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I do strongly think that the underlying fact there is, is in whether God (YHWH) the Father of Jesus is actually the same as the god of the Muslims; Allah.
Firstly, I should never involve myself in an argument with a Muslim on whether Jesus is the Son of God or not. This is because; Allah is not YHWH (Exodus 6:2-3, 23:13).This God YHWH is the God of the Christians.
YHWH God the Father of Jesus is one but He extends Himself in the Son and in the Holy Spirit (John 5:26). He is not three Gods; He is one God YHWH (Deuteronomy 6:4, 32:39), (Isaiah 42:8, 43:10-11, 44:6), (Mark 12:29-34), (John 10:30), (Revelation 1:8).
It does not at all mean that by being the Son of God, having come from heaven, or strongly claim to be God like the God in Heaven, Jesus is another God. NO NOT. YHWH God is one God. Amen.
Trinity
Christians believe in the Trinity (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit). Are these three Gods? No not. These are not three Gods. Rather these are not three different personalities. God YHWH is one person and He is an entity. Take for example, I could remain the same person but serving in different capacities. That does not mean I have become three. No not.
God is complete in the three. For each of the three is serving a given task and purpose. And it has been like this ever since we ever appeared as beings on earth. For when God created the earth, it was the Spirit of God hovering over it (Genesis 1:1).
Jesus taught that Him and the Father are one (John 10:30). He went on to say that the Son does nothing that He is not learnt from the Father (John 5:19-25). Jesus admonished that how and what He does is exactly how the Father would.
Of the Holy Spirit, Jesus taught that He (Holy Spirit) does what He is been instructed from the Son (John 16:14-16). And upon this, we are to be baptized in the name of the three (Matthew 28:18-20). For each of the three in one serves a purpose that can't be or should not be performed by the other. For example, the Father could not come to die for the world. It is of the Son to. But if the Son has done so, so has the Father and the Holy Spirit the three work in agreement.
But this is not that the Father can't do what the Son can do, but that it is not the Father's role to perform the role of the Son. In the same understanding, the Holy Spirit does the work of engagement with us. The Holy Spirit gives us the message from the government of heaven.
The Muslim perception of three in one is that these are three bodies entirely different. But we have pretty explained how it is not to be taken literally. Rather it is divine. So, we understand differently. But so be it, because YHWH is not Allah, and Allah is not YHWH. One is called YHWH and the other is called Allah.
Allah is not and can't be father
Allah has no son or sons. Allah has slaves. Allah's people are his slaves. On the other hand, YHWH God has a Son and sons in us. And this God YHWH is the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus (Matthew 3:15-18, 17:1-5), (Mark 1:9-12), (John 14:13). Even the demons do attest to this (Luke 4:41). The same is also our Father (Genesis 1:27), (Psalms 82:6), (Hosea 11:1), (John 1:12-13).
Who is YHWH?
God YHWH is definable and distinct. He has an address. For scripture directs that God is Spirit and He is addressed in the Spirit (John 4:23-24). So, if you want to do anything in faith, it is if you are directed to do it in the Spirit. And upon this, you will not meet God anywhere else that is not in the Spirit.
Who is Allah?
But who is Allah? How does the Quran describe Allah? What is he? Is he spirit? If he is spirit, what spirit is he? Well, the Quran says Allah is light, his light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within a glass (Quran 24:35). So, just like the Bible says that God is Spirit, so it is that Allah is a candle. Not so? Or Allah is amorphous?
For we can't say of YHWH that He is like... YHWH is not like. YHWH is Spirit and it is of Him to be. When He presented to Moses and Moses asked who He was, God replied that I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14). Meaning it is not for you to ask because your opinion doesn't count.
Yes, it is pretty true that God seats in heaven. But we can't say He is like anything because He can be whatever He wants to. God is Spirit and that is it.
He appears and tells Moses that I AM WHO I AM. So, YHWH and Allah are purely two different God/gods. One should have his name written in small case and that is allah, and the other should have His name written in big case and boldened, and that is YHWH.
