(Quick Clip) Islam Critiqued

Yeah, for certain absolutely agree with that. How would you You know apply priest up with the presuppositional method

To like other religious views, you know, okay. We have we have the Bible we presuppose the existence of the triune

God We we we presuppose the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Overall. We we have our lenses on which is provided by Scripture Well, what about Muslims that have their their worldview glasses that is predicated upon the

Quran and what it teaches about their transcendent God and their revelation or or other

You know quasi Christian groups like cults Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, they they have the

Bible to you know, how would how would we apply? you know Engaging with them and in light of what you just said

Well first I think and that's an excellent question by the way at first I think it's important that we learn a little bit about those religions, right?

We want to make sure we kind of have some kind of grasp on the religions What we're gonna do and in applying a presuppositional approach is we want to critique

We want to critique the unbelievers perspective, right and Islam would be a great example

Because Islam accepts certain aspects of Christian scripture, right? Muslims call Christians and Jews the people of the book.

They believe we have a revelation. The problem is the portions of Scripture that Muslims and Christians agree on Include portions of how we are to test

New revelation, of course new revelation from the Christian perspective if you're asking a Christian to accept the

Quran Muhammad doesn't come around until 600 around 600 years after the time of Christ 600 700 is something like that after Christ.

So Yeah, so so when we take a look for example, and someone wants me to accept the Quran We need to take a look at that.

All right, Islam instructs people to judge New revelation the Quran teaches that we are to judge new revelation based upon what came before Specifically referring to the the

Torah and the gospel But again when discrepancies right arise between the Quran and these earlier scriptures

What do we hear Muslims will claim what the Bible is what corrupt corrupt, right? Okay, so the so the problem here is that the

Quran and surah 548 commands people to test new revelation by what came before But then when

Christians point out conflicts between the Quran and the Bible, what does the Muslim do? He asserts the corruption of the

Bible now notice the problem here if the Bible is corrupted The command to test new revelation by it becomes meaningless.

Isn't that true? Yes Ultimately judge the Quran by a corrupted standard which really is illogical and so Muslims accept

The Bible is true when it agrees with the Quran, but they reject the Bible as corrupted when it disagrees so that's kind of very convenient for them right this selective acceptance is

Inconsistent and undermines the reliability of the command in the Quran to test new revelation by previous scripture

So you see what I just did there. I just did and thumbnail sketch an internal critique of Islam I did not adopt the foundation of Islam.

I did not act neutrally like well Let's just look at the bare facts nor have

I assumed autonomy that we could answer the question about Islam Independent of divine revelation.

What did I do? I hypothetically granted that Islam were true and showed that if it were true

It actually implodes upon itself and one of the ways in which it implodes upon itself is that the portions of our scripture that it accepts actually refutes their own position and The Quran itself commands us to do something to test it

That's literally impossible to do if the Bible is corrupted as they tell us and so those are one of the ways we can apply what we call an internal critique of Competing religious perspectives and of course the

Muslim is free to do that to the Christian as well The Christian the Muslim could hypothetically grant the truth of the

Christian worldview and try to show that there are Contradictions within the Christian worldview and of course, that's where the task of apologetics comes in.

We welcome that and one of the ways to survive The internal critique done on us is to simply know the