The Syllogism of Quranic Self-Cancellation

The Internal Logic of Quranic Falsification

The Central ThesisThe Quran establishes a logical terminal point by mandating adherence to a scripture that explicitly falsifies Quranic theology.

The Syllogistic Collapse

• The Quran commands the People of the Gospel to judge by what Allah revealed in the InjilThe 1st-century Greek New Testament, specifically the Gospels, which the Quran identifies as valid revelation for 7th-century Christians. (Surah 5:47) and claims to be a MuhayminThe Quranic descriptor (Surah 5:48) of itself as a 'guardian' or 'witness' over previous scriptures, implying their preservation and availability. (guardian/witness) over it (Surah 5:48).
• A command to judge by a specific revelation necessitates that the revelation is extant, accessible, and uncorrupted at the time the command is issued (7th century).
• The InjilThe 1st-century Greek New Testament, specifically the Gospels, which the Quran identifies as valid revelation for 7th-century Christians. of the 7th century, as preserved in the manuscript tradition, explicitly affirms the Deity of Christ and His physical crucifixion—doctrines the Quran identifies as blasphemous lies (Surah 5:72, 4:157).
• Conclusion: If the Quran is true, the Gospel is true; if the Gospel is true, the Quran is false; therefore, if the Quran is true, it is false.

The Ontological Stability of the Seventh-Century Text

The Central ThesisTextual criticism demonstrates that the seventh-century Gospel mandated by the Quran is the same text that preserves the Crucifixion and Deity of Christ.

The Manuscript Witness

• The extant manuscript evidence from the 4th through the 7th centuries, including Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and numerous papyri, confirms a stable New Testament text long before the Quranic era. biblearchaeologyreport
• These manuscripts contain the Johannine prologue and the Carmen Christi (Philippians 2), which utilize terms like monogenēs and hypostasis to define the ontological equality of the Son with the Father. biblearchaeologyreport
• The 7th-century audience to whom Muhammad spoke possessed these identical texts, leaving no historical room for the post-hoc polemic of TahrifThe late Islamic polemic of textual corruption, used to circumvent the internal contradictions between the Quran and the Bible. al-Lafz (textual corruption).
• Conclusion: The "nursery-level" objection of textual corruption is historically anachronistic and logically refuted by the very manuscript tradition the Quran claims to guard. youtube