I told my Muslim cousin I wouldn't even know what I'm saying if I prayed in Arabic and he said "you just gotta feel it"
Which honestly makes me wonder if the 5 daily prayer ritual triggers an epigenetic expression or neuroplastic adaptation that contributes to Muslim faithfulness
Most Muslims I talked to who were going out of their way to publicly proselytize Islam and who were male
Seem to claim that you can not trust the Bible since you know it changed because each English translation has a different text
They do not understand that the question would be if the Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic original texts changed
They insist on only the Quran in Arabic counting
But most Muslims throughout the world can not read Arabic
If I remember correctly Usama Dakdok had Egyptian Christian Parents and studied Islam in Egypt
He translated the Quran into English
He is one of the best scholarly resources on Islam
He claims to be a Christian
In my opinion he does not understand Christianity as well as he should because some of his objections to Islam are not logical for example, the Bible clearly allows polygyny but he complains about polygyny in Islam
He fails to name the Jew
false god with a pedophile for a prophet
@koropokkur @shortstories all gods are false
Jesus Christ is Lord.
not aryans, not persians.
they have occupied those lands and claimed ownership and heritage that is not theirs.
they do not worship Our Lord.
they worship a pedophile and the false god he represents.
allah is not the name of Jesus Christ
again, allah is known as the greatest of deceivers.
the bible refers to satan as the prince of lies.
allah is satan.
When you read their own stories around how Mohammed received his supposed divine revelation it becomes extremely hard to deny satanic influence in it, rather than relying purely on the more mundane "it came out of pre-existing heresies" explanation.
There's also the implicit connection of the devil being called the "lord of this world" and how obscenely worldly islam is. Seriously, its conception of heaven is literally a whorehouse. Or how one of the 99 names of the islamic god is "master of lies" (or something to that effect)
Or the few times the islamic god is depicted with a personality (rather than as an unknowable monad god, which is also common) it's that of a petty and spiteful slavemaster. In many ways like a caricature of the image of the "wrathful" depiction of God in the OT.
I'm not saying it's novel, I just think "it's repackaged old heresies" is really lazy and based of very shallow looks into islam (not that islam is deep lol). If you want to say it's repackaged anything it'd be repackaged Talmudry, since it's effectively the same thing but for Arabs.
@Umlaut @LysanderMooner @shortstories @koropokkur They do believe Christ will return and kill the antichrist and his followers and btfo Satan, so that's a step above talmudists. Still wrong for everything else involved. They can't accept The Trinity in even a Modalism sort of way yet still think Christ was special enough to do what He did via earthly ministry, ascend into heaven, and eventually return. It's very odd to me and makes me think it's absolutely influenced by Satan.
I actually don't buy this. It reeks of taqiyyah to me and I can't recall if it's actually in the quran.
*Looks like it's not in the quran and it's hadith stuff. Claims on the internet that it's their real belief, but as you said— taqiyyah. I do recall them having an empty tomb they built for Him because they believe He will return and rule the world until dying of old age. It's very odd and all done to minimize or remove the divinity of Christ.
@BowsacNoodle according to them Jesus was a Muslim and prophet of allah
@shortstories yup my cuz said you can't trust the Bible cuz it's touched by man
@LysanderMooner
Since they can not read Arabic they could not have read the Quran in Arabic and concluded with logic, reason, and evidence that the information in the Arabic Quran is correct