Marriage

This is dedicated to Muslims. In Surah 2:285 and Surah 4:136 notice that "His Books" is plural. This means not just the Qur'an but all the Holy Books. In Surah 2:136 please discern the important phrase "We make no difference between one and another of them. This is a clear command that Muslims should regard all Holy Books as equal.

I will now talk about John 2:1-2. These verses say, "And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage."

The Lord Jesus Christ honored the marriage by his presence at the wedding ceremonies at Cana. In this sense, marriage in the real Christian circles is taken more seriously than in other religions. First of all, the Christian marriage is not a mere contract that can be annulled or rescinded whenever the husband or the wife wants. In real Christianity, the marriage is a lifelong commitment and union, where the two become one before God, for life... "for better or for worst, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part." Such marriage is based upon trust, love and faithfulness, by both parts, the husband and the wife. In Christian marriages, the husband is expected to love his wife as Christ loved the church and died for it, and the wife is expected to honor her husband and follow his lead as the spiritual leader of their household. The husband is not considered better nor the wife inferior, but rather, both are equal in Christ. Of course there can be tense moments, misunderstandings, and friction, but a Christian couple would work seriously in order to iron out their difference, keep their vows and make sure that their marriages work. Unfortunately, wherever you see divorces among so-called Christians, you know then that they are not living the real Christian life, and they will surely give an account before the Judgement Seat of Christ.

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Objection to the Bible

Ojection:

In Matthew 1:12 we find that Zerubbabel is the son of Shealtiel. This is wrong! He is the son of Pedaiah, the nephew of Shealtiel, as documented in 1 Chronicles 3:17-19.

Response:

In Erza 3:2, 5:2, Nehemaiah 12:1 and Haggai 1:1, we find that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel. Josephus the historian also documents that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtie! If 1Chronicles 3:19 states that Zerubvabel was the son of Pedaiah, this is owing to the fact that the Jews relate a grandson to his grandfather, calling him his son. Genesis 29:5 calls Laban the son of Nabor, when in fact he was the son of Bethuel, son of Nahor (Genesis 24:47). However, if we are to understand that Shealtiel and Pedaiah were brothers, then it follows that Zerubbabel was the natural son of one of them and the legal son of the other, by the constraints of Levitical law. In any case, if Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, as documented by Matthew, it is correct from every angle. This agrees with the rest of the sacred books as well as history.

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Error in the Bible?

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 generations in the second part of the three divisions mentioned by Matthew consist of 18 men, not 14, as is clear from 1 Chronicles 3:10-16. Also, Matthew 1:8 says that Joram begat Uzziah. This is wrong because Uzziah is the son of Ahaziah, son of Joash, son of Amaziah. These three are among the famous princes described in 2 Kings 8, 12, 14 and 2 Chronicles 22, 24 and 25. This a blatant error.

Response: Matthew omitted Uzziah, Joash and Amaziah, because Jehoram was of Ahaziah's line through Ahab, the pagan, whose wife was the notorious Jezebel. Thus, the deletion of those names was a punishment for Jehoram's guilty house to the fourth generation. God has said: "..I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those THAT HATE ME..." (Exodus 20:5)

We can assume that Matthew abbreviated the genealogy to make it easier to remember. Ezra dis thew same when he set out to prove that he was of Aaron's line; he dropped six generations from his list (compare Ezra 7:1-5 and 1 Chronicles 6:3-15). Ezra's purpose was brevity. Similarly, Muslims say that Muhammad was the son of Hashem, whereas he was the son of Abdullah son of Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashem. In the Hadith, Muhammad is recorded as having said, "I am the son of the two slain"-that is, of Abdullah and Ismael b. Ibrahim.

Matthew may also have ignored these names because one of them -Joash- was not buried in the Tombs of the Kings (2 Chronicles 24:25) and the other two murder were murdered. Also, their grandfather Jehoram was descended from Ahab the pagan.

It is our duty as intelligent beings to investigate those things of which we are ignorant, but our inquiry should be carried out in humility and awareness of our fallibility and weakness. We must not proudly make grandiose claims, deny inspiration and close our ears to the truth. God in His superior wisdom and holiness saw fit to delete these three kings from the list.

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Who is Jesus?

SURAH 43:63 When Jesus came with Clear Signs, he said: "Now have I come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and obey me."

Are you an Muslim or do you know Muslims? I will bring you some information.
People that have accepted Jesus do not have to believe in the Qur'an but if the Muslim has to believe in the Bible.

It's far from it that the Christians believe that God married a woman from whom He begot a son in a sexual, congenital birth, after the manner of men. But the Sonship of Christ to God is a spiritual, sublime Sonship wherein the Son emanated from the Father in the beginning; i.e., in eternity before time. El-Ghazzali, one of the most famous and greatest Muslim scholars, excelled as he described the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, in his book THE BEAUTIFUL REPY, saying: "The Christians believe that the Self of the Creator, the Most High, is one in essence, but it has considerations.
When the existence is considered not contingent on anything else, then it is the absolute existence, and that is what they call the Person of the Father. But if it was considered contingent on another existence, as science is contingent on the existence of the world, such is the definite existence and that is what they call the Person of the Son, or the Word. And when it is considered contingent on the power of His reasoning, emanating from Him, then, that also is a definite existence, and they call it the Person of the Holy Spirit, because the Self of the Creator is reasoned through Him."

In a word, El-Ghazzali, the well-known Muslim scholar, proved his in-depth and genuine understanding of the Holy Trinity and he expressed it grandiloquently and genuinely, proving that the son emanated from the Father and that He was equal to Him. All those attributes that are distinctive of Christ in the Bible and the Qur'an are but the solid proof and clear evidence of Christ's deity.

John 1:49

Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”

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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.

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Isa the Masih

SURAH 43:63 When Jesus came with Clear Signs, he said: "Now have I come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and obey me."

Are you an Muslim or do you know Muslims? I will bring you some information.
People that have accepted Jesus do not have to believe in the Qur'an but if the Muslim has to believe in the Bible.

Jesus was uniquely singled out of the Qur'an as the "Christ" or the "Messiah." According to the Prophets and the Torah, the bearer of that prophetical title was anointed by God to occupy a very high position, near-stationed to God, that no human is worthy of occupying. And Jesus as the Messiah was confirmed to the world as the Messiah who is the Savior of the World, and to fulfill the prophecies: "To Him give all the prophets witness, that through His name whosoever believers in Him shall receive remission of sins." (Acts 10:43). Thus, Christ was distinguished from all the prophets, was exalted above every name and will be judge of the world.

John 1:41 says, "He first finders his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is being interpreted, the Christ."

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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. 

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