Christian/Muslim ThreadsChristianity: Man-Made Religion; Islam: Divine Principle.Are you familiar with the term "dispensations" as it pertains to Christianity? It basically refers to how God dealt with His people during different times of history. OT believers were in the dispensation of the Law. NT believers are in the dispensation of Grace. The age of grace is accompanied by the Age of the Church, and most of the teaching of how the church is to operate and behave is found in the NT. This is why the majority of Christians have their foundation of faith and practice in the NT. But the OT and the NT are undeniably linked. The OT system of law and sacrifices was foreshadowing the final sacrifice that Christ would make on the cross. Indeed, Christ fulfilled the OT law and ushered in the period of grace. You're asking the worng question here: Instead of asking whether or not the majority of Christians have their foundation of faith and practice in the OT or the NT, you should ask whether or not the majority of Christians believe that both the OT and the NT are the Word of God and are to be followed as such. The answer to that question will be the point that I was driving towards with my original statement. So you pick and choose which portions of the Bible can be believed as being "of God." The parts that agree with the Quran, you agree with. The parts that don't agree with the Quran, you claim are corrupted. Let me ask you this: Is it possible that the writers of the Bible simply didn't have a term to describe the emotions that God was experiencing when they wrote that He was jealous or regretful? Maybe they just used a word that was the closest they could come to fully describing it in our human understanding. You would agree with the Bible when it says "God's ways and thoughts are high above ours" right? Would that not imply that His emotions are high above ours, also? If that's the case, then maybe there are no human words to describe His emotions, so the writers of the Bible just did the best they could. Bingo! Islam is a "milah" - a religion! The whole purpose of this thread is answered in this statement So the way of looking at Islam (according to muslims) is this: it is a "deen" - a conviction - that leads to following a "milah" - a religion. Is that about right? It's both the means and the end. Islam (the conviction) is what leads one to Islam (the religion). Do you see the confusion that this causes? This is why I wanted to use the word "submit" or "submitter" rather that muslim or Islam when referring to the person who is submitting or the principle of submission. It is to hard to differentiate between the two concepts when both concepts are defined by the same word. |
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