60 Questions 4 Christians

wasim raza · 11 اگست 2014

As Salaam Alaykum wa

Rahmatullahi wa

Barakatuhu,

I received this in an email

a while back. It has some

interesting questions for

today’s Christians.

For your enjoyment:

TRINITY

According to most

Christians, Jesus was God

incarnate, full man and

full God. Can the finite

and the infinite be one?

“To be full” God means

freedom from finite forms

and from helplessness, and

to be “full man” means

the absence of divinity.

1. To be son is to be less

than divine and to be

divine is to be no one’s

son. How could Jesus have

the attributes of sonship

and divinity altogether?

2. Christians assert that

Jesus claimed to be God

when they quote him in

John 14:9: “He that has

seen me has seen the

Father”. Didn’t Jesus

clearly say that people

have never seen God, as it

says in John 5:37: “And the

father himself which Has

sent me, has borne

witness of me. You have

NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE

AT ANY TIME NOR SEEN

HIS SHAPE”?

3. Christians say that Jesus

was God because he was

called Son of God, Son of

Man, Messiah, and

“savior”. Ezekiel was

addressed in the Bible as

Son of Man. Jesus spoke of

“the peace makers” as

Sons of God. Any person

who followed the Will and

Plan of God was called SON

OF GOD in the Jewish

tradition and in their

language (Genesis 6:2,4;

Exodus 4:22 ; Psalm 2:7;

Romans 8:14 ) . “Messiah”

which in Hebrew means

“God’s anointed” and not

“Christ”, and “Cyrus” the

person is called “Messiah”

or “the anointed”. As for

“savior”, in II KINGS 13:5,

other individuals were

given that title too without

being gods. So where is the

proof in these terms that

Jesus was God when the

word son is not exclusively

used for him alone?

4. Christians claim that

Jesus acknowledged that

he and God were one in

the sense of nature when

he says in John 10:30 “I

and my father are one”.

Later on in John 17:21-23,

Jesus refers to his

followers and himself and

God as one in five places.

So why did they give the

previous “one” a different

meaning from the other

five “ones?

5. Is God three-in-one and

one in three

simultaneously or one at a

time?

6. If God is one and three

simultaneously, then none

of the three could be the

complete God. Granting

that such was the case,

then when Jesus was on

earth, he wasn’t a

complete God, nor was the

“father in Heaven” a

whole God. Doesn’t that

contradict what Jesus

always said about His God

and our God in heaven, his

Lord and our Lord ? Does

that also mean that there

was no complete god then,

between the claimed

crucifixion and the claimed

resurrection?

7. If God is one and three

at a time, then who was

the God in heaven when

Jesus was on earth?

Wouldn’t this contradict

his many references to a

God in Heaven that sent

him?

8. If God is three and one

at the same time, who was

the God in Heaven within

three days between the

claimed crucifixion and the

claimed resurrect ion?

9. Christians say that: “The

Father(F) is God, the Son

(S) is God, and the Holy

Ghost(H) is God, but the

Father is not the Son, the

Son is not the Holy Ghost,

and the Holy Ghost is not

the Father”. In simple

arithmetic and terms

therefore, if F = G, S = G,

and H = G, then it follows

that F = S = H, while the

second part of the

statement suggests that F

¹ S ¹ H (meaning, “not

equal”). Isn’t that a

contradiction to the

Christian dogma of Trinity

in itself ?

10. If Jesus was God, why

did he tell the man who

called him “good master”

not to call him “good”

because accordingly, there

is none good but his God

in Heaven alone?

11 .Why do Christians say

that God is three-in-one

and one in three when

Jesus says in Mark 12:29:

“The Lord our God is one

Lord” in as many places as

yet in the Bible?

12. If belief in the Trinity

was such a necessary

condition for being a

Christian, why didn’t Jesus

teach and emphasize it to

the Christians during his

time? How were those

followers of Jesus

considered Christians

without ever hearing the

term Trinity? Had the

Trinity been the spinal

cord of Christianity, Jesus

would have emphasized it

on many occasions and

would have taught and

explained it in detail to

the people.

13. Christians claim that

Jesus was God as they

quote in John 1:1 “In the

beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with

God, and the Word was

God”. This is John speaking

and not Jesus. Also, the

Greek word for the first

occurrence of God is

HOTHEOS which means

“the God” or “God” with a

capital “G”, while the

Greek word for its second

occurrence is “TONTHEOS”,

which means “a god ” or

“god” with a small “g”.

