![]() ![]() Likely this was an offshoot of a ground swell in mission's thinking that used phrases like "find the Christian potential of the Qur'an", that through Muhammad "God has spoken to mankind", "we thus regard the faith of Islam as an imperfect form of Christianity, plainly it requires to be reformed rather than subverted" and it "is of first importance to try to find a positive attitude towards Muhammad and the Qurʾān, that is, one which acknowledges and admires whatever is true and admirable in them". Each of them has its strong defenders, but in the final analysis, we will make five recommendations which derive from the text of the Holy Bible and from a Biblical Christian worldview.Īt the Lausanne Mini-Consultation on Reaching Muslims held in Pattaya, Thailand in 1980 it was decided to compose a response to various opinions on the use of the Qur'an. ![]() ![]() ![]() Work of the devil? Work of the Triune God? Work of angels? Work of humans? Touchable? Untouchable? Genius in its composition? A disordered work of fiction? These are no new questions for the Christian who would approach the sacred text which Muslims describe as "noble" "unchanged" "final" and "superseding all previous revelations." Ever since 788 AD, when the Anonymous Apology also called On The Triune Nature of the One God, the first recorded response in Arabic - the essential language of Islam - by a Christian to a Muslim, at least five different approaches can be observed. ![]()
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