BIBLICAL INCONSISTENCY

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 339 ~ 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 generation 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 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.