This Pope is incredibly unifying. It is his great personal quality. Here speaking in Catalonia of the greatness of a unified Spain. He is working hard to bring unity to the Church, and that is what his critics most dislike about him. Pray for our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV.
When I was Muslim, I used to say the Bible was corrupted.
It was my go-to. Anytime a Christian showed me something, Iâd wave it off. âYour bookâs been changed. The Quran came to correct it.â
Then one day I decided to actually test that. Not with the Bible. With my own book.
So letâs walk through Jonah. In order. The way the Quran tells it.
Surah 37.
Jonah runs from God.
He boards the ship.
They cast lots.
He loses.
The fish swallows him.
He cries out and glorifies Allah.
The fish spits him onto the shore, sick.
A plant grows over him for shade.
And THEN, verse 147:
âWe sent him to a hundred thousand people or more. And they believed.â
You catch that?
In the Quran, Jonah doesnât get sent to Nineveh until AFTER the fish. The preaching, the people believing, it all comes last. End of story.
But hereâs where it fell apart for me.
Go back to Surah 10, verse 98.
There the Quran says the people of Jonah ALREADY believed. The punishment was ALREADY lifted off them. Done deal.
So which is it?
Did Nineveh believe before the fish, or after?
And bro, you know what shook me?
The Muslim scholars saw this problem too.
Ibn Kathir. Maududi. They couldnât reconcile the order. So they invented a fix. They said Jonah must have been sent twice. Once before the fish, where the people repented while he was gone. Then again after, to make it official.
But the Quran never says that.
Itâs not in the text. They had to add it. They had to patch the timeline to make the story hold together.
Now compare that to the book I called corrupted.
In the Bible the order is clean and it never moves.
Jonah runs. The fish swallows him. Heâs spit out. He goes to Nineveh. He preaches. THEN they repent. And then Jonah sits on a hill, furious that God forgave them, and God grows a plant to teach him about mercy.
Every piece in order. Cause, then effect. Nothing to patch.
One book preserved the prophet at his worst and kept the sequence intact.
The other sanded off the order, contradicted itself two chapters apart, and needed scholars 800 years later to rebuild the timeline by hand.
That was the day it flipped for me.
I spent years saying the Bible was the corrupted one.
But the âcorrupted bookâ is the one that keeps its story straight.
And the âfinal correctionâ is the one that couldnât.
And when you see that, youâll never be the same.
Remember, all Muslim countries in the Middle East were once Christian.
When the Muslim invaders arrived, they killed the men, raped the women, enslaved the children.
Thatâs how those countries became Islamic. And thatâs exactly what theyâre trying to do in the UK and Europe now.
#VisitaPapaRTVE | León XIV, sobre el perdón: "perdonar no significa dejar que alguien siga haciendo daño ni olvidar como si nada hubiera pasado. Significa no dejar que el odio se convierta en dueño de nuestro corazón".