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Does Mohamad claim to be God as His Word given directly thru the Holy Spirit as God? I think not.Islam claims to be precisely that.
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Does Mohamad claim to be God as His Word given directly thru the Holy Spirit as God? I think not.Islam claims to be precisely that.
Does Mohamad claim to be God as His Word given directly thru the Holy Spirit as God? I think not.
I'm not going to debate you but thanks. Christ being savior and God inspiring the bible that teaches that is paramount imo.No, because ...
But the core thing is.. other religions do not have a savior. Christianity does. Every other religion bases your eternity based on what YOU do, leaving you in doubt as to what will happen in your eternity, because we all know we can never be "good enough".
So you have a religion that fulfills prophecy in line with what it's scripture says, AND actually has a savior so that you can have security and trust in your eternity, AND a God who actually cares about His creation and doesn't just see an ant pile and Him with a giant magnifying glass and a pack of firecrackers.
I'm not going to debate you but thanks. Christ being savior and God inspiring the bible that teaches that is paramount imo.
I think your missing the point and that is that the author was not anyone but the Holy Spirit for our training (interpretation aside) and that is what makes it unique. That now brings the trinity into focus.I think you're missing the point
and that is that every religion claims its true and that its scripture is the word of God/gods
your idea that "well only Christianity has a bible that claims that it is the word of God" is false.
What OP is questioning, is for someone who wasn't born into a church going family, or perhaps was born into a family that practices another religion, what stands out about Christianity and why have faith in it vs any other religion they could be exposed to (that also have scriptures claiming to be the word of God) or born into practicing?
Say someone is born into Islam, having been taught since they could form words in their mouth that there is one God and his name is Allah and Mohammad is his prophet. Like that has been beaten into their head as truth, and they've read the Qur'an as the word of God since they could read.
How do you convince them that your holy book is the word of God and not theirs?
and honestly, I ask this because I talk to Muslims frequently online and am always looking for ways to reach them and witness to them. My best angle has been Jesus Himself, who they believe is a prophet, they even believe He will return, they just don't believe He died for their sins and is the Son of God. They believe He will come back and proclaim for Islam.
Sometimes, because I believe Jesus is returning very soon, I compare Eschatology with them, and teach them to recognize what Jesus said His return will be like, and to not believe the first person who might claim to be Jesus returned. But rather one that is preceded by the sun and moon darkening.
They anticipate following Jesus when He returns and sometimes it's all I can do to make sure I point out what the right Jesus will return like, and pray that they'll follow Him when He returns, They might not accept Jesus as their savior but they know to follow Him when He comes back. so if I can point them to the real Jesus.. I can hope that they cannot deny who He is and repent then at least.. because convincing them against their entire life teachings that has professed to be the one and only true word of God for decades in their life .. that's hard to do.
Their book makes the same claims the bible does.
The difference is ours has a savior and theirs does not.
I think your missing the point and that is that the author was not anyone but the Holy Spirit for our training (interpretation aside) and that is what makes it unique. That now brings the trinity into focus.
Nor do I. Mohammed, like the OT prophets (of whom he claims to be one), says "Thus saith the Lord God". Christians do not believe this to be true. So once again, the question is: Is Christianity True Or Not? The question Is Christianity Better than Hinduism (or Islam, or Judaism, of whatever) is silly. "Is Christianity True" makes sense.Does Mohamad claim to be God as His Word given directly thru the Holy Spirit as God? I think not.
Nor do I. Mohammed, like the OT prophets (of whom he claims to be one), says "Thus saith the Lord God". Christians do not believe this to be true. So once again, the question is: Is Christianity True Or Not? The question Is Christianity Better than Hinduism (or Islam, or Judaism, of whatever) is silly. "Is Christianity True" makes sense.
It's rather like arithmetic. 2+2 isn't said to be four because it's a better answer than 2+2=17. It's becase 2=2=4 is true, and 2+2-17 is not. If you're an accountant needing to balance your books, 2+2=17 may be a much better answer for your purposes, but alas, it isn't true.
Agreed on all points. You've obviously done your homework, thank you!a
What they see is a narrative in the old testament that the qu'ran continues, and the New Testament got corrupted and derailed, so when they refer to it they treat it like the book of Enoch, containing some truth, but also error.
Agreed on all points. You've obviously done your homework, thank you!
I was not looking for “better”. If I wanted the pick the “best” religion, I like ‘Shintoism’. I went looking for TRUTH and found most religions fail the test of truth … the God of the Bible passed the test of reality.This is just a question seeking an answer, I don't understand why believing in God is better than other religions
The greatest conceivable being cannot be inferior to you or me so that being would have a mind, be rational, have knowledge, and have personhood, all at a much higher level than ourselves. But greater than omniscience and omnipotence would be if this being loved.This is just a question seeking an answer, I don't understand why believing in God is better than other religions
The greatest conceivable being cannot be inferior to you or me so that being would have a mind, be rational, have knowledge, and have personhood, all at a much higher level than ourselves. But greater than omniscience and omnipotence would be if this being loved.
In Christianity the greatest virtue is love. It’s the nature of God and the motivation behind everything Jesus said and did. There’s nothing greater, nothing that could make our existence better, than the fact that God is love. Goodness and love, then, are foundational to this universe, even with the messed up world we live in. Creation: us, needs to get on board with that love as well and then our world would be rid of sin, God’s will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. It comes from Him, the source of love. And it’s ours as we turn to Him, beginning with faith.
What greater God, what higher thing, could there be than a Creator being who would enter this world and suffer and die at the hands of His own sinful creation, because of their sin, forgiving all the while in order to prove a love so wide and vast and deep that we can only begin to comprehend it. That’s a God worth believing in, hoping in, and, most importantly, loving.
One quibble: Arabic speaking Christians (most Copts, for instance) refer to God the Father as Allah. Our gripe with Islam is not that Muslims worship some pagan deity of their own; they don't. They worship God, but they've been taught a bunch of stuff about Him that just ain't so. They're heretics, but not idolaters.even if, IF the "true" god was Allah
In the mid 90s I was serving as associate pastor in a church in Irvine CA. The church once had an Arabic mission which had moved out and left a case of Arabic bibles and other Arabic literature. A medical missionary team from a very militant Muslim country, which I will not name, visited our church. He was a pharmacist, she was a nurse. After their presentation I spoke to them about the Bibles they were very happy. I was able to recognize the Arabic "Allah" in the Bibles. She said they could work with that. They said they were unable to keep enough Bibles on hand. The locals would sneak up to the hospital at night and ask for "The Book", That is what it is called in the Quran.One quibble: Arabic speaking Christians (most Copts, for instance) refer to God the Father as Allah. Our gripe with Islam is not that Muslims worship some pagan deity of their own; they don't. They worship God, but they've been taught a bunch of stuff about Him that just ain't so. They're heretics, but not idolaters.
One quibble: Arabic speaking Christians (most Copts, for instance) refer to God the Father as Allah. Our gripe with Islam is not that Muslims worship some pagan deity of their own; they don't. They worship God, but they've been taught a bunch of stuff about Him that just ain't so. They're heretics, but not idolaters.