Qur'anic Commentary & Analysis through the Lens of Modern Science [8]

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HASSAN 12 years ago

I INTEND CORRECTING THIS IMPRESSION BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND. THER IS NO SINGLE UNEQUIVOCAL STATEMENT THAT SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT MARRY MUSLIM WOMEN. DONT YOU SEE IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IF YOU HAVE NOT WITHNESSED ONE, SO ...
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I INTEND CORRECTING THIS IMPRESSION BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND. THER IS NO SINGLE UNEQUIVOCAL STATEMENT THAT SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT MARRY MUSLIM WOMEN. DONT YOU SEE IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY, IF YOU HAVE NOT WITHNESSED ONE, SOME OF US HAVE WITHNESS SEVERAL. CHRISTIAN MEN WILL HAVE TO PROVE TO THE MOSLEM LADIES THAT THEY ARE REALLY ON THE RIGHT TRACT THEN THEY CAN ACCEPT TO THEM. WHAT IS UNACCEPTABLE IS THAT MUSLIMS ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO MARRY TO IDOLATERS(MUSHRIQS). SO GET IT RIGHT
Mathew 12 years ago

Is there a religion call Christianity?
Who inverted it and what are its basic principles? Who are the followers? are they really following its basic principles? Please dare to answer me these!

Is there a religion call Christianity?
Who inverted it and what are its basic principles? Who are the followers? are they really following its basic principles? Please dare to answer me these!
real ghanaian 12 years ago

There is no religion called Christianity. Christianity as people perceive as religion is wrong. True Christians have a personal relationship with GOD ALMIGHTY through JESUS CHRIST and following every word that proceeds from H ...
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There is no religion called Christianity. Christianity as people perceive as religion is wrong. True Christians have a personal relationship with GOD ALMIGHTY through JESUS CHRIST and following every word that proceeds from HIS mouth
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

The Muslims try to prevent conversion because they are smart. First of all, Christians exploit those who are poor and under the false premises of giving aid to the them, give them a false promise of becoming rich in Christian ...
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The Muslims try to prevent conversion because they are smart. First of all, Christians exploit those who are poor and under the false premises of giving aid to the them, give them a false promise of becoming rich in Christianity.

I have witnessed it in my Village in Ghana where unsuspecting Muslims girls are lured with material things and are made to turn Christians only for them to literally becoming whores.

Again, poor Muslims are deceived by the bling bling of Christianity. Instead of a poor Muslim preacher, they are made to witness the flamboyant lifestyle of these false prophets. Thus the unsuspecting poor Muslim folks are deceived by the impressions not knowing those pastors are just feeding on the poor folks in the church.

My own sister after becoming a member of the Pentecost church began to bemoan her fate and complained incessantly about the crazy demands of the church: collections today, tite tomorrow, special offertory in the evening, kofi and Ama on Thursday etc.

I warned her but she did not listened. She followed her Christian husband and is now trapped under the incessant demand and atrocious requirements of the bogus pastors. That is the reason why I believe the Muslim countries prevents proselytizing: they are just preventing the poor naïve citizens to be exploited by these noxious Christians

We saw it in Africa: the ship that brought the priest and their bible left with slaves and gold. Guess what, they succeeded under the guise of converting the pagan and heathen Africans to Christianity.
real ghanaian 12 years ago

When you give your offertory you should give it free of charge and cheerfully. because if you don't there will be no blessing in it. But tithe is 10% of all your income. it can be every week,two weeks or monthly. That money i ...
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When you give your offertory you should give it free of charge and cheerfully. because if you don't there will be no blessing in it. But tithe is 10% of all your income. it can be every week,two weeks or monthly. That money is used to sustain the church. You should not be forced into giving. if God does not touch your heart to give then don't but if you read the word of God it will direct you in your offerings.
real ghanaian 12 years ago

Are you really really sure you have found the truth? Do you read the Qur'an? this is my challenge to you. since you claimed to have found the through,i want you the share the light with me. start from the beginning of the Qur ...
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Are you really really sure you have found the truth? Do you read the Qur'an? this is my challenge to you. since you claimed to have found the through,i want you the share the light with me. start from the beginning of the Qur'an verse for verse and share that with me. you quote the Qur'an and then you enlighten me with quote. this is my email:bbawuah@hotmail.com please don't fail to take up this challenge
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

Sorry for my many mistakes. Sentences should read "friend to enemies in Jerusalem." 2. ...even tress should not be cut. 3. Read the Old Testament in your own Bible. 4..He instructs...

