it might be a dumb question but is a question nevertheless.. i dont know much about the history of christianity.. i just wanted to know as to how and when did christianity got started being practiced as a religion? i mean was it before or after Hazrat Isa was raised..
now obviously Hazrat Isa(RA) preached the teachings of Islam .. so if ppl followed his teachings at what stage did they start considering him as the son of GOD.. It couldnt be in his life time cause obviously he would have disapproved of it? so i am guessing it started after he was raised?
Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verses 55
Behold! Allah said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject Faith to the Day of Resurrection; then shall ye all return unto Me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.
Christianity as you know it was created 325 (no one knows if it actually was 325) years after Jesus died, and that too under the “auspecies” of Constantine I, the Emporer (a staunch pagan who only wanted to unify the Roman/Byzentine Empire).
Much of the Roman Pagan and Mithra ideology (the reason why Jesus is considered as the “son” of God) comes from the settlement reached at the Council of Nicea in 325AD where all of the Gospels that were accepted were adhered to thereafter and all Gospel versions declared as unacceptable were considered heresy and forced out of the belief system.
Some of the belief can be reconstructed from the Dead Sea Scrolls but even then, we do not know if they are the initial versions of the “Hadith” of Jesus, or of a Divine message delivered to him by an angel.
The current teachings of Christianity is really teachings of Saint Paul.
Let me see if I can find a detailed hosorical facts about Coucil of Nisea (sp?) and how the current belief system of christianty came about.
http://www.alislam.org/library/books/christianity_facts_to_fiction/chapter_1.html#pgfId-1006069 With the possibility of virgin birth being wide open, it does not remain to be all that impossible and unnatural. Where is the need to search for a supernatural explanation of Jesus’ birth, or even go beyond that to the farthest extreme of believing in the birth of a literal ‘Son’ of God through a human birth? When all this is observed as a fact of nature, why is it hard to believe that the birth of Jesus Christ was a hidden natural phenomenon, brought about by a special design of God? Something happened in Mary which gave that child a miraculous birth, without a man having touched her. It is the Ahmadiyya Muslim belief that this is exactly what happened. Our case is unshakeable because no scientist can dismiss it as nonsensical or opposed to the known laws of nature. Miracles are not seen in Islam as unnatural occurrences, but as natural phenomena that are concealed from human knowledge at that period of time. Otherwise, there would be many questions raised against the wisdom of God. If God created the laws of nature Himself, He should have made some provisions whereby without breaking them, He could bring about desired solutions to a problem.
**I disagree…**God has made the laws…Why can’t he break them? IT is Allah who Creates and it is Him who ends it. AND ALLAH has power over all things.
How would you explain the miracles of Ibrahim(AS) and Muhammad(pbuh)?
Actually I’m defending christianity here…
This person who wrote the book ’ journey from fictions to facts’ is denying that Jesus(AS)'s birth was not a miracle…but According to Islam and christianity Jesus(AS) born miraclously without a father.
gudness… ignorance knows no bounds.
the title facts to fiction refers to christians moving away from the real teachings of Jesus and following the fiction cooked up by saint paul
but y should u care… u just found a reason to attack the ahmadis.
and the author is not denying the miracle… but the auther is refuting the claims of christians who insist that Jesus was born without a father and hence is a son of God.
God says He has created the universe perfect. somthing that is perfect doesnt need changing.
in worldly affairs, the politicians make laws and later on they find out there were some shortcomings and some scenerios were not thought about when the law was writtne, hence the law is changed. but a perfect law maker would know all scenerios and would make all laws perfect so He doesn’t have to change them later on.
God says He has created the universe perfect. somthing that is perfect doesnt need changing.
in worldly affairs, the politicians make laws and later on they find out there were some shortcomings and some scenerios were not thought about when the law was writtne, hence the law is changed. but a perfect law maker would know all scenerios and would make all laws perfect so He doesn't have to change them later on.
do u actually read the post before going in attack mode?
they present his birth without a father as proof he’s son of God.
Ahmadis also believe, he was born without a father and its apparent from the section u quoted from that book.
cause obviously he would have disapproved of it? so i am guessing it started after he was raised?
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