10-08-2004, 05:27 PM
Chsritianity seems very confusing to me, i'm no Christian expert but i have read up on it before i became Muslim a long time ago when i was studying history. And it seems no one knows who's version is right. Gods word would be complete...one guide solid for man to follow not the mess you see today. It is man who has changed it, thus you have the many about 20 i think, different denominations. Someone even said to me the number is higher around 75, but i don't know that myself. I'm not really interested in modern Chritianity, just Jesus (PBUH). but Who is right? To put it short Jesus (PBUH) had his words corrupted...how as a Christian can you follow the changes made by man?? Where do you go for the original source, every Christian family/sect will tell you something different. Is this how God wanted it? Or would he have wanted one complete uncorrupted guide for man. Hmmm seems like an easy question to me.
Here is an interesting snippet from an article i read a while ago...
<i>"In ancient times there was no standardized version of the Old Testament. Different Jewish groups and different regions had their own versions. There were the Septuagint, the Aquila, Theodotion's version and Symmachu's version, all containing different text and different numbers of books. The Old Testament used by modern Christians is based on the Massonetic version which only appeared after the Jamnia Synod at the end of the 1st century AD. <b>The New Testament did not appear in its present form until the year 404 AD, nearly four hundred years after the death of Jesus. </b>Before that time, the Gospels of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus, the Acts of Peter, the Acts of Paul and a dozen other books were included in the Bible. In 404 AD these books were simply <b>cut out of the Bible </b>because they contained teachings that were contrary to Christian theology of that time. One of the oldest existing Bibles, The Codex Sinaiticus, includes the Epistle of Barnabas, a book that is not included in the modern Bible. <b>If these books were considered to be revelation by early Christians why don't modern Christians consider them to be revelation?</b> When we look at the Bibles used by modern Christians we find that there are several different versions. The Bible used by the Ethiopian Church, one of the most ancient of all churches, contains the Books of Enoch and the Shepherd of Hernias which are not found in the versions used by Catholics and Protestants. The Bible used in the Catholic Church contains the books of Judith, Tobias, Banuch, etc which have been cut out of the Bible used in Protestant churches. Prof H.L. Drummingwright of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in his introduction to the Bible explains how these books came to be cut out of the Bible used by the Protestants. These books were, he says, <b>"in most Protestant Bibles until the 19th century, when publishers, led by the British and Foreign Bible Society voluntarily began to omit them". </b>Once again, <b>these books contained ideas which the churches did not like </b>so they just cut them out. How can a book like Judith be the infallible word. of God one moment and not the next? Why are there so many different versions of the Bible? <b>And which version is the infallible word of God?"</b></i>
I mean what a mess man. I can't remember now, i think the above was written from an athiest or hindu or something viewpoint but it just shows the mess of Chritianity. Not the prophet who bought it's original word, but the mess man made afterwards. I'm not claiming to be an expert on Christianity like i said, but it seems blind to follow the changes of man, as opposed to the prophet. Which is what christians do. How shameful of man. Jesus said not to eat swine am i right? But pork is muched daily by christians in the west, not even thought about. Wouldnt the Chritians sects changing this and those following the thousands of changes feel deep shame when Jesus returns? No matter how many different Islamic sects there are...they are false...there is only one Quran, no matter who picks bits from it, there is only one Quran, not 100 versions. ONE. you follow that to the letter alongside our prophet (PBUH) and that's it. Christianity? No, not for me ta.