I read that some Muslims believe other religions (Christianity especially) are jealous of their religion. I'd like to know what facts this supposition is based on.
As Christians, we are saved by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and Christ's word is nothing to be ashamed of: Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
Christians are very happy to be Christian and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are blessed. That said, some of us find it comical, in a sad way, that some of those who follow Islam are deluded in thinking we're jealous of them and their religion.
I'm overjoyed from the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and know that there is no other religion but Christ's alone.
When Muslim say we're jealous of them, is this their way of validating their religion which Christians consider a false religion?
We are blessed to be Christian and know that Islam is nothing to be jealous of.
2006-11-13 23:45:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe many Muslims are Muslim because of where they live and what their friends and neighbors are. If they were Christians, which I believe many think seriously about at some time in their life, they would be persecuted if they changed. The Bible says this will happen to many Christians and they don't wish to be the ones it happens to. I seriously think a great number of Muslims would convert to Christianity if they could do it safely. Most know the true religion and probably secretly are believers of Jesus.
2006-11-13 23:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yeah...it amazes me how if one Christians states (without stating a reference) that he "read" (probably a Christian magazine or newspaper) that a Muslims believe they are above all religions (especially Christianity....shocker, right?), that all the "Christians" start bashing Muslims.
You preach "love" for all, yet the second you THINK someone MAY be insulting your religion, the claws come out and the prejudice begins.
Maybe everyone should say that IF they believe that way, it's a shame, because as a CHRISTIAN, you accept, you forgive, you move on. You don't dwell on it, want to bring down the entire belief system of the Muslims, and (still waiting for one, I'm sure it will pop up) start calling them terrorists.
It's really sad. You all say that Atheists, Agnostics, etc. are evil and influenced by satan...yet you all are the ones that are ready to stone someone do death without even QUESTIONING whether or not you have a good reason to!!! Thall shall not judge...remember???
Ah, it's good to be an Atheist. When the battle is over between all the religions, we'll be the ones left standing. I guess we just EVOLVED.
2006-11-14 00:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your "argument" makes no sense, even to Christians like me.
You said "I'd like to know what facts this supposition is based on". That's nonsensical, if it were fact, there would be no supposition, correct? It'd just be .... well, fact.
Nowhere does being jealous of someone's religion include being ashamed of your own. You went from us being jealous of them, to us being ashamed of Christ. That's a big leap.
You said "know that there is no other religion but Christ's alone" yet Jesus said "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep", so even Jesus knew there were other religions, other flocks.
You say the Muslim are trying to validate what we consider to be a false religion .... but they do not agree their religion is false, they have no reason to validate their religion.
By the way, I'm a Christian, one of Jesus' flock, but even I, the most humble of His servants, know better than to toss such mean-spirited trash as you have at people trying to worship the same God you are. It's like you are saying "Dad loves us best, neener neener" .... and that's childish.
2006-11-14 00:00:30 · answer #3 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know were this is coming from but I do not think that Christians or anyone for that matter is jealous of Islam.
I do not however feel that Christianity is the right path, but that has nothing to do with rather or not I think you are jealous of Islam. Its based on the facts that I found after studding both religions.
And I would like to know were you read such information. I would like to see this for myself. If they say that then I would personally like to correct them.
2006-11-14 00:01:31 · answer #4 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all we muslims do not think people of other religions are jealous of ours, we believe though, that you stubbornly refuse to see the truth. We believe that it is a grave sin to believe that god has a son, or that he actually has to go through the fiasco of getting killed on the cross, or that god would require that a prophet be killed on the cross to save mankind ETC.(whichever distortion u believe.)
Because first of all we believe that god is unique and free of such human attributes.
Here is our belief in god ,to the point, in part 114 of the quran.
"He is Allah the one,"
" the self sufficient master whom all creatures need"
"He begets not, nor was he begotten"
"And there is none coequal or comparable unto him"
Which part of this dont you understand?. This is our true uncomplicated, pure belief in god and the very basis of islam without understanding this, you cant really understand islam.
so stop pickin out bits n pieces you hear/read etc from people and look into things before you speak.Have you actually picked up a quran and tried to understand what islam and muslims are all about?. Remember islam is perfect but humans are not. Not all muslims follow islam correctly.
