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Reuben_J
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I agree with you and the rest of your post. Thanks for saying them anyway.Rueben, you give mohammed too much credit if you think he picked and chose his stories on purpose. mohammed was illiterate and a pagan.
What stories he did put in the koran were probably ones that he heard. When he was younger he didn’t totally hate the Jews. it was in his later years when he hated them because they were not going for his new religion.
I am responding to Muslims. I was only bending backward to accomodate their reasonings and to use it in the argument. I figure that whatever reasoning we use here, there is no way that Paul did not and was not a follower of Jesus, as much as the rest of the disciples were.
Do you have anything concrete on this?Like I said in a previous post - I think mohammed had something physical happen to him between his Meccan years and Medina years. It went from a relative peaceful time to pure violence. (I said I think it was temporal epilepsy with a narcissistic personality of which we have seen in our own times brings out the killer instinct in cult leaders)
The only reason why I think Mohammad went violent was becaues of power. Now he was more powerful and his true color showed. He was just an uneducated, plain gangster and violence is his mother tongue. So it came naturally for him. Not surprising at all.
Since his source was limited, I think he did not know Paul at all nor the theology that the apostles taught.As for Paul, or any apostle, he could have cared less. Being a pagan he didn’t know or understand the parts the apostles play in Christianity. (at least this is my opinion on this)
You want to know about mohammed - read ‘The Life and Religion of mohammed’. don’t worry, any of the readings I suggest will never convert you. It will only let you ‘know your enemy’. Even reading the koran will never convert you unless you are forced from childhood to convert, or a psychopath. yes, I don’t see how any sane human being could convert to islam if they didn’t have a sword to their throats and wanted to live, hence this is where the sword plays such an important role in islam.
The reason why modern day Muslims have problem with Paul is because of their knowledge of the NT which put Mohammad in a very bad light. Muslims should acknowledge this discrepancy by Mohammad. But they can’t, otherwise they would not be Muslims.
God bless.