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Introduction
and Explanation of Purpose of This Research
and Presentation
First
of all, let me begin by saying that I am a
former Christian, preacher, minister of music
and organist for a long number of years in the
Disciples of Christ Church, Baptist, Methodist
churches and The Church of God. I totally
and completely accepted the teachings and
concepts of salvation within the Christian
church many years ago. My parents were very
religious and their parents were also very
instrumental in building and supporting the
work of the church throughout their entire
lives. So, it is not my aim to discredit the
efforts of those who came before me
whatsoever. This is totally the opposite of my
purpose in this presentation.
Second,
I am still most active in the spreading of the
True Word of God as much as HE will allow me
to be. I have found that some of the teachings
of the translations of the Bible contain
errors and mistakes which must be examined and
thought through so as to bring about a better
understanding for both the Christians and the
non-Christians, especially those of the Muslim
(Islam) faith.
Third,
I am presently an institutional chaplain and I
hold the position of Delegate to the United
Nations Peace Conference for the World's
Religious Leaders. As such I hold all the
leaders of other religions in proper regard
and with due respect. Many of my associates
and co-workers are from the Catholic,
Protestant, Jewish and Hindu faiths.
Therefore,
it is not my intention to cause people to
loose their belief in God, His
divinely-inspired prophets and messengers, or
the holy scriptures that they brought. I
humbly request all who read and study these
pages to be considerate of those who are
committed to believe in the scriptures of the
Bible and not use this material as a tool for
attacking and harming the faiths of others.
The opposite is what I request the reader to
do. Please take time to learn the materials
and then share in a positive light with those
whom you honestly feel can handle a discussion
on this topic without being confrontational.
May
Almighty God guide all of us the all truth,
amen.
An
examination of the Bible is necessary today
because of the many questions being raised by
religious people of all circles, including
Jews and Christians, as to its inconsistency
with contemporary church teachings as well as
its inconsistency within itself.
Today,
there are thousands of different versions of
the Bible in circulation and the transcript
has been freely translated from one language
to another numerous times. According to Bible
scholars themselves, the original scripture is
no longer extant. It is nowhere to be found.
We have no idea if what we are reading and
implementing into our lives and belief system
is, indeed, God's teaching.
Muslims
believe in the same Omnipotent, All-powerful,
Unseen God that the Jews have believed in
since Adam. However, unlike the Jews, Muslims
join in with the Christians by also believing
in Jesus as the "Christ";
"Messiah"; "Logos"; and
"Miraculous Conception"; as well as
all the previous Biblical prophets and their
original scriptures that they brought. Muslims
also believe that God is merciful and just to
His creatures. So, they deny the concept of
the 'Original Sin' [all children are born into
the sins of their parents] and the
'Sacrificial Lamb' concept which requires the
blood of Jesus, peace be upon him, to atone
for the sins of the sinners. This being the
case, how can Muslims say that God is just and
that His revelation, the Bible, is corrupted?
Where is it in God's great plan that His
revelation loses all credibility? These are
all very excellent questions.
It is a known fact that Jesus was regarded by
his followers as a prophet and that what he
preached was written down into physical form
by his disciples. However, God placed the
responsibility on humans to preserve the
integrity of this message over time. When the
people failed in their duty, it was made
necessary for the Holy Qur'an to come into
existence in order to correct the teachings
that were changed. By God's mercy He revealed
His will once again to Muhammad over 600 years
later, and his companions similarly wrote it
down and compiled it into what became known as
The Holy Qur'an. By God's justice He promised
that He would preserve it therefore making it
the last revelation to humanity. Today an
actual seventh century Qur'an, complete and
intact, is on display in a museum in Istanbul,
Turkey. I just returned from a trip to
Istanbul, Turkey and have information about it
on this web site:
http://www.TodayIslam.com/events/
Amazing
Revelation
Strange as it may seem I came across
astonishing information By Allah's Mercy I
have learned the Arabic language sufficient
enough to read the Holy Quran in the original
language. I have found the answers to problems
of understanding meanings of scriptures in the
Bible while studying the Holy Quran.
Every
Arabic Qur'an in the world today is, letter
for letter, identical to this ancient script.
