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Neither patriotism nor nationalism is founded on the Word taught by Jesus (p.b.u.h) and Muhammad (p.b.u.h). The Kingdom of God is beyond any nation, and our value before God will be measured by our steady willingness to do good. It is good and wise to be aware of your immediate environment...

I actually got interest in the thread because it is a challenge for Muslim people to perform the Salat prayer during working hours. I have become pragmatic and pray outside office hours (even if it is not consistent with the decreed rulings). I would like to have people around me and pray...

God is present wherever you are, my firm belief. But public prayer in business smells hypocritical, manipulative. abusive, at least disrespectful to me. Obeying God is revolutionary, still now. God is more than your boss. Anyone may share with me the concerns he or she wants to bring before God...

I don't appreciate it if someone starts a public prayer saying, "Let us pray". In Sunni Islam, we pray Salat together, reciting verses from the Quran. But at least in all communities I have joined, we join Dua (individual prayer) in silence; there are some Imams who do that in Juma (Friday main...

I'm not defining things. Things cannot be defined. I'm explaining words and my understanding of it

There are indeed different concepts between and in the Abrahamic religions and over time. The concept that God is universal is more rooted in Islam. The ancient Jews called Him "our God", and Christians pray "our Father". But we also pray to God. God is near, His Spirit is in us, and we link...

All the teachings and spiritual exercises make sense with my understanding. If you apply the same assuming that the Name stands for Toaster, it doesn't make any sense. You may succeed to understand the Word of the prophets and spiritual exercise without using the Name, but you will surely fail...

Have you read my posts? I have not pushed the authorship to a late date, rather I disputed the late dating in post #91. The biggest sceptics accept a Q source and even a fictional source for John and say that all accounts must have been written late with the argument that they mention the doom...

That's what has been published by scholars around 1980. Many newer scholars have completely different opinions. I personally doubt this estimation.

It is quite evident from the structure of Mt that the author used multiple sources, similar to Luke, who also used Mark's account and other sources. A direct disciple would not have done that. That's not the case with the Gospel according to John. It doesn't recur to commonly known sayings and...

Suppose you answer is about me saying you refuse Mark and Luke. I know that you didnt't want ot say that. But they don't fulfil your criteria. You take the definition of your church. I don't. More interesting: Could you gie an example? There were more than one "Gospel of the Hebrews". One was...

So, you discard Mk and Lk and assume that It was written by Matthew? All scholars agree in that Jesus didn't write anything. I see, you have made your opinion and don't come back to it. No trace of that. There are no parallels to Th in the Diatessaron (I only know the Latin version so far)...

Hello and welcome. I am happy to see a Muslim joining this site. As to your question: no, you should not recur to palmistry. According to sunnah, it is forbidden. It is better to be there where you are at any time and try to be righteous before God. He will guide you. Besides, I don't believe...

Maybe we also differ in our attitude towards the canonical Gospel accounts. I see in tehm an originally oral tradition as well, assuming that they are reliable enough to draw fromtheme what Jesus tought, but not reliable in every detail. Maybe, you follw the attitude that because it is in the...

You are missing my point. My argument is that I take it as a valid 5th source. If Thomas had written it, it would rather be the 1st source. But that's evidently not the case. The plus I reckon for the author is because he didn't intend to attribute a false authority. If is was completely...

That's similar with the traditions Luke and the author of Matthews didn't read from Mark. I didn't say that. What I said was that the author evidently did not know the written accounts. We must also consider that there was no copy machine and no internet; all writings had to be copied by hand...

I've written in my introductory chapter to my gospel edition: The “Gospel of Thomas” All but the four Gospel accounts have been graded “apocryphal”, meaning that their origin is not known. This would correspond to the weak grade. There among are not many scriptures that are considered to...

It's a long and good discussion I hadn't noticed so far. There are roughly 3 meanings of the verb "to believe" 1 believe something: accept an assumption to be objectively true, based on indications, although lacking an objective proof 2 believe someone: trust a person and assume that he or...

Maybe on a dump ;-) In fact, I consider it to be a valid 5th source, not completely reliable but a collection of an upright author. Nevertheless, it has been discarded by scholars of the majority church, so it may have not been considered a sacred text at all by the one who threw it away.

Small correction: the Oxyrhynchos papyri of Th were found first and are estimated to be earlier as well.