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The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase
by about
Largest
35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2
percentage
billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the
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Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public
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Islam
2.6 Million
Muslims (0.8%
pop) and 1200+
mosques in US
1.6 Billion Muslims
in 200+ Countries
23% of world population
Islam
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Large and growing religion
Definitions
Holy sites
Six Fundamental Articles of Faith
Five Pillars
Jihad
Islam is based on:
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• A “Prophet”
• A “Revelation”
Islam: of God or of Man?
Hutto-El Dareer Debate (1974)
Jesus the Messiah is the only begotten Son of God,
was crucified for the sins of the world, and the New
Testament is God’s final revelation
The advent of the Prophet Mohammed is clearly
foretold in both Old and New Testaments, and the
Koran is God’s final revelation
Origin of Koran
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• Claims to have been revealed by
This Koran could not
God (surah 10:37)
been
• Revealed to Muhammad overhave
23 year
period (AD 609-632); agency composed
of angel by any
but Allah…It is
Gabriel
beyond doubt from
• Muhammad illiterate – recitedthe
while
Lordothers
of the
memorized or wrote words Creation (10:37)
• Compiled and codified ca. AD 650
(114 surahs [chapters])
He that chooses a
religion other than
Islam, it will not be
accepted from him
and in the world to
And now that a Book
come he will be one confirming their own
of the• lost
(3:85)
Considered
as come
the final,
has
to them
Origin of Koran
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from of
Allah,
theysuperseding
definitive word
God
deny it…May Allah’s
all others (surah
5:44-48)
curse be
upon the
(2:89-90)
And to you We have
• Must acceptinfidels!
and follow
Islam/Koran
revealed the Book
to be accepted by God (3:85;
5:66)
with the truth. It
confirms
• Those who reject the Koran
are the
Scriptures which
condemned as infidels (2:89-90)
came before it and
stands as a guardian
over them (5:44-48)
Origin of Bible
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• Claims to have been revealed from God
(2 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 1:11-12)
• Revealed to some 40 writers over 1600
years (1500 BC – AD 100)
• Revealed by Holy Spirit to men of God
who spoke and wrote (2 Pet. 1:21; Eph.
3:3-5)
• 66 books (OT – 39; NT 27); unified by
overall theme of redemption of mankind
from sin
Origin of Bible
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• Considered as the final, definitive
word of God (2 Tim. 3:17; Jn. 16:13;
Jude 3)
• Must heed and obey the call of the
gospel to be saved by God
(2 Thess. 2:13-15)
• Those who reject the word of God will
be condemned (Jn. 12:48)
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Miraculous Confirmation
They ask: “Why has
If they say: “It is
no sign been given
your own invention,”
Koran 
say: •“Compose
onenone him by his Lord?”
Say: “Signs are in
chapter •like
it.
Call
Muhammad didthe
nohands
miracles
of Allah.
on your false gods
• Objections
regarded
as foolish
My mission
is only
to help you,
if what
to give
plain
you say •isChallenge
true!”
to write
something
warning” (29:50)
(10:38) comparable
• Bible  New Testament fully
confirmed by miraculous
signs (Mk. 16:20; Heb. 2:3-4)
Problems with the
Koran’s Teachings
• Contradicts Bible facts
• Troubling doctrines
• False teachings
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Pharaoh’s Wife & Moses
KORAN
His wife said to
Pharaoh: “This
child may bring us
joy. Do not slay
him. He may show
promise and we
may adopt him as
our son” (28:8-9)
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BIBLE
And the child grew,
and she brought
him to Pharaoh’s
daughter, and he
became her son
(Ex. 2:10)
God Leads Astray,
Misleads
KORAN
He whom Allah leads
astray shall be lost
indeed (42:46)
Who, besides Allah,
can guide the man
who makes his lust
his god, the man
whom Allah
deliberately
misleads… (45:23)
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BIBLE
…for God cannot be
tempted by evil,
nor does He
Himself tempt
anyone (Jas. 1:13)
Deny Triune Nature
of God
KORAN
Unbelievers are those
that say: “Allah is one
of three.” There is but
one God (2:73-74)
So believe in Allah and
His apostles and do
not say: “Three.”
Forbear, and it shall be
better for you. Allah is
but one God (4:171)
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BIBLE
…baptizing them in
the name of the
Father and of the
Son and of the Holy
Spirit (Matt. 28:19)
Charge of “Corruption”
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• Latter-day argument that previous
revelations lost or corrupted
(including Bible)
• Typical charge of latter-day
revelations (e.g. Mormons) and
skeptics
• If this is so, God lied (1 Pet. 1:23-24)
• And, how can He be trusted with any
“revelation”?
Charge of “Corruption”
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• Charge must be proved, not just
asserted
• Charge not found in Koran, and
testimony of Muhammad himself
contradicts it (surah 5:66, 68)!
Say: “People of the book, you shall not be
guided until you observe the Torah and the
Gospel and that which is revealed to you from
your Lord” (5:68)
Islam is based on:
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• “Revelation” that claims to have come
from God, but has no miraculous
confirmation
• Claims that Bible is corrupted, but
offers no proof
Bible stands superior as the miraculously
confirmed, authentic, and
final revelation of God!!