Quran
Aineo Wrote:
For a person who denies taking Scripture out of context why do you continue to do so?
Farid Wrote:
Almost every verse I post, I will go and check the context first.
Aineo Wrote:
Now who was Jesus talking to?
Farid Wrote:
To me, it is still the same, why dont you explain who it is talking about?
Aineo Wrote:
So you do not like that site that shows how Muslims following Muhammad's example have persecuted the Jews.
Farid Wrote
If the Jews were presecuted this much, and yet they still liked the Muslim Empire better, then think about how they were being treated by the Christians.
Competition for converts and other factors led to an intensification of Jewish-Christian conflict towards the end of the first century even though there is evidence of continued Jewish-Christian interaction, including Christian participation in Sabbath worship, in some areas well beyond that. These conflicts had a negative impact on the writers of certain parts of the New Testament especially the author of the gospel of John which was compiled about this time. In several places John' s gospel associates "the Jews" with darkness and with the devil. This laid the groundwork for centuries of Christian characterization of Jews as agents of the devil, a characterization which found its way into medieval popular religion and eventually into passion plays.
In the second century and beyond, many of the principal Church Fathers began to write of Jews as a "rejected people" who were doomed to a life of marginality and misery. Jews were to wander the world as a "despised people." This image persisted in Christian preaching, art and popular teaching for centuries to come. In certain countries it often led to civil and political discrimination against Jews and in some instances to physical attacks on Jews which resulted in death. While some Popes, bishops and Christian princes stepped up to protect Jews, they were clearly a minority. It was only in the mid-twentieth century that the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations issued major statements repudiating this anti-Judaic theology and began a process of constructive Christian-Jewish interaction.
Hans Küng, a leading Catholic theologian, has written that "Nazi anti-Judaism was the work of godless, anti-Christian criminals. But it would not have been possible without the almost two thousand years' pre-history of 'Christian' anti-Judaism..."[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiani ... tisemitism
Again, as Jesus(pbuh) said in Matthew 7:3-5,
"Why do you notice the little piece of dust in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the big piece of wood in your own eye? How can you say to your friend, ‘Let me take that little piece of dust out of your eye’? Look at yourself! You still have that big piece of wood in your own eye. You hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your friend’s eye."
http://www.heartlight.org/wjd/0322-wjd.html
Aineo Wrote:
However, Yaweh told the Jews:Quote:
Numbers 15:16
16'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.' " NAS
Farid Wrote:
I am not sure if you forgot to put the rest of the context in, or you just took out of context?
14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you, throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
30 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
29 both he that is home-born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them: ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught in error.
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0415.htm
A stranger who sojourns with you is to burnt a fire offering.
And a stranger that sojourns with you and errs, then he is to be cut-off from among you.
Aineo Wrote:
The god of Islam is not the Yaweh of the Bible and Muhammad is a false prophet.
Farid Wrote:
Why? because the laws are not the same? well there is an easy explanation for that, God can change his law to suit the needs of people and time. But
God never changes.
Aineo Wrote:
Muhammad "revealed" that those who reject Islam were to pay a "tax".
I already explained that to you, the exemptions were so high, that its figurative meaning pre-dominated.
Thank you.