My wife is on again off again Catholic who thinks I should put my thought and arguments to paper. I thought why not try it on line first, and see where it gets me. Here I have an argument or a challenge for anyone to provide a straight up answer to my challenge. I really mean a no string attached answer if you can. Dont try to cloud me a bunch of stuff like JUST BELEIVE IT MY SON. I appreciate if you do take the challenge because I am out of ideas as to get these answered, and also provide references as I have in my article. Please read with an open MIND, God Bless Salaams
(Muslims who read this are reminded when a prophets name is mentioned below please repeat S.A.W, thanks)
Oh Christians and Cotholics alike, have you been to a Church and feel that it feels more like your in a Temple .. I mean Temple by what the Hindus and Buddhist have all around the world in there place of worship. If you don't know what I mean because you only care to recognize your place of Worship. Then it will be a big surprise for you to know that this is where all man made God's came from. And if a Hindu who worships his creation of Idols was to go to a Church anywhere in the world today, He/She would have to say it not so different from there place of Worship. “So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.” Acts 17:29
Just listen for a second. These second command or Law from God inThe 10 Commandments states (Exodus 20) You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Why is there so many Images and Statues around the Christian countries.. You know what I mean, if you been to Europe. This is the way it’s been for many centuries, they are landmarks. I mean you can’t go pass a courtyard, cemetery, garden, city hall, train station, gargoyle’s are on all four corners of office buildings. You can’t go without seeing some sort of figurine that makes you look and stare at this piece of art. That’s all it is to me Art. Or else why would they have them in museums, right. I mean there not usually of Christ (pbuh) or Mother Mary (pbuh). But people don't seem to see the danger, of creating religious symbolic statues of the Prophets in the bible. There is no respect. An animal may urinate on it a bird could defecate on it. Don't come and tell me God is watching over them, because he would be criticizing the 2nd commandment. like you are. And when I say you! I mean the one's in charge. I mean all the Popes since the first all the Priests, Pastors, Mersinaries, and Governments who pay for it to be made and put out all over the Country.
Also when did Jesus (pbuh) become European. When did he become white with blonde hair and blue eyes. How many Jews have you seen this way, because he was a Jew!!! And if you did not know Jesus was a Jew, now you know. I've never understood why people depicted Jesus and Mary as white, and with blonde hair! It seems obvious to me, given what part of the world they supposedly came from, that they would have had dark skin and hair. And yet artists so often seem to ignore this totally...it doesn't make sense to me. Christianity is often seen as a "white man's religion" which many westerners have tried to shove down the throats of all and sundry who are "not like us". You cant deny this fact, majority of Christian's are white. So the majority of Muslims must be Arab right! WRONG. They are the minority. The majority are Asian from Indonesia, then Pakistani's. It's funny that the Bible origins lie in the middle east with a bloke of questionable colour but definitely not white! Actually white people definitely fall into the category of gentiles (non-jews) - and it took a great debate to decide whether or not to invite gentiles into the church at all!
I ask again why? Why the pictuers of Jesus (pbuh) on the walls of homes and churche's. It's so simple its staring you in the face. What’s the difference between that and of Polytheism. YOu can't tell me you have never seen a Christian pray to a statue.. We all know Hindu's and Bhuddist do. So if your Christian or Catholic its different. Come on. I have seen Christians crying to statues, talking, praying so have you. Tell you what. Here's a challenge. Take the Picture of Christ wherever it is hanging in your house and put on another wall. Any small statues put them in a drawer. See how you parents, kids, grand parents, relatives will react. It won’t be positive. Move the furniture around, paint the house you will get a positive reaction. Do you think God or Jesus (pbuh) is gone? Out of your house, well that’s how they will feel because as Obama said it best, Change is difficult, and Change We Need. If you believe in God, why the gargoyle. Why is this concept still being adopted till now. You think a spirit is scared of something that can’t move. Were all intelligent enough to know that it’s just silly.
As for every era in history - countries, civilizations, the pyramids for E.g. All left there mark in History so it would last. But does the Bible or Jesus support the ideas later created by man. This is a challenge, I ask you Christians, do you really know your bible. Or do you know what you have been told and made your beliefs from listening to your pastors, priests, parents, grandparents.And because you respect them you don’t question them well were living in the age knowledge and its time to question everything. If you only know your bible because you humm, sing in church or listen to your priest, that doesn’t mean you know your Bible.You need to read it.Become a critic.What really irritated me the most is the delivery of so many priests and Christian leaders on TV. Look into the way of the delivery of the Priest with open mind, and if it’s a sermon then what’s up with the band on the side. This isn’t a concert right. I like the choir though it’s spiritual, but when I watch these guys on TV, I can’t help to laugh. It looks like an infomercial. All the jumping around laying there hands on peoples heads to heel them; come on it’s a circus act.Is it not blasphemous to pretend you have some kind of power to heel and pretend to be talking to God in heaven and hoodwink the people to believe you have the power to heel the sick, and you actually put this on television thinking this works for those with intelect. NO. A religion can be tested. A religion can be debated on. A religion can take criticism. A religion needs proof.
