{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_jes07_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_jes07_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_jes07_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jes07.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from an Islamic religious text examining the nature and authenticity of the Christian Gospels, written within the tradition of Islamic Quranic commentary and comparative religion. The central argument is that the Quran attests to a single, divinely revealed Gospel given to Jesus, whereas the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) are human-authored accounts written after Jesus's death by followers and their successors \u2014 not that original revelation. The text marshals multiple Quranic verses to establish the Gospel's divine origin and singular nature, then contrasts this with the historical reality of roughly one hundred competing gospels, from which Church bishops selected four based on institutional preference rather than unbroken chain of transmission. A distinctive claim, drawn from Islamic scholar Rahmatullah al-Hindi's *Izhar al-Haq*, is that even Matthew's Gospel \u2014 the oldest canonical one \u2014 no longer exists in its original Hebrew form, and the current Greek version has an unknown translator, making its attribution unreliable. The excerpt is broadly polemical in orientation, using Islamic scriptural authority and internal Christian source criticism together to argue that the Gospels as Christians currently possess them cannot be the heavenly book the Quran describes.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jesus The Son of Mary: The Injeel (Gospel) is A Heavenly Revealed Book","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1075}