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Rebuttal to Jochen
Katz
“Abdullah Smith and his war against the Crucifixion”
By Abdullah Kareem
[Part I] [Part
II] [Part III] [Part
IV]
HE WROTE, 11, 943
Let's examine the climax of one of his most recent
articles:
...
Very few Christians know that Gentile historians NEVER mentioned the
resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish philosopher Philo (50 CE) absolutely makes no
reference to Jesus’ crucifixion. The Christians are embarrassed that Philo
lived during Jesus’ lifetime and never mentioned his resurrection.
After the departure of Jesus, his teachings spread to North Africa and
The following writers do not mention Jesus’ resurrection:
Philo-Judaeus
Martial
Arrian
Appian
Theon of
Lucanus
Aulus Gellius
Seneca
Plutarch
Apollonius
Epictetus
Silius Italicus
Ptolemy
We challenge Christians to prove his resurrection. None of these writers mentioned Jesus’ resurrection. (Source)
In his unsatiable desire to attack the Bible, Smith overlooked yet again that this argument also destroys the Qur'an. How? Jesus is connected not only with his own resurrection but also with several people whom he resurrected from the dead back into this earthly life. For example, Jesus raised at least three people: the 12-year-old daughter of Jairus (Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56), a young man in Nain, who was the only son of a widow (Luke 7:11-17), Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha (John 11).
Although the Qur'an does not give any details about those resurrections, it claims that Jesus did indeed raise people from the dead:
And will make him ['Iesa (Jesus)] a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave. And I inform you of what you eat, and what you store in your houses. Surely, therein is a sign for you, if you believe. S. 3:49 Al-Hilali & Khan
(Remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection). "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Remember My Favour to you and to your mother when I supported you with RuhulQudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)] so that you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and when I taught you writing, Al-Hikmah (the power of understanding), the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel); and when you made out of the clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My Permission, and you breathed into it, and it became a bird by My Permission, and you healed those born blind, and the lepers by My Permission, and when you brought forth the dead by My Permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from you (when they resolved to kill you) since you came unto them with clear proofs, and the disbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing but evident magic.' " S. 5:110 Al-Hilali & Khan
RESPONSE:
Here is the complete list of Greek and Roman writers who don’t mention Jesus’ resurrection.
Apollonius Persius
Appian Petronius Arrian Phaedrus Aulus Gellius Philo-Judaeus Columella Phlegon Damis Pliny the Elder Dio Chrysostom Pliny the Younger Dion Pruseus Plutarch Epictetus Pompon Mela Favorinus Ptolemy Florus Lucius Quintilian Hermogones Quintius Curtius Josephus Seneca Justus of Tiberius Silius Italicus Juvenal Statius Lucanus Suetonius Lucian Tacitus Lysias Theon of Smyran Martial Valerius Flaccus Paterculus Valerius Maximus Pausanias
Christians have provided the
most ludicrous reasons for why these writers DO NOT mention Jesus’ death. I
have laughed at some of the responses by Tektonics, a feel
good Christian website. (they are pathetic).
The following list of historians does not mention Jesus’ resurrection:
The above historians lived in the decades following Jesus’ departure.
Some of the above writers were poets
deeply rooted in Greek philosophy and the Ancient Wisdom. They were in the position
of recording the “darkness and earthquake” at Jesus’ death.
Philo was alive when Jesus “rose from the dead”. He led an embassy of Jews to
the court of Emperor Gaius Caligula (39-40 CE). Yet
Philo makes no reference to Jesus’ death, and resurrection.
He was there when the crucifixion
with its attendant earthquake, supernatural darkness, and resurrection of the
dead took place -- when Christ himself rose from the dead, and in the presence
of many witnesses ascended into heaven. These marvelous events which must have
filled the world with amazement, had they really occurred, were unknown to him.
(John Remsburg, The Christ)
Katz applies my argument to the Holy Quran
by saying the Quran is “proven false” because these
writers do not mention Jesus’ miracles. (Quran 3:49,
5:110). There is a logical explanation.
First, let us examine the crucifixion. The Holy Quran
says Jesus was saved (Psalms 20:6, Quran 3:55), and
someone else was crucified (4:157), but these writers do not mention the appearance crucifixion, because it was
ordinary. The “darkness, earthquake, and rising saints” are legends
attached to the Gospel narratives.
The Gospel of Barnabas (accepted by Irenaeus)
describes the crucifixion of Judas as ordinary.
So they led him to
But they that stood firm in the doctrine of Jesus were so encompassed with
sorrow, seeing him die who was entirely like to Jesus, that they remembered not
what Jesus had said. And so in company with the mother of Jesus they went to
Mount Calvary, and were not only present at the death of Judas, weeping
continually, but by means of Nicodemus and Joseph of Abarimathia;
they obtained from the governor the body of Judas to bury it. Whereupon, they
took him down from the cross with such weeping as assuredly no one would
believe, and buried him in the new sepulchre of
Joseph; having wrapped him up in an hundred pounds of precious ointments. (Gospel of Barnabas, [1]
Paul makes no reference to Jesus as historical figure, he only says “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).
The determination not to know anything but the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was
narrowing down knowledge to rather a small compass. Evidently converts in
Irenaeus,
one of the most frequently quoted Christian writers of the ancient bishops,
declares upon the authority of the martyr Polycarp,
who claimed to have got it from S John and all the elders of
The Christian missionary can teach us nothing but “Christ
crucified”. No wonder the early Christians were so dumb. The figurative Messiah
(Islam) liberated the
Paul regarded the crucifixion as symbolic.
It is evident that the early Gnostic Christians practised the ritual of symbolic death by crucifixion. It was meant to destroy one’s identification with the body and realize the true self within. Gnostics considered Christ allegoric and not as a historical person. Paul, a Gnostic later appropriated by the Church, declares, “The secret is this: Christ in you (Colossians 1:25-28.)” Paul makes it clear that Jesus was merely an allegory when he declares, “If Jesus had been on earth, he wouldn’t have been a priest.(Hebrews 8:4)” As Freke and Gandy point out, had Paul considered Jesus historical, he would have said, “When Jesus was on earth, he was not a priest.” This explains why Paul never quotes the words of Jesus which he should have had there been a historical Jesus.
