Meraj
Brother
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Christianity today was indeed inserted by man who was a jew (Saul of Tarsus) who refuted message of Jesus (peace from Allaah be upon him) long after his departure. Jesus (pbuh) himself never had anything whatsoever to do with them. These beliefs include:
1. The "Trinity."
2. The claim that Jesus (pbuh) is the Son of God in the later "orthodox" sense.
3. The "original sin" of Adam which mankind is alleged to have inherited.
4. The "atonement," or death of Jesus (pbuh) on the cross in order to erase this sin of Adam.
5. The "incarnation" of God in the form of a human being, namely, Jesus (pbuh).
While as the muslims beleive that the true message of Jesus (pbuh) was:
1.That God is One. He is indivisible. He has no equal.
2. God has no children nor parents. There is no other god in existence other than God Himself.
3. Jesus (pbuh) was a human being. He was not God, but only an elect messenger of God.
4. God does not hold anyone responsible for the sin of anyone else, nor does He forgive the sins of one man by sacrificing another.
5. God does not give preference to a certain race, color, nation, lineage or anything else above any other. Only a person's individual actions and worship will distinguish them in the eyes of God.
6. God's justice refuses that any human being bear the sin of any other.
7. God is a merciful god who bestows His forgiveness without a price or asking for any compensation.
8. Entering into heaven requires both faith and work. Neither one can stand alone.
Concept of God In Islam:
Allah= The Most Exalted Most Invincible Lord,God and Saviour alone who dont have a son and who is not the son of any one. Who dont have a Beginning and who dont have an end. Who is the giver of the life and Death . Who is never born and who can never die. Who is the Creator of time and Space and whatever exists in Heaveans and in Earth yet He is not a part of Time and Space either Physically,chemical ly,biologically or geographically. God is with With His Creation through His Mercy through His Knowledge and through His Power which is Divine and none except God holds the Authority of Judgement for Hell and Heaven. He is alone the forgiver of sins and He is the One who guides those who want to get rightly guided. He alone is to be worshipped In Islam as He alone was being worshipped by all the messengers of God from the time of Adam and it is the same God who was worshipped , Praised, Glorified and Invoked and Beseeched by all the Messengers and Prophets of God. God never became man and no man ever became God and no man can ever become God in Islam.
Concept of God in Christainity:
Bible claims some verses which are listed in Old and in New Testament which shows and proves that christians and jews also beleive in One God . for example in the Old Testament it is reproted that Moses who is the Messenger of God also in Judaism and in christainity . Moses said in one of his says to his nation in a Biblical passage known as the “Shema”, or the Jewish creed of faith: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” (Deuteronomy 6:4)
It was repeated word-for-word approximately 1500 years later by Jesus when he said “...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord.” (Mark 12:29)
Muhammad came along approximately 600 years later, bringing the same message again:
“And your God is One God: there is no God but He...” (Quran 2:163)
Christianity has digressed from the concept of the Oneness of God, however, into a vague and mysterious doctrine that was formulated during the fourth century. This doctrine, which continues to be a source of controversy both within and outside the Christian religion, is known as the Doctrine of the Trinity. Simply put, the Christian doctrine of the Trinity states that God is the union of three divine persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – in one divine being.
If that concept, put in basic terms, sounds confusing, the flowery language in the actual text of the doctrine lends even more mystery to the matter:
“...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not three gods, but one God... the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal... he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity...” (excerpts from the Athanasian Creed).
Jesus Christ in Islam:
Jesus (Eesa son of Mary) is one among the most Honourable ,sinless and innocent prophets and Messengers of God. Jesus christ son of Mary is the Creation of God not the son of God. Jesus Christ was created by the Command of God when God decreed a command of word "BE" Jesus christ was formed and brought into existance and was conceived by a Virgin Lady namely Maryam (Mary in Christainity) without having any relationship with any man. Mary who was never engaged to any man namely Joseph and she was never ever divorced by any man. Jesus was purely being conceived by Maryam peace be upon her in the state of Purity and no man ever touched her and no man ever came to her life to whom she was engaged or married. This was the miracle of his creation what God wanted to mark as the coming and entry of Prophet Jesus christ who was given two books by birth by God (Allah) Tauraat (Torah) and Injeel (Gospel).
before the coming of Jesus christ Jews had already distorted their book in so many ways at so many places and had added and deleted in book such things which made difficult for the mankind to recognise their Reason of Creation and purpose of Life and the ways of attaining Nearness to God and the concept of Salavation was distorted.
