Sorry guys - your 'god' is not my God
Submitted by Forgiven on February 16 2002 15:04:14
In reply to hey Rahiim :) submitted by foxfire on February 16 2002 05:37:29
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the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who bought again Jesus Christ from the dead. Who foretold his coming in many prophecies in the old testament. Who sent his SON into the world to save sinners. But it is in the detail that to me the killer issues lie: Compare Sura 24 v2 - the whore and the whore monger - scourge each of them with 100 stripes with Deuteronomy 25 v 3 'Forty stripes may be given him, but not more lest if the one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother should be degraded in your sight' There is a concern for the individual's dignity - even of a criminal - that is wholly lacking in the Koran Then there is the extrordinary story of the Gibeonites - Joshua Cpt 9. This people fools the invading Israelites into agreeing a peace treaty with them - which is subsequently respected, despite it being contary to the general instruction to clear the land of its inhabitants. But in a similar circumstance the 'prophet' tears up a peace treaty with a pagan tribe as soon as he is powerful enough to defeat them. Perhaps the final difference to highlight is the differing attitude to 'last minute' repentance. Sura 4 v 24 says: "But no place of repentance shall there be for those who do evil until when death is close to one of them he saith 'Now verily I am turned to God'." This is in marked contrast to Jesus's parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20 1-16), and the story of the repentant thief on the cross whom Jesus promises will be with him in paradise (Luke 23 v 39 - 43) Let's be clear - either the Koran is a deception, or the Bible. Since amongst other things the prophecies of the Old Testament fulfilled in the New give clear evidence that the prophets of the Old were inspired by a God who could see the future, the only reasonable explanation is that the Koran has the validity of 'Mein Kampf' - the self serving ramblings of a political leader who was an extremely competent politican in his time, but whose ideas are fundamentally evil, and probably inspired by evil spirits. (In the case of the Koran probably the demon that had been worship in the Black Rock of Mecca for centuries) You've been had.... |
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