Paul further confirms that he considered Jesus’ crucifixion symbolic where he
declares, “I have shared Christ’s crucifixion. The person we once were has been
crucified with Christ. (Colossians 1:24, Galatians 2:20, Romans 6:7)” He also
tells Galatians, a community that lived hundreds of miles away from
I will show later that some versions of the Osiris
myth did indeed teach that he remained on earth for a time after his
"reanimation," but for the sake of argument, let's just assume the
truth of McFall's claim that Egyptian myths about Osiris taught that he had experienced only a
"spiritual" resurrection. That still would not make the Jesus myth
"unique," because the earliest version of this myth indicates that
the resurrection of Jesus was merely spiritual. To see this, we have only to go
to the apostle Paul's defense of the resurrection in 1
Corinthians 15. A face-value interpretation of this chapter, which doesn't
assume the truth of the gospel accounts that were written much later, will show
that Paul was claiming that Jesus had been not bodily but spiritually
resurrected. After telling the Corinthian Christians that their faith was vain
and they were of all men most miserable if Christ had not risen, Paul proceeded
to develop a line of argumentation intended to prove that the resurrection had
happened as he had preached it. (Warning:
Atheist website: [2]
Christians believe that Jesus died for the sins of the world. In ancient
Paul corrupted the Gospel and elevated Jesus to divine
status.
On the face of it, Paul’s doctrine of Jesus is a daring departure from Judaism. Paul was advocating a doctrine that seemed to have far more in common with pagan myths than with Judaism: that Jesus was a divine-human person who had descended to Earth from the heavens and experienced death for the express purpose of saving mankind. The very fact that the Jews found this doctrine new and shocking shows that it plays no role in the Jewish scripture, at least not in any way easily discernible…There were those who accepted Paul’s doctrine, but did regard it as a radical new departure, with nothing in the Jewish scriptures foreshadowing it. (Hyam Maccoby, The Myth-Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, p. 12)
Paul is responsible for discarding
the Jewish Law, deifying Jesus, and creating his own religion.
Jesus was not the founder of Christianity as we know it today. Most of the New
Testament doesn't even concern the historical Jesus while the main influence is
the Apostle Paul and through the church he founded at
It is evident from scripture that Paul refused to come under the authority of
the Church in
Paul's Hellenistic bias and influence was certainly the result of being born
and raised in
The idea of a sacrificed saviour is Mithraist, so is the symbolism of bulls, rams, sheep, the
blood of a transformed saviour washing away sins and
granting eternal life, the 7 sacraments, the banishing of an evil host from
heaven, apocalyptic end of time when God/Ormuzd sends
the wicked to hell and establishes peace. Roman Emperors, Mithraist
then Christian, mixed the rituals and laws of both religions into one. Emperor
The above writers do not mention every single crucifixion. But that doesn’t mean the crucifixions
never occurred!
At least 2,000 Zealots were crucified by the Romans. Yet the crucifixion of
Jesus is supposed to be unique.
Matthew tells us (xxvii. 31) that when Christ was crucified, there was darkness
all over the land for three hours, and "the earth did quake, and the rocks
were rent, and many of the saints came out of their graves." Here we have a series of events spoken of so
strange, so unusual and so extraordinary that, had they occurred, they must have attracted the attention of
the whole world -- especially the amazing scene of the sun's withdrawing
his light and ceasing to shine, and thereby causing an almost total darkness
near the middle of the day…Even Seneca
and the elder Pliny, who minutely chronicle the events of those times, are
silent about the greatest event in history. Each of these philosophers, in
a detailed work, recorded all the phenomena of nature’s earthquakes, meteors
and eclipses, he could collect. And, although Mark incidentally alludes to the darkness, in their gospels neither Luke nor
John, know of any of these wonderful events. Christians tell us that God deliberately
came to earth to die because he wanted to save wicked mankind—then he forgot to
make sure everyone knew about it! (Warning:
Atheist website [1])
It is shocking to find a complete absence of Jesus’
resurrection in these
writers. More shocking is that Paul does not make any reference to Jesus’ trial
and arrest. The pagan Katz knows that he’s trapped, so he resorts to
attacking the Quran by using my argument. What a
fool, I don’t know any other word to describe Jochen
Katz.
There is a good explanation to solve this “problem of silence” which applies to
every historical figure. The biography of every great man is always composed
after his death. The Hadith were compiled after the Prophet’s death, the Gospels
were composed after Jesus’ departure,
and the Torah was composed after
Moses’ death. Even the earliest biography of Alexander the Great was composed
decades after his death!
The Gospels were contemporary documents to these writers (50-150 CE), so they
should have acknowledged Jesus’ death, but sadly they didn’t [1][2][3]. The Quran was revealed 600 years later in the
The Holy Quran records the True Miracles and avoids
the false miracles that exist in pagan myths.
The True miracles of Jesus are attested in the Quran
(healing the sick, raising the dead, and curing the blind) which are confirmed
by the Gospels (Matt 12:22, Mk. 5:21).
The Quran does not record the Transfiguration,
walking on water, and turning water into wine because these miracles were COPIED
from the pagans.
The Gospels are perverted cosmology…This is the Transfiguration, an event in
the life of the Creative Principle, and therefore of Jesus only as this
personified. It’s nothing new in occult cosmology: Buddha was transfigured on a mountain in
The Buddha had his transfiguration when he went up a Sri Lankan mountain
called Pandava, or Yellow-white. “There the heavens opened and a great
light came in full flood around him and the glory of his person shone forth
with ‘double power’. He shone as the brightness of the Sun and Moon”. This
exactly parallels—but predates by six centuries—the Gospel story of Jesus’
transfiguration on
The Buddha told this story at Jetavana Monastery
about a pious lay follower. One evening, when this faithful disciple came to
the bank of the
"Good layman," the Buddha said, addressing the disciple, "I hope
you had no mishap on your way."
