As told to Moses Mulondo by Pastor Sserwadda | Published on: Saturday, 29th March, 2008

Continuation . .

Many of their beliefs are derived from books called the Hadiths and other smaller publications. The birth of Muhammad, which anniversary was used to attack the Bible, cannot be traced either in the Koran or in the Hadith, but rather, is found in a book called Mawlid al Barzanji.

Ask how many Muslims know what a Barzanji is. Islam is a collection of Eastern and Asian medieval beliefs cocktailed into a faith. Is anyone willing to hear these secrets revealed in the city market? On every subject of spiritual import, the Koran stumbles, falters and fails!

Is it true that scriptures about Prophet Muhammad were removed from the Bible as Gadaffi alleged?
The Bible was written almost 600 years before Muhammad was born. To say that the Bible should speak about Muhammad is an illusion! If I had been a Muslim, I too would have wished my prophet was authenticated by this marvellous book called the Bible! The Koran is a simple text of 114 chapters much smaller than the 150-chapter Psalms of the Bible. It would take anyone just a day to read them. Whereas the Bible was written with chronological perfection, you will not see that in the Koran.
The Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years from Moses, the first writer to that last, John the prophet, of Revelation. The original text of the Bible still exists. Educated people think in straight lines giving respect to historical facts and events. The Koran is so jumbled up that you cannot make historical sense out of its text. It also has misinformation on many Biblical characters such as the Pharaoh, Abraham, Noah, Moses and many others. The Jesus of the Koran differs from the Biblical one.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are the original documents and manuscripts have all been safely kept and are dated from 1,500BC to 100AD. The earliest copies of the Bible, also called Codexes are three in: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrianus. They are dated 330AD, 340AD and 425AD respectively. The subsequent texts from the Latin Vulgate of 400AD to the New Revised Standard Bible of 1990 are all available for scholarly reference.

Why doesn't Gadaffi let us teach him the Bible and its rich history? We will even show him how his nation is clearly covered in the Bible in Jeremiah 46:9, Ezekiel 30:5, Daniel 11:43 or Acts 2:10. Our Bible says Libyans accepted the Gospel of Jesus and even spoke in tongues. Libyans became Pentecostals! I challenge Muslim scholars to show me a verse in the Koran about Uganda. Yet on the contrary, the Koran is said to have been written by one man, Muhammad who at one time was called the unlettered prophet. Unlettered means uneducated. If President Gadaffi implied that the prophet of Islam was prophesied about in the Bible, then that is a matter of theological interpretation. But even then, the prophet has to exist within the confines of the Bible which they claim prophesies about him. Furthermore, does he have a copy of the Bible which was not altered? If he has a copy of the unaltered Bible, he would do the world a favour, by making it available, even at a fee. Bible students like myself would sell their goats to get the unadulterated copy!I think it would have been better if President Gadaffi had engaged a Christian leader in a theological debate on this matter, rather than making it a layman's sermon.

What about the Islamic teaching that Jesus was only sent to the Israelites and that his mission ended?
That teaching is also wrong. If it were true, even Muhammad's era would have come to an end. I can name more than five prophets in the Koran who came after Muhammad. Prophet Hud in Surat Al-A'a raf 7:65-72, or Prophet Zul-Qarnain in Surat Al-Kahf 18:83-88, Prophet Zar ibn Kaab in Surat Al-Furqan 25:38, Prophet Luqman in Surat Al-Luqman 31:1-15 and Prophet Shu'aib in Surat Al-Shuarah 26:176-190. These are listed in the . .