they once had the same God. but, God will not be made into man's image or ideas...so when they are added, they become a false god (if the prophet is false, the god is false). muhammud, imo, is a false prophet. this is because he added a moon god (babylonian god) to the true God - thus creating his own god.
Christians added the Holy Spirit and Christ to God. I don't see why their guess is better than other people's guesses. Get beyond yourself. Ooh, wait. You can't do that because you have faith. You don't need to think.
How can you say Muslims and jews created their God and Christians didn't?
And what about all the roman, celtic and germanic things added to christianity? They interfused with the arabic christianity when it arrived in Rome and in Germany and England. Why do you think christmas is celebrated in december? No one knows at what date or in which season Christ was born. Therefore Christianity is a false religion by your definition. Ooh wait, you can ignore your own words because you have faith in God. Our human logic does not apply to the divine. Sure.
suppose that when he reveals Himself, we will all be a bit surprised.
It would be really funny if Christ returned to earth and he was actually a she. And that all religions have it wrong but they were too fundamentalist to be reasonable.
Islam in fundamentalist terms is built upon physical doings (5 or 6 pillars) of which you need to attain to have reward.
I don't see why this makes God split up. Sure this is different from Christianity and Judaism. But will God split himself up?
Or did you take a peek in heaven and saw two empty chairs with the names "Allah" and "JHWH" on them?
But, Christ did not say this. Therefore it is false (making muhammud a false prophet).
How do you know what Christ said? And how does this make Muhammed false? Didn't God send Gabriel to him? Was it Satan? Or was he insane and did he just have hallicunations. And how do you know for sure?
Maybe Christ misunderstood God. Or maybe Muhammed did, which doesn't make him a false prophet. Maybe God changed his mind. Or maybe God is just playing games with us. Maybe God told both of them to make their own versions of religion, as long as it had a few core principles.
if i was brought up in islam, i would probably believe it to be true until proven otherwise.
Really, you would probably blow yourself up in the metro. I am glad you are a chrisitian.
this is the sad but true facts of man's insistence on creating his own gods with his own ideas.
There are thousands different types of Christianity. There are 77 interpretations of the first paragraph of Genesis I.
abraham's seed was given a promise (they are probably the industrialized and wealthier nations today that generally follow the bible).
Christianity was at its high point during the middle ages. Christianity didn't perform some kind of miracle in Africa either.
if WWIII happens, or is happening, it probably will be a shock and surprise if Christ returned and came to the Mount of Olives (as He said he would) and caused the armies of the nations to be destroyed (possibly by their own hands and weapons) while he protects and defends His own.
Maybe Christ never said he would return and some funny guy made that up?
People that believe in God are mentally insane. It's absurd. You scare the crap out of me.
It's also dangerous. Religion demands fundamentalism. A 'soft' religion that relativates things and that says it might be wrong is useless. People believe because they want something to cling onto. So they want a rock hard religion. The result is that religion will become brutal. Religion can never be tolerant of other ideas. You can never say that Islam is just as good a religion as Christianity because then you have nothing left to cling onto. Religion will always be babaric and intolerant.
Really:
-God is not just one person, but a holy trinity, made up out of three parts: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
-People are all born in sin because Adam and Eve did something wrong.
-So then all people are currupted by evil.
-God sends his son to earth and he is both fully God and fully human, huh
-The Holy Spirit impregnates a virgin girl named Mary. The Son of God, who is both 1/3 of God, the Son of God and a man, grows in her woumb.
-Christ is born and he is the jewish messiah, the heir to the throne of David.
-But instead of fulfilling the prohecy the people nail him to the cross.
-But then that's a good thing because Christ was innocent of any sin. So this way he sacrifices himself so that he can carry the sin of all men.
-Then he rises from the death and dissapears.
-Then we learn he is both human's advocate and judge.
-And later some guy John tells us the son of God will some day return, finish the final battle between good and evil and lead us all into heaven.
-Apperently he is now waiting in heaven and then he will become a small egg cell and then the Holy Spirit will carry him to a new virgin womb.
Really, this is an absurd story. How can anyone believe in this. Why would anyone want to believe in this? How did Adam and Eve eating an apple, one that should have given us the ability to recognise both good and evil, make all humans naturally evil?
And how does Christ redeem or sins when he gets excecuted?
Why do we have to live in evil and sin and wait for Christ? Etc etc.
Really, Christianity is probably the most absurd religion. Judaism is probably the least tolerant. They make Islam look good.
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