Responses. I will finish watching the video and respond to the rest later:
1) The story of Noah and his drunkeness is not a hidden story. I have heard it discussed in church. The story says that Noah got drunk; it does not say that Noah was an alcoholic. It is possible to get completely smashed, do something crazy and not be an alcholic. Even if he was an alcoholic, that does not mean that he could not build an ark. Please. Not all alcoholics are falling down drunks that can't keep a job. There is such a thing as a functioning alcoholic.
2) The Bible is a record of real human behavior. It does not gloss over the bad behavior of prophets in order to lionize them. The Bible is an honest record of the sins and faults of the people of God.
The Quran on the other hand presents prophets in a very truncated, limited way. It really is a Reader's Digest version of the Old Testament. The prophets could not have been faultless and sinless, just as Muhammed was far from perfect and sinless.
3) We ask questions all the time! I have never, ever been told not to ask questions as a Christian. I became a Christian by reading the Bible and asking questions.
4) Jesus explicitly claims divinity and oneness with God:
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves...And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
5) re: Cursed is one who hangs on a tree. Muslims don't understand who the Messiah was supposed to be and what he was supposed to accomplish. He had to take on the curse of humanity in order to purify us. That was foretold in the Old Testament, but the teacher in this video must have missed it:
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
M.
. Again, what Matt said is spot on, and the information in the Quran is so contradicting, and just wrong. Did you know that the Quran makes it clear that Muhammad thought that the holy trinity was the father son and Mary? Did you know that part of Quran says no to kill, while another part says kill the infidels? Not to mention the Quran imposes not a religion, but a type of government, it was probably the best system ever created to control man and justify military conquest, but as a religious book its contradicting, and makes god look like a wrathful, unloving god who hates all, except muslims and on top of that only loves the select righteous muslims, which we both know isn't true from the Old and New Testament.
