Tuesday 25 December 2012

[wanabidii] Re: RE: [uchunguzionline] The Christian Doctrine of Redemption

Twaha,
Please do not think of yourself so high. When I told you I am busy I meant it and I wish you asked me what I was doing instead of thinking that I am running away from resolving any issue. Besides I have no issues to resolve for you or anyone. When I say I Jesus personally I know what I mean and you cannot dissuade me from this truth and reality. It is only those who are in Jesus Christ Who know this.
Twaha, I still ask to respond to the use of the IF clause in English. And you should know that most Muslim scholars derive their hermeneutic principles from Christian scholarship and all your theology is built on the Chritian theology template. Yours is just a reliplication or a copy of what early Church fathers did. Please read the following and analyze verse by verse in English then we can talk.
The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection
15 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast [a]the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you [b]as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to [c]James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as [d]to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, [e]and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified [f]against God that He raised [g]Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

I have also pasted the Greek translation here to let you know that when we talk about the Bible we know what we are talking about because we can read both Greek and English properly. You read Arabic and what you say here about the Quran we never doubt because like me I have very poor knowlegde of Arabic. I cannot claim authority over the Quranic interpretetation and that is why I asked to SHUT up when it comes to Matters of Biblical interpretation. You impoverishment in English and Greek syntax is a clear evidence that you have no right to interpret the Bible.

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Please Twaha could you respond to the above then we can talk as scholars. Don just blaber.
Paul

From: okello emmanuel <oldiya@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com" <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com>; "kiswahili@yahoogroups.com" <kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>; "twahanet@hotmail.com" <twahanet@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [uchunguzionline] The Christian Doctrine of Redemption

 
Twahanet,
I don't think any Christian will take you up on your challenge to defend their faith to you because you are not God.
Likewise don't make some/any of us remind you of the total confusion amongst Muslims themselves, the confusion being so great theyre blowing themselves up (ie Muslims blowing other Muslims up) all over the world the name of worship.


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From: Twaha B. Ali <twahanet@hotmail.com>;
To: <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com>; <kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>;
Subject: RE: [uchunguzionline] The Christian Doctrine of Redemption
Sent: Wed, Dec 26, 2012 4:31:18 AM

 
Paul, 
The proper response would have been to defend your position on the doctrine of redemption. Claiming that you are busy while throwing nonsense doesn't shed any light into the subject. If you are referring to the many ifs used in the context, was to highlight the confusion among the Christians surrounding this contradiction and as stated, you have no way of resolving it unless you ignore all the facts presented. 

While Islam provides clear-cut answers to the many mysteries that Christians have chosen to enslave themselves with, they ignore all the signs and sink deep in their delusion in hoping for their savior Jesus. In the end you come up with some amazing or rather strange statements as you have pointed out that; you know him personally, for example. Let me tell you what will his response be, peace be upon him as in the following verse from the Quran. 

“And (remember) when Allaah will say (on the Day of Resurrection): ‘O ‘Eesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: Worship me and my mother as two gods besides Allaah?’ He will say: ‘Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my inner‑self though I do not know what is in Yours; truly, You, only You, are the All‑Knower of all that is hidden (and unseen).
‘Never did I say to them aught except what You (Allaah) did command me to say: Worship Allaah, 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. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole world).
‘If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if You forgive them, verily, You, only You, are the All‑Mighty, the All‑Wise.’
Allaah will say: ‘This is a Day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise) — they shall abide therein forever. Allaah is pleased with them and they with Him. That is the great success (Paradise).
To Allaah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is therein, and He is Able to do all things
[al-Maa’idah 5:116-120]  

As someone who cares for my Christians brothers and sisters in humanity and with my limited knowledge I will continue copying and pasting articles that I deem useful hoping that Allah will guide those who are willing to accept the truth

I will end with these two verses from the Quran (Translation of the meaning). Allah says:

"How much would those who disbelieved wish that they had been Muslims [those who have submitted themselves to Allah's Will in Islam i.e. Islamic Monotheism - this will be on the Day of Resurrection when they will see the disbelievers going to Hell and the Muslims going to Paradise].
 
Leave them to eat and enjoy, and let them be preoccupied with (false) hope. They will come to know!"   (Quran 15: verse 2 -3)


Ask Allaah to guide you to the path of truth and to open your eyes to the light. May Allaah guide you to the straight path. 

And Allah knows best.

To: uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com
From: pauliyai@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:32:06 -0800
Subject: Re: [uchunguzionline] The Christian Doctrine of Redemption

 


Twaha,
So what is your Problem ? You are just blabering here without direction of thought. Why do you talk of what you do not understand? Could you please get a secondary school English textbook and study what the if clause means, its uses and what it entails before you engage in any debate with us?
You cant be a scholar of both Islam and Chritianity because for one Chritianiaty is not a religion and as a faith it does not need you, instead you need it. We who believe in Jesus Christ know Him personally that all you are talking about down here is complete nonsense-forgive me any abrassiveness it was not intended.

