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First, Muslims believe in Jesus Christ peace be upon him.
Muslims believe that he was born miraculously, no male intervention. Muslims believe that he was one of the most rightouse people and that he was sent by God. Muslims believe that he gave life to the dead by Gods permission. We believe in all of that. So far we are walking side by side. When you say he is God or that there is a trinity we say stop. We believe that God is far more exalted above having any partners or equals. We say this is impossible.
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Muslims are supposed to obey Muhammad’s commands as they would God’s! Isn’t that making Muhammad God’s equal? You are guilty of what you’re accusing us of!
he Quran says:

**O People of the Book (Christians)! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of God aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of God, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in God and His messengers. Say not “Trinity” : desist: it will be better for you: for God is one God: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is God as a Disposer of affairs. **(004.171 )

**They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One God. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. **(005.073)

This is why. We say worship the creator not His creation. We believe it is disrespectful to believe God has any partners.** If God had any partners such as a trinity that would have been what was preached by His messengers since the begening! Noah would have said your God is one but in a trinity. Moses would have said you God is one but in a trinity. It would have been made clear to everyone since the begening.** So Muslims say you are following something which is disrespectful to God.
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How do you know that? Can you read God’s mind? God reveals what he wants us to know in his own good time.
My dear friend, Muslims dont believe in the original sin meaning that Muslims dont believe that sin is inherited. We believe that Adam and Eve sinned yes. But we also believe they paid for what they did by being sent down ehre to earth and that God forgave them and that was that. Evil exists not because sin is inherited but because satan decieves people. God gave us a brain to think with and He also sent us messengers to show us right from wrong. It is up to you if you follow them, you do good, you will enter heaven God willing, you do bad, either God will forgive you or youll go to hell.
Did I clear it up?
As for the pope, I think he knew very well that his remarks will cause anger in the Muslim word. So since he knew this why on earth would he care to visit turkey? I think this is hypocrisy. They said that this is because he wants to strengthen the dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Ok, so why didnt he accept when Muslim scholar challenged him to a debate? I dont care if he visited Turkey and I dont care what he did their to be honest. So it makes no difference to me because I dont beieve he represents all Catholics and even if he did what do u want me to do about it? If he was sincere than im cool with it. If he wasnt, God will judge him. But I cant believe hes sincere since weeks before his visit he said something which he knew would anger muslims, get my point lol.
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And Muslims sure proved that what he quoted was true by reacting in a violent manner! Are Muslims so unsure of their faith that they have to react with violence every time that someone makes a criticism of Islam?
 
I see constant refrences to the Non believer. I also saw a verse that said something to the affect persecute them until all religions follow allow. Do you know what verse i am talking about? If so what does it mean? Ill look up the specific verse next time.
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Yup I do but I cant recall its number. It isnt speaking of all jews and Christians. It is speaking of the Jews and Christians who attack Muslims.

**“And fight in the way of Allah those who fight you. But do not transgress the limits. Truly Allah loves not the transgressors” **(Surah Al-Quran 2:190)

So war in self defence is allowed but not 1) transgression and 2) the killing of innocent people. The Quran also says that if you kill an innocent person its as if youve killed the entire world. And if uve saved a person its as if uve said the entire world.

"…If anyone killed a person not in retaliation for murder or to spread mischief in the land, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind. And (likewise) if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole of mankind" (Quran 5:32)

God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. (Quran, 60:8)
Muslims are supposed to obey Muhammad’s commands as they would God’s! Isn’t that making Muhammad God’s equal? You are guilty of what you’re accusing us of!
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lol no my friend. We obbey his commands because his commands come from God meaning that this is the same way a Jew is supposed to obbey the commands of Moses, why? Because he believes theyre from God.
How do you know that? Can you read God’s mind? God reveals what he wants us to know in his own good time.
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And did God reveal to you a trinity? Jesus never uttered these words in his entire life never did Jesus say the word trinity its not even in the Bible ho can you say it was revealed to you by God it was voted on in one of your councils!
 
Dear Arab,

Again, thank you for your honest, sincere explanations of
Islam. This helps many of us to understand what and why
a Muslim believes.

To be honest, however, I think many of us as Americans
have a very difficult time accepting this:

So leaving Islam is not allowed it is treason.