We love our god and religion thats about it.
2006-11-14 00:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by enigma e 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ishmael, from the Hebrew word meaning God hears, was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the Egyptian maid of his wife Sarah. When Sarah had found herself not having children, she arranged to have a child with Abraham by Hagar acting as a surrogate mother (Genesis 16:1-4), even though God had specifically stated that a child would be born to Sarah in due time (see Isaac). The result was bitter conflict between Ishmael and Isaac, and their descendants, that has gone on right to the present day.
Ishmael was born at Mamre, when Abraham was 86, 11 years after Abraham's arrival in what would become the land of Israel (Genesis 16:3). He grew up to be a man of the desert wilderness, with a wild and hostile attitude toward people, exactly as God described him to his mother before he was born:
"Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael; because The Lord has given heed to your affliction. He shall be a wild assss of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen." (Genesis 16:11-12 RSV).
When a feast was held to celebrate the weaning of Isaac, who was born 13 years later, Ishmael caused trouble by insulting and mocking his little brother (Genesis 21:8-9). After Sarah, who by then had come to dislike both Hagar and Ishmael, saw what he was doing, she said to Abraham "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." (Genesis 21:10 RSV)
14 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.
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The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise.
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Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.
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Hagar represents Sinai, 15 a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.
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But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother.
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For it is written: "Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children; break forth and shout, you who were not in labor; for more numerous are the children of the deserted one than of her who has a husband." 16
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Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.
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But just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the spirit, it is the same now.
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But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son! For the son of the slave woman shall not share the inheritance with the son" of the freeborn.
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Therefore, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman but of the freeborn woman.
They are the ones jealous of Chritainity because we are the children of the free woman Sarah.
2006-11-14 00:10:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name (NOT THE NAMES) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (St. Matt. 28:20).
Many Christians begin to learn about the Trinity through knowledge of Baptism. This is also a starting point for others in comprehending why the doctrine matters to so many Christians, even though the doctrine itself teaches that the being of God is beyond complete comprehension. The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are structured around profession of the Trinity, and are solemnly professed by converts to Christianity when they receive baptism, and in the Church's liturgy, particularly when celebrating the Eucharist. One or both of these creeds are often used as brief summations of Christian faith by mainstream denominations.
One God
God is one, and the Godhead a single being: The Hebrew Scriptures lift this one article of faith above others, and surround it with stern warnings against departure from this central issue of faith, and of faithfulness to the covenant God had made with them. "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4) (the Shema), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Deuteronomy 5:7) and, "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." (Isaiah 44:6). Any formulation of an article of faith which does not insist that God is solitary, that divides worship between God and any other, or that imagines God coming into existence rather than being God eternally, is not capable of directing people toward the knowledge of God, according to the trinitarian understanding of the Old Testament. The same insistence is found in the New Testament: "...there is none other God but one" (1 Corinthians 8:4). The "other gods" warned against are therefore not gods at all, but substitutes for God, and so are, according to St. Paul, simply mythological or are demons.
So, in the trinitarian view, the common conception which thinks of the Father and Christ as two separate beings, is incorrect. The central, and crucial affirmation of Christian faith is that there is one savior, God, and one salvation, manifest in Jesus Christ, to which there is access only because of the Holy Spirit. The God of the Old is still the same as the God of the New. In Christianity, it is understood that statements about a solitary god are intended to distinguish the Hebraic understanding from the polytheistic view, which see divine power as shared by several separate beings, beings which can, and do, disagree and have conflicts with each other. The concept of Many comprising One is quite visible in the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verses 20 through 23.
God exists in three persons
The "Shield of the Trinity" or "Scutum Fidei" diagram of traditional Western Christian symbolism.This one God however exists in three persons, or in the Greek hypostases. God has but a single divine nature. Chalcedonians — Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants — hold that, in addition, the Second Person of the Trinity — God the Son, Jesus — assumed human nature, so that he has two natures (and hence two wills), and is really and fully both true God and true human.
