God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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human interpolations, with the result that many
internal contradictions began to sully its pages. A
case in point is the genealogy of the Messiah, which
has been given in several places in that part of the
Bible known as the
Injil
, or New Testament. The
Gospel according to Matthew begins with this
abridged genealogy:
“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham”
(Matt.1:1).
The genealogy of Christ is then given in
detail, beginning with Joseph who, according
to the New Testament was “the husband of
Mary, of whom was born Jesus.” (Matt.1:16)
When the reader turns to the Gospel
according to Mark, he finds these words: ‘The
beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God’ (Mark.1:1).
According to one chapter of the New Testament,
Jesus was the son of a person named Joseph, while
another chapter of this very New Testament says he
was the Son of God.
