Christian/Muslim ThreadsThe Gospel According to IslamO.K. I will explain each and every one of those "contradictions." I understand that you are young, so you must know the truth.
You left out a word in Ex. 20:5 that makes a BIG difference. God said: "..............unto the third and fourth generation of them that HATE ME." You forgot to put the words "Hate me" which makes it more clear. Let's say your parents hate God and they sinned willingly. If you grow up to follow God and get away from the sin of your parents, God will forgive you and you will not be punished. If you grow up and you hate God just like your parents hated God, then God will punish you just like he punished your parents. That is not a contradiction. Now let us move on to the next. Bear with me now friend. Ahh, this is an easy one. God is good to all if you follow his words and do not sin. Was not God good to Adam and Eve until they disobeyed God? It was only until Adam and Eve sinned, then God punished them. God gave Adam and Eve the choice to choose between His words or the devil's words. This is called FREE WILL. We are not robots. If God controlled all of us and we are not sinning, then God does not love us, because we are not doing what we want to. The FREE WILL that God gave us, shows that he loves us, and we can make our own decisions between good and evil. God warns us not to do evil, because it will make our lives worse. Since you are Muslim, don't you believe God is good? Even if he is good, that does not mean he will not punish you for doing bad. You must not take everything in the bible literally. God gave you a brain to use along with common sense. When Jesus said," I am the door to the Father," does that mean that Jesus has hinges along with a knob that we turn and open to see the Father? Therefore, do not take the word "sword" in its literal meaning. What Jesus meant was when him and his desciples are going to preach the Word, there will be no more peace for them, because they will be persecuted. There are going to be people that would be against them. They would have enemies. When Jesus says that you should have a "sword", he is refering to praying. Even after he said this in Luke, Jesus gave an example of what the "sword" is when he prayed to the Father right after. Peter thought Jesus really meant sword. So when Jesus was taken to be crucified Peter actually took out a sword to defend Jesus and cut a mans ear off. Then Jesus told him to put his sword away and said, "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Peter thought Jesus meant sword in literal terms when in fact He didn't. When people say"put on the full armour of God" they mean to pray and follow God's word. These are allegories. When Jesus said, "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true," he was reading the hearts of the Pharisees(they were against Him). He was not implying that it was actually true, he was saying what people thought about Him. In other words, Jesus was saying what they wanted to hear. When Jesus said, "Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true." He was telling the truth here, and not saying what his enemies wanted to hear. "Back at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:31), Christ had waived momentarily his right of bearing witness of himself; but, finally, light cannot do otherwise than bear its own witness. How fortunate are we that Christ did bear witness of himself in the most dogmatic and convincing manner. If he had not done so, it would have cast a cloud over the faith in Christ."- Coffman Commentaries. This is common sense once again. In Matt. 5:22, you cannot call your brother the word fool. The word brother again is not used in literal terms. A "brother" means someone who has the same faith as you. If you call someone who has the same faith as you a fool, then you are being a hypocrite, because you believe the same things. You have to post the whole verse. Jesus never said you can't call anyone a fool. You just can't call someone a fool if you and him are of same faith(a "brother"). In Matt. 23:17, Jesus called the people in the temple fools bcause they were blinded with avarice. They just wanted to satisfy themselves. God does not condemn humans from judging one another. But when you judge, just make sure it is righteously done in the way of God, and not by your own will. Do not judge and be a hypocrite. When Jesus said, no man had seen God, he meant the Father in his physical form. "That is, God the Father, whose voice was never heard, nor his shape seen by angels or men; for though Jacob, Moses, the elders of Israel, Manoah, and his wife, are said to see God, and Job expected to see him with his bodily eyes, and the saints will see him as he is, in which will lie their great happiness; yet all seems to be understood of the second person, who frequently appeared to the Old Testament saints, in an human form, and will be seen by the saints in heaven, in his real human nature; or of God in and by him: for the essence of God is invisible, and not to be seen with the eyes of the body; nor indeed with the eyes of the understanding, so as to comprehend it; nor immediately, but through, and by certain means: God is seen in the works of creation and providence, in the promises, and in his ordinances; but above all, in Christ the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person: this may chiefly intend here, man's not knowing any thing of God in a spiritual and saving way, but in and by Christ; since it follows, the only begotten Son;the word that was with God in the beginning."- John Gill I will explain the ohter "contradictions" to you tomorrow. I have a class now. I hope you read and understand. Use common sense, do not let people trick you into thinking the bible does not make sense, because they do not study or know anything about it. |
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