Jesus christ came to correct it and perfect the Religion of God for the mankind what Jews already destroyed for their political and worldy gains.
Jesus christ was raised alive to Heavens together with His body and Soul by God when some evil Jews and Roman pagans tried to put him to death for his claims . His claims were contradicting the claims of Jews becos jews changed the real book what Allaah revealed upon Moses. His claims were based on Truth Mercy and Justice. And all these three things were already distorted in the Old Testament what they used to beleive as Word of God. Thus Allaah protected,Defended and Saved Jesus christ from their evil plan and raised Him aline to Heaven. The man who was put to death was the One who tried to put Jesus christ to Death. According to the Revelation revealed in Quran. Allaah put the likeness of Jesus christ upon the one who tried to Kill Jesus christ. And Jews and roman pagans caught hold of him and put him to cross. It was not Jesus christ who cried and shouted on Cross while Jews and romans were getting him Crucified, "Eli Eli Lama Sabakhtani" but the one who was killed instead of Jesus christ.
Jesus in Christainity:
With the exception of Unitarian Christians, who like all the early followers of Jesus, still do not believe in the Trinity, most Christians now believe in the Divinity of Jesus, which is connected to the belief in Trinity. They say he is the second member of the Triune God, the Son of the first part of the Triune God, and at the same time "fully" God in every respect.
Christians beleive that a chaste and pious human woman who gave birth to Jesus Christ, the second member of the Trinity, the Son of God, and at the same time "fully" God Almighty in every respect.
Christians believe however, that while she was a virgin, she was married to a man named Joseph (Bible: Matthew:1:18) . According to Matthew 1:25, Joseph "kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus".
About the birth of Jesus Christ christians beleive When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit" (Bible: Matthew 1:18) birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit" (Bible: Matthew 1:18)
Christains beleive that Jesus christ performed miracles.like it is written in their bible at one place:
"And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, while thou stretches out thy hand to heal, and sign and wonders are performed through the name of thy holy servant Jesus (Bible: Acts 4:30).
Christians believe that Jesus performed these miracles because he was the Son of God as well as the incarnation of God.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him (Bible: John 3:16).
However, it is interesting to note that the term "son of God" is used in other parts of the Bible to refer to Adam (Bible: Luke 3:38), Israel (Bible: Exodus 4:22) and David (Bible: Psalms 2:7) as well. The creatures of God are usually referred to in the Bible as children of God.
The role of Paul of Tarsus in shaping this belief and the belief in Trinity
The notion of Jesus as son of God is something that was established under the influence of Paul of Tarsus (originally named Saul), who had been an enemy of Jesus, but later changed course and joined the disciples after the departure of Jesus.
Later, however, he initiated a number of changes into early Christian teachings, in contradiction, for instance, to disciples like Barnabas, who believed in the Oneness of God and who had actually lived and met with Jesus.
Paul is considered by a number of Christian scholars to be the father of Christianity due to his additions of the following ideas:
# that Jesus is the son of God,
# the concept of Atonement, (Death of Jesus christ on the Cross to redeem Humanity)
# the renunciation of the Law of the Torah.
Concept of Human State of Birth in Islam:
In Islam a human being is born sinless in the most perfect form and State without having a single sin in his /her account. The moment a human being starts mis using his Free will it makes him/her sinner. Even a person commits some mistake but if a person recognises his /her faults and beleives in Certainity that God will surely forgive me for God loves to forgive and thus repents from such deed not to repeat it again. His sin is forgiven and God rewards him for his repentance of sincerity.
