Who is the real Gabriel?

=Abdullah;262223]Gab, i'll give you the benifit of the doubt that you are genuinely mislead by that site for its a catholic site and you obviously think they have the truth

however i cant do the same for the site itself for any tom dick and harry should know about propaganda, thus if that site was serious about finding the truth about Islam, all they had to do was ask muslims rather than buy bush's story hook line and sinker

The information that the Catholic or none Catholic site got are sources from Muslims and Arab historians such as Ibn Ishaq/Hisham and base on actual current events. It is good to know that there are some real Muslims such as you who teaches differently from those Muslim extremist. Hopefully that you would educate those Muslims that seem to be teaching a different kind of Islam, an Islam of intolerant and hate.

85- 90 percent of muslims agree on the mainstream interpetation where jihad is fought only in defense, so do the rest of the muslims, however only al-qaida believe that civillians of the enemy can be targeted in return for muslim civillians being targeted

85 – 90% that is a large number it would be nice to see that many numbers of Muslims or at least 50% of that will have the will to stop or educate the other 10% of Muslims from wrecking havoc both against Muslims and none Muslims.

how anyone could fail to know the latter beats me for al-qaida's videos explaining why they target american civillians have been on the mainstream news channel too

Maybe it is because 85% of Muslims believe in the propaganda or interpretation of Islam by al Qaeda that the USA and the West are the enemies?

you keep on saying 'i cant understand how verse.. can be compatiable with verses ..

all you had to do was ask mate ;)

here is the ultimate 'war and peace' verse which all such verses are put into context with;

Surah Mumtahina verses 8-9:
8 Allah forbids you not with regard to those, who fight you not for (your) Faith, nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just.
9 Allah only forbids you with regard to those, who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances) that do wrong.

and so much for 'war verses being revealed near the prophets [saw] death'; have you not read that shortly before his death he got into a peace treaty with the makkan desbelievers?, with a seemingly favourable terms for the Makkans while not so favourable for the muslims?; this goes to show that Muslims are to try live in peace with whomever they can, even under unfair agreements

religion indeed is not forced upon anyone in Islam as verse 2:256 stipulates and 9:29 only refers to the just laws being implemented in place of the opressive ones of the belligerents who have succombed to muslims power

That is what I have been doing asking, how can it be compatible?

I did read that part not only the verse but the history behind it. And if I am not mistaken one of the treaty provision is that any Muslim that choose to convert to Mecca religion or life style are allowed to do so and will not be permitted to return to Medina or Muslim. On the other hand Meccans are not allowed to convert to Muslim any one that left Mecca will be return to them. Strangely, after the Meccans were finally defeated and converted to Muslim, this provision would be adapted by Muslim against their none Muslim subjects which is; those none Muslims will not be allowed to expand or proselytize Muslim but Muslims will be allowed to proselytize the none Muslim.

As far as breaking of the treaty it would seem that Mohammed was also culpable for the collapse of the treaty when he refused to return a Meccan who converted to Muslim back to Macca as agreed upon by the treaty. And it would seem that it was the Meccans who have been exerting extra efforts to avoid any war.

The leader at Mecca was a man named Abu Sufyan. Anticipating that the Muslims might look for an excuse to attack his people, Abu Sufyan traveled to Medina to engage Muhammad in dialogue for the purpose of assuring peace between the two parties. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 807 details the poor man’s efforts to see the Muslim leader in a long passage that plainly indicates his mounting desperation for peace.

It is during this visit that Abu Sufyan enters the homes of a number of prominent Muslims, including Muhammad’s son-in-law and daughter. Clearly he is not interested in harming them. In the end, Abu Sufyan is rebuffed by Muhammad and does not gain the opportunity to talk peace. The prophet of Islam is more interested in a surprise attack on Mecca:
[Muhammad] said, “Oh Allah, take eyes and ears from the Quraysh [Mecca] so that we may take them by surprise in their land,” and the men got themselves ready. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 808)

In that the other Meccans had no idea that they were supposed to be at war with the Muslims, Muhammad was entirely successful:
When the apostle had reached Marr al-Azhran, [the] Quraysh were completely ignorant of the fact and did not even know what he was doing. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 811).


http://www.cmje.org/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/052-sbt.php#004.052.269

You seem to be a scholarly person in Islam, since the Quranic verses are not arrange chronologically if you separate Mohammed’s revelations from 610 – 620 AD (Old Quran) from 621 -632 AD (New Quran), I believe you will notice that during 610 -620 AD there were no revelations banning Jews and Christians to worship inside the Kabaa, also the revelations of 610 -620 AD were very none violent, conversion by peaceful persuasion in other words very similar to Christian concept of none violence. After the death of Khadija and Mohammed’s relocating to Medina in 622 AD, Mohammed became a change man, he become a polygamous person, his revelations from 622 – 632 AD became more militant, vindictive and aggressive worse it became anti Christian and anti Jews that ban them from worshipping in the Kabaa.