Inspiration and faith is not enough. Because, if we only needed faith than Sikhs would be a ble to convert people all over the world, instead of having Punjabis being the only followeres and believers of a man made religion, that only cater to there own. How black Sikhs have you seen. Asian Sikhs, white ones anything except a Punjab. Very rare. But followers of Abrahamic religion are the Majorotiy of the Planet. Jews, Christians and Muslims. Muslims being the fastest growing in numbers of born Muslims and the fastest growing of people converting to it. Jews being the least of all Faiths in the world, and Christianity the most.
I really hope your reading this with an open mind. But like it’s really the time to free your mind, it is time for you to do your own research for your self. Keep reading or close this and start your own path and research is all I ask. Keep going if you will but I have more proof and questions, but this also gets harder for you if you can't read with a open mnd.
Another question I have is, and I will have more. Why so much emphasis about Jesus. What about God the one who created him.I recall in (Matthew 22:37) “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”. But yet you continue so much about Jesus (pbuh).What about the one great God who created him, you read above what Jesus (pbuh) said. How come no credit, respect, more prayers for the one True God. Well if your going to tell me, well Rassool Jesus is God, then my question to you is provide with a single passage that is scriptural where Jesus (pbuh) said with his own words, I am God worship me, because if he is God, he knows how to say it.
I'll give you another challenge for your teacher whoever that is, yourself, parents or priest. Ask them where does Jesus say I have layed down for you Christianity as your religion. Give me proof from the Bible that is scripture. And after all you will see it was St. Paul. He created Christianity not Christ (pbuh) then followed Peter, Simon and James. Then you will see that it wasn't easy to be a Christian until Constantine made it official some 300 years after Christ left. One thing to mention is Paul never saw Jesus. He never heard or witnessed Christ speak, pray, walk, talk, laugh, a miracle nothing. Jesus said don't sent my message to the Gentiles. Who are the
Gentiles. One who is not of the Jewish faith or is of a non-Jewish nation. Source:
http://www.answers.com/topic/gentile. Who was Jesus message sent for. The Childred of Jerusalem. What and where was Paul from an absolute Gentile who created a faith called Chratianity and said no animal is dirty so everyone can now eat pork and not be circumsized like the Gentiles. And all the way to today this is practised and backed buy the Church. A disgrace in my opinion, that this was never corrected, but I come in peace.
I also want to ask something very important as to who were Matthew, Mark Luke and John. Please don't say Disciples, because there was 12 not 16. These so called Disciples Matthew, Mark, Luke and John had no last name no address no what so ever credibility to who they were, and they wrote the New Testament. Beginning each Book with According too. Does that Make Sense, am I writing this as According to Rassool and not give my last name. There is absolutely no authenticity to saying what you’re writing when you say “According Too”, your adding a third party. All through out history till now we give our last name.In the bible it self Jesus (pbuh) gives reference to someone with adding there father John (21:15) “Simon, Son of Jonas.” It’s nothing new. It is who we are. It’s our identity people knew who you were by stating your first and last name followed by your dad's name and where you came from. E.g. Jesus of Nazareth (pbuh). Only in the last 60 – 70 years we have finger prints and DNA, which proves with science who we are. Come on Christians I beg you to wake up. The Bible has many great books, but listen to what people in the Church have done though out time. You can't even agree on which version of the Bible to follow. He’s the Son or he is God. Look at the significance difference of that. Now get ready for this. Son, Father, Holy Ghost Trinity. I thought there was only 1 God as stated in the 10 Commandments, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deuteronomy 6:4) Ask your pastor or priest about this one, but I want you to be prepared so write this passage down that Jesus (pbuh) said.
Matthew 22:36-38
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
I am not here to convert anyone except to shed some light for something that has been accepted as lies for 2 thousand years, stand back for a sec and look into your history of what is scripture from the Bible. All these sculptures were storytelling and propaganda, a billboard if you will, in that time period.People then led to calling them Gods, like Zeus. When the message of Christ (pbuh) the anointed one, was starting to be preached across Europe, mainly in Greece and Rome first. They had to make bridges with them in order to expand the faith and then allowed the new Christians to create Jesus (pbuh) into clay and mud objects around the world with no consequence.Violating the 10 Commandments with full intention.
