THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TALMUD

Source : "Judaism's Strange Gods" by Michael A. Hoffman

Introduction

The Talmud is Judaism's holiest book (actually a collection
of books). Its authority takes precedence over the Old
Testament in Judaism. Evidence of this may be found in the
Talmud itself, Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): "My son, be
more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes
than in the words of the Torah (Old Testament)."

The supremacy of the Talmud over the Bible in the Israeli
state may also be seen in the case of the black Ethiopian
Jews. Ethiopians are very knowledgeable of the Old
Testament. However, their religion is so ancient it
pre-dates the Scribes' Talmud, of which the Ethiopians have
no knowledge. According to the N.Y. Times of Sept.
29, 1992, p.4:

"The problem is that Ethiopian Jewish tradition goes no
further than the Bible or Torah; the later Talmud and other
commentaries that form the basis of modern traditions never
came their way."

Because they are not traffickers in Talmudic tradition, the
black Ethiopian Jews are discriminated against and have been
forbidden by the Zionists to perform marriages, funerals and
other services in the Israeli state.

Rabbi Joseph D. Soloveitchik is regarded as one of the most
influential rabbis of the 20th century, the "unchallenged
leader" of Orthodox Judaism and the top international
authority on halakha (Jewish religious law).
Soloveitchik was responsible for instructing and ordaining
more than 2,000 rabbis, "an entire generation" of Jewish
leadership.

N.Y. Times religion reporter Ari Goldman described
the basis of the rabbi's authority:

"Soloveitchik came from a long line of distinguished
Talmudic scholars...Until his early 20s, he devoted himself
almost exclusively to the study of the Talmud...He came to
Yeshiva University's Elchanan Theological Seminary where he
remained the pre-eminent teacher in the Talmud...He held the
title of Leib Merkin professor of Talmud...sitting with his
feet crossed in front of a table bearing an open volume of
the Talmud." (N.Y. Times, April 10, 1993, p. 38).

Nowhere does Goldman refer to Soloveitchik's knowledge of
the Bible as the basis for being one of the leading
authorities on Jewish law.

The rabbi's credentials are all predicated upon his mastery
of the Talmud. Other studies are clearly secondary.
Britain's Jewish Chronicle of March 26, 1993 states
that in religious school (yeshiva), Jews are "devoted
to the Talmud to the exclusion of everything else."

The Talmud Nullifies the Bible

The Jewish Scribes claim the Talmud is partly a collection
of traditions Moses gave them in oral form. These had not
yet been written down in Jesus' time. Christ condemned the
traditions of the Mishnah (early Talmud) and those who
taught it (Scribes and Pharisees), because the Talmud
nullifies the teachings of the Holy Bible.

Shmuel Safrai in The Literature of the Sages Part One
(p.164), points out that in chapters 4 and 5 of the Talmud's
Gittin Tractate, the Talmud nullifies the Biblical teaching
concerning money-lending: "Hillel decreed the prozbul
for the betterment of the world. The prozbul is a
legal fiction which allows debts to be collected after the
Sabbatical year and it was Hillel's intention thereby to
overcome the fear that money-lenders had of losing their
money."

The famous warning of Jesus Christ about the tradition of
men that voids Scripture (Mark 7:1-13), is in fact, a direct
reference to the Talmud, or more specifically, the
forerunner of the first part of it, the Mishnah, which
existed in oral form during Christ's lifetime, before being
committed to writing. Mark chapter 7, from verse one through
thirteen, represents Our Lord's pointed condemnation of the
Mishnah.

Unfortunately, due to the abysmal ignorance of our day, the
widespread "Judeo-Christian" notion is that the Old
Testament is the supreme book of Judaism. But this is not
so. The Pharisees teach for doctrine the commandments of
rabbis, not God.

The Talmudic commentary on the Bible is their supreme law,
and not the Bible itself. That commentary does indeed, as
Jesus said, void the laws of God, not uphold them. As
students of the Talmud, we know this to be true.

Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, in Judaism on Trial,
quotes Rabbi Yehiel ben Joseph: "Further, without the
Talmud, we would not be able to understand passages in the
Bible...God has handed this authority to the sages and
tradition is a necessity as well as scripture. The Sages
also made enactments of their own...anyone who does not
study the Talmud cannot understand Scripture."

There is a tiny Jewish sect which makes considerable effort
to eschew Talmud and adhere to the Old Testament alone.
These are the Karaites, a group which, historically, has
been most hated and severely persecuted by orthodox Jewish
rabbinate.

To the Mishnah the rabbis later added the Gemara (rabbinical
commentaries). Together these comprise the Talmud. There are
two versions, the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian
Talmud.

The Babylonian Talmud is regarded as the authoritative
version: "The authority of the Babylonian Talmud is also
greater than that of the Jerusalem Talmud. In cases of doubt
the former is decisive." (R.C. Musaph-Andriesse, From
Torah to Kabbalah: A Basic Introduction to the Writings of
Judaism, p. 40).

This study is based on the Jewish-authorized Babylonian
Talmud. We have published herein the authenticated sayings
of the Jewish Talmud. Look them up for yourself.

We publish the following irrefutable documentation in the
hope of liberating all people, including Jewish people, from
the corrosive delusions and racism of this Talmudic hate
literature, which is the manual of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews
the world over.

The implementation by Jewish supremacists of Talmudic hate
literature has caused untold suffering throughout history
and now, in occupied Palestine, it is used as a
justification for the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.
The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as
non-human animals.

Some Teachings of the Jewish Talmud

Where a Jew Should Do Evil

Moed Kattan 17a: If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should
go to a city where he is not known and do the evil
there.

Penalty for Disobeying Rabbis

Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and
will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.

Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God

Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the
gentile must be killed.

O.K. to Cheat Non-Jews

Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the
wages owed him for work.

Jews Have Superior Legal Status

Baba Kamma 37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a
Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite
gores an ox of an Israelite...the payment is to be in full."

Jews May Steal from Non-Jews

Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile
("heathen") it does not have to be returned. (Affirmed also
in Baba Kamma 113b). Sanhedrin 76a. God will not spare a Jew
who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for
his infant son or returns a lost article to a Cuthean..."

Jews May Rob and Kill Non-Jews

Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"),
there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a
gentile he may keep.

Baba Kamma 37b. The gentiles are outside the protection of
the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel."

Jews May Lie to Non-Jews

Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to
circumvent a Gentile.

Non-Jewish Children are Sub-Human

Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals.

Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of
niddah (filth) from birth.

Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows.

Insults Against Blessed Mary

Sanhedrin 106a . Says Jesus' mother was a whore: "She who
was the descendant of princes and governors played the
harlot with carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath
104b of the Soncino edition, it is stated that in the
"uncensored" text of the Talmud it is written that Jesus
mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex with many men.

Gloats over Christ Dying Young

A passage from Sanhedrin 106 gloats over the early age at
which Jesus died: "Hast thou heard how old Balaam (Jesus)
was?--He replied: It is not actually stated but since it is
written, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days it follows that he was thirty-three or
thirty-four years old."

Jesus in the Talmud:

Horrible Blasphemies Against Jesus Christ

While it is the standard disinformation practice of
apologists for the Talmud to deny that it contains any
scurrilous references to Jesus Christ, certain Orthodox
Jewish organizations are more forthcoming and admit that the
Talmud not only mentions Jesus but disparages him (as a
sorcerer and a demented sex freak). These orthodox Jewish
organizations make this admission perhaps out of the belief
that Jewish supremacy is so well-established in the modern
world that they need not concern themselves with adverse
reactions.

For example, on the website of the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic
Lubavitch group--one of the largest in the world--we find
the following statement, complete with Talmudic citations:

"The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of
'Jesus the Nazarene':

1) He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic,
led Jews astray into idolatry, and were sponsored by
foreign, gentile powers for the purpose of subverting Jewish
worship (Sanhedrin 43a).

2) He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a
brick is mentioned), was cut off from the Jewish people for
his wickedness, and refused to repent (Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah
47a).

3) He learned witchcraft in Egypt and, to perform miracles,
used procedures that involved cutting his flesh, which is
also explicitly banned in the Bible (Shabbos 104b).

End quote from http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm
(Lubavitch website) June 20, 2000.

[Note: we have printed and preserved in our files a hard
copy of this statement from the Lubavitch"Noah's Covenant
Website," as it appeared on their website at
http://www.noahide.com on June 20, 2000, in the event that
denials are later issued and the statement itself
suppressed].

Let us examine further some of these antichrist Talmud
passages:

Gittin 57a. Says Jesus is in hell, being boiled in "hot
excrement."

Sanhedrin 43a. Says Jesus ("Yeshu" and in Soncino footnote
#6, Yeshu "the Nazarene") was executed because he practiced
sorcery: "It is taught that on the eve of Passover Jesus was
hung, and forty days before this the proclamation was made:
Jesus is to be stoned to death because he has practiced
sorcery and has lured the people to idolatry...He was an
enticer and of such thou shalt not pity or condone."

Kallah 51a."The elders were once sitting in the gate when
two young lads passed by; one covered his head and the other
uncovered his head. Of him who uncovered his head Rabbi
Eliezer remarked that he is a bastard. Rabbi Joshua remarked
that he is the son of a niddah (a child conceived during a
woman's menstrual period). Rabbi Akiba said that he is both
a bastard and a son of a niddah.

"They said, 'What induced you to contradict the opinion of
your colleagues?' He replied, "I will prove it concerning
him." He went to the lad's mother and found her sitting in
the market selling beans.

"He said to her, 'My daughter, if you will answer the
question I will put to you, I will bring you to the world to
come.' (eternal life). She said to him, 'Swear it to me.'

"Rabbi Akiba, taking the oath with his lips but annulling it
in his heart, said to her, 'What is the status of your son?'
She replied, 'When I entered the bridal chamber I was niddah
(menstruating) and my husband kept away from me; but my best
man had intercourse with me and this son was born to me.'
Consequently the child was both a bastard and the son of a
niddah.

"It was declared, '..Blessed be the God of Israel Who
Revealed His Secret to Rabbi Akiba..."

In addition to the theme that God rewards clever liars, the
preceding Talmud discussion is actually about Jesus Christ
(the bastard boy who "uncovered his head" and was conceived
in the filth of menstruation). The boy's adulterous mother
in this Talmud story is the mother of Christ, Blessed Mary
(called Miriam and sometimes, Miriam the hairdresser, in the
Talmud).

"The Editio Princeps of the complete Code of Talmudic
Law, Maimonides' Mishneh Torah -- replete not only
with the most offensive precepts against all Gentiles but
also with explicit attacks on Christianity and on Jesus
(after whose name the author adds piously, 'May the name of
the wicked perish')... --Dr. Israel Shahak, Jewish
History, Jewish Religion, p. 21.

"The Talmud contains a few explicit references to
Jesus...These references are certainly not
complimentary...There seems little doubt that the account of
the execution of Jesus on the eve of Passover does refer to
the Christian Jesus...The passage in which Jesus' punishment
in hell is described also seems to refer to the Christian
Jesus. It is a piece of antichristian polemic dating from
the post-70 CE period..." --Hyam Maccoby, Judaism on
Trial, pp. 26-27.

"According to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a proper
rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to
idolatry, and contempt of rabbinical authority. All
classical Jewish sources which mention his execution are
quite happy to take responsibility for it; in the talmudic
account the Romans are not even mentioned.

"The more popular accounts--which were nevertheless taken
quite seriously--such as the notorious Toldot Yeshu are even
worse, for in addition to the above crimes they accuse him
of witchcraft. The very name 'Jesus' was for Jews a symbol
of all that is abominable and this popular tradition still
persists...

"The Hebrew form of the name Jesus--Yeshu--was interpreted
as an acronym for the curse, 'may his name and memory be
wiped out,' which is used as an extreme form of abuse. In
fact, anti-zionist Orthodox Jews (such as Neturey Qarta)
sometimes refer to Herzl as 'Herzl Jesus' and I have found
in religious zionist writings expressions such as "Nasser
Jesus" and more recently 'Arafat Jesus." --Dr. Israel
Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, pp. 97- 98,
118.

