06-05-2006, 03:29 AM
Quote:Bismillah:
When Jesus was approached by a man who asked what he could do to gain eternal life (salvation), Jesus told him to <b>keep the Commandments </b> (Mat. 19: 16,17); in other words, to obey God's Law, <b>he didn’t tell him to believe in me that I would die for your sins and you will be save. NO he said keep the commandments. </b> To a similar question put to him by a lawyer, as recorded in the gospel of Luke, Jesus told him to <b>love God and his fellow man </b> (Luke 10:25-28).
Peace Wel Mel.
Thanks for your answers about Islam. They've created more questions which I will ask later as it's getting late here. But, before I go to sleep....
You quoted Mattew and Luke. It's easy to take something out of any book and pull it out by itself out of context and use it to illustrate a point contrary to what was intended. I am sure you see this happens all the time by people who attempt to expose the Qur'an even. Just as you understand and know that the Qur'an is taken as a whole the Bible is taken as a whole as well.
Both of those Gospels taken as a whole and actuall all 4 of them illustrate clearly Christ as Lord and the only hope for salvation for mankind. As far as keeping the Commandments in Mat 19 and Luke 10 is concerned you know that man was unable to keep the law. Thus the disconnect between God (Holy) and his creation (unholy). Verily keepin the Commandments is still necessary.
Jesus said of the Commandments in Mathew 5:17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."
Christ goes on to say in Mathew 10:32 "32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven."