Christian/Muslim Threadsa must readTHANKS! Haha, did you get a look at those long posts? That was brutal. I agree, but that isn’t to say that you can throw away their interpretations since Christians and Jews are interpreting from the same text. As I mentioned, one of the reasons why Jesus (pbuh) wasn’t so easily accepted by all Jews as the Messiah is because their Scripture had changed and with it the criteria for the Messiah. That’s a good question, and here’s a short list 1. I am comforted by everything it says, both rationally and in my heart. 2. It claims to be divine revelation 3. It was revealed to the unlettered Messenger with the highest character. 4. less technical reasons http://www.pearls.org/TheHolyBook/wordofgod.html 5. authenticity http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/ 6. No other Scripture is equal in its claims to divine revelation Please, read these: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacie ... cause.html http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacie ... cause.html http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/ig.php http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/posthoc.php http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-hoc.html First of all, the fact that the stories in the books are similar to those in the Qur’an does NOT even imply that the Qur’an is based on them, please read the above links. Second of all, I wasn’t basing my paragraph on conjecture. Do you disagree that it’s strange that noone wrote anything of what Jesus (pbuh) said and did while he was on earth so that its doctrine could be verified by him. Yet after the circumstances of the crucifixion, when Jesus was no longer around to authenticate or rebuke the theological claims made about it, a plethora of writing emerged? Certainly not all of them. I think you have an exaggerated sense of how monolithic the Christian movement was after Jesus’ (pbuh) ascension. There was serious strife between the Unitarians and Trinitarians. Dictionary.com says apocrypha means: [Middle English apocripha, not authentic, from Late Latin Apocrypha, the Apocrypha, from Greek Apokrupha, neuter pl. of apokruphos, secret, hidden, from apokruptein, to hide away : apo-, apo- + kruptein, kruph-, to hide.] http://www.google.ca/search?q=dictionar ... 8&oe=UTF-8 Weighing in all the miracles of Jesus, this one seems impossible to you? There’s no way to prove any miracles besides referring to Scripture. Doesn’t have to be exact, the point is that they weren’t always a minority. Unitarian Christians existed throughout history and included the companions of Jesus and the early Church fathers. Why? Do you consider Adam or Eve divine? So you must first evaluate the authenticity of the Gospels. I believe that’s what was said after Arius was assassinated a day before he was to be reinstated as Bishop of his area Church. Yes heresy is always a threat, except at the time people didn’t know WHO was heretical, they had to debate over it. The “heretic” is the one who didn’t survive. Do you realize how systematically “apocryphal texts” were destroyed by the Church? I would be thoroughly impressed if there was proof of a gospel that existed before Jesus’ ascension that was both memorized and transcribed. There can’t be proof of corruption, but there can be evidence of how late the gospels were written after Jesus’ ascension and how poorly they were preserved. So you believe Adam and Eve evolved from Bacteria? Run me through the evolutionary ladder all the way through to the account given in the Bible about Adam and Eve. Obviously your deeds will testify for you or against you on the day of Judgement, but that doesn’t mean you can get away with disbelief if you did good deeds. Do you have proof besides the Gospels for that? Otherwise wouldn’t that be circular logic by your definition? http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/ig.php All I can tell you is that the evidence is in divine revelation. You can’t produce a photograph or archeological evidence for this miracle. Peace bros |
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