KNOW YOUR GOD AND BE SAVED In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Do you really know God? ….Before you conclude your answer, check the Message below….. A lot of us think we know God but we really don’t. Knowing God is the most important thing in our life, without this, we can never worship Him correctly. The consequence of not worshipping God rightly is perishing in this world and relegation in the next world. Having proper understanding of our True Lord, how Honorable and Majestic He is, will definitely make us to love Him and serve Him correctly. The only way to learn about our Creator (who provides for us, protect us and sustain all His creation simultaneously without getting tired) is through the people He sent to us. One of those messengers is Christ Jesus “The son of Mary”-the Messiah (May peace and blessings of God be upon him) who was reported to have said in John 6:38: “For I come down from heaven not to do mine own will but THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME”. He also said in John 4:34 that “My meat is to do the WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME”. In these and many other verses, Jesus Christ claimed to be “a servant of God” since he was not free to fulfill his own will (desires). Jesus (PBUH) was also reported to have said in the Qur’an that “I am a servant of God, He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet” This is found in Suratul Mar’yam Verse 30 (Suratul Mar’yam means “Chapter of Mary”- 19th Chapter of the Qur’an). All these evidences make it clear that Jesus Christ (the son of Mary) was actually sent by God (i.e a Messenger of God). Let’s now examine how Jesus who was sent by God described God. According to the bible, Jesus preached complete Monotheism meaning “Oneness of God”. Some of these verses include John 17:3 where Jesus said: “And this is life eternal, that they might know you THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, WHOM YOU HAVE SENT.” Mark 12:29 reads: “And Jesus answered him: The first of all commandments is, Hear O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.” Note: Jesus did not say: “The Lord our God is three” nor include himself as one of the three gods (in Trinity). My beloved reader! Know that: your God, thy Lord is One, and do not worship anything beside Him. Isaiah 46:9 reports that God Almighty (free from all imperfection) says: “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else, I am God, and there is none like me” (check also Qur’an 114:1-4). Deuteronomy 4:35 says: “the Lord is God, THERE IS NONE ELSE BESIDE HIM”. See also Exodus 8:10, which similarly inform us that Our God, the Lord of the world is One and there is no one like Him, whether in shape, size, knowledge, power e.t.c. And nothing happens in this world except by His permission; just like Jesus said in John 5:30 that: “I CAN OF MY OWN SELF DO NOTHING: (Note: Jesus claimed to be absolutely powerless and also depended on God’s power). The God of Mankind is one, not three, and He Alone deserves all thanks, praises and worship. All the verses quoted above makes it sufficiently clear beyond any reasonable doubt that God is ONE, Jesus was His Messenger and there is NONE like God (in size, shape, form or power and other attributes). Since according to in Mark 12:29, Jesus Christ confirmed that the first (and the greatest) of all commandments is: “The Lord our God is one Lord“, and he also testified that He came to fulfill all the Commandments of Moses according to Mathew 5:17, therefore whoever misses this (first commandment) is certainly seeking his/her path to Hell in the next life. Jesus Christ said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill… Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Mathew 5:17, 19) Despite the fact that these verses are very clear in the bible, but yet many Christians who claim to be Christ’s followers have abandoned them in order to follow the ideology of Trinity which was forced into Christianity by Emperor Constantine in 325CE at the first ecumenical council in church history, for the purpose of settling the disputes about the nature of God that arose between various Christian sects, while Jesus who was sent by God described Him to be One. Now that it is clear that the description of God by Jesus contradicts the Church’s description of God. Therefore this calls for personal reflection. Jesus Christ (PBUH) did not know (or preached) the so called “Trinity” in his time according to the bible, it was only some years after his departure that the church imposed this dogma on the people claiming “It’s a Mystery that could not be explained, you just have to believe it blindly” Today many Christians idolize Jesus Christ and elevate him to God’s Status (as in Trinity), though Jesus never said in the bible “I am God, worship me”. And Jesus Christ never worshipped himself, but rather he worshipped God and instructed men to worship Him alone. He said in Luke 4:8 that: “For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt you serve.” According to Mathew 19:16-17, it reads thus: “One came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he (Jesus) said unto him, while callest me thoume good? THERE IS NONE GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD. But if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments.” Jesus said in Matthew 15:8-9: “this people honor me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. BUT IN VAIN THEY DO WORSHIP ME BECAUSE THEY TEACH COMMANDMENT OF MEN AS DOCTRINES” “And (remember) when Allâh will say (on the Day of Resurrection): O Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: Worship me and my mother as two gods besides Allâh? He will say: Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say)…” Never