Jamie

Okay, Muslim friends, walk me through the timeline. I’m serious. I want a Muslim to actually walk me through it, because I was Muslim and nobody ever walked ME through it. The Dead Sea Scrolls get copied starting around 250 BC. The Septuagint, the Greek translation: The exact same era. And everything from that point forward matches the Torah sitting on my shelf right now. Two thousand years, one text, basically. So whatever “corruption” happened… had to happen before 250 BC, right? Muhammad is born in 570 AD. Bro. You’re telling me the Jews scrubbed Muhammad’s name out of the Torah more than eight hundred years before anyone on earth had heard the name Muhammad… They would’ve needed a prophecy of the guy just to know what to delete. Which, funny enough, is the one prophecy Muslims insist was in there. AND THEN they corrupted every single story of Old Testament prophets to be completely different from what the Quran says… In thousands of ways… Made up a whole new Joseph story. Made up a plague of darkness and livestock. Made up a whole prophet named Nathan. And then they suddenly just STOPPED?! And they did all of this with literally no motive… Crime needs a motive. The whole argument eats itself. It always does. The Quran is not from God. Jesus Christ is King!

"You Christians worship a God-man." Muslims say this as a gotcha. Yes. That's literally the Gospel. When I was Muslim, I used to think that was the ultimate criticism. Now I think it's the most beautiful truth I've ever heard. Christianity doesn't teach that God stayed distant. It teaches that God came near. The One who created galaxies stepped into His own creation. Not to show off or dominate or to sit on a throne demanding more from us. But to suffer for us, to walk among us. To carry our grief, and bleed for us. To die for us and to rise again. What finally changed my perspective was realizing that "Son of God" never meant God had a biological child. In the Jewish world, it meant sharing the same nature. The claim wasn't that ‘God had a baby.’ The claim was that God REVEALED Himself. Bro, that's where Islam lost me. I literally spent years believing God would never humble Himself enough to enter His creation. Then I realized that's exactly what makes Him glorious. Not that He stayed far off and away. That He came so very close. Close enough to touch lepers: to weep. Close enough to suffer life men and close enough to die. So yes, Christians worship the God-man. Because no mere man could save us. And a god who remains forever distant cannot show us the depth of divine love. But Jesus did. Fully God, fully man and fully enough.