Isn’t this dishonesty and

inconsistency on the part

of those translating the

Greek Bible? ? Isn’t such

quotation in John 1:1

recognized by every

Christian scholar of the

Bible to have been written

by a Jew named Philo

Alexandria way before

Jesus and John?

14 .Wasn’t the word “god”

or “TONTHEOS” also used

to refer to others as well

as in II Corinthians 4:4

“(and the Devil is) the god

of this world” and in

Exodus 7:1 “See , I have

made thee (Moses ) a god

to Pharaoh”?

SALVATION:

Christians say that “GOD

LOST His only son to save

us”. To whom did God lose

Jesus if he owns the whole

universe?

15. If it was agreeable with

God’s Majesty to have

sons, He could have

created a million sons the

like of Jesus. So what is

the big clear deal about

this only son?

16. Why does the Bible say

that Jesus wanted to die

on the cross, when the

one on the cross was

shouting “My God, my

God, why have you

forsaken me?” according

to Matthew 27:45 and

Mark 15:33 ?

17. If God had wanted to

save us, couldn’t He have

done that without

sacrificing Jesus?

18. God is Just, and justice

requires that nobody

should be punished for the

sins of others, nor should

some people be saved by

punishing other people.

Doesn’t the claim that God

sacrificed Jesus to save us

because He was Just,

contradict the definition of

justice?

19. People sacrifice things

they have to get

something they don’t have

when they can’t have

both. Christians say that

“God SACRIFICED His only

son to save us”. We know

that God is Almighty; to

whom did He sacrifice

Jesus?

20. A real sacrifice is when

you can’t get back what

you have offered , so what

would be the big deal

about such a sacrifice if

God could recover the

same offering? (according

to the Christians’

terminology)?

21. If all the Christians are

saved through Jesus and

are going to Heaven no

matter what they do, then

the teachings of Jesus are

irrelevant and the

definition of good and bad

are also rendered

irrelevant. If this is not so,

then do Christians who

believe in Jesus yet do not

follow his teachings nor

repent go to Hell?

22. How can Christians

take deeds as irrelevant

after becoming one when

Jesus says in Matthew

12:36; “But I say unto you

that every idle word that

men shall speak, they shall

give account thereof in the

Day of Judgment. For by

the words thou shalt be

justified, and by the words

thou shalt be

condemned”?

23. Christians say that

people go to Heaven ONLY

THROUGH JESUS, yet Paul

says in 1 CORINTHIANS

7:8-16 that the unbelieving

husband is acceptable to

God because he is united

with his wife and vice

versa, and their pagan

children are also

acceptable to God. So

people can go to heaven

without believing in Jesus

according to this.

24. How come the Bible

says that ALL Israel is

saved although they don’t

believe in Jesus? Doesn’t

that contradict the claim

in the Bible that the only

way to heaven is through

Jesus?

25. According to Christians,

those who have not been

baptized will go to Hell. So

even the infants and

babies go to Hell if not

baptized, since they are

born with an inherited

original sin. Doesn’t this

contradict the definition of

justice? Why would God

punish people for sins

they never committed?

HOLY SPIRIT:

The only place in the Bible

where the Paraclete was

called the Holy Spirit is in

John 14:26 “But the

Paraclete, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send

in my name, he will teach

you all things and bring to

your remembrance all that

I have said to you”. What

has the Holy Spirit brought

or taught for the last 2000

years?

26.Christians say that the

Paraclete means the Holy

Spirit (John 14;26). Jesus

said in John 16:7-8 “If I do

not go away the Paraclete

will not come to you”. This

could not mean the Holy

spirit, since the Holy spirit

was said to have been

there before Jesus was

even born as in Luke 1:41

“Elizabeth was filled with

the Holy Spirit”. Here, the

Holy spirit was also

present during Jesus life

time. So how could this fit

with the condition that

Jesus must go away so

that the Holy spirit will

come?

27. In John 16:7-8, it says:

“But if go, I will send him

to you. And when he

comes, he will convict the

world of sins and of

righteousness and of

Judgment”. What do “he”

and “him” refer here?

Don’t they refer to a man?

