The problem with your reasoning is that we haven't been here billions of years. Even the Qu'ran teaches that.
I never said we have been here billions of years but if we were we would have had the proper time to evolve into a higher species or would have had enough time be be extinct
. Depends on how you look at it.
Also I said "millions" not billions as I know of no animal that can trace its genetic legacy that far back.
You obviously do not understand evolution at all.
The Koran, if one interprets it literally, teaches a six-day creation. Adam and Eve were created in innocent perfection and placed in a beautiful garden. Here Satan tempted them to rebel against God by eating the forbidden fruit, thus incurring God's wrath and judgment, and expulsion from the Garden.
The wicked pre-flood civilization is described at length. Eventually, Noah is told to build the Ark; and from its passengers the entire world has been repopulated. The description of the flood closely resembles the Biblical description, with vast rainfall, eruptions, and earthquakes. As to the age of the earth, again a straightforward reading implies a creation of all things a few thousand years agono room for billions of years of evolution.
You are aware that I do not accept this concept correct? As far as I am concerned Adam and Eve were the first male and female Homo Sapiens to diverge from the era of Homo Neanderthalensis.
No such evidence to prove a young earth exist. No such evidence for a flood or Nuh exists either. These are mythological conjurations provided to establish a point placed in the Tawrat.
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Gladly. The Bible shows us how to tell a true prophet from a false prophet. I'll let you determine if your prophet fits these characteristics.
1) What does this teacher say about Jesus? In Matthew 16:15-16, Jesus asks, Who do you say I am? Peter answers, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God, and for this answer Peter is called blessed. In 2 John 9, we read, Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. In other words, Jesus Christ and His work of redemption is of utmost importance; beware of anyone who denies that Jesus is equal with God, who downplays Jesus sacrificial death, or who rejects Jesus humanity. First John 2:22 says, Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichristhe denies the Father and the Son.
Irrelevant as I do not accept any claim of historicity in the Bible.
2) Does this teacher preach the gospel? The gospel is defined as the good news concerning Jesus death, burial, and resurrection, according to the Scriptures (
1 Corinthians 15:1-4). As nice as they sound, the statements God loves you, God wants us to feed the hungry, and God wants you to be wealthy are not the complete message of the gospel. As Paul warns in Galatians 1:7, Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. No one, not even a great preacher, has the right to change the message that God gave us. If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! (Galatians 1:9).
Muhammad didnot preach the Gospel, he taught his perceived form of it and did so to remove any errant teaching in it which wean't against Tawhid/Monotheism.
3) Does this teacher exhibit character qualities that glorify the Lord? Speaking of false teachers,
Jude 11 says, They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaams error; they have been destroyed in Korahs rebellion. In other words, a false teacher can be known by his pride (Cains rejection of Gods plan), greed (Balaams prophesying for money), and rebellion (Korahs promotion of himself over Moses). Jesus said to beware of such people and that we would know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-20).
Does not matter. In the Bible Saul is ordered to commit and act of genocide, as is Moses and these acts appear in accordance to Yahweh. To say Muhammad has taken a low ground is quite an understatement of events.
Do you believe in them as the Bible does, or as the Qu'ran does, or do you simply make your own religion? This is not an attack, but a serious question. Most religions speak of prohets, including Christianity and Islam.
I believe in what common sense and proven evidence provides. If anything disproves the Bible or Qur'an it must be rejected. No holy-book is perfect and they are the constructs of both wise men and foolish men. The Bible, Qur'an, Bhagvad Gita and various other texts have existed because they were written by very wise men and constructed in form of eloquence.
They are insightful and should face just as much criticism as a scientist who makes a hypothesis which is later proven to be false.
I cannot validate everything the Qur'an says as there is no proof of it but I can still salvage what I know of it and study the rest until the very day I die. Reason comes before religion and religion itself is a man-made construct. Christianity and Islam are both religions constructed by men around the textual statements of a book or doctrine preached before the compilation's creation.
To be an adherent of Islam is to be an adherent of a man-made construct from the parts of the Qur'an as such.....
Surat al-Baqara "....
كَافَّةً يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ "
The word in red is Islaam. The very word Islam is removed from the Qur'an and used to define the religion constructed out of the Qur'an. I could easily remove a word from Homer's The Odyssey and construct my own religion but regardless of its source it is still based off a book subject to criticism and personal analysis.
I choose the faith Islam not because I am a Muslim in accordance to the mad'dhab under Sunniyyah or Shi'iayya yet alone Sufiyyah. I am a Muslim because my definition of god can be found int he Qur'an along with the perception of this being.
I can easily be compared to Ahl'e Qur'an in that my religion can be found
in the Qur'an but it is not
of the Qur'an.
If you entirely reject what is taught by your prophet, either your "prophet" is a liar or you are lying when you claim to follow his teaching. You can't be the follower of one whose teachings you reject. Mohammed confirmed most of the Old testament and rejected most of the new. You seem to reject both the Bible and the Qu'ran. Upon what rock you you build your faith?
Thomas Paine - Age of Reason......
"When I am told that the Koran was written in Heaven and brought
to Mahomet by an angel, the account comes too near the same kind of
hearsay evidence and second-hand authority as the former. I did not
see the angel myself, and, therefore, I have a right not to believe
it."
I did not witness the events Muhammad claims and I cannot validate them nor can you do such with the Bible as much of it has been invalidated. But I can agree with the teachings taught by both the Bible and the Qur'an with political ideology aside as well. The very meaning of the words I use in my Title are Zin'diq Muslem meaning Heretical Muslim. It can also designate a Free thinking man who is not bound by the constructs of an institutionalized prison that corrupts the mind and its ability to form rational conclusion based on evidence