BISM ELLAH ARRAHMAN ARRAHEEM

By the name of the Merciful Gracious God

Verification of Gospel of Barnabas

1 - Comparing the between Gospel of Barnabas and the new testament Gospels shows that it mentioned all the events mentioned in the four gospels , and there are events mentioned in Gospel of Barnabas which is not mentioned in them. It contains much events than any of the four Gospels separately. Gospel of Barnabas writer knows that Mary Salomy is the sister of virgin Mary, That Taboor is the mountain that Jesus (PBOH) mounted when the holly spirit declared his prophecy .which means that the writer was too close to Jesus the Christ (PBOH).

On the contrary he does not know when prophet Mohammed (SAAWS) was sent he thinks it was some years after(ch.72:13) Jesus (PBOH) , it is quite known to all who lived after the spreading of Islam that it was more than 600 years between Jesus and the Prophet (PBOT) .Gospel of Barnabas also states that the Prophet will revenge from who says that Jesus is more than a man (ch. 72:17); but what really happened that the Prophet never fought the Christians . It states “ the moon shall minister sleep to him in his boyhood, and when he shall be grown up he shall take her in his hands “ (ch.72: 18), regarding his boyhood no one said such a thing about the moon ; but perhaps the division of the moon in his time is the explanation of “ take her in his hands” .So the writer of Gospel of Barnabas is very ignorant of the Islamic history , which does not permit that he is a Muslim , and assures he that he hadn’t lived after the spreading of Islam .

2 - Barnabas is a known apostle of Christ (PBOH) even as the new testament says he is one of the first 83 disciples (12 +72 mentioned in Luke 10:1,after eliminating Judah ) .what he preached is similar to what is in the Gospel related to him ,he preached the creator of heavens and earth, he insisted that circumcision should proceed ,he was against permitting the unclean meat , he was against Pole in these aspects which caused them to depart from one another ,as Pole accused him and Peter to be hypocrites . on the contrary Pole was against these 83 and was satisfied by there killing , then through Barnabas he pretended that he had faith in Christ (PBOH) .Many of his own words shows clearly that he is hypocrite (`Acts 23:6, 1 corinthos 9:20,21 ,1 corinthos 10:32 ). And that he is very proud of himself (1 Rom 1:1 , 1 cornithos 1 :1 , 7:8, 10:33,11:1 ,1 Tsalonic 2:3 ,Efsos 1 :4 ,Philip 4:3 ) which assures that he could not be true apostle of Jesus .The relation between Pole and Barnabas explains clearly the preface of the “Gospel of Barnabas “.

3 - The writer of Gospel of Barnabas can not be a Muslim, there are much contradictions between his words and what is a well known facts to the Muslims .For instance: He sometimes refers to God as “our father “ which is rejected in the Holy Quran. He referred to both “Christ “,”Messiah” or “messenger of God “ (PBOT)as lords ,which is completely prohibited in Islam .He related that three magi bent down doing obeisance to Jesus ( Ch.7: 7), Mary the virgin ,and the disciples fell with their faces to the ground for the angels (Ch.221 :13 ),which is also not accepted by any Muslim .

The writer of “Gospel of Barnabas “ consider that Satan was an angel, which contradicts the Holy Quran for Satan is a ghost a genie . He says that devils do the punishment for the sinners in hell, contradicting the Holy Quran which assures that this is angels gob naming one of them “Malek”(PBOH).

He hadn’t mentioned some of the miracles attributed to the Christ in the Holy Quran, such as making a shape of birds of clay then by the will of God it is converted to living birds, that Jesus (PBOH)spoke while he was still born .He lessens the miracle of the table which descended from the sky ,saying that it was just blessing a small amount of food to satisfy a great multitude of people .

The commandments of Jesus (PBOH) differs from what is known in Islam, for instance he permits drinking wine, which is totally forbidden in Islam, Muslims can’t accept that any prophet of God can permit wine . The punishment of stealing and fornication are death, it is not so in Islam; but it may be so in the commandments given to the Christ (PBOH).

4 - His knowledge of the prophets of Israel is tremendous sometimes giving details, which is not known from the oldtestament. Most of the Muslims does not know many of them .His expression is quite like that of the old ,new testament .

5 - The holy Quran said more than once that who got the true Gospel knows about Mohammed (SAAWS) as they know their own children. Does “Gospel of Barnabas “ do so ? I believe the answer is no

6 - the manuscript of the “Gospel of Barnabas “ was found at Turkey in which Barnabas preached.

The final result then is that the origin of “Gospel of Barnabas “ was written by Barnabas the apostle of Christ (PBOH) , but some mistakes had happened during its copying ,after all the Holy Quran is the only book preserved by God.

S A Fadel

 

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