Posted by
jason hudson on Friday, November 07, 2008 5:21:59 PM
Don't they both kill in the name of their God? They are the same are'nt they?
Dont believe that statement, and do not reject Christianity because you believe it is violent,or goofy,weird ETC.
Stop watching TV and read more books.
1. Our God in the Bible, is a God of love and gives us our own free will, to have a realationship with him. Thats all he wants, a free gift given to you to accept. Since this is a gift, and it is free,you have nothing to lose if it was lie(which it is not), and if it is true(which it is) you have Everthing to gain!!
Allah, enforces his beliefs upon his people and resorts to violence if you do not accept his views. The word love, in the Quran is rather limited.
Man's love for things is referenced 15 times, and carries and carries a negative meaning.It concerns those who love the world and used of innopropriate or wrong things.
Human Love is referenced 15 times, referring to those outside the ranks of believers as they show love to them, but this love it is not reciprocated.
Man's love for God is referenced 7 times, with translations of love as a motivational factor. Also used as a noun.And used as "lovers of truth" The term "God is Love" is not found among the 99 names of God given in Islam. They can only do his will, they can not really know him. They follow the term "God is Great", a statement of expression.
The Negative (ex.)"God does not Love the_____ or God loves not____(fill in the blank) referenced 22 times.
They don't go out and spell out that hates it, but it enforces the idea that the love of God is withheld from those who practice certain things or have a certain character.
God's love for Man is referenced 20 times, because of their deeds. One would think that positive statements of God's love would bring us to a revelation of the personal and infinite love of God to mankind. Look closer, they are statements of CONDITIONAL love based on human activity. Imlpies giving of one's money or goods, or efforts for Allah's cause.
In the Bible, love is referenced over 400 times, 223 in the New Testament alone. If you draw the conclusion that Islamic roots before the Quran, actually worshipped a false moon God named Allah also refered to as Sin. Islam is a modern day spin off of this. We worhip the God of eternal life, they worship a God that rewards death.
2.Here is the strongest point of difference between Christianity and Islam. The Quran is a revelation of God's will that is to be obeyed by His creation.The Bible is a revelation of the Person and character of God. This is where we find what God is like and what that means in our relationship with him. The belief in the Trinity, God, Son of God and Holy Spirit, (he is worshipped in 3 persons) is not mentioned in the Quran. Take the properties of Water, Liquid (water), Solid (Ice) and Gas (Steam), they are all just that, compositions of water. Picture the Trinity in that light, (properties of God). It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Quran did not evolve from the Bible.
The Question of "What about the Crusades"? Christians are no better, because they killed for their God.
You can let the finger pointing fly all you want, but here are the facts....
If you took World History,( I dont mean in this day and age....I mean from 25-30 years ago...don't get me started on the school system we have). The Crusades were a series of military campaigns in the Medieval middle ages.In 1076, the Muslims had captured Jerusalem - the most holy of holy places for Christians. Jesus had been born in nearby Bethlehem and Jesus had spent most of his life in Jerusalem. He was crucified on Calvary Hill, also in Jerusalem. There was no more important place on Earth than Jerusalem for a true Christian which is why Christians called Jerusalem the "City of God".
However, Jerusalem was also extremely important for the Muslims as Muhammad, the founder of the Muslim faith, had been there and there was great joy in the Muslim world when Jerusalem was captured. A beautiful dome - called the Dome of the Rock - was built on the rock where Muhammad was said to have sat and prayed and it was so holy that no Muslim was allowed to tread on the rock or touch it when visiting the Dome.
Therefore the Christian fought to get Jerusalem back while the Muslims fought to keep Jerusalem. These wars were to last nearly 200 years. The fight goes on to this day.
It depends on what side of the fence you sit on, because again there is a battle of Good -vs- Evil here, and you have be able to discern what good and evil is. The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule and were launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuk Turks into Anatolia.
Though the Muslims in power at the time tried to protect the Jews in The Holy Land, the Crusaders' atrocities against them in the German and Hungarian towns, later also in those of France, England, and in the massacres of Jews in Palestine and Syria have become a significant part of the history of anti-Semitism, although no Crusade was ever declared against Jews.
The taking of Jerusalem, followed with persecution = A fight. A fight to take back what was realistically owned by them in the first place.
There was killing, and for granted there were some unhloy alliances formed in those times. If killing of Innocents took place, In the name of God It was NOT an act of Christianity.
Any sensible, sane person must ask, how can a group claim to be religious and then commit horrifying crimes while supposedly acting “in the name of God”?
Yet, we should not be surprised. Killing one another “in the name of God” is nothing new to the marred and scarred history of mankind. The religious Crusades and Inquisition of the Middle Ages, as well as the World War II Nazi bloodfest of the Jewish Holocaust, now silently attest to the intolerance and brutality engendered by religious hatred and hatred of religion.
One would suppose that being “very religious” instead of atheistic would decrease the slaughter rate. However, just the opposite is true. Man’s inhumanity to man has been increased by human religion! History bears out that many times religion has been the cause of war and mass death, not the solution that it should be!
Part of the reason for this contradiction is that mankind has never been able to differentiate between “true believers” and the mentally-ill “messiahs” who have tainted religious history since the beginning. Mankind has followed leaders who were not following the true God! If it were otherwise, millions upon millions of people would not have been annihilated in the name of God.
There are extremists in any religion, such as Islamo Facicists that fly planes in to buildings. When was the last time you heard a Christian blow things up or fly into mountains killing the innocent? the fact is Men kill, whether it is in the name of ,or if they believe in God or not.
God is in charge of History, don't try to change that, past , present and future......it is His Story to write.
Jason