Hi Friends!
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the three major monotheistic religions in the world.
These Abrahamic religions have many things in common: all three have their faith in One
God, all trace their lineage back to Abraham, and all believe that God spoke through the
prophets in various era,…
Among the three, the most ancient one is Judaism, originated probably one and half millennia
before Christ.
They believed in their Messiah, the Christ to come, the anointed one of God as prophesied
by their prophets and scriptures.
When Jesus began his public ministry, many believed that he was the Christ and his life
was the fulfilment of all the prophesies; and these followers of Jesus are called Christians.
Thus, the origin of Christianity was in the first century AD.
The Jews still await their Messiah.
In the sixth century AD, a man named Mohammed started a new religiopolitical movement in
the Arabian Peninsula claiming himself to be a prophet, not merely an ordinary one,
but the last and probably the greatest among all the prophets ever lived on the planet.
The religion he founded was Islam.
However, it was not a religion per se, but a sociocultural and political movement, where
every aspect of the life of the follower was constrained by a set of laws.
Although he accepted all the prophets before him including Moses and Jesus, and himself
claimed to be another prophet, neither Jews nor Christians accepted him as a prophet nor
the book he introduced, the Quran.
So today, I will try to show why Christians rejected Islam, Muhammad and Quran.
Before I begin, let me make it clear, this is not an Islamophobic video.
I have many good Muslim friends and I respect their faith, their belief and their culture.
This video is only a Christian perspective and response, why we reject Islam or Quran.
The faith of Muslims is based on two important aspects, the prophethood of Mohammed and the
inerrancy of Quran.
If any of them is not true, the entire belief system falls apart.
It's similar to the Christian faith that centred on the person of Jesus and his resurrection
from the dead.
Coming to the person of Mohammed, he was totally different from the person of Jesus and his
teachings were in contradiction to that of Christianity.
Quran speaks little about the life of Mohammed; we know about him from Hadith.
Hadith are the written documents about the life and teachings of Mohammed just like we
have Gospels.
Although there are several of them, only a few are considered really authoritative by
the majority of Muslims.
Among them Al Bukhari and Al Islam are considered really important ones, the former being the
most authentic source about the life and teachings of the prophet.
What is the idea we get about him from these sources?
Unlike what many Muslims claim and portray him, he was a man of war and bloodshed.
He encouraged many offensive battles against non-Muslims, unbecoming of a religious leader.
Many of his followers today justify them as defensive and just wars.
But, how can one justify what happened in Battle of Trench where he slaughtered around
five hundred Jewish men and boys?
This was only a single example.
There are plenty of them.
He even encouraged his followers to have forced sex on the women captured during the war,
even in front of their husbands!
How cruel that can be!
All these are not my words, it's all in the Quran and Hadiths and yet many ignore
them while exalting their prophet as the perfect human ever walked on earth.
He let his followers to marry up to 4 wives at a time and yet he kept at least 7 of them,
because he was a prophet of Allah.
However, he didn't give the same privilege to women, because he had a world view where
women were inferior to men.
All of these were against the life and teachings of Jesus, whom Islam calls as the Word of
Allah.
Mohammed even had suicidal tendencies and attempted to commit suicide on several occasions,
far from being a perfect human, if not a prophet.
Coming to Quran, Muslims believe that Quran was dictated by Allah himself verbatim through
Angel Gabriel and hence it is accurate literally.
But we know that Mohammed himself didn't write them down, but it was compiled only
after his death from various people who heard him speak.
Although Muslims claim that Quran cannot be wrong, it is full of contradictions.
In some places it praises Christians, and some places it refers them as damned and to
be shown no mercy at all.
Sometimes Quran wishes peace for everyone and yet sometimes it asks to kill those who
do not believe in Islam.
The list of examples goes on.
Many modern Islamic scholars counter this by upholding the doctrine of abrogation where
the later words abrogate the earlier ones in case of any contradiction.
And yet the Quran says it is the eternal word of Allah.
If a verse in Quran can be cancelled by a newer one, how can it be the eternal word
of God?
A critical study of Quran can explain many of its contradictions.
Mohammed began preaching Quran in Mecca in Saudi Arabia but was not very successful initially.
Quranic verses from this period has the message of peace and high respect for Christians.
Later when he went to Medina, and Islam was established as a political religion, the tone
of Quranic verses changed as one of peace to that of violence.
However, I doubt if many devout Muslims would ever accept it.
Another important part of the Islamic belief is that the literal accuracy or the inerrancy
of the Quran.
From this comes the principle of Bucailleism: the principle that Quran is accurate even
scientifically.
As a student of science, it's really hard for me to digest that.
Quran make many unscientific claims: earth is flat, sky is solid, sperm comes from between
ribs and backbone…
These are only few examples which we know can't be true at all.
Then someone can say that Bible also contains scientific inaccuracies, but Bible itself
does not claim that it is scientifically true.
Christians don't believe in the divine dictation of the Bible, but only the divine inspiration.
The most important thing that struck me while reading the Quran was its misunderstanding
of the doctrine of Trinity.
Quran falsely accuses Christians for believing in three gods.
It also misunderstands the persons of the Trinity.
Instead of Holy Spirit, it mistook Mary the mother of Jesus as the third person of the
Trinity.
Such a fallacy can never be the Word dictated by God!
And they also believe that the Quran was perfectly preserved word by word.
And yet Hadiths explain how Quranic verses were either lost or removed while editing.
Even the people who were close to Mohammed objected this omission when the current Quran
was compiled after his death.
And finally, Quran and the majority of the Muslims deny the death of Jesus, which is
nothing but a historic fact.
Hence, it is impossible for the Christians to accept neither the person of Mohammed nor
the Quran.
It is impossible for us to go against what Jesus preached and showed through his life.
Muslims try to quote the book of Deuteronomy and the Gospel of John in the Bible as prophecies
about their founder, but the former talks about a Jewish prophet and the latter is about
the Holy Spirit.
Moreover, a morally imperfect person according to Christian standards cannot be taken as
a model in Christianity and so do his claims.
Thus, the Christianity vehemently opposed and continue to reject Mohammed as a prophet
of God.
That said, Christians are called to love everyone, because God is love and he loves everyone.
It's really sad that many Christians show forth Islamophobia.
The Church appreciates the good things of the Muslim community, their brotherhood, faith
in one God, prayer life, charity works and so on, but that doesn't mean that we accept
their prophet or Quran.
I am sorry if my words were harsh and hurt anyone.
All I intended to say were the reasons for why we don't accept Islamic faith.
A Muslim may have his own answers and opinions.
And this video is no way of hatred towards Muslims.
I love them while rejecting their ideology.
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God bless.
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