handed down among all Christians everywhere, and not a single one of the
Apocryphal Gospels has ever been received by the Christian Church as a whole. We have
studied them and know that they are of later date than the genuine ones. Moreover, they do
not in general contradict the genuine ones, but were intended to supplement them. The
latest of them, and the only one that does in one matter contradict the genuine Gospels,
is the so-called Gospel of Barnabas, which is known to have been forged considerably after
Muhammad's time. In it the writer was ignorant enough to apply the title
"Messiah" to Muhammad! (See Sale's remarks in the Preface to his translation of
the Qur'an 1.
39. M. Your Bible as it now exists cannot be from God (that is, it must have
been corrupted), because it uses language about God which is unfitting: e.g. it speaks of
God's hand, God's eye, and again and again says that He "repented." How can we
believe that?
C. Such an argument is unmeaning when brought forward by a Muslim: for we find
exactly the same style of language used in the Qur'an, with this