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The Koran never says that it was composed by someone named 'Muhammad'.
What it does say, however, is that it merely copied the Holy Bible.
I gave you three examples already.
Even your English example confirms the Son.
Where does it state that Jesus is not the Son?
Where is the word 'Jew'?
I have been studying the Arabic of the Koran for the past 15 years.
Yourself?
How would you even know, exactly...?
What it does say, however, is that it merely copied the Holy Bible.
I gave you three examples already.
Even your English example confirms the Son.
Where does it state that Jesus is not the Son?
Where is the word 'Jew'?
I have been studying the Arabic of the Koran for the past 15 years.
Yourself?
How would you even know, exactly...?
I don't know the answer to these questions. The bible doesn't really address it. I can only tell you that God knows who are His and nothing can come between them and Gods Love for them.
Its up to Him, not us... We don't tell Him that He must bring everyone under the age of 7 into His kingdom. But if that is what He has decided then no one can stop Him...
Its up to Him, not us... We don't tell Him that He must bring everyone under the age of 7 into His kingdom. But if that is what He has decided then no one can stop Him...
In Isaiah, God has chosen a foreign king to accomplish a task in Israel in accoding to His will as showing that He is the God of all those that live on the earth.
Isaiah 48:28That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Even though God had chosen to raise up someone outside of Israel to accomlish His will in Israel, He did testify that Cyrus did not know Him as God, but this was to prove to Israel that He is God of all those that live to use as He pleases to accomplish His will.
Isaiah 45:1Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
The they being Israel, of course.
In secular history there is a record of Cyrus's prayer to the gods which shows that he was not loyal to the actual God of Israel. He acknowledges the "God of Israel" as Marduk which proves he did not know Him.
So this is just one of the testimony of how God can raise up outside armies to punish Israel and raise up outside help to accomplish His will in Israel without any of those armies or whomever he has raised up to do His will without knowing God personally.
So that pretty much testifies that God is not the gods of other religions as He testified that Cyrus did not know Him at all, calling Him Marduk and worshipping others gods with this Marduk. If Cyrus had known Him, there would be no other gods worshipped beside Him, and one would think that Marduk was just a name in Cyrus's language for Jehovah or something, but not so.
So in regards to Isalm's Allah, it is testified that their God is one and has no son, therefore they do not know God the Father nor Jesus. Proof of that is how they believe they are doing God's service by killing infidels which includes Jews, Christians, and non-believers in a jihad.
John 16:1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Yes: they can make the charge that christians have killed in His name, but Jesus never taught them to do that in being His disciples nor has He ever done it whereas Muhammed has taught to kill in a jihad & has done it.
Has any of His disciples in the NT have killed anyone? No. But they died in Christ's love by loving their enemies.
Something that the church has lost sight of His teachings in being His disciples at some of the times on down through the history.
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
It is sung that they will know we are christians by our love, but in spite of muslims saying that Allah is all merciful & all forgiving, they kill as if "he" really isn't.
Safe to say that the "god" named "Allah" is not the Triune God of Israel as they do not know the Father nor Jesus, the Son of God.
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Because according to Christianity, I should not be concerned with just MY salvation? I know I'm already a lost cause? I know that God hates me? So..... not really sure what else you want me to say. If we're to follow the Bible and God's Words as law, then yes, we have to read the technicalities of it as well.
We can gain a significant understanding of what the Koran really is by simply defining the term itself.
Let's review the premise...
“alqur-ana” definition:
Proper noun. Originally meaning the Collection; “I collected together the thing” or “I read, or recited, the book or scripture”; and then conventionally applied to signify the Book of God that was revealed to Muhammad; it also signifies the Revelation, meaning that which is termed the mighty, or imitable which is read, or recited, and written in books or volumes. A name for the Book of God, like the book of the Law revealed to Moses and the Gospel.
قرءان is so called because it has collected the histories of the prophets, and commands and prohibitions, and promises and threats, and the verses or signs, and the chapters.
It comes from the root “qara’a”, which has the primary signification he collected together the thing; put it, or drew it, together; part to part, or portion to portion. He read, or recited, the scripture chanting; he read or recited anything in any manner, without, or from, or in a book.
References:
An Arabic-English Lexicon, E.W. Lane, volume seven, pp. 2502 - 2504
The Dictionary of the Holy Qur’an, 1st edition, Abdul Mannan Omar, pp. 448 - 449
The classic Arabic definition is really quite revealing.
We have the following proclaimed regarding the original meaning applied to the Koran:
• It’s a collection
• A collection of books or scriptures
Whether this collection is read or recited, it still suggests that it emanates from a collected repository of things already written down.
It was only later that the meaning changed to signify the Book of God that was revealed to “Muhammad”…and we already understand that the “Muhammad” spoken of in the Koran is actually the Biblical Jesus Christ.
Thus, the Koran is Jesus’ book!
This would account for the scores of suras that are titled after Him, and revolve around Him.
“Alqur-ana” also means Revelation – which is most appropriate, as >75% of the Koran is directly copied from the Book of Revelation.
The root “qara’a” takes us one step deeper with the primary definition “he collected together the thing; put it, or drew it, together; part to part, or portion to portion."
This gives us great insight as to why the Koran was written in the fashion that it was – as the authors who pieced it together and performed the translation, actually did so piecemeal. These pieces, taken in large part from the Book of Revelation, are actually the paraphrased Arabic counterparts to the Holy Bible, known as suras.