Click here
(alarabiya.net) to read about the so-called Gospel of Barnabas, which
purports to predict the historical coming of Islam...
A genuine prophecy? Or an after-the-fact projection?
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Suspicious document, even more suspicious article. I'm not sure if it's because of a weird translation, but the article, when it talks about the Messiah, "who is in fact Jesus Christ", seems to be biased towards Christianity, which would discredit any claims it makes. With regard to the document, it seems very fishy, and irrelevant in terms of how it might impact either Islam or Christianity. Islam doesn't need more credibility to Muslims, and Islam will never be credible to devout non-Muslims.
Something that I think is often disregarded is the conditions in which this Quran was written. It could be either genuine prophecy OR (and I think this is more likely) an after-the-fact projection of the coming of Islam, but neither represent the consistent beliefs of Muslims, either now or in that time period. This article to me seems pretty sensational. It's interesting, but just as there are a lot of contemporary books that stretch the truth or elaborate or are written as fiction altogether, there was a lot of flexibility that I don't think was taken into account. -Valerie
A sensational find, indeed... perhaps a bit TOO convenient to be taken at historical face-value. But as a religious-rhetorical polemic from a later age, maybe somewhat less mysterious!
3 comments:
Suspicious document, even more suspicious article. I'm not sure if it's because of a weird translation, but the article, when it talks about the Messiah, "who is in fact Jesus Christ", seems to be biased towards Christianity, which would discredit any claims it makes. With regard to the document, it seems very fishy, and irrelevant in terms of how it might impact either Islam or Christianity. Islam doesn't need more credibility to Muslims, and Islam will never be credible to devout non-Muslims.
John
Something that I think is often disregarded is the conditions in which this Quran was written. It could be either genuine prophecy OR (and I think this is more likely) an after-the-fact projection of the coming of Islam, but neither represent the consistent beliefs of Muslims, either now or in that time period.
This article to me seems pretty sensational. It's interesting, but just as there are a lot of contemporary books that stretch the truth or elaborate or are written as fiction altogether, there was a lot of flexibility that I don't think was taken into account.
-Valerie
A sensational find, indeed... perhaps a bit TOO convenient to be taken at historical face-value. But as a religious-rhetorical polemic from a later age, maybe somewhat less mysterious!
pdk
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