Sorry for my many mistakes. Sentences should read "friend to enemies in Jerusalem." 2. ...even tress should not be cut. 3. Read the Old Testament in your own Bible. 4..He instructs...
Hussein Y. Babalwaiz 12 years ago

@Ajaloo, may Allah reward u, please this is the author of the article, am very very impressed by ur intellectual interventions, I have a lot to learn from u in order to continue with this crusade. Please since u are here in ...
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@Ajaloo, may Allah reward u, please this is the author of the article, am very very impressed by ur intellectual interventions, I have a lot to learn from u in order to continue with this crusade. Please since u are here in the States, write to me through my email below, babalwaiz71@gmail.com....and I will send u the links to all my articles (about 20) some of which tackled these Issues u stated. I cant wait to see ur message.
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

Farewell speech of Prophet Muhammed (saw)

O People
Lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and tak ...
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Farewell speech of Prophet Muhammed (saw)

O People
Lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and take these words to those who could not be present here today.

O People
Just as you regard this month, this day, this city as sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust.

Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that He will indeed reckon your deeds.

Allah has forbidden you to take usury (interest); therefore all interest obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your capital, however, is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer any inequity.

Allah has Judged that there shall be no interest and that all interest due to Abbas Ibn ‘Abd al Muttalib (the Prophet's uncle) shall henceforth be waived.

Beware of Satan for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope that he will ever be able to lead you astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things.

O People
It is true that you have certain rights in regard to your women, but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives, only under Allah's trust and with His permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat you women well and be kind to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers. And it is your right that they do not make friends with anyone of whom you do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste.

O People
Listen to me in earnest, worship Allah, say your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadan, and give your wealth in Zakat.

Perform Hajj if you can afford to.
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white- except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.

Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim, which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefor, do injustice to yourselves.

Remember one day you will appear before Allah and answer for your deeds. So beware, do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone. People, no prophet or apostle will come after me and no new faith will be born. Reason well therefore,
O people, and understand words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the Quran and the Sunnah (Hadith), and if you follow these you will never go astray. All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listened to me directly. Be my witness, O Allah, that I have conveyed your message to your people."

Brother, that was Prophet Mohammed over 1400 years ago. Just ask how many other religious figures spoke just like him

Khutbah: The Prophet's First Khutbah in Madinah

MAY PEACE AND ALLAH'S MERCY AND BLESSINGS BE UPON THE MUSLIMS

FIGHTING IS PRESCRIBED FOR YOU THOUGH YOU MAY HATE IT, AND IT MAY BE
THAT YOU HATE A THING WHICH IS GOOD FOR YOU AND THAT YOU LIKE A THING WHICH
IS BAD FOR YOU. ALLAH KNOWS BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW. 2:216

THEY WILL NEVER FIGHT AGAINST YOU TOGETHER EXCEPT IN FORTIFIED TOWNS AND
FROM BEHIND WALLS. 59:14

Khutbah: The Prophet's First Khutbah in Madinah
real ghanaian 12 years ago

To my fellow muslims, when people raise issues such as this you need not defend. Find out if it really happen and then you make your judgement because you cannot live in a religion whose leader has questionable characters. be ...
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To my fellow muslims, when people raise issues such as this you need not defend. Find out if it really happen and then you make your judgement because you cannot live in a religion whose leader has questionable characters. because if those things said about him is true then he is misleading all those who follow him and we know that all the followers are hell bound. why does the quaran talk about JESUS coming back and not mohammed. think about it. mohammed knew he was not a prophet. he knew who JESUS was,the MESSIAH,THE SON OF GOD,THE PRINCE OF PEACE,the sacrificial lamb,the one Isaiah(Old prophet before JESUS was born on earth) prophesy that the temple will be broken and rebuilt on the third day,only way to GOD ALMIGHTY

real ghanaian 12 years ago

All those murder and stuff you talking about was before JESUS came. JESUS abolished all the killings. Mohammed came 500 years after JESUS. why then should the killings continue? Quran should stop referring Christian teachings ...
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All those murder and stuff you talking about was before JESUS came. JESUS abolished all the killings. Mohammed came 500 years after JESUS. why then should the killings continue? Quran should stop referring Christian teachings and changing peoples name. Read the quaran very well and then you will see all the deeds of mohammed. Mohammed was a false prophet that is why JESUS struck him dead. how can a prophet not know where his soul will go when he dies. he is in hell. if you want GOD ALMIGHTY to reveal where mohammed is pray to him for revelation so that you don't join him
Musa Kano 12 years ago

