REFLECTION ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION: BY BABA ALI MUSTAPHA

REFLECTION ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

BY

BABA ALI MUSTAPHA

To start our discussions (research) it would be imperative to review in brief the church, the articles of faith of the Christians and their authoritative source, that is the bible.

          The term “church “means the body of Christians, or more precisely, the professional priesthood  which has taken upon itself the task of formulating doctrine and rituals as well as rendering certain religious services in accordance with what are believed to be the teaching of Jesus Christ.

          The church may also mean the sect to which are individual Christians belongs. Now let us have a look at the source of guidance for the Christians. The word bible is the bedrock of Christian’s belief. The word Bible came from the Greek word meaning BIBLIA meaning book. Admittedly the bible is a collection of many books written by a large number of authors known and unknown.

          But those authors are believed to have been inspired by God and they wrote the book under the supervision and guidance of God.

  It would be important at this juncture for the reader to know that the Catholic bible, is somehow different from the Protestants bible. The former consist of 73 books, while the letters has only 66 books. The officially accepted books by the main body of Christian’s church are called “canonical” it is these canonicals books of the bible which are regarded as THE WORD OF GOD.

          All the main Christians churches, or sect, fearch the following as the principle dogmas(articles of farth) to be believed in without question.

1.     There is one God

2.     In God there are 3 divine persons, the father, the son and the Holy Ghost. Those three persons are called the blessed those three persons are called the blessed TRINITY. They are all equal and they have no beginning and no end (eternal). They are not 3Gods but one.

3.     The father is God and the first person of the trinity.

4.     The son is God and the second person of the trinity. He is Jesus Christ who is God, whom took human form. He was born of the Virgin Mary about 2018yeras ago in Palestine. Was crucified died and rose again from the dead. His death and sufferings on the cross was intended to be sacrifice for the forgiveness of the sins of men. This is called atonement, and he is entitlied the saviour and redeemer

5.     The holy spirit is the third person of the blessed trinity. After the death of Jesus Christ the holy spirit descended upon the apostles (early missionaries) of Christ, and the spirit continues to lead the church-mark you there is still only one God.

6.     Every human child bears with him the stain of what called THE ORIGINAL SIN inherited from ADAM.

7.     Baptism, the ceremony of sprinkling somebody with water or according to some sect, immersing him in water, as marking his being accepted as a member of the church, and belief in Jesus Christ atonement is the only means whereby man shall be saved.

On the other hand all Muslims believes in one God Allah, the omnipotent, most gracious, the sustainer, the all-knowing, and the merciful. The lord of the heaven and earth.

     We also believed in all the apostles of Allah.

From Adam down toMoses, Isaac, Abraham, Joseph, Jacob, Jesus and Muhammed (SAW), the last of messenger. Every Muslims believed that all those prophets and messengers of God thought  nothing but the worship of one go, the creator and total submission of one self and property to the commandments of Allah.

    In contrast to the Christians, the Muslimspositive is very clear, word over in that at we believed that:

1.     Sin is not inherited.

2.     The trinity is fabrication

3.     Jesus is not God

4.     God doesn’t beget son and daughters

5.     Christ was neither killed nor crucified

   Those doctrine are expounded in he must unambiguous terms in the holy Quran.

   Now let us examine the sacred doctrines of the and some aspect of Christians belief in the light of the writing of the bible which the church accepted as canonical.

THE ORIGINAL SIN

In the Old Testament the story of creation and fall on man was giving, thus was described of the fall of Adam from grace.

The lord god took man and put him inside Garden of Eden to fill and keep it. And the lord God commanded the man, saying “you may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of God and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” Genesis 2:15-16.

  Adam, however, persuaded by his wife, Eve transgressed Gods command and ate of the forbidden tree of knowledge. God cursed them both on account of adams sin all human being are born deprived of sanctifying grace and inherit his punishment.

Place about in both the old and New Testament which discredit this assertion. Some of which are; the father shall not be put to death for the children, nor for the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sins.

