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David Wood — the 20 Questions, Answered
Islam and Christian apologetics in David Wood’s own lane — the Islamic Dilemma, the stages of jihad, the prophet tested by his own book — tap a question and watch him answer it.
David Wood of Acts 17 Apologetics has spent two decades doing one thing in the open: taking the hardest questions about Islam and the Christian faith to the Islamic sources themselves — the Qur’an, the hadith, and the earliest biography of Muhammad — and letting those sources speak. This board gathers the twenty answers he is known for, each seated under the question it answers.
The Board — the 20 Questions, Answered by David Wood
Twenty questions, none of them softened and none of them skipped — each one stated the way it is brought, what is at stake in it, the answer given by David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) himself, and the Scripture anchor the answer stands on. Tap a question. Watch the answer.
1. The Qur'an confirms the Torah and the Gospel — so where the Bible disagrees with the Qur'an, the Bible must be wrong. Islam corrects it.
David Wood's own formulation, and the hinge of his whole ministry: the Qur'an affirms the inspiration, preservation, and authority of the Bible — and then contradicts it on the cross, the resurrection, and the deity of Christ. If the Bible is true, Islam is false; if the Bible is corrupted, the Qur'an affirmed a corrupted book and is false either way.
Video answer: 99.8% of Muslims Don't Know Allah Says THIS about the Bible! — Apologetics Roadshow · Watch on YouTube ›
On Wood's own current channel: in the Quran, Allah affirms the inspiration, preservation, and authority of the Bible — but the Quran contradicts the Bible on fundamental doctrines. Welcome to the Islamic Dilemma. (The longer original talk circulates on the DCCI Ministries channel; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”
Galatians 1:8
2. Islam is a religion of peace — the jihad verses were only for Muhammad's time and place, and peaceful verses define the faith.
Wood's most-watched teaching traces jihad through Islam's own sources in three stages as Muslim strength grows — stealth and tolerance claims when weak, defensive jihad when able, offensive jihad and subjugation when in power — exactly the pattern of Muhammad's own career from Mecca to Medina.
Video answer: The Three Stages of Jihad Explained (David Wood) — The David Wood Archives · Watch on YouTube ›
The classic itself, re-issued by the David Wood Archive with improved audio: Stage One, stealth jihad; Stage Two, defensive jihad; Stage Three, offensive jihad — 'the first step in defeating jihad is knowing what it is and how it works.'
The Scripture Anchor
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
Matthew 26:52
3. Aisha was not a child — she was 18 or 19 when Muhammad married her, and judging him by modern standards is unfair anyway.
Islam's most trusted sources say she was six at the marriage contract and nine when it was consummated — and Muhammad is not a man of his time to be excused, but Islam's eternal 'pattern of conduct' whose example still licenses child marriage today.
Video answer: Aisha - The 9-Year-Old Child Bride of Muhammad - David Wood - Episode 2 — CIRA International · Watch on YouTube ›
Al Fadi and Wood review the Islamic sources themselves: Islam's most trusted collections repeatedly declare Aisha nine years old when the marriage was consummated, and even modern Muslim scholars affirm the facts modern apologists try to revise away.
The Scripture Anchor
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Matthew 18:6
4. Muhammad never ordered killings of his critics — the stories of assassinated poets are fabricated, and in any case he was a merciful prophet.
Islam's earliest biography and its soundest hadith collections record the orders by name: Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Abu Rafi', the poetess Asma bint Marwan — critics killed at night, by deception, with Muhammad's blessing spoken over the killers. A prophet is known by his fruits, and these are his.
David Wood's answer to this one is being matched. We are finding David Wood's recorded answer to this exact question — another man's answer will not be seated under his name. The Scripture anchor below stands on its own until the clip is verified.
The Scripture Anchor
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Matthew 5:44
5. The Qur'an has been perfectly preserved, word for word and letter for letter — unlike your Bible, it has never changed.
The hadith themselves break the claim: Abu Bakr's compilation differed from Uthman's, Uthman burned the rival copies, Muhammad's own appointed teachers disputed the contents — and today's Hafs and Warsh Qur'ans still differ in words that change the meaning. Even Muslim scholar Yasir Qadhi admitted the standard narrative has 'holes'.
Video answer: 5 Quran Variants Muslims DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW... — GodLogic Apologetics · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood joins Avery Austin and Jay Smith to walk Quran variants that change meaning and even law: in the Hafs Quran a missed fast is redeemed by feeding ONE poor person; in the Warsh Quran, THREE or more — for the same verse. A 'perfectly preserved' book does not come in versions. (Co-hosted answer; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Matthew 24:35
6. Allah is simply the Arabic name for the God of the Bible — the same God, described the same way.
Compare the attributes, not the label: the God of the Bible is a Father who loves His enemies and gives His Son; Allah has no son, loves not the unbelievers, and is a distant sovereign whose will is the only explanation of himself. Two portraits this different cannot be the same person.
Video answer: David Wood EXPOSES Why Allah Can't Be God — David Wood Archive · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood examines the Islamic concept of Allah against the God revealed in the Bible — fatalism, God's nature, and love and divine character — and challenges the claim that Allah is the same God at all.
