I had this post all typed up and my PC just shut down and restarted for no reason Hmmmmm.
Anyway, I have been contemplating this for awhile and have come to some preliminary conclusions and would like your input to what you think of this.
What is the main purpose of Islam? We know that Muhammad was not the last prophet, but Yeshua was ( one of many things He was and is), so why the "need" for this? Confusion is one I can think of as well as perhaps jealousy on the part of the Ishmaelites? Wanting to have their own prophet?, but I think that this was inspired from the depths of Sheol, for their is one G-d and there is another who wants to be him and will try anything to lead others astray.
But what is the purpose of the terrorism? The suicidal bombings? I think many get caught up in the obvious and overlook the undercurrent, the base root and reasoning if you will, of this.
I believe that it has to do with witnessing.
( Perhaps Yafet can shed some Rabbinic thought on the witness?)
It was important if not certainly pertinent that any that were to be of the twelve were EYE witnesses to the beginning and the end of Yeshua's ministry on earth. For not by one man's word should something be believed, but by two, as well as an eye witness was the most powerful to attest to anything that there is. So here you have eyewitnesses to the ministry, the crucifixion and resurrection of Yeshua to testy to the world of what happened. Now these men believed what they were taught, what they heard and saw with their own eyes and in believing this with their whole hearts and minds attested to it on the pain of death, and many went to their graves in a very tortuous manner for these beliefs. So a case can be built for the heathen that their witness was true because they died for it.
I found this on Christian Persecution:
Anyway, I have been contemplating this for awhile and have come to some preliminary conclusions and would like your input to what you think of this.
What is the main purpose of Islam? We know that Muhammad was not the last prophet, but Yeshua was ( one of many things He was and is), so why the "need" for this? Confusion is one I can think of as well as perhaps jealousy on the part of the Ishmaelites? Wanting to have their own prophet?, but I think that this was inspired from the depths of Sheol, for their is one G-d and there is another who wants to be him and will try anything to lead others astray.
But what is the purpose of the terrorism? The suicidal bombings? I think many get caught up in the obvious and overlook the undercurrent, the base root and reasoning if you will, of this.
I believe that it has to do with witnessing.
( Perhaps Yafet can shed some Rabbinic thought on the witness?)
It was important if not certainly pertinent that any that were to be of the twelve were EYE witnesses to the beginning and the end of Yeshua's ministry on earth. For not by one man's word should something be believed, but by two, as well as an eye witness was the most powerful to attest to anything that there is. So here you have eyewitnesses to the ministry, the crucifixion and resurrection of Yeshua to testy to the world of what happened. Now these men believed what they were taught, what they heard and saw with their own eyes and in believing this with their whole hearts and minds attested to it on the pain of death, and many went to their graves in a very tortuous manner for these beliefs. So a case can be built for the heathen that their witness was true because they died for it.
I found this on Christian Persecution:
But do you see what I see? That people don't die for a lie. So with that in mind where does that leave Islam?Christian Persecution: Many of the Early Disciples Died for their Faith
Christian persecution was a dramatic part of early church history. For anyone who holds that the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ was a man-made hoax conspired by a group of disciples should check out the legacy of martyrdom. Eleven of the 12 apostles, and many of the other early disciples, died for their adherence to this story. This is dramatic, since they all witnessed the alleged events of Jesus and still went to their deaths defending their faith. Why is this dramatic, when many throughout history have died martyred deaths for a religious belief? Because people dont die for a lie. Look at human nature throughout history. No conspiracy can be maintained when life or liberty is at stake. Dying for a belief is one thing, but numerous eye-witnesses dying for a known lie is quite another.