Many will not go to heaven, not that they did not know the truth, but it is because they failed to know the truth that will save them.

As God knows his children so does the devil.

"Nevertheless the foundation of God sta ...
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Many will not go to heaven, not that they did not know the truth, but it is because they failed to know the truth that will save them.

As God knows his children so does the devil.

"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity (sin, transgression of God's law)." 2 Timothy 2:19.

Jesus is God's only means of salvation. There is none else!

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
Acts 4:12.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish (go to hell), but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn(judge) the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3:16-17.

"Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:7-10.

But what can possibly be wrong with someone's religious opinion?

"To the law and to the testimony (the word of God): if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light (truth) in them." Isaiah 8:20.

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners." 1 Corinthians 15:33.

So what's God's counsel for a prospective member of his kingdom?

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians 14-18.
PROF 12 years ago

IF A CHILD IN A MUSLIM FAMILY DECIDES NOT TO BE MUSLIM, THE CHILD IS OSTRACIZED. THE CHILD IS SHUNNED BY HIS FAMILY.

IF A CHILD IN A MUSLIM FAMILY DECIDES NOT TO BE MUSLIM, THE CHILD IS OSTRACIZED. THE CHILD IS SHUNNED BY HIS FAMILY.
HASSAN 12 years ago

IT THEREFORE GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THERE IS EQUALLY A COMPULSION IN CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE SAME THING HAPPENS IN CHRISTIANDOM IF AND ONLY IF YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMPULSION IS TO SHUN AND OBSTRACIZED

IT THEREFORE GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THERE IS EQUALLY A COMPULSION IN CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE SAME THING HAPPENS IN CHRISTIANDOM IF AND ONLY IF YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMPULSION IS TO SHUN AND OBSTRACIZED
Sulemana 12 years ago

A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of th ...
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A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it' Now the word 'Ur' generated controversy in those days as the jews interpreted it to mean fire 'Or' in the Hebrew language. This error brought a fable in its trail that Abraham was kept in fire whereas he was NOT because the word 'Ur' was later given its proper meaning 'Land' as in Jer ur salem Land of peace. So why is Mohammed also making the error made by jewish commentators? because the quran categorically states that Abraham was kept in fire. 2. the story of the queen of Sheba was also mis interpreted by jewish commentators claiming that Solomon could speak to jinns and animals which was found in the jewish book called the Targun due to a word that was similar to the words jinns and demonds. This story can be found in 1kings 10:1-11 The same error can be seen in the Quran because Mohammed head the story from Jewish sourses and believing that it was devine copied it into the Quran. I can go on and on. My advice is this: Read the bible with and an objective mind and you will see your way out. To conclude the question regarding the crusifixion of JESUS where the Quaran fools moslems into believing that Jesus was not crucified, is this to all moslems If the same Quran does not know where JESUS was born (for Q19:23 says JESUS was born under a palm tree)how can the Quran know whether JESUS was crucified or not?
New convert 12 years ago

A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of th ...
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A good and true prophet should not copy heresay and claim that, it is the truth. For instance, in Genesis 15:7 it IS clear God is speaking to Abraham that 'And He said onto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it' Now the word 'Ur' generated controversy in those days as the jews interpreted it to mean fire 'Or' in the Hebrew language. This error brought a fable in its trail that Abraham was kept in fire whereas he was NOT because the word 'Ur' was later given its proper meaning 'Land' as in Jer ur salem Land of peace. So why is Mohammed also making the error made by jewish commentators? because the quran categorically states that Abraham was kept in fire. 2. the story of the queen of Sheba was also mis interpreted by jewish commentators claiming that Solomon could speak to jinns and animals which was found in the jewish book called the Targun due to a word that was similar to the words jinns and demonds. This story can be found in 1kings 10:1-11 The same error can be seen in the Quran because Mohammed head the story from Jewish sourses and believing that it was devine copied it into the Quran. I can go on and on. My advice is this: Read the bible with and an objective mind and you will see your way out. To conclude the question regarding the crusifixion of JESUS where the Quaran fools moslems into believing that Jesus was not crucified, is this to all moslems If the same Quran does not know where JESUS was born (for Q19:23 says JESUS was born under a palm tree)how can the Quran know whether JESUS was crucified or not?
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

