DIVINE REVELATION OR HUMAN INVENTION? The Qur'an, the Bible, and Testing Faith Claims Against History
Voices Of Life by The Church For Life, Inc.
Episode notes
When someone claims God spoke to them, how do we test that? What evidence actually counts? And does it matter whether the claim was made within decades of the events β or six centuries later?
In this Voices of Life Special, we compare the historical foundations of Christianity and Islam side by side. Both claim the God of Abraham. Both trace their lineage to the same patriarch. But one emerged in the 1st century from eyewitness testimony, and the other arrived in the 7th century through private revelation to a single individual.
This isn't about attacking Islam. It's about asking honest questions:
π If the Qur'an borrows extensively from Jewish and Christian traditions that existed centuries earlier, is that divine continuation β or human reinterpretation?
π If a manuscript can be carbon-dated to the 7th century, does thΒ ...Β