In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
The
similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of
Adam; He
created him from dust, then said to
him:
"Be". And he was.
[Surah Ali
Imran 3:59]
The Message:
Injil - The
Bible
By
Muhammad Fadhly Bin Saparwan
[The
Philosopher's Legacy]
"Are
you who you are because of your knowledge and decision or you were just following around?"
God is not a
man, that he should lie,
nor a human being,that he
should change his mind.
Numbers 23:19
The Original
Sin
Christians were taught about the original sin, that every mankind is
born sinful as Adam and Eve had disobeyed God's order (Not to eat the Forbidden
Fruit). If you read on Genesis Chapter 3, God banished Adam and Eve out of
heaven. Man have to sweat to get food, women have to suffer labor pains, and so
on. Now let's put on our thinking cap.
Isn't it that the punishments on Adam and Eve is more than enough? Do
you really think that God would put the sin on all mankind? Why in the court of
law, the judge will not sentence the son of a murderer to death because the
father had commit murder? Is mankind more merciful than God Himself? Do you
want to know why? Because it is ridiculous if someone
punishes you for the sin of others!
The Son Of
God
From Luke 1:35
1:35 The angel replied,“The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the
child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son
of God.
Jesus Christ is said to be the son of God. But does that literally means
the "son of God"? Let study the bible and see what it says...
From Luke Chapter 3: 23-38
The Genealogy of Jesus
3:23 So Jesus, when he began
his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of
Joseph, the son of Heli, 3:24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the
son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, 3:25 the son of
Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of
Naggai, 3:26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,
the son of Josech, the son of Joda, 3:27 the son of Joanan, the son of
Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 3:28
the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the
son of Er, 3:29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim,
the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 3:30 the son of Simeon, the son of
Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, 3:31 the
son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son
of David, 3:32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the
son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, 3:33 the son of Amminadab, the son of
Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 3:34
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the
son of Nahor, 3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg,
the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of
Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 3:37 the
son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan, 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of
Adam, the son of God.
Now let's read the footnote about the terminology about the "son of
God".
The reference to the son of God here is not to a divine being,
but to one directly formed by the hand of God. He is made in God’s image, so
this phrase could be read as appositional (“Adam, that is, the son of God”).
See Acts 17:28-29.
From Acts 17:28-29
17:28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as
even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ 17:29
So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or
silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
So,
what the bible really meant about the "son of God" is not of
something special because literally WE ARE ALL the sons of God!
Fun Fact :
Born Without A Father
If Jesus is son of God because he was born without a father, then Adam would be
a greater son of God because he had no father and no mother.
Concept Of
Trinity
The concept of trinity consist of the Father, the Son(Jesus) and the
Holy Spirit.Trinity is said to be like water in 3 forms that is solid, liquid
and vapour. No doubt they are in different forms but their characteristic
components remains the same ie. H2O, unlike trinity. God and the Holy Spirit
does not need to eat and drink but Jesus do. The Holy Spirit does not have
flesh and bones, but Jesus do. The funny part, this
concept and the word 'trinity' is not
even mentioned in the Bible but it is mentioned in the Quran.
O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your
religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth.Christ Jesus the son of Mary was
(no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary,
and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say
not "Trinity" :desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is
one Allah. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him
belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a
Disposer of affairs.
[Surah An Nisa' 4:171]
They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three
in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not
from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the
blasphemers among them.Why turn they not to Allah, and seek His forgiveness?
For Allah is Oft- forgiving, Most Merciful. Christ the son of Mary was no more
than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His
mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how
Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded
away from the truth!
[Surah Al Ma'idah 5:73]
Jesus never mention in the Bible,"I am your Lord. Serve me."
But Jesus mentioned in the Bible...
John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as
I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will,
but the will of the one who sent me.
How
can God be sent?
John 14:28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going
away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am
going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
How
can there be someone greater than God Himself?
But
what did Jesus say according to the Holy Quran?
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.
[Surah Az Zukhruf 43:63]
Bible forbids making any images of God but the Christians made an image
of Jesus on the cross.
Deuteronomy 4:23 "Be on guard so that you do
not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and
that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden."
Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself a
carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on
the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
Leviticus 26:1 You must not make for yourselves
idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and
you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I
am the Lord your God.