Talmud Attacks Christians and Christian Books

Rosh Hashanah 17a. Christians (minnim) and others who
reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for
all generations.

Sanhedrin 90a. Those who read the New Testament
("uncanonical books") will have no portion in the world to
come.

Shabbath 116a. Jews must destroy the books of the
Christians, i.e. the New Testament.

Dr. Israel Shahak of Hebrew University reports that the
Israelis burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles in occupied
Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History, Jewish
Religion, p. 21).

Sick and Insane Teachings of the Talmud

Gittin 69a . To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that
lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey
and eat it.

Shabbath 41a. The law regulating the rule for how to urinate
in a holy way is given.

Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with
all the animals in the Garden of Eden.

Yebamoth 63a. Declares that agriculture is the lowest of
occupations.

Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old girl
(specifically, three years "and a day" old).

Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as long as
the child is less than nine years old.

Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a
little girl it is nothing."

Yebamoth 59b. A woman who had intercourse with a beast is
eligible to marry a Jewish priest. A woman who has sex with
a demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest.

Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there is not a whore in the
world that the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex
with. On one of his whorehouse romps, Rabbi Eleazar leanred
that there was one particular prostitute residing in a
whorehouse near the sea, who would receive a bag of money
for her services. He took a bag of money and went to her,
crossing seven rivers to do so. During their intercourse the
prostitute farted. After this the whore told Rabbi Eleazar:
"Just as this gas will never return to my anus, Rabbi
Eleazar will never get to heaven."

Hagigah 27a. States that no rabbi can ever go to hell.

Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God
admits the rabbi won the debate.

Gittin 70a. The Rabbis taught: "On coming from a privy
(outdoor toilet) a man should not have sexual intercourse
till he has waited long enough to walk half a mile, because
the demon of the privy is with him for that time; if he
does, his children will be epileptic."

Gittin 69b. To heal the disease of pleurisy ("catarrh") a
Jew should "take the excrement of a white dog and knead it
with balsam, but if he can possibly avoid it he should not
eat the dog's excrement as it loosens the limbs."

Pesahim 111a. It is forbidden for dogs, women or palm trees
to pass between two men, nor may others walk between dogs,
women or palm trees. Special dangers are involved if the
women are menstruating or sitting at a crossroads.

Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the
following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me
a gentile, a woman or a slave.

Tall Tales of a Roman Holocaust

Here are two early "Holocaust" tales from the Talmud: Gittin
57b. Claims that four billion Jews were killed by the Romans
in the city of Bethar. Gittin 58a claims that 16 million
Jewish children were wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by
the Romans. (Ancient demography indicates that there were
not 16 million Jews in the entire world at that time, much
less 16 million Jewish children or four billion Jews).

A Revealing Admission

Abodah Zarah 70a. The question was asked of the rabbi
whether wine stolen in Pumbeditha might be used or if it was
defiled, due to the fact that the thieves might have been
gentiles (a gentile touching wine would make the wine
unclean). The rabbi says not to worry, that the wine is
permissible for Jewish use because the majority of the
thieves in Pumbeditha, the place where the wine was stolen,
are Jews. (Also cf. Gemara Rosh Hashanah 25b).

Pharisaic Rituals

Erubin 21b. "Rabbi Akiba said to him, "Give me some water to
wash my hands."

"It will not suffice for drinking," the other complained,
"will it suffice for washing your hands?"

"What can I do?' the former replied, "when for neglecting
the words of the Rabbis one deserves death? It is better
that I myself should die than that I transgress against the
opinion of my colleagues." [This is the ritual hand washing
condemned by Jesus in Matthew 15: 1-9].

Genocide Advocated by the Talmud

Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10. This is the saying of
Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim harog ("Even
the best of the gentiles should all be killed").

This passage is from the original Hebrew of the Babylonian
Talmud as quoted by the 1907 Jewish Encyclopedia,
published by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore
Singer, under the entry, "Gentile," (p. 617).

This original Talmud passage has been concealed in
translation. The Jewish Encyclopedia states that,
"...in the various versions the reading has been altered,
'The best among the Egyptians' being generally substituted."
In the Soncino version: "the best of the heathens" (Minor
Tractates, Soferim 41a-b].

Israelis annually take part in a national pilgrimage to the
grave of Simon ben Yohai, to honor this rabbi who advocated
the extermination of non-Jews. (Jewish Press, June 9,
1989, p. 56B).

On Purim, Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli army officer Baruch
Goldstein, an orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, massacred 40
Palestinian civilians, including children, while they knelt
in prayer in a mosque. Goldstein was a disciple of the late
Brooklyn Rabbi Meir Kahane, who told CBS News that his
teaching that Arabs are "dogs" is derived "from the Talmud."
(CBS 60 Minutes, "Kahane").

University of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud Sprinzak described Kahane
and Goldstein's philosophy: "They believe it's God's will
that they commit violence against goyim, a Hebrew
term for non-Jews." (NY Daily News, Feb. 26, 1994, p.
5).

Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg declared, "We have to recognize that
Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same
thing." (NY Times, June 6, 1989, p.5).

Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said, "One million Arabs are not worth a
Jewish fingernail." (NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994,
p.6).

Talmudic Doctrine: Non-Jews are not Human

The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as
non-human animals, and specifically dehumanizes Gentiles as
not being descendants of Adam. Here are some of the Talmud
passages which relate to this topic.

Kerithoth 6b: Uses of Oil of Anointing. "Our Rabbis have
taught: He who pours the oil of anointing over cattle or
vessels is not guilty; if over gentiles (goyim) or the dead,
he is not guilty. The law relating to cattle and vessels is
right, for it is written: "Upon the flesh of man (Adam),
shall it not be poured (Exodus 30:32]); and cattle and
vessels are not man (Adam).

"Also with regard to the dead, [it is plausible] that he is
exempt, since after death one is called corpse and not a man
(Adam). But why is one exempt in the case of gentiles
(goyim); are they not in the category of man (Adam)? No, it
is written: 'And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are
man" (Adam); [Ezekiel 34:31]: Ye are called man (Adam) but
gentiles (goyim) are not called man (Adam)."

In the preceding passage, the rabbis are discussing the
portion of the Mosaic law which forbids applying the holy
oil to men.

The Talmud states that it is not a sin to apply the holy oil
to Gentiles, because Gentiles are not human beings (i.e. are
not of Adam).

Another example from tractate Yebamoth 61a: "It was taught:
And so did R. Simeon ben Yohai state (61a) that the graves
of gentiles (goyim) do not impart levitical uncleanness by
an ohel [standing or bending over a grave], for it is
said, 'And ye my sheep the sheep of my pasture, are men
(Adam), [Ezekiel 34:31]; you are called men (Adam) but the
idolaters are not called men (Adam)."

The Old Testament Mosaic law states that touching a human
corpse or the grave of a human imparts uncleanness to those
who touch it. But the Talmud teaches that if a Jew touches
the grave of a Gentile, the Jew is not rendered
unclean, since Gentiles are not human (not of Adam).

From Baba Mezia 114b: ""A Jewish priest was standing in a
graveyard. When asked why he was standing there in apparent
violation of the Mosaic law, he replied that it was
permissible, since the law only prohibits Jews from coming
into contact with the graves of humans (Adamites), and he
was standing in a gentile graveyard. For it has been taught
by Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: 'The graves of gentiles [goyim] do
not defile. For it is written, 'And ye my flock, the flock
of my pastures, are men (Adam)' (Ezekiel 34:31); only ye are
designated men (Adam)."

Ezekiel 34:31 is the alleged Biblical proof text repeatedly
cited in the preceding three Talmud passages. But Ezekiel
34:31 does not in fact support the Talmudic notion that only
Israelites are human. What these rabbinical, anti-Gentile
racists and ideologues have done in asserting the preceding
absurdities about Gentiles is distort an Old Testament
passage in order to justify their bigotry.

In Berakoth 58a the Talmud uses Ezekiel 23:20 as proof of
the sub-human status of gentiles. It also teaches that
anyone (even a Jewish man) who reveals this Talmudic
teaching about non-Jews deserves death, since revealing it
makes Gentiles wrathful and causes the repression of
Judaism.

The Talmudic citation of this scripture from Ezekiel as a
"proof-text" is specious, since the passage does not prove
that Gentiles are animals. The passage from Ezekiel only
says that some Egyptians had large genital organs and
copious emissions. This does not in any way prove or even
connote that the Egyptians being referred to in the Bible
were considered animals. Once again, the Talmud has
falsified the Bible by means of distorted interpretation.

Other Talmud passages which expound on Ezekiel 23:20 in this
racist fashion are: Arakin 19b, Berakoth 25b, Niddah 45a,
Shabbath 150a, Yebamoth 98a. Moreover, the original text of
Sanhedrin 37a applies God's approval only to the saving of
Jewish lives (cf. the Hesronot Ha-shas, Cracow,
1894).

Moses Maimonides: Advocate of Extermination

We will now examine the post-Talmudic commentator Rambam
(Moses Maimonides). This revered "sage" taught that
Christians should be exterminated. He has the highest
stature in Judaism:

"Moses Maimonides is considered the greatest codifier and
philosopher in Jewish history. He is often affectionately
referred to as the Rambam, after the initials of his name
and title, Rabenu Moshe Ben Maimon, "Our Rabbi, Moses son of
Maimon." [Maimonides' Principles, edited by Aryeh
Kaplan, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America,,
p. 3].

Here is what Maimonides (Rambam) taught concerning saving
people's lives, especially concerning saving the lives of
gentiles and Christians, or even Jews who dared to deny the
"divine inspiration" of the Talmud:

Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, (Moznaim Publishing
Corporation, Brooklyn, New York, 1990, Chapter 10, English
Translation), p. 184: "Accordingly, if we see an idolater
(gentile) being swept away or drowning in the river, we
should not help him. If we see that his life is in danger,
we should not save him." The Hebrew text of the Feldheim
1981 edition of Mishnah Torah states this as well.

Immediately after Maimonides' admonition that it is a duty
for Jews not to save a drowning or perishing gentile, he
informs us of the Talmudic duty of Jews towards Christians,
and also towards Jews who deny the Talmud. Maimonides,
Mishnah Torah, (Chapter 10), p. 184:

"It is a mitzvah [religious duty], however, to
eradicate Jewish traitors, minnim, and
apikorsim, and to cause them to descend to the pit of
destruction, since they cause difficulty to the Jews and
sway the people away from God, as did Jesus of Nazareth and
his students, and Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May
the name of the wicked rot."

The Jewish publisher's commentary accompanying the preceding
statement of Maimonides states that Jesus was an example of
a min (plural: minnim).

The commentary also states that the students of Tzadok were
defined as those Jews who deny the truth of the Talmud and
who uphold only the written law (i.e. the Old Testament).

According to Maimonides' Principles, p. 5, Maimonides
"spent twelve years extracting every decision and law from
the Talmud, and arranging them all into 14 systematic
volumes. The work was finally completed in 1180, and was
called Mishnah Torah, or "Code of the Torah."

Maimonides taught in another part of the Mishnah
Torah that gentiles are not human: "Man alone, and not
vessels, can contract uncleanness by carriage. ...The corpse
of a gentile, however, does not convey uncleanness by
overshadowing. ...a gentile does not contract corpse
uncleanness; and if a gentile touches, carries, or
overshadows a corpse he is as one who did not touch it.

"To what is this like? It is like a beast which touches a
corpse or overshadows it. And this applies not to corpse
uncleanness only but to any other kind of uncleanness:
neither gentiles nor cattle are susceptible to any
uncleanness." (The Code of Maimonides, vol. 10,
translated by Herbert Danby, Yale University Press, New
Haven, 1954, pp. 8-9).