First of all you are wrong on so many front I don't even know where to start.

To begin with, you lied by stating that Muslims claim Mohammed was resurrected.

Secondly, those who are attacking the writer just pile insu ...
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First of all you are wrong on so many front I don't even know where to start.

To begin with, you lied by stating that Muslims claim Mohammed was resurrected.

Secondly, those who are attacking the writer just pile insults instead of using facts and logic. What the Author wrote are factual and authentic. I was a Christian who became a Muslim, and have come across versus in the Quran that literally blows my mind away.

Quranic verses that talks about the big bang phenomenon; verses that talk about the various heavenly bodies flowing in orbit; Quranic verses that talk about the expanding universe; verses that talk about how mountains provide stability to the earth (phenomenon recently discovered by geologists and their ilk).

When you juxtapose the fact of Mohammed being an illiterate, with such profound and mind-blowing scientific facts flowing like a river in the pages of the Quran, you are left with nothing by wonder.

I have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I have taken courses from the Institution of the Monarchy to the fall of the Southern Kingdom (In the Old Testament), and from the Synoptic Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, etc (In the New Testament). And not once did I, or have I come across such profound scientific claims in the Bible.

I live in the United States and what I see here is people moving away from God because of laughable claims of religion primarily Christianity.

Just consider this: The claims in the Old Testament (Genesis in particular) depicts the earth of having been created around 7 thousand years ago. The calculation was reached based on the creation of Adam to the time of Jesus. However, you and I know that the claim is false based on scientific facts.

Now compare with what is said in the Quran. The saime claim is made in the Quran that God created the universe in seven days. But check this out: t he Quran adds 'a day is about 50 thousand years in your reckoning.'
This means uncountable number years by implication. And this claim squares firmly with scientific facts: That the earth came about millions if not billions of years ago.

I believe in God very much. God does not lie. If one religious book gives me a claim which is factually incorrect,and another religious book's claim has been (and being proving)by science to be correct, I will be a fool to keep on sticking to that book just because I love it.

Humans were created by God to use our mind. That is why even though my background is in Christianity, I chose to be a Muslim. When scientific facts supports a revelation, I will be remised to follow blind faith based on unscientific facts.

Your other claim of Jesus being Lord is laughable. No where in the Synoptic gospels did Jesus call himself God. In fact, when a disciple called him good master, he upbraided him by saying "why do you call me good; there is none good but God only."

Again, he prayed unstoppably to God for help and solace. Just check the prayer he gave to the world:

Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be THY name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation; for THINE is the Kingdom, the POWER and the Glory, Forever and ever Amen.

Did you anywhere here Jesus directing his prayer unto himself ? All his supplications were (and are)unto God. It is the Gospel of John ( amply supported by the Acts of the Apostles) that feed words into the Mouth of Jesus.

Words like "In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God" were assertions placed in the Bible by John and NEVER EVER uttered by Jesus. The Gospel of John was itself written over one hundred years after the death of Christ. Look at the various claims made which cannot even be found in the synoptic Gospels.

