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Opening Question: If "Muhammad" is in the Bible why does the Quran not quote the Biblical passage? The New Testament quotes The Old Testament over 180 times!!!
Is Muhammad in the Old Testament?
Deuteronomy 18:18
Jesus had many more unique prophetic similarities to Moses then did
Muhammad. The "Prophet like Moses" is Jesus and not Muhammad (See
*Moses and Jesus*) because the Prophet
"from among your brothers" means that he is a Jew, for in the context of
Deuteronomy 17:15 (talking about the future kings of Israel) "he must be
from among your own brothers...not one who is not a brother Israelite",
"brother" cannot mean anybody but a Jew.
Deuteronomy 33:2
Mount Paran which Muslims claim to be in Mecca is on the Sinai Peninsula
and Bozrah is not Basrah, but modern day Al-Busairah, situated in Edom,
south of the Dead Sea.
Psalm 45:2-5
Read further in Psalm 45, this person is "the anointed God" (Christ
means "anointed one").
Song of Solomon 5:16
Muslims find the name of Muhammad in the Hebrew word "machmad".
Did Muhammad ever court a woman in Jerusalem? This passage is not
prophetic, it is just talking about Solomon.
Isaiah 21:7
Just read the context and you will see that it is talking of a messenger
from Babylon.
Habbakuk 3:3
"God comes from Teman." Some Muslims maintain that Teman refers to
Islam. In Jeremiah 49:7 God questions whether there is any wisdom
in Teman. In Ezekiel 25:13 promises that God will lay waste the people
of Teman, and God will send fire and consume them (Amos 1:12), and there
will be no survivors (Obadiah 8-10). Fortunately for the Muslims,
we find that Teman is not Islam at all, but a town close to Jericho, in
the territory of Edom.
Malachi 3:1-3
The person who was to "prepare the way before [the Lord or God]" was
none other than John the Baptist. In Luke 1:76 Zechariah (father
of John the Baptist) prophesied that "...my child will go before
the Lord and prepare the way for him". Luke said that John the Baptist
is to "...prepare the way for the Lord" (Luke 3:3-4). Mark 1:2-3
gives a quotation "from Isaiah" about a messanger but Malachi 3:1 is also
mentioned. Later in Mark (1:4) the person is identified as John the
Baptist.
Is there a prophecy of Muhammad in the Injil (Gospel)?
The Gospel of Barnabas
The Gospel of Barnabas is a fake
Gospel and will never be accepted by Christians as scripture. Many
believe that the Gospel of Barnabas was created by a Muslim in Europe some
time between A.D. 1300 and 1350. See *Problems
in the Gospel of Barnabas*
"Quran's Translation (QT)" by Monotheist Productions International points out "Son of Man" from Matthew 24:27 and Luke 17:22-37 as prophecies about Muhammad. The "Son of Man" is Jesus. Even the QT knows this (See the QT's Footnote for Sura 5:116).
John 14:16 and 16:7 - Parakletos or Periklytos?
What the Muslims have tried to
do with this word is to replace the vowels as they see fit (replacing the
a-a-e-o in parakletos with e-i-y-o in periklytos). In Greek, as the vowels
are clearly written in all Greek texts. There are Greek manuscripts
of the New Testament in existence today [like the Codex Siniaticus (350
A.D.) and the Codex Alexandrinas (450 A.D.) manuscripts, both in the British
Museum in London] that date from before the time of Muhammad, and not one
of them use the word periklytos! They all use the word parakletos.
In fact the word periklytos does not even appear at all in the entire Bible!
The Quran confirms that Muhammad is not the Holy
Spirit. Sura 2:97 says that Gabriel brings down the revelation, while
Sura 16:102 says it is the Holy Spirit. So Muslims say that "Holy
Spirit" is just another name for Gabriel. Therefore Muhammad cannot
be the "Holy Spirit" and comforter who was promised by Jesus because the
Holy Spirit cannot be both, Gabriel and Muhammad.
So who is the parakletos?
When we continue reading beyond John 14:16 and 16:7, we find that Jesus
predicts the specific details of the arrival and identity of the "parakletos".
First, Jesus said the parakletos is not a human being:
14:16: "he will be with you forever" (a human doesn't live forever)
14:17: "he will be the spirit of truth" (a human is not a spirit)
14:17: "the world neither sees him..." (a human is visible)
14:17: "...nor knows him" (a human would be known by others)
14:17: "and he will be in you" (a human cannot be within others)
Finally, Jesus said that the parakletos has the specific mission of
pointing to Jesus:
14:26: "whom the Father will send in my name"
14:26: "will remind you everything I [Jesus] have said to you"
16:14: "He will bring glory to me [Jesus]..."
There is only one being who qualifies in all these areas, the Holy
Spirit!