Showing posts with label islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label islam. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

I hope that you, my Muslim  friend, will understand that the Bible is from God.
Surah 2:136 says,

Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."

I do not believe in the Koran but you do. Surah 10:64 says,

For them are good tidings in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. No change is there in the words of Allah . That is what is the great attainment.

Know also this Surah. Surah 5:47 says,

And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,  so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Objection: The time from Judah to Salmon was nearly 300 years, and from Salmon to David, 400 years. Matthew wrote that in the first period there were seven generations and in the second, five generations. This is obviously a mistake, because during the period people lived longer than the second.

Response: There is an example from history that negates this allegation. The period of the four caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali, spanned 29 years. The age of the succeeding Umayyad dynasty included fourteen caliphs, beginning with Muawiyah and ending with Maewan. This dynasty spanned 89 years, approximately 1,068 months and it exceeded the reign of the Rashidi caliphs. According to the rule above, the later ones should have lived shorter lives not vice versa. If we go further along in history, the Fatimids ruled longer than the others, spanning 205 years and the number of their caliphs was fourteen. Thus, their duration was nearly double that of the Umayyads, even though their time in history is nearer ours than the Rashidis and the Umayyads.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRhLt5R0P9Y


Saturday, October 26, 2019

Who is Jesus?

My Muslim friend, the topic of Jesus is an interesting one. You say that he was an prophet. I agree with you that he was an prophet. I will add that he is God.

I do not believe in the Qur'an but you do so I will talk about the Qur'an with you.

I will start with John 1:33. The verse says, "And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’"

In this verse, God told John the Baptist about His Son and the Holy Spirit, giving a perfect picture of the Holy Trinity. In the same way, the same picture is reflected not once but twice in the Qur'an when God was quoted as saying: "And We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear signs, and confirmed him the Holy Spirit." (The Cow 87). Also, the verse in the Surah of Women 171 describes Jesus saying: "His Word that He committed to Mary, and a spirit from Him."

If we study those two Qur'an verses, we find that the Speaker was God addressing His Word and supporting Him with His Holy Spirit-no prophet ever was giving that privilege.

This is great assurance that the Qur'an did not deviate from reiterating the Gospel's teaching, confirming the reality of the Holy Trinity, ie., God the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit. 

YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSEGCgUv-Q4&list=PLOcgbRsBMiGrCWEwotBvZFRJt5StQ-f4D&index=6&t=0s


Sunday, August 11, 2019

All in the family

I hope that you, my Muslim,  friend will understand that the Bible is from God.
Surah 2:136 says,

Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."

I do not believe in the Koran but you do. Surah 10:64 says,

For them are good tidings in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. No change is there in the words of Allah . That is what is the great attainment.

Know also this Surah. Surah 5:47 says,

And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,  so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Objection: We read in Matthew 1:11 that Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brothers during the Babylonian Captivity. There are three problems with the verse: Josiah was not Jeconiah's father, but rather his grander (1 Chronicles 3:15-16), for it is written that Josiah's sons were Johanan, Jehokiakim, Zedekiah and Shallum; Josiah died twenty years before the Babylonian Captivity, so we cannot say that he and his brothers were born during this time.

Response: The problems presented here vanish when we examine what is written in one of the handwritten copies. In the Greek we read: "Josiah was the father of Jehoiakim (or Joakim) and Jehoakim were the father of Jeconiah" (see the Kreisbach readings). Thus, Josiah was Jehoiakim's father (also known as Eliakim and Jochim), and his brothers were Johanan, Zedekiah, and Shallum (1 Chronicles 3:15). Joakim was Jekiniah's father during the Babylon Captivity, but we must remember that the children of Israel were taken to  Babylon three times. The first exile was in 598 B.C., the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josiah. In that year, Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem and removed a large number of captives to Babylon. The second exile occured during the reign of Jeconiah, son of Joakim, who reigned three months and then taken into captivity in 597, along with many notables and aristocrats of Isreal. The third exile happened in 586 B.C., during the reign of Zedekiah.

Kalmet said that it is necessary to read Matthew 1:11 in this way, "Josiah was the father of Joakim and his brothers. Joakim was the father of Jeconiah during the first Babylonian exile." What confirms the correctness of reading verse 11 in this way is what Matthew writes: "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations"; thus, 42 in all:

The line of Abraham: Issac, Jacob, Judah, Perez, Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse and David.

The line of Solomon: Rehoboam, Abidjah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah and Jeconiah.

The line of Jeconiah: Shealtiel, Zerubbababel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Akim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joesph and Jesus.

Thus, the problem the objector raised can be explained in terms of taqdeem and taakheer which, in Arabic, respectively mean to place subsequent things first or to place initial later along (such as placing Solomon before David).

Although one could do without an interpretation of Matthew's expression, saying that Joakim was omitted because he was a ploy in the hands of the king of Egypt (2 Chronicles 36:4) and that he, like Joash, was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings, but cast out on the walls  of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 22:19, 36:30), the statement would nonetheless be correct. We can say that Josiah begot Jeconiah, because he was his grandfather.

Matthew 1:11,and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.


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