Bro, if people are lost, its not Muslims: They are very safe. They worship the one and only God in the universe. They don't ascribe any power unto anybody but the one true God. Please, think of yourself and leave the Muslims alone. They are on a VERY SAFE Path, and I have become one of them.
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

Note: I left a line "But deliver from evil" from the prayer given by Jesus. I apologize

Note: I left a line "But deliver from evil" from the prayer given by Jesus. I apologize
Me 12 years ago

Part 3: Final
In this final part, I am going to tackle the very important question about the Lordship of Jesus Christ, a question Muslims love to handle dishonestly and frivolously as you did in your write-up. The claim you ...
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Part 3: Final
In this final part, I am going to tackle the very important question about the Lordship of Jesus Christ, a question Muslims love to handle dishonestly and frivolously as you did in your write-up. The claim you made is: Jesus is not Lord and that He never even personally claimed that He was.
Interestingly, you started by stating that when you were a Christian, you read the Bible through and through yet you did not know that the person who addressed Jesus calling Him "good teacher" was not one of His disciples -(Mark 10:17-29). It is very important to know that difference in order to understand what I am going to say. When Jesus said, "No one is good - except God alone," He wasn't denying that He was God. He was actually saying that the rich man could not claim that he knew Him already. And Jesus was proved right for the man refused to comply with what Jesus was asking him to do and walked away. He wouldn't have walked away if he had known that he was face to face with God. In other words, to know God takes pains and sacrifices and the man could have passed through those hurdles already. The disciples qualified to know Him that's why Jesus wouldn't have asked such a question to a disciple. That's why you are grievously wrong to say that the man Jesus addressed was a disciple. Jesus therefore wasn't denying that He was God. He was simply challenging the rich man that he didn't know Him. Surely, the disciples with Him wouldn't think the way you're thinking that Jesus was only a prophet or a man. Remember, some of them left John the Baptist, whom you Muslims call Yahya, to come to Jesus. Why would they have done that if Jesus and John were equal in their eyes? John himself had testified that he was even unfit to untie the lace of His sandals. And yet John was a prophet! John quoted Isaiah the prophet (Isa.40:3), to show further his rank vis-a vis Jesus: "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'"
Jesus' Lordship was foretold by many prophets including Isaiah. It is vanity, even thorough wickedness, for anyone not to see if he ever read the whole Bible. It's a heart of one with a terrible agenda; but an agenda against God and the truth? That person will be fighting against his own soul that truly wants to be saved.
As John pointed out - (Jn.5:31-47)- Jesus said "If I testify about myself my testimony is not valid. There is one who testifies in my favor and I know that his testimony about me is valid [...]
"I have a testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing testifies that the Father has sent me...You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life, yet you refuse to come to me to have life..."
You see, Jesus didn't go about saying, "I am the Son of God," in a cheap, flippant way. The fact is that access to eternal salvation itself is not cheap. The gate is narrow. And we don't expect God revise His requirement for us to accommodate a billion people who strangely, even cruelly, shut their eyes to truth while some of them argued that because of their number God can't have a choice but to accept them by all means. Salvation was never in Adam, in Abraham, in Moses, in Isaiah or any other prophet but in Christ, the only one that wasn't born by a human father. It can't be with Muhammad who has no reason to prove that he was higher than Moses. Moses life was laced with powerful signs from God. Muhammad was simply interested in marriage and wives and taking his adopted son's wife and creating verses in the Qu'ran to justify it.
real ghanaian 12 years ago

That is true about others what about you?where do you stand with God?Do you you know HIM? God said those who seek me diligently will find me. Don't worry about the wrong of others to lead you astray. Receive JESUS as your LOR ...
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That is true about others what about you?where do you stand with God?Do you you know HIM? God said those who seek me diligently will find me. Don't worry about the wrong of others to lead you astray. Receive JESUS as your LORD and personal saviour and then find a Bible base church and join. A church that preaches about salvation and the word of GOD. Salvation is refraining from sin and following the teachings of the HOLY BIBLE

atheist 12 years ago

Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote. In any case another embryologist, PZ Myers, has declared the Quran to be fundamentally wrong about the way the embryo ...
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Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote. In any case another embryologist, PZ Myers, has declared the Quran to be fundamentally wrong about the way the embryo forms. In any case it appears that the author of the Quran was familiar with the theories of the Greek biologist Galen, who described almost the exact same thing 400 years before the Quran. I'm not impressed by what the Quran says about embryonic development.
Ringo Star 12 years ago

The quran is notoriously known for passing other peoples work as it's own. How this trash is believed to be holy is beyound any belief. Personally l think Moby Dick is even more holier than the quran.

The quran is notoriously known for passing other peoples work as it's own. How this trash is believed to be holy is beyound any belief. Personally l think Moby Dick is even more holier than the quran.
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

You are not serious to compare Moby Dick to the Quran.

