I thought the 'feel good hit' was what women feel when they're being stoned to death?
Compared to the number that are bombed to death by the Church in the modern crusades.
the full import of the Quran is available only to people who know Arabic, which in turn means the message will be forever unavailable to most people. Strikes me as a pretty ineffective way for a deity to send a message to humanity, from which I conclude that's not what it is.
I tend to agree with you on this and watching a vid can be one form of getting information to the point no questions that arise are ever going to be answered. From what I got as a first impression is that it is a Book of Psalms for Gentiles (or at least written in the same way)
In general, I've heard the very same thing said about the Torah, and one thing that seems to be in common with the two is the 'theme' that they only make sense if the words are in the original language and no (truly accurate) translation is asked for. However asking the presenter a question like how could a Jew or Muslim not be judged by the same rod that Jesus will use for the 7 Churches. The characteristics cover everybody alive, one single verse says it all, what you believe after reading that one is (most likely) the same view that you will have after reading 100 more passages. Normally I would identify the first Church with the RCC if only Gentiles were referenced, using the 12 Tribes also makes the verses just as effective if used to describe that group from the time they were taken captive into the Nations in 70AD. They alone are under tribulation from then until the actual return and at that time all her troubles come to an end once Christ has resurrected the ones missing from the whole House of Israel.
The NT is not formatted to be in song or understood only by a specific set of people, that doesn't mean it doesn't have guidelines about how to read and understand it. If anything the direct approach is too fast and easy, that is why it meets so much resistance, it ruins the mystism that Muslims and Jews have introduced into the God equation. The flood is no longer an event of global scale, it is really a fable meant to teach children some lesson about obedience (or something along that line). I prefre the NT version that allows for the God of the OT to accomplish all those events in the same scale as described if taken literally. The big reason is having a God in the OT as being a 'myth' also means the one in the prophecies in the NT.
The pin that it all hinges on is if Jesus rose from the literal grave or not, again something that is plainly stated in just a very few easy to understand words that would transcend 20,000 years of time as easily as it did 2,000 years ago.
1Co.15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me,
if the dead rise not?
let us eat and drink;
for to morrow we die.
The verse that puts everybody into some portion of the 7 Churches.
Re.1:7
Behold,
he cometh with clouds;
and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so,
Amen.