"Venerable sir," the disciple replied, "while coming here, I was
so absorbed in thoughts of the Buddha that, when I came to the river, I was
able to walk across it as though it were solid."
"My friend," the Blessed One said, "you're not the only one who
has been protected in this way. In olden days pious laymen were shipwrecked in
mid-ocean and saved themselves by remembering the virtues of the Buddha." [1] [2]
"The Johannine story of Jesus' turning water
into wine (2.1-11) was modeled on a myth
about Dionysus told in a Dionysiac festival
celebrated at
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later
find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus;
both were said to have been born from a mortal woman but fathered by a god, to
have returned from the dead, and to have
transformed water into wine. [3]
The historians never objected to Jesus’ miracles (3:49, 5:110) because they are
supported by the Gospels (Matt 12:22, Mk. 5:21). I am speaking of the
historians who lived after the Quran was revealed.
Also, the scientists have confirmed the miracles in the Quran.
Allah speaks of how Christians borrowed the pagan myths.
But there are, among men, those
who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead
(men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there
will be a Humiliating Penalty. (Al-Quran 31:6)
The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah,
and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their
mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.
Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away
from the Truth! (9:30)
Please visit the following links:
http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/paul.htm
http://www../library/magazines/tsr/2001/6/016pagan.html
Surely if the author of the Quran was Muhammad, then
he would not have hesitated to copy the miracle of Jesus walking on water,
turning water into wine, and multiplying the bread, yet he omitted these
“miracles” because they were copied
from the pagans.
The Quran did not plagiarize anything from the
Gospels (God only revealed significant events like the Virgin birth, the miracles
(5:110), and his ascension to Heaven (4:157). As mentioned above, the burden is
on the gospels because they were
contemporary to these writers (70-150 CE).
We pose the following question to these Evangelical “Christians”: Why does the
Holy Quran evade the false miracles and capture the
true miracles?
Possibly, the news of Jesus did not reach the ears of these writers. But the Gospels say Jesus was very popular (Matt 4:25) while the Quran correctly says Jesus gained only a few followers
(57:27, 61:14).
The above writers do
not mention Jesus because he was unpopular. The Gospels exaggerate his
reputation by making him “very popular” (Matt. 21:7-8; Mark 11:8; Luke 19:36).
The Essenes followed John because he was greater than
Jesus. There is no evidence to prove Jesus was Essene.
However, those who argue for Jesus's non-existence note that Josephus spends much more
time discussing John the Baptist and various other
supposed Messiahs than he does
discussing Jesus. [1]
Both the New Testament and Josephus depict John the Baptist has having a more
powerful influence on the majority of the people of the time than did Jesus.
Josephus' description of John is more detailed than his account of Jesus, and
John's death is, in the people's view, avenged afterward by Heaven with real
actions, but Josephus mentions no such divine
support for Jesus.
In contrast with his usual
attitude toward popular leaders, Josephus is sympathetic towards John the
Baptist. One wonders what the difference is between John and the men whom
Josephus disparages as "deceivers" (apateônes)
and "enchanters" (goêtes), such as Theudas and the Egyptian. It isn't simply that John did not
represent a direct threat to
Even if the Flavium Testimonium passage
is true, he spends more time discussing John the Baptist than Jesus! Yet this should
never mean Jesus didn’t exist. That’s blasphemy. John the Baptist gained more
popularity because he did not resort to miracles which brought suspicion of
acquiring these powers from the Jinn.
Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, "Could this be the Son of David?" But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons." (Matthew 12:22-24)
There was no reason to suspect John the Baptist of falsehood
because he “did no miracle” (John 10:41), and his death was considered a
martyrdom by the Essenes. The Bible and Quran agree that true prophets can die. The New Testament
is not about John the Baptist, so very little knowledge can be derived from the
Christian sources.
Also, Josephus had sympathy for John the Baptist.
Modern scholars see a similarity
between John and the sect that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, who are usually
taken to be the Essenes described by Josephus. John
may have once been an Essene who developed a
following of his own.
This may explain Josephus' favorable view of John, for the Essenes are described in very much greater detail than the other two major Jewish philosophies. Moreover, in his autobiography, Josephus tells us that when he was a teenager he spent three years in the desert with a man named Banus who resembles John in behavior (as in Mark's description). This Banus clothed himself using only trees, ate only food that was found in the wild, and bathed himself in cold water several times a day. Yet this Banus was not an Essene, but a unique individual. This experience seems to have given Josephus a lasting sympathy for people who led this way of life, which is quite probably why he speaks so favorably of John the Baptist. [1]
The Quran is not proven false
because these explanations stand up. Yet the problem remains for Christians.
The Quran denies the “sacrificial death” and
resurrection (3:55, 4:157) because God promised to save him (Psalms 18:50,
20:6). And these writers do not record “the greatest event in history”.
Paul contradicts the Gospels on a simple event which is supposed to be the
foundation of Christian religion [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
Was the resurrection a hoax? Yes, and so was 911.
The Bible condemns “vicarious atonement” (Deu 24:16, Ez. 18:20-21), and the Gnostics
rejected Jesus’ crucifixion.
This is probably the best answer to the “silence crisis” surrounding Jesus’
life. All the biographies of great men (Abraham, Moses, David, and Alexander
the Great) were always composed after their deaths. This does not mean they
were unhistorical.
We know more about Prophet Muhammad than we know about Jesus. We don’t know
anything about Jesus’ childhood and the first 30 years of his life, yet we know
many details about
Muhammad’s early life before he became a prophet.
The more people have tried to discover who Jesus really was the more it has been found how little is known about him. There are limited records of his teachings and some of his actions, but very little is known about how he actually lived his life from moment to moment and how he conducted his everyday transactions with other people…Certainly, the pictures many people have given of Jesus - of who he was and what he did - are distorted ones. Although there is some truth in them, it has been established that the four accepted Gospels have not only been altered and censored through the ages but also are not eyewitness accounts. (Muhammad Ataur-Raheem, Jesus Prophet of Islam, p. 5)
The Gospels say Jesus’ body went missing, but nobody
witnessed the “resurrection”. Amazingly, dozens of people watched the
resurrection of Lazarus (John 11:43), but nobody saw the resurrection of
Jesus!
