Muslim Responses To Anti-Islam Polemics
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Paul’s Dependency on Talmudic Writings: Evidence of New Testament Borrowing
While Christians would prefer to allude to the notion that Paul, the self-acclaimed “apostle” of Jesus, was “inspired” when he wrote his epistles, the evidences we have researched states otherwise. We have seen how Paul had cited a verse from the “apocryphal books of Elijah” but claimed that he was citing from the book of…
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Epimenides Paradox: Was Paul “Inspired”?
Introduction In a study of logic, there is something which we call “undecidable propositions” or “meaningless sentences”, which are statements that cannot be determined because there is no contextual false. One of the classic examples cited is the Epiminedes’ paradox. Saul Kripke says: Ever since Pilate asked, “What is truth?” (John XVIII, 38), the subsequent…
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‘The Apocryphal Books of Elijah’ & Paul
In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul says that “However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.'” (1 Corinthians 2:9) It is claimed that Paul had paraphrase the above citation from Isaiah: “Since ancient times no…
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Paul in Islam: The False Apostle From Tarsus
The purpose of this brief article is to show that Paul, the self-acclaimed “apostle” whom the Christians follow, has no place in Islam at all. Muslims believe that between the time periods of the Prophet Jesus(P) and the Prophet Muhammad(P), no Messenger of God had come between them, whether to the Gentiles or the Jews.…
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The Problem of Paul
Hyam Maccoby Excerpts from The Mythmaker: Paul and The Invention of Christianity Chapter 1: The Problem of Paul At the beginning of Christianity stand two figures: Jesus and Paul. Jesus is regarded by Christians as the founder of their religion, in that the events of his life comprise the foundation story of Christianity; but Paul…