The singleness of God's being and the multiplicity of the Divine Persons together account for the nature of Christian salvation, and disclose the gift of eternal life. "Through the Son we have access to the Father in one Spirit" (Ephesians 2:18). Communion with the Father is the goal of the Christian faith and is eternal life. It is given to humans through the Divine union with humanity in Jesus Christ who, although fully God, died for sinners "in the flesh" to accomplish their redemption, and this forgiveness, restoration, and friendship with God is made accessible through the gift to the Church of the Holy Spirit, who, being God, knows the Divine Essence intimately and leads and empowers the Christian to fulfill the will of God. Thus, this doctrine touches on every aspect of the trinitarian Christian's faith and life; and this explains why it has been so earnestly contended for, throughout Christian history.
Source(s):
Douay Rheims Bible
78 References and Illusions To The Trinity Found In The Sacred Scriptures
I. Even the Old Testament makes definite reference both to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 11:2 "...the Spirit ... the Lord ... Him"
Isaiah 42:1 "My Servant ... I ... My Spirit ... upon Him"
Isaiah 48:16 "The Lord God ... His Spirit ... sent Me"
Isaiah 61:1 "Spirit of the Lord God ... upon Me ... the Lord"
Isaiah 63:9 "He ...the Angel of His Presence ... His Holy Spirit"
II. Close examination of the following New Testament scriptures will make obvious to any student of the Bible that the doctrine of the Godhead is truth.
Matthew 1:20, 21 "the Lord (the Father) ... the Holy Spirit ... Jesus"
Matthew 3:16, 17 "Jesus ... the Spirit of God ... a Voice from heaven (the Father)"
Matthew 12:18 "I ... My Spirit ... on Him"
Matthew 22:42, 43 "Christ ... the Spirit ... Lord (the Father)"
Mark 1:9-11 "Jesus ... the Spirit ... a Voice from heaven ... My beloved Son"
Mark 12:35, 36 "Christ ... the Holy Spirit ... the Lord (the Father)"
Luke 1:35 "the Holy Spirit ... the Highest ... the Son of God"
Luke 2:26, 27 "the Holy Spirit ... Christ ... Jesus"
Luke 3:21, 22 "Jesus ... the Holy Spirit ... a Voice from heaven ... My beloved Son"
Luke 10:21 "Jesus ... the Spirit ... Father"
Luke 12:9, 10 "God ... the Son ... the Holy Spirit"
John 3:5 "Jesus ... the Spirit ... God"
John 3:34, 35 "God ... the Spirit ... the Father ... the Son"
John 4:24, 25 "God ... a Spirit ... Messiah... Christ"
John 14:16, 17, 26 "the Comforter ... the Father ... in My name"
John 15:26 "the Comforter ... the Father ... of Me"
John 20:21, 22 "Jesus ... Father ... the Holy Spirit"
Acts 2:32,33 "Jesus ... God ... the Father ... the Holy Spirit"
Acts 2:38,39 "Jesus Christ ... the Holy Spirit ... God"
Acts 4:30,31 "Jesus ... the Holy Spirit ... God"
Acts 5:31,32 "God ... a Prince and Savior ... the Holy Spirit"
Acts 7:55 "the Holy Spirit ... Jesus ... God"
Acts 8:14_16 "God ... the Holy Spirit ... Jesus"
Acts 10:38 "God ... Jesus ... the Holy Spirit"
Acts 10:46_48 "God ... the Holy Spirit ... the Lord"
Acts 11:16, 17 "the Lord... the Holy Spirit ... God ... the Lord Jesus Christ"
Acts 20:21_23 "God ... Jesus ... the Holy Spirit"
Romans 1:1,3,4 "God ... His Son, Jesus Christ ... the Spirit"
Romans 5:5,6 "God ... the Holy Spirit ... Christ"
Romans 8:2,3 "the Spirit ... Jesus ... God ... His own Son"
Romans 8:8,9 "God ... the Spirit ... the Spirit of Christ"
Romans 8:16, 17 "the Spirit ... God ... Christ"
Romans 14:17, 18 "the Holy Spirit ... Christ... God"