The legendary stories of ‘man-god’ saviors dying for the sins of their people
(and rising three days later) were very common!
"The worship of suffering
gods was to be found on all sides, and the belief in the torture of the victims
in the rites of human sacrifice for the redemption from sin was very general.
The gods Osiris, Attis,
Adonis, Dionysos, Herakles,
Prometheus, and others, had all suffered for mankind; and thus the Servant of
Yahweh was also conceived as having to be wounded for' men's transgressions.
But as I say, this conception had passed into the background in the days of
Jesus" (The Paganism in Our Christiantiy, Arthur
Weigall, 1928, p106)
Like Christianity, the Mysteries had a doctrine of "original sin."
Plato teaches that the soul is banished into the body as a punishment for some
unnamed ancient crime. According to Empedocles, we are wandering through the
four elements to atone for guilt incurred in the divine world. The Mysteries
taught that the original sin was separation from God. The sacrificial death of
the godman, or the sacrificial animal he kills,
represents the initiate's own symbolic death to their lower "animal"
nature and rebirth into their divine nature, which unites them with God and so
atones for this original crime. (Timothy Freke, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original
Jesus” a Pagan God? p. 54)
Jesus was not the founder of Christianity as we know it today. Most of the New
Testament doesn't even concern the historical Jesus while the main influence is
the Apostle Paul and through the church he founded at
We challenge Christians to answer the following questions:
Why did Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus
not stay with Jesus
in the tomb after taking down
his body from the
cross to witness the
resurrection? Jesus had apparently told
his followers that he would die and rise after three days. (Matthew 16:21,
17:23, 20:17-19) This report had even reached
the Jews (Matthew 27:63). Why did not
Joseph and Nicodemus remain with Jesus to witness the event?
Did the Jews really believe that Jesus had died? If so, why
did they ask the Romans for a guard to be placed outside the sepulcher? Matthew
says the Jews explained
this by saying
that Jesus's disciples
could spread false rumors about
him rising from the dead.
However, if the Jews really believed
this to be
the reason for the request, why
could they not
have asked the disciples to
produce the risen Christ as proof?
If the disciples had then done so, the Jews could then presumably rearrest Jesus.
Why were the Roman authorities so disinterested about the apparent removal of the body if this is what the Jews were claiming?
Why
was the stone moved from the tomb (Matthew28:2) if it was a
supernatural rising? [1]
The Quran says only a few people
followed Jesus (61:14), but why didn’t the lawyers mention Jesus’ trial with
Pilate? Why didn’t the poets mention Jesus in their poetry?
Katz has carried out research on these writers.
Ptolemy was a geographer,
astronomer, and astrologer, not a historian. Silius
Italicus was was a
Latin epic poet. Epictetus
was a stoic philosopher. Apollonius
-- which one? Plutarch is
indeed one of the rare genuine historians in the list, but his main focus were biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, and none
of his works were focused on
Where is the reference to Jesus’ death in the poetry of Lucanus
and Martial? You are basically implying that Jesus was too
unpopular to be noticed, or he was a false prophet according to these writers.
Several poets during Prophet Muhammad’s life defended him through poetry. The
pre-Islamic poets of Jahiliya predicted the advent of Muhammad. But
it seems no poet expressed
any acknowledgment of Jesus rising from the dead!
Nevertheless, Jesus was a historical figure who performed miracles by God. The
Bible and Quran are not proven false just because these writers do not
record the miracles.
HE WROTE:
I have no clue how Smith drew up this list, but it should be obvious that this
is hardly the list of most relevant names for writing the history of
RESPONSE:
Katz has ignored that Appian, Arrian, Dio
Chrysostom, Florus,
Paterculus,
and Phlegon were historians who lived in the early 2nd
century.
I have researched these writers and discovered that all of them are historians!
Appian
(c.95-c.165, Gr. Αππιανος),
of
Lucius Flavius
Arrianus 'Xenophon' (c. 92-c.175), known in English as Arrian, and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a
Greek historian and philosopher
of the Roman period. (*)
Dio Chrysostom,
Dion of Prusa or
Dio Cocceianus
(c. 40–c.
120) was a Greek orator,
writer, philosopher and historian of
the Roman Empire
in the first century. (*)
Florus,
Roman
historian,
lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian.
(*)
Marcus Velleius
Paterculus (c. 19 BC - c. AD 31) was a Roman historian. Although his praenomen is
given as Marcus by Priscian, some modern scholars
identify him with Gaius Velleius Paterculus, whose name occurs in an inscription on a
north African milestone (C.I.L. Viii. 10, 311). (*)
Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek historian who flourished in the 2nd
century. (*)
Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella (Gades, Hispania Baetica,
4
- c. 70) was
a Roman writer. After a career in the army (he was tribune in
None of these writers mentioned Jesus’ death. Christianity developed in
The early Christians were accused of sun-worship.
A letter ascribed in the Augustan History to the Emperor Hadrian refers to the
worship of Serapis by residents of
The land of Egypt, the praises of
which you have been recounting to me, my dear Servianus,
I have found to be wholly light-minded, unstable, and blown about by every
breath of rumour. There those who worship Serapis are, in fact, Christians, and those who call
themselves bishops of Christ are, in fact, devotees of Serapis.
(Augustan History, Firmus et al. 8) [1]
Firmicus Maternus was a
Christian author of the fourth century. He wrote a book called "The Errors
of the Profane Religions." He found that many of these pagan religions of
the Roman world had Saviors or Redeemers. He learned that every year the birth
of these gods was celebrated, often in mid-winter, and every year, often about
the time of our Easter, the death and resurrection of the gods were celebrated.
