The Choice - Ahmed Deedat (Combined Vol. 1 & 2)

The Choice: Islam & Christianity is a work by the well-known Islamic da'i Ahmed Deedat that gathers his most influential booklets on Islam and Christianity into one accessible volume.

Spanning over 460 pages, Deedat examines, with the polemical clarity his public debates were known for, the status of Jesus Christ ('Isa — peace be upon him) as a noble prophet who preached the Unity of God.

What the Book Examines

Deedat surveys numerous early Christian writings and "gospels" — including the Gospel of Barnabas, the Gospel of Hermes, and the Shepherd of Hermas — and the role of early Unitarian Christians, arguing that the doctrine of the Trinity was neither taught by Jesus nor his earliest followers, but emerged later under the influence of pagan-Greek theology and the decisions of the Council of Nicaea (325 AD).

A Note on This Book's Approach

Deedat's writing is deliberately argumentative and confrontational in style, developed for public debate rather than for irenic dialogue, and it makes strong claims about Christian doctrine and textual history that Christian scholars would contest. Readers should understand this as advocacy literature representing one side of a long historical debate, not as a neutral comparative study.

Who It Is For

Readers already familiar with the genre of Muslim-Christian polemical literature who want Deedat's arguments gathered in one volume, understood as one perspective in an ongoing debate.

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• What did Jesus Really Say? — the Bible examined from Christian sources
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