This is called as Repentance in Islam.
The first to Repent was Adam and Eve when Satan misled them in Heaven when he got them convinced to eat from the Forbidden Tree and promised them if they eat from this tree they will have an eternal life and Eternal Kingdom of Joy and happiness and power.
They beleived and trusted him and ate from it inspite of the instructions and warning and advise of Allaah. But when they found themselves got naked and their Clothes of Light were removed from them. both of them repented in humility and in sincerity and God showed His Mercy to both of them and forgave their mistake and pardoned them. But God charged them of the duty to raise their offsprings on Earth so that mankind be also tried till day of judgement and whosover will Repent like Adam And Eve they will enter in the Mercy and Forgiveness of their Lord Allaah and who sover will repent to someone else other than God will be punished for not asking God for forgiveness.
In Christianity: they beleive that All of humanity has inherited the sin of Adam. Only the death of the sinless offspring of God could erase this sin. No one is born clean, no matter if his life is only for a single day. Only baptism and faith in the death of Jesus can save one from this destiny.
Thus they do not beleive that the mistake of Adam and Eve for forgiven or that they repented. And rather they hold the entire responsible for the sin of Adam and Eve and thinks that Jesus came to die and suffer for their sins and the sin of Adam and Eve.
What they say of Atonement means that
The sin of Adam was so great that God could not forgive it by simply willing it, rather it was necessary to erase it with the blood of a sinless innocent man - god named Jesus who was also "fully" God.
Salavation in christianity is if any human being has faith in the atonement of Jesus for the sin of Adam which everyone according to them has inherited then one shall be saved. You only need faith in their doctrine . No work is necessary.
While as in Islam Salavation is acheived only when If you have faith in God, believe in His messengers, and obey His commands then He shall multiply every single good deed that you do many, many times and erase your evil deeds, until on the Day of Judgment His mercy shall cause your good deeds to far outweigh your evil deeds and grant you passage into an ecstasy and Paradise so great that we can not even imagine it, to abide there eternally. In the Hereafter there is only reward and no work.
Christianity today was indeed inserted by man who was a jew (Saul of Tarsus) who refuted message of Jesus (peace from Allaah be upon him) long after his departure. Jesus (pbuh) himself never had anything whatsoever to do with them. These beliefs include:
1. The "Trinity."
2. The claim that Jesus (pbuh) is the Son of God in the later "orthodox" sense.
3. The "original sin" of Adam which mankind is alleged to have inherited.
4. The "atonement," or death of Jesus (pbuh) on the cross in order to erase this sin of Adam.
5. The "incarnation" of God in the form of a human being, namely, Jesus (pbuh).
While as the muslims beleive that the true message of Jesus (pbuh) was:
1.That God is One. He is indivisible. He has no equal.
2. God has no children nor parents. There is no other god in existence other than God Himself.
3. Jesus (pbuh) was a human being. He was not God, but only an elect messenger of God.
4. God does not hold anyone responsible for the sin of anyone else, nor does He forgive the sins of one man by sacrificing another.
5. God does not give preference to a certain race, color, nation, lineage or anything else above any other. Only a person's individual actions and worship will distinguish them in the eyes of God.
6. God's justice refuses that any human being bear the sin of any other.
7. God is a merciful god who bestows His forgiveness without a price or asking for any compensation.
8. Entering into heaven requires both faith and work. Neither one can stand alone.
Concept of God In Islam:
Allah= The Most Exalted Most Invincible Lord,God and Saviour alone who dont have a son and who is not the son of any one. Who dont have a Beginning and who dont have an end. Who is the giver of the life and Death . Who is never born and who can never die. Who is the Creator of time and Space and whatever exists in Heaveans and in Earth yet He is not a part of Time and Space either Physically,chemical ly,biologically or geographically. God is with With His Creation through His Mercy through His Knowledge and through His Power which is Divine and none except God holds the Authority of Judgement for Hell and Heaven. He is alone the forgiver of sins and He is the One who guides those who want to get rightly guided. He alone is to be worshipped In Islam as He alone was being worshipped by all the messengers of God from the time of Adam and it is the same God who was worshipped , Praised, Glorified and Invoked and Beseeched by all the Messengers and Prophets of God. God never became man and no man ever became God and no man can ever become God in Islam.