The reason Mohammed became anti Christian and anti Jew was according to historians was that many of the Christian and Jewish tribes refuse to follow Mohammed in fighting the Meccans. Could it be that those Christians and Jews because of their none violence beliefs were “concencious objectors”?

At the same time if we read the Quran we will find that Allah mention several times to consult the book, confirm with the book, Allah never command to write a new book. It would seem that Allah is commanding the people to start reading the Torah and or the Bible and not about writing a new book. Allah talk a lot about the book that was already revealed.

Sura 10:94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

Sura 5:44 – 47 Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allah ] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allah , and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.

45 And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution. But whoever gives [up his right as] charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

46 And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.

47 And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

Sura 5:68 Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until you uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord." And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. So do not grieve over the disbelieving people.


In this verse *9* *_Allah only forbids you_* with regard to those, who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances) that do wrong.

It would seem that Mohammed is doing basically what he said should not be done by going after the Christian and Jewish tribes for refusing to fight.

It is clear from the accounts of Ibn Ishaq/Hisham and other early historians that the residents of Mecca did not want war, did not prepare for war, and were obviously not expecting it when Muhammad marched through the gates of their city with an army of 10,000 soldiers.

There is simply no reason to expect that these innocent people would be slaughtered in the first place (other than the fact that the prophet of Islam had ordered such massacres in the past).

As it was, there were some residents who were sentenced to death by Muhammad himself ("a small number who were to be killed even if they were found beneath the curtains of the Ka'ba"Ishaq/Hisham 818, see also Abu Dawud 2677). These included his old enemies who had personally mocked and rejected him, including two slave girls who had made up songs about him:
"He had two singing girls, Fartana and her friend, who used to sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed" (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 819)

Their master, Ibn Khatal, an apostate from Islam, was also slain on Muhammad's order even as he tried to take refuge in what was considered the holiest of places:

Allah's Apostle entered Mecca in the year of its Conquest wearing an Arabian helmet on his head and when the Prophet took it off, a person came and said, "Ibn Khatal is holding the covering of the Ka'ba (taking refuge in the Ka'ba)." The Prophet said, "Kill him." (Bukhari 29:72, Muslim 7:3145)
 
If Allah’s intention was to reveal a whole new scripture because the old revelation has been corrupted


The Quran was revealed as that was the final and perfected message; it's revelation has got nothing to do with the Bible being corrupted, however the previous messages were allowed to get corrupted by God, since there allways was another messenger coming to renew the Message


Allah would not have told Mohammed to consult the people of the book because they are supposedly already using a corrupted book.


see http://www.interfaith.org/forum/who-is-the-real-gabriel-14979-3.html#post261653

and also the Quran affirms the previous messages in their original form and not the mad-made corruptions that has survived


Plus why would Allah, ask Mohammed if “he is in doubt” meaning if Mohammed is in doubt?


this was meant hypothetically or rather it was adressed to anyone who may entertain doubts and not the Prophet [saw] himself, since the Quran was revealed for all mankind


Kabaa used to be open to Christians and Jews because they all worship Abraham's One God but Mohammed change that in Sura 9


The probhibition is due to the fact that polytheism is regarded as a kind of impurity that should not be allowed in that sacred place. THis is clearly stated in verse 28 " O you who believe (in Allah's Oneness and in His Messenger Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)! Verily, the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and in the Message of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) are Najasun (impure). So let them not come near Al-Masjidal-Haram (at Makkah) after this year; and if you fear poverty, Allah will enrich you if He wills, out of His Bounty. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
 


The probhibition is due to the fact that polytheism is regarded as a kind of impurity that should not be allowed in that sacred place. THis is clearly stated in verse 28 " O you who believe (in Allah's Oneness and in His Messenger Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)! Verily, the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and in the Message of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) are Najasun (impure). So let them not come near Al-Masjidal-Haram (at Makkah) after this year; and if you fear poverty, Allah will enrich you if He wills, out of His Bounty. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.


Christians in Mohammed's area were heretical Christians such as Nestorians and Ebonites in fact Waraqa, Mohammed's cousin was a Nestorian or Ebonite monk and it was he who convince Mohammed that the spirit was Jibril and that Mohammed is the chosen prophet.

Those heretical Christians and Jews do not practice polytheism, Khadija, wife of Mohammed was against the polytheism of the Arabs. The doctrine of those heretical Christians and Jews are similar to Islam such as they don't believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, they don't believe in the or a trinity, they are against Mary's holiness, they do not believe Jesus is the Son of God. To say that those Jews and Christians are polytheistic dose not conform with facts.

Mohammed started to ban those Jews and Christians from the Kabaa after 622 AD after the death of Khadija, after he relocated to Medina and after the Christians and Jews refuse to follow him in waging war with the Meccans not before, one would think that Allah would have ban those Jews and Christians from the beginning or Allah would have told Mohammed in 610 - 620 not to listen to those Jews and Christians. And yet, Mohammed's closes listeners or advisers or comforters were his wife Kahdija and Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk.

It just does not add up.

