Religious fundamentalism threatens global peace! How often do we hear this? And our own president blames Christianity as much as any religion. Maybe more. What is the truth though? Is this statement legitimate? What does history really tell us? Here’s one of the things that brought up this topic. I love to read. […]
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The problem of killing infidels. 45 times the Qur’an says Allah (Allah / God) is oft-forgiving. How then can one justify killing anyone who is thought to be an infidel? Who is to say that God won’t forgive them? For instance – Sura 3:31 Say (O Muhammad to mankind): “If you (really) love Allaah then
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For, this fellow-man of yours is not a madman; Quick – who said that in the midst of an end-time prophecy? And what’s the significance of it? Here’s a hint. Just before this, the prophecy includes these things: the sun goes dark the stars go dark mountains vanish the seas are boiling Hell and paradise
“Over The Top Claims That This Is World War III” Just Plays Into Hands of ISIS according to President Obama. First of all, is it true that ISIS even wants to have World War III? Strictly speaking – No – it’s not true. What they actually want is Armageddon. World War III isn’t their end
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Praise God! This is something that Christians and Muslims both agree on. Yes, some question whether we believe in the same “God”. That’s the whole point of this series – to examine that most important question. More on that later. For this one, let’s look at the next Sura, #1 –
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Yes. Jonah, the reluctant prophet with 4 short chapters, has ties to both Christianity and Islam. This isn’t going at all like I expected when I started this project. I went into it with the feeling that Muslims and Christians couldn’t possibly be talking about the same God. And I expected to be writing about
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Abrogation. This is how a religion can talk about peace, incite violence, and claim no contradiction in what it teaches. Some in Islam say there is no such thing as abrogation. We’ll shortly see that the Qur’an itself puts the lie to this statement. Others say abrogation is the key to understanding Islam. If you’ve
The “Jonah question” is turning out to be tougher than expected. There’s a difference between God hating what people do – and hating the people themselves. Let’s see if that could help with the “Jonah question”. This is part of a continuing series looking at God in the Qur’an, the Old Testament and the New
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In the previous article, we saw that Muhammad was told not to be like Jonah. This is a complex, but critical issue. With God’s command to Jonah – it was an outreach from the Hebrew people to the Ninevites (which is in modern day Iraq). It was unheard of. Jonah at first rejected it! But then,
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Do not be like (Jonah) who called from inside the fish. At the end of a very long and difficult revelation, Muhammad is told to not be like Jonah. What does this mean? Among other things, it obviously means that either Muhammad already knew the story of Jonah from the Jewish Bible – or he
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