No matter which religion Americans belong to, we CANNOT
agree that it is permissable - by the laws of man or God -
to execute someone for changing religions. We allow God
to examine the individual conscience and to decide the
consequences - reward or punishment. This is a major
problem for us with Islam.
 
arab said:
Jesus told his disciples to go get a sword and was panicking before his arrest.
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Do you really think anyone will fall for that? If that happened, show us all where you found it.
 
arab said:
Because as I said Islam is a continuation of Christianity and Judaism. Why would these people preach something to a relegion which is a continuation of theirs? Christians should preach to ppl who dont believe in Jesus not Muslims. This is the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth in its purest forms. You wont believe what Im saying until uve investigated Islam urself, now ull think im biased, but im not. Think of it, what is a Christian going to preach to a Muslim that the Muslim doesnt already believe in ? Jesus’s death and the Muslim wont accept that. The only way a christian missionary is to try to convert a muslim is by attacking Islam, period.
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No, this is incorrect and a typical example of what is going on in the Muslim world. Relativism. Islam, does not teach a continuation of Christianity or Judaism. Not by a long shot and you know this, but to answer the above question directly will point out a grave flaw in Islam. This you also know. And what exactly happens if someone ‘questions Islam’ or as you say, ‘attacks Islam’ exactly? We all know this answer. The progression of 'Mohammad’s teaching from his early prophetic years to the latter part of the ‘Quran’ is quite startling. The end result is extreme intolerance. Muslims worldwide argue for equality, especially in Europe, but this treatment is not to be reciprocated, and why, because it is NOT PERMITTED.
You say, “What is a Christina going to preach that a Muslim doesn’t already believe”, well how about starting with the theology of the Trinity, which you just denied. So they don’t believe that. And if a missionary wished to express this understanding to Muslims in a strict Muslim country, the outcome would be catastrophic for the missionary. These are the type of topics that must be discussed openly, with full disclosure, without embarrassment, recognizing weaknesses in some areas of religous thinking to correct it for the better.
 
Is it true that Muslims believe that it was not Jesus who was crucified on the cross–it was some last minute Jesus look alike replacement?
 
Arab,

Thank you for your patience as you sought to post the beliefs of Islam so we would have a better understanding.

I am new to this forum, and I am a Christian. I apologize you have been treated rudely. One of the major differences we have in understanding Islam is we come from a completely different culture where the “nuances” of Eastern thought are lost to us as are some of the cultural differences and times that Islam was born out of.

I’m sure the people on this board have not meant to insult you, and if any did then shame on them. For those who by some of their posts implied you were being less than truthful concerning your beliefs…again, I apologize for them. We have in our country many misconceptions concerning Islam. While many of the Catholic faith want the misconceptions of their faith dispelled, some seem unwilling to admit perhaps they do not understand Islam too much better than many Protestants understand Catholicism…and we live in the same culture. It is very difficult to cross boundaries.

We must not “interpret” Islam through Christian understanding…anymore than Catholicism should be interpreted through Protestant belief, doctrine and understanding…it must be understood through the adherants of that belief.

Our scriptures tell us to be gentle with others, kind and seek the welfare of others before ourselves…I know from reading some of the posts here, you find that hard to believe. Our scriptures tell us even though we speak with lofty angelic words, without charity, it all means nothing…“love is never rude, love is kind…”

I hope you continue to dialog with us, we have much to learn from you…and I hope you have more than anger and rudeness to learn from us.
 
Threads about Islam often degenerate into heat and fury. I hope I don’t come across that way, I just want to enhance mutual understanding.

I hear you say that (in the muslim view) there is no need for a christian to evangelize a muslim since Islam is (in the muslim view) the “continuation” or perhaps a corrected fulfillment of judaism and christianity. Therefore, in your point of view, it is entirely appropriate for a christian to convert to Islam, but treason for a muslim to become a christian.

Think about this now. Christianity rejects the alleged revelations to Muhammed. We quite simply don’t believe what he said. We trust Jesus when Jesus clearly (in Hebrew context) declares his divinity (I AM). We trust Him when he instructed Peter and the apostles to feed his sheep and shepherd his flock. We see how Jesus demonstrated his human nature in the agony in the garden (to which you refer, but fail to understand as a demonstration of perfect obedience in a horrifically difficult matter) and his divinity in choosing to accept the requirement of the cross. Death and suffering ARE the result of human sin. Jesus, God incarnate, showed that his love for us was so great that he would choose to take on the results of our sin so that we didn’t have to. If muslims reject that fact, they reject the REAL Jesus, even if they honor the name stripped of what it means.

In the end, this means that christians fundamentally see Islam as fundamentally altered from what God revealed in Christ. We cannot help but do as Jesus commanded. We MUST therefore spread the Good News of the REAL Jesus to all the world. Even if that world hates us or does us violence as a result. We haven’t done a very good job yet. But the world isn’t ended yet either.
 
arab said:
First of all even though I believe he is to killed for treason not all scholars agree on this for ur information.
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So traitors to Islam are to be killed. How is a man who was once Christian, then converted to Islam, then back to Christianity any more of a traitor than me, a lifelong Christian, or any of us here denouncing Islamic beliefs?
manualman said:
I hear you say that (in the muslim view) there is no need for a christian to evangelize a muslim since Islam is (in the muslim view) the “continuation” or perhaps a corrected fulfillment of judaism and christianity. Therefore, in your point of view, it is entirely appropriate for a christian to convert to Islam, but treason for a muslim to become a christian.
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I think this is an example of “Don’t evangelize to me, because i’m right. You, on the other hand…”
 
arab said:
Isnt a non believer a non believer :confused:
ur considered a believer in God. Not in Islam of course. But not a monotheistic.

he must invite you to Islam, period. To you is your religion and to me is mine.

