re: my faith, and some thoughts
Salaam Unite,
Found the Topic, finally
May you be well, and apologizes for this overdue to reply but events and long (still) neglected projects have prevented from spending attention to JCF.
I recall your questions as regards my faith, labeling and articles lacking relevance or completeness. Faith is easy enough to answer. My faith is Lord Jesus, the One and Only, Almighty God, and He alone is worthy of worship. Muslim convert to Christ is one label, Christian is another. But I do not know who you believe was labeled or which posts you perceived as incomplete. Imo: the dozen or so posts I submitted have been more than correct with Muslims Should you believe differently, I will listen. As for purpose of being here, none I can think of except for chance brought me to JCF
I had hoped JCF would be more than ad nauseum or reformulated arguments common in comparative religion discussions, but that is not so. Some arguments have even regressed from valid to nonsense while most remain simply expedient. To give some examples: Valid question on identity of Gospel authors has regressed to passports and surname, 1+1=1? (in boolean algebra the formula would be logical truth), and another takes this form: If Jesus was God he would say, "I am God, worship me." Given Muslim allegations and objection to Christianity, the proposition is non sequitur. Nonetheless, would you agree if a proposition is logically sound then its contrapositive must also be true. Just to be clear, please understand, I do not pride myself an intellect nor logician.
Western Islam term is not an intended derogatory, so my apologizes should I have offend you. Point I was hoping to make, most Muslims, despite appearance of united front, do not hold to orthodox Islam. Majority of Muslims are influenced (to varying degrees) by Sufism and perhaps other imports, esp. the Western convert. Much of what I have said here, is expressed near verbatim by those who are considered the keepers of Islam. Now, when a Muslim mentions atheism that usually gets my attention.
It was not surprising you consider atheism foremost threat to Islam, and I am very much in agreement with assessment. Muslims seemingly have an affinity for atheists, believing them logical. Islam sees itself as logical religion, therefore, the prefect religion for the logical person. With such assumptions understandable many Muslims seek out atheist for discussions and outcome can be reasonably estimated. The Muslim may come away with doubt and perhaps even sympathetic to athiseim. Particularly after discussion with an atheist who is Arabic literate and knowledgeable on Islam. Afterwards the Muslim may take his shredded logic and faith hanging by a thread to forums such as this. Or drop from all discussions and immerse himself into Islamic faith notwithstanding his defeated logic, or become an atheist. Unfortunately, very few will reconsider Christ Jesus. I admit this is anecdotal yet some comments (Muslim) which lend support is readily found on JCF.
Just curious, Unite, how did you fare in discussion with atheists? Take care.
regards, joseph