Due to this preservation, the Quran exists
today exactly as it did over 1,400 year ago in
a language which is still alive today. I have
found the Qur'an's teachings to be quite
clear, consistent, and practical for
application even in today's so called
"modern world."
The whole idea behind this work is to present
the clear truth about the Bible, the Quran and
the two religions of Islam and Christianity.
If you do not have a good Bible, it would be a
good idea to acquire at least two. Namely, the
King James Version (based on the 1611 AD
edition) and the Revised Standard Version
(published in 1953). As you go through the
many Biblical inconsistencies which I will be
referring to in this material, please refer
back to your Bible and examine it objectively.
Do not
let pride, ego, bias or prejudice affect your
judgment as you review the pages. If you do
not free your mind and heart from these
obstructions, then it will be near to
impossible to see the light of truth to which
we will be referring so often.
Bear in
mind also, that if a book were revealed from
Almighty God to the humans, it should not have
even a single mistake or error anywhere in it.
Otherwise, it would indicate that it is not
from a Perfect God, but rather from an
imperfect human.
While
traveling around the world, I have found that
many Jews and Christians are opening their
eyes to this fact and are willfully accepting
Islam and the Last and Final Testament of
Almighty God (the Holy Quran) wholeheartedly.
We have
to examine the facts in order to be able to
better understand the value of this
information on our society today. One
statement that is clear and repeated often
these days is that Islam is the fastest
growing religion in the world today and the
largest religion in the world today with over
1.5 billion souls claiming to be Muslims. The
word of God has been preserved in the Holy
Qur'an and has been changed in the Bible. So,
I am merely attempting to produce material
which will help to clarify the matter. Due to
the many years of traditional religious
teachings and upbringing, it may be very
difficult for you to accept this. If you are
sincere in your heart and pray to the One Who
Created you in the first place, then it will
be totally up to Him to Guide you to all
truth, not me. Islam is a complete Way of Life
and it is based on total surrender to Almighty
God, submission to Him in complete obedience
and sincerity and in peace.
For
more details about ISLAM, please visit our web
page at:
http://TodayIslam.com/islam/
For
comparison of Holy Quran:
http://www.TodayIslam.com/quran.htm
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Bible
- A Closer Look!
by Yusuf Estes
former Christian Preacher
Chapter
1 "Is the King James Version the Actual
Bible?"
Let me begin by
saying that the King James "version"
of the Bible is in English. There was no
English language until the year 1066 AD when
the Normans invaded the Saxxons. Therefore the
English Bible cannot be anything like what any
of the prophets spoke or understood, as it did
not exist in their times.
Next, my
grandfather, who was a devout and wonderful
Christian man gave a gift of the Holy Bible to
my sisters and I almost fifty years ago. It
was an authorized version of the Bible, being
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible
which was a revised version of the American
Standard Version, published in 1901, which was
a version of the King James Version, published
in 1611, which was revised and corrected for
the first time in 1612, etc.I was very much
impressed with the easier to read text and
clarification of some of the wording which was
presented in this version and began to read
the Bible on a daily basis for hours at a
time. The removal of the Elizabethton English
terms, phrases and expressions made the Bible
a more accessible and understandable and
intimate Book for me.
My love and
respect for the Word of God increased
the more that I spent time reading and
understanding the message. The Bible became my
most prized and respected book in my life. I
often turned to it throughout the rest of my
life in times of joy, happiness, sadness,
troubles and pain. It was my compass, my road
map, my weather vane and my friend. However,
there were still some problems with this IMPROVED
VERSION of the Holy Bible. It began to
disturb and concern me to the extent that I
made consultation with my father, who was also
an ordained minister and student of the Bible
since childhood. Based on his research and
background in the origin and sources for
modern day Christianity, I began to go deeper
into the problems which had plagued my
thinking and faith since childhood.
