Does the Koran contain contradictory teachings?
The Koran claims that it contains no contradictions. In Sura 4:84 Allah challenges men, “Will they not ponder on the Koran? If it had not come from Allah, they could have surely found in it many contradictions.”83 Since Allah claims not to contradict himself, then everything that has purportedly “come down from him” (the Bible, The Koran) must be in agreement. Thus, the Muslim must believe in the doctrinal unity among the books of Allahthe Bible as originally given and the Koran. But we have just seen they conflict; further the Koran contains contradictions within its own pages. In Sura 11 the Koran teaches that one of Noah’s sons didn’t go into the ark and thus “Noah’s son was drowned” in the Flood.84 The Koran itself seems to contradict this statement in Sura 21 where it declares that “we saved him [Noah] and all his kinsfolk from the great calamity,…. “85 According to the Bible, all of Noah’s sons are delivered (Gen. 6, 7) and the genealogies are provided. The Koran also has confl
