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About this site

Which Gospel? examines the claims of other faiths against the Bible, and makes the case for the Bible itself where the reader does not already accept it. It exists for one reason: not to win arguments, but to help real people meet the real Jesus — and to help Christians do that with both honesty and gentleness (1 Peter 3:15).

Why I built this

I'm in my early twenties, I live in the Midwest, and I attend a non-denominational church where I serve with the youth ministry. I grew up Baptist and would call myself non-denominational now, though mostly I'd just say Christian.

In late 2025 I joined a ministry doing outreach to Muslims, and that is where this started. I've been learning how to have those conversations, and it has been an education — the opposition is real, and the imam at the mosque we visit banned our leader simply for asking questions.

Around the same time a friend at church who has done ministry among Latter-day Saints got me thinking further ahead. I'm moving before long to a state with a large LDS presence. I didn't want to begin learning about it after the missionaries were already at my door — I wanted to know what I was talking about before I got there. I also have an uncle who is an atheist, which is where the section for skeptics came from.

So I went and looked things up ahead of time, and wrote down what I found. That is all this site is.

On the second half of 1 Peter 3:15. "Gentleness and respect" is not a softener attached to the end of the command — it is half of it. Nobody has ever been argued into the kingdom by someone who was enjoying the argument. That is why every page here gives the other side its best published case first, in their own scholars' words, and why there are pages marking popular Christian arguments that do not hold up. If we win with a bad argument, we have not won anything, and we have handed that person a reason to dismiss the next Christian who talks to them.

How this site was built, and what that means for you

I'm a software developer by training, so I built this the way I know how. I used AI tooling to gather and organise material from published sources, and assembled the first version over roughly a week, then had several people read through it.

That method is fast, and it carries an obvious risk: a citation that points somewhere it should not. So the claims have been audited against the original documents — around 110 of the load-bearing ones across 33 pages so far. Nothing was found to be fabricated: the Quran and hadith references checked all exist and are correctly numbered, and the rabbinic and Gospel Topics quotations were verbatim. But the audit did turn up nine real errors — a Brigham Young quotation with a word altered inside the quotation marks, a Watch Tower quote spliced together from two different issues, and several dates and reference numbers pointing at the wrong place. Those are corrected. Work continues on the weaker attributions and on repairing dead links.

I am telling you this because you may end up quoting this site to someone who matters to you, and you deserve to know how it was made and how thoroughly it has been checked. Verify anything you plan to lean on. Every claim links to its source for exactly that reason. If you find something wrong, please tell me — see the corrections section below.

The rules every page follows

The grades, in plain words

Every case carries a grade. They are the most useful thing on the site, so here is what each one actually means for you.

In the four sections that examine another faith (Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hebrew Israelites), the grade tells you how strong the case against a claim is:

Two sections read differently, because they aren't examining a faith's claims — they're making one. In the Hebrew Israelites section, a case marked Settled is one the biblical text answers clearly — the grievance behind it is still real, and the page says so.

In the two sections that make a positive case (the Messiah case for Jewish readers, and the Case for God for skeptics), the grade flips — it tells you how strong the evidence for the claim is:

Written to be read

Every case opens in plain English first — short blocks, one idea per sentence, aimed at about a ninth-grade reading level. The sourced version, with the scholars named and the citations in full, sits underneath it on the same page. Nothing is hidden and nothing is dumbed down; the same facts are simply said twice, once quickly and once completely.

Corrections & rebuttals — genuinely invited

If you are a Latter-day Saint, a Muslim, a Jehovah's Witness, a Hebrew Israelite, a Jewish reader or an atheist, and you believe any claim here misstates the facts, misquotes a source, or leaves out your best response — we want to know. If a case can't survive its best counterargument, it doesn't belong here. Open an issue on the GitHub repository, or just email nosamwallace@gmail.com — you don't need a GitHub account.

What this site is not

It is not a claim that anyone examined here is foolish or insincere. Most are neither, and many live lives of devotion that put Christians to shame. The dispute is about what is true, weighed from the documents. And it is not neutral: we believe the Bible stands, that Jesus is who the manuscripts say he claimed to be, and that "by grace are ye saved through faith… not of works" is the best news any person will ever hear.

Texts, translations & copyright

Bible quotations and the embedded Bible reader use the King James Version (public domain). Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price texts are drawn from public-domain early editions (the current LDS editions' headings and footnotes are not used). The Arabic Quran is public domain; the embedded English Quran reader uses the Pickthall translation (1930, public domain in the United States). Brief quotations from other translations (identified where quoted) and from church, apologetic, and scholarly publications appear as short attributed excerpts for purposes of criticism, commentary, and education under fair use (17 U.S.C. §107). Hadith excerpts are brief quotations with links to the full text on sunnah.com. All trademarks and names belong to their owners; this site is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or any Islamic organization.

Which canon, and why. The Old Testament here is the Masoretic Hebrew text and the 39 books of the Protestant canon; the New Testament is the 27 books every major branch of Christianity already holds in common. That's a starting point, not a claim of neutral ground — Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include the deuterocanon, and a Jewish reader grants the New Testament no standing at all. Where a case turns on a disputed book, a disputed reading, or whose interpretive tradition gets priority, the page says so rather than assuming the argument is settled.

Image credits

Historical images are served from Wikimedia Commons. Each is public domain or openly licensed; attribution follows (image — author · license):

"Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." — 1 Peter 3:15