did I say to them aught except what You (Allâh) did command me to say: Worship Allâh, my Lord and your Lord. And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, but when You took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all things. (Qur’an 5:116-117) [Note: In Aramaic, a language closely related to Arabic which Jesus (PBUH) habitually spoke; God is also referred to as Allah.] God created us with the ability to think and reason as He said in Isaiah 1:18: “come now, and let us reason together ...” It is your personal responsibility to decide either to follow the Church or follow God’s revelation through Jesus Christ (PBUH). The Bible says in Colossians 2:8: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Thousands of various singular personal pronouns are used for God in the Bible e.g “I’, “Me”, “Myself”, “Thee”, “Thy”, “Him, “His”, Himself”. (Not less than 6700 times) O Reader! Kindly answer the following simple questions sincerely: • If the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, David, Moses (and other prophets…-peace be unto them all) before the time of Jesus was only One God, did He suddenly become three at the arrival of Jesus in the world? • And when Jesus was a baby sucking the breast of his mother like every child does, was he God (or part of Trinity) at that period? • How could human being which God has endowed with high thinking faculty accept a dogma (i.e The Trinity) which is mathematically absurd (1=3), scientifically unproven and spiritually blind? [Remember, the bible says: “God is not the author of confusion” (1Corinthians 14:33)] “And of mankind are some who take (for worship) others besides God as rivals (to Him), THEY LOVE THEM AS THEY LOVE GOD. But those who believe love God more (than anything else) …” (Qur’an 2:165) “O mankind! Verily, there has come to you the Messenger (Muhammad SAW) with the truth from your Lord, so believe in him, it is better for you. But if you disbelieve, then certainly to Allâh belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. And Allâh is Ever All¬Knowing, All¬Wise” (Qur’an 4:170) “So, as for those who believed in Allâh and held fast to Him, He will admit them to His Mercy and Grace (i.e. Paradise), and guide them to Himself by a Straight Path. (Qur’an 4:175) “Surely, they have disbelieved who say: Allâh is the Messiah [Iesa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary). But the Messiah [Iesa (Jesus)] said: O Children of Israel! Worship Allâh, my Lord and your Lord. Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allâh, then Allâh has forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong¬doers) there are no helpers.” “Will they not repent to Allâh and ask His Forgiveness? For Allâh is Oft¬Forgiving, Most Merciful.” “The Messiah [Iesa (Jesus)], son of Maryam (Mary), was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother [Maryam (Mary)] was a Siddiqah [i.e. she believed in the words of Allâh and His Books (see Verse 66:12)]. They both used to eat food (as any other human being, while Allâh does not eat). Look how We make the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to them, yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth).” “Say (O Muhammad SAW to mankind): How do you worship besides Allâh something which has no power either to harm or to benefit you? But it is Allâh Who is the All¬Hearer, All- ¬Knower. (Qur’an 5:72-76) I think all this should convince the open minded person who God wants to guide (for He is the only One that guides whoever He wishes). Do not let others judge or make a decision for you. Mr. Thomas, a former Christian stated in his book: “why I chose Islam” that: “After coming across so many strong and unbreakable arguments against the doctrine of Holy Trinity and also about many other fundamentals of Christian belief, I only wondered how such an unreasonable faith could attract such a huge number of people” 18 minutes ago · Sent from Mobile Sami Ullah The Miracles of Jesus Evidences that Christians use to prove that Jesus was divine is that he performed some mighty miracles. Such as healing the blind, curing the leper, and even raising the dead. They say how could such a normal man perform such activities if he was not divine? Well for starters other prophets performed mighty miracles, an example would be Moses, he split the sea! Yet no one believes that Moses was God, rather the Christian believes that God blessed Moses with such a mighty miracle. We therefore ask Christians why the new set of standards when it comes to Jesus? If anyone were to read the Gospels one would find that there is nothing about Jesus performing miracles, rather we get the complete opposite picture! Jesus miracles serve as a proof that he is not God! Christians often commit very big mistakes when they read the Gospels, they only read the part about the miracle, not the part that comes right before the miracle, and right after the miracle. So since many Christians are ignorant of doing this, I shall do it for them, and we will read what Jesus did before he performed the miracle, and right after he did the miracle. Once doing this you will see that there is nothing divine about Jesus performing miracles, rather it is one of the biggest and best proofs that he is not God, but a prophet only. With that said let us proceed to the evidence. One interesting incident that occurs during a miracle of Jesus comes from Mark chapter 7:32:36. The incident goes as follows: And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. So the people brought a deaf man to Jesus, the deaf man also had a speech problem which is common amongst deaf people. Jesus eventually heals the deaf man, and the mans speech gets fixed as well. Yet the most interesting part is