beads wrote:
I'm sure Islam teaches some stuff that's not practical either. Yet, you do it, right? How about the required stopping to pray 5 times a day while looking toward Mecca? How impractical is that? Think of all the other stuff you could be doing during that time! Not to mention how hard it is to figure out exactly which direction to face - I mean if you're off by 1 degree, then you're not really facing Mecca, and how do you think Allah feels about that?
I am praying 5 times a day. So it is practical because I can practice it. The knowledge of direction is as old as the world, so there's no problem about that.
beads wrote:
Something that renews God's commands would not regress. It would, if anything, progress.
It is progressing from our point of view, from Jesus to Muhammad. Unless we are trying to conclude it with like, "finally, God sent His Son after thousands of years." He should have sent him thousands of years earlier, to save people from their sins. Now those people will get no chance to know Jesus let alone accepting him.
beads wrote:
I'm not a Jew, and the Bible is just as much for me as it is for them.
I get this from the Bible, that Jesus was sent to the lost sheeps of Israel.
beads wrote:
Not necessarily. Aren't the most "successful" religions the ones that basically agree with the teachings of Jesus? How successful are the ones that directly reject anything about Jesus. Satan knows how to get people to reject what Jesus did on the cross, and that is by telling little lies, twisting truths just enough to be heretical but still sound good. If Satan's only way of attacking Jesus was to come out and reject everything about Him completely and resort to name-calling, then it would be easier to reject him (Satan). And he knows that, so his plans are much more subtle.
and Satan also knows how easy to get people convinced that someone is Son of God simply because his mother, who was a virgin, conceived a baby.