The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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Initially, the Bible was the word of God, but in later
years it suffered from 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 genealogy 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 Abraham and ending 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.
