“The
chasm [between Islam and Christianity] cannot be bridged by rickety planks of
compromise. Syncretism would be
equivalent to surrender; for Islam thrives only by its denial of the authority
of the Scriptures, the Deity of our Lord, the blessedness of the Holy Trinity,
the cruciality and significance of the Cross, (nay, its very historicity) and
the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ as King and Saviour. And this denial is accompanied by the
assertion of the authority of another book, the Koran, the eclipse of Christ’s
glory by another prophet, even Mohammed, and the substitution of another path
to holiness and forgiveness than the way of the Cross. These denials and assertions are
imbedded in the Koran and are the orthodox belief of ninety percent of the
people. On every one of these
points the true Moslem stands arrayed in armor against the missionary and the
Truth, of which he is the custodian and preacher.” (Samuel Zwemer, “The Chasm” The Moslem World, vol. IX, no.
2/April 1919, pp. 112-113)
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