O ye who believe! Intoxicants and
gambling,(dedication of) stones, and (divination by)arrows, are an
abomination,- of Satan´s handwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may
prosper.
[Surah Al Maidah 5:90]
Bible forbids women to have her head uncovered like the Muslim women.
1 Corinthians 11:5 But any woman who prays or
prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the
same thing as having a shaved head. 11:6 For if a woman will not cover her
head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have
her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.
O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the
believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons
(when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and
not molested. And Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.
[Surah Al Ahzab 33:59]
And say to the believing women that they should
lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their
beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they
should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except
to their husbands, their fathers, their husband´s fathers,
their sons, their husbands´ sons, their brothers
or their brothers´ sons, or their sisters´ sons, or their women, or the slaves
whom their right hands possess,
or male servants free of physical needs, or
small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not
strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O
ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.
[Surah An Nur 24:31]
Jesus was circumcised like a Muslim.
Luke 2:21 At the end of eight days, when he
was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was
conceived in the womb.
Jesus teachings forbids eating pork like the Muslims.
Leviticus 11:7-8 The pig is unclean to you because
its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does
not chew the cud. You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their
carcasses;they are unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to
you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat
their meat or even touch their remains.
Isaiah 65:2-5 I spread out my hands all day long
to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and
who did what they desired. These people continually and blatantly offend me as
they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars. They
sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth
from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans. They say, ‘Keep to yourself!
Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’These people are like smoke in my
nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood,
and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name hath been
invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without
wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,-
then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving
Most Merciful.
[Surah Al Baqarah 2:173]
Jesus teachings forbids drinking alcohol like
the Muslims.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes
astray by them is not wise.
They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: "In them is great
sin, and some profit, for men; but the sin is greater than the profit."
[Surah Al Baqarah 2:219]
Jesus prohesised the coming of Muhammad.
John 16:12-16 I have many more things to say to
you, but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth,
comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own
authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.
He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell
it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the
Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. In a little
while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.
They don't kneel to pray like the Christians, but they prostrate and
prayed like the Muslims.
Numbers 16:4 When Moses heard it he fell down
with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:16 David and the leaders, covered with
sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
1 Chronicles 29:20 David
told the entire assembly: “Praise the Lord your God!” So the entire assembly
praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out
flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.
2 Chronicles 20:18 Jehoshaphat
bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah
and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him.
Deutronomy 9:25 I
lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights,34 for he
had said he would destroy you. (34
The Hebrew text includes “when I prostrated myself.” Since this is redundant,
it has been left untranslated.)
Exodus 34:8-9 Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped and said, “If
now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we
are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for
your inheritance.”
1 Corinthians 14:25
The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and in this way he will fall down
with his face to the ground and worship God, declaring, “God is really
among you.”
Job 1:20 Then Job got up and
tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his
face to the ground.82(82. This last verb is the Hishtaphel of the word חָוָה (khavah; BDB 1005 s.v. שָׁחָה); it means “to prostrate oneself, to cause oneself to be low to
the ground.” In the OT it is frequently translated “to worship” because that is
usually why the individual would kneel down and then put his or her forehead to
the ground at the knees. But the word essentially means “to bow down to the
ground.” Here “worship” (although employed by several English
translations, cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, CEV) conveys more than what is taking
place – although Job’s response is certainly worshipful. See G. I. Davies, “A
Note on the Etymology of histahawah,” VT 29
(1979): 493-95; and J. A. Emerton, “The Etymology of histahawah,” OTS
(1977): 41-55.)
Exodus 4:30-31 Aaron spoke all the words
that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,
and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the
Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they
bowed down close to the ground.
Genesis 17:3-5 Abram bowed
down with his face to the ground,9
and God said to him,“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the
father of a multitude of nations. No longer will your name be Abram. Instead,
your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of
nations. (9. And Abram fell on his face.” This expression
probably means that Abram sank to his knees and put his forehead to the ground,
although it is possible that he completely prostrated himself. In either case
the posture indicates humility and reverence.)
Genesis 17:17-18 Then Abraham
bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to
himself,“Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear
a child at the age of ninety?” Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live
before you!”
