Barnabas in the Book of Acts Muslim: In his Gospel Barnabas expressly repudiates the teaching of Paul that Jesus is the Son of God. In fact even the New Testament records that Paul and Barnabas couldn’t agree. It was because Barnabas taught the ultimate truth about Jesus. Barnabas and Paul: Two Close Companions Anyone reading through Acts 15 will discover that the only point of disagreement between these two men was on whether they should again be accompanied by John Mark on a later journey. Paul did not want him to go with as he had let them down on their first missionary journey (Acts 13.13). 3. Both Barnabas and Paul Rejected Circumcision According to the Gospel of Barnabas Jesus is recorded as teaching that circumcision is one of the most important acts of religious piety. Both Judaism and Islam to this day faithfully observe the ordinance. Jesus is supposed to have said:
Leave fear to him that hath not circumcised his foreskin, for he is deprived of paradise. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23
It is most ironic to find that the real Barnabas joined Paul in vehemently opposing circumcision as a necessary ritual for salvation: (Acts 15:1-4) It does appear that no one was closer to Paul in his preaching of the Christian faith than this man Barnabas. He cannot possibly be the author of the Gospel falsely attributed to him. The Gospel of Barnabas is a book of no true historical value. Muslims should be gently persuaded to put it aside and instead take time to read the four genuine Gospels where the real truth about Jesus has been written. http://www.arabicbible.com/Let me add, Barnabas still continued in the faith and was still a friend to Paul: Commenting on Colossians 4:10 as written by Paul Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him  and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas; the same with John Mark, whose mother's name was Mary, said here to be sister to Barnabas, Acts 12:12 concerning whom there was a difference between Paul and Barnabas, Acts 15:37, and is the same Mark that wrote the Gospel, and was converted by the Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 5:13 and who is said to have received his Gospel from him; he is also mentioned 2 Timothy 4:11 . The Arabic version calls him here, the "brother's son of Barnabas": and the Syriac version, , "his uncle's son": however, Barnabas being so great a man as he was, and so well known, it added some credit to Mark, that he was a relation of his: I wonder how Mark, a protege of Barnabas, will write something totally different from the 'gospel' falsely attributed to 'Barnabas' then!!! 6 Likes 4 Shares |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 1:44pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Wow, Scholar8200 you have done enough justice, deathstroke and any other muslims should answer this questions you ask please :
{LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG
HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN
THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?}
I never look at it this way, this is revealing, so according to the book of barnnabas, judas was crucify came back to live return the 30 piece of silver and then die the second death by suicide ? Lolzz. Truthman2012 you need see how satan has foul our muslims brothers. God bless you Scholar8200. 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 1:45pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Lalasticala , this is front page worthy. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 3:41pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
malvisguy212:
Wow, Scholar8200 you have done enough justice, deathstroke and any other muslims should answer this questions you ask please :
{LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG
HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN
THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?}
I never look at it this way, this is revealing, so according to the book of barnnabas, judas was crucify came back to live return the 30 piece of silver and then die the second death by suicide ? Lolzz. Truthman2012 you need see how satan has foul our muslims brothers. God bless you Scholar8200. Amen, God bless you too. Surprisingly, another group claim it was Barrabas that was crucified! Does that mean the Apostles and disciples were persecuted for preaching and healing in the name of Barrabas?!!! At least NO ONE will deny that they were persecuted! 1 Like |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 4:48pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
Amen, God bless you too. Surprisingly, another group claim it was Barrabas that was crucified! Does that mean the Apostles and disciples were persecuted for preaching and healing in the name of Barrabas?!!! At least NO ONE will deny that they were persecuted! lol, barrabas was crucify came back to life, write everything. This muslims effort was just to proved the bible was corrupted. 2 Likes |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Bigloaf: 5:10pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
just observing. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by analice107: 5:15pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Where is that Deathstroke |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Nobody: 5:47pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
The History of the Barnabas Gospel
Muslims fondly suppose that this Gospel has been denounced in the Christian world solely because of its Islamic character. It is truer to say that this is the only real reason why it has attracted so much publicity in the Muslim world. The external and internal evidences around the book give a far better reason for rejecting it. They prove conclusively that it was compiled only a few centuries ago as a deliberate forgery to impose both Qur’anic and traditional Muslim dogmas on the life of Jesus as it is described in the four genuine Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Unlike these books which are between twenty and forty pages each, the Gospel of Barnabas is 273 pages long.
Much of its teaching is repetitive of Biblical teaching, though adapted to suit Islamic preferences. For example, when ten lepers were healed on one occasion by Jesus, the only one to return was a Samaritan who fell at his feet, giving him thanks (Luke 17.16). The Gospel of Barnabas conveniently states that he was an Ishmaelite! The rest of its teaching, however, consists of legendary and fanciful stories and forged teachings of Jesus of no historical value at all. Let us consider a few of its typical Islamic teachings.
Islamic Teachings of the Barnabas Gospel
1. Jesus Denied that he was the Son of God
The Gospel of Barnabas repeats the incident where Jesus asked his disciples, firstly, who the multitudes thought he was and, secondly, who they thought he was (Matthew 16.13-20). When Peter answered that he was the Son of God, Jesus responded that he was blessed because his Father in heaven had revealed this to him. In the Gospel of Barnabas, however, while Peter is correctly recorded as declaring that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, the answer of Jesus to him was totally different.
Jesus is supposed to have declared to Peter "Begone and depart from me, because thou art the devil and seekest to cause me offence!" He then is reputed to have told all his disciples to beware because "I have won from God a great curse against those who believe this" {And just how many people did he bless with a curse? And why did the Jews attempt to stone Him a Number of times onthis basis?} (Gospel of Barnabas, para 70).
2. Judas was Crucified in Place of Jesus
The Muslim doctrine that Jesus was taken alive from the earth just before he was due to be arrested while someone else was made to look like him and was crucified in his place is repeated in this Gospel, only it specifically makes the victim Judas Iscariot. It was only some centuries after Muhammad that the Muslim world first taught this theory, [size=14pt]invented[/size] to justify the crucifixion of a bystander who might otherwise have seemed to be an innocent substitute.
{AGAIN WE ASK FOR WHAT OFFENCE WAS HE TO BE KILLED?}
The Gospel of Barnabas teaches that when Judas arrived with soldiers to arrest Jesus, God sent four angels to take Jesus out of the world into the third heaven while Judas "was so changed in speech and in face to be like Jesus" that Barnabas and the other disciples believed him to actually be Jesus (Gospel of Barnabas, para 216). Judas was duly crucified in his place.
{LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?}
3. Jesus Predicted the Coming of Muhammad by Name
In many places Jesus is said to have declared the coming of Muhammad by name, as in this statement made after he said he would first have to endure the infamy that he had been crucified: "But when Mohammed shall come, the sacred messenger of God, that infamy shall be taken away" (Gospel of Barnabas, para 112).