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Rotze'ach 2:11: "A Jew
who killed a righteous gentile is not executed in a court of
law. It says in Exodus 21:14, 'If a man schemes against his
fellow man and kills the man deliberately, take him away
from the altar and put him to death.' But a gentile is not
considered a man, and even more so, a Jew is not executed
for killing an unrighteous gentile."

The Schindler's List Quote

The Talmud (i.e., the Babylonian Talmud) text of Sanhedrin
37a restricts the duty to save life to saving only Jewish
lives.

The book on Hebrew censorship, written by Jews themselves
(Hesronot Ha-shas), notes that some Talmud texts use
the universalist phrase:

"Whoever destroys the life of a single human being...it is
as if he had destroyed an entire world; and whoever
preserves the life of a single human being ...it is as if he
had preserved an entire world."

However, Hesronot Ha-shas points out that these are
not the authentic words of the original Talmud.

In other words, the preceding universalist rendering is not
the authentic text of the Talmud and thus, for example, this
universalist version which Steven Spielberg in his famous
movie, Schindler's List attributed to the Talmud (and
which became the motto of the movie on posters and in
advertisements), is a hoax and constitutes propaganda
intended to give a humanistic gloss to a Talmud which is, in
its essence, racist and chauvinist hate literature.

In the authentic, original Talmud text it states that
"whoever preserves a single soul of Israel, it is as
if he had preserved an entire world" (emphasis supplied).
The authentic Talmud text sanctions only the saving of
Jewish lives.

Jewish Deception and Dissimulation

The response of the orthodox rabbis to documentation
regarding the racism and hatred in their sacred texts is
simply to brazenly lie, in keeping with the Talmud's Baba
Kamma 113a which states that Jews may use lies
("subterfuge") to circumvent a Gentile.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a multi-million dollar
rabbinical propaganda center dispatched Rabbi Daniel Landes
in 1995 to deny that the Talmud dehumanizes non-Jews. "This
is utter rot," he said. His proof? Why, his word, of course.

Lying to "circumvent a Gentile" has a long patrimony in
Judaism. Take for example the 13th century Talmud debate in
Paris between Nicholas of Donin, a Jewish convert to
Christianity, whom Hyam Maccoby admits had "a good knowledge
of the Talmud" ( "The Jews on Trial," p. 26) and
Rabbi Yehiel. Yehiel was not under threat of death, bodily
injury, imprisonment or fine. Yet he brazenly lied during
the course of the debate.

When asked by Donin whether there were attacks on Jesus in
the Talmud, Yehiel denied that there were any. Donin, a
Hebrew and Aramaic scholar, knew this to be false. Hyam
Maccoby, a 20th century Jewish commentator on the debate,
defends Rabbi Yehiel's lying in this way:

"The question may be asked, however, whether Yehiel really
believed that Jesus was not mentioned in the Talmud, or
whether he put this forward as an ingenious ploy in the
desperate situation in which he found himself...It would
certainly have been pardonable of the rabbi to attempt some
condonation in which he did not fully believe, to prevent
such tyrannical proceedings by one religious culture against
another." ( Maccoby, "The Jews on Trial," p. 28).

This is how Jewish denial of the existence of hateful Talmud
texts is justified to this day. A fanciful word for Jewish
lying is conjured ("condonation") and deemed "pardonable,"
while any scrutiny of Jewish holy books by Christian
investigators is characterized as a "tyrannical proceeding."

In 1994, Rabbi Tzvi Marx, director of Applied Education at
the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, made a remarkable
admission concerning how Jewish rabbis in the past have
issued two sets of texts: the authentic Talmudic texts with
which they instruct their own youth in the Talmud schools
(yeshiviot) and "censured and amended" versions which they
disseminate to gullible non-Jews for public consumption.

Rabbi Marx states that in the version of Maimonides'
teachings published for public consumption, Maimonides is
made to say that whoever kills a human being transgresses
the law.

But, Rabbi Marx points out "...this only reflects the
censured and amended printed text, whereas the original
manuscripts have it only as 'whoever kills an
Israelite."(Tikkun: A Bi-Monthly Jewish Critique
May-June, 1994).

The Jewish book, Hesronot Ha-shas ("that which is
removed from the Talmud"), is important in this regard. (Cf.
William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books p.
59).

Hesronot Ha-shas was reprinted in 1989 by Sinai
Publishing of Tel-Aviv. Hesronot Ha-shas is valuable
because it lists both the original Talmud texts that were
later changed or omitted, and the falsified texts cited for
Gentile consumption as authentic.

Historian William Popper states: "It was not always that
long passages...were censored...but often single words alone
were omitted...Often, in these cases, another method of
correction was used in place of omission--substitution."
(Cf. William Popper, The Censorship of Hebrew Books
pp. 58-59).

For example, the translators of the English Soncino version
of the Talmud sometimes render the Hebrew word goyim
(Gentiles) under any number of disguise words such as
"heathen, Cuthean, Kushite, Egyptian, idolater" etc. But
these are actually references to Gentiles (all non-Jews).
Footnotes for certain passages in the Soncino Talmud
translation state: "Cuthean (Samaritan) was here substituted
for the original goy..."

The heirs of the Pharisees often deny the existence of the
Talmud passages here cited, in order to brazenly claim that
such passages are the "fabrications of anti-Semites."

In 1994, the 80 year old Lady Jane Birdwood was arrested and
prosecuted in a criminal court in London, England for the
"crime" of publishing in her pamphlet, The Longest
Hatred, the truthful statement that the Talmud contains
anti-Gentile and antichristian passages. (She was accused
of violating the Public Order Act of 1986).

In the course of her Orwellian thought-crime trial, which
was ignored by the U.S. media, a rabbi was called as a
prosecution witness. The rabbi proceeded to flatly deny that
the Talmud contained anti-Gentile or antichristian passages
and on the basis of the rabbi's "prestige," this elderly and
ailing woman was sentenced to three months in jail and fined
the equivalent of $1,000.

"Judeo-Christian" Response to the Talmud

Neither the modern popes or the modern heads of
Protestantism, have ever insisted that the rabbis of Judaism
repudiate or condemn the racism in the Talmud or the
murderous hate for Christians and gentiles expressed within
it. On the contrary, the heads of Churchianity have urged
the followers of Christ to obey, honor and support the
followers of the Talmud. Therefore, it should be obvious
that these Catholic and Protestant leaders are the worst
betrayers of Jesus Christ on earth today. (Cf. Matthew
23:13-15; I Thess. 2:14-16; Titus 1:14; Luke 3:8-9; Rev.
3:9).

Non-Jews are "Supernal Refuse"

Moreover, not only Christians but non-Christians of all
races are regarded as "supernal refuse" (garbage) by Talmud
teachers such as the founder of Habad-Lubavitch, Rabbi
Shneur Zalman.

This was analyzed in the Jewish magazine, New
Republic: "...there are some powerful ironies in Habad's
new messianic universalism, in its mission to the gentiles;
and surely the most unpleasant of them concerns Habad's
otherwise undisguised and even racial contempt for the
goyim.

"...medieval Jewish theologians--most notably the poet and
philosopher Judah Ha-Levi in twelfth-century Spain and the
mystic Judah Loewe in sixteenth-century Prague--sought to
define the Jewish distinction racially rather than
spiritually...this...view, according to which there is
something innately superior about the Jews, was
rehabilitated in its most extreme form by Shneur Zalman of
Lyady. The founder of Lubavitcher Hasidism taught that there
is a difference of essence between the souls of Jews and the
souls of gentiles, that only in the Jewish soul does there
reside a spark of divine vitality.

"As for the goyim...Zalman's attitude (was): 'Gentile
souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They
are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.'

"Consequently, references to gentiles in Rabbi Shneur
Zalman's teachings are invariably invidious. Their
(non-Jews) material abundance derives from supernal refuse.
Indeed, they themselves derive from refuse, which is why
they are more numerous than the Jews, as the pieces of chaff
outnumber the kernels...All Jews were innately good, all
gentiles innately evil.

"...Moreover, this characterization of gentiles as being
inherently evil, as being spiritually as well as
biologically inferior to Jews, has not in any way been
revised in later Habad writing." --The New Republic,
May 4, 1992. Also cf. Roman A. Foxbrunner, Habad: The
Hasidism of Shneur Zalman of Lyady (Northvale, New
Jersey, Jason Aronson, Inc., 1993) pp. 108-109.

U.S. Government Lays Groundwork for Talmudic Courts

"Our" government under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton,
has provided, under the euphemism of education (for example,
House Joint Resolution 173 and Public Law 102-14), a
groundwork for the establishment of Talmudic "courts of
justice" to be administered by disciples of Shneur Zalman's
Chabad successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Maimonides ruled that it is a Jewish court -- or a court
appointed by Jewish authority --that enforces obedience and
passes judgment on Gentiles, as well as promulgating
legislation by court order for that purpose.
Maimonides further decreed that any non-Jewish nation "not
subject to our jurisdiction" (tahaht yadeinu) will be
the target of Jewish holy war. (Cf. Hilkhot Melakhim 8:9-10;
10:11. Also cf. Gerald J. Blidstein, "Holy War in
Maimonidean Law," in Perspectives on Maimonides
[Oxford, England: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991].

These courts are to be convened allegedly under the "Noahide
Laws" (proscriptions against idolatry supposedly based
on the covenant with Noah). The U.S. presidents and Congress
urged the adoption of the "Noahide" Laws as interpreted by
Chabad-Lubavitch Grand Rabbi Schneerson.

Prof. Easterly of the Southern University Law Center, a
Jewish legal expert, has compared this Public law 102-14 to
the "first rays of dawn" which "evidence the rising of a
still unseen sun."

The Jewish Encyclopedia envisages a Noahide regime as
a possible world order immediately preceding the universal
reign of the Talmud.

It has to be understood that we are not dealing with the
Noah of the Bible when the religion of Judaism refers to
"Noahide law," but the Noahide law as understood and
interpreted by the absolute system of falsification that
constitutes the Talmud.

Under the Talmud's counterfeit Noahide Laws, the worship of
Jesus is forbidden under penalty of death, since such
worship of Christ is condemned by Judaism as idolatry.
Meanwhile various forms of incest are permitted under the
Talmudic understanding of the Noahide code.
(Enziklopediya Talmudit, note 1, pp. 351-352).

Furthermore, all non-Jews would have the legal status of
ger toshav ("resident alien," cf. Alan Unterman,
Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend
[London: Thames and Hudson, 1991], p. 148), even
in their own land; as for example in occupied Palestine
where newly arrived Khazars from Russia have an automatic
right to housing and citizenship, while two million
Palestinian refugees who either fled or were expelled by the
Israelis, are forbidden the right of return.

Resident alien status has been clearly delineated in
scholarly articles in leading Jewish publications. For
example, Hebrew University Professor Mordechai Nisan, basing
his exposition on Maimonides, stated that a non-Jew
permitted to reside in a land ruled by Jewish law "must
accept paying a tax and suffering the humiliation of
servitude."

If Gentiles refuse to live a life of inferiority, then this
signals their rebellion and the unavoidable necessity of
Jewish warfare against their very presence. [Cf. Mordechai
Nisan, Kivunim (official publication of the World
Zionist Organization), August, 1984, pp. 151-156].

At a symposium ("Is Autonomy for Resident Aliens Feasible?")
organized by Israeli Minister of Education Shulamit Aloni,
the Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren repeated the Talmudic
teaching on resident aliens: that Judaism forbids "granting
any national rights" to them. He ruled that such "Autonomy
is tantamount to a denial of the Jewish religion." (Nadav
Shraggai, Ha'aretz, Oct. 14, 1992).

American taxpayers' subsidy of the so-called "U.S. Holocaust
Museum" in Washington, D.C., is yet another indicator of the
gradual establishment of a Jewish state religion in the U.S.
This "Holocaust museum" excludes any reference to holocausts
perpetrated by Jewish Communists against Christians in
Russia and Eastern Europe, from 1917 onward.

