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Buzsaw
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Message 109 of 127 (609493)
03-20-2011 8:43 PM
Reply to: Message 106 by jar
03-20-2011 4:03 PM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
jar writes:
There are no violent passages in the Qur'an to quote, it is only when you take them out of context that they can be misrepresented as violent.
Jar, you said, "Yes, we have read the alleged violent passages from the Qur'an .....". You need to quote those alleged violent passages to which you allude and explain to the sheeple how it is that they do not advocate violence.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 111 of 127 (609495)
03-20-2011 8:59 PM
Reply to: Message 107 by GDR
03-20-2011 4:52 PM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
GDR writes:
Buzsaw writes:
I'm still waiting for one example of violent actions that the NT advocates for Christians against anyone.
Coragyps writes:
Matthew 10:34? - "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
The J-guy alledgedly said that, Buz.
This is a good example of how we have to be very careful in our reading of ancient holy texts. Both the Bible and the Quran are culturally conditioned. They were written to a specific audience centuries ago. We live in a very different culture and when we read these books it is critical that we keep that in mind.
It's not that ambiguous, GDR. Jesus's words quoted above are as relevant today as ever, as is all of what he said. The same goes with the Quran. The modern Muslims who know and understand what Mohammed practiced and taught as well as his apostles do likewise, just as the fundi followers of Jesus do.
The reason people miss-read Jesus about the sword is not because it was not relevant to all ages. It's because they aren't studiously into the scriptures and how it relates to history and fulfilled prophecy, etc.
The same goes with moderate Muslims, most of who are in nations not yet ruled by Islam. The propagators of Islam are careful not to hit a nation too stringently until they have at least a third of the nation converted. Then they begin to make demands upon the sheeple who were miss-led into thinking that Islam was a peaceful and tolerant religion.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 113 of 127 (609498)
03-20-2011 9:16 PM
Reply to: Message 110 by jar
03-20-2011 8:47 PM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
Jar, Jesus never told anyone to kill or persecute anyone. Governments and individuals are apples and oranges. We're talking fundi Christian individuals or Christian fundi organizations. You need to cite where any injure or kill in order to promote their religion.
The reason there are none is that violence is not a fundamental of the NT as it is in Islamic scriptures, plain and simple.
Surely you don't know more than the Mullahs and leaders of totalitarian Muslim nations about what the Quran says. They do and practice what they know it says. Most of the had to memorize it when they were children.
Do you deny that Mohammed and his followers did not kill, war and injure? Do you deny that Jesus and his apostles did no violence or advocated it?

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 116 of 127 (609532)
03-21-2011 10:35 AM
Reply to: Message 115 by GDR
03-21-2011 1:43 AM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
GDR writes:
Buzsaw writes:
The reason people miss-read Jesus about the sword is not because it was not relevant to all ages. It's because they aren't studiously into the scriptures and how it relates to history and fulfilled prophecy, etc.
That is pretty much my point. A non-Christian will just read that verse of scripture and infer from it that Jesus was advocating violence. Just maybe a non-Muslim like yourself would take a verse in the Quran the same way.
GDR, WHAT BOTH OF THESE MEN, JESUS AND MOHAMMED, WROTE AND PRACTICED, ARE NOT SOME MYSTERIOUS CHANT. THEY BOTH MEANT WHAT THEY SAID AND THEY BOTH PRACTICED WHAT THEY SAID.
THE FUNDAMENTALISTS OF BOTH RELIGIONS KNOW AND PRACTICE WHAT BOTH OF THESE MEN, THE CHRIST AND THE ANTI-CHRIST ADVOCATED AND PRACTICED. IT'S BEEN THAT WAY EVER SINCE BOTH RELIGIONS WERE ESTABLISHED. IT'S THE UN-STUDIED IGNORANT ONES WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PROPHET/MESSIAH.
WHY SHOULD I, A DEVOUT FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN REFRAIN FROM WARNING AND INFORMING WHAT IS THE TRUTH CONCERNING THESE RELIGIONS.
AS FOR MAKING YOUR POINT, I DIDN'T. THE UNBELIEVER IS GOING TO TAKE EVERYTHING WRONG, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD OR HIS WORD. THE UNBELIEVER WHO IS NOT OBJECTIVE AT HEART IS GOING TO SKEW ALL SCRIPTURE TO THEIR LIKING AND TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR LIFE STYLE, RENDERING THE PLAIN WRITTEN WORDS AS METAPHORICAL IN WHATEVER MANNER SUITS THEIR IDEOLOGY.
(Note: I was listening to the radio and not paying attention to my script when I typed this. Thus the caps. I made the best of it by sizing down.)

