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THE BIBLE: WORD OF GOD OR WORDOF MAN?
By A.S.K. Joommal
Table of Contents
PREFACE ....................................................................................................................... 2PREFACE TO THE THIRD IMPRESSION (2000) ...................................................... 2
FOREWORD
................................................................................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION
......................................................................................................... 4
BIBLE IN GENERAL ...................................................................................................... 5A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
........................................................................ 5
THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
...................................................................... 7
INTERPOLATIONS IN THE BIBLE
...................................................................... 10
CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BIBLE
..................................................................... 14
BIBLE OBSCENITIES
.............................................................................................. 27
BIBLE ATROCITIES
................................................................................................ 29
BIBLE PROPHECIES FALSIFIED BY HISTORICAL EVENTS
....................... 31
A THINKING MAN'S REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OFTHE BIBLE
................................................................................................................. 33
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES OFCHRISTIANITY ............................................................................................................. 36THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
...................................................................... 37
THE ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT
...................................... 42
THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT REFUTED BY THE BIBLE ITSELF
..... 44
TEN QUESTIONS ON ATONEMENT
.................................................................... 48
THE DOCTRINE OF TRINITY
............................................................................... 49
UNITY OF GOD IN THE BIBLE
............................................................................. 52
TEN QUESTIONS ON TRINITY
............................................................................. 55
THE DOCTRINE OF THE "SONSHIP" OF CHRIST
.......................................... 56
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRIST AND GOD
................................................... 62
TEN QUESTIONS ON THE “SONSHIP” OF CHRIST
........................................ 69
THE PAGAN ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................................. 71THE AFFINITY BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM
..................... 71
"BATTLING BISHOP" OF CALIFORNIA
............................................................ 85
POINTS TO PONDER
............................................................................................... 87
SNIPPETS
................................................................................................................... 91
BIBLIOGRAPHY
..................................................................................................... 100
 
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PREFACE
 
The manuscript of this book was ready in 1965, but due to delays and other circumstances, it did not see thelight of publication.A part of this book, however,
 – 
 
THE RIDDLE OF THE TRINITY AND THE “SONSHIP” OF CHRIST – 
waspublished in 1965. It met with immediate success. Thousands of copies were printed and distributed all overSouth Africa, East and West Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. The demand was unceasing and withthe clamour for more of these booklets growing, Pakistan (Karachi) published another 50,000 copies for localand African distribution.The booklet was translated into the Swahili language in May 1967, and published by Malik Sirajuddin andSons, Lahore, Pakistan.The commotion created by it in the South African Church circles may be gauged by a bold headline in the
“Transvaler”, a morning Afrikaans daily based in Johannesburg, which said: “HIERDIE MOHAMMEDAANSLAAN `N SEER HOU” – 
(This Mohammedan Strikes a Painful Blow).It is to be hoped that the whole book will now enjoy the same success and wide readership as its predecessor
 – 
 an integral part of it
 – 
did.
A.S.K. JOOMMAL
 
Johannesburg.
 
November, 1975
 
PREFACE TO THE THIRD IMPRESSION (2000)
After the first two impressions (1976 and 1991) were completely sold out, the thirst for knowledge among theseekers of truth remained unquenched. The demand for more and more of this book grew beyond expectation.Sponsorship for publication is always a difficult thing to come by. This fact kept its reprinting on ice. However,one stalwart Muslim, KHALID MAHMOOD ZAMAN, with a verve and enthusiasm unmatched by any youngman of comparable age, came forward, travelling from LEEDS (England) to LAHORE (Pakistan) in order tofinance and oversee the reprinting of THE BIBLE: WORD OF GOD OR WORD OF MAN?The
Tolu-e-Islam Trust
undertook the publication and distribution, for which I am profoundly indebted tothem.To KHALID MAHMOOD ZAMAN I say: May Allah (SWT) reward you abundantly for your indefatigableefforts in His Path.
A.S.K. JOOMMAL
 LENASIA, South Africa.March 2000
 
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FOREWORD
 
One of the most widespread and yet least challenged fallacies is the notion that the history of thedevelopment of civilisation shows that that there has been a continuous general advance from the prehistorictimes up to the present day; a concept that is no doubt reinforced by the explosive growth of our technologyduring the last fifty or sixty years.
 