Yet the Quran has said Allah is not anything, but he is like a candle! Meaning it is not of him to be, but he is rather like. Is this the way the almighty God can best be described? So, upon this, we can reliably conclude that Allah is nebulous and characterless. Allah is not inherent and he is not self existing because he has no definitive shape of his own.
Trinity
Christians believe in the Trinity (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit). Are these three Gods? No not. These are not three Gods. Rather these are not three different personalities. God YHWH is one person and He is an entity. Take for example, I could remain the same person but serving in different capacities. That does not mean I have become three. No not.
God is complete in the three. For each of the three is serving a given task and purpose. And it has been like this ever since we ever appeared as beings on earth. For when God created the earth, it was the Spirit of God hovering over it (Genesis 1:1).
Jesus taught that Him and the Father are one (John 10:30). He went on to say that the Son does nothing that He is not learnt from the Father (John 5:19-25). Jesus admonished that how and what He does is exactly how the Father would.
Of the Holy Spirit, Jesus taught that He (Holy Spirit) does what He is been instructed from the Son (John 16:14-16). And upon this, we are to be baptized in the name of the three (Matthew 28:18-20). For each of the three in one serves a purpose that can't be or should not be performed by the other. For example, the Father could not come to die for the world. It is of the Son to. But if the Son has done so, so has the Father and the Holy Spirit the three work in agreement.
But this is not that the Father can't do what the Son can do, but that it is not the Father's role to perform the role of the Son. In the same understanding, the Holy Spirit does the work of engagement with us. The Holy Spirit gives us the message from the government of heaven.
The Muslim perception of three in one is that these are three bodies entirely different. But we have pretty explained how it is not to be taken literally. Rather it is divine. So, we understand differently. But so be it, because YHWH is not Allah, and Allah is not YHWH. One is called YHWH and the other is called Allah.
Allah is not and can't be father
Allah has no son or sons. Allah has slaves. Allah's people are his slaves. On the other hand, YHWH God has a Son and sons in us. And this God YHWH is the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus (Matthew 3:15-18, 17:1-5), (Mark 1:9-12), (John 14:13). Even the demons do attest to this (Luke 4:41). The same is also our Father (Genesis 1:27), (Psalms 82:6), (Hosea 11:1), (John 1:12-13).
Who is YHWH?
God YHWH is definable and distinct. He has an address. For scripture directs that God is Spirit and He is addressed in the Spirit (John 4:23-24). So, if you want to do anything in faith, it is if you are directed to do it in the Spirit. And upon this, you will not meet God anywhere else that is not in the Spirit.
Who is Allah?
But who is Allah? How does the Quran describe Allah? What is he? Is he spirit? If he is spirit, what spirit is he? Well, the Quran says Allah is light, his light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within a glass (Quran 24:35). So, just like the Bible says that God is Spirit, so it is that Allah is a candle. Not so? Or Allah is amorphous?
For we can't say of YHWH that He is like... YHWH is not like. YHWH is Spirit and it is of Him to be. When He presented to Moses and Moses asked who He was, God replied that I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14). Meaning it is not for you to ask because your opinion doesn't count.
Yes, it is pretty true that God seats in heaven. But we can't say He is like anything because He can be whatever He wants to. God is Spirit and that is it.
He appears and tells Moses that I AM WHO I AM. So, YHWH and Allah are purely two different God/gods. One should have his name written in small case and that is allah, and the other should have His name written in big case and boldened, and that is YHWH.
Yet the Quran has said Allah is not anything, but he is like a candle! Meaning it is not of him to be, but he is rather like. Is this the way the almighty God can best be described? So, upon this, we can reliably conclude that Allah is nebulous and characterless. Allah is not inherent and he is not self existing because he has no definitive shape of his own.
Cutting differences in perceptions of father between Christians and Muslims.
The other major underlying difference lies in the fact that the perspectives or perceptions of Father/father for that matter, differ in both faiths. The perspective of father in the Muslim faith is that you must have had sexual relations with a woman and thereby have a biological child.