{JESUS ALWAYS STATED FUTURE EVENTS ACCORDING TO OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES AND PROMISES;WHICH ONE BACKS THIS?}
{BESIDES, WHAT WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY HIS NOT DYING, WAS HE NOT A MERE PROPHET?}
These are some of the central Islamic features of the Gospel of Barnabas where its teaching contradicts the contents of the four Biblical Gospels. Numerous other Islamic influences can be found throughout the book, such as the claim that the covenantal promise to Abraham was made in Ishmael and not Isaac (para 191)
{WHY THEN WAS THE PROMISE NEITHER REITERATED NOR CLAIMED BY THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN DID THE PROPHECY OF A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES COME TO ISRAEL AND NOT THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN WAS GOD'S PROMISE OF THE LAND AND VICTORY OVER ENEMIES AND DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT FULFILLED ON ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS?}
Medieval Sources of the Gospel of Barnabas
[size=13pt]It is not hard to prove to Muslims that this Gospel was first compiled many centuries after the times of both Jesus and Muhammad.[/size] Three of examples of medieval influences will be considered here.
1. The Centenary Year of Jubilee
One of the laws Moses gave to the people of Israel was that a jubilee year was to observed twice every century when slaves would be liberated and debts cancelled. God ordained it in these words:
A jubilee year shall that fiftieth year be to you. Leviticus 25.11
About 1300 AD Pope Boniface the Eighth decreed that the jubilee year should be reintroduced but that it should only be held at the turn of each century, that is, once every hundred years. After his death, however, Pope Clemens the Sixth decreed that the jubilee year should revert to every fifty years following the Biblical decree and there was talk thereafter of reducing it further. In the Gospel of Barnabas this saying is attributed to Jesus:
And then through all the world will God be worshipped, and mercy received, insomuch that the year of jubilee, which now cometh every hundred years, shall by the Messiah be reduced to every year in every place. Gospel of Barnabas, para 82
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The anachronism is obvious - [b]the author of the Gospel of Barnabas could only have spoken of the jubilee year coming every hundred years if he knew of the decree of Pope Boniface. Whoever wrote this Gospel makes Jesus repeat a proclamation which was only made at least thirteen centuries after his time! This proves that the Gospel is a forgery of not earlier than the 14th century AD.
2. Quotations from Dante’s Inferno
Dante was an Italian who lived at about the same time as Pope Boniface. He wrote a well-known classic titled Divina Comedia - the "Divine Comedy". It was a fantasy about hell, purgatory and heaven according to the beliefs of his time. Many passages in the Gospel of Barnabas show a dependence on his work, one of which is a saying attributed to Jesus of the prophets of old:
Readily and with gladness they went to their death, so as not to offend against the law of God given by Moses his servant, and go and serve false and lying gods. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23
The expression dei falsi e lugiardi (false and lying gods) is found elsewhere in the Gospel of Barnabas. Jesus is recorded as again using this phrase (para 78) while Herod is also said by the author to have "adored the false and lying gods" (para 217). The cliche is found in neither the Bible nor the Qur’an but is a direct quote from Dante! (Inferno 1.72).
In its actual descriptions of heaven and hell the Gospel of Barnabas follows Dante exactly while contradicting the Qur’an. [/b]Jesus is said to have declared to Simon Peter:
Know ye therefore that hell is one, yet hath seven centres one below another. Hence, even as sin is of seven kinds, for as seven gates of hell hath Satan generated it: so there are seven punishments therein. Gospel of Barnabas, para 135
Dante gives precisely this description in the fifth and sixth cantos of his Inferno. [b]Speaking of the heavens the Gospel of Barnabas states that they are nine and that Paradise itself is greater than all of them together (para 178). This again parallels Dante who also speaks of nine heavens with an Empyrean, a tenth heaven above them all. These depictions of heaven, however, directly contradict the Qur’an which teaches that after Allah had created the earth, he fashioned paradise as seven heavens (Surah 2.29).
3. The Medieval Environment of the Gospel
Other passages from the Gospel show that the author was more at home in the climate and seasons of southern Europe than in the land of Palestine. He makes Jesus speak of how beautiful the world is in summer-time when the harvest and fruit abound (para 169). This is a fair description of Italy in summer but not of Palestine where the rain falls in winter and the fields are parched in summer.
Likewise the Gospel of Barnabas speaks of storing wine in wooden wine-casks (para 152), a common practice in medieval Europe but not in first-century Palestine where wine was stored in skins (Matthew 9.17). Further proof of the author’s ignorance of the geography of Palestine is found in this statement:
Having arrived at the city of Nazareth the seamen spread through the city all that Jesus had wrought. Gospel of Barnabas, para 20
In this passage Nazareth is represented as a harbour on the Lake of Galilee. After this Jesus is said to have gone "up to Capernaum". Every disciple of Jesus would have known that Capernaum was the city on the shores of the lake while Nazareth is up in the hills. Jesus would have gone up from Capernaum to Nazareth, not the other way around as the Gospel of Barnabas has it.
These evidences all prove that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery compiled in southern Europe sometime around the 16th century after Christ. Let us proceed to examine other evidences that discount the authenticity of this book that calls itself a Gospel.
Other Evidences Against its Authenticity
Muslim: The Gospel of Barnabas must be the true Gospel since it teaches that Jesus was not to be the final messenger of God to mankind but that this honour would be reserved to our holy Prophet Muhammad who he said would follow after him.
There are numerous other evidences against the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas, some of which derive from the very passages where Jesus is said to have foretold the coming of Muhammad. It is very interesting to note that this Gospel makes no mention of John the Baptist - a striking omission, considering the attention given to him as a contemporary prophet to Jesus in the Biblical Gospels. Instead sayings of John are attributed to Jesus, such as "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’" (John 1.23) which is ascribed to Jesus in the Gospel of Barnabas together with the whole conversation that surrounds it (para 42). The author of this Gospel conveniently, but very erroneously, makes Jesus say of Muhammad what John actually said of him.
The Messiah - Jesus or Muhammad?
