Posted on 12/18/2001 4:10:48 PM PST by Pokey78
I have worshipped the Sacred Cobra at the temple of the wife of Shiva in Hardiwar--and in the bardo state--and in past lives. I always will.
But Jesus Christ is the only Mediator and Advocate Whom I will ever accept and the only One to Whom I will entrust my soul.
He is my Guide. It is He Who took me to Varanasi and taught me. And to Hardiwar.
I am His. He is Mine. No matter what life brings, or death, He leads me to God. I will follow Him anywhere.
He will lead you too.
Nonsense. They don't love the "real" Jesus. They are only in love with their stunted idea of Him.
That kinda misses the point then don't it? I have conversed with quite a few Muslims, and they will proclaim that Jesus was a prophet, but not the Son of God. They often use lines like. "How can Jesus have been God when he asked God for help?"
Read the chapter of John and see who Jesus really is!
Islam could be viewed as a Christian heresy, except: I don't think the Prophet [TUB] claimed to be Christian to begin with, so Islam is not a heresy, not on this planet, anyway.
What utter nonsense; to claim that Mohammedans love Jesus as much as Christians do, and then to deny His saving death on the Cross. The crucifixion is the reason Jesus was born: it was through His death that our sins are forgiven and Heaven is opened to us. "Islam" can't save, Jesus does.
This fact establishes a contradiction that cannot be reconciled in theology or belief.
While it may be true that a pious and moral Muslim can live in harmony next to a pious and moral Christian and that they can maintain a secular peace (which is a very ood thing) ... particularly when the Muslim does not belong to a sect that literally believes and practices jihad and the Christian actually practices a true earthly walk in the footsteps of Christ ... it is not true that their theology or belief system with respect to Christ Jesus is close. In fact, as I have stated, from that perspective it is unreconcilable.
What can we or any man do by our own merits to enter the kingdom of heaven?
If this was true, why are the Christians being pursued and slaughtered by the thousands by Muslims in Indonesia?
I would say that in light of the claims Jesus made about himself, he never left anyone with the option of thinking of him as merely a good man. He claimed to be God, so either He is a raving lunatic, or He is exactly who He said He is. People must decide which, but the "good man" thing, really is not a viable choice.
O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah anything but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was no more than a Messenger of Allah… Do not say "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God: Glory be to Him: far exalted is He above having a son. 4:171
From those too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the Message that was sent to them: so We estranged them, with enmity and hatred between one and the other, to the Day of Judgment. And soon will Allah show them what they have done. 5:14
In blasphemy indeed are those that say that God is Christ the son of Mary. 5:17
O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them for friendship is of them. 5:51
They do blaspheme who say: "God is Christ the son of Mary." They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a trinity: for there is no God except one God Allah. If they do not desist from their word of blasphemy, verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. Christ the son of Mary was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. 5:72- 73, 5:75
According to Muslims? Proclaim that there is one God, and he is Allah, and that Mohammed is His prophet.
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