The focus of the museum is almost entirely on Jewish
suffering. Holocausts perpetrated by Israelis against Arabs
in Lebanon and Palestine since 1948 are nowhere to be found
in the exhibits of the U.S. "Holocaust Museum," which
functions more like a synagogue than a repository of
objective historical information.

It is through the rapid emergence of this ostensibly secular
but all-pervasive "Holocaustianity" -- whereby the religion
of Judaism is gaining enormous power and influence as
mankind's supreme ethos and the creed of God's Holy People.

Jewish Law Requires Christians be Executed

Israeli "Torah scholars" have ruled that:

"The Torah maintains that the righteous of all nations have
a place in the World to Come. But not all religious Gentiles
earn eternal life by virtue of observing their
religion...And while the Christians do generally accept the
Hebrew Bible as truly from God, many of them (those who
accept the so-called divinity of Jesus) are idolaters
according to the Torah, punishable by death, and certainly
will not enjoy the World to Come."

--
Israeli Mechon-Mamre website, June 26, 2000; 12 Hayyim
Vital St., Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine. ("Mechon Mamre is
a small group of Torah scholars in Israel...").

[Note: we have printed and preserved in our files a
hard copy of this statement from the Israeli "Mechon-Mamre
Torah Scholars," as it appeared on their website at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/gentiles.htm on June 26,
2000, in the event that denials are later issued and the
statement itself suppressed].

Jewish Superstitions

It is not for nothing that the authoritative edition of the
Talmud is known as the Babylonian Talmud. As Christians
misled by their Judaizing preachers and popes are
increasingly consulting Jewish rabbinical sources for a
"pure" understanding of the Old Testament, they are
unknowingly consulting the occult.

Judaism is the religion of the Pharisees and the patrimony
of Babylon, from whence the Talmudic and Kabbalistic
traditions of Judaism ultimately derive. Orthodox Judaism's
other sacred book, the Kabbalah, is filled with
astrological teachings, fortune-telling, gematria,
necromancy and demonology.

The photograph on the cover of this publication's hard copy
version shows an orthodox Jew performing a ritual to
transfer his sins to the chicken he is waving over his head.
This is pernicious superstition.

Furthermore, the Israeli "Star of David," is actually
nothing of the kind, but rather an occult hexagram, a yantra
of the androgyne, which became associated with the Khazars
in 14th century Bohemia. (The misnamed "state of Israel" was
founded in 1948 in an alliance between Jewish Communists and
atheistic Zionists, with crucial U.N. recognition provided
by Soviet Communist dictator Joseph Stalin).

Christians might find it eye-opening to visit a Hasidic
Jewish area during "Purim" and observe the grotesque,
Halloween-like cavorting. Though the Purim festival uses the
Book of Esther as its supposed proof-text, in practice the
Jewish celebration of Purim is little more than a Bacchanal
(cf. "Superstitions said legacy from Jewish ancestors,"
Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 16, 1989, p. 58).

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Fiona M

When was the Talmud written? Has this section of the sanhedrin 43a censored?

On the eve of Passover Jesus was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, "He is going forth to be stoned because he has practiced sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy. Anyone who can say anything in his favor let him come forward and plead on his behalf." But since nothing was brought forward in his favor, he was hanged on the eve of Passover. Ulla retorted: Do you suppose he was one for whom a defense could be made? Was he not a mesith (enticer), concerning whom Scripture says, "Neither shall thou spare nor shall thou conceal him?" With Jesus, however, it was different, for he was connected with the government. (Sanhedrin 43a)

I just want to get this clear as, many Jews dont consider any record of Jesus trial or death to have been written....
Please explain?
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Thanks Plushy for both your answers lol, I thought I was onto something there ...shucks..lol just kdding

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As I mentioned in another post:

There IS a problem with your post. It seems that a man named Yeshu was executed by the Jewish Council; Jesus was executed by the Romans and in addition, Yeshu lived about one century before Jesus.
Right execution, wrong man.
That is what Sanhedrin 43a discusses and how we get a lot of nonsense posted about the Talmud on the web. People with little information then expand it to what they do not know and make assumptions.

Thank you for asking - you never know until you ask, right? :-)

Nothing has been censored, it has been MISinterpreted and MIStranslated (kind of like our Tanakh)!

B'shalom, Fiona!

Edit to Feivel - oops! I'm a little late. Ah well. Better to have two truths than none at all! (((Feivel)))

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THE SOURCES OF ISLAM

(This chapter leans heavily on the book of the same name by W. St. Clair-Tisdall).

If Islam builds on the Quran as a revelation ("nazil", i.e. come down from heaven) as indeed it does, then it must provide evidence supporting its "nazil" character.

If, however, some or much of the Quran, i.e. the text, can be shown to have been existing knowledge that was available to Mohammed, and if it was indeed incorporated into the Quran, the argument supporting "nazil" collapses.

If the Quran reflects the Torah and the Injil (i.e. the previous revelations), this will strengthen the basis of nazil--unless, of course, such reflections can be shown to be historically and Biblically false. "Nazil" will also be disproved if what purport to be Biblical sources turn out in fact to be Talmudic, Apocryphal or heretical.

It has been alleged that Islam:

"...is simply Talmudic Judaism adapted to Arabia, the apostleship of Jesus and Mohammed...The sources (says Mr. Rodwel, a Quran translator) whence Mohammed derived the materials of his Koran, are, over and above the more poetical parts, which are his own creation, the legend of his time abd country, Jewish traditions based upon the Talmud, and the Christian traditions of Arabia and of Syria."("Dictionary of Islam", page 515).

Since Mohammed was aware of Jewish and Christian criticism concerning this, he counter-attacked by claiming that the Christians and Jews had perverted their Books (see page ) We have already investigated these allegations in "Christians Answer Muslim" and need not repeated them.

But we shall have to determine the degree to which:

Quranic concepts were taken from the Arabian past

ALLAH

This name was well known before the time of Mohammed as can be proved by the names of relatives of Mohammed: his father's name was Abd-ullah (slave of Allah) and his uncle as well as one of the hanifs was named Obeid-allah.

Besides this, Mohammed's reference to Allah was not criticized by the infidels of Mecca, as can be seen in the chapter 'The Collection of the Quran'.

THE KA'ABA

(Also called the Holy Masjid) is described as a shrine of worship by Deodorus Sicolus in 60 B.C.

HAJJ

The pilgrimage to the Ka'aba was practicized before Mohammed's time, including visits to Safa and Marwa and also the throwing of stones against a stone pillar, symbolizing Iblis (the devil), in Wadi Mina. This is still practised today.

PRAYER

The now extinct tribe of the Sabaeans who lived in the Arabian Peninsula observed seven daily prayers at appointed times. Mohammed appointed five of these. The Sabaeans also prayed for the dead, a custom that has been maintained.

RAMADAN

The Sabaeans fasted thirty days every year and celebrated the Eid. The fast was prolonged by one day, should the new moon not be clearly visible on Eid. Again this practise was incorporated in the new religion of Islam. In the Mishna Berkhoth (Jewish Talmud) it was said that fasting should begin and stop at the time when one could begin to distinquish between a white and black thread. This custom has also been incorporated in Islamic traditions.

We cannot accept that these imitations are purely accidental. We hold that they were known to, and approved, by Mohammed and that he incorporated them in the Quran, while others were incorporated in the Hadis.

Quranic concepts taken from the Talmud

In the Arabian Peninsula there were many Jewish communities living in the diaspora after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Many of these were guided by legends (Hagadda, etc.) and Talmudic writings, rather than the Torah. Many Jews at the time believed that the Talmud had been added to the "preserved tablets" (i.e. to the Ten Commandments, which were kept in the Ark of the Covenant and were believed to be replicas of the heavenly book). Mohammed added to this the Quran. There are several traditions from Judaism that were accepted by Mohammed and incorporated in Islam:

QIBLA

i.e. the direction in which one faces while praying. At first, the direction was towards jerusalem, as was Jewish practice. When the Jews fell into disfavour with Mohammed, however, this was changed to Mecca. (Sura 2:142).

ABRAHAM

Whatever Mohammed knew about Abraham is not from the Torah, but from Jewish legends, the source being the Midrash Rabbah (Suras 2:260; 6:74-84; 19:42-50; 21:52-72; 26:70-82; 29:16,17; 37:83-89; 43:26-30 and 60:4).

SATAN'S REFUSAL TO WORSHIP ADAM

as reported in Sura 2:34 can also be traced back to the Talmud ("Islam" by A. Guillaume p. 62).

CAIN AND ABEL

The way the story of Cain and Abel is related in Sura 5:30-35 shows quite clearly that this is copied from the Targum of Jonathan-ben- Uzziah, the Targum of Jerusalem and Pirke Rabbi Eleazar.

THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA

is related in Sura 27:17ff. We can also determine the source, which evidently is the II Targum of the Book of Esther (paraphrased translation), although Mohammed reports this as to be from the Bible.

HARUT AND MARUT

Are two angels mentioned in Sura 2:102. Harut and Marut were idols worshipped in Armenia. Their existence was inspired by Marut, the Hindu god of the wind. We find this story related in the Talmud (Midrash Yalzut, chapter 44).

SEVEN HEAVENS AND SEVEN HELLS

as reported of in Sura 15:44 and 17:44, find their source in the tradition called Hagigah and Zuhal.

Quranic concepts from the Gospel and Apocrypha

it was relatively easy for Mohammed to have access to these stories, simply because many a Christian sect had found refuge in the Arabian Peninsula from the Roman Church, which persecuted them. Because of their heretical teachings they did not gain the approval of the early Church. One of Mohammed's concubines, Mary the Copt, could have related these stories to him. Significant is the fact that the Apo- cryphal writings that had been rejected as non-apostolic and lacking in authenticity by the Church, were the main source of information to these sects. This is undeniably reflected in the Quran.

JESUS

His name in the Arabic Quran is Isa. In Sura 19:16-31 it is related that He was born under palm trees. This story can be traced back to the "History of Nativity". When Mary was accused by her family for having a child without being married. the new-born Jesus speaks out of the cradle in defence of His mother. The source for this is the "Gospel of Infancy".(Both sources are not Biblical, but are from the Apocrypha).

In Sura 3:49 and 5:113 it is related that as a child Jesus made clay pigeons and by breathing on them made them come alive so that they could fly away. This was taken from the "Gospel of Thomas" (Apocry- pha). In Sura 4:156, as in the general context of the Quran and Hadis, it is related that Jesus was neither killed, nor crucified. The source for this is a Docetic or Gnostic heresy, promoted by Basilides, an erly Christian heretic of the second Century. The Hadis speaks of the return of Jesus in a way that is foreign to the Bible: He will return to earth, live forty years, marry and have children, then die and will be buried next to Mohammed in Medina.

THE TRINITY

Christians are surprised to discover in Suras 5:119, 4:171 and 5:75-76 that the Trinity comprises God, Mary and Jesus. This thought is foreign to every Christian and the Bible, but no doubt finds its origin in the veneration of Mary as "The Mother of God" by the Catholic Church.

THE VIRGIN MARY

Christians read with surprise in Sura 19:28-29 that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a sister of Aaron. Learned men of Islam, who are aware that between Miriam, the sister of Aaron, and Miriam or Mary, the mother of Jesus there is a gap of 1500 years, try to persuade us that Mary had a brother, who also happened to be an Aaron. We reject this possibility, because she is also described as the daughter of Imram (Sura 66:12), the Amram of Exodus 6:20. He was indeed the father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Besides that, Jelalood Deen has stated that Mary's mother was Hannah. The one who was mentioned in 1 Samuel, chapters 1-2, and who lived about a 1000 years before her "daughter".

All this is a hopeless mix-up of historical events and no argument will convince one that in fact the Quran is right and the Christian have changed their Bibles, as in fact claimed by the Muslims.

"The Gospel of James", another Apocryphal book, was the source of the report that as a girl, Mary lived in the Temple, receiving food from the Angels and that Joseph was chosen to be her husband by miraculous rods (Sura 3:35-36 and 42-47).

