Inconsistent Perceptions of Islam Due to Inconsistencies of Belief

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Mar 18, 2021 at 11:57

As mentioned, having been a follower of Yeshua for more than 4 decades, among the struggles of maintaining the pursuit of belief is that within the Christian community there has been this innate battle of 'which truth' is truth; and in reading the historical context of the church from the time of Constantine, it becomes more easily discerned that the Apostle Paul and others contended with the internal battle of apostasy and Gnosticism, likely the actions of sinister forces by which the Gospel was excised from the religious observations and left Christianity exposed to the ravages of Islam. Theology is not Islam's strong point; but overt support to kill or subdue 'infidel' Christians was an easy undertaking when the true message of Christ is one of love. Therein lays the crux of the issue; true believers of Yeshua are targeted because they love the one true God while followers of the Quranic verses are told to kill them that do.
This observer was late in coming to this forum, but having read Dr. Pipes' dissertations (and his work on the Arabic language and that of Dhimmi No More and his observations), the true understanding of the issue came forth like the clouds parting after the storm. After reading and being told the only way to understand the Quran is to do so in Arabic, the 'home' language. Now, after understanding that most of the body of work on this has been historically advanced by non-Arabs who are teaching the Arab language of all of this, the inconsistencies that are being studied now make way more sense; and here this observer thought that the Biblical languages were hard - Aramaic/Syriac of the paleo-Hebrew/Greek now make more sense. Thank you Dr. Pipes.

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