5 highlights from Wes Huff's interview with Shawn Ryan about suffering, giants and Dead Sea Scrolls

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, February 14, 2026

3. Christianity vs. Islam: 'Highly problematic'

Huff, who was born in Pakistan when his parents were missionaries to the Muslim country in the 1990s, has studied Islamic theology extensively and contrasted the Bible with the Quran, the historical claims of which he said are "highly problematic."

Noting he was "genuinely interested in" the teachings of Islam when he was younger because of its historical interplay with Christianity, Huff said he wanted to discern if its claims could be legitimate compared to his belief system, but ultimately "found them very wanting."

"Islam has an issue in that there are historical articulations of what's going on in the biblical stories that are just false," he said. He singled out Surah 4:157, which denies the historicity of the Crucifixion and claims the Jews "neither killed nor crucified him — it was only made to appear so."

Huff said Jesus is mentioned more times in the Quran even than the traditionally illiterate Muhammad, but many of its stories about Him were obviously drawing on oral traditions that were circulating in seventh-century Arabia. The Quran's claim, for instance, that a young Jesus gave life to clay birds was lifted from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a historically discredited text that most scholars date to the second century.

The Quran is also guilty of "confusion and conflation" by jumbling multiple biblical stories, Huff said, offering the example of the Islamic holy book placing the villainous Haman from the book of Esther at the right hand of the pharaoh of the Exodus, misplacing him by many centuries.

"I don't see any evidence that the author of the Quran knew what the Torah or the Gospel were," he said.

Noting the Quran commands "the people of the Gospel [to] judge by what Allah has revealed in it" and warns those who do not "are truly the rebellious," Huff noted that Muslims "have painted themselves into a corner" because the Gospels, which were already in existence by the seventh century, contradict the claims of the Quran.

"And so, if the Quran is true and it's telling me to do this, then I have to conclude that the Quran is false, because it's telling me to do something that's an impossibility," he said. "I cannot judge the Quran by the Gospel and find that the Quran actually understands what the Gospel is saying."