You copy and paste a lot of things and you expect us to read. Why cant you just sit and listen? You know nothing about the Christiam Bible because you cannot read Greek nor Hebrew so I do not know what authority you have in all you are saying here. Even simple uses of If are giving you a lot of problems. Check here
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/verbs-time-clauses-and-if-clauses
I am busy doing something otherwise I would have picked on you and showed you how to read the bible for all its worth.
Paul
 

From: Twaha B. Ali <twahanet@hotmail.com>
To: kiswahili@yahoogroups.com; uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 11:06 PM
Subject: [uchunguzionline] The Christian Doctrine of Redemption

 
Praise be to Allaah.  
The doctrine of redemption, and the basis of this doctrine which is their belief that the Messiah (peace be upon him) was crucified, is one of the basic doctrines of Christianity, so much so that they would gamble the entire religion on this doctrine. The English cardinal Manning says in his book “Eternal Priesthood”: “The importance of this confusing topic is obvious, for if the death of Christ on the cross is not real, then the basis of the church’s doctrine will crumble from its foundations, because if Christ did not die on the cross, then there is no sacrifice, no salvation, and no trinity… Paul, the Apostles and all the churches say that, i.e., if Christ did not die then there was no resurrection either.” 
This is what Paul said: 
“And if Christ has not been raised, then preaching is useless and so is your faith.”
I Corinthians 15:14 – New International Version (NIV) 
Just as they struggle with their belief in trinity and what it means, and how they can reconcile it with the belief in monotheism which is affirmed in the Old Testament, and just as they also struggle with everything that has to do with the crucifixion and its details, which is the basis of their belief in redemption which they believe is the reason for the crucifixion , we say: as confusion is inevitable for everyone who turns away from the light of revelation that came down from Allaah, similarly they are confused about the doctrine of redemption. 
Does redemption mean saving all of mankind, as John says: 
“…Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world”
I John 2:1-2 (NIV)? 
Or is it only for those who believe and are baptized: 
“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned”
Mark 16:16 (NIV)? 
The one who studies the life and sayings of the Messiah will see clearly that the call of the Messiah was addressed to the Children of Israel, and that throughout his mission he forbade his disciples to call anyone else. So salvation must have been only for them. This is what we see in the story of the Canaanite woman who said to him: 
“… ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.’
Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, ‘Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.’
He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.’
The woman came and knelt before him. ‘Lord, help me!’ she said.
He replied, ‘It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs.’”
Matthew 15:22-26 – NIV 
The Messiah did not heal the daughter of the Canaanite woman, although he was able to do so, so how could he redeem all of mankind? 
Was this salvation from the “original sin” of Adam only, or does it include all of our sins? 
But no one can bear the sin of anyone else, or redeem him with his own self, as Allaah tells us in His Holy Book (interpretation of the meaning): 
“And no bearer of burdens shall bear another’s burden; and if one heavily laden calls another to (bear) his load, nothing of it will be lifted even though he be near of kin. You (O Muhammad) can warn only those who fear their Lord unseen and perform As‑Salaah (Iqaamat‑as‑Salaah). And he who purifies himself (from all kinds of sins), then he purifies only for the benefit of his ownself. And to Allaah is the (final) Return (of all)”
[Faatir 35:18] 
This is what the texts of their Bible also say: 
“The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him”
Ezekiel 18:20-21-- NIV  
There is no inherited sin (“original sin”): 
“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
He who hates me hates my Father as well.
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father”
John 15:22-24 – NIV  
When there is sin – whether a person has committed it himself or inherited it from Adam or from another of his forefathers – can this sin not be erased through repentance? 
The people of heaven rejoice over the one who repents like the shepherd rejoices when he finds his lost sheep, and the woman rejoices over her lost penny when she finds it, and a father rejoices over his prodigal son when he returns: 
“I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”
Luke 15:7 
God promises those who repent that their repentance will be accepted: 
“But if a wicked man turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him. Because of the righteous things he has done, he will live.”
Ezekiel 18:21-23 – NIV. See also Isaiah 55:7 
Putting one's trust in one’s lineage without repenting or doing righteous deeds is a kind of madness; if a person’s deeds slow him down, his lineage will not help him to speed up, as our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said. (Saheeh Muslim, 2699) 
John the Baptist (Yahya – peace be upon him) taught you the same things: 
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire”
Matthew 3:7-10 – NIV 
Forgiveness of sins through the sinner’s repentance is what befits the kind and merciful God – not sacrifice and crucifixion and the shedding of blood. This is what the Bible says: 
“I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners (to repentance)”
Matthew 9:13 – NIV
(the words “to repentance” do not appear in the NIV but are present in the “King James” or “Authorized” translation of the Bible). 
Hence Paul says: 
“Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
Romans 4:7-8 – NIV 
We believe that if Allaah had commanded some of His slaves to kill themselves in repentance from their sins, that would not be too much for them to do, and that would not contradict His being kind and merciful. He commanded the Children of Israel to do that when they asked to see God directly, but even then no one was to be killed for anyone else, rather a person was to be killed for his own sins, not for the sins of another. That was the heavy burden and fetters that were upon them (cf. al-A’raaf 7:157), from which Allaah has spared this ummah (nation/community).
Another matter that disproves the belief in original sin is the texts which mean that each person is responsible for his own actions, as Allaah says in His holy Book (interpretation of the meaning): 
“Whosoever does a righteous good deed, it is for (the benefit of) his own self; and whosoever does evil, it is against his ownself. And your Lord is not at all unjust to (His) slaves”
[Fussilat 41:46] 
“Every person is a pledge for what he has earned”
[al-Muddaththir 74:38] 
Similarly it says in your Bible: 
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you”
Matthew 7:1-2 – NIV  
“For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done”
Matthew 16:27 – NIV
 