John the Baptist denied that he was the Messiah when challenged by the Jewish leaders (John 1.20). The Gospel of Barnabas makes Jesus deny the same thing in much the same words:
Jesus confessed and said the truth: ‘I am not the Messiah ... I am indeed sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation; but after me shall come the Messiah’. Gospel of Barnabas, paras 42, 82
Who was to be the coming Messiah, then? Elsewhere the Gospel makes Jesus say "The name of the Messiah is Admirable ... God said: Wait Mohammed; for thy sake I will to create paradise ... Mohammed is his blessed name" (para 97). [size=14pt]Here the author of the Gospel of Barnabas completely overreaches himself for the Qur’an clearly states, no less than eleven times, that Jesus alone is the Messiah. The Bible confirms this too on many occasions (John 4.26, Matthew 16.20) and one quotation from the Qur’an will be sufficient to prove the point:
O Mary! Lo! Allah gives you glad tidings of a Word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the hereafter. Surah 3.45[/size]
The title here is Al-Masih, "the Messiah", and Jesus himself is called Al-Masihu Isa, "the Messiah Jesus", elsewhere in the book (Surah 4.171). [size=14pt]So the Gospel of Barnabas incontrovertibly contradicts the Qur’an when it declares that Muhammad was to be the Messiah. No Muslim can be true to his own holy book while at the same time trying to defend the Gospel of Barnabas as an authentic Gospel. [/size]
What is very interesting here is the discovery that this Gospel not only contradicts the Qur’an but also itself. In the prologue to the book it speaks of "Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ" and states that it is the [size=14pt]"true Gospel of Jesus, called Christ". The author does not seem to have been aware that Messiah and Christ are interchangeable terms, meaning the same thing[/size]. The latter derives from the Greek word Christos which is a translation of the original Hebrew word Mashiah.
Contradictions between the Barnabas Gospel and the Qur’an
There are other [size=13pt]contradictions between the Qur’an and the Gospel of Barnabas which cannot be satisfactorily explained. One relates to the birth of Jesus as it is told in each book. The Gospel says this about the moment of his delivery:
The virgin was surrounded by a light exceeding bright and brought forth her son without pain. Gospel of Barnabas, para 3
This statement has no Biblical equivalent but parallels Catholic beliefs of the Middle Ages.[/size] It is further evidence that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery composed up to fifteen centuries after the time of Christ. [size=14pt]What is significant for Muslims, however, is that it totally disagrees with the Qur’an which says of Mary and the birth of Jesus:
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. Surah 19.23
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There is little room here for Muslims to maintain their cherished belief that they have, in the Gospel of Barnabas, an original Gospel which is consistent with the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. It is not surprising that many Muslim scholars have, in recent times, rejected the Gospel as a forgery. Nonetheless there are still many Muslim writers, often well aware of the overwhelming evidences against it, who still promote it as an authentic text.
Kindly drop a link to where you saw this. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 5:57pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
darkenedrebel:
Kindly drop a link to where you saw this. http://www.arabicbible.com/for-muslims/barnabas-gospel/180-gospel-rejected-by-christianity-why/1573-the-gospel-of-barnabas.htmlThe website was included at the end of the article: It does appear that no one was closer to Paul in his preaching of the Christian faith than this man Barnabas. He cannot possibly be the author of the Gospel falsely attributed to him.
The Gospel of Barnabas is a book of no true historical value. Muslims should be gently persuaded to put it aside and instead take time to read the four genuine Gospels where the real truth about Jesus has been written.
http://www.arabicbible.com/
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| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Rilwayne001: 5:59pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
The Gospel of Barnabas like the bible is another piece of shiiit.. I dont believe either of them. 3 Likes |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 6:00pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
darkenedrebel:
Kindly drop a link to where you saw this. are you deathstroke007 ? The link is there. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 6:02pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
The Gospel of Barnabas like the bible is another piece of shiiit.. I dont believe either of them. is their any different between the book of barnabas and the quran ? The book of barnabas even speak highly of your false prophet. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by truthman2012(m): 6:03pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
analice107:
Where is that Deathstroke He can not surface again na |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Nobody: 6:03pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
malvisguy212:
are you deathstroke007 ? The link is there. No, I'm not deathstroke. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Rilwayne001: 6:04pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
malvisguy212:
is their any different between the book of barnabas and the quran ? The book of barnabas even speak highly of your false prophet. Bokum! |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 6:10pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
Bokum! you're the first muslims that condemned the gospel of barabbas, golpen take the book as the word of God. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by malvisguy212: 6:11pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
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| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 6:44pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
The Gospel of Barnabas like the bible is another piece of shiiit.. I dont believe either of them. Well let your compatriots reply you: Deathstroke007 and Newnas! Besides, that there is a false accentuates the fact that there is the True! It further implicates those who have hitherto found solace in the false! Moreover, this explains why most extant religions appear to have similitudes of the Bible! Truth is this failed bandwagon attempt was not attempted for only one religion!!! |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Rilwayne001: 6:56pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
Well let your compatriots reply you: Deathstroke007 and Newnas! There is no need for them to reply me.. They are entitled to their opinions and believe as you've rightly envisaged in your OP that certain muslims believe it to be fraud while some believe it to be the word of God. I don't believe both the barnabas gospel or the bible as the word of God. Besides, that there is a false accentuates the fact that there is the True! It further implicates those who have hitherto found solace in the false! Moreover, this explains why most extant religions appear to have similitudes of the Bible! Truth is this failed bandwagon attempt was not attempted for only one religion!!![/quote] 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Richirich713: 6:58pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
The Gospel of Barnabas like the bible is another piece of shiiit.. I dont believe either of them. Then why does the Quran say muhammad is mentioned in the bible? " Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (scriptures) in the law and the Gospel". 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by DeathStroke007(m): 7:44pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
There is no need for them to reply me.. They are entitled to their opinions and believe as you've rightly envisaged in your OP that certain muslims believe it to be fraud while some believe it to be the word of God. I don't believe both the barnabas gospel or the bible as the word of God.
Besides, that there is a false accentuates the fact that there is the True! It further implicates those who have hitherto found solace in the false!
Moreover, this explains why most extant religions appear to have similitudes of the Bible! Truth is this failed bandwagon attempt was not attempted for only one religion!!!
I have nothing to say.. You choose to believe a lie. It's entirely Your choice.. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by DeathStroke007(m): 7:45pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
Well let your compatriots reply you: Deathstroke007 and Newnas!
Besides, that there is a false accentuates the fact that there is the True! It further implicates those who have hitherto found solace in the false!
Moreover, this explains why most extant religions appear to have similitudes of the Bible! Truth is this failed bandwagon attempt was not attempted for only one religion!!! Gospel of Barnabas is more reliable than Bible.. Most of its contents is close to Quran |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by DeathStroke007(m): 7:57pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
The History of the Barnabas Gospel
Muslims fondly suppose that this Gospel has been denounced in the Christian world solely because of its Islamic character. It is truer to say that this is the only real reason why it has attracted so much publicity in the Muslim world. The external and internal evidences around the book give a far better reason for rejecting it. They prove conclusively that it was compiled only a few centuries ago as a deliberate forgery to impose both Qur’anic and traditional Muslim dogmas on the life of Jesus as it is described in the four genuine Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Unlike these books which are between twenty and forty pages each, the Gospel of Barnabas is 273 pages long.