However, this is a completely mistaken assumption; not only has civilisation occasionally remainedvirtually static for centuries at a time, but it has often reversed itself, losing knowledge and skills it had solaboriously acquired. For instance, that the Earth is spherical in shape and spins on its axis in space was knownto educated people more than 400 years B.C., yet hardly a thousand years later the accepted opinion amonglearned men was that it is flat! Also, it is quite common for archaeologists to find that advanced cultures havebeen superseded by relatively inferior social organisations and levels of technology.
 
The truly outstanding, most notable characteristics of the history of civilisation is that its progress has beenso wildly erratic. There is nothing steady about it. An added complication is that while it might be advancing inone respect, it might at the same time be standing still or even retrogressing in another.In the field of religious teaching where over-piousness, excessive zeal, personal ambition and the credulityof the public at large are some of the many active factors involved, the well-known process of accretion isalways at work. An original teaching tends to become so encrusted with accretionary matter such as pious
embroidery of the truth “for the greater glory of God”, deliberate additions and omissions, falsifications,
paraphrasing at the expense of meaning, mistranslations and so forth that little or nothing of it remains visible.To dislodge the accretions so that the original gems of truth are revealed is no easy task. Not only does itcall for intensive, painstaking research and study, but also for great patience, perseverance, determination,motivation and sheer mental stamina.Above all, it demands nothing less than the highest grade of moral fibre and personal courage; many menhave paid with their lives for much less than Mr. Joommal dares to do in this book.Mr. A.S.K. Joommal, the prolific journalist so well-known to the newspaper reading public in this countryas a defender of Islam against malicious slander and as an exponent of Islamic teachings, is one of South
Africa‟s handful of original, creative thinkers. He is the author of “The Path of Islam” and many articles about
Islam.He is a firm believer in the great religious truths revealed to mankind through the agency of the long line of Prophets whom God had sent to this world through the ages; a series of Messengers that ended with the HolyProphet Muhammad, the last and as such the Seal of the Prophets.Mr. Joommal realises that the most urgent need of these times is to arrive at a true understanding of theRevealed Words of God. Such an understanding calls for the ruthless and uncompromising removal of theaccretions of centuries, accretions that obscure the truth in the various writings which were eventuallyassembled into what we know as the Bible - whether in the King James version or any of the others. He believes
that the Bible still contains the Revealed Words of God, but that man‟s tampering so distorted and beclouded
them that a New Revelation became necessary.
 
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Tyler

is reading http://www.scribd.com/doc/17866889/Is... Interesting critique, albeit a bit slanted, and lacking in academic sources. Do you have the strength of faith to read the same critique of the Islamic textual sources (ie. Quran, Hadith)? I doubt it, but here is a link in case you are. It is Jay Smith , a Ph.d from the London School of Divinity, who has an M.A in Islamic studies and neatly summaries the academic argument against a textually un-altered quran from the work of Wansbrough,Crone,Cook, and Watt ( as well as Rippin, Humphreys and Runciman and Riley Smith when called for).

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Tyler

is reading http://www.scribd.com/doc/17866889/Is... Interesting critique, but do you have the strength to read the same critique of the Quran?

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Tyler

is reading Interesting critique from the Bible, do you have the strength to read the same critique of the Quran? Jay Smith, M.A Islamic Studies debated Bedawi in 1995 over this issue, and in this summary of his arguments he does an effective job summarizing the extent of the textual criticism of the Quran and other Islamic documents which has occurred within the last 30 years. http://www.scribd.com/doc/17866889/Is....

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