Islam's Response To Concept Of Christian Salvation?
It is a good article and close to what I was looking for but I think it doesn’t give a complete counter-argument for Atonement concept of Christian. We need a counter-argument in my opinion because Christian usually argue that there is nothing wrong with their concept of God demanding a sacrifice for sins, that sacrifice being Jesus and all of this being needed for our salvation etc and that it is Muslims who are in danger of having no way of surviving God’s Wrathful Justice in the Hereafter. Also issue regarding scripture and logic is this. First of all, I don’t think the New Testament is that authentic. Many scholars have to come to agree that there is no eyewitness account within the Gospels and rest of the NT falls apart because it relies on the Gospels being authentic. This means only logic is left for Christians, since scripture authenticity fails and the article you quoted also first criticizes the authenticity of Bible before criticizing Christian doctrine. So again, we are left with Christian logic and that is what they usually attack Islam with. Secondly, Christians do have some ammo like this which they use to justify the Atonement doctrine: ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God: being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;’ (Romans 3:23-25) This is usually why I am not comfortable arguing on basis of scripture because Christians do accept Paul’s writing as proof for their belief (even if it has no basis in Old Testament nor Gospels).