I can understand if Mohammed was referring to the Catholics, Coptics, Armenian or Orthodox Christians of the Byzantines as polytheist but not the Nestorians, Arians or Ebonite heretical Christian groups.
 
Gabriel wrote:

Mohammed started to ban those Jews and Christians from the Kabaa after 622 AD after the death of Khadija, after he relocated to Medina and after the Christians and Jews refuse to follow him in waging war with the Meccans not before, one would think that Allah would have ban those Jews and Christians from the beginning or Allah would have told Mohammed in 610 - 620 not to listen to those Jews and Christians. And yet, Mohammed's closes listeners or advisers or comforters were his wife Kahdija and Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk.

My comment:

The consultation with Waraqa occurred soon after the revelation on Mount Hira years before the Hijra...

The First Revelation, Ghar-E-Hira (Cave of Hira), Jabal Al-Noor (Mount Noor), Gabriel Angel

I think you forgot about the Treat of Medina:

Prophet Muhammad's Treaty With The Jews (622 C.E.)

Maybe this will help:

Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet . Life of Muhammad: HTML Timeline | PBS
 
Be that as it may, most Christians today by your definition are heretical. Get over being right, because you really are not, Gabriel. The virgin Mary, the trinity, the Son-of-G!d things are all okay in a belief context. None of them are provable (logically, scientifically, or rationally)... so those of us that try to reconcile belief with reality should be given at least partial credit.
 
Gabriel wrote:

Mohammed started to ban those Jews and Christians from the Kabaa after 622 AD after the death of Khadija, after he relocated to Medina and after the Christians and Jews refuse to follow him in waging war with the Meccans not before, one would think that Allah would have ban those Jews and Christians from the beginning or Allah would have told Mohammed in 610 - 620 not to listen to those Jews and Christians. And yet, Mohammed's closes listeners or advisers or comforters were his wife Kahdija and Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk.

My comment:

The consultation with Waraqa occurred soon after the revelation on Mount Hira years before the Hijra...

The First Revelation, Ghar-E-Hira (Cave of Hira), Jabal Al-Noor (Mount Noor), Gabriel Angel

I think you forgot about the Treat of Medina:

Prophet Muhammad's Treaty With The Jews (622 C.E.)

Maybe this will help:

Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet . Life of Muhammad: HTML Timeline | PBS

Here is the contradiction or incomplete narration between the Quran and Hadith and this website that you have provided:
The First Revelation, Ghar-E-Hira (Cave of Hira), Jabal Al-Noor (Mount Noor), Gabriel Angel

In the Quran the spirit did not reveal himself to be who he or she is, in the Hadith it was said that Mohammed was roughly handle by the spirit 3x the spirit squeeze him, 3x the spirit ask him to READ then later to RECIT after learning that Mohammed can not READ in fact the Arabic word use "Irqa" which according to translators can mean READ or RECITE. The spirit did not told him to WRITE.

Secondly, according to the Hadith, Mohammed became frighten and run away afraid that the spirit will kill him, he run to his wife Khadija and told her about the encounter and he believe the spirit was a jinn not Gabriel, Mohammed have no knowledge about angel Gabriel so he would not know immediately plus it can not be Gabriel because that is uncharacteristic of Gabriel a total different character compare to the Gabriel that appear to Mary.

It would be Khadija that would convince Mohammed that spirit was Gabriel and later it would be Waraqa that would second that in fact Waraqa told Mohammed the Gabriel angel that appear to Moses...the thing is Gabriel didnot appear to Moses it was Allah himself of appear to Moses.

Several Sura verses were also very clear it calls for respecting and confirming with the Torah and the Bible:

Sura 10:94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

Sura 5:44 – 47 Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allah ] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allah , and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.

45 And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution. But whoever gives [up his right as] charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

46 And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.

47 And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

Sura 5:68 Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until you uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord." And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. So do not grieve over the disbelieving people.


Maybe, Mohammed was instructed to protect the Bible and Torah not to write a new book?

The Treaty with the Medina was to allow the exiled Mohammed and his followers to stay in Medina and they were welcome. As I have pointed out, the best way to understand Islam and the Quran is to separate the revelations between 610 -621 AD with 622 - 632 AD and you will see the contrast of these two the Old Quran and the New Quran.

Before 622 AD Jews and Christians (hereticals) in that region were allowed to worship insidethe Kabaa plus those Jews and Christians were not polytheist they share the same doctrine as Islam which I mention earlier. Why would Mohammed after 622 AD suddenly accuse them of being polytheist and ban them from the Kabaa?

Historians pointed out and it was supported, that later those (heretical) Christians and Jews who first supported Mohammed would later refuse to support him in his war against the Meccans.

And as I have poiinted out too, the Treaty with the Meccans which is also written in the Hadith explain what happen.

Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement

The Meccan tried very hard to preserve the Treaty while Mohammed was bend on breaking it when he refuse to return a Meccan girl back to Mecca as agreed upon by the Treaty plus supporting or refusing to reprimand an ally of his who have been raiding Meccan caravans.
 