    Deuteronomy 24.16

 And in Ezekiel it is more categorically stated; yet you say, why should not be the sons suffer for the iniquity of the son,

Ezekiel 18:19-20

Contrary to the teaching of the church, which goes under his name, that all children rae born in si, Jesus Christ confirms their innocence in the following passage from the Gospel according to Mathew;

    “truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children you will not never enter the kingdom of heaven”

       Mathew 18:13

It is hope that these quotations provide enough food for thought for the averagely intelligent reader.

GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY GHOS.

Now let us look at the concept of trinity and try to see what the bible says about it. Critical analysis some verses of the bible show in unambiguous and clear term that Jesus is not God, not the son of God, nor part of God. And that the idea of 3 in one has no basis whatsoever.

  The bible clearly shows that there is only God, the creator and the master of the day of judgments. He did not resemble anything and nothing is comparable to him.

 Now let us read from the bible.

“ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a MAN approved of God signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know”

  Accts 2:22

This verse is telling us in clear language that Jesus is a man, if Jesus is a man than automatically he is not God.

And we read again

 “And I tell at this feet to worship him.

        And he said unto me, see thou do it not: I am they fellow SERVANT, and of the brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”

In this verse Jesus is saying that he is the servant of God. And that he should not be worshipped. Is is a common knowledge that a servant surrender to the will of the master. If you are a servant then you cannot be the maters at the sometimes- can you?

“I can of mine own self do nothing; as I hear, because I seek not mine over will, but the will of the father which hath send me”.   John 5:3

Jesus here is telling us that on his own self he can do nothing. And that he is a messenger and convey only the will of that whom hath send him. Someone who cannot do anything by himself, can on no account be qualified to be God.

“ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again onto . if ye love me, ye would rejoice, because I said. I go unto the father; for y father is greater than I”

John 14:28

If the father is greater than the son then 2 are not equal. This verse disqualified Jesus to be Go. All over the world even a nursery school pupil known that the arithmetical quotation: “> and -”. (Greater and equal) are not some, and cannot be equal. They signify two different things.

“And this is life eternal. That they might know and only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hath sent” John 17:3

The verse is telling us that there is only one true God and that Jesus is a messenger and servant of some.

  Only true God, any Christians who believes in what the bible says and happens to come across this rivers, then he/she have no focus stand to belief in any way the theory og three in one, a concept which not even the worst arithmetician  can accept nor even the least mathematician can understand let alone convince anybody.

 It is here necessary to remain readers that the bible was not revealed in English language. In the orthodox language in which the bible was revealed, the word now translated as father into English language meant the God, the Lord , and who is the Lord, the father. Actually that is the message the word father was meant to convey.

     Let us see one more verse on this issue. Jesus says;

     “but now you seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have        heard of God; this did not Abraham ” John 8:40

If Jesus is God as claimed by the Christians instead of saying “ I AM MAN” in this verse he should have said “I AM GOD” indeed the language  is very plain.

      Other relevant verses are John 13:16, John 20:17 and mark 13:52.

THE SAVIOUR

Ask any Christian you happen to come across, WHO IS YOUR SAVIOUR? The answer is without doubt, and in confidence; “JESUS IS MY SAVIOUR” but let us go through the bible and hear who it says is the saviour.

           Now listen to marry talking;

            “And mary said, my soul doth magnify the lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced     in God my saviour”

Luke 1:46-47

Mary is saying that God is her saviour, if Jesus were the saviour. She would have said so.

    “And, behold, one come and said unto him good master, what good shalt I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God; But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments

Mathew 19:16- 17

The questioner in this verse is asking Jesus that he should do not have eternal life. And Jesus answered by telling him to abide by the commandments of the lord, the creator.

This clearly indicates that Jesus is not the savior, if was, he would have promised the fellow eternal life instead of admonishing him to follow the commandments of god more importantly he rejected being addressed as God, because only God is Good.

“ you are my witness said the lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know that believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither there be after me. I even I, am the lord; and beside me there is no saviour”

Isaiah 43:10-11

“For I am the Lord the God, the holy one of Israel, the saviour”

Isaiah 43:3

In those verses there is no doubt God is saying in clear term that he is the one, besides him there is no other God. And that he is the saviour. Now let us once again listen to the words of God.

