| My theory on a Supreme Being and the three Pre-Abrahmic religions.
Okay, first I will start of saying that I personally am not extremely religious. This is obvious because I do not follow 'one' religion, radically or not. Rather I studied religion and came to my own conclusions, rather than sheepishly following what was set down in the writing of human beings.
What religion the faithful believe is strongly dictated by the region of the world in which they came to being, so how can one religion claim you will not attain everlasting life just because your parents brought you up in a different religion?
Okay, now on to my theory. The three Abrahamic (all stemmed from Abraham and his tribes/peoples) Christianity : Judaism : Islam
They are one in the same. Some of their beliefs differ, but their monotheism mandate reigns supreme throughout all of their mandates. None of the three religion accepts one another. None of the three religions "gets along". Many radical Islamics try to convert others by force. None of this makes sense.
Why?
THEY ALL WORSHIP THE SAME - EXACT - SUPREME BEING!!!
YAHWEH - GOD - ALLAH. THEY ARE THE SAME BEING! The human-made beliefs are different. But are these differences enough to often hate or war one another, when you follow the same god??? Also one of their big differences;
Prophets - Christianity : Jesus Christ. He was considered to be a rebel, a radical from Galilei by the Jewish people. He followed many of the Jewish ways but often put his own twist on them. For many Jewish beliefs, there is a Christian redactment of them. For example : Pesach. Passover. The people of Judaism said "Do this for the remembrance of our escape from Egypt." Jesus, on the other hand, says "Do this for the remembrance of me."
The 10 commandments were spoken to Moses by God and written by Moses, as he led the people out of Egypt under Judaism. These same 10 commandments are a heavy part of Christianity.
Here is something many do NOT know.
There are 18 commandments. Moses ascended Mt. Saini TWICE.The first time, upon his return, the Jewish people were worshiping a false idol and he smashed the tablets. His second ascent is recorded in Exodus chapter 34. Here we see NEW commandments, JUDAISM-SPECIFIC commandments. God said "Thou shalt not leave leftovers from passover overnight"
"Do not boil a kid (baby goat/sheep) in it's mothers milk"
Among others - these are Israelite-Oriented commandments, left out by Christianity. Don't believe me?? Check Exodus chapter 34!!!
The Jewish people believe their prophet has yet to come.
Islam - Mohammad. Unlike Jesus, he is not considered the son of god. He is but a man, a mortal man.
A little background on Mecca - It was a huge place where all of the three religions gathered. (Islam was not Islam yet but rather many seperate Arab tribes.) Why did they gather?? They all believed the Stone of Abraham, located in the Ka'Ba, in the center of Mecca, was given to Abraham by god himself. The SAME god they all worshipped.
Mohammad, after making a name for himself in Mecca (a religious hub, among other things) through trade and marriage, feels empty inside. He is missing his spirituality, he does not feel besouled. He walks, alone, out into the desert. Many times he leaves his wife, Khadija, for weeks at a time to descend upon the vast outreaches of the Desert. Once during his perigrination, he hears a voice utter the words "Recite". He returns home to his wife and tells her this, and she concedes that he must be the chosen, that he must go back out to the desert.
Upon his return to the desert, who is it who descends upon him??
THE MESSENGER ANGEL GABRIEL. This is stated in the Qu-Ran!
The same one who spoke the the sheperds of Christianity??
YES!!!
The things Gabriel spoke to Muhammad are written as the Suras and eventually recorded in the Qu-Ran.
There is more, but I will keep this to a point and ask : Why, if we all worship the same god, must be constantly be at strife with one another???
By the way do not think of Islam as a religion of conversion by force, that is not what it is all about. In the Qu-Ran it states "Those who harm the innocent are DOOMED!!!" I don't know how terrorist think they will attain everlasting life, they are mistaken. The true meaning of Jihad is also about surrendering to Allah as Muhammad did, NOT about warfare but rather the struggle to give yourself to GOD.
Last edited by Stylez1877; 06-08-2008 at 09:51 PM.
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