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The head of the religion department at Luther College in Iowa recently argued that Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, was in fact, a Muslim.
“‘Was Jesus a Muslim?” asks Prof. Robert F. Shedinger in the beginning of a book he published this year entitled Was Jesus a Muslim? ” I will answer with a very qualified yes.”
In a recent interview Shedinger also defended his controversial thesis explaining that a Muslim undergraduate student had sent him on academic odyssey that culminated with him asking himself “Was Jesus a Muslim?”
“Even as a Christian I have to answer yes to that,” said Shedinger, who is the head of the religion department at Luther College in Iowa.
Shedinger also argued that Islam is a better fit for Jesus since it is not a religion but a “social justice movement.”
“I had to rethink what Islam is… I came to the conclusion that it was a social justice movement and I think that’s who Jesus was in the first century so I conclude Jesus is more like a Muslim,” he said.
The vast majority of scholars, historians, Muslims, and Christians date the birth of Islam to 622 ADE when the Prophet Muhammad claimed to have received visions that were eventually compiled into the Koran. Jesus, on the other hand, is believed to have existed more than 600 years earlier, at around 0 BCE.
A spokesman for Luther College, a small liberal arts school affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, told Campus Reform on Wednesday that the administration stands fully behind Shedinger’s scholarship.
“The administration is very very comfortable with the proposal, with the book, and with what his statements about this situation are,” said Jerry Johnson, the school’s Director of Public Information. ”[T]he ground he is breaking with this book is not anything exactly earthshaking.”
Johnson added that Shedinger’s thesis had not stirred up on any controversy or opposition on campus where “the members or our religion department are very respecting and have great respect for each other’s work.”
Campus Reform was unable to contact Prof. Shedinger in time for publication.
The Holy Quran is the coninuation of the same process that started with Patriarch Abraham and continued with Prophet Moses and Jesus. For moslems , belief in Torah and Bible is compulsory. Followers of Patriarch Abraham were called as "moslemeen" and the same applies to the followers of Moses and Jesus as also Prophet Mohammed, who was the last of the Prophets. The followers of Prophets Moses, Jesus and Mohammed belong to the same stream of celestial inspiration that started with Abraham but with different codes of conduct.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Lol. A Muslim who said the greatest command in the Bible is to love YHVH. I've officially heard everything now, I am at peace.
edit on 1-10-2012 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him
I wonder what happens when Jesus reads this hadith:
"He exposed the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9; 3:9) he denounced those who belonged to it as sons of the devil (Lucifer), whom he castigated as the father of lies (John 8:44) and the prince of deceit (2 Cor. 11:14). He was specific in his statement that those who comprised the synagogue of Satan were those who called themselves Jews, but were not, and did lie (Rev. 2:9; 3:9). He identified the Money-Changers (Bankers) the Scribes, and the Pharisees as the Illuminati of his day. Illuminati Roots
"Every major religion in the world has been manufactured or infiltrated by the Illuminati to enslave and brainwash society. In essence, religion was the first form of mind control."
The true origins of Islam
Religious in nature, the Synagogue of Satan is, at its essence, a grotesque, satanic cult. It's high council is composed of High Priests of Lucifer; these are men who literally worship death while practicing sexual magick and occult rituals of the blackest nature.
The Synagogue of Satan
"Today the religions of the world remain a major tool of the Illuminati agenda." Link
Originally posted by borntowatch
Yet Islam denies the Trinity?
What a stupid premise Jesus is a Muslim.
Fundamentally Jesus taught love over hate, self sacrifice over strength.
Jesus was also a Jew, so all Muslims are then Jews first, so cant be Muslims???
How can there be only one God and that God be all seeing and knowing and ever present. How can one god have the knowledge of love if there is nothing to love.
How could Jesus be a Muslim if His life was ended on the cross a bloody pulp and Muhammad was a hero who killed many.
I have never heard such nonsense.
That obviously means many will support it as a fact
Oh and the picture of Jesus posted is really the Muslim Mahdi, .edit on 1-10-2012 by borntowatch because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Awen24
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Lol. A Muslim who said the greatest command in the Bible is to love YHVH. I've officially heard everything now, I am at peace.
edit on 1-10-2012 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
A *Jewish* Muslim...
don't forget that part.
I wonder what happens when Jesus reads this hadith:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him
...wait. If Jesus was a Jewish Muslim, wouldn't he logically have to kill himself?
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
What i find interesting is how Jesus was a muslim 620 years before Islam existed if you catch my drift.
What i find interesting is how Jesus was a muslim 620 years before Islam existed if you catch my drift.
Originally posted by Awen24
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Lol. A Muslim who said the greatest command in the Bible is to love YHVH. I've officially heard everything now, I am at peace.
edit on 1-10-2012 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
A *Jewish* Muslim...
don't forget that part.
I wonder what happens when Jesus reads this hadith:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him
...wait. If Jesus was a Jewish Muslim, wouldn't he logically have to kill himself?
Originally posted by shuar911
The word does not represent a one-sided relationship, where the believer is enslaved to Allah. Rather, the word Islam indicates a covenant between Allah and his followers, where a Muslim surrenders his or her will to Allah in return for peace or safety.
He stopped a stoning and had mercy, he who has no sin cast the first stone. Watch Soraya M. and you'll see the mercy and peace of Islam. Even her father and two sons threw stones at her head. Who the hell teaches a child to hurt their own mother. WTH....
Originally posted by DaphneApollo
Jesus is NOT a muslim. He stopped a stoning and had mercy, he who has no sin cast the first stone.
But when you've been brainwashed from birth all your life, do you have a choice if you know no better?