If you believe in God don't think that you need a picture or statue to believe in him. Because in Monotheism we do believe in what we can't see. Prophet Moses (pbuh) asked God to see him in Exodus 33 18-23 “ And (God) said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee...and he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live...and thou shalt see my back: but my face shall not be seen").The version from the Quran still makes me laugh today “And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said, ‘My Lord, show me (Yourself) that I may look at You.’ (God) said, ‘You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it should remain in place, then you will see Me.’ But when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He rendered it level, and Moses fell unconscious. And when he awoke, he said, ‘Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first of the believers.’” (Quran 7:143)
I actually belive this version because Jesus said “And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape” (John 5:37) “ No man has seen God at any time” John 1:18.This to me has to wonder why the Catholics can say that Jesus (pbuh) is God. The people SAW Jesus, they did NOT see God. The people heard Jesus, they did not hear God. How can Jesus be God?
The true testament to this is to take the Challenge of Sheikh Khalid Yasin who saids. Take all the Bibles, all the Torahs adn all the Qurans. Throw them all in the Ocean. Get rid of them all. In a few days, in a week, the Quran will come right back up because there are literally hundred of thousands of Muslims who have memorized the Quran in its entirity of existence. From front to back Muslims know the quran. This is very true. This is the challenge of challenges when you think about it because the Church doesnt fully agree and the Jews dont fully agreewitheverytihng that is in the scriptures. All Muslims agree with the Quran. I know many Chrstians and I am married to one. My observation of the many Christians, they only know the Lords prayer. A good 90% of Christians I think know the Lords prayer. I would have to say 90% of all Muslims including non practising ones knows 10x more than equal size of the Lords Prayer then what is the Quran. Because A Muslim can't pray with the Quran open. When you see a Muslim Praying he not just reading whatever he wants by standing-up, saying what he will's and wishes. He must read something similiar to the Lords Prayer from the Quran twice and two different verses of the Quran for each prayer by Memory. and you can't read the same one twice. And because every Muslim reads the prayer in Arabic, the flow of the Quran is so rythmatic that its easy to memorize a single verse. If you ever seen a Muslim pray they prostrate together and pray in one brotherhood. Christians when you pray your Pastor or Priest tells you to "now turn to John 1 -3 ". We do it by memory. All from the age of 3 - 99 all around the world all in agreeance to one book revealed from Gabriel to a man in the dessert. Prophet Mohammed (p.b.u.h) who was illeterate 1400 hundred years ago. That means when he heard it, he could'nt write it down, thus he had to memorise it. This is why we do this so if someone was to question us on the spot, bang!!! here's the answer, intead of saying sorry I dont have my book with me. Now that was bang not boom with all the sterotyes and all. Just for effect ok. So
Now before I wrap this is up and I know this sounds like a speech I am writing and maybe I am, The word Trinity does not exist anywhere in the Bible. Furthermore the word Bible does not appear anywhere in the Bible except on the cover, very interesting hmmm. My argument is if the word Trinity, does not exist is in the bible, and Jesus (pbuh) never said it. Then the whole concept of the Son, Father, and Holy Ghost is a hoax.The whole concept of the Christian Faith is founded on the Trinity. Also there is no where Jesus performed Mass. As I said earlier he was a Jew. Without that you’re just a Jew or Muslim another fellow monotheistic. There has never in my research in my life where anyone has been able to explain this argument of mine, because it is hard to prove something that doesn’t exist that’s scriptural. If you don’t believe in the Trinity are you still able to be a Christian? I don’t know. But the Bible itself doesn’t state the word Trinity which is the back bone of the faith as well Christians host Mass everyday, the Man the Messiah the Prophet never did a single Mass or said celbrate his brith (Christmas) or death (Eastter). It does seem someone has made some man made beliefs and made it official. I leave it to you but you should read the Standard revised Red letterd Bible that was backed up by 32 scholars, and by their 50 co-operating denominations.... of whom believe the KJV was corrupted.
Good Luck !!!
Dont believe me, please do your own research, just proove me wrong with proof, is all I ask.
“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you” John (20:21)
Salaam Alai'kum wa Rahma'tullahi wa Baraka'tuh - May the Peace and Blessings of God Be Upon you
Rassool Auckbaraullee
*pbuh – Peace be Upon Him/Her