Be that as it may, most Christians today by your definition are heretical. Get over being right, because you really are not, Gabriel. The virgin Mary, the trinity, the Son-of-G!d things are all okay in a belief context. None of them are provable (logically, scientifically, or rationally)... so those of us that try to reconcile belief with reality should be given at least partial credit.

Most Christians such as the Mormons, Jehovah Witness and others are heretical in fact Islam can be consider another heretical form of Christianity because it share the same doctrinal scripture with those heretics which are: Jesus is not Son of God, Jesus is not God, anti Trinitarian, anti Mary holiness and Jesus did not die on the cross.

The Catholic church have a tract record of its origin that has (1) historical continuity from the Old to the New Testament (2) Doctrinal continuity that consist of records of what early Christians believed, worship and practice. (3) Continuity of Apostolic Authority; that Jesus Christ left a church to His Apostles with St. Peter as head of that church that would be pass on to be govern or supervise by bishops, presbyters and deacons.

Matthew 16:18 -19 18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

John 14: 16 – 26 26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 20:21 21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.


The Catholic church will live up to it's responsibility to protect, preserve and interpret the Holy Bible. During that time illiteracy rate was very high the chances of individuals misinterpreting the Bible runs very high that is why God instructed Moses to write down the Gospel; Exodus 17:14 14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Church fathers spend their entire adult life in preserving and interpreting the Bible with due care especially with new discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

As far as the Trinity; the message are all in the Bible, several passages have mention about the Holy Spirit, God and Son of God. Luke 1:37 For nothing is impossible with God." The Trinity was and is not an invention of the Catholic church it was define base on what is in the Bible.
John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

Luke 1:35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be calledc the Son of God.

The Quran also mention several times about the presence of a spirit Holy. The only thing is because Mohammed did not follow Allah's instruction to CONSULT with the Bible, the Holy Spirit failed to shine upon Mohammed as well as to the other heretics they all started to follow their own vision not God's.
 
See, the internals you refer to (scriptures) are not sancrosanct. Where they diverge from reality (pi=3 or "nothing is impossible with G!d") is where they must be interpreted differently or theology diverges from science and logic.
 
See, the internals you refer to (scriptures) are not sancrosanct. Where they diverge from reality (pi=3 or "nothing is impossible with G!d") is where they must be interpreted differently or theology diverges from science and logic.

"Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 159).

Whether it is Catholic, or Islam the interpretation is faith then reason. Muslims through their faith believe that Mohammed reveal the words of Allah even though clear evidences show many discrepancies to that.

In this case, faith tells us there is God and then we read through the reveal words "there is nothing impossible with God" reason tells us that is true especially since it has been witness that God became man, died on the cross and resurrected this event strengthen further our faith in God.

John 20: 27 -29

27Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

28Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

29Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.


Catholic church fathers do not just come up with their own interpretation of the Holy Bible, they spend countless hours in meditation and carefully scrutinize every available evidences that are made available in time and discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and guided by the Holy Spirit to define what is reveal by God.
 
Gabriel wrote:

"Mohammed's cousin was a Nestorian or Ebonite monk"

and

"Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk"

What is your evidence or source for that?
 
Gabriel wrote:

"Mohammed's cousin was a Nestorian or Ebonite monk"

and

"Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk"

What is your evidence or source for that?

Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3:

Narrated 'Aisha:
(the mother of the faithful believers) The commencement of the Divine Inspiration to Allah's Apostle was in the form of good dreams which came true like bright day light, and then the love of seclusion was bestowed upon him. He used to go in seclusion in the cave of Hira where he used to worship (Allah alone) continuously for many days before his desire to see his family. He used to take with him the journey food for the stay and then come back to (his wife) Khadija to take his food like-wise again till suddenly the Truth descended upon him while he was in the cave of Hira.

The angel came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet replied, "I do not know how to read. The Prophet added, "The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read and I replied, 'I do not know how to read.' Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read but again I replied, 'I do not know how to read (or what shall I read)?' Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then released me and said, 'Read in the name of your Lord, who has created (all that exists) has created man from a clot. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous." (96.1, 96.2, 96.3) Then Allah's Apostle returned with the Inspiration and with his heart beating severely. Then he went to Khadija bint Khuwailid and said, "Cover me! Cover me!" They covered him till his fear was over and after that he told her everything that had happened and said, "I fear that something may happen to me." Khadija replied, "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You keep good relations with your Kith and kin, help the poor and the destitute, serve your guests generously and assist the deserving calamity-afflicted ones."

Khadija then accompanied him to her cousin Waraqa bin Nawfal bin Asad bin 'Abdul 'Uzza, who, during the PreIslamic Period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much as Allah wished him to write.

He was an old man and had lost his eyesight. Khadija said to Waraqa, "Listen to the story of your nephew, O my cousin!" Waraqa asked, "O my nephew! What have you seen?" Allah's Apostle described whatever he had seen. Waraqa said, "This is the same one who keeps the secrets (angel Gabriel) whom Allah had sent to Moses. I wish I were young and could live up to the time when your people would turn you out." Allah's Apostle asked, "Will they drive me out?" Waraqa replied in the affirmative and said, "Anyone (man) who came with something similar to what you have brought was treated with hostility; and if I should remain alive till the day when you will be turned out then I would support you strongly." But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while. ...


