What does the Bible say about Prophet Muhammad?

 

But even if we [the Apostles], or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.

—Galatians 1:8–9

I’m not trying to be inflammatory here. I respect Muslims and I respect Islam, though I believe it to be objectively false.

But that’s literally what it says.

The Quran is “contrary to that which the Apostles preached”.

·         The Apostles preached that Christ died and rose again (Acts 4:33).

·                     The Quran says that He only appeared to die, but Allah fooled everyone with a fake corpse (or someone else’s corpse… I’m not too clear on that detail) and snatched “Isa” away to safety.

 

·         The Apostles preached that Jesus is the Son of God (Matthew 1:18, Mark 1:1, Luke 1:35, John 1:34).

·The Quran says it is blasphemous to attribute to Allah a son, and that Isa was merely a mortal man called as Allah’s prophet.

 

·         The Apostles preached that Jesus is God (John 1:1–17).

·      Again, the Quran not only says otherwise, but vehemently condemns this idea.

 

·         The Apostles preached that Christ declared all foods clean (Mark 7:18–19).

·                     The Quran has laws for clean and unclean foods that are at least as stringent and restrictive as Old Testament law, if not more so.

I could go on for probably hours, if I wanted to. But I think the point is made—there is no cogent argument to be made that the Quran is compatible with the teachings of the Apostles. (And no—the entirely unsupported claim that the New Testament has been “corrupted” and that the “lost” original version was in line with the Quran is not a cogent argument.)

And if this is the case, then all the other spurious “proofs” that the Bible predicts Muhammad are unavailing—because Christians are instructed to reject anything contrary to the teachings of the Apostles, even if it comes from “an angel of heaven”, much less a mortal man laying claim to the title of “prophet”.