This is where the strong argument of whether Jesus is Son of God or not emanates. The Muslim belief is that god/Allah is too holy to have sexual relations with human beings, he can’t therefore be father. Yet since to be father you must have had sexual relations with a woman, (at least according to the Muslim faith), it is blasphemy to say Jesus is the Son of God. But just as we pointed out above, Allah is not YHWH.
The Christian perspective of Father on the other hand is not as a result having to have sexual relations with a woman. One can be father in many perspectives, e.g. by virtue of age, responsibility, etc. Even the Muslims attest that Abraham is father to us all. Yet except the Israelites, the Arabs, and a few others, the rest of us can't claim any biological closeness to Abraham. For what qualifies us to be Abraham's children is that we believe in what he believes in.
But in this particular case of God being the Father of Jesus and to us, (Jesus being our elder brother), God is Father to us because He is our creator, He feeds us, we are of and from Him, and He has all the responsibility over us (John 1:12-13). This same God, in addition to the name YHWH, it is accompanied by many other titles just intended to literally depict what purpose God is to us. For each title serves to explain a particular purpose of God in our lives. Say for example JEHOVAH JIREH (Genesis 22:14), JEHOVAH SHALOM (Judges 6:24), JEHOVAH NISSI (Exodus 17:15), etc.
The almighty God never needed (at all) to have sexual relations with Virgin Mary so to get Jesus. NO NEVER. Actually the Bible states it how Mary wondered it would happen yet she was a virgin, this is what the angel Gabriel had to say to Mary (Luke 1:35) "...The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you; therefore that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God”.
By Christians calling Him (Jesus) what He is (Son of God), there is no any such insinuation or connotation that this is so because there was ever sexual relations between God and Mary. And it is not like that. NO. NEVER. Jesus existed even before Mary did (John 8:58).
Yet this is not the only source of variance between the Christian teaching and the Muslim teaching. If you consider it, say in terms of historical facts, practices, beliefs, relations, marriage, etc, they are totally incomparable. The Muslim teaching on many central issues is entirely diabolical and thereby totally unacceptable to the Christians. Say for example on such topics as follows, the Muslim teaching is entirely different from that of the Christians:
Eye for eye
The Christian teaching about eye for eye is entirely different from that of the Muslim teaching. While the Christians encourage forgiveness and let go, the Muslim teaching dictates that everything must be paid back equally (Quran 5:45).
While one may argue that this teaching is equally traceable in the Bible (Exodus 21:20-25), it is imperative to understand that these were laws intended for and practiced in the Jewish religion. But we are talking about the Christian practice and not otherwise. This is what Jesus taught about revenge:
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. (Matthew 5:38-42)
Beheading
Islamic state and all its subscribers have been castigated and demonized for chopping off people's heads and making it seem even simpler than slaughtering chicken. Neither do I have any reservations. Albeit I ought to pray for them rather than keep imagining how evil they are.
The whole world (Muslims inclusive) has been heard express their total disapproval of such unprecedented levels of barbarism. But this is to miss the point, despite the disapproval almost by everyone, it is what the Quran teaches (Quran 8:12). So, if to say, they should be applauded rather than castigated!!!???
Jesus taught that if you imagine evil about another, you have already committed murder.
21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[b][c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’[d] is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:21-23)
In all this, you can realize how the Muslim view of things is entirely repugnant to the Christian teaching. It is even entirely and gravely mistaken for the Muslims to claim Jesus as one of their prophets. How can Jesus be prophet in Islam yet His teachings are totally detestable to the Muslim teaching???!!! For the two are entirely incompatible.
Slavery
It is pretty undeniable (even by Muslims) how Islam does unquestioningly promote slavery of all nature. It does promote slavery of all people whenever and wherever it can be. Individuals, children, and women all can be viewed or even at worse treated as slaves. For it is official Islamic teaching to have and keep people as slaves (Quran 2:178). This makes it pretty puzzling how Muslims can harmonize this.
