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Ali can you tell me how can a flood thats been localized kill all the inhabitants of the world, how is it possible that such a major event can be localized. Edited by JOUBERAR - 03 February 2010 at 5:42pm |
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Do you think this was writen down just for the mere pleasure of it this is just to demonstrate that no one and no so called prophets will superceed Jesus and his Apostles.
This is a nail in every false messenger's coffin.
Heb 1:1 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,Heb 1:2 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;Heb 1:3 who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;Heb 1:4 having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?Heb 1:6 And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.Heb 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame a fire:Heb 1:8 but of the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.Heb 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.Heb 1:10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:Heb 1:11 They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;Heb 1:12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.Heb 1:13 But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?Heb 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation? |
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CHRISTIAN The
Latinized Greek term Khri�sti�a�nos′, found only three times in the
Christian Greek Scriptures, designates followers of Christ Jesus, the exponents
of Christianity. �It was first
in Antioch [Syria] that the disciples were by divine providence called
Christians.� (Ac 11:26) 26 and, after he found him, he
brought him to Antioch. It thus came about that for a whole year they gathered
together with them in the congregation and taught quite a crowd, and it was
first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence
called Christians. The Holy
Scriptures shows that it was a God-given name; they �were by divine
providence called Christians and guess what? No one argue that fact, not
even the Jews and other opponents of Christianity, until hundreds of years
later (The Anti-Christ) There wasn�t even a Muhammad or a Mecca nowhere to be
even thought of let alone found. Just because
Muslims chose not to believe, so be it, it�s there lost. But, way before
Muslims was the Jews, and even they believed that Christ had followers, many of
them becoming Christians. What Muslims
fail to realize, within a period of less than 300 years, the wheat field of
Christianity had been overrun with the weeds of apostate antichrists (The Bible
prophesied the antichrist would come) to the point where wicked Constantine the
Great (himself incriminated in the murder of no less than seven close friends
and relatives) figured in events that led to the development of a state
religion disguised as �Christianity� which in reality is called Christendom
(Apostate Christianity) Non-Christian
Testimony. Secular writers of the first two centuries also acknowledged
the presence and influence of early Christians in their pagan world. For
example, Tacitus, a Roman historian born about 55 C.E., tells of the rumor
charging that Nero was the one responsible for burning Rome (64 C.E.), and
then says: �Therefore, to scotch the rumour, Nero substituted as culprits, and
punished with the utmost refinements of cruelty, a class of men, loathed for
their vices [as the Romans viewed matters], whom the crowd styled Christians. . . .
First, then, the confessed members of the sect were arrested; next, on their
disclosures, vast numbers were convicted, not so much on the count of arson as
for hatred of the human race. And derision accompanied their end: they were
covered with wild beasts� skins and torn to death by dogs; or they were
fastened on crosses, and, when daylight failed were burned to serve as lamps by
night.� (The Annals, XV, XLIV) Suetonius, another Roman
historian, born toward the end of the first century C.E., relates events
that occurred during Nero�s reign, saying: �Punishment was inflicted on the
Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.��The
Lives of the Caesars (Nero, XVI, 2). Flavius
Josephus, in his Jewish Antiquities (XVIII, 64 [iii, 3]),
mentions certain events in the life of Jesus, adding: �And the tribe of the Christians,
so called after him, has still to this day [about 93 C.E.] not
disappeared.� Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia in 111 or 112 C.E.,
faced with the �Christian problem,� wrote to Emperor Trajan, outlining the
methods he was using and asking for advice. �I have asked them in person if
they are Christians,� wrote Pliny. If they admitted it, they were punished.
