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Originally posted by _Phoenix_
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
I think I already found a more accurate answer. If you scroll up, you will see it just above your response to me. Considering all the other parallels, That explanation makes more sense.
It says in the Quran that Allah created the whole universe, which includes the stars, earth and the moon etc The main message of the Quran is to worship ONE god, creator of the universe. It says several times to not worship idols/objects including the moon. Yet for some reason you decide to avoid all of this evidence proving that Muslims don't worship the moon.
Edit: looking closer at your comment it seems your actually agreeing with a comment that is suggesting that Islam is the devil appearing before some sort of reckoning.........
www.abovetopsecret.com...
P.S your belief that Mary shouldn't be treated as a deity is exactly what Muslims believe too.edit on 28-10-2012 by _Phoenix_ because: (no reason given)
You posted a quote from a book I consider totally invalid, and nothing but a copy of other works mixed in with old religions.
As for the data, lonewolf already did a great job showing how you are off there. No need to repeat that.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
That's the thing about Catholicism that has bothered me the most; the worship of Mary.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
"Baptist missionary cult"? Do define that, please. As a Baptist, I am very curious as to the meaning of that phrase.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
"Hail" is a form of praise.
In this case, to someone that isn't here, and cannot hear them. Praying to Mary means assuming she can listen. I haven't seen anything in the Bible to indicate that someone already in heaven can hear people still on Earth.
One charge made against it is that the saints in heaven cannot even hear our prayers, making it useless to ask for their intercession. However, this is not true. As Scripture indicates, those in heaven are aware of the prayers of those on earth. This can be seen, for example, in Revelation 5:8, where John depicts the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God under the form of "golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." But if the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God, then they must be aware of our prayers. They are aware of our petitions and present them to God by interceding for us.
Some might try to argue that in this passage the prayers being offered were not addressed to the saints in heaven, but directly to God. Yet this argument would only strengthen the fact that those in heaven can hear our prayers, for then the saints would be aware of our prayers even when they are not directed to them!
In any event, it is clear from Revelation 5:8 that the saints in heaven do actively intercede for us. We are explicitly told by John that the incense they offer to God are the prayers of the saints. Prayers are not physical things and cannot be physically offered to God. Thus the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God mentally. In other words, they are interceding.
Plus, Jesus tells us to pray to the Father, not to Mary, or anyone else. Sure, Mary would be saved; that I won't disagree on. Alive, yes, in Heaven. Answering prayers? Can't agree on that point.
Plus, many times, Mary is talked about as though she is on the same level as Jesus.
The Catholic Church decides who is declared a saint, and always has.
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
You posted a quote from a book I consider totally invalid, and nothing but a copy of other works mixed in with old religions.
On that we agree. The Qu'ran is a 'copy and paste' job from the Christians, the Jews, and Zoroastrianism.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
reply to post by FlyersFan
On that we agree. The Qu'ran is a 'copy and paste' job from the Christians, the Jews, and Zoroastrianism.
Believe what you want to.
The jews can say the same thing about the Christian bible.... that it was a copy-paste of their Torah and that Christianity hijacked the Abrahamic religion and corrupted it with pagan ideas and concepts.
Christians copied the Old Testament from the Jews .. word for word. Uncorrupted.
Hijacked from the Jews, Christians and Zoroastrianism .. but twisted and corrupted and interjected with Islams agenda from UNPROVEN so-called 'revelations'.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
If Catholics start up forced conversions at the point of a sword (or at the end of a gun barrel) or they start flying planes into buildings in an attempt to mass kill people because those people worship differently than they do .. then you should worry. Until then ... relax about the Catholics.
Well even if we remove the Jack Chick stuff and even the comparison drawn to the catholic church and Islam we still have this whole body of evidence that shows long ago the world became subverted by the mother goddess/sunworshipers.
Taking that overwhelming amount of evidence into account, it is hard to believe that this cult just died out
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
"uncorrupted"? Then why is it that the Jews don't have your ideas of trinity and man-God?
You copied it word for word, but changed the basic theology with its ideas of trinity and a man being God and stuff.
As for it being "unproven", thats your personal belief.
You weren't around when Mohammad had his visions..
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
Unlike Christianity which was tainted by Roman ideas in its early years.... Islam was handled only by Arabs without a foreign influence.
Originally posted by Logarock
but the Catholics dont have to fly planes into anything. They already have so much power ...
Because they don't have the New Testament as part of their religion.
Much of that is from the New Testament and it doesn't contradict the Old Testament .. unlike the Quran which contradicts it through and through ...
No. It's a matter of record. Muhammad claimed visions. He had NOTHING to back them up .. except the tip of a sword. He did no miracles ... he healed no one ... he didn't multiply the loaves or fishes to feed the hungry .. he didn't raise children from the dead to help grieving parents ... he didn't raise himself from the dead ... etc etc. He was just a guy on a mission to gain power and he did so at the point of a sword and by claiming God wanted him to. And people bought it. Sounds a lot like some modern day power-hungry politicians, doesn't it??
Dude ... All of Islam is foreign influence. Everything in the Qu'ran is taken from the Jews, the Christians and the Zoroastrians.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
God is one.... a man cannot be divine.... one cannot die for the sins of others. etc.
The Koran doesn't contradict the OT ...
the truth is the Jews and Muslims are closer to each other.
Different prophets. Different missions.
That speaks volumes of his character.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
Your link is from a site that operates on an anti-Islam bias.