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vast majority of apologetic work is aimed at a tiny minority of non Christians atheists, A minority is aimed at the majority Muslims, This book is an important member of this minority, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an is the result years of study and debate White knows what he is talking about and has presented these issues to the best Islamic apologists in the world.
It's not a light read it's heavy going in places, and I thought there were times White's style wasn't particularly clear sometimes I just didn't get what he was saying.
But it repays careful reading, and gives great information that will be useful in interactions with Muslims, Despite the title, White is writing not just for Christians but for Muslims too, so there are no polemics here just the facts, He addresses the Qur'an's teaching about the trinity, Christ, the cross, salvation, prophecies of Muhammad, the corruption of scripture and the integrity of the text of the Qur'an.
He does a great job showing the writer of the Qur'an didn't understand Christianity or have familiarity with scripture, I also enjoyed learning about how the Qur'an affirms the Jewish and Christian scriptures as having been sent down from Allah, and that Allah's word can't be changed Surah:, yet Muslims claim the Bible has been corrupted.
White points out that time and again the Qur'an encourages people to judge it based on the scriptures of Jews and Christians a meaningless exhortation if the Bible had been corrupted.
There is no doubt what scriptures Jews and Christians had at the time of Muhammad, If Muslims heed the injunction to judge the Qur'an against the Bible they will be led to see the Qur'an cannot be what it claims to be.
The historical veracity and righteous necessity of the death of Christ were well presented, May this book, written with conviction and compassion, equip Christians to evangelise, with the result that many Muslims may embrace the Christ of the cross as their only hope.
I have bought a LOT of books both pro and con re Muhammad and Islam, and have found both kinds to be heavy duty either in their strong antagonism or in their utterly slavish belief both as bad as each other!.
And then there are the politically correct variants, also bought and struggling with, which are even worse, because the author or editor is clearly sitting on the fence but not actually achieving a truly independent stance.
This book makes its position quite clear from the title yet the author provides good references making it easier for me to check against original text albeit translated.
He tries to be

