Islam true religion?

[DeistPaladin]

Actually Zakir Naik has refuted this claim. Jesus was just showing his disciples not to worry because he was the way, truth and life like any prophet was.

This is part of the frustration I have in discussing scripture with Islamo-Christians. I read what's there. They each read what fits their faith. "Well, when it says X, it really means Y". No interpretation is too obtuse, no verse is wrenched too far out of context, no rationalization is too flimsy.

But theres more evidence for him than Alexander the Great or any famous historical person.

There's not a scrap of evidence for Jesus until the end of the 1st century. Even these are so brief and oblique that they don't even call Jesus by name. Further, all of these pieces of "evidence" are all questionable. The TF by Josephus, the only first century document, is a glaring forgery that even apologists are forced to admit isn't "completely authentic".

What's the 'official' story according to you.

That there was this man named Jesus, that he started a following that broke off from Judaism and his message of love and salvation got off the ground quickly and spread rapidly despite persecution by Romans and Jews (working together apparently), and eventually captured the hearts of all Romans, yatta yatta yatta. Now, if you'll excuse me I have to puke.

OK, I'm back. Here's what I think really happened:

The Jews were chaffing under foreign rule and wondered where the Hell their promised kingdom of David that supposedly would endure forever went. Some of them decided their kingdom existed in a higher realm. First came the mushroom induced hallucinations of "St. John" who wrote Revelation, a book full of bile and hatred for Israel's enemies and an image of Jesus as the warlord from Heaven who would liberate them. Second came Paul's epistles which spoke mostly of a Heavenly Jesus. Then came Mark who brought Jesus' story down to earth. Perhaps this was originally intended as allegory but the line between fiction and "true story" is a very thin one. Other Gospels came along that added more to the story. And then Muhammad came along six centuries later and said, "Nice religion ya got here. Except you forgot one thing. Me. What's that? Jesus? Nice guy. He was my forerunner. Really, it's all about me. Me, me, me. I'm Allah's chosen prophet. And don't you forget it or I'll cut your head off."

Because his enemies said so. Also his companions.

I'm sure these testimonies are every bit as reliable as the Gospel accounts of the Christian Jesus.