Re: The Gospel Of Barnabas
EssentiallyIslam wrote:
Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. Salaam, All. Thanks for your reply. But the fact remains that there is a Gospel Of Barnabas, and it is a very truthful, book, even with all of the discrepancies. I just can't fathom how some people can call it a forgery, and go through a song and dance over it, when it contains undisputable truth. Surely, Allaah, The Judge, The Watcher, The Subtle, has veiled the eye's / heart's of those. Salaam. EssentiallyIslam
Since you are so accepting of this book, you should know there are many problems that goes against the Quran:
Jesus confessed and said the truth: ‘I am not the Messiah ... I am indeed sent to the house of Israel as a prophet of salvation; but after me shall come the Messiah’. Gospel of Barnabas, paras 42, 82
O Mary! Lo! Allah gives you glad tidings of a Word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the hereafter. Surah 3.45
The virgin was surrounded by a light exceeding bright and brought forth her son without pain. Gospel of Barnabas, para 3
And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm tree. Surah 19.23
Another typical contradiction between the two books is found in the statement in the Gospel of Barnabas about the angels of God on the last days before the great Judgment: "The fifteenth day the holy angels shall die, and God alone shall remain alive" (para 53). The Qur’an knows nothing about the death of angels but states that eight of them shall bear the throne of Allah on the Last Day (Surah 69.17).
Again the Gospel of Barnabas states that on the thirteenth day of the final period before the end, all mankind will die and every living thing on the earth shall perish (para 53) whereas the Qur’an states that men will be alive until the last day, the great Day of Judgment, when the trumpet shall sound and "every man will have enough concerns on that day to make him heedless of others" (Surah 80.37).
That's three reason why you should reject the whole book. Unless you accept the book entirely, you have no valid argument with Bible believing Christians because we too reject the so-called Gospel of Barnabas. But if by chance that you do accept the book as truth, then you clearly admit that the Quran has faslified info which then you would have to reject the Quran entirely.