He discovered that in some of these religions bread and wine were used at the
altar, and candles and incense and sacred water were part of the ritual. [2]
The Islamic tradition says that Jesus has not died, so he’s
the only Prophet to return. Jesus will destroy the
cross and kill the swine
because swine is forbidden and the cross is pagan.
We have inscriptional evidence for the Pontius Pilate. We have inscriptional
evidence for Muhammad
and the early codification of the Quran.
But we have no inscriptional
evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. You are saying that Jesus’ resurrection has
no basis in History, because you confess that these historians do not mention
Jesus’ death!
The Evangelical Christians are the most arrogant people, they argue that Jesus’
resurrection was the “greatest event in history”, but they confess that Appian,
Arrian,
and Dio_Chrysostom
never confirmed it!
Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) were real Prophets sent by God with the same
message. Christians are guilty for the abrogation of Jesus’ law (Matt 5:17-20),
and replacing the Gospel for “faith and grace” (Eph. 2:8). Paul, the founder of
Christianity, knows nothing about Jesus. Yet, the teachings of Muhammad are
alive and immortal.
The teachings of the last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him), are alive, have been fully preserved, and made immortal. The guidance he has shown unto mankind is complete and flawless, and is enshrined in the Holy Qur'an. All the sources of Islam are fully intact and each and every instruction or action of the Holy Prophet can be ascertained without the least shadow of doubt. Thus as his teachings are totally intact, there is no need of any of new prophet on this count. (Abul Ala Mawdudi, Towards Understanding Islam, p. 54)
The companions of
Muhammad even transmitted the facial description
of Muhammad (pbuh). We don’t know how Jesus looked
like or the description of his face, but we know exactly how Prophet Muhammad
looked. The
burden of proof is on the Christians not the Muslims, to produce reliable
evidence for Jesus’ death. The so-called prophecies
are taken out of context and applied to Jesus by the Gospels.
The Quran is the greatest testimony regarding Jesus’
fate (4:157). And Allah blesses those who reject “Pauline Christianity” as the
excuse to commit sins.
Jesus was not the founder of Christianity as we know it today. Most of
the New Testament doesn't even concern the historical Jesus while the main
influence is the Apostle Paul and through the church he founded at
Paul was a Hellenized Pharisee converted to Christianity and rejected the
Judaism which Jesus and the
We find that immediately after the
disappearance of Jesus, his followers fell into two sects: one sect of people
under the leadership of his true disciples were closely
following the teachings of Jesus. Later the leadership of this group went to
James, the brother of Jesus.
They promoted the worship of the One and Only God and the following of the Ten
Commandments in the Torah, the Book revealed to Moses. They were the real
Muslims of those days.
The other sect was in fact formed by an enemy of the early Christians who found
that the best way to destroy Christ's religion was to join it and corrupt it
from inside: his name was Saul of Tarsus, who in fact was the founder of modern
Christianity. He is now venerated as
Eventhough he had not even met Jesus, he claimed to
be Jesus' own disciple and that he had a vision from Jesus appointing him as
his Apostle to the Gentiles.
In fact, in the Gospels we read of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus, from the
twelve tribes of
If we make an objective study of his own writings in the Bible, (which are
included as "God's word" in that book) we can find that his mission
was just to distort the religion of Christ. He taught many things quite in
opposition to what Jesus and his disciples had taught. He denigrated the true
disciples as "false apostles" and "the circumcision party"
and he claimed to an Apostle in his own right, to the Gentiles. In fact, Jesus
himself had said that his mission was only to the Children of Israel and not to
the Gentiles, or to the whole world, as Jesus had clearly said that it was the
duty of the Paraclete who would come later on to
complete the religion of God.
But Paul went on his lying propaganda against the true disciples of Jesus and
was successful in gaining more followers in due course. In later history the paganized Church went even further to make more clear
formulations of the Trinitarian concept and Redemption by the blood of Christ
etc. All these ideas were borrowed from polytheistic religions of the ancient
times. [3]
The human-Jesus of
the Quran is supported by the Gospels (John 5:30,
10:28). The evidence can be gleaned from the New Testament (Hebrews 5:7, James
5:16) that he was saved.
HE WROTE:
Basically, Smith's argument comes down to this: Certain people did not
mention something specific about Jesus, therefore this specific event never
happened.
RESPONSE:
The crucifixion of Jesus is supposed to be the foundation of Christianity. The
Holy Quran is the foundation of Islam, yet we have
evidence for its early codification. The Gospels were produced 150 years after
Jesus departed.
The Gnostic leader Titian (170 CE) compiled the Diatessaron, or Harmony of the
Gospels.
This harmony of the Gospels was written by Tatian, an
Assyrian and the disciple of Justin Martyr, about A.D. 170, and was widely used
in
The Christian apologist Justin Martyr quotes the Gospels in his “Memoirs of the Apostles”, but also quotes the apocryphal stories. How do we know Justin Martyr possessed the Gospels?
Just Martyr does not quote by name from any New Testament writings. He does use
the formulae of quotation 'it is recorded' and 'it is written', when quoting
from the 'Memoirs of the apostles' or simply the 'Memoirs'. [2]
The Christians argue that The Memoirs of the Apostles are the gospels
of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
"At the very threshold of the subject, we are met by the fact, that
nowhere in all the writings of Justin, does he once so much as mention any of
these gospels. Nor does he mention either of their supposed authors, except
John. Once his name occurs; not, however, as the author of a gospel, but in
such a connection as raises a very strong presumption that Justin knew of no
gospel of John the Apostle." [3]
Justin Martyr records apocryphal
stories that are absent from the Gospels!
It is certain, however, that
Justin does not use the fourth Gospel as abundantly as he does the others (Purves, op. cit., 233); this may be owing to the aforesaid
concordance, or harmony, of the synoptic Gospels. He seems to use the apocryphal Gospel of Peter. (Justin Martyr, The Catholic Encyclopedia, (*)
According to the Encyclopedia, Justin quoted the Gospel of Peter, which is rejected by the Church. How do we know the Gospel of Peter is not a forgery?
