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Galip Rahman ~

In the name of Jesus the Messiah -

GR: ... "Christians know the truth, but for the Christianity is their own brainchild, own idea (whi,ch is the modified form of the paganism/Greek and Roman Mtyh) because of their egosim they are not able to accept the fct that there is no God but Allah."

I think you're trying to say that Christians know that Muhammad is a true prophet. Muhammad made similar claims against the Arabian Jews who insisted that Muhammad was an impostor. However, those Jews were, and well-informed Christians are, quite sincere in their belief that Muhammad was an impostor.

GR: "Each Christian is in the notice of contradictions."

I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean that the people who made copies of the books of the Torah and the New Testament did not make perfect copies, and that this resulted, in some cases, in a manuscript that displayed "400" where it should have had "4000" and things like that, I agree. Technically that is a contradiction between that particular manuscript and other manuscripts.

But suppose that someone used a printing-press to print some copies of the Quran, and then noticed that some words had been spelled incorrectly when the printing-press had been prepared. Those printed copies would similarly contradict perfectly-printed copies. But this would not mean that the original text of the Quran contained mistakes. In the same way, this sort of "contradiction" in the Biblical text does not mean that the original text of the Bible contained mistakes.

GR: ... "They hereby keep their God's image to everything, a king sitting in his throne,"

Like in Ayat Al-Kursi (2:255) -- "His /Kursi/ extends over the heavens and the earth" -- and Al-Araf v. 54 -- "He rose over the Throne" ('Arsh)?

GR: "Paul identfies this better by saying: 'they changed the truth into lies and changing the image of God with men's, star and etc....'"

The verse you are quoting (Romans 1:25) goes more like this: "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen." Are you disagreeing with Paul, who is describing pagans in this verse? I do not see how you could disagree with Paul's description of pagans, when I notice how much it resembles some of Muhammad's own descriptions of idol-worship.

GR: "You Christians really know the Truth,"

And the Truth is Jesus. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by Me." (The Gospel of John 14:6)

GR: ... "you are not able to bear hearing the truth."

You're assuming, of course, that the Quran is true. Many Christians (and atheists and agnostics and pagans) have a hard time paying attention to the Quran and treating it as if it is true. Some of them reject it because they consider it too repetitious and self-recommending. Some of them ignore it because they do not want to change the lifestyles to which they have grown comfortable. (Some people who reject the Gospel do so, or claim to do so, for the same reasons.) But others sincerely reject Muhammad's message because they understand it to be a message which is inconsistent with what God has revealed in the Torah and the Gospel. The Quran took the Arabian people in Muhammad's lifetime closer to the truth than they had been before, but the Quran's message, as presented in Islam today, would take Christians away from the truth they have received from God.

May God guide you as you search for the truth.

Waterrock