On the other hand, much as an individual Christian may have and keep a person as a slave, it is not official Christian doctrine to keep slaves. And Christianity teaches that if so, the master and the slave can negotiate a way out of this kind of situation. Rather the Bible offers ways how this kind of scenario can be solved. And if this is so, we can't be any mistaken not to believe the Bible does freely promote slavery like the Quran does.
Jesus taught freedom. He came to set the captives free.
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[a] (Luke 4:18-19).
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[a] (Luke 4:18-19).
It is now sin for a Christian to keep another as a slave. I wonder what it is amongst the Muslim faithfuls...?!
Torture
The Quran encourages torture. If a prisoner is found to "harbor treacherous tricks" against Muhammad, then Muhammad has the right to torture them. He (Muhammad) is then at freedom to treat them in any way he wishes (Quran 8:67-71). Allah is so keen to make sure Muhammad is not offended at any one point. But if he is found to be offended at any one point, he is at freedom to act in his best interest. For Muhammad should not be or seem to be shamed at anyone point.
Now, compare this with How Jesus reacted when He was tortured.
Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,
(Luke 22:63)
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him. They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" read more. And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots (Matthew 27:27-35).
The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort. They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him; and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" read more. And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take (Mark 15:16-24).
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; and they began to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face. There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between (John 19:2-18).
When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left (Luke 23:33).
Jesus never reacted (with the evil human anger) at anyone time to anyone who attacked Him. He remained focused and committed to the mission. And above all, Jesus never took anything personal. He forgave the very people who crucified Him (Luke 23:34). Muhammad never gave his life for the sake of anybody else. He would rather destroy everybody else to save his.
Marriage
YHWH instructs us to marry one wife who is not to be divorced (Matthew 19:8), (Mark 10:5). Terribly differently, Allah tells his followers to marry four wives with freedom to divorce them.
If this is the same God, then man can't be tried and later alone convicted for his terrible contradictions. But if it so happens that Allah is God, I will ask him to keep me out of his heaven. I do not respect him, neither do I obey him. I choose to save him the stress. He should not be bothered with me.
Bible and Quran
The Christian official book of faith is the Bible, and the Muslim official book of faith is the Quran. I hear people falsely claim these two are similar. And I keep asking how similar they are!!!??? If they ever were similar, at least by cover, why and how do we find each of us in two totally different worlds???!!!
The Bible teaches Jesus is the Son of God (Matthew 17:5), (John 5:19, 5:26-27, 14:13). Upon this, even the demons attest that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (Luke 8:28). The Quran on the other hand vehemently denies Jesus is the Son of God (Quran 9:30, 19:34-35).
The Bible teaches Jesus died on the cross for the remission of the human sin (Matthew 26:28), (Ephesians 1:7). The Quran calls it a hoax (Quran 4:157). With all this, someone in their stable minds conclude that the two books are similar???!!!
Mary or Miriam?
In the teaching of the Quran, how different is Mary mother of Jesus from Miriam the sister of Moses (Quran 19:27-28)? That Imran father of Aaron, Miriam and Moses is also biological father of Mary???!!! In between the time of Imran and Mary is a period of over 1400 years. And then Mary is daughter of Imran? (Quran 66:12). Did the so called Imran reincarnate?
The Quran teaches that Jesus spoke while He was a baby in the manger (Quran 19:24, 19:28-34). How this comes to be, totally ends with a big puzzle!!! It is only unique to the Quran.
According to the Bible teaching, Jesus was born, and as a baby, he underwent the normal stages any other baby undergoes. It takes two to four years for a normal baby to speak. I am sensing someone seeks to ferment an abnormal situation to create an abstract situation to lead innocent souls into a false belief.
The conception of Jesus by Mary
How Mary conceives Jesus according to the Quran is also entirely repugnant to how she does in the Bible. In the Quran, the angel Gabriel (Jibril) breathes into her, and then she conceives (Quran 21:91). On the other hand, the Bible states that the angel Gabriel appears to Mary in Nazareth and tells her she is favored of all women because she would conceive the Son of God and call Him Jesus (Luke 1:26-36).
How?