I prayed to
Almighty God and then found the answers to
some of the problems were spelled out very
clearly in the very beginning of the exact
same book. I have that book lying in
front of me on my desk as I write this article
and would like to quote to you from some of
the PREFACE page iii and iv:
"The
King James Version has with good reason been
termed 'the noblest monument of English
prose.' Its revisers in 1881 expressed
admiration of 'its simplicity, its dignity,
its power, its happy turns of express... the
music of its cadences, and the felicities of
its rhythm.' It entered, as no other book has,
into the making of the personal character and
the public institutions of the
English-speaking peoples. We owe to it an
incalculable debt."
"Yet
the King James Version has grave defects.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the
development of Biblical studies and the
discovery of many manuscripts more ancient
than those upon which the King James Version
was based, made it manifest that these defects
are so many and so serious as to call for a
revision of the English translation. The task
was undertaken, by authority of the Church of
England, in 1870. The English Revised Version
of the Bibles was published in 1881-1885; and
the American Standard Version, its variant
embodying the preferences of the American
scholars associated in the work, was published
in 1901."
"Because
of the unhappy experience with unauthorized
publications in the two decades between 1881
and 1901, which tampered with the text of the
English Revised Version in the supposed
interest of the American public, the American
Standard Version was copyrighted, to protect
the text from unauthorized changes. In 1928
this copyright was acquired by the
International Council of Religious Education,
and thus passed into the ownership of the
churches of the United States and Canada which
were associated in this Council through their
boards of education and publication."
"....
decision was reached that there is need for a
thorough revision of the version of
1901..""In 1937 the revision was
authorized by vote of the Council..."
"Thirty-two
scholars have served as members of the
Committee charged with making the revision,
and they have secured the review and counsel
of an Advisory Board of fifty
representatives of the co-operating
denominations."
"Each
section has submitted its work to the scrutiny
of the members of the charter of the Committee
requires that all changes be agreed upon by a
two-thirds vote of the total membership of the
Committee."
"The
problem of establishing the correct Hebrew and
Aramaic text of the Old testament is very
different from the corresponding problem in
the New Testament."
"For
the New Testament we have a large number of
Greek manuscripts, preserving many variant
forms of the text. Some of them were made only
two or three centuries later than the original
composition of the books."
"For
the Old Testament only late manuscripts
survive, all (with the exception of the Dead
Sea Texts of Isaiah and Habakkuk and some
fragments of other books) based on a
standardized form of the text established many
centuries after the books were written."
"The
present revision is based on the consonantal
Hebrew and Aramaic text as fixed early in the
Christian era and revised by Jewish scholars
(the 'Masoretes') of the sixth to ninth
centuries. The vowel signs, which were added
by the Masoretes, are accepted also in the
main, but where a more probable and convincing
reading can be obtained by assuming different
vowels, this has been done."
"...
vowel points are less ancient and [less]
reliable than the consonants."
"Departures
from the consonantal text of the best
manuscripts have been made only where it seems
clear that errors in copying had been made
before the text was standardized."
"Most
of the corrections adopted are based on the
ancient versions [translations into Greek
Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin], which were made
before the time of the Masoretic revision and
therefore reflect earlier forms of the
text."
"Sometimes
it is evident that the text has suffered in
transmission, but none of the versions
provides a satisfactory restoration. Here we
can only follow the best judgment of competent
scholars as to the most probable
reconstruction of the original text."
"Many
difficulties and obscurities, of course,
remain."
"Where
the choice between two meanings is
particularly difficult or doubtful, we have
given an alternative rendering in a
footnote."
"If
in the judgment of the Committee the meaning
of a passage is quite uncertain or
obscure, either because of corruption in the
text or because of the inadequacy of our
present knowledge of the language, that fact
is indicated by a note."
"It
should not be assumed, however, that the
Committee was entirely sure or unanimous
concerning every rendering not so
indicated."
"To
record all minority views was obviously out of
the question."
"The
King James Version of the New Testament was
based upon a Greek text that was marred by
mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of
fourteen centuries of manuscript
copying."
"It
was essentially the Greek text of the New
Testament as edited by Beza, 1589, who closely
followed that published by Erasmus, 1516-1535,
which was based upon a few medieval
manuscripts."
"The
earliest and best of the eight manuscripts
which Erasmus consulted was from the tenth
century, and [yet] he made the least use of it
because it differed most from the commonly
received text; Beza had access to two
manuscripts of great value, dating from the
fifth and sixth centuries, but he made very
little use of them because they differed from
the text published by Erasmus."