Much of its teaching is repetitive of Biblical teaching, though adapted to suit Islamic preferences. For example, when ten lepers were healed on one occasion by Jesus, the only one to return was a Samaritan who fell at his feet, giving him thanks (Luke 17.16). The Gospel of Barnabas conveniently states that he was an Ishmaelite! The rest of its teaching, however, consists of legendary and fanciful stories and forged teachings of Jesus of no historical value at all. Let us consider a few of its typical Islamic teachings.
Islamic Teachings of the Barnabas Gospel
1. Jesus Denied that he was the Son of God
The Gospel of Barnabas repeats the incident where Jesus asked his disciples, firstly, who the multitudes thought he was and, secondly, who they thought he was (Matthew 16.13-20). When Peter answered that he was the Son of God, Jesus responded that he was blessed because his Father in heaven had revealed this to him. In the Gospel of Barnabas, however, while Peter is correctly recorded as declaring that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, the answer of Jesus to him was totally different.
Jesus is supposed to have declared to Peter "Begone and depart from me, because thou art the devil and seekest to cause me offence!" He then is reputed to have told all his disciples to beware because "I have won from God a great curse against those who believe this" {And just how many people did he bless with a curse? And why did the Jews attempt to stone Him a Number of times onthis basis?} (Gospel of Barnabas, para 70).
2. Judas was Crucified in Place of Jesus
The Muslim doctrine that Jesus was taken alive from the earth just before he was due to be arrested while someone else was made to look like him and was crucified in his place is repeated in this Gospel, only it specifically makes the victim Judas Iscariot. It was only some centuries after Muhammad that the Muslim world first taught this theory, [size=14pt]invented[/size] to justify the crucifixion of a bystander who might otherwise have seemed to be an innocent substitute.
{AGAIN WE ASK FOR WHAT OFFENCE WAS HE TO BE KILLED?}
The Gospel of Barnabas teaches that when Judas arrived with soldiers to arrest Jesus, God sent four angels to take Jesus out of the world into the third heaven while Judas "was so changed in speech and in face to be like Jesus" that Barnabas and the other disciples believed him to actually be Jesus (Gospel of Barnabas, para 216). Judas was duly crucified in his place.
{LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?}
3. Jesus Predicted the Coming of Muhammad by Name
In many places Jesus is said to have declared the coming of Muhammad by name, as in this statement made after he said he would first have to endure the infamy that he had been crucified: "But when Mohammed shall come, the sacred messenger of God, that infamy shall be taken away" (Gospel of Barnabas, para 112).
{JESUS ALWAYS STATED FUTURE EVENTS ACCORDING TO OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES AND PROMISES;WHICH ONE BACKS THIS?}
{BESIDES, WHAT WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY HIS NOT DYING, WAS HE NOT A MERE PROPHET?}
These are some of the central Islamic features of the Gospel of Barnabas where its teaching contradicts the contents of the four Biblical Gospels. Numerous other Islamic influences can be found throughout the book, such as the claim that the covenantal promise to Abraham was made in Ishmael and not Isaac (para 191)
{WHY THEN WAS THE PROMISE NEITHER REITERATED NOR CLAIMED BY THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN DID THE PROPHECY OF A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES COME TO ISRAEL AND NOT THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN WAS GOD'S PROMISE OF THE LAND AND VICTORY OVER ENEMIES AND DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT FULFILLED ON ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS?}
Medieval Sources of the Gospel of Barnabas
[size=13pt]It is not hard to prove to Muslims that this Gospel was first compiled many centuries after the times of both Jesus and Muhammad.[/size] Three of examples of medieval influences will be considered here.
1. The Centenary Year of Jubilee
One of the laws Moses gave to the people of Israel was that a jubilee year was to observed twice every century when slaves would be liberated and debts cancelled. God ordained it in these words:
A jubilee year shall that fiftieth year be to you. Leviticus 25.11
About 1300 AD Pope Boniface the Eighth decreed that the jubilee year should be reintroduced but that it should only be held at the turn of each century, that is, once every hundred years. After his death, however, Pope Clemens the Sixth decreed that the jubilee year should revert to every fifty years following the Biblical decree and there was talk thereafter of reducing it further. In the Gospel of Barnabas this saying is attributed to Jesus:
And then through all the world will God be worshipped, and mercy received, insomuch that the year of jubilee, which now cometh every hundred years, shall by the Messiah be reduced to every year in every place. Gospel of Barnabas, para 82
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The anachronism is obvious - [b]the author of the Gospel of Barnabas could only have spoken of the jubilee year coming every hundred years if he knew of the decree of Pope Boniface. Whoever wrote this Gospel makes Jesus repeat a proclamation which was only made at least thirteen centuries after his time! This proves that the Gospel is a forgery of not earlier than the 14th century AD.
2. Quotations from Dante’s Inferno
Dante was an Italian who lived at about the same time as Pope Boniface. He wrote a well-known classic titled Divina Comedia - the "Divine Comedy". It was a fantasy about hell, purgatory and heaven according to the beliefs of his time. Many passages in the Gospel of Barnabas show a dependence on his work, one of which is a saying attributed to Jesus of the prophets of old:
Readily and with gladness they went to their death, so as not to offend against the law of God given by Moses his servant, and go and serve false and lying gods. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23
The expression dei falsi e lugiardi (false and lying gods) is found elsewhere in the Gospel of Barnabas. Jesus is recorded as again using this phrase (para 78) while Herod is also said by the author to have "adored the false and lying gods" (para 217). The cliche is found in neither the Bible nor the Qur’an but is a direct quote from Dante! (Inferno 1.72).
In its actual descriptions of heaven and hell the Gospel of Barnabas follows Dante exactly while contradicting the Qur’an. [/b]Jesus is said to have declared to Simon Peter:
Know ye therefore that hell is one, yet hath seven centres one below another. Hence, even as sin is of seven kinds, for as seven gates of hell hath Satan generated it: so there are seven punishments therein. Gospel of Barnabas, para 135
Dante gives precisely this description in the fifth and sixth cantos of his Inferno. [b]Speaking of the heavens the Gospel of Barnabas states that they are nine and that Paradise itself is greater than all of them together (para 178). This again parallels Dante who also speaks of nine heavens with an Empyrean, a tenth heaven above them all. These depictions of heaven, however, directly contradict the Qur’an which teaches that after Allah had created the earth, he fashioned paradise as seven heavens (Surah 2.29).
3. The Medieval Environment of the Gospel
Other passages from the Gospel show that the author was more at home in the climate and seasons of southern Europe than in the land of Palestine. He makes Jesus speak of how beautiful the world is in summer-time when the harvest and fruit abound (para 169). This is a fair description of Italy in summer but not of Palestine where the rain falls in winter and the fields are parched in summer.