However, others �denied that they were or ever had been Christians.� Put to the
test, not only did these offer up pagan sacrifices but they even �reviled the
name of Christ: none of which things, I understand, any genuine Christian can
be induced to do.� In answering this letter, Trajan commended Pliny on the way
he had handled the matter: �You have followed the right course of procedure . . .
in your examination of the cases of persons charged with being Christians.��The
Letters of Pliny, X, XCVI, 3, 5; XCVII, 1. Muslims,
how far back do your evidence/references go that there were no Christians? Answer
if you DARE! Good
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�If you doubt what we have revealed to you, ask those who have read the Scriptures before you.� (Sura 10, Yunis [Jonah], verse 94) & (Surah Al �Imran: 84-85)
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Salam Jouberar
Your statements in bold Ali can you tell me how can a flood thats been localized kill all the inhabitants of the world, how is it possible that such a major event can be localized. Are you referring to the flood of Noah? Well, I never said that the flood was localized and I never said that it killed all the inhabitants of the world. I do not know whether it killed everyone or only Noah's people or was it for only one piece of land or for entire world. I only said that according to the Bible, the flood took place 21st or 22 century BC and according to Science, there were other civilizations present at that time. Either Science is wrong or the Bible is. Peace |
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A Christian is a believer, someone who follows the teachings of Jesus trying to act in good faith, to help and love everyone, no matter his religion, money, color, etc.
The most important for us is the love and the peace, and we have to try our best to make it possible.
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No God wants the killing, but the peace.
The weapons are carried by people, not by religions. |
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ALI I AM SURE THE SCIENCTIST IS WRONG AND GOD IS RIGHT.
Ali here is your is post and you say you never said that or are only refering to the Quran.
Qur�anic presentation of the story of Noah and the flood does not conflict with scientific evidence or archaeological data; firstly, the Qur�an does not indicate any specific date or year of the occurance of that event, and secondly, according to the Qur�an the flood was not a universal phenomenon which destroyed complete life on earth. In fact the Qur�an specifically mentions that the flood was a localised event only involving the people of Noah.
The water had taken hundred and fifty days to go down thats very long for a localized flood my friend I think the authors of the Quran got it all wrong like Noah's "fourth son" who drowned in the flood.
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.Gen 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;Gen 7:14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.Gen 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.Gen 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.Gen 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.Gen 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.Gen 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.Gen 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.Gen 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:Gen 7:22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.Gen 7:23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.Gen 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8 An area of criticism applied by Muslim apologists against the Holy Bible and in support of the Quran is the issue of Noah's flood. Following the example set by Dr. Maurice Bucaille in his book, The Bible, the Qur'an & Science, Muslims assert that whereas the Holy Bible wrongly teaches a universal flood the Quran however, in agreement with both modern science and archeology, affirms that the flood during Noah's time was a local event. The Quran clearly teaches that the flood only affected the people of Noah and did not stretch across the entire globe. Unfortunately, many who are not familiar with the Quran or the early Islamic writings are left with the impression that the Quran inarguably teaches that the flood of Noah's day was merely a local event. The problem with this is that the Muslim apologists who make such statements must often read into the text something not explicitly stated and/or ignore the early Muslim exegetes and their interpretation of Quranic passages dealing with the flood. For example, the Quran never says that the flood affected only the people living within close proximity to Noah and his family. The only reason why the Quran singles out the people of Noah is simply due to the fact that the Islamic scripture is recording the message Noah proclaimed to his contemporaries. It has absolutely nothing to do with the extent of the flood since it would be impossible for the Quran to include all the peoples of the world in these passages seeing that they had never heard Noah's preaching. Furthermore, there are passages in the Quran where a universal flood is clearly implied, if not explicitly stated. In fact, these very same passages are appealed to by Muslim writers, such as al-Tabari, to support the fact that the flood was universal. Before proceeding to the Muslim writings, let us first examine the Quranic witness to the universality of Noah's flood:
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Salam Jouberar
