Why I’m not a Muslim?

I’ve done several articles regarding views I find unsatisfying. This has led to several similarly named articles:

Most apologists focus on the immoral actions and beliefs of Muslims in order to undermine their worldview. While that may be rhetorically powerful and may be useful to press Muslims on their consistency. It seems to me to fail to show Islam is false. While we should not hide the immoral history and current wicked acts of Muslims, we must recognize the foundations for such a belief. Another common alternative presented to Christianity is Islam. I don’t find Islam to be a serious alternative to Christianity for a few reasons:

1. The Reliability of the NT

The evidence for the reliability of the NT is far better than the evidence for the reliability of the Quran. This is seen in recent developments when classic narratives for Quranic preservation have shattered.

There’s also a good case that the Bible is historically reliable:

https://spirited-tech.com/2021/01/12/can-we-trust-the-gospels/

https://spirited-tech.com/2018/03/06/the-reliability-of-the-new-testament-2/

https://spirited-tech.com/2017/06/20/the-argument-from-undesigned-coincidences/

This is even further complicated by the fact that Islam seems to presuppose the reliability of the Bible in some of its texts:

2. Unitarianism

Some find this a strong point for Islam. It avoids the commonly perceived issues in affirming a Trinitarian God. But suppose that that actually was its downfall. This is argued in our podcast regarding Islam:

An article:

Is the Love Argument for the Trinity Refuted? – The Council (spirited-tech.com)

3. Neoplatonism vs Other Islamic Model

It seems that Islam has a strong divide that separates the more philosophical views of God from more literalistic views of God. For example, the Islamic thinker known as the Muslim Metaphysician stated that he thinks Allah has two hands. What he meant is up for debate, but it seems a strong strand of Islamic theology would lean in this direction:

Even Jake has to appeal to mystery to explain his strange conception:

This leaves on the other side the more Neoplatonistic model. This has its issues as argued here:

https://pushingtheantithesis.blogspot.com/2021/08/islam-neoplatonism-and-concept-of.html

3. Revelation

In Islam, the Quran isn’t the first revelation. Before it was the Gospels and the Law, but unfortunately, in Islam, they failed to be preserved for us today and were corrupted. This view of revelation is unstable. If God’s words can fail to be preserved and were corrupted, then why suppose Islamic revelation isn’t merely corrupted itself? Unlike the first issue, this undermines any reason to suppose the Quran is true, given the Quran’s view of revelation. God can fail in his intentions to have a reliable revelation. Who can we trust? Even if it were, perfectly preserved, how do we know this isn’t merely preserved fables? In Islam, revelation isn’t sufficient to supply us with knowledge of God.

4. Epistemic Necessity

Muslims tend to hold to natural theology. I maintain that natural theology is a scholastic failure to comprehend worldview disputes. Besides this, is another issue, if Islam isn’t epistemically necessary, then why not just be a general theist? Many religions have a god-like Islam. It seems you only end up with Post-modernist competing stories with no ability to discern the fact of the matter.

5. Atonement

In Islam, Allah has no ability to enact cosmic justice. This leaves the religion with no ultimate solution to evil. The world has many injustices that never get resolved.

Arbitrary Justice in Islam – The Council (spirited-tech.com)

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