It was the apostle Paul who offered this revealing end-time prophecy: "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2Timothy 4:3)
Paul's prophecy speaks for itself. Certainly, falsehood has existed since the beginning of time. But throughout history, men have diligently sought the truth by investigating information to test whether or not that information had any valid evidence to back it up. For example, when a Catholic Monk named Martin Luther put away his religious biases and investigated the Bible, he discovered that salvation in Jesus Christ was obtained strictly by faith (Ephesians 2:8, Romans 10:9-11) rather than by works as the Roman Catholic Church taught. Hence, Luther launched what became known as the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century and his objective quest for truth helped lead millions out of Rome's darkness into eternal life in Jesus Christ.
And yet today, despite the overwhelming biblical evidence that convinced Luther that the Catholic gospel was a fraud, millions of professing Christians are returning to Rome. And despite the overwhelming evidence that Islam is a false religion that was manufactured in the mind of Muhammad during the Seventh Century A.D., nearly two billion people on earth call themselves Muslims and believe that Muhammad was a true prophet sent by God. Muslim apologists claim that the Bible was perverted by the Jews and early Christians, and God therefore commissioned Muhammad to restore his true scriptures.
But that claim doesn't have any evidence to back it up. The Koran contains numerous historical inaccuracies and factual errors that dismisses it as an elaborate fraud. For example, the Koran claims that Jesus' mother Mary was the sister of Moses and Aaron. (Sura 19:28) That's absolutely impossible unless Mary was well over 1,000 years old when she gave birth to Christ. The Koran also claims that crucifixion existed during the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. (Sura 7:14) That's also false; crucifixion was a form of execution that was unknown in the ancient world until the Romans introduced it in the First Century B.C.
And furthermore, the Koran contains four conflicting accounts of Muhammad's reception of the Koran. Suras 53:2-18 and 81:19-24 claim that Allah appeared to Muhammad in the form of a man to deliver the Koran; Sura 15:8 claims that "angels" delivered the Koran to Muhammad; Sura 16:102 claims that Muhammad received the Koran from the "Holy Spirit", while Sura 2:97 claims that Muhammad received the Koran directly from the angel Gabriel.
Compare the Koran to the Bible that contains over 300 specific prophecies concerning the Jewish Messiah recorded by Israel's ancient prophets hundreds and thousands of years before Christ appeared and fulfilled them. For example, Christ's virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14) was recorded in the Eighth Century B.C. while his crucifixion (Psalm 22:16) was recorded nearly 1,000 years before he appeared on earth. And Christ's life, ministry, death and resurrection were revealed by the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 53) nearly 800 years before he appeared. Unlike the Bible, the Koran contains not even a single prophecy recorded by Muhammad that can be verified and validated as having been revealed by God before it took place. Thus, the Koran is the ultimate expression of falsehood.
It was Christ who said: "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31-32) And that ultimate truth is this: "For God so loved the world that He gave His One and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) That's the ultimate truth that's backed by irrefutable evidence. And it sure beats the fantasy of falsehood.
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