Quote:This is the "God works in mysterious ways" line.in mysterious ways that can be understood by observation and increasing knowledge.
Quote:What I'm asking is have you given any thought to the tactics here? It seems that if it were part of a deliberate plan, than it's a very irrational plan, far too self-defeating to be hatched by a more knowledgeable god. The proof is in the results.you are saying this because you think that the result should be that everyone would believe in god but infact the result should be that the good thing and the bad thing is there and everyone can make his choice.
Quote:Of course the Christians rejected Muhammad except where his sword reached. What other result could there have been?there was a lot of christians and jews that believed in muhammed(pbuh) during his time and no one can believe by the sword as believe is something internal.if you say that there is no god except Allah that doesnt mean you are a believer
Quote:The claim to have spoken to God is, I'm sure you might agree, a fantastic claim that demands hard and heavy evidence. The evidence we usually expect in day-to-day life is proportional to how outlandish the claim is.of course i agree with you but the problem here is what kind of evidence you are looking for?and also i want to know what is your beliefs. you think that there is no god or that there is no proof or what?
Quote:This is what I mean by special pleading. You believe Muhammad was a prophet and yet reject all these other prophets who present no less in the way of evidence. I can go to the local insane asylum and find a dozen inmates who will tell me of their audience with God and have just as much proof to show for it.am studying the basic scriptures if i have reasons for not believing in certain religion i will not believe anything that is based in it untill someone explain to me the things that make me not believe
Quote:What didn't the Jews believe according to Islam?they didnt believe that jesus(pbuh) was messenger of god and they continued writing things with their hand and say it is from god and a lot of other things
I understand the Christian perspective. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God (or, reading John, God incarnate). This was and is blasphemous to the Jews who share the Muslim idea of the jealous, monotheistic god who delegates the relationship with his followers to no one. What exactly did the Jews have to reject regarding the Muslim Jesus?
we share with them that god is one but there is a lot of other things about god we dont share with them like being jealous and stuff like this and they also said a lot of bad things about the prophets that we dont agree on it
Quote:Sorry, I mean John 14:6. A bit of transposed numbers there.that doesnt prove that he is the son of god each prophet god send is the way to god in his life and to his people as he tell them gods word.about the son of god thing it could take an whole thread but what i was searching about this issue when studying the bible was the explanation of the lot of god sons in the bible if jesus(pbuh) was son of god and thats why they pray to him there is a lot of other people that we must pray for too according to the bible
Quote:Yeah, there are many Gospels and epistles that didn't make it into the Bible. If you want to say Christianity is a mess, I'm right there with you. However, that proves my point that there was no "pure" set of teachings by Jesus, assuming there were any at all.there is a bible that write what jesus said in red i collected all the red parts in this bible together and when you read them you get really a different view about jesus(pbuh) than the one given by the authors
Quote:And are you suggesting that Jesus did write something down about his teachings? You base that on what?no am saying that a lot of his followers wrote what he said and i base that on a lot of writings being discovered about him