Islam and Christianity

9  Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;  10  love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.  11  Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.  12  Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.  13 Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.  14  Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.  15  Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.  16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.  17  Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.  18  If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.  19  Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."  20  No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; fo

A basic teaching of Islam is that the Christian scriptures have been corrupted by the Christian church, and so Christians ought to embrace the Qur'an as the final and authoritative revelation from Allah. It's interesting that Muslims, who pride themselves on their faith in the powers of reason, have been so misled by this doctrine about the corruption of Christian scriptures. This is something Muslims believe as an article of faith, and not as something that is reasonable or that can be proven. There are no pre-biblical Christian texts against which you can place the accepted texts and demonstrate that they have been corrupted. There has been a lot of hoopala about so called Christian 'gospels' that were never recognized as being divinely inspired that differ in many ways from the canonical scriptures, but those 'gospels' were written long after the biblical books and so nothing can be proven by them. The fact of the matter is that it is the biblical texts which