For we, brethren, receive both
Peter and the rest of the apostles as Christ Himself. But those writings which
are falsely inscribed with their name, we as experienced persons reject,
knowing that no such writings have been handed down to us. (Serapion,
bishop of
"As the brethren desired me to write epistles (letters), I did so, and
these the apostles of the devil have filled with tares (changes), exchanging
some things and adding others, for whom there is a woe reserved. It is not
therefore, a matter of wonder if some have also attempted to adulterate the
sacred writings of the Lord, since they have attempted the same in other works
that are not to be compared with these." (Dionysius, Bishop of
Katz wrote: Certain people did not mention something
specific about Jesus, therefore this specific event
never happened.
No, you have misunderstood. The crucifixion of Jesus never took place, only the
appearance crucifixion took place.
Judas (or Simon) was crucified, and his body thrown “headlong” into the Field
of Blood (Acts 1:18). We have already discussed why the Romans records are silent.
According to Matthew’s gospel, the chief priests bought a field with 30 pieces
of silver. Judas was already dead when the field was purchased, so his body was
thrown “headlong” after he was crucified.
HE WROTE:
Or even more radically, certain people did not mention Jesus,
therefore he never existed. That is nothing more than an argument from silence,
which is by its very nature a weak argument.
RESPONSE:
Let us answer from a different angle. After the departure of Jesus, his
teachings spread to
Athenagoras of Athens wrote a detailed esoteric Christian treatise On The Resurrection Of The Dead arguing that resurrection is possible (in a non-fleshly body), but without once mentioning the resurrection of Jesus, or even using the words Jesus or Christ ! He also composed In Defense of the Christians - no Jesus nor Christ is mentioned, but the Logos is directly equated with the Son of God. [1]
How are Muslims supposed to “convert” when Christianity is
hoaxed? Where is the evidence for Jesus’ death? Why are people accepting Islam
in droves? You have misunderstood my argument. I am not denying the Historical
Jesus and the purity of his character.
Muslims believe the miracles of Jesus as facts of history, but we totally reject
the crucifixion. There is evidence to disprove the crucifixion, and cast doubt
on the Gospel stories.
HE WROTE:
Will Abdullah Smith at least apply his criteria consistently? Would he, for
example, also conclude that Nero and/or Julius Caesar did not exist, if he
can't find a number of non-Roman writers who reports about them? Or would he consider that a stupid argument in their case?
RESPONSE:
Yes indeed, the Roman emperors are historical persons, and the evidence proves Julius Caesar and Nero existed.
The evidence for Julius Caesar's crossing the Rubicon River is tons better than
the evidence for Jesus Christ's alleged resurrection, as historian Richard
Carrier has shown in this article.
It should be clear that we have a huge number of reasons to believe that Caesar crossed the Rubicon, all of which are lacking in the case of the resurrection. In fact, when we compare all five points, we see that in four of the five evidences of an event's historicity, the resurrection has no evidence at all, and for the one kind of evidence it does have, it has not the best, but the very worst kind of evidence--a handful of biased, uncritical, unscholarly, unknown, second-hand witnesses.
It is compulsory for Christians to believe Pilate existed, or else the crucifixion would be impossible.
For Christians, the name Pontius
Pilate is known for one reason. He has the dubious distinction of being
connected with statements of faith; in the Apostles' or Nicene Creed. For Jews,
Pilate was the official emblem of their foreign oppressor and this crucifixion
was no different than many others the Romans performed during the subjugation
of their land. (Jean-Philippe Fontanille, The Coins of Pontius Pilate, [1]
The Pontius Pilate was Christianized by the Coptic Church:
In the calendars of the Saints of
the Coptic Church, both in
Basically, all of the references to Jesus are forgeries (except the Quran), and the remaining historians are silent on Jesus’ death,
so the Quran is superior to the Bible regarding
Jesus’ death.
The Life of Jesus is shrouded
in mystery
Comparisons are sometimes odious, but even if one was so inclined one
would soon find that the Jesus of the Gospels and Prophet Muhammad offer no
comparison at all. For, while Prophet Muhammad is a thoroughly historical
character, every detail of whose life is preserved in critically tested books
of Hadis and history, the life and character of Jesus
are shrouded in mystery…
But even if we consider this to be an extreme view and grant, as do the
Muslims, that a person called Jesus was actually born in Palestine a few years
before the beginning of the Christian era and claimed to be the expected Messiah
of the Jews, our information about him is so fragmentary and uncertain that no
clear picture of his life and personality emerges in our minds. There are
doubts about the date, place and manner of his birth; there is nothing known
about the first thirty years of his life; there are differences on the question
of his death. The Gospels tell us only a little more than two years of his life
and that too in a manner that can hardly pass the test of historical
criticism…Dr. C.J. Cadoux, who was Mackennal Professor of Church History at Oxford, was quoted
as having written that many modern scholars and critics regard as hopeless any
attempt to separate the historically true from the legendary or mythical matter
which the Gospels contain and to reconstruct the story of Jesus out of the more
historical residue. As we find him in the Gospels, Jesus seems a shadowy and
glorified figure. (Ulfat-Aziz-Samad, Islam and Christianity, p. 25)
The physical aspect of what Jesus brought, his code of behaviour,
is today irrecoverably lost. To live as Jesus lived is to understand his
message, yet there is virtually no existing record of how Jesus behaved. And
what little knowledge exists is often ignored. The most fundamental act of
Jesus was that of worship of the Creator, the whole purpose for which man was
created. Yet it is evident that no Christian today makes the same acts of
worship which Jesus made. Jesus usually prayed in the morning, at mid-day, and
in the evening. The exact form of his prayer is no longer extant, but it known
that is was based on the prayer which Moses was given. Jesus said that he had
come to uphold the law and not to destroy it one jot or one tithe. Jesus was
educated in the synagogue in
There is no record of how Jesus walked, how he sat, how he stood, how he kept
himself clean, how he went to sleep, how he woke up, how he greeted people, how
he was old people, how he was with young people, how he was with women, how he
was with young women, how he was with strangers, how he was with guests, how he
was with his enemies, how he conducted his transactions in the market place,
how he traveled, what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do.
