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Today,

Today we're debating Christianity versus Islam,

which is the religion of the prophets,

and we are starting right now. With Jay's opening statement. Thanks so much for being with us Jay. The floor is all yours.

Let me share my screen here and make sure that we can get everybody seeing it. Is that visible there?

Is that visible? Yep, it's streaming to my side. Okay. So today the debate is about, in my view, I would argue, continuity.

We want to see which religion, whether Islam or Christianity, actually has continuity with the religion that's laid down in the law and the prophets.

And that image there, we're not going to go too deep into it right now, but we'll get into it

here in a little bit. And I might go back and forth between screen share and some of the stuff

I've got over here to show. The first question I would ask in regard to this debate is,

how would a 7th century Jew or Christian verify the Quranic claims. In the Quran, many places were told that

its heroes and readers should go to the Torah and to the Indial or the gospel. This assumes

the degree of continuity, which could only be validated with the existing manuscripts and

textual traditions that are already possessed by both Jews and Christians in the previous centuries.

As laid down in a divine revelation in Deuteronomy 13 and 18, any subsequent prophetic revelation must meet the test of consistency with prior revelation.

This here would refer to the prior existing Torah, whether oral or written, including subsequent divine revelation found in the wisdom text, the historical books, liturgical texts, and the major and minor prophets.

Islam and the Quran do not merely contradict prior revelation in a few minor areas, but rather gigantic portions of the Torah and the prophets are discarded due to obvious contradictions,

inaccuracies, and inconsistencies with the Quranic account.

Deerami 13 and 18, for example, lay down the law that I mentioned earlier about how we test

for subsequent prophetic claims.

So thankfully, a Jew or the Christian in the 7th century who would

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