Mary wonders how it would be when she hadn't known any man. Then the angel Gabriel tells her the Holy Spirit would come on her and the power of the most high would overshadow her (Luke 34-35).
These are two totally independent narrations. Where at all is it similar???!!! For the Quran vehemently denies the crucial basics of the Christian faith. It denies who Jesus is. Neither do Christians ever agree that Muhammad is a true prophet of YHWH.
Is Muhammad a prophet?
Muhammad does not qualify for the type of a prophet from YHWH. Muhammad is never any slightly exemplary. If it were ever for a patient, Muhammad is terminally ill.
I for one, I do believe that my spiritual well being is way above that of Muhammad. But if I reach heaven and God YHWH ever tells me Muhammad is His prophet, then I will stage a protest in heaven. Muhammad does not qualify even for a deacon in a little local church. How can he???!!! Muhammad should be treated as a criminal, not any slightly a hero. How can he???!!!
The true characteristics of the prophet of God.
"And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:21-22)
"And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." (Numbers 12:6).
"He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:" (Numbers 24:16).
"He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:" (Numbers 24:4)
"For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me." (Daniel 10:17).
"For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me." (Daniel 10:17).
"Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me," (Daniel 10:18).
"The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him." (Jeremiah 28:9)
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." (2Peter 1:20).
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter 1:21).
"But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church." (1Corinthians 14:3-4)
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isaiah 8:20)
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (1 John 4:1-3)
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:15-20,
"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." (Exodus 15:20)
"And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." (Judges 4:4)
"And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect." (2Chronicles 34:22)
"And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;" (Luke 2:36)
"And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." (Acts 21:8-9)
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:" (Acts 2:17-18).
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before." (Matthew 24:24-25).
When mirrored in all this, Muhammad has no any slight chance to qualify. He can't commensurate to anyone of the parameters. Not even the least of them. If so, what prophet then is Muhammad???!!!
Torture
The Quran encourages torture. If a prisoner is found to "harbor treacherous tricks" against Muhammad, then Muhammad has the right to torture them. He (Muhammad) is then at freedom to treat them in any way he wishes (Quran 8:67-71). Allah is so keen to make sure Muhammad is not offended at any one point. But if he is found to be offended at any one point, he is at freedom to act in his best interest. For Muhammad should not be or seem to be shamed at anyone point.
Now, compare this with How Jesus reacted when He was tortured.
Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,
(Luke 22:63)
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him. They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" read more. And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots (Matthew 27:27-35).
The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort. They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him; and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" read more. And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take (Mark 15:16-24).
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; and they began to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face. There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between (John 19:2-18).
When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left (Luke 23:33).
Jesus never reacted (with the evil human anger) at anyone time to anyone who attacked Him. He remained focused and committed to the mission. And above all, Jesus never took anything personal. He forgave the very people who crucified Him (Luke 23:34). Muhammad never gave his life for the sake of anybody else. He would rather destroy everybody else to save his.
Marriage
YHWH instructs us to marry one wife who is not to be divorced (Matthew 19:8), (Mark 10:5). Terribly differently, Allah tells his followers to marry four wives with freedom to divorce them.
If this is the same God, then man can't be tried and later alone convicted for his terrible contradictions. But if it so happens that Allah is God, I will ask him to keep me out of his heaven. I do not respect him, neither do I obey him. I choose to save him the stress. He should not be bothered with me.
Bible and Quran
The Christian official book of faith is the Bible, and the Muslim official book of faith is the Quran. I hear people falsely claim these two are similar. And I keep asking how similar they are!!!??? If they ever were similar, at least by cover, why and how do we find each of us in two totally different worlds???!!!
The Bible teaches Jesus is the Son of God (Matthew 17:5), (John 5:19, 5:26-27, 14:13). Upon this, even the demons attest that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (Luke 8:28). The Quran on the other hand vehemently denies Jesus is the Son of God (Quran 9:30, 19:34-35).
