BBC - Religions - Islam: Early rise of Islam (632-700)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad#Religious_Umayyad
http://history-world.org/islam11.htm
do you have any sources to dispute this?
Once they left the Arabian peninsular it was Empire building. they would have been free to practice their religion in Arabia why conquer half the known world? (I know self defence)
People may have returned to christianity after the empire became week but the Empire didnt become week did it...
I think a revelation to an Arab in Arabic for Arabs would make Arabs reluctant to encourage conversion at first, its human nature.
Anyway the rapid expansion of the Empire would have needed conversion as there wouldn't be enough Arabs to fill important positions or maintain the huge armies...
So in their search for him they conceived gods that were different than "him" so different that it wasn't him, they didn't actually exist they were all in their mind. thats exactly my question,
How different do they have to be before he makes an edict not to do it?
Christian denominations...
Well i dont know Rick, It seems to me if God is this entity that the Abrahamics say he is , he seems to require our belief for some reason.
After all if it wasn't for revelation would we be aware of him at all?
Maybe God was thinking along the same lines as me???? that the god you are seeing in your minds eye, no longer represents the true God. That you have created "other" Gods, even if its only in your own mind.
Yep all the same God i get it, no matter how he, she, or it is described what attributes are attributed to it, him, her, Whatever revelation is revealed and to whom, it doesn't matter , its all the same God.
Well it wouldn't if Thor being the god of thunder son of Odin, husband off sith father of Pruor,magni and mooi, he rides a chariot pulled by two goats which he eats and then resurrects.
if that doesnt fit in with the ten commandments or the Quran i will just ignore them and say "Oh its the...
The Prophets revelation is the Quran. so the Quran says Jesus was a man and wasn't crucified that doesn't tie in with you as a Christian so its not relevant.