"We
now possess many more ancient manuscripts of
the new Testament, and are far better equipped
to seek to recover the original wording of the
Greek text. The evidence for the text of the
books of the New Testament is better that for
any other ancient book, both in the number of
extant manuscripts and in the nearness of the
date of some of these manuscripts to the date
when the book was originally written."
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From
the previous chapter we can easily determine
that the original source of the Bible, both
the Old and New Testaments have been lost and
are no longer extant in any language. What has
remained and been referred to for
translations, is in fact nothing more than old
copies that do not necessarily agree with each
other and there does exist in them obvious
corruption in additions and deletions.
Additionally, they are not complete and do not
have full agreement of the scholars of the
Bible as to their meanings.
Just
to offer a few of the many contradictions and
errors of that which is being presented as the
Word of God in the Bible I would like to quote
the research of scholars of the Bible:
VERSES
THAT CONTRADICT THEMSELVES
Genesis 6:3 and Genesis 11:11 -
Life limited to 120 years?
Genesis 32:30 and Exodus 33:20 - Jacob's life
was preserved?
Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9 - Who was God's
firstborn?
Numbers 23:19 and Genesis 6:6-7 - Does God
repent or not?
2 Samuel 6:23 and 2 Samuel 21:8 - Did Michal
have children?
2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 - 700 or
7000 horsemen?
2 Samuel 8:9-10 and 1 Chronicles 18:9-10 - Toi
or Tou? Hadadezer or Hadarezer? Joram or
Hadoram?
2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18 - 700 or
7000 charioteers? 40,000 horsemen or footmen?
Captain's name?
2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 - Who
provoked David?
2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5 - 800,000
or 100,000?
2 Samuel 24:13 and 1 Chronicles 21:11-12 - 7
or 3 years?
1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 - 40,000 or
4,000 stalls?
1 Kings 5:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 2:2 - 3300 or
3600?
1 Kings 7:26 and 2 Chronicles 4:5 - 2000 or
3000 baths?
2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 - 22 or 42
years old?
2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 - 18 or 8
years old? 3 months or 3 months and 10 days?
Erza 2:65 and Nehemiah 7:67 - 200 or 245
singers?
Matthew 1:12 and Luke 3:27 - Who was
Salathiel's father?
Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23 - Who was Joseph's
father?
Matthew 9:18 and Mark 5:22-23 - Dead or not?
Matthew 10:5-10 and Mark 6:7-8 - Bring a staff
or not?
Matthew 15:21-22 and Mark 7:24-26 - The woman
was of Canaan or Greece?
Matthew 20:29-30 and Mark 10:46-47 - One or
two beggars?
Matthew 21:1-2 and Mark 11:1-2 - What happened
to the ass?
Matthew 26:74-75 and Mark 14:72 - Before the
cock crow once or twice?
Matthew 27:5 and Acts 1:18 - How did Judas
die?
John 3:16 and Psalms 2:7 - Only begotten son?
John 5:31 and John 8:14 - Was Jesus' record
true or not?
VERSES
THAT CONTRADICT THE TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE
AND/OR THE DIVINITY OF JESUS
Exodus 33:20, John 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:16 - No
one saw God.
Isaiah 42:8 - Do not praise and worship
images.
Isaiah 45:1 - "Anointed" does not
mean "God".
Matthew 14:23, 19:13, 26:39, 27:46, 26:42-44 -
Jesus prayed.
Matthew 24:36 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Matthew 26:39 - Jesus and God had different
wills.
Matthew 28:18 - All power was given to Jesus.
Mark 1:35, 6:46, 14:35-36 - Jesus prayed.
Mark 10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19 - Jesus denied
divinity.
Mark 12:28-29 - God is one.
Mark 13:32 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Mark 16:19 and Luke 22:69 - Jesus at the right
hand of God.
Luke 3:21, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 9:28, 11:1-4,
22:41 - Jesus prayed.
Luke 4:18, 9:48, 10:16 - Jesus was from God.
Luke 7:16, 13:33, 24:18-19 - Jesus was a
prophet.
