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Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
Was Jesus Muslim?
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Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
I can do one better. I genuinely believe that JeBus was the out come of a long term beastilalty relationship between Mary and little donkey, after all she did ride him all the way to Bethlehem.
He built my car too.
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And it's such a waste of time you have devoted your own thread to it.
I thought it was a hotrod
The only reason them lot say there was a Jesus is because it keeps them in a job.
A bit like Deep Thought really.
hmmm not really much of a debate: a rational perspective on one side vs people clinging onto the fairy stories they were brought up with on the other.
Its like 'debating' the merits of horoscopes, fortune tellers or anything else that relies on people believing in 'magic'.
There was one thing that I could do...
This should probably be in the debate section but oh well...
Jesus was apparently born in Bethlehem which depending which side your on is in Isreal/Palestine. If this was the case he certainly would have looked middle-eastern in appearance and it is not inconcievable that due to the demographics of that area that he would have been born and raised as a Jew.
There is a debate on how old the Islamic religion is and wether it was around at the time he was alive is another matter. However Islam has heavy links with Christianity in terms of its belief structure and many Muslims are accepters of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was apparently born in Bethlehem which depending which side your on is in Isreal/Palestine. If this was the case he certainly would have looked middle-eastern in appearance and it is not inconcievable that due to the demographics of that area that he would have been born and raised as a Jew.
There is a debate on how old the Islamic religion is and wether it was around at the time he was alive is another matter. However Islam has heavy links with Christianity in terms of its belief structure and many Muslims are accepters of Jesus Christ.
Nono, this is pretty standard GD fare.
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Muslim's ie Islam did not arrive till 630 years later.
Erm no it really doesn't
Not at all in the same way as Christians; they see his as a teacher/prophet, not at all as the Son of God.
The thought of Jesus being the Son of God seems to be very much against Muslim beliefs from what I understand
To begin with, I never said it was a counter argument, it was a clarification of the statement you made.
The Christ (Christus, Kristos) was the reference to "the anointed" or "the Messiah" (Mashiach, Messiah) in Hellenistic and Second Temple Judaism as used in the Septuagint. The fact that it is simply the English translation of the Greek which is no different from the various other ways of saying the same thing in different languages, doesn't mean it was not the title attributed to him and not his actual name which is generally given as Jesus of Nazareth. It was pointed out insofar that it is relevant to the term Christianity as opposed to the Jewish Sects (Nazarenes, and maybe the Ebonites) which is generally accepted to be the religion of the Apostles and those who believed Jesus was the Messiah for several centuries after his death in reference to your claim that Jesus founded Christianity rather than his supposed divinity being the basis of its doctrine.
The point I made is that Jesus didn't found anything except a Jewish ministry, one which he specifically referenced in regard of the Pharisees sect of Second Temple Judaism.
I think the generally accepted theory is that the whole of the Nativity story is made up and Jesus wasn't really born in Bethlehem but history was rewritten to fit in with prophecy.
Well there isn't really a debate, Islam was formed hundreds of years after Christianity. There are some interpretations that consider Islam to be the true religion of the Abrahamic God and Judaism and Christianity to be deviations from it but they have to pretty much ignore documented history.