Comparing Sharia vs. the Gospel Fundamental problem of mankind in Islam is ignorance. Islam means “submission”. A Muslim is “one who submits” Concept of a prophet in Islam is different than that in the Bible Prophets in Islam have a higher status than all other people, being men chosen by God to lead mankind. The Quran uses the term to mean a divinely appointed leader, not necessarily one who prophesies Prophets include Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Job, Moses, Jonah, Aaron, Solomon, David, Jesus (Quran 4....

Introduction Takeaways Patience and thoughtfulness are the keys to insight, especially with Scripture. If you spend the time and assume the proper attitude of openness and trust, God will speak to you through His Word. Key text - Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart....

The Old Testament of the canonical, Protestant Bible shares nearly identical content as the Jewish Tanakh, yet the two collections differ in the ordering and placement of their books. The Christian Old Testament orders the Jewish sacred scriptures generally into four categories: the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Poetical/Wisdom Books, and the Prophetic Books. In contrast, the Jewish Tanakh orders the Hebrew scriptures into three major sections: the Torah (Law/Instruction), the Nevi’im (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings)....

The three canonical Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John are three praise biographies of Jesus Christ, written by three distinct authors at different times. Unlike the Gospel of Mark, these three Gospels offer limited information about the origin story of Jesus, either through an enumeration of his genealogy, a description of his birth narrative, or an introduction of his ethereal origins with a hymnic prologue. Though ultimately describing the same figure of Jesus, the three origin stories from Matthew, Luke, and John differ in both their content and style of writing....