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Jesus is called the Spirit of God in the Quran. This could be tolerable in the light of Christian doctrine, but in Sura 61:6 we read:

"Jesus son of Mary said ...'I am indeed the messenger of God to you, conforming the Torah that is before me, and giving good tidings of a messenger who shall come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.'"

This false concept has been refuted already in "Christians answer Muslims" p. 118.

THE MIRAJ

is the reported ascent of Mohammed to the seventh Heaven after a miraculous night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem on a "horse" called Buraq. This story is related to us in Sura 17. More detail is furnished in the "Mishkat". We can trace this story back to a fictitious book called the "Testament of Abraham"(B.C. 200), which was written in Egypt and then translated into Greek and Arabic.

THE CAVE OF SEVEN SLEEPERS

is a story related to us in Sura 18:9-26. It is not difficult to detect its striking resemblance to a book called the "Story of Martyrs" by Gregory of Tours. It is a legendary tale of Christians under persecution who fell asleep in a cave for 200 years. In the Quran, this period was prolonged to 309 years.

Quranic concepts from Eastern sources

PARADISE

The description of Paradise in Suras 55:56 and 56:22, 35-36,which speak of "wide-eyed houris with eyes like unto pearls, a recompense for what they laboured", has interesting parallels in the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, where the name is not houris, but paaris.

BALANCES

For some strange reasons throughout the Western World, the idea of a huge set of balances that God will operate at the Day of Judgement has been in the minds of people. In fact, this is in total contrast to the basic teaching of the Bible where justification is by faith and not by good deeds.

Although the balances and judgement concept is found in the Quran, in Suras 101:5,6 and 42:17, we discover that the original source is the "Testament of Abraham". "The book of the Dead", also from Egypt, refers to judgement by Osiris, an Egyptian deity, and here the same concept of judgement by balances is apparent.

SIRAT

The bridge that leads over the deep gulf of hell to Paradise, is called Chinavad (the connecting link) in the Zoroastrian book "Dinkart".

These likenesses may perhaps be claimed to be accidental and they may well be, although we are aware that there was much contact between Arabia and the culturally advanced Persians. We also recall Salman the Persian, who is mentioned directly in the Siratu'l Rasool and indirectly in the Quran (pp. ). However, the concepts taken from the Bible cannot be explained in any way, other than that Mohammed's knowledge of the Bible was scanty and poor and that he was misled into believing that the legendary tales he heard were actually Biblical.

Quranic concept from the Hanifites

There are known to have been six men who rejected the polytheistic worship prevalent in pre-Islamic Mecca. They believed in one God. the God of Abraham.

One can assume that their knowledge about the one God of Abraham came from their contact with the Jews, who lived in their environment; or even that the story of Abraham has been handed down verbally from the time of Ishmael and that they had experienced a new awareness of their forefather (though this is not likely).

Hanifite concepts, the Quran, and Hadis have very obvious similarities. All three reject idol-worship and the burying of infant girls; they accept the unity of God; Paradise and hell; and call Allah "Lord Most Merciful and Compassionate." Admittedly it may have been purely accidental, but the probability is that Mohammed, when he withdrew to the cave Hira, met Zaid-ibn-amr, one of the six who, for the statement:"I worship the God of Abraham", had been expelled from Mecca and lived on Mount Hira. In Islam the word Hanifite means "One that is inclined to God" or "Orthodox". In pre-Muslim Arabia Hanifite meant "unclean" or "apostate", because Hanifites had abandoned their religion. Mohammed, however, clothed this word with a positive meaning. Abraham was called a Hanifite by Mohammed. In Suras 4:125, 3:95 and 6:161 we are strongly admonished to:

"Follow the faith of Abraham, the Hanif, he was not a pagan."

It is sad to realize that today's Muslims do not follow the faith of Abraham. Had they turned to the Taurat for their knowledge about him, history would have taken another course.

In the conclusion, it is revealing to consider what is known about the fate of the Hanifites. Obeidallah first lived in doubt, then turned to Islam, but was subsequently converted to Christianity. Uthman went to Byzantium and became a Christian. Waraca also became a Christian.(Siratu'l Rasool vss 143-144).

QUESTION: When making a choice, why should a man select as basis for eternal life a book which shows such dependence on other sources and even misrepresents them?

Christians Ask Muslims: Table of Contents
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The Muslim Christ

1. What is Islam?
2. What is the Quran?
3. What does Islam believe?
4. What does Islam believe about the End Times and death?
5. Who is the Muslim Jesus?
6. Answering Islam
7. Answering Muslims
8. The Spiritual stronghold of Islam
9. Islam, Israel and Bible Prophecy
10. Islam, Israel, Jerusalem and Bible Prophecy
11.Gog, Magog, Israel and Islam
12. Gog, Magog Israel and Russia
13. The Seventy Weeks of Daniel

Answering Islam

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The first declaration in becoming a Muslim is to acknowledge there is no God but Allah and that Mohammad is His prophet. From the beginning, Allah’s name is next to “the prophet”. Mohammad claims he received a revelation from the God of Abraham, through Gabriel. This revelation is contained in the pages of the Quran. Muslims believe in Heaven there is an identical book to the Quran, written in Arabic. Over time, and through intervals, Gabriel delivered the Quran to Mohammad over 22-years (A.D. 610-632). This revelation is the literal “Word of God” a copy of the same book in Heaven.

2 This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah; 3 Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them; 4 Andwho believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter. Surah 2 :2-4

97 Say: whoever is an enemy to Gabriel - for he brings down the (revelation) to they heart by Allah's will, a confirmation of what went before, and guidance and glad tidings for those who believe – Surah 2:97

The Quran claims to be a book like the Torah (Books of Moses) reveled to Moses, but to the Quran is for the rest of Mankind. Moses and Jesus came to the Jews, but Mohammad came for everybody else.

87 We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of Messengers; we gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you a Messenger with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride? Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay! 89 And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them - although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith - when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognized. They refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. Surah 2:87-89

The Quran claims those who reject the Allah and Mohammad are doomed to eternity in Hell.

63 Know they not that for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, is the Fire of Hell?- Wherein they shall dwell. That is the supreme disgrace. Surah 9:63

The Quran has several claims that need examination by anyone who is a Muslim or considering Islam as “Truth”.

Is the Quran a revelation from the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses?
Is Mohammad a Messenger (Prophet) of the God of the Bible?
Should those who reject Mohammad as a prophet fear Hell?

How can the claims of Mohammad and the Quran be evaluated to answer these questions. Since Islam claims to be a continuation of Abraham’s faith, and identical to what was revealed before, we can compare the revelations of these former prophets with the Quran, the revelation given to Mohammed.

The test of a prophet

Before Moses died, the Lord proclaimed He would reveal His word, through prophets. It was the responsibility of the people to listen to the words of these prophets, because they were His words. God also provided a test, to determine if a prophet was a “true prophet” or a “false prophet”.

This Test of a Prophet can be applied to the Quran, since it claims to be prophetic utterance, revealed by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

21 "And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?'22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. Deuteronomy 18:21-22

The word of the prophet is to be compared to reality, if what “the prophet” says does not come to pass, then his revelation is not from God. If it can be demonstrated the prophet proclaimed errors, then the prophet is not from God. Furthermore, we are told to not fear the prophet, or his proclamations. False prophets operate under the power of fear, the fear of disobeying God, Mohammed proclaimed, those who oppose him, as Allah’s messenger, face the fire of hell. God through this test wants to free people from the power of false prophets.

Strategy to Reach Muslims

To reach Muslims with the Gospel, it is important to make a distinction between Christianity and Islam. Muslims need to understand that both Islam and Christianity cannot be true. Logically it is impossible, they both have diametrically opposed beliefs. Therefore, the questions will always come too:

Ø Is Mohammad a prophet?

Ø Is the Quran God’s revelation to Mohammad?

Christians do not accept Mohammad as a prophet nor do we accept the Quran as God’s word, since both Mohammad and the Quran fail the test of a prophet. However, to create the opportunity to answer the question, “Is Mohammad a prophet?” and “Is the Quran his word?” it is important to draw the distinction between the two. For example Muslims, will often site their acceptance as Jesus as a prophet of Islam. Christians can use this as an opportunity to share the Gospel by comparing the Jesus of Islam to the Jesus of the Bible. This often leads to the discussion of what is “God’s word” and “who is a prophet”?

A Different Jesus

One of the first questions we can ask about Islam is whether the Jesus of Islam is the same as the Jesus of the Bible. When we examine the identity of the Jesus of the Bible (Ingil) and the Jesus of the Quran and Islam we find they cannot be the same. Though there are similarities, the differences between these two individuals do not logically allow them both to be the same Jesus.

The Jesus of Islam and Christianity have some similarities, which could confuse many to assume they are the same person. Both the Jesus of Christianity and Islam share these characteristics.

Their mother is Mary.
Their birth is miraculous, a virgin who conceived.
They are both sinless.
They are both considered prophets.
They both do miracles, healing blind and raising the dead.
They both have the ability to create.

However, the difference between them will demonstrate it is impossible for them to share the same identity. The difference between the Jesus of Christianity and Islam are these.

Jesus of Christianity	Jesus of Islam
Son of God	Not Son of God
Died on the Cross	Did not die on the Cross
Rose again on the third day	Will return to earth to die and be resurrected
Born in a manger, because of crowding at the Inn	Born under a Palm tree in deserted place
Will return to the earth to Rule for eternity	Will return to earth to marry, die and be buried next to Mohammad in Medina.
Will return to earth with the Angels to be worshipped as King of the Earth, ruling from Jerusalem over the nation of Israel (The Jews) and the world,	Will return to earth to proclaim Islam and kill Christians, Jews, and those who call him God, Jews will no longer exist.

We can only logically draw three conclusions from the facts regarding the Jesus of Islam and the Jesus of Christianity (The Bible). Only three options are available to anyone who is considering the Jesus of Christianity or Islam.

· Islam is right

· Christianity is right

· Both are wrong

However, it is impossible for both options be true, because the characteristics are diametrically opposed to each other. Therefore, we can conclude that both the Bible and the Quran cannot be true. Since their revelation, contradict each other.

Bible

Islam

Place of Birth

The Jesus of the Bible is born in a manger of an Inn at Bethlehem

The I’sa (Jesus) of Islam is born under a palm tree

6. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.

7. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:6-7

So she conceived him, And she retired with him to a remote place. 23 And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk Of a palm tree: She cried (in her anguish): Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight! 24 But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm tree): grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee; 25 And shake towards thyself The trunk of the palm tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee. 26 So eat and drink And cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see Any man, say, I have Vowed a fast to (Allah) Most Gracious, and this day Will I enter into no talk With any human being Surah 19:22-26[1]

Circumstances around birth

The New born Jesus of Islam preaches to village after Mary brings him into the village

New Born baby is silent.

28 O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not A man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste! 29 But she pointed to the babe. They said: How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle? 30 He said: I am indeed A servant of Allah: He hath given me revelation and made me A prophet; 31 And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, And hath enjoined on me prayer and Charity as long As I live; 32 (He) hath made me kind To my mother, and not overbearing or miserable; 33 So peace is on me The day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)! Surah 19:28-33

Nature:

The Jesus of the Bible is both man and “Son of God”

The Jesus of Islam is just a man

"He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.John 3:18

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" Matthew 16:13

Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make his Signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth! Surah 5:75

Such (was) Jesus the son Of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which they (vainly) dispute. 35 It is not befitting To (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to him! when he determines a matter, He only says To it, be, and it is. Surah 19:34-35

The crucifixion

The Jesus of the Bible died on the Cross and was resurrected 3 day later.

The Jesus of Islam never died on the cross but was taken up into heaven and a fantom (Ghost) was crucified in his place.

Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, 'into Your hands I commit My spirit.' " Having said this, He breathed His last.

So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous Man!" Luke 23: 44-47

157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah"- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not- 158 Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise- Surah 4;157-158

2^nd Coming

The Jesus of Bible is going to come in glory with the Angels and judge the nations in righteousness.