Likewise the Gospel of Barnabas speaks of storing wine in wooden wine-casks (para 152), a common practice in medieval Europe but not in first-century Palestine where wine was stored in skins (Matthew 9.17). Further proof of the author’s ignorance of the geography of Palestine is found in this statement:
Having arrived at the city of Nazareth the seamen spread through the city all that Jesus had wrought. Gospel of Barnabas, para 20
In this passage Nazareth is represented as a harbour on the Lake of Galilee. After this Jesus is said to have gone "up to Capernaum". Every disciple of Jesus would have known that Capernaum was the city on the shores of the lake while Nazareth is up in the hills. Jesus would have gone up from Capernaum to Nazareth, not the other way around as the Gospel of Barnabas has it.
These evidences all prove that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery compiled in southern Europe sometime around the 16th century after Christ. Let us proceed to examine other evidences that discount the authenticity of this book that calls itself a Gospel.
Other Evidences Against its Authenticity
Muslim: The Gospel of Barnabas must be the true Gospel since it teaches that Jesus was not to be the final messenger of God to mankind but that this honour would be reserved to our holy Prophet Muhammad who he said would follow after him.
There are numerous other evidences against the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas, some of which derive from the very passages where Jesus is said to have foretold the coming of Muhammad. It is very interesting to note that this Gospel makes no mention of John the Baptist - a striking omission, considering the attention given to him as a contemporary prophet to Jesus in the Biblical Gospels. Instead sayings of John are attributed to Jesus, such as "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’" (John 1.23) which is ascribed to Jesus in the Gospel of Barnabas together with the whole conversation that surrounds it (para 42). The author of this Gospel conveniently, but very erroneously, makes Jesus say of Muhammad what John actually said of him.
The Messiah - Jesus or Muhammad?
John the Baptist denied that he was the Messiah when challenged by the Jewish leaders (John 1.20). The Gospel of Barnabas makes Jesus deny the same thing in much the same words:
Jesus confessed and said the truth: ‘I am not the Messiah ... I am indeed sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation; but after me shall come the Messiah’. Gospel of Barnabas, paras 42, 82
Who was to be the coming Messiah, then? Elsewhere the Gospel makes Jesus say "The name of the Messiah is Admirable ... God said: Wait Mohammed; for thy sake I will to create paradise ... Mohammed is his blessed name" (para 97). [size=14pt]Here the author of the Gospel of Barnabas completely overreaches himself for the Qur’an clearly states, no less than eleven times, that Jesus alone is the Messiah. The Bible confirms this too on many occasions (John 4.26, Matthew 16.20) and one quotation from the Qur’an will be sufficient to prove the point:
O Mary! Lo! Allah gives you glad tidings of a Word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the hereafter. Surah 3.45[/size]
The title here is Al-Masih, "the Messiah", and Jesus himself is called Al-Masihu Isa, "the Messiah Jesus", elsewhere in the book (Surah 4.171). [size=14pt]So the Gospel of Barnabas incontrovertibly contradicts the Qur’an when it declares that Muhammad was to be the Messiah. No Muslim can be true to his own holy book while at the same time trying to defend the Gospel of Barnabas as an authentic Gospel. [/size]
What is very interesting here is the discovery that this Gospel not only contradicts the Qur’an but also itself. In the prologue to the book it speaks of "Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ" and states that it is the [size=14pt]"true Gospel of Jesus, called Christ". The author does not seem to have been aware that Messiah and Christ are interchangeable terms, meaning the same thing[/size]. The latter derives from the Greek word Christos which is a translation of the original Hebrew word Mashiah.
Contradictions between the Barnabas Gospel and the Qur’an
There are other [size=13pt]contradictions between the Qur’an and the Gospel of Barnabas which cannot be satisfactorily explained. One relates to the birth of Jesus as it is told in each book. The Gospel says this about the moment of his delivery:
The virgin was surrounded by a light exceeding bright and brought forth her son without pain. Gospel of Barnabas, para 3
This statement has no Biblical equivalent but parallels Catholic beliefs of the Middle Ages.[/size] It is further evidence that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery composed up to fifteen centuries after the time of Christ. [size=14pt]What is significant for Muslims, however, is that it totally disagrees with the Qur’an which says of Mary and the birth of Jesus:
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. Surah 19.23
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There is little room here for Muslims to maintain their cherished belief that they have, in the Gospel of Barnabas, an original Gospel which is consistent with the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. It is not surprising that many Muslim scholars have, in recent times, rejected the Gospel as a forgery. Nonetheless there are still many Muslim writers, often well aware of the overwhelming evidences against it, who still promote it as an authentic text.
On the issue of Jesus on son of God.. According to gospel of Barnabas.. Jesus isn't biological nor born my God.. Even your piece of shit Bible supports it. According to your Bible.. As long as you a good person, you a son of God. And there are two begotten son of God in Bible. Jesus and David... Over 50 Bible scholars wrote and studied Bible and brought out RSV Bible.. The most trusted Bible.. Written by Christian.. The stupid word begotten isn't in the RSV Bible because it's insane to think God can father a man.. Even the insane word TRINITY is thrown out of the RSV Bible because it's an intercollision, a concussion and a corruption. Only people with right brain and people that can think right will know God can never father a child. It's human thing to sex or impregnate... So therefore, bananas is correct.. Jesus was never son of God and Jesus truly cursed people that calls him son of God. Now let's ask Jesus if he's son of God.. Go check your Bible.. He was called son of God but he always refer to himself as son of man 
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| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by DeathStroke007(m): 8:28pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
Another typical contradiction between the two books is found in the statement in the Gospel of Barnabas about the angels of God on the last days before the great Judgment: "The fifteenth day the holy angels shall die, and God alone shall remain alive" (para 53). The Qur’an knows nothing about the death of angels but states that eight of them shall bear the throne of Allah on the Last Day (Surah 69.17).
Again the Gospel of Barnabas states that on the thirteenth day of the final period before the end, all mankind will die and every living thing on the earth shall perish (para 53) whereas the Qur’an states that men will be alive until the last day, the great Day of Judgment, when the trumpet shall sound and "every man will have enough concerns on that day to make him heedless of others" (Surah 80.37).
In witness with Muslims it should be easy to get the Gospel of Barnabas dispensed with once these evidences are produced to them. The book is a counterfeit of no value which has been promoted by Muslims as a red herring across the path of genuine Christian-Muslim apologetics.