The Scripture Anchor
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
1 John 4:8
7. Jesus was not crucified — Allah raised him to heaven and it only appeared so (Surah 4:157). There was no death and no resurrection.
One ambiguous verse, six centuries after the event, against the unanimous witness of the men who were there — and even Muslim scholars have called the standard substitution story nonsense. If Jesus did not die, there is no gospel left to correct.
Video answer: The Quran DOESN'T Say What Muslims Think It Says! — Apologetics Roadshow · Watch on YouTube ›
On his own channel, Wood asks whether Muslims have misread their own book all along: have they been misinterpreting 4:157? Other Quran verses suggest Jesus did die — and Wood works the proper interpretation of the crucifixion verse itself.
The Scripture Anchor
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5
8. Your own case collapses because the Qur'an itself says the Bible is corrupt — Surah 2:79 proves the Jews changed their book.
Wood's verse-by-verse dismantling of the one text the corruption charge rests on: Surah 2:79 condemns a specific group for writing things of their own and selling them as God's — it never says the Torah or the Gospel was changed, and six verses later Allah damns those who believe only part of the book He says they still hold.
Video answer: DEBATE: Is There an Islamic Dilemma? | Daniel Vs David Wood | Podcast — Modern-Day Debate · Watch on YouTube ›
Against Daniel Haqiqatjou, Wood takes the corruption proof-text head-on: read in context, Surah 2:79 is not about the Torah or the Gospel at all — and six verses later Allah condemns believing only part of the very book Muslims say was corrupted. (The 2:79 dismantling stands inside this debate; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Isaiah 40:8
9. Jesus was a prophet — a great one, virgin-born and miracle-working — but he never claimed to be God, and the Trinity is a later invention.
The Old Testament itself will not let Jesus stay a prophet: the child called Mighty God, the pierced Yahweh of Zechariah, the Word who was God — and Jesus takes those texts up in His own mouth. Faced with the claims, a classroom of Muslim students and their teacher run out of room.
Video answer: David Wood SHOCKS Entire CLASS Of U.K Muslim STUDENTS With THIS — Focal Pulse · Watch on YouTube ›
Before a UK class of Muslim students, with Sami Zaatari, Wood argues Jesus' divine identity and sacrifice from Isaiah 53, Zechariah 12:10, and John 1 — and fields the students' hardest follow-up: 'If Jesus died for three days, who was ruling the universe?' (Debate-length answer; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.”
John 20:28
10. The 'Satanic Verses' story is a fabrication of Islam's enemies — Muhammad never spoke a word from Satan.
The story comes from Islam's own earliest sources — Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari — and was accepted by Muslims for centuries before it became an embarrassment to be edited out. A prophet who cannot tell Satan's voice from God's, by his own book's tests, is no prophet.
Video answer: Muhammad and the "Satanic Verses" (Polytheism in the Early Quran) — Apologetics Roadshow · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood's own presentation (Evangelical Theological Society) on his own channel: 'When Theologians Rewrite History' — the Satanic Verses in the Quran's earliest sources, and why modern scholars rewrite what the first Muslims recorded.
The Scripture Anchor
“Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Deuteronomy 13:3
11. Muhammad passed every test of a true prophet — no biblical criterion disqualifies him.
Wood applies the tests and then lets Islam's own book deliver the verdict: the Qur'an says a false claimant would be seized and his aorta cut (69:44–46) — and Muhammad, poisoned at Khaybar, died telling Aisha he felt his aorta being cut from that poison. The Qur'an, the hadith, and the death agree.
Video answer: Who Killed Muhammad? — Acts 17 Polemics · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood's investigation on his current channel: poisoned at Khaybar by Zaynab, Muhammad died saying he felt his aorta being cut — the precise death the Quran (69:44–46) reserves for a false claimant. The Quran and the hadith deliver the verdict on their own prophet.
The Scripture Anchor
“But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.”
Deuteronomy 18:20
12. Muhammad abolished slavery gradually and freed his slaves — it is Christianity and the West that carry slavery's guilt.
The sources say the opposite: Muhammad bought, sold, owned, and gave away slaves — black slaves among them — and modelled an institution Islam then practised for fourteen centuries. The gradual-abolition story is a modern telling that his own biography will not carry.
Video answer: Muhammad was a Slave Master! - David Wood - Muhammad and Atheism - Episode 14 — CIRA International · Watch on YouTube ›
Al Fadi and Wood take the sources side by side: against the claim that Muhammad condemned slavery and freed every slave, the record shows him owning many slaves, black and female among them — and never condemning the institution he practised.
The Scripture Anchor
“And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”
Exodus 21:16
13. Is the Qur'an a book of peace? Islam commands peace with unbelievers who leave Muslims alone.
The formal debate the claim deserves — Wood against Shabir Ally, verse by verse: the commands to fight, subjugate, and strike terror are not read out of the book by its critics; they are read out of it by its founder's own practice and its earliest commentators.