Encyclopedia of Islam, Online ed., Waraka b. Nawfal
Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
Ibn Hisham, The Life of Muhammad, 3rd ed., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 73.

Ibn Isḥāq, (born c. 704, Medina, Arabia—died 767, Baghdad), Arab biographer of the Prophet Muḥammad whose book, in a recension by Ibn Hishām, is one of the most important sources on the Prophet’s life.

Ibn Isḥāq was the grandson of an Arab prisoner captured by Muslim troops in Iraq and brought to Medina, where he was freed after accepting Islām. Ibn Isḥāq’s father and two uncles collected and transmitted information about the Prophet in Medina, and Ibn Isḥāq soon became an authority on the Prophet’s campaigns.

Waraka ibn Nawfal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to the Islamic sources, Waraka was a Christian Ebionite priest[2] living in Mecca, and one who had made detailed studies of the Gospels and the Old Testament scriptures. Muslim tradition maintains that Waraka was one of the believers in the Age of Ignorance, meaning that he was a believer before the prophecy of Muhammad. Waraka would frequently contemplate and pray at the Kaaba and began to read the Biblical texts in their original language and even learned to read Hebrew.

Around this time, Waraka, with another member of his tribe, is said to have found Muhammad as a young infant and immediately returned him to Abdul Muttalib[disambiguation needed ], which has been interpreted to be a foreshadowing to his acceptance of Muhammad's prophecy. As Muhammad grew in age, Waraka's knowledge of the sacred scriptures increased. Several years later, when told of Muhammad's first revelation (which is understood to be Q. XCVI: 1-5), Waraka recognized his call to prophecy as authentic and tradition recounts Waraka saying: "There has come to him the greatest Law that came to Moses; surely he is the prophet of this people"[3][4]. Waraka, upon accepting Muhammad's prophecy, remained a Christian and, in later accounts, was counted among Muhammad's companions. Muhammad is later said to have said of Waraka: "Do not slander Waraka ibn Nawfal, for I have seen that he will have one or two gardens in Paradise."[5]

Most Muslims websites such as this The First Revelation, Ghar-E-Hira (Cave of Hira), Jabal Al-Noor (Mount Noor), Gabriel Angel
Will have an incomplete information and it is that kind of information found in that website that most Muslims prefer to read and want to accept, in fact I am surprise that there are large numbers of Muslims that do not accept parts of the Hadith.

Too many inaccurate historical accounts, in that website it accounts all of Muslim wars were self defense even though historical facts have clearly shown that is not the case.
 
See, here is the problem with your closed system. The OT and NT are filled with textual and other errors. G!d gave us each a mind with which to judge the veracity of texts and other sorts ov evidence. When your inerrant scriptures make huge mistakes (the sun stopping in the sky or pi equals three or multiple versions of Mark or the fact that the Armenian Church sees things a little differently), it is incumbent on each to seek a solution.

These solutions can range from inerrancy to atheism. Even the very conservative in both Christianity and Judaism (in most cases I find) allow that there are glosses (the pi equals three is mythical, not literal). Each should speak to G!d within and reflect on the issues and make up her own mind. Not blindly follow someone else.

As Gandhiji said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". In my opinion, this is as true with ideologies as with 12-inch hatpins or spoons or thumbs.
 
The information that the Catholic or none Catholic site got are sources from Muslims and Arab historians such as Ibn Ishaq/Hisham and base on actual current events. It is good to know that there are some real Muslims such as you who teaches differently from those Muslim extremist. Hopefully that you would educate those Muslims that seem to be teaching a different kind of Islam, an Islam of intolerant and hate.

85 – 90% that is a large number it would be nice to see that many numbers of Muslims or at least 50% of that will have the will to stop or educate the other 10% of Muslims from wrecking havoc both against Muslims and none Muslims.

Maybe it is because 85% of Muslims believe in the propaganda or interpretation of Islam by al Qaeda that the USA and the West are the enemies?

That is what I have been doing asking, how can it be compatible?

I did read that part not only the verse but the history behind it. And if I am not mistaken one of the treaty provision is that any Muslim that choose to convert to Mecca religion or life style are allowed to do so and will not be permitted to return to Medina or Muslim. On the other hand Meccans are not allowed to convert to Muslim any one that left Mecca will be return to them. Strangely, after the Meccans were finally defeated and converted to Muslim, this provision would be adapted by Muslim against their none Muslim subjects which is; those none Muslims will not be allowed to expand or proselytize Muslim but Muslims will be allowed to proselytize the none Muslim.

As far as breaking of the treaty it would seem that Mohammed was also culpable for the collapse of the treaty when he refused to return a Meccan who converted to Muslim back to Macca as agreed upon by the treaty. And it would seem that it was the Meccans who have been exerting extra efforts to avoid any war.