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 118 of 127 (609540)
03-21-2011 11:22 AM
Reply to: Message 117 by GDR
03-21-2011 10:54 AM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
[qs=GDR]
Buzsaw writes:
AS FOR MAKING YOUR POINT, I DIDN'T. THE UNBELIEVER IS GOING TO TAKE EVERYTHING WRONG, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD OR HIS WORD. THE UNBELIEVER WHO IS NOT OBJECTIVE AT HEART IS GOING TO SKEW ALL SCRIPTURE TO THEIR LIKING AND TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR LIFE STYLE, RENDERING THE PLAIN WRITTEN WORDS AS METAPHORICAL IN WHATEVER MANNER SUITS THEIR IDEOLOGY.
GDR writes:
But Buz.... you are the unbeliever when it comes to the Quran. You are not objective at heart and therefore likely to skew that text to your liking as well.
Yes, I am the unbeliever, but guess what. The Islamic fundamentalists are teaching and practicing exactly as I read it and as I observe them teaching and practicing. I'm being very objective, reading their scriptures and observing them practicing what I've read. Methinks you need to get objective, me brother.
GDR writes:
Essentially what you are saying though is that nobody reads any text objectively. We ALL come to these books with our subjective views. You would say though that the Bible is different and I would agree, (with my subjective view). I agree that the writers were inspired to write it but that also doesn't mean that their subjective views did not enter into the writing of it.
Yes, I believe that we are to study the Bible and to discern what its message is for us, but if you have noticed even among fundamentalists there are all sorts of disagreements about what the plain written words mean. Do all women keep their heads covered in your church? Do women speak in your church? I'm sure that you would agree that those words were written for a specific situation in a specific church nearly 2000 years ago, but if you are to take the "plain written words" as they stand then you aren't following the scriptures. (I know of at least one church that does follow those rules.)
Indeed, those doctrines were part of the fundamentals of Christianity. What have they to do with this topic of violence?
For what it's worth, if those fundamentals were observed in modern churches, God would be pleased. It was his Holy Spirit who inspired them to be written. Having said that, I'm not on a soap box advocating those fundamentals, regarding women, but I do refuse to sit under a woman preacher or teacher of men in any church, that being the role of men, Biblically. That is why there have never been any great or renowned women preacher or evangelists. Women are free to teach children and other women, however. If you want to discuss that further, I will participate if you propose a thread on it.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 122 of 127 (609551)
03-21-2011 11:59 AM
Reply to: Message 120 by DrJones*
03-21-2011 11:38 AM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
DrJones* writes:
I'm being very objective..
Given your racist tendencies I find this very hard to believe
...reading their scriptures
Really Buz? when did you learn Arabic?
I don't do Arabic, but what I'm observing and reading is what the Muslim fundamentalists teach and practice, both historically and currently. They attest to the fact that the translations which I have read are accurate relative to the violent verses/doctrines of their scriptures.

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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Buzsaw
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Message 123 of 127 (609568)
03-21-2011 1:35 PM
Reply to: Message 121 by GDR
03-21-2011 11:55 AM


Re: The Violent and the Non-Violent
GDR writes:
Buzsaw writes:
Yes, I am the unbeliever, but guess what. The Islamic fundamentalists are teaching and practicing exactly as I read it and as I observe them teaching and practicing. I'm being very objective, reading their scriptures and observing them practicing what I've read. Methinks you need to get objective, me brother.
I'm not making any claim of being objective. We all come to this with our subjective views, and that includes you. I'm not sure how much time you spend observing Muslims but I again make the point that the vast majority of the world's Muslims wish to live at peace with their neighbours.
Yah, sure, GDR, like Israel's Islamic neighbors working to drive the nation into the Mediterranean Sea and like the Iraqi and Iran wars when the Iran Shiites and the Iraqi Sunnis slaughtered one another by the tens of thousands.
Like now the Islam Brotherhood and their Shiite Hezbolah allies are slaughtering the Egyptian and Lybian Sunni Hammas, with the US & NATO siding with the Hezbolah-ish Shiites in each and every war?
Yah sure, neighboring one another into their graves. Better do you homework, my brother. Our government and the US sheeple are certainly not.
For what it's worth, our president's family were/are Sunni. He doesn't really want to take out Gadaffi, the good bud of Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor. Thus his reluctance to bring on the air cover on behalf of the Hezbolah types. He's being pressured into this action. Thus also, his underming of the Afgan war and the imputus to end our war effort in Iraq on behalf of the Shiites there.
GDR writes:
Buzsaw writes:
For what it's worth, if those fundamentals were observed in modern churches, God would be pleased. It was his Holy Spirit who inspired them to be written. Having said that, I'm not on a soap box advocating those fundamentals, regarding women, but I do refuse to sit under a woman preacher or teacher of men in any church, that being the role of men, Biblically. That is why there have never been any great or renowned women preacher or evangelists. Women are free to teach children and other women, however. If you want to discuss that further, I will participate if you propose a thread on it.
As I said somewhere else I don't accept the Bible as the fourth member of the Trinity. The Bible is a gift from God, and if we read it with Godly wisdom we can discern the path the God wants us to walk on. If it is taken as the great rule book then I believe that what God really wants to say to us is being missed.
So you reject that the Holy Scriptures were inspired by God via his Holy Spirit and that it is necessarily true? Are you aware of the last chapter of it and elsewhere that warn against adding to or detracting from it?
GDR writes:
The message in my view is that God wants us to reach out to those of other faiths in love and charity. Read this verse from Matthew 7.
We are to reach out and care for their necessities, to evangelize them and to love them, but not to love or accept their doctrines or ways. Christian fundamentalist organizations such as the Voice of The Martyrs, Samaritan's Purse and World Vision work and risk their own lives to help all, particularly the oppressed. I contribute liberally to VOM, knowing full well that some of my funds go to help Muslims. I have no problem with that.
GDR writes:
quote:
21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
You are aware, I hope, that spiritual brethren of Jesus are all Christian.
GDR writes:
IMHO the Muslim who acts with love and charity to his neighbour is closer to God than the Christian who condemns that same Muslim for what his faith.
Jesus said "no man comes to the father (God) but by me." He also condemned, verbally, the Sadducee's, the Pharisees and all who oppose his gospel. What do you do with that?

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.

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