Islamic Dilemma doesn’t make sense
I’ve seen proposed by Godlogic and others:
God commands Muhammad to go to the people who have read the book before him if he is in doubt about what god has revealed to him,
Being in doubt means being uncertain as to the truth,
The Bible says X while the Quran says Y about the same event,
Therefore
Conclusion: Muhammad is being told by God that the things match in the Torah and New Testamant AND the Quran are correct, while those things that are not matching means the Quran is wrong.
This argument is extremely weak
Case 1: Quran says they did not crucify him (Jesus), they did not kill him, but it was made to them to appear so
Case 2: Jesus was crucified and died, rose on the 3rd day
In the Islamic dilemma argument that means Case 2 would have to be accepted by Muslims and case 1 rejected (granting Muhammad had doubts about those cases). If god was telling Muhammad that everything in the Bible is true and only the things matching the Quran are true, then why would god be revealing completely different truths to Muhammad in the first place? Why wouldn’t he just send one message “read the Bible.?
Internal to Islam, which is the kind of argument this is (internal critique) the perspective would be that Case 1 would be true and Case 2 wouldn’t.
People who use this argument sneak in centering of Christianity as true and then apply an internal critique. It’s one big oxymoron.
Dumb argument. Don’t use it.