fair and his tone is respectful even when some of the topics are jarring to our current sensibilities, He uses text from Guillaume and others so that the reader can see and try to understand what he is referring to, and, as mentioned, he provides further reading including Islamic reference material so that we the reader can make up our own minds.
Clearly as a director of a Christian apologetics organisation, he has an ultimate objective to prove his faith and why notRe why it is necessary for Christians to have the right ammo: Muhammad has positioned himself as the 'final Prophet'.
His mystical visions which I do not doubt are nothing like those of Judaeo Christian prophets, yet are purported to be the everlasting word of Allah his God.
Obviously this is counter to everything Christians do or should believe, So yes, I totally recommend this book, And even better to use it as a kind of study guide when reading Guillaume, the Hadith and other Islamic revered texts, Perhaps not the best of titles, but a very useful, interesting, well documented, and proficient book, written in an irenic way, yet to be true to Allah respectfully tackles some fundamental fault lines in Islam.
Some common conventions which I dont buy into, unsurprisingly caused me annoyance, These include:Peg: the use of Judaism to predate Christianity Judaism began in ADPeg: Jew to refer to Israelites, Here White effectively said falsely that Moses was a Jew: he was not, though he was an Israelite neither was Abraham an Israelite: nor was Rabbie Burns an Englishman though British! Jew has a few justifiable meanings: one can be an ethnic Jew, and an Atheist, Hindu, Judaic, Muslim, etc.
One can be a spiritual Jewin Pauline teaching a Christianand an Afghan, Arab, Australian, etc, One can be both ethnically and spiritually Jewish, The common Jew or Christian category error, fails miserably, The Quran worked on the false assumptions that Jews were simply ethnically Jewish, committed to the Tanak, that the Israelite/Judahite distinction never appertained, and that there was clear blue water between every Jew and every Christian.
The term Judaic is better for the religion of Judaism, into which all races may buy into: Afghans, Arabs, Australians, etc, can become JudaicsPeg: God instead of god where the background setting is polytheistic.
Sometimes this is mere quote, So, whereas standard Bible versions have God, Id have god, eg Dt,:where our suggests other gods were availablethus Yahweh is our god, The Shahada likewise, should be: There is only one god worthy of worship, White follows suit: People of the Book and Muslims do worship the same God, p, There is only one god, God, and I accept that Muslims cannot worship a different godsince no alternatives philosophically speaking existand cannot worship God the same nor could Abraham, since having different presuppositions: say do worship God, not do worship the same god, and avoid polytheistic languagePeg: sageism, where White used menadult male human beingsinstead of peoplePeg: sexism, where White used he instead of they where both genders are implied in contextPeg: detetragrammatising, neither Yahweh, nor the LORD, but the Lordbut White was quoting Jacob Neusner.
Not all will give a toss for these objections, but one persons meat is anothers poison, Ive read a fair bit on Islam, so not all new stuff for me, yet I have enjoyed this book as one quite up to date, done by someone who understands both sides of the coin, and has engaged in serious and non aggressive public debates with Islamic apologists.
Putting some irksome phraseology aside, White has a good understanding of the trinity hes written a book on it and of Islams misunderstanding of itIslam righty shoots down the anti Christian idea of tritheismgods but wrongly calls it Christian.
He also has a good grasp on textual transmission and translation hes written a book on it, and covers that well, undercutting the modern Islamic idea of fundamental textual corruptionearlier Islamic scholars assumed that interpretational corruption was sufficient a charge to defend Islam.
He then put the boot on the other foot, highlighting Quranic textual corruption, some inadvertent, some quite possibly politically motivated, He argued at large that a Quranic text created by Muhammad even if a well intended prophet of Allah, explains the Quran and its transmission historyboth its textual variants and vagariesbetter than alleging a direct and infallible and unchangeable copy of a heavenly writing.
Christians and Judaics can applaud Muhammads rejection of polytheism and tritheism, and all parties will hopefully enjoy reading this book, So grateful to the Lord for this author and His inspiration, To a Christian the Quran can be really scary as it assumesSuch an authorative tone not dissimilar to the Old Testament, The fact that the author seems to have little knowledgeOf both the Old and New Testaments stands out clearly and indicates a human source this source seems to rely on old folklore than an understanding of the Bible.
Hopefully many Muslims will read this to their everlasting benefit, Really good read clear and pricise, I've read many books about Islam the Quran and Muslims so wondered would I learn anything new, While I've read similar before James White has a good style of writing, He lays the out the Qurans argument then questions it critically and often ends with a question, such as if the writer of the Quran a work of God how come it misrepresents what the Bible teaches Its obvious the writer of the Quran didn't know what the Bible teaches such as the Trinity And if your going to challange someone's teachings you better know exactly what they really believe.
So it argues that the Trinity is Allah Mary and Jesus, So the writer misrepresents Christian teaching, Given that by the time of their prophet the teaching on the Trinity was very clear, But White points out that this is where the Quran fails it gets it wrong, So Im enjoy reading it and I liked that he laid out the order of chapters in which the Quran was revealed, as many know the chapters don't follow on from each other, On a personal note I've studied the Quran for aboutyears and can truly say it's a horrible book and a far cry from being a clear book to enlighten mankind.
It's a medieval book for a medieval people A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest Growing ReligionsWhat used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street Through fair contextual use of the ur'an as the primary source text apologist James R White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ salvation the Trinity the afterlife and other important topics White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of the Bible in order to help Christians engage in open honest discussions with MuslimsA Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's FastestGrowing Religions

What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street.
Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R, White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other important topics, White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of the Bible in order to help Christians engage in open, honest discussions with Muslims.
A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's FastestGrowing Religions

What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street.
Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R, White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other important topics, White shows how the sacred text of Islam differs from the teachings of the Bible in order to help Christians engage in open, honest discussions with Muslims.
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