To spot a Christian

Submitted by Amin Riaz (United Kingdom), Aug 5, 2011 at 22:52

You are like English - you have to learn the spellings and pronunciations separately. I have to read and then interpret your words. Why not just say what you want to say - and not try to hide behind fancy words - that render your speech unclear. Successful communication is getting your message across a clearly as possible. Or do you really think like the way you write?

While He was being tried by His own, His own words were spat back into His face as He told the truth; and His accusers reviled Him for it.

This brings out another difference - Jesus was ratted out by his own companions. Really? How lame.

Bible is the work of human authors - it has not divine spirit guiding it. And you cannot wish away its so many mistakes and errors

The reason why is quite plain: the Islamic Prophet, not having any reliable Christian witness to explain how it is necessary to have faith in Yeshua HaMashiach, found the people around him to be shallow and unreliable sources for what true Christianity should be about.

Now this is true - Christianity had ended - or corrupted beyond recognition. Same thing Muslims say.

By the time the Quran was initiated, the witness of Paul was so diluted and diffused by contradictory information, it is highly unlikely that a real testimony could be found within a thousand miles of anywhere to give truth a chance. That fact that you allude to a Judaic influence of the Scripture is clouded one: it does have its Jewish basis, but it also exceeds the Judaic paradigm by the Divine witness of Yeshua HaMashiach – one only needs seek its truth to determine how.

There is no reliable Christianity left to follow - as you so willingly admit. You might want to look elsewhere for truth.

Now I could go further. But here again, it requires a Biblical understanding to realize the implications of recognizing who Yeshua HaMashiach is. It requires His divinity to impart the judgment of death for the sin of all mortal and sinful humanity; it took His taking on a temporary form of perfect humanity to redeem us through His sacrificial death and resurrection to complete that which is prophesied.

Would it not have been better to give that biblical understanding rather than verses you know I do not believe in? on a theological point - Muslims fail to understand why Christians think that God has to lower himself and not the other way around - Humans have to rise up to meet understanding of divinity. I really cannot fathom that one. That is why I describe Christianity as among the weakest faiths. It is illogical to the extreme.

The Quran can never impart that, especially when considering that Islam cannot bring itself to take Yeshua at His WORD. You have your choice to believe in a Jesus no true Christian will ever recognize; or choose to obtain the faith necessary to believe in the Jesus that the Holy Bible acknowledges being the Anointed One of Israel. If one waits to have it proven in human reasoning, it will be too late too soon to do what is necessary to obtain the eternal life only a Divine Yeshua HaMashiach can promise.

Obviously and needless to say Quran gives you no knowledge of divine Jesus. Even you admit [in a roundabout way] that Bible and Jesus have nothing to do with one another.

Jesus as the lesser God is very weak theology - one chance it got in the open - hardly anyone outside Africa or Asia believes in it anymore.

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