By: Shahid Bin Waheed

Paul admitted in his Epistle (Gal 1: 6-7) to the Galatians:

001:006	I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
001:007	Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

The above statement of Paul is revealing three important facts:

1. There was a Gospel of Christ, during the time of the disciples of Jesus.

2. There was/were other gospel/s that was/were different and contrary of the Gospel of Christ.

3. There were some people who wanted to distort and change the Gospel of Christ.

Readers must note that there were false and fabricated gospels even in the time of Paul, not to speak of subsequent periods when there was nothing left of Gospel of Christ. Christian scholar Adam Clarke under his comments on the above verse said in vol. 6 of his commentary:

“It is established that many minor gospels had become common in the early centuries of Christianity. The abundance of such false and incorrect accounts led Luke to write his gospel. We read about more than seventy such gospels. Some parts of these gospels are still in existence and available. Many such gospels were collected and published in three volumes by Fabricius. Some describe the obligatory nature of the Law of Moses, the validity of circumcision and imperativeness of the Gospel.”

The above statement of Christian scholar Adam Clarke obviously implies that many gospels were present before the compilation of the Gospel according to Luke and Paul’s letter to Galatians. It also proves that Paul referred to a properly compiled Gospel and not to the meanings that he had conceived in his mind, as some times Christians contend it.

The fact that a gospel called the Gospel of Christ existed in the time of the disciples is certainly true and was also testified to by Eichhon and many other German scholars. Similarly scholars like Leclerc, Grabe, Michael, Lessing, Niemeyer and Marsh also agree with this opinion.

Another Admission of Paul!

In his second Epistle (II Cor. 11: 12-13) to the Corinthians Paul said:

011:012	But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
011:013	For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

The above statement of Paul is a clear admission of the fact that there were many false apostles present in his time. Christian scholar Adam Clarke under his comments of this verse said:

“They falsely claimed to be the apostles of Christ while in fact they were not apostles. They use to deliver sermons and take pains in worship but they aimed at nothing but their personal interests.”

We find the following the first Epistle of John (1 John 4:1):

004:001

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

We notice in the above verse that John too joined Paul, in admitting the presence of false prophets and/or disciples in their time. Adam Clarke made the following comments on this verse:

“In the past every teacher used to claim that he received inspiration from the Holy Ghost, because every true prophet received inspiration. The word ‘spirit’ at this place signifies the man claiming that he was under the effect of the spirit. Put them therefore to test. Such preachers should be examined with argument. His phrase ‘many false prophets’ refers to those who were not inspired by the Holy Ghost especially from among the Jews.”

The above is enough to prove that there were many false claimants to prophethood at that time including false gospels were also in existence. That is why we find the absence of CERTAINTY in the gospels.

An infallible arguments that the book in question was revealed through a prophet and that it has been conveyed to us precisely in the same order without any change through an uninterrupted chain of narrators, is a prerequisite for believing in any book to be divinely revealed. Only Glorious Qur’aan stands to this acid test.

Questions to Christians:

· The above treatise citing your own New Testament proves that there was a Gospel of Christ, so why do you believe in the false gospels?

· According to Paul, all other gospels are false gospels, that is vouched by John as well, so why you insist about these false gospels, which you have that they are the word of God?

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