Have you ever read the Quran?
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my question was rather clear…

Q #1 Am I considered a non-believer by Islam??

Do you, arab, consider me a non-believer in your Islam?
I made by beliefs in Catholicism clear. I then made my dis-beliefs in Islam clear.
I made my beliefs in Jesus clear.
I made my dis-beliefs in the false prophet Mohammed clear.

Q #2 If you follow your Koran in all it tells you, then what must a true Muslim do about me, the unbeliever??

Again, I am professing to total unbelief in YOUR religion, and I reject only YOUR religion because it cannot be true. Only Catholicism holds the fullness of the Faith and protects the Truth.

so… what are you instructed by your Koran concerning me?

You can (or “he” can, whoever “he” is) invite me all day long. I will profess Jesus as God, and Mohammad as a false prophet all day long.

When you refer to “he”, are you perhaps saying that
you and “he” have different answers, or
you don’t know what the Koran instructs you to do? or
you will just not answer directly??

I have not read all of the Koran… but I assume that the instructions it reveals in its current form… well,… what are they???

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Yes, that is true. It was either Jesus got switched out or an illusion.
Mickey said:
Is it true that Muslims believe that it was not Jesus who was crucified on the cross–it was some last minute Jesus look alike replacement?
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MrS said:
so… what are you instructed by your Koran concerning me?
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Unbeliever’s (of Islam) must convert, submit to slavery, or be killed.

Muhammed = convert by the sword, submission to Allah

**Jesus **= repentance and mercy, God is our loving Father.

It really is a no-brainer! 🙂
 
MrS,

The Koran has three classes of people, though I will get the labels wrong: muslims, infidels and misguided believers. Islam theoretically treats monotheists like Jews and Christians differently than pantheists and Hindus.

In the initial conquests of Islam, conquered pantheists got to choose between Islam or death. Conquered Christians got to choose Islam, death or dhimmi status (second class citizen). In the culture and time of Muhammed, that was actually remarkably tolerant in comparison to common practice (and mighty similar to how Christians shamefully treated Jews). Today, it is evidence (IMO) of the human origin of Islam rather than any Divine origin. God doesn’t just look good in comparison to others - He is the STANDARD for goodness. Christianity behaved badly towards Jews in SPITE of the principles taught by Jesus and the apostles. Islam requires that behavior via its founder.
 
Mickey said:
Unbeliever’s (of Islam) must convert, submit to slavery, or be killed.

Muhammed = convert by the sword, submission to Allah

**Jesus **= repentance and mercy, God is our loving Father.

It really is a no-brainer! 🙂
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When Muslims hear Christians call God ‘Father’, I think they misunderstand the meaning and assume it’s meant in a physical way.
 
arab said:
Hey… im new hear so i figured id make this topic where u guys can ask me about Islam and clear up your misconceptions which are plenty as Ive glaced around this site I saw some very wrong facts about Islam.

Plz be respectfull and do not insult im sure Jesus Christ peace be upon him wouldnt like you to insult anyone.
So ill only answer sincere questions about the religion. No politics.
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Arab you mentioned in one of threads that the Koran came straight from God through an illiterate Mohammed with its goal to unite both Jews and Christians that have been led astray.

My question is then if you believe Islam and the Koran is to unite both Jews and Christians back together then why does Islam resist ecumenical dialog more than any other religion?

In fact you can clarify this but I have been told if a Muslim “proseltize” in any way they can go to prison if they live in a Muslim Country?

Thanks again for your kind response
 
Publisher said:
We must not “interpret” Islam through Christian understanding…anymore than Catholicism should be interpreted through Protestant belief, doctrine and understanding…it must be understood through the adherants of that belief.
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You have NO idea… 😦
 
Chris_LaRock said:
When Muslims hear Christians call God ‘Father’, I think they misunderstand the meaning and assume it’s meant in a physical way.
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Correct. The only understanding of the word “father” they can comprehend is that of a biological parent. The Quran reflects this when it talks about God not having “a son” because God doesn’t have a consort.
 
This same misunderstanding has lead to Mormons concluding that “God has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s”.
 
Texan_in_DC said:
In fact you can clarify this but I have been told if a Muslim “proseltize” in any way they can go to prison if they live in a Muslim Country?

Thanks again for your kind response
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I think you mean, “if a non-Muslim proselytizes”…?
 
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