Concept of God in Christainity:
Bible claims some verses which are listed in Old and in New Testament which shows and proves that christians and jews also beleive in One God . for example in the Old Testament it is reproted that Moses who is the Messenger of God also in Judaism and in christainity . Moses said in one of his says to his nation in a Biblical passage known as the “Shema”, or the Jewish creed of faith: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” (Deuteronomy 6:4)
It was repeated word-for-word approximately 1500 years later by Jesus when he said “...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord.” (Mark 12:29)
Muhammad came along approximately 600 years later, bringing the same message again:
“And your God is One God: there is no God but He...” (Quran 2:163)
Christianity has digressed from the concept of the Oneness of God, however, into a vague and mysterious doctrine that was formulated during the fourth century. This doctrine, which continues to be a source of controversy both within and outside the Christian religion, is known as the Doctrine of the Trinity. Simply put, the Christian doctrine of the Trinity states that God is the union of three divine persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – in one divine being.
If that concept, put in basic terms, sounds confusing, the flowery language in the actual text of the doctrine lends even more mystery to the matter:
“...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not three gods, but one God... the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal... he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity...” (excerpts from the Athanasian Creed).
Jesus Christ in Islam:
Jesus (Eesa son of Mary) is one among the most Honourable ,sinless and innocent prophets and Messengers of God. Jesus christ son of Mary is the Creation of God not the son of God. Jesus Christ was created by the Command of God when God decreed a command of word "BE" Jesus christ was formed and brought into existance and was conceived by a Virgin Lady namely Maryam (Mary in Christainity) without having any relationship with any man. Mary who was never engaged to any man namely Joseph and she was never ever divorced by any man. Jesus was purely being conceived by Maryam peace be upon her in the state of Purity and no man ever touched her and no man ever came to her life to whom she was engaged or married. This was the miracle of his creation what God wanted to mark as the coming and entry of Prophet Jesus christ who was given two books by birth by God (Allah) Tauraat (Torah) and Injeel (Gospel).
before the coming of Jesus christ Jews had already distorted their book in so many ways at so many places and had added and deleted in book such things which made difficult for the mankind to recognise their Reason of Creation and purpose of Life and the ways of attaining Nearness to God and the concept of Salavation was distorted.
Jesus christ came to correct it and perfect the Religion of God for the mankind what Jews already destroyed for their political and worldy gains.
Jesus christ was raised alive to Heavens together with His body and Soul by God when some evil Jews and Roman pagans tried to put him to death for his claims . His claims were contradicting the claims of Jews becos jews changed the real book what Allaah revealed upon Moses. His claims were based on Truth Mercy and Justice. And all these three things were already distorted in the Old Testament what they used to beleive as Word of God. Thus Allaah protected,Defended and Saved Jesus christ from their evil plan and raised Him aline to Heaven. The man who was put to death was the One who tried to put Jesus christ to Death. According to the Revelation revealed in Quran. Allaah put the likeness of Jesus christ upon the one who tried to Kill Jesus christ. And Jews and roman pagans caught hold of him and put him to cross. It was not Jesus christ who cried and shouted on Cross while Jews and romans were getting him Crucified, "Eli Eli Lama Sabakhtani" but the one who was killed instead of Jesus christ.
Jesus in Christainity:
With the exception of Unitarian Christians, who like all the early followers of Jesus, still do not believe in the Trinity, most Christians now believe in the Divinity of Jesus, which is connected to the belief in Trinity. They say he is the second member of the Triune God, the Son of the first part of the Triune God, and at the same time "fully" God in every respect.
Christians beleive that a chaste and pious human woman who gave birth to Jesus Christ, the second member of the Trinity, the Son of God, and at the same time "fully" God Almighty in every respect.
