Godisreal55:
The entire message of Islam can be summarized as follows;
"God decided to create the generations of human being on the surface of the earth (Qur'an 2:30). But when God finished the creation of Adam and his wife, He put them in paradise. Therefore, for God's original plan to be fulfilled, God allowed Adam and his wife to be deceived by Satan and the two of them disobeyed God by eating from the fruits of the forbidden tree. Consequently, they were expelled from paradise and sent down to the earth. On getting to the earth, Adam and his wife regretted their actions and REPENTED FROM THEIR SINFUL ACTS and God forgave them (Qur'an 2:37). Hence, they will be admitted back into paradise on the day of resurrection. Thereafter, for the children of Adam to be also admitted back into paradise from where their parents were expelled, they have to REPENT SINCERELY from their sins (Qur'an 66:8-9) and FOLLOW the guidance of God (Qur'an 2:38) which would be revealed to them from time to time through many prophets of God until the appearance of the last prophet (i:e prophet Muhammad-pbuh) that would bring the final, complete and everlasting guidance for all the people of the earth (Qur'an 7:158)".
This is Islam in a nut shell and it shows the RATIONALITY OF WASHING AWAY A SINFUL ACT BY SINCERE REPENTANCE AND THEN KEEPING TO THE GUIDANCE REVEALED BY GOD (i:e true beliefs and the divine commandments) in order to gain admission into paradise.
Similarly, the whole message of the present-day Christianity can be summarized as follows;
"God created Adam and his wife and put them in paradise. Due to a temptation from Satan, two of them disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit. As a result of this very disobedience, they were made to descend from paradise to the earth and all the children of Adam were spiritually condemned together with their parents (Romans 5:12,17-19) . The only way they can be saved from this spiritual condemnation and then admitted back into paradise is for God to send His ONLY innocent and righteous son (i:e Jesus Christ) to the earth and have the children of the same Adam TORTURE and KILL him on the cross of Calvary so that God can forgive them and everyone else for what Adam and his wife did".
This is the Christianity in a nutshell and it points out the ABSURDITY OF WASHING AWAY A SINFUL ACT BY ANOTHER SINFUL ACT THAT IS MUCH MORE GREATER . After all, if the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam and his wife was enough to condemn all the future generations of human being, then would not the brutal killing of the innocent and righteous son of God on the cross by the children of Adam do the same and even much, much more?
Christians believe that blood of Jesus MUST be shed on the cross for the forgiveness of sins before we can be admitted back into paradise. They often justify this very belief by relying on the book of Hebrew that says;
" In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS (Hebrew 9:22)".
However, there are many places in the Bible where God promised to forgive sins even WITHOUT the slightest hint of blood shedding. For example;
# Ezekiel 18:21-22; But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. NONE OF THE TRANSGRESSIONS which he has committed shall be remembered against him".
# Isaiah 43:23-25; You have not brought Me the sheep of your burnt offerings…or the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened Me with your sins…Nevertheless, I will wipe out your transgressions for My own sake, and I WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS”.
# 2nd Chronicles 7:14; And if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will FORGIVE THEIR SIN, and will heal their land".
# Psalms 78:36-39; Their heart was not steadfast toward Him, nor were they faithful in His covenant. But He, being compassionate, FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY…remembering that they were but flesh.”
# Jeremiah 36:3; Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked ways; then I WILL FORGIVE THEIR WICKEDNESS AND THEIR SIN .”
# 1st Kings 8:46-50; If they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, and FORGIVE YOUR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You… ”
Similarly, Jesus(pbuh) advised his disciples as follows;
# Matth3ew 6:14; "For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU ".
# Mark 11:25; "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS ".
So which word are we to believe ? Are we to believe in the book of Hebrew that says WITHOUT the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins (Hebrew 9:22) ? Or are we to believe in the word of God and Jesus which show that shedding of blood is NOT THE ONLY WAY to obtain divine forgiveness ?
It is very obvious that Hebrew 9:22 is completely WRONG. Yet this very verse represents one of the foundational pillars upon which the edifice of Christianity is erected. Of course, if there is alternative way and the shedding of blood is NOT THE ONLY WAY to obtain divine forgiveness for our sins, then there is NO NEED for Jesus to shed his blood for our sins on the cross of Calvary. If this is true, then God must have ANSWERED that FERVENT prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane when he asked for the cup of crucifixion to be TAKEN AWAY from him in THREE different consecutive times (Matthew 26:36-44). Therefore, Jesus must have ESCAPED the death on the cross in a miraculous way as stated clearly in the Qur'an (Qur'an 4:157), and he must have escaped the CURSE of God associated with anyone that died on the cross (Deuteronomy 21:23). Hence, Jesus could not have been the accursed person who expressed a deep sorrow on the cross saying "My God, my God, why have you FORSAKEN me? (Matthew 27:46)". Of course, it is totally IRRATIONAL for an innocent, righteous and beloved prophet of God to be accursed and forsaken by the same God.
When you take off your BLINDERS, you will realize that Islam is far far more reasonable and nearer to the truth than the present-day Christianity. My dear, you merely lifted passages from the bible without contextualising them but distorting them. This act is highly atrocious and outrageous. It strongly betrays your ignorance of the holy scriptures. No sound Christian will just pick a single verse of the bible and make a doctrine out of it because just as we normally say: scripture interprets scripture. Second, The God of the Bible is a just God. Justice is an essential attribute of God. If he doesn't punish sin proportionately then he's not true to himself and ceases to be God. Rom 3: 21-26. I don't want to go deeper than this because you will never understand it since you don't have the Spirit of God yet but the spirit of the world- 1Cor 2:12-15 but let it be known to you today that God punished the sins of the human race from Adam till date in Christ Jesus and salvation is found in no-one else for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved- Acts 4:12. Thirdly, Prophet Muhammad himself who was known as a prophet with the sword confirmed that Jesus was sinless. How can it be that the one (Prophet Muhammad) who went about on a killing spree and confiscation of properties under the guise of Jihad be the one to bring peace between God and Man? It is well. |
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