The Bible attention to the enduring quality of Gods word. At Isaiah 40:8 we read: The green grass has dried up, the blossom has withered; but as for the word of our God, it will last to time indefinite.
And Jesus stated at Matthew 5:18 "for truly I say to YOU that sooner would heaven and earth pass away than for one smallest letter or one particle of a letter to pass away from the Law by any means and not all things take place"
it's talking about the word of god generally not the bible, but the quran said about itself "Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian" this verse is specified for the Quran not generally
the KJV was good in its day, but it is a very old translation from the 16th century...so it is based on old english. Modern versions are more appropriate for our time because english has changed a lot since the 16th century. You might be better with an American Standard Version. My opinion is that our 'New World Translation' is the best version because it is based on the original language manuscripts and it is a literal translation with consistent renderings of hebrew and greek words. So for example, while the KJV renders the Hebrew word 'sheol' in three different ways, we render it the same way in all occurrences.
Ok, thanks i'll use the American standard version
The Quran is great if you are an Arabic speaking person, but the majority of the world are not Arabic
The bible is available in almost every language on earth...if you are a pygmy living in the jungles of Borneo, the bible is available to you...if you are an eskimo living in the north pole, the bible is available to you. The bible is much more universal then the Quran. I would expect a book from God to be available to all mankind...especially when that book claims to be for all the nations.
i think too that the transaltion of Quran is available allover the earth, or how we could find the islam in each country?, also you said that the majority of the world are not arabic, are the most of the world speaking old Hebrew or greek? no they use the translation, but the number of people who could read, recite and memorize the original Quran are too great to be compared by who can read the original copy of the bible, no body could deny that.
The beauty of the bible is that spiritual truths were told to us by means of real events and living people. The love Solomon sang about explains the love God feels for his congregation.
i'll tell you a story of a christian girl who converts to Islam because of the song of songs, one day she was riding the train she found that a group of muslim girls are reading the quran to each other loudly, she wondered and asked herself, could i do that with the holy bible, she begin to read the song of songs, people begin to be mad to her when they heard that text, they didn't know it's part of the bible they thought that it's a poem of immoral poet they asked her to stop as really this is hurt them, she aswered that it's part of the holy bible, so the people stopped blaming her, but she still thinking how's the god say words the people considers it as immoral poem, she asked her self when i got a daughter could i teach her the song of songs proudly as Muslims do with their children by teaching them the quran, or her daughter will ask her to be more polite
at the dawn she raised up her hands to the heaven and said my god please show me the truth, when the Muslims dawn prayer, she heard the Imam reciting that verses of the Quran "And [beware the Day] when Allah will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, 'Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah ?'" He will say, "Exalted are You! It was not for me to say that to which I have no right. If I had said it, You would have known it. You know what is within myself, and I do not know what is within Yourself. Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen, I said not to them except what You commanded me - to worship Allah , my Lord and your Lord. And I was a witness over them as long as I was among them; but when You took me up, You were the Observer over them, and You are, over all things, Witness"
then she converts to Islam, as she got the answer, i know you have the total right to say it's fabricated story, or a lie i did, i just post it to think about it, isn't the god able to choose more polite words which the people can read without feel timidly
Ezekeil 23 is about the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern Kingdom of Isreal at a particular time in their history. In the account they are spoken of as 2 married women who became prostitutes because both kingdoms had allied themselves with foreign nations and abandoned their God.
thank you for clearing it up, but why again the god use those dirty words, why he doesn't use more moral words, believe me if i'm christian i'll not be able to teach my daughter a chapter like that, i'll feel too shy to tell her that the word of your god who ordered you to avoid adultery, who ordered you to respect other and to choose polite words, naturally she may answer and why he didn't tell himself by that
don't feel offensive please, but really i can't understand how do you believe that the god said those words, believe me i can't post them here
Leviticus 15-19 speaks of physical cleanness. God imposed these sanitary laws so that the nation would be clean and they would know when they were not clean. So yes, all the above scriptures are the word of God that teach very specific and important lessons.
look my dear, i can understand that the blood of the period is unclean, and if a drop of that blood touches anything it should be cleaned out, but not tosay that the woman herself is unclean, this is a type of despising to the woman to say "whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even", i can't accept that, i can't shake hand with my mother while her period or i'll be unclean, and to say "verything that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean: everything also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean" and "And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even, And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even" so how she could sleep if the bed will be unclean, don't you see that a type of Insult and humiliation to women, what's wrong she did, it's a nature that the god makes her like that and then he said that she is unclean and who touches her is unclean and anything she sets on is unclean, why?? if he said about the blood itself i can understand that but he's taking about the women not the blood
Jacob was Josephs paternal father, whereas Heli was Josephs 'father in law'. Heli was the father of Mary.
Thanks for the information
, i had discussed that with 3 Christians before but you are the first who removed some of my doubts thanks
so Matthan in Matthew isn't Matthat in Luke?
also there's still that how when Matthew counts the number of fathers from the the Babylon exiling till the Jesus he said they were 14 although that they are 13?
the Quran is written for an Arabic audience... would you apply the same logic to the Quran?
my dear it seems that you don't understand my question, maybe that because my bad English
i'm not talking about the language of the written book, you said "
Also, Luke was not writing for a jewish audience, whereas Matthew was. A Jewish audience would automatically know the names of certain men of Isreal by naming only the grandparent"
so you said that the Jewish audience would tell Matthew the names of the people, so here the source of the information is the Jews although that it should be the god, so the Jews are who told Matthew the names, so it's not the word of god, it's word of Jews, do you get my point?
you can't apply that on Quran the Quran revealed to Mohamed through the holy spirit (Gebril) while Mohamed wasn't reader nor writer but he memorized it and recite it to his followers who wrote it and then they read it to him for reviewing and every year in Ramadan Gebril used to come to him to review what revealed from quran with Mohamed and then Mohamed reviewed it with his followers, so here the source of information is the god not the Arab like in the bible as the source of information was the JEWS as you said that they told Matthew the names, so how we could say after that it's the word of god?
God did.
Matthew 3:16 After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove Gods spirit coming upon him. 17 Look! Also, there was a voice from the heavens that said: This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.
approved as what? as a prophet, son, Messiah?
regarding to the head covering, you have a point of view of understanding the verses and i have an opposite point of view
i understand his speech in 2 points the first related to the head covering while the second is related to the gathering of the people which cause some troubles like eating and drinking in the church and he recommends to them to do at their homes, and this is the problem of gathering the people some eats before others, but no relation of covering head during prayers and gathering the people in the church,
you have your opinion and i have my opinion, everyone stucks with his own one,so let's not spend more time about it, anyway it's not the core of our believing, if a Christian covers her head while prayer you wii not say that she's not Christian just don't understand the verses like you