The Jesus of Islam will come and kill all the Jews and Christians, live 40 years get married and die.

	"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
	"All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31-32
"Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:30-31

So peace is on me The day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)! Surah 19:33

Narrated Abu Huraira: Then Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and nobody will accept charitable gifts" (3:233-34; 34.104.425). Hadith

Similarities:

Mothers name

Jesus mother’s name was Mary

¹⁸Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 1:18

Virgin Birth

Jesus was conception was miraclaouls.

²⁹But ^when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. ³⁰Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.³¹And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. ….³⁵And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:25-31,35

45 Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah; 46 He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous. 47 She said: "O my Lord! how shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: when He hath decreed a Plan, He but saith to it, 'Be', and it is! Surah 3:45-47

Sinless

Jesus had a sinless nature

“He committed no sin, “ 1Peter 2: 22

“He knew no sin, “ II Corinthians 5: 21

“ In Him there is no sin, “ I John 3:5

19 He said: "Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy[2] son." 20 She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that non man has touched me and I am not unchaste?" Surah 19:19-20

Jesus Creates

The Jesus of the Islam creates life

⁵⁰And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

⁵¹But Jesus answered and said, “Permit even this.” And He touched his ear and healed him. Luke 22:51

“ I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I create for you out of clay as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, by God’s leave.” Surah 3:49.[3]

A prophet

Jesus of Islam is just a prophet

⁴³Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast. John 1:43-45

75 Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make his Signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth! Surah 5:75

Jesus the Word of God

Jesus is called Word of God

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. Surah John 1:1-2

“Behold!” the angels said: Q Mary! God giveth thee gland tiding of A Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the Son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to God.” Surah 3:45.

Miracles

Jesus Healed

⁴³Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” ⁴⁴And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” John 11:43-45

“and I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead. By god’s leave. “ Sura 3: 49.

What is the source of these differences?

Most Muslims will answer the reason there are differences between the Jesus of the Bible and the Quran/Islam ibecause Christian corrupted the message given to Jesus and Mohammed was restoring this corrupted message through the Quran.

The Quran was compiled after Mohammad after came into contact with “Gabriel”, in A.D. 610, when Mohammad was forty-years old. If the Bible was corrupted, there is no mention of its corruption in the Quran. In fact, there are entire copies of both the Old and New Testaments dating hundreds of years before his birth and “Revelation”. The Chester Beatty Papyrus, dated A.D. 200, existed over 400-years before Mohammad’s first meeting with “Gabriel”. Codex Sinaticus and Codex Vaticanus 2 nearly complete copies of the scriptures, including both the Old and New Testaments, dated A.D. 350, existed 200 years before Mohammad’s birth.

The Quran makes an appeal to those who seek confirmation about its scriptural integrity to look at the former revelations. (Surah’s 34:31,35:31, 12:111, 6:154-157, 40:69-70, 46:12, 46:29-30, 2:91, 3:3, 4:162-163, 5:51)

37 This Quran is not such as can be produced by other than Allah; on the contrary it is a confirmation of (revelations) that went before it, and a fuller explanation of the book wherein there is no doubt from the Lord of the worlds. Surah 10:37

111 Allah hath purchased of the Believers their persons and their goods; for their (in return) is the Garden (of Paradise): they fight in His Cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in Truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran and who is more faithful to his Covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme. Surah 9:111

Nowhere, does the Quran claim the Bible (Torah, Ingil, and Zabur[4]) has or was corrupted in Mohammad’s day. The reason Muslims claim the Bible is corrupted is because of the incredible differences between the books, the Bible and Quran. Mohammad thought his revelation was truly the same as the Bible, he was in fact “wrong”. The Bible needs to be corrupted, for the Quran to be true for Muslim apologists.

What is the source for the Jesus of Islam?

The sources for the Muslim Jesus can be traced to the influences in Mohammad’s Arabia. Arabia became the refuge for people escaping the oppression of Byzantium and Persia. Many of the heretical movements fled to Arabia, taking with them their books and teachings. Among these heretical groups, are the Gnostics and Manicheans.

In the Quran, we see Gnostic influences on Islam, Basilides a Gnostic teacher of the 2^nd century, also believed and taught Jesus did not die on the cross.

Gnostic Doctrine

The Qur’an

Wherefore he did not himself suffer death, but Simon, a certain man of Cyrene, being compelled, bore the cross

in his stead; so that this latter being transfigured by him, that he might be thought to be Jesus, was crucified, through ignorance and error, while Jesus himself received the form of Simon, and, standing by, laughed at them. For since he was an incorporeal power, and the Nous (mind) of the unborn father, he transfigured himself as he pleased, and thus ascended to him who had senthim, deriding them, inasmuch as he could not be laid hold of, and was invisible to all….. If any one, therefore, he declares, confesses the crucified, that man is still a slave, and under the power of those who formed our bodies; but he who denies him has been freed from these beings, and is acquainted with the dispensation of the unborn father.[5]

Basilides

And for their saying, "Verily we have slain the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, an Apostle of God." Yet they slew him not, and they crucified him not, but they had only his likeness. And they who differed about him were in doubt concerning him: No sure knowledge had they about him, but followed only an opinion, and they did not really slay him, but God took him up to Himself. And God is Mighty, Wise!

Surah 4:157

Gnostic Jesus

Muslim Jesus

Ø Gnostic god prevented Jesus from dying

Ø Jesus transformed himself

Ø Simon of Cyrene was made to look like Jesus

Ø Denies the crucifixion

Ø Allah prevented Jesus from dying

Ø Jesus transformed himself

Ø Judas or another was made to look like Jesus

Ø Denies the crucifixion

As the Gnostics, Nestorians and other heretical Christian groups were forced out the Byzantine Empire they established themselves in the deserts of Arabia. Their teachings and “Gnostic works” circulated in Arabia, which was not known to have an Arabic translation of the Gospel (Ingil).

We can also see Infancy Gospel of Thomas, another heretical work which made its way into the Quran and was translated into Arabic. In this “false gospel” account, Jesus is seen creating clay birds and bringing them to life. In this same work, Jesus turns a child into a “Withered Tree” and calls him an “impious ignoramus”. Later Jesus kills a child who accidentally bumps him in the shoulder. This book is a false work written about 150 A.D., claiming to be written by Thomas the Israelite. The account of the birds creation, has found its way into the Quran.

In addition to these false works we can also the Manichean influence in Islam, Mani (216-270 A.D.) a Persian painter and “Prophet” made many claims similar to Mohammad, but only 400 years earlier. Mani was an Eastern Gnostic, who combined Christian, Buddhist, Persian and Zoroastrian teachings into a belief system. His followers were persecuted in Persia and like the Nestorians and other heretical Christian groups, they fled into Arabia. These would then have an influence on Mohammad years later.

Mani (216-270 A.D.)	Mohammed (570-632 (A.D.)
Called himself Apostle	Called himself Apostle
Called himself “Last Prophet”	Called himself “Last Prophet”
Salvation by obedience to his “System”	Salvation by following Mohammad.
Claimed continuous revelation	Claimed continuous revelation
Claims Jesus spoke of him in John 14:16 “Paraclete”	Claims Jesus spoke of him in John 14:16 “Paraclete”
Angelic messenger revealed message “The Twin”	Angel Gabriel revealed message.
Followers forbidden to drink wine	Followers forbidden to drink wine.

The influences on Mohammad’s formation of Islam is not limited to Gnostics but several areas of influence can be clearly seen in the “Revelations” to Mohammad. These other sources include;

· Pagan Arab customs

· Heretical Christian Sources

· Jewish Sources

· Zoroastrian Sources

· Hanefite influces

Sources of the Islam

Pagan Arab Sources

Once a year, during the Muslim month of Ramadan (Last month of the Muslim year), from the 7^th to the 12^th day, millions of Muslims converge on the city of Mecca to fulfill the Muslim requirement of Hajj. Once in their lifetime Muslims are required (If able) to go the city of Mecca, this is one of the “Five Pillars of Islam”. In Mecca, Muslims perform several rites including circling the Kaaba seven times, kissing the black stone, running between the mountains, throwing stones at Satan, most of these rites were performed before the birth of Mohammed and are pagan in origin.

When the pilgrim is about 6 miles (10 km) from Mecca, he enters the state of holiness and purity known as ihram (q.v.) and dons the ihram garments, consisting of two white seamless sheets that are wrapped around the body. The pilgrim cuts neither his hair nor his nails until the pilgrimage rite is over. He enters Mecca and walks seven times around the sacred shrine called the Kabah, in the Great Mosque, kisses or touches the Black Stone (Ḥajar al-Aswad) in the Kaʿbah, prays twice in the direction of the Maqām Ibrāhīm and the Kabah, and runs seven times between the minor prominences of Mount Ṣafā and Mount Marwah. On the 7th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah the pilgrim is reminded of his duties. At the second stage of the ritual, which takes place between the 8th and the 12th days of the month, the pilgrim visits the holy places outside Mecca—Jabal ar-Raḥmah, Muzdalifah, Minā—and sacrifices an animal in commemoration of Abraham's sacrifice. The pilgrim's head is then usually shaved, and, after throwing seven stones at each of the three pillars at Minā on three successive days (the pillars exemplify various devils), he returns to Mecca to perform the farewell ṭawāf, or circling, of the Kabah before leaving the city.[6]

These rites pagan rites were incorporated within the Islamic faith, this allowed the pagan Arab to keep much of the traditions they had but new meaning was attached to the rites.

Quranic Source: Arab Customs

Source

Response

The Kaba:

Dates from pre-Islamic times and housed 360 idols before Mohammad day. The earliest record of th Kaba is dated to 60 BC and is recorded by Diodorus Siculus (Book iii)

97. Allah hath appointed the Ka'bah, the Sacred House, a standard for mankind, and the Sacred Month and the offerings

and the garlands. That is so that ye may know that Allah knoweth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the

earth, and that Allah is Knower of all things. Surah 5:97

The Muslims claim Adam first built the Kaba, and Abraham and Ishmael rebuilt it. The Bible tells us Ishmael was sent away and there is has no record of Abraham going to Mecca. According to the Bible, God established his Covenant with Isaac “son of Sarah” at Mt. Moriah (Jerusalem), not Mecca. Isaac is referred to as “Your only son”

¹⁵Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,¹⁶and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—¹⁷blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. Genesis 22:15-17

Kissing the Black Stone

The kissing of the Black stone pre-dates Islam. The black stone is meteorite that was worshipped in the days prior to Islam. This practice has continued to this day and is incorporated within Islam. People either Kiss or wave at the stone. The animistic nature of the stone is revealed in the Hadith by Ibn Abbas.

'Umar bin Al-Khattab's Hadith, may Allah be pleased with him. It is reported:
'Umar bin Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, kissed the (Black) Stone and then said: By Allah, I know that you are a stone and if I had not seen Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) kissing you, I would not have kissed you.

Hadith number in Sahih Muslim [Arabic only]: 2228

Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) further related that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “By Allah, Allah will bring it forth on the Day of Judgment, and it will have two eyes with which it will see and a tongue with which it will speak, and it will testify in favor of those who touched it in sincerity.” (At-Tirmidhi,Sunan)

The Muslim claim the Black stone came down from paradise and was white but became black from sins.

The worship of meteorites was a common practice by pagans. This was the practice of pre-Islamic Arabia; the custom of the Black stone was incorporated within Islam. A similar event is recorded in the book of Acts.

³⁵And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the imagewhich fell down from Zeus? Acts 19:35

Jewish Sources of Islam

When Mohammed fled from Mecca, in September of 622 A.D., he arrived in Yathrob (Medina) 280 miles to the north. The city was founded by three Jewish tribes and had a significant Jewish influence on the formation of Islam. Mohammad claimed to be the person the Arab tribesman of Medina were looking for fulfilling the expectation created by the Jewish tribes of the coming of the Messiah. Muslims will often cite Deuteronomy 18:18-19 as referring to Mohammad.