Throughout the book its author is said to have been one of the twelve disciples of Jesus yet it is well known that the real Barnabas only appears on the scene after the death and resurrection of Jesus and, furthermore, that he only received his name as a result of an incident that took place much later. The evidence is found in the following passage:
[b]Thus Joseph who was [size=14pt]surnamed by the apostles Barnabas[[/size]/b] (which means, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field which belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet. Acts 4.36-37
It was only when this man Joseph encouraged the early Church by donating the proceeds of the sale of his property to the disciples of Jesus that he was given the surname bar-nabas. Thereafter he is a prominent personality in the record of the initial development of the Church and is mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament (Galatians 2.9). He was most certainly not one of the original twelve, however, whose names are all recorded in two of the Gospels (Matthew 10.2-4, Luke 6.14-16). He is not mentioned at all in the four Gospels and the composer of this forgery has, as it were, left his fingerprints on its text by including what is a glaring anachronism. Jesus is said to have called him by name on numerous occasions of which the following passage is an example:
Jesus answered: ‘Be not sore grieved, Barnabas, for those whom God hath chosen before the creation of the world shall not perish’. Gospel of Barnabas, para 19
Such an address before Jesus ascended to heaven was impossible if he only received the title some time after the event.
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The Probable Authorship of the Barnabas Gospel
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Whoever the author was it is clear that he was very conversant with the land of Spain and its environment. He could well have been a Spanish Muslim forcibly converted to Christianity around the time of the Spanish Inquisition who took private revenge by compiling an Islamic Gospel. He might well have written it first in Italian to give it a more authentic appearance before translating it into his own language. There is clear evidence of Spanish influence in this quote attributed to Jesus:
For he would get in change a piece of gold must have sixty mites. Gospel of Barnabas, para 54
The Italian version divides the golden denarius into sixty minuti. These coins were of Spanish origin dating from the pre-Islamic Visigothic period and betray a Spanish influence behind the Gospel.
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His fate at the hand of Peretti once he became Pope may have led him to compose this Gospel as an act of private revenge against him, especially if he had subsequently converted to Islam. [b]What we do know is that it most certainly could not have been written by the Apostle Barnabas who was at no time one of the immediate disciples of Jesus. If the Gospel of Barnabas serves any purpose it is perhaps to prove that it is impossible to compose a life of Jesus consistent with the factual evidences of his life and teachings as found in the four true Gospels which at the same time promotes him as a prophet of Islam. The book fails dismally in its attempt to do precisely [/b]this.
In conversation with Muslims it is important to dispose of this Gospel as soon as possible. It offers no useful contribution to the field of Christian-Muslim apologetics.
Paul and Barnabas in the Book of Acts
Muslim: In his Gospel Barnabas expressly repudiates the teaching of Paul that Jesus is the Son of God. In fact even the New Testament records that Paul and Barnabas couldn’t agree. It was because Barnabas taught the ultimate truth about Jesus.
Barnabas and Paul: Two Close Companions
Anyone reading through Acts 15 will discover that the only point of disagreement between these two men was on whether they should again be accompanied by John Mark on a later journey. Paul did not want him to go with as he had let them down on their first missionary journey (Acts 13.13).
3. Both Barnabas and Paul Rejected Circumcision
According to the Gospel of Barnabas Jesus is recorded as teaching that circumcision is one of the most important acts of religious piety. Both Judaism and Islam to this day faithfully observe the ordinance. Jesus is supposed to have said:
Leave fear to him that hath not circumcised his foreskin, for he is deprived of paradise. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23
It is most ironic to find that the real Barnabas joined Paul in vehemently opposing circumcision as a necessary ritual for salvation: (Acts 15:1-4)
It does appear that no one was closer to Paul in his preaching of the Christian faith than this man Barnabas. He cannot possibly be the author of the Gospel falsely attributed to him.
The Gospel of Barnabas is a book of no true historical value. Muslims should be gently persuaded to put it aside and instead take time to read the four genuine Gospels where the real truth about Jesus has been written.
http://www.arabicbible.com/
Let me add, Barnabas still continued in the faith and was still a friend to Paul:
Commenting on Colossians 4:10 as written by Paul
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him
and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas; the same with John Mark, whose mother's name was Mary, said here to be sister to Barnabas, Acts 12:12 concerning whom there was a difference between Paul and Barnabas, Acts 15:37, and is the same Mark that wrote the Gospel, and was converted by the Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 5:13 and who is said to have received his Gospel from him; he is also mentioned 2 Timothy 4:11 . The Arabic version calls him here, the "brother's son of Barnabas": and the Syriac version, , "his uncle's son": however, Barnabas being so great a man as he was, and so well known, it added some credit to Mark, that he was a relation of his:
I wonder how Mark, a protege of Barnabas, will write something totally different from the 'gospel' falsely attributed to 'Barnabas' then!!! And on the number 2 issue.. Crucifix.. It's even in the Bible that he's not crucified . Over 20 places in the Bible.. There's even contradiction in the supposed Jesus last words in Bible. This mean the event doesn't happen in their presence, they only wrote what they hear.. Mere heresy.. Ponder on this picture... Since he's not crucified, and people saw Jesus crucified.. If you Read gospel of Barnabas.. It's explanation is crystal clear... 1 Share 
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| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by DeathStroke007(m): 8:34pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Scholar8200:
The History of the Barnabas Gospel
Muslims fondly suppose that this Gospel has been denounced in the Christian world solely because of its Islamic character. It is truer to say that this is the only real reason why it has attracted so much publicity in the Muslim world. The external and internal evidences around the book give a far better reason for rejecting it. They prove conclusively that it was compiled only a few centuries ago as a deliberate forgery to impose both Qur’anic and traditional Muslim dogmas on the life of Jesus as it is described in the four genuine Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Unlike these books which are between twenty and forty pages each, the Gospel of Barnabas is 273 pages long.
Much of its teaching is repetitive of Biblical teaching, though adapted to suit Islamic preferences. For example, when ten lepers were healed on one occasion by Jesus, the only one to return was a Samaritan who fell at his feet, giving him thanks (Luke 17.16). The Gospel of Barnabas conveniently states that he was an Ishmaelite! The rest of its teaching, however, consists of legendary and fanciful stories and forged teachings of Jesus of no historical value at all. Let us consider a few of its typical Islamic teachings.
Islamic Teachings of the Barnabas Gospel
1. Jesus Denied that he was the Son of God
The Gospel of Barnabas repeats the incident where Jesus asked his disciples, firstly, who the multitudes thought he was and, secondly, who they thought he was (Matthew 16.13-20). When Peter answered that he was the Son of God, Jesus responded that he was blessed because his Father in heaven had revealed this to him. In the Gospel of Barnabas, however, while Peter is correctly recorded as declaring that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, the answer of Jesus to him was totally different.
Jesus is supposed to have declared to Peter "Begone and depart from me, because thou art the devil and seekest to cause me offence!" He then is reputed to have told all his disciples to beware because "I have won from God a great curse against those who believe this" {And just how many people did he bless with a curse? And why did the Jews attempt to stone Him a Number of times onthis basis?} (Gospel of Barnabas, para 70).
