by Humphrey Prideaux
originally published in 1732
paperback; 280 pages
The Muslim "prophet" Mohammed (Mahomet) began his "mission" in early seventh-century Arabia. Claiming that he had been visited by the Archangel Gabriel to restore the true worship of God which the Christians and Jews had corrupted, Mohammed took elements from Christianity, Judaism, and the prevailing Arabian paganism of his day, and combined them to form what is now Islam. Mohammed claimed to be the successor of Jesus Christ, but when his claims were ridiculed and denounced, he instructed his followers to spread his new religion at the point of the sword and to slay all who refused to embrace it — the origin of the Islamic doctrine of jihad. The author of this book lays bare the doctrinal absurdities and dangerous worldview of Islam and warns his readers that religious delusion is one of the judgments which God brings upon the land when His Church has fallen into apostasy and failed in her Great Commission.
NOTE: The typeset of this book is in old-style English and may be difficult to read for some people.
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