Genesis 24:52 When Abraham’s servant
heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before
the Lord.
Isaiah 2:9 Men bow down to them in
homage,they lie flat on the ground in worship.23(23. Heb “men bow
down, men are low.” Since the verbs שָׁחָח (shakhakh) and שָׁפַל
(shafal) are used later in this discourse to describe how God will humiliate
proud men (see vv. 11, 17), some understand v. 9a as a prediction of judgment,
“men will be brought down, men will be humiliated.” However, these prefixed
verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive appear to carry on the description that
precedes and are better taken with the accusation. They draw attention to the
fact that human beings actually bow down and worship before the lifeless
products of their own hands.)
Nehemiah 8:6 Ezra blessed the LORD, the
great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands.
Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces
to the ground.
Numbers 20:6 So Moses and Aaron went
from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They
then threw themselves down with their faces to the ground,
and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
1 Samuel 24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He
called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled
down and bowed with his face to the ground.
They fast like the Muslims.
Isaiah 58:3 They lament, ‘Why don’t you
notice when we ?Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’Look, at
the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires,you oppress your
workers. Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls,and
fistfights.Do not fast as you do today,trying to make your voice heard in
heaven.Is this really the kind of fasting I want?Do I want a day when people
merely humble themselves,bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on
sackcloth and ashes?Is this really what you call a fast,a day that is pleasing
to the Lord?No, this is the kind of fast I want.I want you to remove the sinful
chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke,to set free the
oppressed,and to break every burdensome yoke.I want you to share your food with
the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people.When you see someone
naked, clothe him!Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” the Lord
says,“return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
Matthew 4:1-2 Then Jesus was led by the
Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 4:2 After he fasted
forty days and forty nights he was famished.
O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was
prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,
[Surah Al Baqarah 2:183]
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Bible And Weird Science: The Jealousy Ordeal
Numbers 5:11-30 The Lord spoke to Moses:“Speak to the
Israelites and tell them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves
unfaithfully toward him, and a man has sexual relations with her without her
husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there
was no witness against her, nor was she caught – and if jealous feelings come
over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if
jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she
is not defiled – then the man must bring his wife to the priest, and he must
bring the offering required for her, one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he
must not pour olive oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain
offering of suspicion, a grain offering for remembering, for bringing iniquity
to remembrance.
Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand
before the Lord. The priest will then take holy water in a pottery jar, and
take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and put it into
the water. Then the priest will have the woman stand before the Lord, uncover
the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands,
which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the
bitter water that brings a curse. Then the priest will put the woman under oath
and say to the her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if
you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s
authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse. But if
you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have
defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations
with you….” Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and
will say to the her, “The Lord make you an attested curse among your people, if
the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell; and this water that
causes the curse will go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and
your thigh rot.” Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”
Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and
then scrape them off into the bitter water. He will make the woman drink the
bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter
her to produce bitterness. The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion
from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to
the altar. Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its
memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the
water. When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself
and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will
enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall
away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. But if the woman has
not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and
will be able to bear children. This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a
wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself, or
when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife;
then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry
out all this law upon her. Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that
woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.
Bible And Weird Science: Impurity Differences
Leviticus 12:1-5 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Tell the
Israelites, ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will
be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.On
the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.Then she will
remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and
she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are
fulfilled. If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as
during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.
Bible And Weird Science: House Decontamination
Leviticus 14:48-53 If, however, the priest enters
and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house
has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because
the infection has been healed. Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar
wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to decontaminate the
house, and he is to slaughter one bird
into a clay vessel over fresh water. He must then take the piece of cedar wood,
the twigs of hyssop, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the live bird, and dip
them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle
the house seven times.So he is to decontaminate the house with the blood of the
bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of
hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric, and he is to send the live bird away
outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the
house and it will be clean.
Bible And Weird Science: Christian's Special Power
Mark 16:16-18 The one who believes and is baptized
will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. These signs
will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they
will speak in new languages; they will pick up snakes with their hands, and
whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on
the sick and they will be well.
Bible And Weird Science: No More Flood
Genesis 9:13-17 I will place my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the
earth.Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the
clouds,then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures
of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy
all living things. When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember
the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that
are on the earth. So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant
that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
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