The records of Jesus’ message as revealed to him by God are incomplete and
inaccurate. The doctrines on which Christianity today is based are not to be found
within these records. The record of how Jesus acted is almost non-existent, and
what little is known is virtually ignored. (Muhammad Ataur-Raheem,
Jesus, Prophet of Islam, pp. 199-200)
The Prophet Muhammad is
historically attested.
The life and teachings of the prophet are the beacon-light to guide a people to
the Right path and as long as his teachings and his guidance are alive he is,
as it were, himself alive. The real death of a prophet consists not in his
physical demise but in the mitigation of his teachings and the interpolation of
his guidance. The earlier prophets have died because their followers have
adulterated their teachings, interpolated their instructions, and besmirched
their life-examples by attaching fictitious events to them. Not one of the
earlier books-Torah, Zabur (psalms of David), injeel (Gospel of Jesus), etc-exists to day in its original
text and even the followers of these books confess that they do not possess the
original book. The life histories of the earlier prophets have been so mixed
up with fiction that an accurate and authentic account of their lives has
become impossible. Their lives have become tales and legends and no
trustworthy record is a available anywhere. Not only
that the records have been lost and their life precepts forgotten but even this
cannot be said with certainty as to when and when and where a certain prophet
was born and bred, how he lived and what code he gave to mankind. In fact, the
real death of a prophet consists in the death of his teachings.
Judging the facts on this criterion no one can deny that
Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his teachings are
alive. His teachings stand uncorrupted and are uncorruptible.
The Qur’an-the book he gave to mankind-exists in its
original text, without the slightest alteration of letter, syllable, jot, or
title. The entire account of his life-his sayings, instructions and
actions-is preserved with complete accuracy, so much so that even after the
lapse of thirteen centuries its delineation in history is so clear and complete
that it seems as if we are seeing him with the eyes under our brows. The
biography of no other human being is so well preserved as that of Muhammad, the
prophet of Islam (peace be upon him). In each and
every matter of life we can seek the guidance of Muhammad (peace be upon him)
and take a lesson from his life-example. That is why there is no need of any
other prophet after Muhammad, the last prophet (peace be upon him). (Abul Ala Mawdudi, Towards Understanding Islam, p. 65)
Now take the second attribute of the Holy Prophet (pbuh)
by which he stands unique among all Prophets(pbut) and leaders of religion. Just as the Book transmitted
to him, amounts of his character have also been preserved to serve as a beacon
for us in all walks of life. From early childhood to the close of his life, a
large number of those who saw him, witnessed the events of his life and heard
his conversation, addresses, exhortations or warnings, had retained them in
memory and passed them onto their successors. Some of the research scholars
believe that the number of those who had passed on to the next generation
eyewitness accounts or reports of events that they had heard during the
lifetime of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) number a hundred
thousand people. (Abul Ala Mawdudi,
The Message of the Prophet’s Seerah, [1]
Muhammad abides forever in his “sunnah” or pattern of
life, which has been transcribed in the most intricate detail. Everything
concerning the Prophet has been scrupulously and painstakingly recorded—from
the comb he used to his speeches and sermons. Furthermore, God Almighty has
promised that the Revelation and message given to Muhammad would abide forever.
(Faisal Siddiqui, The
Bible’s Last Prophet, p. 61)
Unlike the founders of many religious, the final prophet of Islam is a
real documented and historical figure. He lived in the full light of history,
and the most minute details of his life are known. Not
only do Muslims have the complete text of God's words that were revealed to
Muhammad, but they have also preserved his saying and teachings in what is
called "hadith" literature. [1]
The earliest Hadith date from the 1st century (Hijra) whereas the Gospels were written 150 years after Jesus. There is no evidence that the Gospels existed before 150 CE. We find no reference to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by name, before the year 200 CE. If you study the history of the Gospel and their dates, you will know that Iranaeus is the first to mention the Gospels by name. Athenogoras of Athens (177 CE) and Theophilus of Antioch (180 CE) quote the Gospels, but no citations are by name! Justin Martyr (d 150 CE) and Titain do not mention the Gospels. The early Church fathers (Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Papias) do not mention the Gospels.
“In reality, the four gospels selected for inclusion in the New Testament do
not make any appearance in the literary and archaeological record until the
last quarter of the 2nd century, between 170 and 180 C.E., and even then they
are not much mentioned for a couple of decades. In this regard, Church Fathers
and archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom (c.
347-407) stated that the names traditionally attached to the canonical gospels
were first designated at the end of the second century” (The Suns of God, Acharya S.)
The first substantial physical
evidence for the four Gospels comes from near the end of the second century CE,
about 170 years after Jesus’ demise.” (Tom Harper, The Pagan Christ, p. 139)
The books [canonical gospels] are
not heard of till 150 A.D., that is, till Jesus had been dead nearly a hundred
and twenty years. No writer before 150 A.D. makes the slightest mention of
them." (Bronson, C. Keeler, A Short History of the
Bible)
"The Four Gospels were
unknown to the early Christian Fathers. Justin Martyr, the most eminent of the
early Fathers, wrote about the middle of the second century. His writings in
proof of the divinity of Christ demanded the use of these Gospels had they
existed in his time. He makes more than 300 quotations from the books of the
Old Testament, and nearly one hundred from the Apocryphal books of the New
Testament; but none from the four Gospels.