The leader at Mecca was a man named Abu Sufyan. Anticipating that the Muslims might look for an excuse to attack his people, Abu Sufyan traveled to Medina to engage Muhammad in dialogue for the purpose of assuring peace between the two parties. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 807 details the poor man’s efforts to see the Muslim leader in a long passage that plainly indicates his mounting desperation for peace.

It is during this visit that Abu Sufyan enters the homes of a number of prominent Muslims, including Muhammad’s son-in-law and daughter. Clearly he is not interested in harming them. In the end, Abu Sufyan is rebuffed by Muhammad and does not gain the opportunity to talk peace. The prophet of Islam is more interested in a surprise attack on Mecca:
[Muhammad] said, “Oh Allah, take eyes and ears from the Quraysh [Mecca] so that we may take them by surprise in their land,” and the men got themselves ready. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 808)

In that the other Meccans had no idea that they were supposed to be at war with the Muslims, Muhammad was entirely successful:
When the apostle had reached Marr al-Azhran, [the] Quraysh were completely ignorant of the fact and did not even know what he was doing. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 811).

http://www.cmje.org/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/052-sbt.php#004.052.269

You seem to be a scholarly person in Islam, since the Quranic verses are not arrange chronologically if you separate Mohammed’s revelations from 610 – 620 AD (Old Quran) from 621 -632 AD (New Quran), I believe you will notice that during 610 -620 AD there were no revelations banning Jews and Christians to worship inside the Kabaa, also the revelations of 610 -620 AD were very none violent, conversion by peaceful persuasion in other words very similar to Christian concept of none violence. After the death of Khadija and Mohammed’s relocating to Medina in 622 AD, Mohammed became a change man, he become a polygamous person, his revelations from 622 – 632 AD became more militant, vindictive and aggressive worse it became anti Christian and anti Jews that ban them from worshipping in the Kabaa.

The reason Mohammed became anti Christian and anti Jew was according to historians was that many of the Christian and Jewish tribes refuse to follow Mohammed in fighting the Meccans. Could it be that those Christians and Jews because of their none violence beliefs were “concencious objectors”?

At the same time if we read the Quran we will find that Allah mention several times to consult the book, confirm with the book, Allah never command to write a new book. It would seem that Allah is commanding the people to start reading the Torah and or the Bible and not about writing a new book. Allah talk a lot about the book that was already revealed.

Sura 10:94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

Sura 5:44 – 47 Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allah ] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allah , and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.

45 And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution. But whoever gives [up his right as] charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

46 And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.

47 And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

Sura 5:68 Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until you uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord." And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. So do not grieve over the disbelieving people.


In this verse *9* *_Allah only forbids you_* with regard to those, who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances) that do wrong.

It would seem that Mohammed is doing basically what he said should not be done by going after the Christian and Jewish tribes for refusing to fight.

It is clear from the accounts of Ibn Ishaq/Hisham and other early historians that the residents of Mecca did not want war, did not prepare for war, and were obviously not expecting it when Muhammad marched through the gates of their city with an army of 10,000 soldiers.

There is simply no reason to expect that these innocent people would be slaughtered in the first place (other than the fact that the prophet of Islam had ordered such massacres in the past).

As it was, there were some residents who were sentenced to death by Muhammad himself ("a small number who were to be killed even if they were found beneath the curtains of the Ka'ba"Ishaq/Hisham 818, see also Abu Dawud 2677). These included his old enemies who had personally mocked and rejected him, including two slave girls who had made up songs about him:
"He had two singing girls, Fartana and her friend, who used to sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed" (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 819)

Their master, Ibn Khatal, an apostate from Islam, was also slain on Muhammad's order even as he tried to take refuge in what was considered the holiest of places:
Allah's Apostle entered Mecca in the year of its Conquest wearing an Arabian helmet on his head and when the Prophet took it off, a person came and said, "Ibn Khatal is holding the covering of the Ka'ba (taking refuge in the Ka'ba)." The Prophet said, "Kill him." (Bukhari 29:72, Muslim 7:3145)


A word of advice gab, all is not as it seems and there are very wicked people out there tricking others and i have to dissapoint you by saying that that site is one of them

there is a common trick that such hate sites use gab and that is they take quotes out of context and invent their own stories around them, and thats all the above is; if you read ibn ishaqs story for yourself you'd see that the makkans had broken that treaty by attacking one of the muslims allies; the quraish did try to patch things up afterwards but such murderous treachery just couldn't go unpunished hence the muslims were in their right to attack; taking the enemy unawares is just a military tactic

but makkah did fall with the minimum of bloodshed and those put to death [such as the two women and the man holding the cloth of the ka'ba] were guilty of severe abuse and blasphemy of Gods messenger [saw] ... ; this is severe enmity towards Gods beloved and indirectly towards God and the truth itself thus such enemies of God cannot go unpunished iether, however everyone else was forgiven allthough their crimes were severe too...