“ I am the lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any given image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

    Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the God I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and the fourth generation of them what is hate me”.

Exodus 20:2-5

If the present day Christians are true Christians then this verses alone are enough to make them embrace Islam because that is basically the pivot of the religion Islam.

   Allah is saying that he is the God, the lord, nothing should be associated to him whether in the heaven or on the earth, and none should be worshipped but he alone.

But it is rather surprising to find the church today preaching the principle of trinity, curving out staves and comparing such statues with God and even go the external of bowing to them. Other relevant verses are Mathew 4:10 and Isaiah 40:18.

JESUS LAST DIALOGUES

This very touching farewell scene which contains Jesus spiritual testament, is entirely absent from the book of Mathew, mark and luke. John is the only evangelist to report the episode of the last dialogue with the apostles. How can the absence of this discrimination be explained.

   One is tempted to ask the following questions; did the test initially exist in the first three Gospels? Was it subsequently suppressed? If yes, then why?

    It must be stated immediately that no answer can be found; the mystery surrounding this huge gap remain obscure as ever.

The dominating feature of this narration is the view of mans future  that jesusdescribe, his care in addressing his disciples, and through them the whole of humanity, ‘His’ recommendations and commandments and his concern to specify who the quide is definitely  to be at man must follow after his departure.

  The text of Johns gospel is the only one to designate him as “PARAKLETOS”  in the Greek, which in English has become “PARACLETE” that is the comported. The following are the essentials passage;

“ if you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the father, and he will give you another paraclete (comforter). Johns Gospel explains the meaning of paraclete( the comforter as follows)

“but the comforter, which is the holy Ghost, whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you”

John 14:26

“But when the comforter is coming whom I will send unto you from the father, he said he shall testify of me”

John 15:26

It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the comforter will not come to you; but if I go; I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convince the world of sin and righteousness and off judgement.

John 16:7-8

When the spirt of truth comes he will not speak on his own authority but whatsoever he hear he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me.

John 16:13-14

A tricot I his little dictionary of the new writes in part that paracelete was tern in current usage among the hellemist fews, first century AD meaning intercessor, “ defender ” Jesus predicts that the spirit will be sent by the father and son. Its mission will be to take the place of the son in the role he played during his mortal life as a helper for the benefit of his disciples.

 The spirit will intervene and act as a substitute for Christ, adopting the role of comforter or omnipotent intercessor.

The commentary therefore make the holy spirit into the ultimate guide of man after Jesus’s depature.

  How does it square with John’s text? It is a necessary question because a PRIORITY it seems strange to ascribe the last paragraph quotated above to the holy spirit; “for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatsoever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. It seems inconceivable that one could ascribe to the Holy Spirit the ability to speak and DE clear whatsoever he hears”

Logic demands that this question be raised. It is usually not the subject of commentaries. To gain an exact idea of the problem, one has to go back to the basic Greek instead of another language.

    It is confirmed moreover, by another text from the some evangelist, the first letter where John uses the same word “PARACLETE” (comforter) simply to mean Jesus. The intercessor at God’s side.

   According to John, when Jesus says “And will pray to the father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever”

John14:16

 “And I will pray to the father, and  he will give you another comforter, what Jesus is saying is that “ANOTHER” intercessor will be sent to man, as he himself was of Gods side on man’s behalf during his earthly life.

   Thus one is brought to see in John’s comforter a human being life Jesus, possessing the faculties of hearing and speech formally implied in John’s Greek text.

  Jesus therefore prechicts that God will later send a human being to earth to take up the role defined by John, that is to be a prophet who hear Gods word and repeat his message to man.

  This is the logical interpretation of John’s text arrived at if one attributes to the words their meanings.

   The presence of the term “HOLY SPIRIT” in today’s text could easily have come from a letter addition made guide deliberately. It may have been intended to change the original meaning which preelicted the advent of a prophet subsequently to Jesus and was therefore in contradiction with the teachings maintained that Jesus was the last of the prophet. This the present day Christians are made to belief the questions which the churches did not still answer is who this comforter is.

