Re: How About Keeping The Rest Of Us Safe From Israel?
You wanna be safe?!
You must recognize Israel's right to exist! Otherwise, your a simpleton stuck in dark ages! aka potential terrorist
You wanna? aka you are one of them or like them. aka.
Everything coverts in the end.
DB; Dub doob ... dubab dub : a song. :lol:
Every material body converts to dust.
And every ethereal returns to the ether.
I agree with you about this.
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I tried to separate these three replies, but it was useless. Whatever I add it will be added to the same reply.
Would Muslims be considered to be Gentiles and as such they belong to Christ, similar to the Romans of the NT?
1- Muslims belong to God Almighty; as do all other peoples and nations created by God Most Gracious.
2- Some distorted books may lead to distorted doctrines of the enthusiasm for one who depends on such distorted and altered books.
3- Jesus, Mohammed and Moses are only apostles, not more.
4- Gentiles and the Chosen People of God and the progeny of Aaron the priests ...etc.
The Chosen People of God: at the time of Moses and the prophets after him: these were the pious among the Children of Israel who followed the prophets and the commandments of God and fought in the way of God against the idolatry and that God alone is the God without associate.
Then when Jesus came: the people chosen by God to be devoted to Him alone: these were the Christians who followed Jesus at his time.
Then when Mohammed came: the people chosen by God are the Islamic nation who followed Prophet Mohammed at his time.
But if these do associate, with their God, others like Jesus or Ezra or their prophets and patrons : their imams and sheikhs: they will not be anymore the chosen people by God.
The Chosen People of God are now the Muslims who devote themselves to God alone and believe in all God's apostles and prophets and in all His revealed books including the Quran and its interpretation.
4- Jesus is not different from Mohammed nor from Moses or Abraham in following and inviting people to glorify God alone and in fearing God alone.
As in the Quran
46: 9
قُلْ مَا كُنتُ بِدْعًا مِّنْ الرُّسُلِ وَمَا أَدْرِي مَا يُفْعَلُ بِي وَلَا بِكُمْ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَى إِلَيَّ وَمَا أَنَا إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
The explanation:
(Say [O Mohammed]: "I am not the first innovation of the messengers [but many apostles passed before me, so why do you surprise and deny me];
even I know not what shall be done with me or with you [in the future];
I only am following that which is revealed to me [from my Lord];
I am only an obvious warner.")
While concerning Jesus: he is one apostle before whom many apostles had passed before him. So why do you glorify him exclusively apart from the rest of God's apostles? While Jesus together with his mother ate the food and relieved the nature, so how can they be any gods?
As in the Quran
5: 75
مَّا الْمَسِيحُ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ وَأُمُّهُ صِدِّيقَةٌ كَانَا يَأْكُلاَنِ الطَّعَامَ انظُرْ كَيْفَ نُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الآيَاتِ ثُمَّ انظُرْ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ
The explanation:
(The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a messenger, messengers before him passed away [so why do you glorify him alone, excluding others?] His mother was a true believer [in the Ten Commandments of her Lord]; [the Messiah and his mother] both ate food [and anyone eats food, has to relieve nature, therefore how could they be gods?] See [Mohammed] how We make clear the revelations to them; then see how perverted they are [away from the truth!]
Say: "Do you serve, apart from God, [the Messiah] that [now] cannot hurt or profit you [because he died and his soul ascended to heaven, among angels]; while God is the All-Hearing [of any who cries to Him], the All-Knowing [of any who supplicates Him?]
Say: "people of the Bible [lit. Scripture], do not go beyond the bounds, in your religion, other than the truth [that the Christ is the son of man, not the son of God], and follow not the vain desires of a people [: your monks and clergymen] who went astray before [away from the truth, seeking after wealth and position], and led astray much many [of people], and themselves erred from the plain way [of Paradise, so they reached the Fire in the afterlife.]