85- 90 percent of muslims agree on the mainstream interpetation where jihad is fought only in defense, so do the rest of the muslims, however only al-qaida believe that civillians of the enemy can be targeted in return for muslim civillians being targeted


Silly me, should have guessed that you'll misunderstand here, so i'll rephrase it;

All muslims agree on the interpetation where jihad is fought only in defense, however only al-qaida believe that civillians of the enemy can be targeted in return for muslim civillians being targeted. There.
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Christians in Mohammed's area were heretical Christians such as Nestorians and Ebonites in fact Waraqa, Mohammed's cousin was a Nestorian or Ebonite monk and it was he who convince Mohammed that the spirit was Jibril and that Mohammed is the chosen prophet.

Those heretical Christians and Jews do not practice polytheism, Khadija, wife of Mohammed was against the polytheism of the Arabs. The doctrine of those heretical Christians and Jews are similar to Islam such as they don't believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, they don't believe in the or a trinity, they are against Mary's holiness, they do not believe Jesus is the Son of God. To say that those Jews and Christians are polytheistic dose not conform with facts.

Mohammed started to ban those Jews and Christians from the Kabaa after 622 AD after the death of Khadija, after he relocated to Medina and after the Christians and Jews refuse to follow him in waging war with the Meccans not before, one would think that Allah would have ban those Jews and Christians from the beginning or Allah would have told Mohammed in 610 - 620 not to listen to those Jews and Christians. And yet, Mohammed's closes listeners or advisers or comforters were his wife Kahdija and Waraqa the Nestorian-Christian monk.

It just does not add up.

I can understand if Mohammed was referring to the Catholics, Coptics, Armenian or Orthodox Christians of the Byzantines as polytheist but not the Nestorians, Arians or Ebonite heretical Christian groups.


Abraham's [pbuh] history was lost to the christians and jews and they did not know about him building the ka'ba and starting it's pilgrimage rites, thus generally it was the pagan arabs out of the non-muslims that revered the ka'aba and made pilgrimage to it, but yet the verse in 9:28 prohibits all non-muslims as by rejecting islam, they associate their own customs with God's prerogative to be worshipped as He directs:

persist in associating others with Allah, either by actually worshipping another, or by rejecting the laws brought by His messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace), which associates their own customs with His prerogative to be worshipped as He directs. Such people have violated God's rights, and have accepted to go to hell, which is precisely what His messengers have warned them of, so they have no excuse:
"Truly, Allah does not forgive that any be associated with Him; but He forgives what is less than that to whomever He wills" (Qur'an 4:48).

Universal Validity of Religions

hence all non muslims are the mushrikun (Associators) that verse 9:28 prohibits
 
I don't see your "evidence" that Waraqa was a Nestorian monk...

Take a look again.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3:

Then Allah's Apostle returned with the Inspiration and with his heart beating severely. Then he went to Khadija bint Khuwailid and said, "Cover me! Cover me!" They covered him till his fear was over and after that he told her everything that had happened and said, "I fear that something may happen to me." Khadija replied, "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You keep good relations with your Kith and kin, help the poor and the destitute, serve your guests generously and assist the deserving calamity-afflicted ones."

Khadija then accompanied him to her cousin Waraqa bin Nawfal bin Asad bin 'Abdul 'Uzza, who, during the PreIslamic Period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much as Allah wished him to write.

He was an old man and had lost his eyesight. Khadija said to Waraqa, "Listen to the story of your nephew, O my cousin!" Waraqa asked, "O my nephew! What have you seen?" Allah's Apostle described whatever he had seen. Waraqa said, "This is the same one who keeps the secrets (angel Gabriel) whom Allah had sent to Moses


Base on that narration Waraqa was a Christian not just an ordinary Christian but a Christian who writes about the Gospel. Who were the Christians that reside in Mecca, according to historical records they were Nestorians and or Ebonite Christians.

Encyclopedia of Islam, Online ed., Waraka b. Nawfal
Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
Ibn Hisham, The Life of Muhammad, 3rd ed., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 73.

Ibn Isḥāq, (born c. 704, Medina, Arabia—died 767, Baghdad), Arab biographer of the Prophet Muḥammad whose book, in a recension by Ibn Hishām, is one of the most important sources on the Prophet’s life.

Ibn Isḥāq was the grandson of an Arab prisoner captured by Muslim troops in Iraq and brought to Medina, where he was freed after accepting Islām. Ibn Isḥāq’s father and two uncles collected and transmitted information about the Prophet in Medina, and Ibn Isḥāq soon became an authority on the Prophet’s campaigns.

Waraka ibn Nawfal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to the Islamic sources, Waraka was a Christian Ebionite priest[2] living in Mecca, and one who had made detailed studies of the Gospels and the Old Testament scriptures. Muslim tradition maintains that Waraka was one of the believers in the Age of Ignorance, meaning that he was a believer before the prophecy of Muhammad. Waraka would frequently contemplate and pray at the Kaaba and began to read the Biblical texts in their original language and even learned to read Hebrew.
 