Moby Dick is about the vanity of man and his pursuit of material things. The lunacy of Captain Ahab in his pursuit of the great shark epitomizes our existing greed wh ...
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You are not serious to compare Moby Dick to the Quran.

Moby Dick is about the vanity of man and his pursuit of material things. The lunacy of Captain Ahab in his pursuit of the great shark epitomizes our existing greed which blind us from reasoning and normalcy. Please, get an impartial person to talk to you about the Holy Quran and you will change your views
Watcher 12 years ago

Genesis 38:8-9 (Story of the sin of Onan which was spilling semen on the ground) "Then Judah said to Onan,'Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your broth ...
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Genesis 38:8-9 (Story of the sin of Onan which was spilling semen on the ground) "Then Judah said to Onan,'Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.' But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother..."
Watcher 12 years ago

From the book of Wisdom 7:1-2

"I also am mortal, like all men,
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth;and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, fr ...
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From the book of Wisdom 7:1-2

"I also am mortal, like all men,
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth;and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage."
Watcher 12 years ago

Is pregnancy 9 or 10 months? Well, it's 40 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period in women who have 4 week cycles (which is sometimes called 38 weeks gestation). So, technically, a woman is into her 10th month si ...
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Is pregnancy 9 or 10 months? Well, it's 40 weeks from the start of the last menstrual period in women who have 4 week cycles (which is sometimes called 38 weeks gestation). So, technically, a woman is into her 10th month since the start of her last menses when the baby is born. So, I guess saying either 9 months or 10 months is fine.

But, my goodness, what with talk about sanitary pads, woman's menstruation is sure the talk of Ghana these days...
Adjaloo Kweku Nenya 12 years ago

"Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote."

Please Sir, who taught you logic? The Author not commenting on what he wrote does not impute or imply he disbeliev ...
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"Keith Moore no longer comments on the work he did. It is clear that he no longer believes what he wrote."

Please Sir, who taught you logic? The Author not commenting on what he wrote does not impute or imply he disbelieving what he wrote. This is a very poor way of reasoning and I wish you can do better.

The Author of the Quran was familiar with the theories of Galen? Is it your postulations, your assertions or what?

You are asking us to suspend disbelief and trust what you just wrote even though its so illogical any intelligent person will choke on your claims.

Yet at the same time, you are imputing that we should not believe a person who never ever had the benefit of any education but who over 1400 years ago gave us insights into phenomena that only recent scientific insights could explain.

Consider this: The Prophet Mohammed lived and died in a primitive environment; was never educated; lived a poor life because he lost both father and mother before even growing up; was in the employ of a lady (who later married him) as a tender of camels etc.

Now let me ask you a question: where did you think he went and read about the Greek biologist Galen? I think you are deluded in your thinking because you assume the then world to be just as ours. Not so at all!

Bro, it not ordinary men who are in wonder about Mohammed's achievement. A Christian scholar had described him as the most accomplished human who ever lived when considering leadership, influence, achievements, examples.
ZINA 12 years ago

WAS MUSLIMS WHO KILLED JESUS?
WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE FIRST WORLD WAR,CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS?
WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE SECOND ONE TOO?

WAS MUSLIMS WHO KILLED JESUS?
WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE FIRST WORLD WAR,CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS?
WHICH PEOPLE CAUSED THE SECOND ONE TOO?
Nyansasem 12 years ago

Most quotations from the Koran are plagiarized from the Bible anyway. After reading the Bible and Koran, I can make my own book and declare that God gave me those wisdom. That was what happened.

The African is at the mercy ...
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Most quotations from the Koran are plagiarized from the Bible anyway. After reading the Bible and Koran, I can make my own book and declare that God gave me those wisdom. That was what happened.