'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

'And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

Deuteronomy 18:18-19

The fact that this verse clearly states the prophet will be from “among their brethren” meaning an Israelite, since the children of Israel were gathered and about ready to enter the promised land, and Moses was giving them final instruction in the book of Deuteronomy.

Mohammed appealed to the Jews of Medina of his prophet hood and felt confident the words he was proclaiming was the same as the Torah. The Jews rejected him and his claims of prophet hood, this angered Mohammad as can be seen in the Quran.

64. The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. Their hands are fettered and they are accursed for saying so. Nay, but both His hands are spread out wide in bounty. He bestoweth as He will. That which bath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them, and We have cast among them enmity and hatred till the Day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, Allah extinguisheth it. Their effort is for corruption in the land, and Allah loveth not corrupters.. Surah 5:64

The stories and sources of much of what Mohammad cited and felt were in the Torah (5 books of Moses) were 2^nd-5^th Century A.D. writings[7] of rabbinical Judaism[8]. The sources would have been available in Medina, or people familiar with these stories would have been able to rehearse the words to Mohammad who incorporated them into the Quran.

Story

Quran Verse

Source

Cain and Abel

The only difference between the story in the Quran and Pirke Rabbi Eleazer is rather then burying then raven showing Cain it showed Adam how to bury Abel.

Verse 32 in the Quran then quotes from the Mishnah about the blood of one killed.

27 Recite to them the truth of the story of the two sons of Adam. Behold they each presented a sacrifice (to Allah): it was accepted from one, but not from the other. Said the latter: be sure I will slay thee. Surely, said the former, Allah doth accept of the sacrifice of those who are righteous. 28 If thou dost stretch thy hand against me, to slay me, it is not for me to stretch my hand against thee to slay thee: for I do fear Allah, the Cherisher of the worlds. 29 For me, I intend to let thee draw on thyself my sin as well as thine, for thou wilt be among the companions of the fire, and that is the reward of those who do wrong, 30 The (selfish) soul of the other led him to the murder of his brother: he murdered him, and became (himself) one of the lost ones.

31 Then Allah sent a raven, who scratched the ground, to show him how to hid the shame of his brother. Woe is me said he; was I not even able to be as this raven, and to hide the shame of my brother? then he became full of regrets- 32 On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person- unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land- it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our Messengers with Clear Signs, yet, even after that, many of then continued to commit excesses in the land. Surah 5:27-32

Pirke Rabbi Eleazer[9] (A.D. 150-200)

Adam and Eve, sitting by the corpse ( of Abel) wept not knowing what to do, for they had as yet no knowledge of burial. A Raven coming up, took the dead body of its fellow (mate), and having scratched up the earth, buried it thus before their eyes. Adam said, “Let us follow the example of the Raven,” and so taking p Abel’s body buried it at once.

Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5[10]

We find in the case of Cain who murdered his brother; the voice of they brother’s blood cries (Genesis 4:10). It is not said here blood in the singular, but bloods in the pluaral. That is, his own blood and the blood of his seed. Man was created single in order to show that to him who kills a single individual (a human being) it shall be reckoned (counted) that he has slain the whole race; but to him who preserves the life of a single individual, it is counted that he has slain the whole race; but to him who preserves the life of a single individual, it is counted thate he has preserved the whole race

Heretical Christian Sects

The Christians in the Arabia were a collection of groups that had sought refuge from Byzantine persecution because of heretical beliefs. These included the Gnostics and Nestorians whose writings found their way into the Quran. Very little of the Quran contains anything from the New Testament. However, the Quran does contain stories of heretical Christian sects that were in the Arabian peninsula.

Story	Quran
The Story of the Seven Sleepers. This story from Gergory of Tours was merely to illustrate the point of the rapidity which the Gospel spread by the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Martyrs blood. Christians did not believe the story was true.	9 Or dost thou reflect that the companions of the cave and of the inscription were wonders among our Signs? 10 Behold, the youths betook themselves to the cave: they said, our Lord bestow on us mercy from thyself, and dispose of our affair for us in the right way 11 Then we draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the cave, (so that they heard not): 12 Then we roused them, in order to test which of the two parties was best at calculating the term of years they had tarried 13 We relate to thee their story in truth: they were youths who believed in their Lord, and we advanced them in guidance: 14 We gave strength to their hearts: behold, they stood up and said; our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth: never shall we call upon any god other than him: if we did, we should indeed have uttered an enormity 15 These our people have taken for worship gods other than him: why do they not bring forward an authority clear (and convincing) for what they do? who doth more wrong than such as invent a falsehood against Allah? 16 When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourself to the cave: your Lord will shower his mercies on you and dispose of your affair towards comfort and ease. 17 Thou wouldst have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the midst of the cave. Such are among the Signs of Allah: he whom Allah guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray, for him wilt thou find no protector to lead him to the right way. 18 Thou wouldst have deemed them awake, whilst they were asleep, and we turned them on their right and on their left sides: their dog stretching forth his two fore legs on the threshold: if thou hadst come up on to them, thou wouldst have certainly turned back from them in flight, and wouldst certainly have been filled with terror of them. 19 Such (being their state), we raised them up (from sleep), that they might question each other. Said one of them, how long have ye stayed (here)? they said, we have stayed (perhaps) a day, or part of a day. (at length) they (all) said, Allah (alone) knows best how long ye have stayed here. Now send ye then one of you with this money of yours to the town: let him find out which is the best food (to be had) and bring some to you, that (ye may) satisfy your hunger therewith: and let him behave with care and courtesy, and let him not inform any one about you. 20 For if they should come upon you, they would stone you or force you to return to their cult, and in that case ye would never attain prosperity. 21 Thus did we make their case known to the people, that they might know that the promise of Allah is true, and that there can be no doubt about the hour of judgment. Behold, they dispute among themselves as to their affair. (some) said, construct a building over them: their Lord knows best about them: those who prevailed over their affair said, let us surely build a place of worship over them. 22 (Some) say they were three, the dog being the fourth among them; (others) say they were five, the dog being the sixth, doubtfully guessing at the unknown; (yet others) say they were seven, the dog being the eighth. Say thou: my Lord knoweth best their number; it is but few that know their (real case). Enter not, therefore, into controversies concerning them, except on a matter that is clear, nor consult any of them about (the affair of) the sleepers. 23 Nor say of anything, I shall be sure to do so and so to morrow 24 Without adding, so please Allah and call thy Lord to mind when thou forgettest, and say, I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer (even) than this to the right road.25 So they stayed in their cave three hundred years, and (some) add nine (more) Surah 18: 8-250	Latin work of Gregory of Tours The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus[11] This story refers to the time during the reign of Emperor Decius (249-251 A.D.), when Christians were terribly persecuted, and every effort was made to destroy the faith. To escape with their lives, seven men of Ephesus took refuge in a Cave near their city, and fell asleep for 200 years, till the reign of Theodorus II. (447 A.D.). On awaking, one of them ventured into and was overcome with amazement to find the Christians fiath triumphant over all other religions. The Cross once the sighn of shame and disgrace, now the crown of the Emperor, and the mark of the Empire; and nearly the whole people of the land turned Christians.

Errors

The Quran is claimed to be a copy of an identical book that is being revealed in Heaven. If this were the case, there should not be any errors in the book. This is not the case, there are some very significant errors, these errors are clear to those familiar with Christianity or Judaism.

Error	Quran Verse
Ezra Son of God	30 The Jews call Uzair (Ezra) a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the Unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the truth Surah 9:30	The Jews never worshipped Ezra as the Son the God. This is a clear Error in the Quran
Abrogation changing one verse for another verse	. None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We substitute something better or similar; knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things? Surah: 2:106 101 When we substitute one revelation for another, and Allah knows best what he reveals (in stages), they say, thou art but a forger: but most of them understand not. Surah 16:101	The doctrine of Abrogation Is the doctrine that Allah gave to Mohammad alternate verses in place of other verses. This doctrine was needed to calm concerns. The Satanic Verse and the Direction of Prayer caused concerns that needed to be addressed. Abrogation which allowed verses to changed answered this fear. In other words, Allah changed his mind. This justified Mohammad changing his revelation
Satanic Verses In order to get the people of Mecca to accept his Prophet-hood Mohammad he allowed the prayer to the daughters of Allah. Al Lat, Uzza, and Manat. Pagan Arabs welcomed this but Muslims were upset.	19 Have ye seen Lat, and Uzza, 20 And another, the third (goddess), Manat? 21 What! For you the male sex, and for Him, the female? 22 Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair! 23 These are nothing but names which ye have devised, ye and your fathers, for which Allah has sent down no authority (whatever). They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire! though there has already come to them Guidance form their Lord! Surah 53:19-23105 The Muslim answer to this is that every Prophet faced this demonic deception, which later needed to be addressed: 52 Never did We send a messenger or a prophet before thee, but, when he framed a desire, Satan threw some (vanity) into his desire: but Allah will cancel anything (vain) that Satan throws in, (and establish) His Signs: For Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom: Surah 22:52	The original rendering of this verse By Al-lat and Al-Uzzah and Manat, the third, the other. They are exalted beings. Their intercession is to be sought after and their kind should not be neglected Mohammad explained the reason he made this mistake, because Satan gave him some bad verses. He felt this happened to all the prophets at one time or another. This violates the “Test of a Prophet” this alone would label Mohammad as a false prophet.
Mary worshipped as God Mohammad had a misunderstanding of Christianity believing Mary was worshipped as part of the “Trinity”	116 And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! didst thou say unto men, "Worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden. Surah 5:116	Mohammad and the Quran, “The Revelation” are in error about the doctrine of Mary in Christianity.
Direction of Prayer toward Jerusalem Mohammad changed the direction of Prayer from Mecca to Jerusalem when arrived at Medina. Later it was changed back to Medina after the Jews rejected his Prophethood.	142 The fools among the people will say: "What hath turned them from the Qiblah to which they were used?" Say: "To Allah belong both East and West: He guideth whom He will to a Way that is straight." 143 Thus have We made of you an Ummah justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qiblah to which thou wast used, only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (from the Faith). Indeed it was (a change) momentous, except to those guided by Allah. And never would Allah make your faith of no effect. For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful. 144 We see the turning of thy face (for guidance) to the heavens: now shall We turn thee to a Qiblah that shall please thee. Turn then thy face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque: wherever ye are, turn your faces in that direction. The People of the Book know well that is the truth from their Lord, nor is Allah unmindful of what they do. Surah 2:142:144	When Mohammed at first arrived in Medina, he hoped the Jews would accept him as a prophet. To help them see him as a prophet he had the Muslims pray toward Jerusalem. Later when the y rejected him the direction changed back toward Mecca. Here Mohammad answered and says Allah was testing his people to see who was his followers. This demonstrates convenient prophecies.

Nature of Mohammed

Mohammad was born in the year 570 A.D., He married Khadija at twenty-five in the year 595 A.D. In the year 610 when Mohammad was 40 years old he claimed to have his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel. In examining the claims of the Quran and Islam it is only right to also look at the life of Mohammad.

Demonic possession

Mohammad clearly feels his first encounter with “Gabriel” is demonic and the question that need to be addressed whether the Quran is from God, Mohammed or Satan? Clearly Mohammad’s life helps us answer this question.

"Ibn Ishaq says that, before the Revelation first began to descend upon him, Mohammed's friends feared that he was suffering from the evil eye: and that, when it came upon him, almost the same illness attacked him again. In tradition it is stated that he ( Mohammed) said: 'I fear lest I should become a magician, lest one should proclaim me a follower of the Jinn (spirit)', and again: 'I fear lest there should be madness' (or demonic possession) 'in me.' After an accession of shivering and shutting his eyes, there used to come over him what resembled a swoon, his face would foam and he would roar like a young camel." (mizanul MizanuŸl Haqq, page 345).