JESUS A PROPHET TO THE WORLD OR A PROPHET TO ISREAL

 The Christians believed that Jesus was sent to save whole world. The Bible speaks about to whom Jesus was send. Now let us read the Bible.

  And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of type and sidon. And behold a Canaanite woman from that religion came out and cried. ‘have mercy on me, o lord, son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon. But he did not answered a word. And his disciples come and begged him, saying ‘send her away, for she is crying after us’. He answered “ I was send only to the lost sheep of Isreal.

Mathew 15:21-24

When Jesus was dispatching his twelve (12) chosen disciples to go out and spread the Gospel he instructed them to avoid going into non- Israelite to end.

Mathew reports

“these twelve jews sent out charing them, go nowhere among the gentiles (that is non-jews), and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”

Mathew 10:5-6

Jesus said to them; “Truly I say to you, in the new world, when the son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel”

Mathew 19:28

in which throne will the present day Assian, Europeans or the African Christian sit in the new world? The answer is none because Jesus was not sent to them-than why the intruding.

The claim that Jesus Christ is redeemer of the world from sins is rebutted by his own categorical statement recorded in the gospel according to john.

In prayer to God he declares his own limitation consistent with the general spirit of his mission.

“I pray for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou last given me; for then are thine.

                                      John 17:9

          If we allow ourselves to judge from the statement of Jesus as reported by Mathew and mark that he was sent only to the lost sheep of isreal, and his clear instruction to his disciples that they should go nowhere among non-Jews, but rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and his prophecy that he and his twelve disciple would be judging the twelve tribe of Israel in the hereafter, we would not be wrong to conclude that the people referred to be in Jesus, prayer quated above must be the same. The Israelites.

          It is a historical fact that Christianity was not preached to non-Jews until after the conversion of pual. It was him who insisted on doing that in the face of strong opposition from the chosen apostle of Jesus. They regard such action as violation of the explicit instructions and practice of the master.

          The church’s alleged authority to propagate Christianity to non-Jaws (apart from pual’s assertion) derives from the following of the Gospel:

“Go therefore and make disciple of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all thing what so ever I have commanded you; and do, I am with you always even unto the end of the world”

Other relevant verse are, Luke 24:47, Mark 16:15-16. The above verse refer not to the historical Jesus when he Lived, preached and walked with his disciples. They refer to the “RISEN” Christ after the so called Resurrection when he approach to the chosen few. It is know that among the four gospel which are in the Bible, the earliest to be written later being based on Mark, but with establishments added according to the writer testes. It is known that also that the whole passage in mark about Jesus rising from dead. Which includes the instruction, contradicting all his previous onecs of preaching Christianity to non-Jews is a later addition. More so if we put this argument aside, how do this last verses compare with the previous ones quated indicating clearly that Jesus was only for the Israelites? Why should such a contradiction arise is the question that should bother the mnd?

APPEARANCE OF JESUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD

          O. Gulman in his book, the new testament, note the contradiction between  Luke and Mathew. The first situate Jesus appearance in Judes, the second in Galilee.

          One should also remember the like-john contraction, john (21:1-14) relates an episode in which Jesus raised from the dead appear to the fishermen beside the sea of Tiberian; they subsequently  catch so many fish that they are unable to bring them all in.

          This is nothing other than a repetition of the miracle catch of fish episode which took place at the same spot and was also described by luke (5:1-11) as an event of Jesus lite

THE BIBLE

          As we earlier said in the introduction the bible is at least 66 separate writing which have been bound together as one book.

          The bible has no internal claims of unity nowhere does the bible sum itself up as totality God’s word the missionary argument is that “Paul say that all scripture is inspired of God”.

                                                2 timothy 3:16

Baba Ali Mustapha is of Ngarannam woed, Bollori II, near 7up area Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria.

          Reference

For more knowledge consult the book Al, I LM, Volume 3, Number 1

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