28. Does the Holy Spirit

talk to good Christians and

bad Christians as well? Is

the Holy spirit with them

all the time or just at

certain times? When does

it start visiting a person

who wants to become a

Christian?

29. How can you as a

Christian tell if the Holy

Spirit is inside another

Christian? How come many

Christians fooled people by

claiming that the Holy

spirit was inside them only

to be converted to another

religion later on ?

30. Does the Holy Spirit

dictate what Christians

should do without choice

or freedom at all or does

it only guide them and

they have the freedom to

follow or not ?

31 .If the Holy Spirit

dictates what Christian

should do, why do

Christians commit sins and

make mistakes ? How can

you explain the conversion

to other religions and

atheism of many

Christians? Are they told

to do that by the Holy

Spirit?

32. If the Holy Spirit guides

Christians only, and they

are free to do what they

want, then how do we

know that the writers of

the Gospels didn’t make

mistakes in writing them?

33. If Christians believe

that the Holy Spirit comes

and talks to them

everyday, why don’t they

ask the Holy Spirit about

which version of the Bible

to follow since there are

too many versions floating

around?

MISSION OF JESUS:

Without borrowing from

other religions and

systems, can Christianity

provide people with a

complete way of life?

Since Christianity is limited

to spiritual life and does

not provide law, how can a

society decide which laws

are right or wrong?

34. Why do the Christians

say that Jesus came with a

universal mission when he

said that he was sent to

the Jews only? He said to

the Canaanite woman who

asked him to heal her

daughter from demon-

possession: “I was sent

ONLY to the lost sheep of

Israel” and also said: “It is

not right to take the

children’s bread and toss

it to their dogs”, Matthew

15:21-28.

RESSURECTION:

If you read Matthew

(28:1-10), Mark (16:1-20),

Luke (24:1-12), and John

(20: 1-18), you will find

contradicting stories. They

all agreed that the tomb

was guarded for three

days. However, they

reported the discovery of

the empty tomb

differently.

* Matthew (28) and John

(20) reported that Mary

Magdalene and the other

Mary were the first to

discover the tomb.

* Mark (16) reports that

Mary Magdalene, Mary the

mother of James, and

Salome were the first to

discover the empty tomb.

* Mark (28) reports that

there was an earthquake

that removed the rock

from over the tomb. He

says that an angel caused

it. The other gospels do

not mention of an

earthquake.

* Matthew and Mark say

that only ONE man in

white clothes was sitting

on the tomb when the

woman arrived, and that

he was an angel.

* Luke says that TWO men

in white clothes, who were

angels, were sitting. Johns

says that the two women

did not meet anybody the

first time they came to

the tomb, but when they

returned, they saw TWO

people, ONE was an

ANGEL, and the other was

JESUS.

* Matthew reports that

when the guards reported

this to the chief priest, the

chief priest paid them a

large sum of money,

telling them: “You have to

say that his disciples came

at night and stole his

body.” He claims that the

soldiers took money and

spread the story around

and since then, the story

had been circulating

among the Jews until

today (according to

Matthew). The other

gospels do not report of

any such thing.

35 . Which narration now is

more authentic?

36 .Why is the appearance

of Jesus after the

crucifixion taken as a

proof of his resurrection

when there is an

explanation that he was

not dead because someone

else was crucified in his

place when God saved

Him?

37 .How did Matthew know

of the claimed agreement

between the soldiers and

the chief priest? Can’t

someone say that

someone paid the women

a large sum of money and

told them to spread the

word around that Jesus

rose from the dead, with

the same authenticity as

that of the story of

Matthew?

38. Why did they believe

that man in the white

clothes? Why did they

believe he was an angel?

John’s narration is too

strange, since he says that

Mary did not recognize

Jesus (one of the two)

while talking to him, and

she only recognized him

when he called her by her

name.

39 .How does an empty

tomb prove that Jesus was

crucified ? Isn’t it that God

is capable of removing

another man from the

tomb, and of resurrecting

him too?

40. The Gospels are

believed to be the

verbatim words of God,

they are supposed to be

dictated by the Holy Spirit

to the Disciples who wrote

them. If the source were

the same, why shouldn’t

they correspond with each

other in reporting such an

important event?

41. How could Matthew,

Mark, Luke and John be

considered eyewitnesses of

resurrection when the

Bible implies that nobody

at all saw Jesus coming

out of the tomb?

