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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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According to the synoptic Gospels, Jesus had come to fulfill the Law, not to abolish it; and to obliterate the tradition of men that had replaced the religion. (Matthew 5/17 and Mark 7/8). He was, like Adam, created without the involvement of a father; he was not a God endowed with the power of working miracles, but a human being, a prophet. St. Paul's doctrine caused great gaps among the Apostles and the Nazarenes leading to serious clashes which continued unceasingly for years to come.
James (Jacob) brother to Jesus and leader of the Nazarenes sent messengers from the Church in Jerusalem to the realms visited by St. Paul. These messengers preached that Paul's teachings were not true and that Christ's message had been quite different. To the people that Paul had preached, these messengers, distributed most probably the true gospels written by the Nazarenes.
St. Paul's reaction to these messengers may be seen in the second letter, entitled False Apostles, to the Corinthians.« For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.» (2 Corinthians 11/2-5; 22-25) As St. Paul confesses in his letter the Nazarenes, he preached a Spirit and Glad Tidings quite different than those Christ had taught.
St. Paul spent some years in Corinth and in the Mediterranean region trying to preach a religion which was against the Apostles; he was opposed by the Jews who were not Nazarene. This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the Law (Acts 18/13)
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