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Prove me wrong

We have all seen or heard this asked before, so what is your best objective "go-to" contradiction?

While there are many, the first that comes to mind for me is the Samaritan/golden-calf mistake. Next one that pops into mind is the Mary/Maryam mix-up, followed by Dul-Qarnayn.

Leave your best ones down below 👇

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The muslims AI chatbot recently told us, "Allah didn't deceive anyone. He simply saved Jesus from being murdered."

But that doesn't solve the problem, it is the problem. According to Quran 4:157, Jesus wasn't crucified, it was only made to "appear so." If that's true, then what did everyone see?

The Romans believed they executed Jesus.

The Jewish authorities believed they executed Jesus.

Jesus' disciples believed they watched Jesus die.

His mother believed she watched her son die.

The earliest Christians believed Jesus was crucified and rose again.

Even non-Christian historians recorded Jesus' crucifixion.

So either the entire ancient world independently hallucinated the same event, or they were presented with evidence that led them to a false conclusion.

Calling it "saving Jesus" doesn't remove the deception. It merely explains why the deception happened.

If I secretly replace a defendant with a lookalike, let everyone watch the execution, and allow the world to believe the wrong person died, I don't get to say, "I wasn't deceiving anyone, I was just saving his life."

Both statements can be true.

The deeper problem is that Christianity's central claim wasn't spread by a handful of distant rumors. It was allegedly created by the very appearance Allah caused people to witness.

Muslims often argue that God would never allow His message to become corrupted. Yet under the substitution theory, Allah allowed the entire world (and made them uppermost until the day of judgment for some reason) to believe the wrong story about Jesus for roughly six centuries before correcting it through Muhammad.

So the question isn't whether Jesus was saved.

The question is: if Allah made the crucifixion appear real to everyone who witnessed it, how is that NOT deception?