"So strong is the evidence of a late date to this gospel, that its
apostolic origin is being abandoned by the ablest evangelical writers.... Both Irenaeus and Jerome assert that John wrote against Cerinthus. Cerinthus thus
flourished about A.D. 145. [T]here is evidence that in the construction of this
gospel, as in that of Matthew, the author had in view the building up of the
Roman hierarchy, the foundations of which were then (about A.D. 177-89) being
laid.... There is a reason to believe that both [John and Matthew] were written
in the interest of the supremacy of the Church of Rome." (The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to
Read, Tim C. Leedom)
The Prophet Muhammad was foretold in World Scriptures.
http://www.geocities.com/islamicmiracles/muhammad_peace_be_upon_him.htm
http://www.islamonline.net/English/In_Depth/mohamed/1424/kharitah/article25.shtml
Muhammad in the Hindu Scriptures
Muhammad
in World Scriptures
There is reliable evidence for the historicity of Muhammad. Even the malicious
opponents of Islam confirmed the Prophet Muhammad and the greatness of his
character!
· Annie Besant 1
· Annie Besant 2
· Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay
The Prophet’s Contribution to Human Thought
To arrive at a correct appraisal
of the Prophet’s contribution to human thought, one has to view it in the
background of the history of the world as a whole. That would reveal that this
unlettered dweller of the desert of Arabia, who was born in the ‘dark ages’
some 1,400 years ago, was the real pioneer of the modern age and the true
leader of humanity. He is not only the leader of those who accept his
leadership, but also of those also who do not acclaim him as such: even of
those who denounce him! The only difference being that the latter are unaware
of the fact that his guidance is still imperceptibly influencing their thoughts and
their actions and is the governing principle of their lives and the
very spirit of modern times. (
In other words, the Christians are following Prophet Muhammad without even knowing it. For example, the pre-Islamic Christians believed that hand-washing is heretical and obtuse.
In the field of hygiene and cleanliness, the Muslims rose to heights bar none.
According to Gustave Le Bon, Muslim hospitals were
more superior in this field than many of our modern ones. These hospitals were
so large that air and water were circulated freely through them. This was
because the Muslims were the first to recognize the importance which stagnant
air and water had in the spread of infectious disease, and it was in these
hospitals where the first procedure for sterilizing air was developed.
They were also meticulous in guarding their bodily cleanliness, for they would
cleanse their mouths, ears, noses, hands, arms and feet several times a day in
order to prepare for daily prayer services. It was also policy for them to
cleanse themselves with water after the call to nature. For them, this policy
and procedure for cleanliness was an order from God Almighty, Who revealed the
rules needed for purifying the body and mind. In contrast, it wasn’t until late
in the nineteenth century that Halsted and his
colleagues, after much harassment and persecution, were able to implement a
standard of ‘washing of hands’ procedure to prepare surgeons and nurses for
surgical procedures. American and European surgeons regarded it as heresy to
cleanse their hands before they operated. The result was that thousands died of
infection due to the operative procedure itself. While for the West the now
standard preoperative procedure of washing arms to the elbow is literally a
twentieth century invention, Muhammad (peace be upon him) instituted a
systematic washing procedure which included this practice over 1400 years ago.
(Cassim Igram, Roots of the Natural Sciences, p. 12)
The Prophet Muhammad preached the etiquettes of good health,
saying hand-washing is incumbent for godliness (cleanliness). He said “wash
your hands in the morning because you don’t know what you’ve touched during
sleep”. Today, the doctors are preaching the same thing! [1] [2].
The Armenian chronicler Sebeos
mentioned the Prophet Muhammad in 661 CE.
In that period a certain one of
them, a man of the sons of Ishmael named Muhammad, became prominent. A sermon
about the Way of Truth, supposedly at God’s command, was revealed to them, and Muhammad
taught them to recognize the God of Abraham, especially since he was informed
and knowledgeable about Mosaic history. Because the command had come from on
High, he ordered them all to assemble together and to unite in faith. Abandonning the reverence of vain things, they turned
toward the living God, who had appeared to their father–Abraham. Muhammad
legislated that they were not to eat carrion, not to drink wine, not to speak
falsehoods, and not to commit adultery. He said: “God promised that country to Abraham
and to his son after him, for eternity. And what had been promised was
fulfilled during that time when God loved
The Jewish historian Rabbi Simon ben Yohai mentioned the Prophet
Muhammad in 680 CE.
The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai 680ad - a 7th century Middle Eastern religious
tract which records the leader of the Hagarenes, Muhammad
as a Jewish Messiah engaged in a battle against the
John of Damascus (675-749 CE) recognized the Islamic movement in the 7th
century.
Concerning Heresy" (peri aipeseon) – The last
chapter of this part (Chapter 100) deals with the Heresy of the Ishmaelites. Differently from the previous 'chapters'
on other heresies which are usually only a few lines long, this chapter
occupies a few pages in his work. It is one of the first Christian polemical
writings against Islam, and the first one written by a Greek Orthodox/Melkite. (Note: John
of
HE WROTE:
And for Muslims, the story gets a lot worse. Is Smith willing to subject his
own religion to the same standards of evaluation? Will he go by the same rules?
RESPONSE:
The Islamic Awareness website has provided strong evidence for Islam, destroying the moon-god myth, and
dismantling the most ludicrous arguments against Islam.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/DoTR.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Dome_Of_The_Rock/
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/sabil.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/darb2.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/sadd.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/hamid2.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/basra.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/museum.html
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/
Jochen Katz challenged me to produce three historians during the 1st
century (Hijra) who mentioned the Prophet Muhammad by
name. And I have provided the evidence above, but he’s determined to ignore it.
The Muslims and Christians agree that Prophet Muhammad’s life is documented and
Jesus’ life shrouded in mystery. We know more about Muhammad than Jesus. There
are several Hadith but only four Gospels that are not
even written by Jesus’ disciples. The Gospel of Jesus has been corrupted and
the Gospel of Paul is flourishing instead.
What is the significance for our faith and for our religious life, the fact that the Gospel of Paul is different from the Gospel of Jesus? The attitude which Paul himself takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus, and does not appeal to its authority.... The fateful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic, and the Protestant theologies all contain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not continue the Gospel of Jesus, but displaces it." (Albert Schweitzer, The Quest for the Historical Jesus)
The Disciples' original writings declare that Jesus never got crucified.
Prophet Muhammad's (peace be upon him) section.
Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) in Islam.
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