I am defending my faith, and in the process pointing out the obvious.
The bible was written by people who were there at the time of Jesus. They are the ones who knew what really happened, not a man half a millenium later.
What faith are you defending?
Faith in Jesus? He was only a man. What you are calling faith, is only what i call belief in scripture.
It's not real faith. It may be part of it. But it's not real when your belief is only based on assumption.
You assume Jesus to be God's son when there's nothing to prove it except words from a book.
Real faith is believing with all your heart and soul, aided by intellect, that God Is More Real than everything else.
From there on, everything else becomes enjoyable or appreciable in the sense that faith tells you that everything is His Doing.
You are God's creation. I am God's creation. The computer is God's creation since He Created the mind that instigated it.
Your post along with some other Christians' posts reflect some kind of contempt for a man whom you've never known.
This man was Created by God Almighty and whether he was true or fake doesn't give you the right to speak ill of him.
If you are truly a believer that is.
If you were truly a believer, you would have wished the best for everybody, no matter who they might be.
You can't base yourself on hear-say or texts which portray a man to be bad and then go along with it too.
Since you've never been a witness to him in person, why would you ever speak ill of him or say that he's a liar?
Is it just because the Qur'an says that Jesus was not the son of God?
Is it really a valid reason? Is it really worth the contempt you're attracting from people who believe otherwise? Is it that big a deal?
What if Jesus is the son of God? I'm not saying it's the case but wouldn't it be better by saying God Knows Best?
What if he's not the son of God? Wouldn't it still be better by saying that God Knows Best and maintain a good relationship with everybody?
God Knows Best what is what.
We Muslims say that God Does Not Beget because
1. We've never seen God and therefore cannot ascribe to Him things which are common to us, mere mortals.
2. God Does Not Die and therefore again cannot be ascribed to things which die, like Jesus and everything else.
3. We don't want to speak about God concerning that about which we have no knowledge about so it's basically simply being cautious.
Christians say that God has a son because
1. The Bible says so. End of story.
The point is that it's not really worth it since we are all going to stick to our beliefs at the end of the day. But what is the truth really?
Only God Knows.
So why haven't i ever seen a Christian adopt such a stance?
''Like God Knows Best whether He has a son or not, but whatever, let us not let that disagreement come between brothers and sisters in humanity. Let us remain courteous at least with people who disagree with us because anyway we have already declared that God Knows Best, right? So why not leave it all up to God Himself To Decide between who's right or wrong? Why do we have to keep on fighting?"
