The Quran speaks respectfully of the Torah and the Gospel, and even instructs people to judge by them. At the same time, many Muslims today believe the Bible has been corrupted. These two ideas create what is often called “the Islamic Dilemma.”
This site is not about attacking anyone. It is an invitation to think carefully about what the Quran says, what the Bible says, and how those claims can (or cannot) fit together.
Before we explain the Islamic Dilemma, we must fairly represent what the Quran itself says about the books that came before it. According to the Quran:
The Quran teaches that God revealed the Tawrat (Torah) and the Injil (Gospel) as true guidance:
So from the Quran’s perspective, Christians and Jews are people who received genuine revelation from God.
The Quran goes further and instructs certain people to judge by what God revealed in the Torah and Gospel:
These are not just historical comments; they’re commands given in Muhammad’s own time to the communities around him.
In modern Islamic teaching, it is common to hear that the Bible has been corrupted (taḥrīf)—either the text has been changed, or the message has been lost. This claim creates a serious tension with the Quran’s own statements about the earlier scriptures.
We can summarize the Islamic Dilemma like this:
From here, two options appear:
The dilemma is not about minor details. It strikes at the heart of which revelation we can trust about God, sin, and salvation:
If both the Quran and the Bible are true, we face direct contradictions. If only one is true, a Muslim or a Christian must rethink their foundations.
Many Muslims are aware of this tension and try to respond to it in different ways. We want to represent those responses fairly, and then ask some honest questions in return.
These responses deserve careful consideration—but they also raise new problems that must be faced honestly.
These are not hostile questions. They are necessary questions for anyone who wants to follow the truth wherever it leads.
No. Critiquing a belief system is not the same as attacking the people who hold it. This site is written from a Christian perspective that loves Muslim people enough to ask hard questions and to point to Jesus as the only sufficient Savior.
No. Christians believe that God has spoken finally and fully through the Lord Jesus Christ and that the inspired Scriptures are the Old and New Testaments. We see the Quran as a human book that contains many serious errors about God, Christ, and the gospel—even while it says some true things about earlier revelation.
Those feelings are understandable. Our invitation is: pause, breathe, and investigate. Read what the Quran says about the earlier scriptures. Read the Bible itself—especially the Gospel of John and the Letter to the Romans. Ask God sincerely to lead you into truth, whatever the cost.
Don’t ignore it. If the Islamic Dilemma is real, then you must decide whether to trust the Quran, the Bible, or neither. Our plea as Christians is: come to Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, died for sinners, and rose from the dead. He is able to save fully all who come to Him.
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