The Bible teaches Jesus died on the cross for the remission of the human sin (Matthew 26:28), (Ephesians 1:7). The Quran calls it a hoax (Quran 4:157). With all this, someone in their stable minds conclude that the two books are similar???!!!
Mary or Miriam?
In the teaching of the Quran, how different is Mary mother of Jesus from Miriam the sister of Moses (Quran 19:27-28)? That Imran father of Aaron, Miriam and Moses is also biological father of Mary???!!! In between the time of Imran and Mary is a period of over 1400 years. And then Mary is daughter of Imran? (Quran 66:12). Did the so called Imran reincarnate?
The Quran teaches that Jesus spoke while He was a baby in the manger (Quran 19:24, 19:28-34). How this comes to be, totally ends with a big puzzle!!! It is only unique to the Quran.
According to the Bible teaching, Jesus was born, and as a baby, he underwent the normal stages any other baby undergoes. It takes two to four years for a normal baby to speak. I am sensing someone seeks to ferment an abnormal situation to create an abstract situation to lead innocent souls into a false belief.
The conception of Jesus by Mary
How Mary conceives Jesus according to the Quran is also entirely repugnant to how she does in the Bible. In the Quran, the angel Gabriel (Jibril) breathes into her, and then she conceives (Quran 21:91). On the other hand, the Bible states that the angel Gabriel appears to Mary in Nazareth and tells her she is favored of all women because she would conceive the Son of God and call Him Jesus (Luke 1:26-36).
How?
Mary wonders how it would be when she hadn't known any man. Then the angel Gabriel tells her the Holy Spirit would come on her and the power of the most high would overshadow her (Luke 34-35).
These are two totally independent narrations. Where at all is it similar???!!! For the Quran vehemently denies the crucial basics of the Christian faith. It denies who Jesus is. Neither do Christians ever agree that Muhammad is a true prophet of YHWH.
Is Muhammad a prophet?
Muhammad does not qualify for the type of a prophet from YHWH. Muhammad is never any slightly exemplary. If it were ever for a patient, Muhammad is terminally ill.
I for one, I do believe that my spiritual well being is way above that of Muhammad. But if I reach heaven and God YHWH ever tells me Muhammad is His prophet, then I will stage a protest in heaven. Muhammad does not qualify even for a deacon in a little local church. How can he???!!! Muhammad should be treated as a criminal, not any slightly a hero. How can he???!!!
The true characteristics of the prophet of God.
- The true Prophet of the Lord predicts that which does come to pass. If the Prophet's predictions fail, they are exposed as NOT of God.
"And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:21-22)
- The true Prophet of the Lord will receive visions or dreams from the Lord
"And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream." (Numbers 12:6).
- When in "vision" their eyes will be open
"He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:" (Numbers 24:16).
"He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:" (Numbers 24:4)
- When in "vision" a true Prophet will NOT breath. "Inspiration" = God Breathed, Therefore, since the Almighty is breathing through the Prophet communicating His Truth, the Prophet has no need to breath
"For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me." (Daniel 10:17).
- The true Prophet will collapse with absolutely no strength in him/her
"For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me." (Daniel 10:17).
- Once "touched in the "vision" the Prophet receives supernatural strength.
"Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me," (Daniel 10:18).
- A true Prophet will be 100% accurate. there is absolutely no margin for error.
"The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him." (Jeremiah 28:9)
- A true Prophet NEVER gives his private interpretation. He only shares what the Lord reveals. Scripture defines Scripture, not man.
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." (2Peter 1:20).
- A true Prophet only prophecies in the name of the Lord. He only seeks to glorify the Lord. He will never seek glory to himself. NEVER!
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter 1:21).
- A true Prophet will look to edify, comfort, and uplift the Church body by his testimony as well as exhort them.
"But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church." (1Corinthians 14:3-4)
- A true Prophet keeps God's Law, and abides by the testimony of the Bible Prophets as well. If a Prophet does not agree with the Bible Prophets, the he is false.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isaiah 8:20)
- A true Prophet believes and preaches the incarnation of Jesus Christ. He will preach Jesus as God who came to Earth and put on humanity in order to redeem us all.