2. Judas was Crucified in Place of Jesus
The Muslim doctrine that Jesus was taken alive from the earth just before he was due to be arrested while someone else was made to look like him and was crucified in his place is repeated in this Gospel, only it specifically makes the victim Judas Iscariot. It was only some centuries after Muhammad that the Muslim world first taught this theory, [size=14pt]invented[/size] to justify the crucifixion of a bystander who might otherwise have seemed to be an innocent substitute.
{AGAIN WE ASK FOR WHAT OFFENCE WAS HE TO BE KILLED?}
The Gospel of Barnabas teaches that when Judas arrived with soldiers to arrest Jesus, God sent four angels to take Jesus out of the world into the third heaven while Judas "was so changed in speech and in face to be like Jesus" that Barnabas and the other disciples believed him to actually be Jesus (Gospel of Barnabas, para 216). Judas was duly crucified in his place.
{LET'S ASK, WHO WENT TO HANG HIMSELF THEN? WHO WENT TO RETURN THE 30 PIECES OF SILVER?}
3. Jesus Predicted the Coming of Muhammad by Name
In many places Jesus is said to have declared the coming of Muhammad by name, as in this statement made after he said he would first have to endure the infamy that he had been crucified: "But when Mohammed shall come, the sacred messenger of God, that infamy shall be taken away" (Gospel of Barnabas, para 112).
{JESUS ALWAYS STATED FUTURE EVENTS ACCORDING TO OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES AND PROMISES;WHICH ONE BACKS THIS?}
{BESIDES, WHAT WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY HIS NOT DYING, WAS HE NOT A MERE PROPHET?}
These are some of the central Islamic features of the Gospel of Barnabas where its teaching contradicts the contents of the four Biblical Gospels. Numerous other Islamic influences can be found throughout the book, such as the claim that the covenantal promise to Abraham was made in Ishmael and not Isaac (para 191)
{WHY THEN WAS THE PROMISE NEITHER REITERATED NOR CLAIMED BY THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN DID THE PROPHECY OF A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES COME TO ISRAEL AND NOT THE ISHMAELITES? WHY THEN WAS GOD'S PROMISE OF THE LAND AND VICTORY OVER ENEMIES AND DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT FULFILLED ON ISAAC'S DESCENDANTS?}
Medieval Sources of the Gospel of Barnabas
[size=13pt]It is not hard to prove to Muslims that this Gospel was first compiled many centuries after the times of both Jesus and Muhammad.[/size] Three of examples of medieval influences will be considered here.
1. The Centenary Year of Jubilee
One of the laws Moses gave to the people of Israel was that a jubilee year was to observed twice every century when slaves would be liberated and debts cancelled. God ordained it in these words:
A jubilee year shall that fiftieth year be to you. Leviticus 25.11
About 1300 AD Pope Boniface the Eighth decreed that the jubilee year should be reintroduced but that it should only be held at the turn of each century, that is, once every hundred years. After his death, however, Pope Clemens the Sixth decreed that the jubilee year should revert to every fifty years following the Biblical decree and there was talk thereafter of reducing it further. In the Gospel of Barnabas this saying is attributed to Jesus:
And then through all the world will God be worshipped, and mercy received, insomuch that the year of jubilee, which now cometh every hundred years, shall by the Messiah be reduced to every year in every place. Gospel of Barnabas, para 82
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The anachronism is obvious - [b]the author of the Gospel of Barnabas could only have spoken of the jubilee year coming every hundred years if he knew of the decree of Pope Boniface. Whoever wrote this Gospel makes Jesus repeat a proclamation which was only made at least thirteen centuries after his time! This proves that the Gospel is a forgery of not earlier than the 14th century AD.
2. Quotations from Dante’s Inferno
Dante was an Italian who lived at about the same time as Pope Boniface. He wrote a well-known classic titled Divina Comedia - the "Divine Comedy". It was a fantasy about hell, purgatory and heaven according to the beliefs of his time. Many passages in the Gospel of Barnabas show a dependence on his work, one of which is a saying attributed to Jesus of the prophets of old:
Readily and with gladness they went to their death, so as not to offend against the law of God given by Moses his servant, and go and serve false and lying gods. Gospel of Barnabas, para 23
The expression dei falsi e lugiardi (false and lying gods) is found elsewhere in the Gospel of Barnabas. Jesus is recorded as again using this phrase (para 78) while Herod is also said by the author to have "adored the false and lying gods" (para 217). The cliche is found in neither the Bible nor the Qur’an but is a direct quote from Dante! (Inferno 1.72).
In its actual descriptions of heaven and hell the Gospel of Barnabas follows Dante exactly while contradicting the Qur’an. [/b]Jesus is said to have declared to Simon Peter:
Know ye therefore that hell is one, yet hath seven centres one below another. Hence, even as sin is of seven kinds, for as seven gates of hell hath Satan generated it: so there are seven punishments therein. Gospel of Barnabas, para 135
Dante gives precisely this description in the fifth and sixth cantos of his Inferno. [b]Speaking of the heavens the Gospel of Barnabas states that they are nine and that Paradise itself is greater than all of them together (para 178). This again parallels Dante who also speaks of nine heavens with an Empyrean, a tenth heaven above them all. These depictions of heaven, however, directly contradict the Qur’an which teaches that after Allah had created the earth, he fashioned paradise as seven heavens (Surah 2.29).
3. The Medieval Environment of the Gospel
Other passages from the Gospel show that the author was more at home in the climate and seasons of southern Europe than in the land of Palestine. He makes Jesus speak of how beautiful the world is in summer-time when the harvest and fruit abound (para 169). This is a fair description of Italy in summer but not of Palestine where the rain falls in winter and the fields are parched in summer.
Likewise the Gospel of Barnabas speaks of storing wine in wooden wine-casks (para 152), a common practice in medieval Europe but not in first-century Palestine where wine was stored in skins (Matthew 9.17). Further proof of the author’s ignorance of the geography of Palestine is found in this statement:
Having arrived at the city of Nazareth the seamen spread through the city all that Jesus had wrought. Gospel of Barnabas, para 20
In this passage Nazareth is represented as a harbour on the Lake of Galilee. After this Jesus is said to have gone "up to Capernaum". Every disciple of Jesus would have known that Capernaum was the city on the shores of the lake while Nazareth is up in the hills. Jesus would have gone up from Capernaum to Nazareth, not the other way around as the Gospel of Barnabas has it.
These evidences all prove that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery compiled in southern Europe sometime around the 16th century after Christ. Let us proceed to examine other evidences that discount the authenticity of this book that calls itself a Gospel.