Christians believe however, that while she was a virgin, she was married to a man named Joseph (Bible: Matthew:1:18) . According to Matthew 1:25, Joseph "kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus".
About the birth of Jesus Christ christians beleive When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit" (Bible: Matthew 1:18) birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit" (Bible: Matthew 1:18)
Christains beleive that Jesus christ performed miracles.like it is written in their bible at one place:
"And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, while thou stretches out thy hand to heal, and sign and wonders are performed through the name of thy holy servant Jesus (Bible: Acts 4:30).
Christians believe that Jesus performed these miracles because he was the Son of God as well as the incarnation of God.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him (Bible: John 3:16).
However, it is interesting to note that the term "son of God" is used in other parts of the Bible to refer to Adam (Bible: Luke 3:38), Israel (Bible: Exodus 4:22) and David (Bible: Psalms 2:7) as well. The creatures of God are usually referred to in the Bible as children of God.
The role of Paul of Tarsus in shaping this belief and the belief in Trinity
The notion of Jesus as son of God is something that was established under the influence of Paul of Tarsus (originally named Saul), who had been an enemy of Jesus, but later changed course and joined the disciples after the departure of Jesus.
Later, however, he initiated a number of changes into early Christian teachings, in contradiction, for instance, to disciples like Barnabas, who believed in the Oneness of God and who had actually lived and met with Jesus.
Paul is considered by a number of Christian scholars to be the father of Christianity due to his additions of the following ideas:
# that Jesus is the son of God,
# the concept of Atonement, (Death of Jesus christ on the Cross to redeem Humanity)
# the renunciation of the Law of the Torah.
Concept of Human State of Birth in Islam:
In Islam a human being is born sinless in the most perfect form and State without having a single sin in his /her account. The moment a human being starts mis using his Free will it makes him/her sinner. Even a person commits some mistake but if a person recognises his /her faults and beleives in Certainity that God will surely forgive me for God loves to forgive and thus repents from such deed not to repeat it again. His sin is forgiven and God rewards him for his repentance of sincerity.
This is called as Repentance in Islam.
The first to Repent was Adam and Eve when Satan misled them in Heaven when he got them convinced to eat from the Forbidden Tree and promised them if they eat from this tree they will have an eternal life and Eternal Kingdom of Joy and happiness and power.
They beleived and trusted him and ate from it inspite of the instructions and warning and advise of Allaah. But when they found themselves got naked and their Clothes of Light were removed from them. both of them repented in humility and in sincerity and God showed His Mercy to both of them and forgave their mistake and pardoned them. But God charged them of the duty to raise their offsprings on Earth so that mankind be also tried till day of judgement and whosover will Repent like Adam And Eve they will enter in the Mercy and Forgiveness of their Lord Allaah and who sover will repent to someone else other than God will be punished for not asking God for forgiveness.
In Christianity: they beleive that All of humanity has inherited the sin of Adam. Only the death of the sinless offspring of God could erase this sin. No one is born clean, no matter if his life is only for a single day. Only baptism and faith in the death of Jesus can save one from this destiny.
Thus they do not beleive that the mistake of Adam and Eve for forgiven or that they repented. And rather they hold the entire responsible for the sin of Adam and Eve and thinks that Jesus came to die and suffer for their sins and the sin of Adam and Eve.
What they say of Atonement means that
The sin of Adam was so great that God could not forgive it by simply willing it, rather it was necessary to erase it with the blood of a sinless innocent man - god named Jesus who was also "fully" God.
Salavation in christianity is if any human being has faith in the atonement of Jesus for the sin of Adam which everyone according to them has inherited then one shall be saved. You only need faith in their doctrine . No work is necessary.
While as in Islam Salavation is acheived only when If you have faith in God, believe in His messengers, and obey His commands then He shall multiply every single good deed that you do many, many times and erase your evil deeds, until on the Day of Judgment His mercy shall cause your good deeds to far outweigh your evil deeds and grant you passage into an ecstasy and Paradise so great that we can not even imagine it, to abide there eternally. In the Hereafter there is only reward and no work.