See, here is the problem with your closed system. The OT and NT are filled with textual and other errors. G!d gave us each a mind with which to judge the veracity of texts and other sorts ov evidence. When your inerrant scriptures make huge mistakes (the sun stopping in the sky or pi equals three or multiple versions of Mark or the fact that the Armenian Church sees things a little differently), it is incumbent on each to seek a solution.

These solutions can range from inerrancy to atheism. Even the very conservative in both Christianity and Judaism (in most cases I find) allow that there are glosses (the pi equals three is mythical, not literal). Each should speak to G!d within and reflect on the issues and make up her own mind. Not blindly follow someone else.

As Gandhiji said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". In my opinion, this is as true with ideologies as with 12-inch hatpins or spoons or thumbs.

I am not sure how you come up with the a close system, when in fact the Catholic church have been pro active in presenting all detail facts as to the accuracy and history of the OT and the NT, the church has always been open to new discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Shroud of Turin and many other artefacts and ancient documents discovered by modern archaeology. In fact, the Catholic church since the time of the Apostles have made sure that the revelation and Words of God are well understood not base on blind loyalty but base on facts and reasonable faith, free will.


Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi


"Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 159).

Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText

37 In the historical conditions in which he finds himself, however, man experiences many difficulties in coming to know God by the light of reason alone:

Though human reason is, strictly speaking, truly capable by its own natural power and light of attaining to a true and certain knowledge of the one personal God, who watches over and controls the world by his providence, and of the natural law written in our hearts by the Creator; yet there are many obstacles which prevent reason from the effective and fruitful use of this inborn faculty. For the truths that concern the relations between God and man wholly transcend the visible order of things, and, if they are translated into human action and influence it, they call for self-surrender and abnegation. the human mind, in its turn, is hampered in the attaining of such truths, not only by the impact of the senses and the imagination, but also by disordered appetites which are the consequences of original sin. So it happens that men in such matters easily persuade themselves that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful.13

38 This is why man stands in need of being enlightened by God's revelation, not only about those things that exceed his understanding, but also "about those religious and moral truths which of themselves are not beyond the grasp of human reason, so that even in the present condition of the human race, they can be known by all men with ease, with firm certainty and with no admixture of error".14
 
Abraham's [pbuh] history was lost to the christians and jews and they did not know about him building the ka'ba and starting it's pilgrimage rites, thus generally it was the pagan arabs out of the non-muslims that revered the ka'aba and made pilgrimage to it, but yet the verse in 9:28 prohibits all non-muslims as by rejecting islam, they associate their own customs with God's prerogative to be worshipped as He directs:

persist in associating others with Allah, either by actually worshipping another, or by rejecting the laws brought by His messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace), which associates their own customs with His prerogative to be worshipped as He directs. Such people have violated God's rights, and have accepted to go to hell, which is precisely what His messengers have warned them of, so they have no excuse:
"Truly, Allah does not forgive that any be associated with Him; but He forgives what is less than that to whomever He wills" (Qur'an 4:48).

Universal Validity of Religions

hence all non muslims are the mushrikun (Associators) that verse 9:28 prohibits

Before Sura 9:28 and all other Suras after 622 AD, before that Jews and Christians (heretics) were allowed to worship inside the Kabaa because they are not polytheist and they were the first to accept Mohammed as a prophet.

According to Biblical history Abraham never build the Kabaa and if he did he would not have allowed such idolatry to exist with the placing of the black stone. After Ishmael and Hagar were send away and God promise Abraham that Isaac will be the chosen one and that Ishmael will not be forgotten, after Genesis 21 the entire Bible while shift to Isaac. What ever Ishmael did after that the Bible has no recordings chances are it was Ishmael alone who build the Kabaa to honour God of Abraham who showed mercy and bless him
17And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

19And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

20And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.


Genesis 22, Genesis 23:1 - 4
1And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.


Genesis 25:8 - 11
8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

10The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.


Abraham will be buried near his wife Sarah.

Many time Allah told Mohammed to consult and confirm with the Bible on all His revelations but Mohammed didn't do that.
Sura 10:94 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee: the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

Sura 5:44 – 47 Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allah ] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allah , and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.

45 And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution. But whoever gives [up his right as] charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

46 And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.

47 And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.

Sura 5:68 Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until you uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord." And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. So do not grieve over the disbelieving people.



Silly me, should have guessed that you'll misunderstand here, so i'll rephrase it;

All muslims agree on the interpetation where jihad is fought only in defense, however only al-qaida believe that civillians of the enemy can be targeted in return for muslim civillians being targeted. There.

You forgot to include the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbullah, Iranian regime, Boko-Haram, Abu Sayyaf and Al-Shabaab all of these believe in the same jihad as that of al Qaeda and again, they are the ones you should be educating not us.
 
This reminds me of watching Romney and Gingrich: the longer it goes on the more is put on the table to that we can have more information.

Thank you both.
 
Let me correct myself, your system is closed, not the HCC's. I do notice that you have conveniently glossed over any of the (trivial) examples of error I noted. You quote the scripture as if were Truth. It is not (according to reason, science, physics, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and a few other wonderful examples of reason).
 
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