When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.
Dates. Places. Names you can check.
Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.
Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.
Now read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer.
One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
They dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.
The fact that you do not believe in heaven or hell doesn't take away the reality that Heaven is real and Hell is real..
You either end up in Heaven or Hell. The choice is yours
When I was Muslim, we had an awesome story where Abraham was smashing all the pagan idols.
Surah 21. Young Abraham destroys his father’s idols, leaves the biggest one standing, and when they ask who did it, he says “ask the big one.” Then they throw him into a fire and Allah makes it cool.
I was told that story a hundred times. It felt like proof Islam had the real Abraham.
Yesterday I found the story’s birth certificate.
Genesis Rabbah 38. A Jewish midrash — rabbinic storytelling — compiled around the 5th century AD, before Muhammad was born. Same plot. Abraham smashes the idols. Blames the biggest one. Gets thrown into a fire by Nimrod.
And here’s the detail that wrecked me: the fire comes from a rabbi’s wordplay. Genesis 15:7 says God brought Abraham out of “Ur of the Chaldees.” “Ur” can sound like the Hebrew word for fire — so a rabbi spun a story: God brought Abraham out of THE FIRE.
It was a PUN. A sermon illustration to help you understand. Jewish folklore built on a Hebrew word.
And it ended up in the Quran as history.
Genesis — the actual account — has no idols smashed, no furnace, no Nimrod showdown. It has something better:
Genesis 15: God makes a covenant with Abraham, and God ALONE passes between the sacrifice pieces. Meaning: “If this covenant breaks, I pay the price.”
Two thousand years later, on a hill outside Jerusalem, He did. He paid it in FULL.
The midrash gave me a story about a man surviving fire.
The Quran took a shell of that and added it as scripture.
The Bible comes through with a God who walked right into the fire for both YOU&ME.
Praise the Lord, I AM FREE
Imagine standing before Christ one day and hearing:
"You watched thousands of hours of entertainment.
You read and watched endless news.
You argued and bickered online.
You scrolled for years.
But you barely opened the Book I gave you."
That thought convicts me. It reminds me to keep returning to Scripture, because no voice matters more than the voice of God speaking through His Word.
"The doctor told me six months is all I have to spend with my children but I turned to Jesus, I said Lord please heal me and 3 months later, no doctor medication, I got healed"
A woman shares her powerful testimony 🔥✝️
The secret to this Christian walk is to genuinely fall in love with Jesus. We do that by constantly reminding ourselves of his love. Oh, sing of his love. Think of his love. Read of his love and TELL of his love.
You see, those who are saturated with his love will tell and show it to others. It’s why Love is the greatest commandment.
Thank you Jesus for your love.
This is Ester, she was TTC mum for five years, lost multiple pregnancies and had Miscarriage of twin babies at 6 months at some point.
She miraculously took in and gave birth to this handsome boy named "MIRACLE" who has not enjoyed mother's love since he was born.
I hate it when things like this happen to women after giving birth!!! I hate it so much God please come through for this woman🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