Your post=bold ALI I AM SURE THE SCIENCTIST IS WRONG AND GOD IS RIGHT. So science is wrong and Bible is right. And plants were created before the sun, sun was created after the Earth, and Earth was created in six days. I suppose these are all "facts" according to you? Ali here is your is post and you say you never said that or are only refering to the Quran. Read the top of my post you are quoting. All of it is a reply to the allegation that Quran has been copied from the Bible. Instead of giving my own reply, I quoted a scholar and gave a link. According to him (not me), the flood was localized. According to some other scholars, the flood was not localized. So I was right that I never said that the flood was localized or universal. The water had taken hundred and fifty days to go down thats very long for a localized flood my friend Where did you get the idea that water had taken a hundred and fifty days to clear up? Was it the Bible? Well, if we are all assuming that Bible is historically authentic, then you and the Bible is right and me, Quran and science is wrong. But we are not assuming that Bible is historically authentic. First you have to prove that Bible is authentic then quote it. And that prove has to be on the basis of science (which you ironically reject). I think the authors of the Quran got it all wrong like Noah's "fourth son" who drowned in the flood First off, Quran, unlike the Bible, has only one Author. And again you are assuming the Bible to be right here. An area of criticism applied by Muslim apologists against the Holy Bible and in support of the Quran is the issue of Noah's flood. Following the example set by Dr. Maurice Bucaille in his book, The Bible, the Qur'an & Science, Muslims assert that whereas the Holy Bible wrongly teaches a universal flood the Quran however, in agreement with both modern science and archeology, affirms that the flood during Noah's time was a local event. Well, even if we assume that Noah's flood was global, Quran does not give a date. So archeologists have no problem if we say that there was a global or a local flood at any time in history, hence both of the interpretations of Quran do not contradict with science. However, Bible gives us the date of that global flood, in which many civilizations of the world existed. Hence, Bible contradicts science. Unfortunately, many who are not familiar with the Quran or the early Islamic writings are left with the impression that the Quran inarguably teaches that the flood of Noah's day was merely a local event. I've said it before, Quran neither says that it was global nor does it confirm that it was local. You are missing the key point here which is that Quran does not give us a date and the Bible does, which contradicts science. For example, the Quran never says that the flood affected only the people living within close proximity to Noah and his family. :). So Quran doesn't say that flood only destroyed the people of Noah, hence the flood destroyed everyone. Now Quran tells us many tales about nations who were destroyed by God. The people of Aad were punished by thunder and lightning and were destroyed. God doesn't say that only those guys were destroyed, does that mean that everyone on Earth got killed? Furthermore, Quran tells us a story about a garden which was destroyed to punish a his owner. But it doesn't say that only that garden was destroyed, does that mean that every garden on Earth was also destroyed? Furthermore, there are passages in the Quran where a universal flood is clearly implied, if not explicitly stated. In fact, these very same passages are appealed to by Muslim writers, such as al-Tabari, to support the fact that the flood was universal. Like I said before, some scholars say that flood was universal. Tabari must be one of them. "At length, behold! There came Our Command, and the fountains of the earth gushed forth! We said: `Embark therein, of each two, male and female, and your family- except those against whom the Word has already gone forth,- and the believers.' But only a few believed with him." S. 11:40 "Then the word went forth: `O earth! Swallow up thy water, and O sky! withhold (thy rain)! And the water abated, and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi, and the word went forth: `Away with those who do wrong!'" S. 11:44. The verses you quoted don't explicitly say that the entire Earth was submerged. The thing is, Quran is written in a very poetic fashion hence if God tells Earth to "swallow up your water" it does not mean that "you were entirely covered with water and now swallow it" :). I've just argued that Quran doesn't explicitly say that the entire Earth was submerged. But suppose if I agree that the Earth was submerged, still, Quran will not contradict science. That is because Quran does not tell us when the flood occurred, but the Bible does. So let's assume for the sake of argument and conciliation that the whole Earth was submerged. Now explain to me, why does Bible contradict science? Peace |
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A Christian is someone who is a new creation "in Christ". A Christian is someone who has been born again by the Holy Spirit. If a person has not been born again and has not the Holy Spirit, that person is not of Christ .. i.e. not a Christian. Romans 3:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. When Jesus entered this world, how was he born, how was that facilitated? Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. Jesus's birth came by the Holy Spirit, and a Christian is someone who has been borne again by the Holy Spirit, a new creation "in Christ". Doug L. Edited by Douggg - 07 March 2010 at 2:56pm |
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