Good Afternoon,
I hope everybody is fine
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I think I have to make one clarification. Before I do that, I have to say that I do not mean to offend anybody (as some christians might find this offensive) and I respect whatever beliefs others may have. This clarification regards what Muslims believe.
As I have said before, we believe that Jesus(AS) was the prophet of the one true God and he was a human being like us. We believe that by stating that Jesus(AS) is the son of God, you are actually associating partners with the one true God. Furthermore, we believe that the present day versions of the Bible are not equal to the original bible...in other words we believe the present day versions of the Bible are the distorted truth. (This is not the place to discuss the reasons for this belief). Now, read my post again. Now, here is what the Muslims believe. Jesus(AS) came as a prophet from the one true God to his people. He called them to the same thing as all of the prophets before him, i.e. "There is no god but God and I am the prophet of God". There were people who accepted the message. However, later on, something occured, the likeness of which had occured after the demise of earlier prophets. Followers of Jesus(AS) distorted the truth, changed the words of the Holy Bible with their own words and started worshipping Jesus(AS) as the son of God. Soon after the truth was distorted for the umpteenth time by mankind, God sent down another prophet which was to be the last prophet. He was prophet Muhammad(SA), a mercy to the entire universe and definitely a mercy for mankind until the day of Judgement. He called towards the same thing as the other prophets "There is no god but God and I am the messenger of God". Some amongst the Jews and Christians decided to believe him and became Muslim after realizing that this was the prophet of God, the coming of whom had been predicted in their holy books. Others rejected and remained Christian or Jew. Infact, there is a steady stream of Jews and Christians that are realizing the same thing in present times and becoming Muslim and ofcourse, there are those that are rejecting despite the prediction of another prophet being in their holy books. So we have present day christianity and Judaism (spelling?). So, we believe that christians are not submitted to the will of the one true God because they are not doing what God has commanded them to do (e.g. worship none other than Him....and that means not worshipping Jesus(AS)) and they are doing that which God had commanded them not to do (e.g. worshipping Jesus(AS)). Obviously, since we believe that the present day versions of the bible contain the distorted truth, we also believe that it is not the place to turn for the absolute truth which will tell us the will of God so that we can submit to it. So, even with respect to the definition of the word, Christians are not 'Muslims'. The only way they could be is if they accept the Quran as the absolute truth because the Holy Quran is the only book left that is the word of God, word for word and so it states exactly what God wants from us and how to submit to Him. It makes sense that God has chosen to preserve the truth in the form of the Holy Quran since there will be no more prophets and so if the truth were to be distorted for the (umpteen+1)th time, humanity would be lost with no place to go for the absolute truth...indeed it is a mercy from God...from Allah. If Christians accepted the Holy Quran as the absolute truth, they would be Muslims indeed...and that is what we, as Muslims, believe. I hope that explains why Muslims don't believe that christians are submitted to the one true God
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your brother in humanity,
Zeeshan.