The African is at the mercy of these religions because of stupidity. Just look at what is happening in Nigerian (Boko Haram) and what is going on in Chad. While the whites and Arabs used these religion to build their cities, the useless African have allowed these religions to hold them as slaves- Taking their names and changing our traditions and cultures.
K. MANU 12 years ago

It is funny how these Muslims quote modern writings to support their
"plagiaristic" Koran. As a former Muslim myself, l can say without any iota of remorse that the Koran encourages violence. I want my Muslim friend answer ...
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It is funny how these Muslims quote modern writings to support their
"plagiaristic" Koran. As a former Muslim myself, l can say without any iota of remorse that the Koran encourages violence. I want my Muslim friend answer me why Mohammed attacke Abu Sarfian in the valley of Bidir?

isa 12 years ago

Shut up if you do not have any reasonable comment.Who are the ancient Indian philosophers and what are the examples of their works? If you say what you have said and then expect us to believe you without any prove, it beats m ...
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Shut up if you do not have any reasonable comment.Who are the ancient Indian philosophers and what are the examples of their works? If you say what you have said and then expect us to believe you without any prove, it beats my imagination why you can not see the truth in the Qur'an which has clear proves and even contains in it challenges to people who think INTELLIGENTLY like you ( pagan Meccan Arabs )to produce the like of the Qur'an if they thought if was possible for prophet who could neither read nor write to create such a masterpiece by himself without any divine inspiration.The pagan Meccan Arabs were very good at manipulating language( poetry)but could not beat that challenge.Talk is cheap but the challenge is still on.Your challenge is most warmly welcome.
A A RAZAK 12 years ago

ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST

ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST
HASSAN 12 years ago

IT IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE TO LEARN THIS FROM THE ETERNAL BOOK OF GUIDANCE(QURAN). MUHAMMAD(PBUH) IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ONLY SCIENTIST WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT. WHO COULD HAVE SAID THIS AT THAT TIME WITHOUT A ...
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IT IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE TO LEARN THIS FROM THE ETERNAL BOOK OF GUIDANCE(QURAN). MUHAMMAD(PBUH) IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ONLY SCIENTIST WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT. WHO COULD HAVE SAID THIS AT THAT TIME WITHOUT ANY DIVINE INTERVENTION
Hussein Y. Babalwaiz 12 years ago

@Ishaq Bajo, am the author of this piece, wow! Am really excited by ur analysis. Please, keep in touch through my email below, u are a great scholar and u need to have some time for the deen, by writing as I try to do. Plea ...
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@Ishaq Bajo, am the author of this piece, wow! Am really excited by ur analysis. Please, keep in touch through my email below, u are a great scholar and u need to have some time for the deen, by writing as I try to do. Please send me an email with my address below and lets us build a rapport. RAMADAN KAREEM!
Paul invented christianity 12 years ago

The trinity in xtianity have no bibilical evidence.The bible is a false book written by devil Paul and Jesus is a fake god because he obeyed satan. To hell with the white man concocted cult.

The trinity in xtianity have no bibilical evidence.The bible is a false book written by devil Paul and Jesus is a fake god because he obeyed satan. To hell with the white man concocted cult.
Paul invented christianity 12 years ago

80% of the bible was written by paul the fabricator of christianity. The bible says the earth is flat. This cant be from God.

80% of the bible was written by paul the fabricator of christianity. The bible says the earth is flat. This cant be from God.
Campus Ministry Report 12 years ago

The Scriptures, the Bible, is such that if you do not take time, with humility, and scrutinize things you are liable to live in ignorance and in shame, until death, when the accumulated shame cannot be reversed or erased.

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The Scriptures, the Bible, is such that if you do not take time, with humility, and scrutinize things you are liable to live in ignorance and in shame, until death, when the accumulated shame cannot be reversed or erased.

There is so much deception in the world that, not until you become certain of all things through your own discipline in finding out things through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, one will remain blind!

I have repeatedly and consistently
posit that, it is serious to try to come to God in our own terms, other than what God himself has proclaimed. The book of Hebrews warns us all, that God has spoken to us through his Son, and that we ought to take the Gospel with uttermost seriousness.

It is your own responsibility to be sure of all things, and not relying on what people misquote to argue themselves out of the Kingdom of God.

IGNORANCE is the most dangerous disease, not even EBOLA, AIDS etc compares to the seriousness of IGNORANCE.

When Jesus Christ HIMSELF has come down from heaven, in the power of the volume of the Scriptures written about HIM, to attest to the truthfulness of ALL THE JEWISH PROPHETIC WRITINGS, my God!, then I do not know any further evidence that we need.

