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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have no idea what you’re trying to get at, Dupie, but the basic idea of the Qur’an with respect to Christianity is that Muhammad knew more about Jesus than Christians themselves do (despite Muhammad making some elementary mistakes such as confusing Mary the mother of Jesus with Miriam the sister of Aaron, and reviving the tiresome old Gnostic heresy that Jesus didn’t actually die on the cross, but only appeared to do so by means of a Helen-of-Troy type "eidolon"). Because of that basic attitude, very few Muslims ever bother to read any of the New Testament at all, unless they’re engaging in polemical controversialism
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