The Past, Present and Future Dangers of the Islamic Belief in the Mahdi
Islam has been called a Christian heresy for centuries — first by the Church father St. John of Damascus , an Arab Christian who lived during the Muslim conquests. Other notable Christian thinkers since — Martin Luther , Hillaire Belloc , and C.S. Lewis among them —have agreed. Why? Because Islam’s founder, Muhammad, and the compilers of its holy book, the Quran, clearly cribbed from the Bible — both the Old and New Testaments , as well as the apocryphal “gospels ” that didn’t make the canonical cut. In fact, a great many biblical figures and events turn up in the Muslim holy book , as well as in hadiths — extra-Quranic sayings attributed to Muhammad. These figures include Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jonah, John the Baptist, Mary, and Jesus—but in the Quran, they’re all given a quite different spin. Raymond Ibrahim deconstructed the Islamic Mary recently; a s for her Son, Muhammad’s `Isa little resembles our Lord and Savior Jesus, since Islamic texts deny the Incarnation, cr