David Wood's answer to this one is being matched. We are finding David Wood's recorded answer to this exact question — another man's answer will not be seated under his name. The Scripture anchor below stands on its own until the clip is verified.
The Scripture Anchor
“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”
John 18:36
14. Surah 9:29 was about one battle and one empire — jizya was a fair tax, and Christians lived well under Islam.
Wood's 'Three Qur'an Verses Every Christian Needs to Know' ends here: fight the People of the Book until they pay the jizya 'with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued' — not for aggression, but for unbelief. Fourteen centuries of dhimmi law are this verse, applied.
Video answer: David Wood vs. Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq: The REAL Full Debate Jizya, the Bible, and the Quran — David Wood Videos · Watch on YouTube ›
The full Balboa Park debate on the jizya itself: Wood vs Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq on Surah 9:29, the Bible, and the Quran — what the verse commands, and against whom.
The Scripture Anchor
“But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,”
Luke 6:27
15. Why are YOU a Christian, David? Why should anyone believe this faith is true?
Wood's own answer, from an atheist who tried to kill his father and met Christ in a jail cell: he examined the evidence — above all that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, exactly as the Bible declares — and followed it where it led. The board's other nineteen answers stand on this one.
Video answer: Why I Am a Christian (David Wood, Former Atheist's Conversion Testimony) Re-upload — Orange Living · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood's testimony in his own words: the former atheist explains why he became convinced that Jesus is Lord, that he died on the cross for sins, and that he rose from the dead — just as the Bible declares. (A re-upload: Wood deleted the original channel release; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12
16. Jesus did not rise from the dead — the resurrection is legend, and no honest look at the evidence requires it.
The debate form of the board's foundation stone: Wood against atheist John Loftus on the empty tomb, the appearances, and the disciples who went to their deaths for what they claimed to have seen. Christianity stakes everything on this event, and the evidence is argued in the open.
Video answer: Debate: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? (David Wood vs John Loftus) — David Wood Videos · Watch on YouTube ›
The full May 2015 debate: Wood defends the resurrection of Jesus against former pastor turned atheist John Loftus — the historical evidence argued head-on, on the record.
The Scripture Anchor
“And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”
1 Corinthians 15:17
17. Muslims and Christians worship the same God — we differ on details, not on God himself.
A name shared is not a person shared: Wood lays out the big differences between the God of Islam and the God of Christianity — Fatherhood, love, the Son, the cross — and the 'same God' claim dissolves on contact with either book's own description.
Video answer: 3 BIG Differences Between Islam and Christianity with David Wood — Cross Examined · Watch on YouTube ›
Wood joins CrossExamined: what are the commonalities, and what are the major differences, between the God of Islam and the God of Christianity? Wood exposes the true character of Allah against the biblical concept of God.
The Scripture Anchor
“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”
1 John 5:20
18. ISIS and the jihadis twist Islam — nothing in the Qur'an itself teaches violence against unbelievers.
Wood's ten verses, read straight: Allah does not love the unbelievers (3:32); strike terror; fight, subjugate, and behead — and the doctrine of abrogation (2:106) that lets the later sword verses stand over the earlier peace verses. Jihadis are not misreading their book; they are quoting it.
Video answer: Top Ten Quran Verses for Understanding ISIS the Islamic State — christysgoodlife · Watch on YouTube ›
The ten verses, read straight, from 3:32 — Allah does not love the unbelievers — to 2:106 and abrogation: ISIS was quoting its book, not twisting it. (Live re-upload; the Acts 17 original is currently deleted — see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12
19. Islam honours women — the Qur'an's rules on captives protected women in war, and 'what your right hands possess' is misunderstood.
Al Fadi and Wood walk the texts: married women, forbidden to all men, are made lawful to their captors (4:24), and Muhammad himself is given special licence with captive women (33:50) — his wives' complaints, and Allah's answer to them, are in the sources for anyone to read.
Video answer: Sex with Slaves is REQUIRED by Muhammad - David Wood - Muhammad and Atheism - Episode 12 — CIRA International · Watch on YouTube ›
Al Fadi and Wood on Surah 33 and the captive women: Muhammad takes female captives as sex slaves with Allah's express permission, over his own wives' complaints — the pattern of Islam, approved by its god.
The Scripture Anchor
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Genesis 1:27
20. Muhammad is in your Bible — the prophet like Moses, the Comforter, even named in the Song of Solomon.
Wood with Michael Brown, claim by claim: Deuteronomy 18's prophet is raised from Israel's own brethren as a mediator; the Comforter Jesus promised is named by Jesus Himself — the Holy Ghost; and every text, read in its chapter, points to Christ and never leaves Israel for Arabia.
Video answer: Central Dawah Couldn't Even Make One Sound Argument! — AP and DW · Watch on YouTube ›
From the full 'Is Muhammad in the Bible?' debate (Wood and the Apostate Prophet vs Central Dawah): the claimed prophecies worked through in order — Messiah, Prophet, and 'brethren' — on Wood's joint channel with the Apostate Prophet. (Debate clip; see the build report.)
The Scripture Anchor
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”