Subject: Help!!! |
Bible Note: Dear Nghk, Every time I see your screen name I always wonder if it is your initials or your name. If the latter, I think about how the French ought to loan you folks a few vowels -- the French always have vowels to spare! :-) Tsukahira, in his book, is making statements from the Q'oran. Mohammed, was not a literate man. He dictated his visions to another who committed them to writing. The Q'oran contradicts the Bible in many places. The Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael, consequently it is important to them to displace the position of Isaac as the father of the chosen people. If you talk to an Imam they will tell you that the Bible has been corrupted. Nevertheless, they quote from it heavily. If you ask why they quote from a corrupted source, they assure you that only about 97 percent of the Bible is corrupt. They can give no further evidence of this corruption, except to assert that it was done intentionally as a Jewish plot. The Q'oran has its origins in a single human being -- unlike the Bible. The Bible predates the Q'oran by some 500 years. (In fact, it is interesting that some of Mohammed's descriptions of Christianity stem directly from at least two heretical groups that date right to the time of Mohammed!) The Q'oran has never been subject to the scrutiny that the Scriptures have been. Indeed, any such effort is vehemently and violently resisted by Muslims. (See, for example, what happened to a man named Salman Rushdie.) Since Peter Tsukahira is basing his thesis in the Q'oran rather than the Holy Bible, my tendency would be to chuck the entire work. He is simply doing what so many do, taking a current event and trying to wrap spiritual significance around it. People tried to do that around Christ, and His response was always, "Unless you repent, you shall likewise perish." Salvation is by grace alone, through Christ alone, by faith alone. That faith comes only from the Word of God. "As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power." (Colossians 2:6-10) In Him, Doc |