Romans 15:12, 13 "Root of Jesse (Jesus) ... God ... Holy Spirit"
Romans 15:16 "Jesus ... God ... the Holy Spirit"
Romans 15:30 "The Lord Jesus Christ ... the Spirit ... God"
1 Corinthians 6:10, 11 "God ... the Lord Jesus... the Spirit"
I Corinthians 12:4_6 "Spirit ... Lord... God"
1 Corinthians 7:39, 40 "the Lord Jesus ... the Spirit ... God"
1 Corinthians 8:2 "the Lord Jesus ... the Spirit ... God"
2 Corinthians 3:3, 4 "the Spirit ... Christ ... God"
2 Corinthians 13:14 "Jesus... God ... the Holy Spirit"
2 Corinthians 5:5, 6 "God ... the Spirit ... the Lord (Jesus)"
Galatians 4:6, 7 "God ... the Spirit ... Son ... Father ... God ... Christ"
Ephesians 2:18 "through Him (Jesus) ... Spirit ... the Father"
Ephesians 2:21, 22 "the Lord ... God ... the Spirit"
Ephesians 3:14, 16 "the Father ... Jesus Christ ... His Spirit"
Ephesians 4:4-6 "Spirit ... Lord (Jesus) ... God and Father"
Ephesians 5:18-20 "Spirit ... Lord (Jesus) ... God ... Father"
Colossians 1:6-8 "God ... Christ ... Spirit"
1Thessalonians 4:6-8 "Lord (Jesus) ... God ... Holy Spirit"
1 Thessalonians 5:18, 19 "God ... Father ... Christ ... Jesus ... Spirit"
2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14 "God ... Lord... God ... Spirit ... Lord Jesus Christ"
Titus 3:4-6 "God ... Holy Spirit ... Jesus Christ"
Hebrews 2:3, 4 "Lord (Jesus) ... God ... Holy Spirit"
Hebrews 3:4, 6, 7 "God ... Christ... Holy Spirit"
Hebrews 6:4-6 "Holy Spirit ... God ... Son"
Hebrews 9:14 "Christ ... Spirit ... God"
Hebrews 10:29-31 "Son of God ... Spirit ... Lord ... God"
1 Peter 1:2 "God the Father ... Spirit ... Jesus Christ"
1 Peter 3:18 "Christ ... God ... Spirit"
1 Peter 4:14 "Christ ... Spirit ... God"
2 Peter 1:21 "God ... Holy Spirit... Lord (Jesus)"
2 Peter 2:1 "God ... Holy Spirit ... Lord (Jesus)"
1 John 4:2 "Spirit ... Jesus ... God"
1 John 4:13, 14 "Spirit ... Father ... Son ... Savior"
1 John 5:7 "Father... Word ... Holy Spirit"
Jude 20, 21 "the Holy Spirit... God... Lord ... Jesus Christ"
Revelation 1:9, 10 "Jesus Christ ... God ... Jesus Christ ... Spirit"
Revelation 3:5-7 "Father ... Spirit ... He that hath the key of David (Jesus)"
Revelation 14:12, 13 "God ... Jesus ... Lord ... Spirit"
Revelation 21:9, 10 "Lamb ... Spirit ... God"
Revelation 22:16-18 "the offspring of David (Jesus) ... Spirit ... God"
2006-11-14 14:01:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will be jealous(I mean all Chrısts) when we enter to heaven (ı mean all Muslims)and you enter to hell(I mean all Christs)everybody have a place in hell and in heaven.Angels will show to you the place in heaven which is for you reserved but you lost
because you didnt accept İslam.That place will be given to another person who converted to İslam.You will see this and be very jealous.Angels will show us our place in hell and we will thank Allah not to entering there.You will take our place.
2006-11-14 00:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by nezih batgun 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Amen. Perhaps one day they shall have an opportunity to know the true Jesus Christ.
2006-11-13 23:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Most- NOT ALL Muslims, Extremist are paranoid, and feel that everyone is jealous and always after them! hence always ready to fight and kill.
(NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE LIKE THIS)
they are like fire ants- ready to attack at any moment!
2006-11-13 23:54:20 · answer #10 · answered by BubbleGumBoobs! 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