BIBLE:

If the Christians consider

the Old Testament as

God’s Word, why did they

cancel the parts of the Old

Testament that dealt with

punishment (example: the

punishment for adultery)?

42 .Why doesn’t Mark

16:9-20 exist in as many

versions of the Bible while

it exists as a footnote or

between brackets in some

other versions? Is a

footnote in the Bible still

considered as God’s word,

especially when it

addresses an important

feature like the

Ascension?

43 .Why does the Catholic

Bible contain 73 books

while the Protestant Bible

has only 66? With both

claiming to have the

complete Word of God,

which one should be

believed and why?

44. Where do those new

translations of the Bible

keep coming from when

the original Bible is not

even available ? The Greek

manuscripts which are

translations themselves

are not even similar with

each other.

45. How can you take two

gospels from writers who

never met Jesus, like Mark

and Luke?

46. Why is half of the New

Testament written by a

man who never even met

Jesus in his lifetime? PAUL

claimed with no proof that

he had met Jesus while on

his way from Jerusalem to

Damascus. PAUL was the

main enemy of

Christianity. Isn’t that

reason enough to question

the authenticity of what

he wrote? Why do the

Christians call those books

of the Old Testament

“God’s Word” when the

revisors of the RSV Bible

say that some of the

authors are UNKNOWN?

They say that the author

of SAMUEL is “UNKNOWN”

and that of CHRONICLES is

“UNKOWN, PROBABLY

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY

EZRA”!

CONTRADICTIONS:

47. Concerning the

controversial issues in the

Bible, how can Christians

decide by two-thirds

majority what is God’s

Word and what is not, as

the prefaces of some

Bibles say like that one of

the RSV ?

48. Why does Luke in his

gospel report the

Ascension on Easter Day,

and in the Acts, in which

he is recognized as the

author, FORTY days later?

49. The genealogy of Jesus

is mentioned in Matthew

and Luke only. Matthew

listed 26 forefathers from

Joseph to David while Luke

enumerated 41

forefathers. Only Joseph

matches with Joseph in

those two lists. Not a

single other name

matches! If these were

inspired by God word by

word, how could they be

different? Some claim that

one is for Mary and one is

for Joseph, but where does

it says Mary in those two

Gospels?

50. If Moses wrote the first

books of the Old

Testament, how could

Moses write his own

obituary? Moses died in

the fifth book at age 120

as mentioned in Deut.

34:5-10.

51. In the King James

Version, why does it report

SEVEN years of famine in

II SAMUEL 24:13 while it

reports THREE years of

famine in I CHRONICLES

21:12? Why did they

change both to THREE

years in the New

International Version and

other versions?

52. Still In the same King

James Version, why does it

say that Jehoiachin was

eight years old when he

began to reign in II

CHRONICLES 21:12, while it

says EIGHTEEN years in II

KINGS 24:8? Why did

thessey change in both to

EIGHTEEN in the new

Versions?

53. In all versions, why

does it say that David slew

the men of SEVEN

HUNDRED chariots of the

Syrians, and forty

thousand HORSEMEN as

evidenced in II Samuel

10:18 while its says SEVEN

THOUSAND men which

fought in chariots, and

forty thousand FOOTMEN,

in I CHRONICLES 19:18?

54. In all versions, why

does it report TWO

thousand baths in I KINGS

7:26 while II CHRONICLES

4:5 reports THREE

THOUSAND?

55. In the King James

version, why does it report

that Solomon had FOUR

THOUSAND stalls for

horses in II CHRONICLES

9:25 while it accounts that

Solomon had FORTY

THOUSAND stalls of horses

in 1 KINGS 4:26? Why did

they change both to FOUR

THOUSAND in the new

versions?

56. In GENESIS 1, God’s

creation progresses from

grass to trees to fowls,

whales, cattle and creeping

things and finally to man

and woman. GENESIS 2,

however, puts the creation

of man before cattle and

fowl and woman

subsequent to beast. How

can this be explained?

QUR’AN AND CHRISTIANS

This section does not

inquire or interrogate, but

rather provides the reader

with some of the Qur’anic

verses that address the

Christians in particular,

and the people of the

scripture in general. A

great portion of the

Qur’an pertains to or

involves the Christians and

the Jews and I decided to

just choose verses that are

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