Recent content by tldukr

There are some 33,000 known denominations and know very well of the Black churches in America, especially the AME's and Holiness Pentecostal. The Baptist: American Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Southern Baptist, Independent Baptist, etc. All of their beliefs and worship styles come out of the...

Yes we do share some beliefs with most Christians, but we also have some very distinct beliefs also. Our practices tend to be much more different and even weird to other Christians. Prostrations are only made at certain times of the services. So for that clip there was no point at which a...

The Orthodox Church constitutes a small minority in the United States. We are about 1% of the population I think. But in Greece, Russia, the Ukraine, Egypt, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Israel, Eritrea and other Middle Eastern and Eastern Europe countries we make up a majority or at least a significant...

As an Orthodox Christian, we continue to have our 8 daily prayer times and we do prostrations also. We also have a tradition which is similar to dhikr called the Jesus Prayer.

Thank You Muslimah for understanding. I think we kinda got sidetracked in the beginning with the question of prophecies. May I say that you all have succeeded in making me question my own beliefs and seek to learn about some things that I had previously not looked into! :) I think questioning is...

So Wow! Over night I got an overwhelming respone. I will try to answer the questions, but it seems like I am asking less questions now and answering more and more. I am defending my own Christianity, while not being able to clear up my own misconceptions or belief about Islam. 1. I have...

Thank you ladies for clearing my misconceptions up. So it seems more popular piety than anything mandatory as far as taking arabic names and an arabic look.

Why is it that when many people come to Islam they began to dress like Arabs and take Arabic names? Instead of calling one Yusuf is it acceptable to go by Joseph, or perhaps instead of Maryam, Mary?

I actually just found a video that works of the same thing on youtube. Thanks anyway.

Also Hamzah, I don't know what it is but the sound for this video just doesn't work. Does it play on your end. I have looked up other videos on youtube by Dr. Jerald Dirks on youtube and I can hear them fine. It's just this video. It has a low hum sound, but no words.

Please bear with me it takes me a while to get to answering your post because I am one person to many defenders, so hang in there thank. I will eventually respond. If I forget something remind me.

Eres catolica?

Jonah was alive. Christ was making a comparison of himself in hades to Jonah being in the belly of the whale. He is not drawing exacting parallels from details, because if he was he would have been undergoing punishment for disobedience. Also Hamza, I can hear no sound from the video, can you...

Hi again massi! 3. So you do think that the authors of the Gospels made up the stories to fit the prophecies? We believe that Christ came to preach the kingdom of God and that he is King. The people realized this at the crucifixion with the sign that hung above him. We believe that when he...

“Just as Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man spend three days and three nights in the bowels of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). The Jews of Jesus day considered any part of a day as a whole day. Therefore, Jesus dying on Friday, spending all...