WHY CHRISTIANITY IS THE TRUTH || SPEAKERS CORNER
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the differences between Christians and Muslims regarding their belief in the existence of God and their belief that we should all go to Heaven. We also discuss the possibility of an Antichrist and how we should deal with that possibility.
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As a Muslim, I actually believe in my heart that Muslims will see heaven.
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I don't believe by any stretch of the imagination, Ali, that because you accepted your faith and I accepted mine, that you're going to hellfire.
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I don't accept that. Do you know why? Let me tell you why.
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Because Islam has something that is quite interesting that makes me smile.
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That makes me believe that Allah or Jehovah is still working things out.
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You know, I truly believe and I pray for you that you will accept this stuff.
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Because you're a Christian. Like I said before, and you are really looking...
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You know you said to me that you believe that we as Muslims will go to heaven.
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May I ask kindly, do you believe that or does the scripture believe that?
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Or is it just something in your heart that you believe that?
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But many Christians, no, I'll explain. Many Christians are blind by that.
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The way I look at it, Ali, and I'll go back to my point.
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God is not interested whether if you are a Muslim or a Christian.
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God is interested whether if you are a good Muslim or a good Christian.
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Many people have died before you and I were born in a religion that they held to by faith that they believed in.
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And if you believe that Allah is a just judge, he will judge according to what you know.
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Right. And I know this as a Christian. That's why I cannot condemn Muslims.
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But you know, we believe that if the message hasn't reached you, you will be judged on that day.
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Now, the reason why I asked you is why you believe that Muslims go to heaven is because Christians in the scripture in the Bible says otherwise.
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No, Ali, listen. Those are Christians that have misinterpreted what that means.
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Okay, but we in Islam, there's narrations as well that say on that day, true Christians and true Muslims and the people of the book.
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When I mean Christians, this is the term that's given.
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We're talking about the word Muslim means anyone that submits to the will of Allah is a Muslim.
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So the thing is, we believe the real Christians who worship God Almighty and saw Jesus as a prophet.
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Now, the thing is, what you said was that how do we find the truth?
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Yeah, so I believe we need to go back to the scriptures.
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The scriptures are very important because the scriptures determine us to see if this is the truth or not.
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You've been a Muslim for a long time, right, Ali?
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Even if you know the whole Quran and don't practice it, it doesn't make you a Muslim.
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Even if you know the whole scriptures and don't practice it, it doesn't make you a Christian.
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So for me, what you believe, practice between you and your God, is what will either commend you or condemn you.
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Muslims and Christians agree that prior to the coming of the Messiah, there will be an Antichrist.
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Now, I find it so interesting that we waste our time in Hyde Park talking about our differences, but not the Antichrist to come.
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But the issue right now, Allah says in the Quran, we should come to common agreement with something that we believe.
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Now, what I'm saying is, we should both agree that there is only one God, that God is not begotten, even if it is already begotten, there is nothing like Onesim.
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So do not believe anyone that worships Prophet Muhammad.
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The commandment says that, thou shalt not worship anything that is above the heavens.
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Do you accept Jesus as a Prophet or an Incarnation of God?
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I accept Jesus Christ both as a Prophet, Saviour, Incarnation of God, and will rule when He comes.
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Because His Father is the one that resurrected Him from the grave, and all power is given back to Him.
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Because you said, you said, in the Bible, it says that there is nothing above the sea, below the sea, above the earth, nothing like it.
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But the moment you say, gee, God Almighty was incarnated, automatically it's something that is on this earth.
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So I'm saying, I would be genuinely happy if we come to a common term of worshipping God alone without Him being incarnated.
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And it comes back to the point of, is the Bible reliable?
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Because you're opening the book, but we really need to see if it's reliable first.
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Ali, in the scriptures in the book of Revelation, it says in the last two verses,
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He who testified to these things say, yes, I am coming soon.
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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people.
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I warn everyone who hears the word of the prophecy of this book.
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If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
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If anyone takes the words away from this book of prophecy,
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God will take away from him his snare in the tree of life and in the holy city.
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He won't make it, which I describe in this book.
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And I will give everyone according to what he has done.
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It means then that Christ actually pre-existed before his human body.
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if the scripture that you hold in your very hand is not reliable,
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Because how do we know Jesus actually uttered those words?
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Because that's why I'm saying let's go to the scripture and see if it's uttered.
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It did because it was recorded by his disciples.
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Do you have any evidence that the disciples spoke to Jesus?
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Like, for example, I'll give you something that we have in...
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Can I give you an example of something that we have in Islam?
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Mark, Mark, which was the first book that Mark wrote.
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No, no, but do you know in the New Jerome commentary of the Bible,
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it clearly says these names and attributes of these disciples
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This is a chain where we know how the Prophet conveyed his message, the Quran.
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Like, for example, the Prophet conveyed it to Ali ibn Gadiah,
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Alas ibn Maalik, Abu Hurayrah, Aqbal ibn Zubayyid.
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And they narrated it to these guys at the bottom.
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Are you saying because you don't have a chain to trace
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how the Gospels were spread from Jesus to the disciples,
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firstly, we need to determine if the Bible is reliable.
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Let me answer that question with the scriptures.
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And it's useful for teaching, rebuking, correction,
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so that your disciples may see the miracles you do.
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it says that the earliest manuscripts they found
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and the other ancient witnesses do not have it.
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you will not see the accuracy that you get from the King James.
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you will see that some of the commandments have changed
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and not also align with the traditional commandments
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So the key thing that I need to let you understand
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Because you're seeing that the New International Version
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where you're seeing in your King James Version,
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Listen, I understand, but I do not heard what I said.
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Because you only have one Quran written in one language.
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You know that I would not drink poisonous water.
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Then why do you give your salvation and your life
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And because I have a personal relationship with Christ.