"The Apostle of Allah said (to Aisha Ayshah) 'Sometimes it comes to me like the ringing of a bell and that is the most troublesome to me....sometimes the angel assumes the form of a man for me and talks with me and I retain in memory what he says! Aisha Ayshah reported 'And indeed I saw him while the revelation descended upon him on an intensely cold day; then it left him while his brow steamed with sweat.' "(Mishkat IV, page 360).

After Khadija died in 619 A.D., Mohammed proceeded to marry other wives and concubines. Two wives in particular are note and shed light on the nature and character of Mohammad.

Zainab wife of Mohammed, wife of Zaid Mohammad’s adopted son

Zainab was the wife of Zaid, Mohammad adopted son. One day Mohammad saw her beauty and desired her for his wife. Zaid divorced her so his adopted “Father”, Mohammad could marry her.

" Mohammed beheld her, (Zainab, Zaid's wife) after he ( Mohammed) had wedded her (Zainab) to him (Zaid), and she fell into his soul; therefore he said: 'Praise to Allah who turneth hearts upsidedown.' Zaid heard it and there occured to his soul an aversion from her society (nearness). Therefore he came to the Prophet and said: 'I desire to put away my wife!' After having been persuaded to keep her on, Zaid tried a while, but then divorced her. After the time prescribed following a divorce, (a waiting period of 90 days), another "revelation" came to muhammad Mohammed: " 'We wedded her to thee' (Sura 33:37)... the meaning is that He (Allah) made her his ( Mohammed's) wife without the interposition of a marriage contract. And what confirms it (i.e. this explanation) is that she used to say to the rest of the Prophet's wives, 'Verily Allah acted the part of a relative in my being given in marriage, and as for you, your relatives gave you in marriage.' And it is said that Zaid was the go-between in her betrothal, and that was a great trial, and an evident witness to the strength of his faith". (Commentary of baizawi Al-Baizåwi Volume II, page 129), (mizanul MizanuŸl Haqq, pages 331-332).

The latter statement of baizawi Baizåwi is, also reflected in the "Sahih Muslim" (page 724):

"Allah's Messenger said to Zaid to make a mention to her (Zainab) about him. Zaid went--and said: 'Zainab, Allah's Messenger has sent (me) with a message to you!' She said: I do not do anything until I consult the will of my Lord.' So she stood at her place of worship and the (verse of) the Quran (pertaining to her marriage) was revealed, and Allah's Messenger came to her without permission."

To justify this marriage to his adopted son’s wife the following Sura was revealed to Mohammad.

50 O Prophet We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (From Mecca) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her; this only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large); We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and The captives whom their right hands possess; in order that there should be no difficulty for thee. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. … 51 Thou mayest defer (the turn of) any of them that thou pleasest, and thou mayest receive any thou pleasest: and there is no blame on thee if thou invite one whose (turn) thou hadst set aside. This were nigher to the cooling of their eyes, The prevention of their grief, and their satisfaction that of all of them with that which thou hast to give them and Allah knows (all) that is in your hearts: and Allah is All knowing, Most Forbearing. Surah 33:50-51

Allah gave to Mohammad any women he choose, the limits of his wives knew little bounds and included his best friend’s (Abu Bakr) daughter Aisha.

Aisha

Mohammad was 52 years of age when he engaged Aisha, three years later they were married when she was age nine.

The tenth year of the Master’s mission was year of the Master’s mission was a yare of unusal gloom. He suffered two severe blows, one on the heels of the other…..One night the Master lay in bed. Presently an angel came down, carrying something wrapped in silken cloth. He presented it to the Master. “What is this?” the Master demanded. “This is your wife”, was the reply. The Maser removed the cloth and found Aisha inside……The meaning of the vision was too evident to miss. The Master needed a companion to carry on his difficult mission….It chose Aisha to fill the gap created by Khadija death…..When the angel told the Master that Aisha had been tipped to be his wife, she was only a girl of six…… When Khaula took up the matter with Abu Bakr his first reaction was of surprise and he said, “The Master and I have always looked upon each other as brothers. Aisha is his niece. How can she be married to him?”……Khaula conveyed the reply to the Master. “But Abu Bakr in not my real brother” observed the Maser. “he is only my brother in faith. Islam does not forbid marriage with the daughter of such a brother”[12]

Caravan Raiding

The Islam doctrine of Jihad came out of the raiding of Caravan leaving and heading toward Mecca. The theft and murder was justified because Mohammad was at war with “Holy City”. Mohammad claimed a 20% share in all good taken in Jihad.

41 And know that out of all the booty that ye may acquire (in war), a fifth share is assigned to Allah- and to the Messenger, and to near relatives, orphans, the needy, and the wayfarer- if ye do believe in Allah and in the revelation We sent down to our Servant on the Day of Testing, the Day of the meeting of the tow forces. For Allah hath power over all things. Surah 8:41

Conclusion

If we examine the life of Mohammad and the book of his “revelation” we can come to the conclusion that Mohammad might have been the prophet of Allah of Mecca, but he was not the prophet of the God of the Bible. Much of Islam is an attempt to copy and subvert the religions of the Christians and the Jews as Mohammad perceived their religion.

For this reason, we are reminded in Deuteronomy 18 that we are not to fear “False Prophets” because they operate out of fear.

[1] Quran references are from “The Meaning of the Holy Quran” translated by Abdullah Yusuf ali ÿAli

[2] The word faultless in Arabic, (zakkiyya) means that he is totally without sin.

[3] This act of creation by the Muslim Jesus can be found in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which also has Jesus cursing the son of Annas the scribe for disturbing the water, and killing another child who bumps him. This work is

[4] The Torah, first 5 books of Moses, Ingil means Gospel and Zabur is the Psalms. These three parts of the Bible are mentioned throughout the Quran.

[5] Irenaeus, 120-202 AD “Against Heresies”, Book 1, Chapter 24, DOCTRINES OF SATURNINUS AND BASILIDES.

[6] Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004, Hajj

[7] These sources include the Mishna, Targums, Midrash and Talmuds.

[8] Rabbinical Judaism is traced back to the fall of the Temple in A.D. 70, when Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple. Judaism became focused around the rabbinical traditions and synagogues. The traditions and commentaries of the rabbis were codified into the texts known as the Talmud, a Babylonian version and a Palestinian version in the 5th and 6th centuries.

[9] Pirke Rabbi Eliezer: a rabbinical work of Jewish fables and myths known as the Pirke Rabbi Eliezer contained in the section of Talmudic writings known as the Midrash. It predates the quran by many centuries.

[10] The Mishnah was composed about 200 A.D. in Roman occupied Israel. The Talmud is a commentary on the Mishnah. The Mishnah Sanhedrin dealt with the constitution and procedure of courts of law, especially concerning capital punishment.

[11] Gregory of Tours, 538-594 A.D.

[12] Hazrat Aisha (The Truthful) by Prof. Fazl Ahmed, Dara Ishaat-eDiniyat, Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Deli-110 013 Pgs. 15-21

Authoritative Sources State that the Jews Killed Jesus Christ and Poisoned the Prophet Muhammad

Christopher Jon Bjerknes

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Jews really do not like Jesus Christ or the Prophet Muhammad. The Jewish Babylonian Talmud states in Gittin 57a that Jesus is boiling in hell in hot excrement,

"He then went and raised Balaam by incantations. He asked him: Who is in repute in the other world? He replied: Israel. What then, he said, about joining them? He replied: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.[Footnote: Deut. XXIII, 7.] He then asked: What is your punishment? He replied: With boiling hot semen.[Footnote: Because he enticed Israel to go astray after the daughters of Moab. V. Sanh. 106a.] He then went and raised by incantations the sinners of Israel.[Footnote: {MS.M. Jesus}.] He asked them: Who is in repute in the other world? They replied: Israel. What about joining them? They replied: Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches the apple of his eye. He said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement. Observe the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the other nations who worship idols."—I. Epstein, Gittin 57a, "Gittin", The Babylonian Talmud, Volume 21, The Soncino Press, London, (1936), pp. 261-265, at 261.

The Talmudic tractate Sukkah, folio 52b states that the Muslims are the enemies of God (though the Talmud was written before the appearance of Islam, the Jews consider the Muslims to be Ishmaelites and Rabbi Kahane has applied this text to Muslims),

"R. Hana b. Abba stated: It was said at the schoolhouse, There are four things of which the Holy One, blessed be He, repents that He had created them, and they are the following: Exile, the Chaldeans, the Ishmaelites and Evil Inclination. 'The Exile', since it is written, Now, therefore, what do I here, saith the Lord, seeing that My people is taken away for naught etc.;⁹ 'the Chaldeans', since it is written, Behold the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not;¹⁰ 'the Ishmaelites', since it is written, The tents of the robbers¹¹ prosper, and they that provoke God are secure since God brought them with His hand;¹² 'the Evil Inclination', since it is written, [And I will gather her that is driven away] and her that I have afflicted.¹³"—I. Epstein, Editor, "Sukkah 52b", The Babylonian Talmud, Volume 12, The Soncino Press, London, (1935), pp. 249-252, at 250.

The Jewish Zohar, Volume 3, page 282a, degrades Jesus Christ and the Prophet Mohammed,

"From the side of idolatry Shabbethaj (Saturn) is called Lilith [Footnote: Lilith is a female demon, comp. Is. XXXIV. 14 and Weber, Altsynagogale palaestinische Theologie, p. 246.], mixed dung, on account of the filth mixed from all kinds of dirt and worms, into which they throw dead dogs and dead asses, the sons of 'Esau and Ishma'el, and there (read [Hebrew deleted]) Jesus and Mohammed, who are dead dogs, are buried among them. She (Lilith) is the grave of idolatry, where they bury the uncircumcised, (who are) dead dogs, abomination and bad smell, soiled and fetid, a bad family. She (Lilith) is the ligament [Footnote: {Hebrew deleted} is a fibre attached to the lungs] which holds fast the 'mixed multitude' (Ex. xii. 38), which is mixed among Israel, and which holds fast bone and flesh, that is, the sons of 'Esau and Ishma'el, dead bone and unclean flesh torn of beasts in the field, of which it is said (Ex. xxii. 31): 'Ye shall cast it to the dogs.'"—G. Dalman, Jesus Christ in the Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, and the Liturgy of the Synagogue, Deighton Bell, Cambridge, (1893), p. 40.

The New Testament clearly states that the Jews killed Jesus Christ. I Thessalonians 2:14-15 states,

"14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:"

Though many Jews claim that the New Testament story that the Jews killed Christ is an anti-Semitic canard, the Jews themselves boast in their most holy Talmud that they killed Christ inSanhedrin106a-b,

"Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, [did the children of Israel slay with the sword].³ A soothsayer? But he was a prophet! — R. Johanan said: At first he was a prophet, but subsequently a soothsayer.⁴ R. Papa observed: This is what men say, 'She who was the descendant of princes and governors, played the harlot with carpenters.'⁵ Did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.⁶ Rab said: They subjected him to four deaths, stoning, burning, decapitation and strangulation.⁷"--I. Epstein, Sanhedrin 106a-b, "Sanhedrin II", The Babylonian Talmud, Volume 28, The Soncino Press, London, (1935), pp. 721-729, at 725.

and Sanhedrin folio 43a,

"On the eve of the Passover Yeshu³⁴ was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, 'He is going forth to be stoned because he has practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy. Any one who can say anything in his favour, let him come forward and plead on his behalf.' But since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of the Passover!³⁵"--Sanhedrin 43a, Babylonian Talmud, as translated in the Soncino edition, http://www.come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_43.html

Muslim and Jewish authorities state a Jewess named Zainab poisoned the Prophet Muhammad. The Jewish Encyclopediastates,

"An attempt on the life of Mohammed was made at Khaibar by a Jewish woman named Zainab, who, in revenge for the death of her male relatives in battle, put poison in a dish prepared by her for the prophet. One of Mohammed's followers who par-took of the food died almost immediately afterward; but the prophet, who had eaten more sparingly, escaped. He, however, complained of the effects of the poison to the end of his life."

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