abu_rashid wrote on Dec 15
th, 2010 at 10:25pm:
....Reading the Bible was what made me wake up to the realities of Christianity, and to instead choose Islam. You just never read it, that's why you persist in your polytheistic religion, because you don't even comprehend what it teaches.
Abu, you quoted;
1 Samuel 15:2
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
My God,
the God of Israel, has a special place in his heart for the Amalekites [the Edomites, who are the children of Esau, ...
who are, the 'Palestinians' of today].
Read it.
Exodus 17:14-16
"Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt..."
Deuteronomy 25:17-18
The God of Israel has declared that the Amalek people, are a proud and wicked people.
And the God of Israel has declared that the Amalek people, harbour only hatred in their heart, for their brother [Israel].
And this bitter hatred [of God's people] has come down to us today.
And it resides in the hearts of those who refer to themselves, as 'Palestinians'.
"...These accounts relate the sort of trickery, terrorism, and underhandedness that the Amalekites seem to use perpetually. One can only conclude that these tactics are passed from generation to generation, becoming a hereditary trait. God has recorded these episodes to indicate to us how Amalek historically treats Israel."Read their fate.
Ezekiel 35
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"...he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;"Abu,
You quoted;
Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
You and yours, have no idea what is coming, do you Abu. Speaking of you, and yours...
"They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
The portion of Jacob is not like them:
....Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so."i.e.
The wicked will be expelled from the 'land', by God himself.
Isaiah 26:21
Abu,
I know that you [moslems] like to point to the savagery and violence in the OT bible.
And i know that ISLAM teaches moslems to point to such accounts in the OT bible,
to [erroneously] justify the ISLAMIC violence we see, today, against non-moslems.
Because, ISLAM is a false shepherd.
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The truth.
We, mankind, all of us, are wanderers ['lost sheep'] in this world.
And we are all, 'strangers in a strange land'.
The purpose of this life, is merely so that we can [individually] demonstrate, plainly, if we want to live in the light, or if we want to live in the darkness.
Sadly, much of mankind will choose the darkness [i believe].
And the nature of the wicked, compels them [to remain in rebellion].
Jesus pointed to mankind's rebellious nature in some of his parables;
The tares
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
The lost son
Luke 15:11-32
The wicked tenants
Luke 20:9-15
My advice to you Abu, and your brothers, is to open your eyes.
Or, to go to hell.
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Because, there will be no 'escape', in our [your] death [in the death of our [your] physical bodies].
Jesus himself confirmed that in death,
we will fall into the hands of our God, our spirit father, our creator.
Matthew 10:28
Luke 12:4-5
The violence that we read about, in the OT Bible,
was justified by God, against those who, being [spiritually] unclean, sought to take hold of,
and to possess, what was holy [to God].
e.g.
God's holy land, was given ['promised'] to a holy people, or at least, given to a people who were covenanted to maintain their holiness [their sanctified condition] before their [holy] God.
Hence the need for God's chosen people to eject the unholy nations and people, from God's holy land.
A Holy people.
The Holy land.
A Holy spirit [God's spirit].
...and these concepts are all connected with each other.
Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Our God is clever, and just.
Because God knows, that men who are wicked, are dumb.
And God knows very well, how to separate the goats from the sheep.
And that, is what he is doing.
By our own choices, he lets us [mankind] choose our own fate, ...for ourselves.
That was always his plan, from day 1.
Look at this world, today.
Nothing can stop God's plan [for us].
It is man's own nature which is driving God's plan forward.
God is clever.
And wicked men are dumb.