RE: Dear Christians: What does your god actually do?
September 30, 2015 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2015 at 11:52 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(September 30, 2015 at 10:58 pm)Godschild Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 1:12 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: You really don't know much about Islam, do you? I don't mean that as a term of disrespect, but I do mean that the guy is profiting off the average Christian not knowing what Muslims really think, or how they operate. You're telling me that Muslims let thousands of legitimate archaeologists visit and legally dig/research at sites all across the Middle East, let tourists go to their countries for numerous reasons, even to live (in places like Egypt) and attend universities, yet they won't let this one guy go there because they're afraid of what he will find?
Not the legitimate archaeologists... just him? Seriously?
I have no idea which archaeologists the allow to enter their countries, I do not know any Christian archaeologists that are allowed to search for artifacts. What I'm saying is they do not want Israel to be a legitimate nation that God called out of Egypt, Christians are considered the enemy of Islam and defenders of Israel and they most likely believe that Christian would put a positive edge on anything found, whether it's true or not. I know that Islam shares some of the OT with the Israelites and Christians, as for a study or any meaningful reading no I haven't done so, Christianity is a full time work.
GC
Why would it matter if the archaeologists studying these regions were Christians? Do you insist that findings in other fields are also made by Christians before you'll tentatively accept their work as valid? Of course not. Would it matter to you if you knew that a significant number of important archaeological digs conducted in recent decades were done by teams of reputable Israeli archaeologists? Could they be trusted by a Christian to come to reasonable conclusions regarding their findings? You might think that Israeli archaeologists would be motivated to prove the Exodus took place or that the narratives concerning the kingdom of Judah under David and Solomon are largely true, no? Yet the consensus is that the Exodus didn't take place and that the kingdom of Judah was an insignificant backwater whose importance and grandeur is grossly exaggerated in the Bible. Are you going to dismiss their work because it doesn't feed your need for validation? This information isn't hard to find, even for a full-time Christian who is much too busy to learn about Islam. There are books in libraries and articles you can access online. You have no excuse for dismissing these things just because you fear the results.
