I don't care what is today's definition of religion, God always had a religion to worship him, Adam, Noah and Abraham all of them had religions to worship God.
The religions were established gradually through the dictates God gave. Like to the Jews to build the tabernacle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple as per God's instructions,
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=tabernacle&t=KJV&sf=5whose alter was for the sacrifice of animals to atone for sin through their shed blood.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=atonement&t=KJV&sf=5 Their religion continued to develop through God's continuing direct instruction.
the first religion on earth was the true religion while the second religion was paganism (Noah's people before the flood), that's why Christianity is flawed. part of it's holy book is the corrupted Tanakah which was corrupted long time ago by Jews.
So then you must believe, as I, that your prophet was a liar. He recited the following sura
in the 7TH CENTURY after the Tanach and the Gospel had been copied tens of thousands of times in every popular language known to man.
Sura 80.13
(It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour, 14 Exalted (in dignity), KEPT PURE AND HOLY,15 (Written) by the hands of scribes- 16 Honourable and Pious and Just.Do you really think all those scriptures in all those languages were then
erased (like the Quran burnings)
AFTER the 7th century, and somehow the entire text of the Gospel changed
to become the exact opposite of what it was?
That would be a preposterous stand to take, wouldn't it.
Further, you are apparently completely ignorant to Hebrew scribal methodology.
"First of all, biblical scrolls were written on the inside only to prevent any smudging or smearing that might lead to a misreading of the text. When being copied -- besides many parallel readings -- the copy was compared with the original in every way humanly possible.
The words in each column were counted and then the letters. The first, last, and middle letter and word in each column had to be identical to the original. If the number of words or the number of letters of the copy differed from the original, the copy was destroyed. Then they counted the words and letters in the whole document. They divided the document into quarters and into eighths. The first, last and middle letter in each section had to be the same. The number of words and the number of letters in each section had to be the same. The middle word and the middle letter in each section had to be the same, and they had to be the same for the whole document. If not, the copy was destroyed. Not corrected, but destroyed!"
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/bible_manuscript_errors_.htmCompare that to the Quran that had random differing copies all over the place so that it had to be collected up and burned on two separate occasions. Once after Uthman's editing as well as under Bakr. Shiites still believe that 25% of the Quran was lost and it wouldn't surprise me if they are right. Consider the example of the stoning verses that Aisha said the
goats ate.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=96.0Do you really believe that is how God would preserve His Word?
Jesus was unconscious baby who needed to eat, drink like his mother and like other humans he worshiped God and submitted to him, these are signs to Christians yet they still worship him.
Jesus and God are coexistent. Jesus is
the way God chose to reveal Himself to us, to help us understand God through our limited human capacity to understand. Jesus was revealed to us as a man in the flesh to provide a perfect and sinless example for us. Christians worship in Jesus name because He is God. Here is what He said after He was crucified and resurrected from the dead
Mat 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Now you make nonsensical statements about Muhammad without proving it.
I proved Mohammed was a thief in the very first post in which I mentioned it.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=873.msg3507#msg3507"8 - AL-ANFAL (SPOILS OF WAR, BOOTY)
That even details Mohammed's 1/5 share - just like a Mafia Don - of the property stolen from others through imperialistic conquest.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/008.qmt.html "
Mohammed was far worse than a thief. I stopped at the lightest charge of thief so you could answer to it before we explore his character further.
How was Mohammed not a thief when a whole chapter in the Quran discusses he and his boys theft of the property of others, and even details Mohammed's 1/5 cut of all the loot, including women and girls to sexually enslave and/or sell?
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=456.0