The Messiah affirmed the importance of righteous deeds, and said to his disciples: 
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'”
Matthew 7:21-22 – NIV  
Similarly, he said: 
“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth
Matthew 13:41-42 – NIV  
He did not tell them of redemption by which they would be saved from the reckoning. 
Those who do righteous deeds are the only ones who will be saved on the Day of Resurrection from the reckoning, whilst those who did evil deeds will be carried off to Hell, with no salvation by the Messiah or by anyone else: 
“… for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned
John 5:28-29 – NIV  
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory…
Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels’”
Matthew 25:31-42 – NIV  
The Messiah said to them: 
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?”
Matthew 23:33 – NIV  
Adolf Hernck noted that the epistles of the Apostles did not include the idea of salvation by redemption, rather they suggested that salvation is attained by good deeds, as it says in the Epistle of James: 
“What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
… faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
… faith without deeds is useless (or dead).”
James 2:14 – NIV 
And Peter says: 
“I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism
but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right”
Acts 10:34-35 
There are many similar examples in the words of the Messiah and the disciples. 
Allaah the Almighty has spoken the truth (interpretation of the meaning): 
“O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allaah is that (believer) who has At‑Taqwa [i.e. he is one of the Muttaqoon (the pious)]. Verily, Allaah is All‑Knowing, All‑Aware”
[al-Hujuraat 49:13] 
What is strange is that Paul himself, who abolished this teaching and said that deeds were to no avail, and that salvation is only by faith, affirmed the importance of righteous deeds on other occasions, such as when he said: 
“A man reaps what he sows
… Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up”
Galatians 6:7 – NIV  
“and each will be rewarded according to his own labour”
I Corinthians 3:8 – NIV  

So you have no way of resolving this contradiction unless you ignore your common sense and reasoning, and delude yourself with false wishes, as you do in the case of the doctrine of trinity and unity, which is what John R Stott advises you to do in his book Basic Christianity: I do not dare to deal with this subject, before I admit frankly that a great deal of it must remain a hidden mystery… I wonder how our weak minds cannot comprehend it fully, but there will inevitably come a day when the veil will be lifted and all mysteries will be resolved, and we will see the Messiah as he really is! 
… How is it possible that God was incarnated in Christ, whilst making Christ a sacrifice for our sin? I cannot answer this, but the Apostle himself places these two truths side by side and I accept the idea completely, just as I accept that Jesus the Nazarene is human and divine in one person… If we cannot resolve this contradiction or solve this mystery, we should accept the truth as proclaimed by Christ and his disciples, that he bore our sins.” 
Basic Christianity, p. 110, 121, quoting from Dr Sa’ood al-Khalaf, al-Yahoodiyyah wa’l-Nasraaniyyah, p. 238. 
Yes, you and we will see the Messiah as he really is, one of the slaves of Allaah who are close to Him, and one of His Prophets who were sent, on that Day when the veil will be lifted and he will disavow himself of all those who took him as a god besides Allaah, or who attributed to him words that he did not say. At that time there were no mysteries or puzzles: 
“And (remember) when Allaah will say (on the Day of Resurrection): ‘O ‘Eesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: Worship me and my mother as two gods besides Allaah?’ He will say: ‘Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my inner‑self though I do not know what is in Yours; truly, You, only You, are the All‑Knower of all that is hidden (and unseen).
‘Never did I say to them aught except what You (Allaah) did command me to say: Worship Allaah, 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. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole world).
‘If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if You forgive them, verily, You, only You, are the All‑Mighty, the All‑Wise.’
Allaah will say: ‘This is a Day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise) — they shall abide therein forever. Allaah is pleased with them and they with Him. That is the great success (Paradise).
To Allaah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is therein, and He is Able to do all things
[al-Maa’idah 5:116-120] 
Will you think about it before it is too late? 
“Say (O Muhammad): ‘O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allaah (Alone), and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides Allaah.’ Then, if they turn away, say: ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims’”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:64].



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