Other Evidences Against its Authenticity
Muslim: The Gospel of Barnabas must be the true Gospel since it teaches that Jesus was not to be the final messenger of God to mankind but that this honour would be reserved to our holy Prophet Muhammad who he said would follow after him.
There are numerous other evidences against the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas, some of which derive from the very passages where Jesus is said to have foretold the coming of Muhammad. It is very interesting to note that this Gospel makes no mention of John the Baptist - a striking omission, considering the attention given to him as a contemporary prophet to Jesus in the Biblical Gospels. Instead sayings of John are attributed to Jesus, such as "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’" (John 1.23) which is ascribed to Jesus in the Gospel of Barnabas together with the whole conversation that surrounds it (para 42). The author of this Gospel conveniently, but very erroneously, makes Jesus say of Muhammad what John actually said of him.
The Messiah - Jesus or Muhammad?
John the Baptist denied that he was the Messiah when challenged by the Jewish leaders (John 1.20). The Gospel of Barnabas makes Jesus deny the same thing in much the same words:
Jesus confessed and said the truth: ‘I am not the Messiah ... I am indeed sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation; but after me shall come the Messiah’. Gospel of Barnabas, paras 42, 82
Who was to be the coming Messiah, then? Elsewhere the Gospel makes Jesus say "The name of the Messiah is Admirable ... God said: Wait Mohammed; for thy sake I will to create paradise ... Mohammed is his blessed name" (para 97). [size=14pt]Here the author of the Gospel of Barnabas completely overreaches himself for the Qur’an clearly states, no less than eleven times, that Jesus alone is the Messiah. The Bible confirms this too on many occasions (John 4.26, Matthew 16.20) and one quotation from the Qur’an will be sufficient to prove the point:
O Mary! Lo! Allah gives you glad tidings of a Word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the hereafter. Surah 3.45[/size]
The title here is Al-Masih, "the Messiah", and Jesus himself is called Al-Masihu Isa, "the Messiah Jesus", elsewhere in the book (Surah 4.171). [size=14pt]So the Gospel of Barnabas incontrovertibly contradicts the Qur’an when it declares that Muhammad was to be the Messiah. No Muslim can be true to his own holy book while at the same time trying to defend the Gospel of Barnabas as an authentic Gospel. [/size]
What is very interesting here is the discovery that this Gospel not only contradicts the Qur’an but also itself. In the prologue to the book it speaks of "Jesus the Nazarene, called Christ" and states that it is the [size=14pt]"true Gospel of Jesus, called Christ". The author does not seem to have been aware that Messiah and Christ are interchangeable terms, meaning the same thing[/size]. The latter derives from the Greek word Christos which is a translation of the original Hebrew word Mashiah.
Contradictions between the Barnabas Gospel and the Qur’an
There are other [size=13pt]contradictions between the Qur’an and the Gospel of Barnabas which cannot be satisfactorily explained. One relates to the birth of Jesus as it is told in each book. The Gospel says this about the moment of his delivery:
The virgin was surrounded by a light exceeding bright and brought forth her son without pain. Gospel of Barnabas, para 3
This statement has no Biblical equivalent but parallels Catholic beliefs of the Middle Ages.[/size] It is further evidence that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery composed up to fifteen centuries after the time of Christ. [size=14pt]What is significant for Muslims, however, is that it totally disagrees with the Qur’an which says of Mary and the birth of Jesus:
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. Surah 19.23
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There is little room here for Muslims to maintain their cherished belief that they have, in the Gospel of Barnabas, an original Gospel which is consistent with the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. It is not surprising that many Muslim scholars have, in recent times, rejected the Gospel as a forgery. Nonetheless there are still many Muslim writers, often well aware of the overwhelming evidences against it, who still promote it as an authentic text.
And on the third issue of Muhammad name in Bible and he's predictions... It's all in Bible.. I don't have time to be explaining what is glaring... Google it yourself.. You gonna see all the proof.. After refuting the first 2 fake and dumb non researched claims on gospel of Barnabas.. Av lost interest in refuting the others because it's full of unresearched claims.. |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Demmzy15(m): 8:40pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Rilwayne001:
The Gospel of Barnabas like the bible is another piece of shiiit.. I dont believe either of them. Seconded!!! 2 Likes |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Demmzy15(m): 9:12pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Richirich713:
Then why does the Quran say muhammad is mentioned in the bible?
"Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (scriptures) in the law and the Gospel".
From the verse you quoted in blue, does it mention anything like the bible?! |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Richirich713: 9:23pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Demmzy15:
From the verse you quoted in blue, does it mention anything like the bible?! I said bible since I saw it here : PROPHET MUHAMMAD (pbuh) IN THE BIBLE by Dr. Zakir Naik. http://www.islam101.com/religions/christianity/mBible.htm "Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (scriptures) in the law and the Gospel" Then what scriptures is the Quran talking about? 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Demmzy15(m): 10:05pm On Feb 04, 2016 |
Richirich713:
I said bible since I saw it here :
PROPHET MUHAMMAD (pbuh) IN THE BIBLE
by Dr. Zakir Naik.
http://www.islam101.com/religions/christianity/mBible.htm
"Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (scriptures) in the law and the Gospel"
Then what scriptures is the Quran talking about? There are thousands of scripture(more than 20,000) attributed to Christianity/Judaism. You can't use the 66/72 of catholics/protestants as a yardstick to judge Islam. Moreover the bible we have today was concocted over 900years after the Prophet Muhammad(SAW). So it's better you know what you know what you're doing! |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Richirich713: 7:43am On Feb 05, 2016 |
Demmzy15:
There are thousands of scripture(more than 20,000) attributed to Christianity/Judaism. You can't use the 66/72 of catholics/protestants as a yardstick to judge Islam. Moreover the bible we have today was concocted over 900years after the Prophet Muhammad(SAW). So it's better you know what you know what you're doing! So what are u saying? Is the scriptures that mentioned muhammad lost. What about the scriptures that existed before muhammad was born, or evens the scriptures that existed before Jesus was born. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas Laid To Rest! by Scholar8200(m): 7:56am On Feb 05, 2016 |
Demmzy15:
There are thousands of scripture(more than 20,000) attributed to Christianity/Judaism. You can't use the 66/72 of catholics/protestants as a yardstick to judge Islam. Moreover the bible we have today was concocted over 900years after the Prophet Muhammad(SAW). So it's better you know what you know what you're doing! But there is only one Law? And what else is the Gospel? (Good News?) That God was going to bring another religion after the manner of the law? NO WAY! When the heart cry of the people then was when God will fulfill the promise He made and prophecies such as: 34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
Jeremiah 31:34 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations. Ezekiel 36:26,27 ANY other 'scripture' or 'gospel' not in accordance with these realities is false! 1 Like |
