{"id":498,"date":"2026-03-05T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/?p=498"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:30:20","slug":"why-not-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/2026\/03\/05\/why-not-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islam is without doubt growing in its influence in Britain, mainly through population growth but also because it is seen generally as a valid, innocuous alternative belief system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But is it based on truth and teaching truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The simple truth is that t<a href=\"https:\/\/gcdiscipleship.com\/article-feed\/the-islamic-dilemma-a-game-changer-for-conversations-with-muslims#:~:text=Qur%27an%203:3%20says,preserved%2C%20authoritative%20words%20of%20God.\">he Bible and the Qur&#8217;an can&#8217;t both be true<\/a> because they contradict each other on absolutely vital matters about the essential person of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/gcdiscipleship.com\/article-feed\/the-islamic-dilemma-a-game-changer-for-conversations-with-muslims#:~:text=Qur%27an%203:3%20says,preserved%2C%20authoritative%20words%20of%20God.\">Islamic dilemma<\/a> is that the Qur&#8217;an teaches that the Bible is true, but Moslems are taught that it was true in the time of Mohammad but has been corrupted. But that simply can&#8217;t be true as there were already tens it not hundreds of thousands of bible manuscripts already in existence by the time of Mohammad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam is without doubt growing in its influence in Britain, mainly through population growth but also because it is seen generally as a valid, innocuous alternative belief system. But is it based on truth and teaching truth? The simple truth is that the Bible and the Qur&#8217;an can&#8217;t both be true because they contradict each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/2026\/03\/05\/why-not-islam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why not Islam?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}