what Jesus does right before he performs the miracle, I quote that part again alone: And looking up to heaven, he sighed So right before Jesus performs the miracle, he looks into the heavens and he sighs. Off course a Christian will leave this part out, all you will get from the Christian is the miracle part, not this important part that makes the matter clear. So right before Jesus performs the miracle, he looks to the heavens, and invokes God. The witnesses at the place see Jesus as sighing, groaning, murmuring etc. Which is him basically invoking God for the miracle, and God grants the miracle and the mans deafness is healed, and so is his speech problem. What does this all prove? It proves that Jesus invokes God for the miracle and that Jesus has no power on his own to do ANYTHING, rather it is God doing the real work, and God is just blessing his prophet Jesus to perform the miracle, just as he blessed the other prophets. Moving on, we all know that Jesus also performed several exorcisms; he was always healing people with demon possession. Although this isnt relevant to the topic, it is interesting to note how many demon possessed people there were among these Israelites, the supposed ?chosen people of God! Even the pagan Arabs of the prophet Muhammad didnt have such a demon possession epidemic! Christians are so fond of telling us about this miracle, how Jesus threw the demons out, and that it somehow proves he is divine. However so why not let Jesus speak for himself, and why not let Jesus tell us how he performs this mighty deed? Well today is our lucky day, since the Gospel of Matthew chapter 12:22-28 records Jesus informing us of how he does this great deed: Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. So notice the most important part of the incident, the part that comes right after the miracle. When Jesus healed this demon possessed man his accusers became suspicious and started reasoning amongst themselves, they had concluded that Jesus was using the help of other demons to do what he was doing. Yet Jesus refutes them saying such a belief is absurd, since satan cannot stand against himself since it makes no logical sense, and that a divided nation shall fall. After refuting their absurd claims Jesus tells them that he is performing these exorcisms by THE SPIRIT OF GOD. Jesus didnt say I am performing this by my own Godly powers, nay, rather he says he does it by the spirit of God. In other words when Jesus says I do this by the spirit of God it means he does this with the help of God, and the assistance of God. In other words God yet again is really doing the work, and blessing his prophet Jesus to perform this deed, just like he did with the other prophets. Let us now move on to what is perhaps the most famous and favorite miracle for Christians, which is Jesus raising the dead, basically bringing them back to life while they are dead. Christians assert that this must prove Jesus is divine, for how can he raise the dead? Well this is why God put me on this planet, to answer such questions. Let us read the incident about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, which comes from John chapter 11:32-43: Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. This is perhaps one of the greatest proofs that Jesus is not God, and is a prophet. Notice what is happening, Jesus is praying and calling unto God, and God eventually hears Jesus, and Jesus THANKS GOD for the miracle, and thanks God for listening to him, and that God ALWAYS LISTENS TO JESUS, which means that Jesus ALWAYS prays to God before a miracle, and that God hears Jesus invocation and grants him the miracle! What makes this more interesting is that Jesus PURPOSELY PRAYED OUT LOUD SO THE PEOPLE COULD HEAR HIM, AND COULD KNOW THAT HE IS ASKING GOD FOR THE MIRACLE AND THAT GOD SENT HIM! So in point of fact Jesus is trying to make it crystal clear that he is NOT divine, that he is NOT God, but rather God SENT him and that it is GOD who is doing the real work! Amazing isnt it?! Jesus makes things more clear in John chapter 17:6-8, he says: I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me Jesus says that EVERYTHING he has been given is from God, and Jesus says EVERYTHING has been GIVEN to him! A double proof that he is not God, and crystal clear proof that God granted all the miracles to Jesus, and that all power really belongs to God, and not to his prophet Jesus. So every miracle, from healing the blind to walking on water to calming the seas, all of this was from God, and God blessing Jesus. It was not Jesus own supposed divine power, he had none. Rather God gave him such miracles, and God gave him such miracles only after Jesus invoked and prayed to God for them, and was thankful after receiving them. And if it couldnt get any more clearer, here is what the disciples and apostles believed: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: (Acts 2:22) Jesus, the man approved by God, and the man whom God used to show the miracles and signs. This passage makes it 100% clear that Jesus wasnt doing the miracles by his own supposed divine power, rather God did the work through him, which when you put with all the other verses I have showed you means that God granted the miracles to Jesus, and God was really the one in charge, Jesus was just the medium being used. So to conclude, Christians will only tell you about the miracles, Christians will not tell you about the most important parts, the parts which I just showed you, the parts which conclusively prove that Jesus is not God, but is a prophet of God, and as the apostles said, a man approved by God. And Allah Knows Best!
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:15:16 +0000
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