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This email has been sent to me by Christian sister who embraced Islam recently may God bless her and increase her faith, she sent me this email by PM in another forums, so I would like to post it here to get the benefit for Bro/Sis Christians, she clarify how Jesus (pbuh) led her to Islam:
"I would be happy to. While I was born and raised Irish (Roman) Catholic, I always (always) felt there was something contextually “wrong” or incorrect about what I was being taught. I read the scriptures and sometimes read them over and over trying to reconcile them with what I felt in me heart to be true. The trinity concept (3 in one God) made no logical sense. The idea that Jesus was God made no logical sense. The idea that the Christ died for the sins of mankind made no logical sense. I do not know if you have ever read the Bible but if you had, you will find numerous contradictions within it. You will find one verse is often in direct conflict with another. It does take a genious to find the contradictive material within it. I began to ask myself - why would God need a son? Why would God be so cruel as to send a son to save mankind form it’s sinful state? When asking our local preist questions such as this he only became annoyed and accused me of not having enough “faith.” He was correct. I obviously did not have enough faith. I wanted to know the truth. I wanted to know why I was asked to believe that Jesus was “God” when Jesus himself denied any such thing again and again. First I should mention that many are called “sons” of God in the Bible. And likewise many are called “Father” in the Bible also. The term, “Father” in the Bible is referred to one in high authority. I am convinced that when (and if) Jesus Christ referred to his “Father” in heaven, he was only trying to connect with the people living in that time-frame. He spoke of God as the Father as one might refer to another in highest authority. But what concerned me most was that I was being told (taught) that Jesus WAS God but here we have the words of the Christ and he clearly speaks of God as a completely seperate and much higher entity than himself:
“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
[Matthew 7:21]
“Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”
[Mark 10:18] & [Luke 18:19]
Then Jesus said, "…I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me,
I speak these things.
[John 8:28]
One of the attributes of God is omniscience, knowledge of all things.
If Jesus is God, surely he would have known the hour and the day of the
resurrection. However, he did not:
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven,
nor the Son, but only the Father.” [Mark 13:32]
Jesus says, “The Father is greater than I.”
[John 14:28]
“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me.”
[John 6:38]
“I ascend to My Father and to your Father, My God and to your God.”
[John 20:17]
These are some of the questions that made me begin to research and try to learn more. If Jesus said clearly he was NOT God, then why were we being taught something that was false? If Jesus said that we were to worship and serve GOD and GOD alone, then why were being told to worship Jesus? Jesus made it clear this was NOT ACCEPTABLE!
Then we have Jesus telling us that there would be another Prophet to come after him, and that this Prophet would speak “only what he hears” :
“Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go
away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but
if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7)
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will speak
only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring
glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”
(John 16:12-14)
But it was these words from the Christ that encouraged me to begin my search for truth:
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For
everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
him who knocks it will be opened.” [Luke 11:9,10]
to be cont…
"I would be happy to. While I was born and raised Irish (Roman) Catholic, I always (always) felt there was something contextually “wrong” or incorrect about what I was being taught. I read the scriptures and sometimes read them over and over trying to reconcile them with what I felt in me heart to be true. The trinity concept (3 in one God) made no logical sense. The idea that Jesus was God made no logical sense. The idea that the Christ died for the sins of mankind made no logical sense. I do not know if you have ever read the Bible but if you had, you will find numerous contradictions within it. You will find one verse is often in direct conflict with another. It does take a genious to find the contradictive material within it. I began to ask myself - why would God need a son? Why would God be so cruel as to send a son to save mankind form it’s sinful state? When asking our local preist questions such as this he only became annoyed and accused me of not having enough “faith.” He was correct. I obviously did not have enough faith. I wanted to know the truth. I wanted to know why I was asked to believe that Jesus was “God” when Jesus himself denied any such thing again and again. First I should mention that many are called “sons” of God in the Bible. And likewise many are called “Father” in the Bible also. The term, “Father” in the Bible is referred to one in high authority. I am convinced that when (and if) Jesus Christ referred to his “Father” in heaven, he was only trying to connect with the people living in that time-frame. He spoke of God as the Father as one might refer to another in highest authority. But what concerned me most was that I was being told (taught) that Jesus WAS God but here we have the words of the Christ and he clearly speaks of God as a completely seperate and much higher entity than himself:
“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
[Matthew 7:21]
“Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”
[Mark 10:18] & [Luke 18:19]
Then Jesus said, "…I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me,
I speak these things.
[John 8:28]
One of the attributes of God is omniscience, knowledge of all things.
If Jesus is God, surely he would have known the hour and the day of the
resurrection. However, he did not:
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven,
nor the Son, but only the Father.” [Mark 13:32]
Jesus says, “The Father is greater than I.”
[John 14:28]
“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me.”
[John 6:38]
“I ascend to My Father and to your Father, My God and to your God.”
[John 20:17]
These are some of the questions that made me begin to research and try to learn more. If Jesus said clearly he was NOT God, then why were we being taught something that was false? If Jesus said that we were to worship and serve GOD and GOD alone, then why were being told to worship Jesus? Jesus made it clear this was NOT ACCEPTABLE!
Then we have Jesus telling us that there would be another Prophet to come after him, and that this Prophet would speak “only what he hears” :
“Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go
away, for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but
if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7)
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will speak
only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring
glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”
(John 16:12-14)
But it was these words from the Christ that encouraged me to begin my search for truth:
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For
everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
him who knocks it will be opened.” [Luke 11:9,10]
to be cont…