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (1 John 4:1-3)
- A true Prophet will show good works, and have identifiable fruits of a Christian. He/she will have abundant BIBLICAL fruits!
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:15-20,
- Gender makes no difference. Women can, and have been prophet's as well.
"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." (Exodus 15:20)
"And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." (Judges 4:4)
"And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect." (2Chronicles 34:22)
"And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;" (Luke 2:36)
"And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." (Acts 21:8-9)
- Age makes NO difference in being a prophet.
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:" (Acts 2:17-18).
- Performing miracles proves nothing.
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before." (Matthew 24:24-25).
When mirrored in all this, Muhammad has no any slight chance to qualify. He can't commensurate to anyone of the parameters. Not even the least of them. If so, what prophet then is Muhammad???!!!
So, in all this, we come to learn that one God is totally repugnant to any other god. It so is pretty true that God YHWH does recognize that there are other gods. But He (YHWH) is the true God (Isaiah 43:10-12, 44:1-7, 45:1-5). He is the creator and the source of all.
Is Christianity any similar to Islam?
There is no way how Christianity can ever be similar to Islam. The argument that they both claim their source in father Abraham is terribly mistaken. If it were ever so, how could the same Abraham have ever been instructed to sacrifice Isaac (as is rightly claimed by the Christians and the Jews), and at the same time Ishmael? There is something terribly wrong here!? This then translates that these are two entirely different Abrahams.
Yet even when this story is being told by the writings of the Quran, it tends to give a dodgy narration by not mentioning the name of the child (Quran 37:99-113). Thus the Quran does not clearly give us a definitive picture of who the child is. The Bible on the other hand gives us a clear and definitive picture of exactly who the child is. What are the Muslims dodging???!!!
The case of Isaac and Ishmael
The case of Isaac and Ishmael
Contrast between Isaac and Ishmael
Isaac was conceived by miraculous intervention. He was conceived to a barren aged mother and an aged father (Genesis 17:15-17, 18:9-15, 21:1-7; Galatians 4:28-29). The Quran does indeed agree to this (Quran11:69-73, 51:24-30). On the other hand, Ishmael was conceived normally. Rather Ishmael was conceived under very normal circumstances. For when Sarai urges Abram to go in to Hagar, she was pretty convinced that Hagar would conceive with ease (Genesis 16). But with Isaac, it was by the very intervention of God almighty.
Isaac was born as a promise to Abraham (Genesis 17:15-21). Rather Isaac was not to be born a normal child. He (Isaac) was born when his parents had surpassed the child bearing age. To this, even the Quran attests (Quran 11:69-73, 37:112-113, 51:24-30). Yet nowhere are we being told, not even in the Quran that Ishmael was born out of promise.
God promised to bless Ishmael materially, but He pretty admonished Abraham that the covenant child was Isaac (Genesis 17:15-22). Ishmael had no part in the covenant God made with Isaac. For only the descendants of Isaac would inherit the land (Genesis 13:14-18, 15:18-21, 28:13-14). And it was in and through Isaac that God would bless all the nations of the earth. We can't trace any such promise about Ishmael. Not even in the Quran.
In view of the above, both Muslims and Christians must understand that differences in perspectives firstly emanate from the fact that the two are referring to two different situations and facts.
One god called Allah can’t be father because by being so, he must have had sexual relations with a woman. He therefore can’t be father because he is not human to do that.
YHWH is Father not by having sexual relations with a woman, but by virtue of His being. He is the Creator. He has over all responsibility for and over us. He provides for us. He watches over us. He decides for us.
Allah is therefore not the father of Jesus. YHWH is the Father of Jesus. For with God, all things are possible (Luke 1:37), (Matthew 19:26).
So, can Allah be father? NO. He can’t. Is YHWH Father? YES He is. YHWH God is the Father of Jesus. Allah has no son.
Christianity therefore and Islam are two faiths which are way repugnant to each other. There should be no delusional talk to this matter.For Christianity is unique in itself much as Islam is.
God bless
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