Debate on the Quran, the Gospels, and Jesus’ Divinity

The Quran is not the word of Muhammad. It is the word of God.

But it was written by Muhammad. It was not written by Muhammad.

Who wrote it? Muhammad was illiterate. He didn't know how to write or read. Who wrote it?

It was the word of God. It is divine word.

You see? It's every single time. They're very consistent. I appreciate it.

All right? It is the word of God, and they're very passionate about it.

I respect your passion. There's no way you can rationally have a conversation with that.

The same way, if you ask me, "Why do you believe the Bible's the word of God?"

And I look you in the face and I say, "Because it's the word of God," rational discourse has broken down.

My second philosophical problem with Islam is my Muslim friends inform me Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are inaccurate.

They're perverted gospels. In fact, it's been changed, they will say.

Right. Exactly. So then obviously the next question is, "Well, where are the unperverted ones?"

Unfortunately, my Muslim friends cannot produce the unperverted ones.

Instead, what my Muslim friends ask me to believe is that a revelation that Muhammad had 500 years after Jesus, which obviously means Muhammad never met Jesus, that that book, the Quran, is a more accurate presentation of the historical Jesus than the gospels written by the eyewitnesses.

Well, I'm sorry. Whenever I want to study an historical person, I don't go running to a guy who lived 500 years after the fact.

I want to go to the eyewitnesses. I'm not gonna trust Martin Scorsese to be my primary source of information about Jesus.

Martin Scorsese never met Jesus, neither did Cecil B. DeMille.

I'm gonna go back to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John who lived in the first century to be my primary source of information about Jesus.

My third philosophical problem with Islam is my Muslim friends have great respect for Jesus.

In fact, my Muslim friends respect Jesus far more than the typical American does.

My Muslim friends believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he ascended to heaven, and that he's coming back a second time.

Well, that's far more than the typical American believes about Jesus.

But my Muslim friends say that although Jesus speaks the absolute truth, Muhammad also speaks absolute truth, and the problem is they contradict each other on certain points.

You cannot have A be absolute true and then B be absolute true if A and B contradict each other, 'cause that does nothing then but to allow for C to come along claiming C is absolute truth in spite of the fact that C contradicts both B and A. You cannot have an absolute truth contradicted by another absolute truth.

Did Jesus ever claim to be God? Yeah, he sure did. When, in the Bible?

John 8:58, Jesus says, "Before Abraham was born, I am."

In John 10:30, Jesus says, "I and the Father are one."

In John 14:9, Jesus says, "He who has seen me has seen the Father."

Clearly, Jesus claimed to be God. So he was both human and God at the same time is what- That's what he claimed.

Maybe he was a lunatic, but that's what he claimed.

He wasn't a lunatic. He was a prophet. Well, he claimed to be God in human form, which means he's more than a prophet.

He's God in human form. That's what he claimed.

But God is something that's superior to human form, so it doesn't make sense for a god to be human because he wouldn't necessarily be higher than the others.

My first point is God is not something. The Bible ins- says that God is someone, a personal being, and it's totally possible for a personal being as the creator- Well, he made all of the humans