To me this letter is an appeal to the church in the East to try and keep it together in the wake of the Islamic invasion. It is interesting that the letter also states that the Muslims treat Christians pretty well ......
Stealing half their property and offering a pittance back is "treating them pretty well"?
....... and actually give to the Churches, .....
While offering them back a pittance of what they stole from them as if that makes them nice guys.
..... yet in the East the Christians appear to have given in to the Muslims and abandoned their faith and become Muslims (possibly).
CHRISTIANS did not.
Mar 13:22
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect.The choice for Christian posers was, do you want to be enslaved by a jizya tax, or play like you are a Muslim after having deluded yourself into believing you had been a Christian.
He then talk about a man who was first seen in Radan (wherever that is) but failed in his mission where the Christians and pagans rejected him and forced him out. It appears then that this person ended in the East region where they embraced him whilst the Christians didn’t lift a finger to stop it occurring. I mentioned this because it sounds very similar to the Mohammad character we read in the Muslim stories about his rejection in Mecca and subsequent migration to Medina where he was embraced. However I am still looking into this place called region of Radan to find out where it is. I am not saying this event is related to Mohammad, I’m saying it sounds very similar and could be someone completely different.
In fact it could describe anybody, yet you use it as though it becomes some sort of a basis, for you to be one of a couple guys in the world today, that does not believe that Muhammad was from the same Mecca that still exists today.
If you are going to stand alone against history, you need something other than all the presumption you have presented here to make your case.
Not dissimilar to your stand-alone view, we had a couple guys a while back making a claim that the Vatican invented Islam, but were unable to get to first base in answering questions asked of them, and were found to be simply parroting a guy that, come to find out, is known to be a fraud.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=1870.0What do you suppose this forum would look like if we let folks lard it with whatever kind of claims they wanted to include in these pages, while ignoring the questions we ask of their subjects? Look at your thread. You are scrambling to try to construct it on the fly. Were your
unique view correct, we could basically throw out half the forum threads, beginning with everything of Dr. Amari and Craig Winn. And this based on your popping around the internet frantically grabbing bits and pieces willy nilly to try to make your, what I believe to be hopeless point based on the evidence.
Do you think this thread represents the kind of content that would be best for read-only participants to be distracted by, and wasting their time on, when they might have otherwise been focusing on subjects like the sacrifice of the Lamb of God who saves all from sin who have faith in His shed blood, while pointing out that Muhammad was, and taught, the EXACT OPPOSITE?
When I talk about the non Islamic references we have for Mohammad. These actually trump any known Islamic literature by more than 100 hundred years. The conclusion is that these sources have Mecca anywhere from Midian to the bottom of Mesopotamia. But not a single reference to where Mecca is today. Don’t you think that is odd ?
Pete, I seem to have a real issue with quoting post etc, so please bare with me ok.