Why did you choose Christianity over Islam?

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mhmtas63 said:
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Mt. 9 2-3: “And behold, they brought him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when Jesus saw their faith he said ‘Take heart my son; your sins are forgiven.’” Who but God has this authority at the time. He passes on this authority, but this does seem to overstep normal authority.
Mt. 12 6 and 12 8: “I tell you, something greater than the temple is here… For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.” Lord of the Sabbath? In Jewish culture, only God is Lord of the sabbath.
Mt. 12 42: “Something greater than Solomon is here.” At least a claim to the kingship.
Mt. 14 33: “And those in the boat worshiped him, saying 'Truly you are the Son of God.” Why doesn’t he object to this?
Mt. 16 16-17 “Simon Peter replied ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.’”
Jn. 5 23: “All may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.” The context makes this much more explicit.
Jn. 8 58: “Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” This is a claim of the divine name.
Jn. 10 30: “I and the Father are one.” This is totally explicit.

There are many more, but these should be enough.
 
Because Islam is strict on women.
You aren’t allowed to even worship with men, women have to be separated.
 
EZweber said:
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Why do we not read the passage of Mt. 9. 1-8
9:1And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.
9:2And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.
9:3And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.
9:4And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?
9:5For which is the simpler, to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?
9:6 But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.
9:7And he got up and went away to his house.
9:8But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to **God who had given such authority to men.
You see Jesus did not claim to have authority by himself but an authority was given by God. Jesus implied “Son of Man” … Hımmm… very explicit!

And why not Mt. 12. 1-8
12:1At that time Jesus went through the fields on the Sabbath day; and his disciples, being in need of food, were taking the heads of grain.
12:2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.
12:3But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?
12:4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?
12:5*Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?
12:6But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.
12:7But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.
12:8For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.
The case is not explicit just for Jesus but also for priests! If we delibarte the text as a whole we do not understand or think Jesus could imply any divinity for himself.
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mhmtas63 said:
You see Jesus did not claim to have authority by himself but an authority was given by God. Jesus implied “Son of Man” … Hımmm… very explicit!
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Again, Christ is man. Notice that He does not deny that forgiveness of sins is an exclusive power of God.
mhmtas63 said:
The case is not explicit just for Jesus but also for priests! If we delibarte the text as a whole we do not understand or think Jesus could imply any divinity for himself.
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Christ does not say that the priests are greater than the temple or lords of the sabbath. These two are also on the less explicit end of the quotes I provided. “I and the Father are one”
 
Having grown up in a segregated worship world, I have to say I’ve tended to think of formal religion as something of a male hobby.
 
Dear mhmtas63,

After our brief discussion in interpretation disagreements, may you recognize the need for God, the Holy Spirit, to have a means to infallibly declare the Truthful interpretation, AKA the seat of Peter, the Pope!
 
Before I was received into the Catholic Church, I was already a Christian. I wanted to return to the original church. I didn’t consider any religion outside of Christianity.
 
SalamKhan said:
Even so, the other schools of thought only espouse this punishment in the context of preventing public disorder, not simply if someone changes their religion in private.
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So if an Aghan woman in Balkh converts to Christianity, everyone’s good with that, right? Please.
 
Islam is one religion I really cannot even consider as an alternative for my own because its god is a lonely god, not Trinitarian. Such a god cannot be Love.
 
C.S. Lewis described the Trinitarian Godhead in a similar way in Mere Christianity.
 
Here is a verse from the Qur’an that falsely accuses that CHRISTIANS believe Mary is part of the Trinity:

•Surah 5:116, "And behold! Allah will say: 'O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah?”

Although Islam nor the Qur’an TEACHES Mary is part of the Trinity, it does accuse CHRISTIANS of believing this. In fact a Muslim commentary from Tafsir al-Jalalayn confirms this:

Surah 5:116, "And, mention, when God says, that is, when God will say, to Jesus at the Resurrection in rebuke of his followers: ‘O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to mankind, “Take me and my mother as gods, besides God”?’

Same thing with the Qur’an falsely implying that CHRISTIANS believe God had sex with Mary to have Jesus:

•Surah 6:101, “To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: How can He have a son when He hath no consort? He created all things, and He hath full knowledge of all things.”

A consort, in this context, is a wife or spouse. So the Qur’an implies that the idea of Jesus being the son of God means that Allah had sex with a woman. But this, of course, has never been anything that Christianity has taught. Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. The Quran mistakingly implies that the Christian term “son of God” means that Allah had sex with a woman (Surah 6:101). But, Christianity and the Bible never teach such a thing. The Quran got it wrong. Again, while the QUR’AN does not teach that God had sex with Mary to have Jesus, it does imply that CHRISTIANS believe this, which they don’t. Lastly, the Qur’an does falsely teach that the sperm is formed in a man’s chest:

“Now let man but think from what he is created! He is created from a drop emitted-Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs,” (Qur’an 86:5-7).

These are just few blatant errors that the Qur’an teaches.
 
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I don’t think you are quite understanding what I’m saying. Perhaps it’s a language issue. Again, I am NOT saying either Islam or the Qur’an teach any of these things. I’m saying that the Qur’an erroneously assumes CHRISTIANS believe this. But the formation of sperm in the chest is taught in the Qur’an, which I provided the Surah.
 
RaisedCatholic said:
I don’t think you are quite understanding what I’m saying. Perhaps it’s a language issue. Again, I am NOT saying either Islam or the Qur’an teach any of these things. I’m saying that the Qur’an erroneously assumes CHRISTIANS believe this. But the formation of sperm in the chest is taught in the Qur’an, which I provided the Surah.
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Qur’an do not say Christians believe in such thoughts. That is your misinterpretations. I think a doctor could help us that from where woman’s sperm come!
 
There is evidence that Muhammad married and had relations with a 9 or 10 year old girl. I do not think that is something that a holy man would have done…especially a prophet of God and especially something that Jesus never did. That is one reason I discredit Muhammad. Jesus lived a holy life…Muhammad clearly did not.
 
Because they married when she was around 6 and consummated the marriage 3 years later
 
Never really looked at Islam. The more I studied and came to the conclusion that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the promised Messiah, Christ, Saviour and God in the Flesh… Looking elsewhere made no sense at all.
 
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