I can agree with some of the comments concerning the misdeeds in Churches.
The Church is actually a battle field, and we are to awake.

Jesus Christ is coming for a spotless Church. And certainly WISDOM knows his Children.

Infact, not all Churches are true Churches in the eyes of God. You are to make a choice, regarding an Assembly or Fellowship you deem fit. Remember, however that it is mandatory for you to receive the Son of God as Lord and Personal Saviour and get Baptised!

The Bible already have verses pertaining to Sciences and Astronomy long before Christ came to the earth, and some of the knowledge had already gone far and wide, and passed on orally from one generation to the other. Take time and read through the books of Psalms, Isaiah, Job, Ezekiel, etc, and you will discover these things.

The Bible is not however a Scientific book, far more than that. It is a book of Life written in a language that you can read to the understanding any one who wills.

I have been making frantic effort to share the Truth with some relatives(mainly cousins) of my, advising them to get baptised, for let God be found Truth and everyone a liar.

Remember that God is a covenant God and we are to covenant with HIM through his Son, for in the Son shall be the obedience of the nations, as prophesied in the OT.
KOJO AGAMA 12 years ago

AN EVIL TREE BRINGS FORTH AN EVIL FRUIT: BOKO HARAM, AL QUEDA, ETC ETC

AN EVIL TREE BRINGS FORTH AN EVIL FRUIT: BOKO HARAM, AL QUEDA, ETC ETC
Christianity is False 12 years ago

Christian societies are the most pervert ones. HIV, rape, incest, necrophillia,murder, pornography, suicide gaysm are very rampant in christian societies. Part of the bible contain pornography.

Christian societies are the most pervert ones. HIV, rape, incest, necrophillia,murder, pornography, suicide gaysm are very rampant in christian societies. Part of the bible contain pornography.
real ghanaian 12 years ago

There is no part of the Bible that contain pornography. God created everything including sex. And HE said a man will leave his parents and joined together with his wife and they shall become one. That is the only time you can ...
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There is no part of the Bible that contain pornography. God created everything including sex. And HE said a man will leave his parents and joined together with his wife and they shall become one. That is the only time you can have sex. The Songs of Solomon if that is what you referring to goes beyond what it literally means. it shows God's affection for man
Christianity is False 12 years ago

Christian societies are the dirtiest. east legon, and all the finest places in Ghana belong to any religious group. I know korle gonor, and other places in Accra which are the dirtiest and is christian majority. Christianit ...
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Christian societies are the dirtiest. east legon, and all the finest places in Ghana belong to any religious group. I know korle gonor, and other places in Accra which are the dirtiest and is christian majority. Christianity is bulshit for short
Adobah 12 years ago

I admire the scholastic approach of the writer, the ideas and the citations are well constructed. But trust me brother, before the modern science and the Quran, that knowledge was known. The Quran picked it up and echoed it t ...
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I admire the scholastic approach of the writer, the ideas and the citations are well constructed. But trust me brother, before the modern science and the Quran, that knowledge was known. The Quran picked it up and echoed it to enforce the greatness of GOD. The science however "toyed" with the idea to prove what we know. A typical example could be a butterfly after couplation, starts as an egg (metamophos)to a larva to a coccoon and then to a fledgiling butterfly. The knowledge itself predates Quran but thanks to the scholars of the Quran the modern science had something to work on.
Ahmed Badawi 12 years ago

The Holy Quran is alwys factual from the begining of the world to the end.

The Holy Quran is alwys factual from the begining of the world to the end.
Watcher 12 years ago

On December 23, 2012, in response to a question posed by a Saudi youth, Al-’Alwan said that soccer was a form of heresy: “Soccer is a Masonic game meant to distance Muslims from their religion and faith, and most of the p ...
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On December 23, 2012, in response to a question posed by a Saudi youth, Al-’Alwan said that soccer was a form of heresy: “Soccer is a Masonic game meant to distance Muslims from their religion and faith, and most of the public that follows [soccer games] is loyal to the infidels.” Al-’Alwan called soccer players criminals and infidels: “[When] a man watches a [soccer] game, God forbid, he is watching deviant criminals and sinful infidels, even if they are Muslims.” He added: “There is a serious problem with [soccer] games, which is the refereeing, which follows manmade laws, not Allah’s laws.”

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