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Are you going to obey sharia law without fail. Or are you going to endure punishment? Jesus , God has mercy because we can’t obey a set of detailed rules. He said love was the fulfillment of all the laws. His love, our love his obedience, our failing but sincerely trying. He forgives us, takes our guilt and shame, sets us on the rock and says try again. Most of us are not doing too well right now but if we endure in repentance, in His mercy and Bible reading for encouragement we can still be successful Christians. Not in money but in the spirit. I don’t think Allah cares if you commit suicide or not! But Jesus does. OP.
 
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Hello my brothers and sisters under God.

I am Inzamam from Pakistan. I am here to find out more about Christianity as I am struggling to reconcile parts of my Muslim faith. The story of the prophet is sacred and holy but there are some aspects that make me uncomfortable like his keeping of an under age wife. How would a Christian get to grips with such a problem?

Thank you kindly.

Your friend, Inzamam


I see it this way: every religion, whether Islam, Christianity or Judaism, has a religious and a political side. About the religious side of a religion there is usually little negative to say, but very much about the political side of a faith. Because this is about power, not religion.
I do not dwell on describing what a founder of religion and his followers have done good or evil, because more or less all monotheistic religions have done so. It is important to me to describe the essence of a religion. And there are deficits between faith and action in every religion.
Three examples from three different religions:

1. Judaism:
In Judaism, as in Islam, one is hospitable. But, if a Muslim knocks on the door of a Jew, he is scared away.

2. Christianity:
When you come new to a church community, you are showered with love. However, if one takes a different opinion, based on biblical scientific knowledge, one is called "renegade" and "apostate".

3. Islam:
Women have few rights in Islam. They may be beaten, raped and murdered, and the woman is always to blame for her own murder, and the perpetrator, usually husband, brother or father, is not punished by law.

One of the reasons I believe in God, but not in a religion.
 
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Marrying off a little girl much younger than this does seem irreconcilable to me, and to most people, I imagine. From what I have read, Muhammad married a six year old child, and had sex with her when she was nine. This is immoral in every way.

When judging a text or a situation, you make the same mistake that many make: they judge from today's point of view, without incorporating the ancient view in their judgment.
In the time of Muhammad, child marriages were common. Not only in Islam, but also in Judaism, and partly also in Christianity (on the Arabian Peninsula).
So Muhammad did nothing that was against the law of that time, as he paid a bride price for his father.
From today's point of view, this marriage between Muhamad and Ayshe/Aisha is of course a "no go"!
Today, in many Muslim countries, child marriages are made, as in Hinduism, and in some Christian sects. These women are often married to much older men for which they are the fourth, fifth, or sixth living wife. It is easy for men to divorce in Islam, but not for women, even if their husbands beat, rape, or light them with fire.
But what about Christianity?
Not as bad as in Islam, but also very bad. Consider the many cases of child abuse in churches, and the attempts at cover-up. Or the witch-burnings in the Middle Ages, on it; that women were considered less valuable in the Church, and still apply in some churches.
And what about the right of every woman to determine for herself her body and her life, which some Christian churches refuse them?
If you point one finger at others, you should remember that four fingers of your hand point at yourself!
 
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Hello my brothers and sisters under God.

I am Inzamam from Pakistan. I am here to find out more about Christianity as I am struggling to reconcile parts of my Muslim faith. The story of the prophet is sacred and holy but there are some aspects that make me uncomfortable like his keeping of an under age wife. How would a Christian get to grips with such a problem?

Thank you kindly.

Your friend, Inzamam
Fortunately, Christianity doesn't have a hero of our faith that married someone as young as Aisha. I therefore haven't had to struggle with a question like this.
 
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Fortunately, Christianity doesn't have a hero of our faith that married someone as young as Aisha. I therefore haven't had to struggle with a question like this.

In the first centuries of Christian era, up to the early Middle Ages, child marriages, marriages between clergy and children, as well as between clergy and adult women (when one was considered an adult at the age of 10) were as normal as a breakfast at Burger King today.
Celibacy was not established until the 4th century, but no one from the clergy, whether priests or popes, adhered to it. They had open and secret wives, concubines and catamites available in the clergy.
Double standards have always been a unique selling point in the Catholic Church.
 
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In the first centuries of Christian era, up to the early Middle Ages, child marriages, marriages between clergy and children, as well as between clergy and adult women (when one was considered an adult at the age of 10) were as normal as a breakfast at Burger King today.
Celibacy was not established until the 4th century, but no one from the clergy, whether priests or popes, adhered to it. They had open and secret wives, concubines and catamites available in the clergy.
Double standards have always been a unique selling point in the Catholic Church.
In the Roman Empire, it was illegal to marry a girl younger than 12. Marriages could be arranged before then, and were often arranged years before that age. Nevertheless, even with these years of pre-planning, marriage normally happened in the teenage years for affluent families, and closer to 20 for common farmers and such. By contrast, Aisha was around 9 when Mohammed allegedly consummated his relationship with her, IIRC.
 
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Hello my brothers and sisters under God.

I am Inzamam from Pakistan. I am here to find out more about Christianity as I am struggling to reconcile parts of my Muslim faith. The story of the prophet is sacred and holy but there are some aspects that make me uncomfortable like his keeping of an under age wife. How would a Christian get to grips with such a problem?

Thank you kindly.

Your friend, Inzamam

Both faiths speak of deity, and Muslims seem to see our Creator as a mysterious Being in the spirit world; and Mohammed is a Prophet supposedly sent forth to show us how to live in this world by ordinances and rituals and certain works, to have acceptance and entrance into Paradise when they die. Death by killing who they see as not good enough is quite acceptable by the Muslims it seems. I don't know all the details of their belief, but it is mostly by works to earn favor, I have understood.

Christians see Jesus --the Christ of God (meaning annointed One): is God's own Son sent down in the flesh; and to save lost souls from the fall in sin as in Genesis 2 & 3 as the Holy Bible shows.

The main difference, friend, is that the Muslim faith is about a common man who was supposedly called by God to teaching and service to bring people to know about the Creator. Christianity is speaking of God manifest in the flesh as a Man: Jesus, the Christ (annointed One), who was both man and deity as the Bible makes clear. God came down to dwell in the form of a man through the virgin: Mary, and entered her to deliver His Son to be our Creator-God. God is seen as Creator and Holy Spirit; Savior-God in Jesus --the Christ, born of a Virgin by the indwelling of God; also Teacher and leader and comforter and spiritual guide, who then in due time became the 'sacrificial Lamb of God on the Altar' (---as shown in type by the Israelites with animal sacrifices), who gave Himself as the "Lamb of God" on the Cross to redeem man as the New Testament shows. The Holy Spirit seals the believer who receives Jesus-the Christ into their life, becomes a "child of God" forever and will dwell in Heaven with Him. That is the essence, at least, of the truth, as our Bible shows. More detail is shown in our Holy Bible.
 
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OP, I'm pleased that you are starting to question Islam. Please investigate what the Bible has to say about Jesus and compare Him to Mohammad. I think you will find striking differences (like the fact that Jesus would never have had an underage wife, if He had gotten married).
 
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