Luke 10:21 - Jesus gave thanks.
Luke 23:46 - The spirit of Jesus was commended
to God.
John 4:19 - Jesus was a prophet.
John 4:23-24 - Worship in spirit and truth.
John 14:28 - One was greater than the other.
John 5:19, 5:30, 7:28, 8:28 - Jesus was
helpless.
John 5:20 - The Father showed the son.
John 5:30 and 6:38 - Jesus and God had
different wills.
John 5:31-32 - Jesus' witness was not true.
John 6:11 and 11:41-42 - Jesus gave thanks.
John 6:32 - The Father was the provider, not
the son.
John 7:29, 16:5, 16:28 - Jesus was from God.
John 7:16, 12:49, 14:24, 17:14 - Jesus' words
were not his.
John 8:42 - Jesus did not come of himself.
John 10:29 - "My Father, which gave them
me, is greater than all."
John 14:1 - Jesus said, "...believe also
in me."
John 14:16, 17:1, 17:9, 17:11, 17:15 - Jesus
prayed.
John 14:31 and 15:10 - Jesus followed
commands.
John 17:6-8 - "I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me."
John 20:17 - Jesus had a god.
Acts 2:22 - Jesus was "a man approved of
God."
Romans 8:34 - Jesus was an intercessor.
1 Timothy 2:5 - Jesus was the mediator between
God and humans.
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"ONE"
- SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN
LITERALLY
Mark
10:6-9 and John 14:20, 15:1-7, 17:11,
17:18-23, 17:26
There are many verses in the Bible that speak
of Jesus and God as being "one".
But does this necessarily mean that Jesus is
God? If you read the six selections above then
you will see that we cannot take the word
"one" so literally. If we do, then
we are God, as Jesus said, "...they also
may be one in us" and "...they may
be one, even as we are one." What the
Bible means when it says that Jesus is
"one" with God is that he is
extremely close to god, "as if" they
are one. John 17:18-23 tells how we normal
human beings can attain this
"oneness" (or "closeness")
with God by being "sanctified through the
truth." Aside from this, neither the word
"trinity" appears anywhere in the
Bible nor any explanation of such a thing.
"LORD"
DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN "GOD"
Matthew
18:23-34, Luke 19:11-21, and John 20:26-29
Many of Jesus' disciples referred to Jesus as
"Lord". Even Jesus himself said that
he is their Lord. But does this mean that he
is their God? If you read the three short
stories above then you will realize that back
in the Biblical time period most servants
referred to their masters as "lord".
This was a common practice because it showed
honor and respect for a person of such high
stature.
"LORD"
- A Lofty Title
Even today in many countries around the world
such as England, "lord" is used in
referring to kings, princes, and others who
deserve such a lofty title. The disciples and
followers of Jesus viewed him as their earthy
master and themselves as his servants. He was
a man from God who brought them God's message
of truth, justice, and peace. Who could be
more deserving of the title "lord"
than Jesus Christ? Besides, "lord"
is defined by Webster in many curious ways.
A
few of them are as follows:
- A
man of high rank in a feudal society.
- A
king.
- A
general masculine title of nobility or
rank.
- A
man of renowned power.
- A
man who has mastery in a given activity or
field.
Commenting
on the word's history, Webster says that
"lord"
literally means 'guardian of the bread'".
He continues, "Since such a position
would be the dominant one in the household,
lord came to denote a man of authority and
rank in society at large."
In
The Holy Qur'an also uses "lord"
in the same context (see 12:23 and 12:41-42).
This was simply the language of the time.
The
word "lord"
does not render the person which it is being
applied to as God. If this were the case, then
many human beings in the Bible would have to
be considered God.
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JESUS
DENIED DIVINITY
Mark
10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19
These verses are highlighted because they are
most indicative of Jesus' position and real
nature. The verse in Mark reads: "As he
[Jesus] was setting out on a journey, a man
ran up and knelt before him, and asked him,
'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit
eternal life?' Jesus said to him, 'Why do you
call me good? No one is good but God
alone." If you analyze this verse in
truth you will see that Jesus, quite simply,
is not God. If he was, why then would he say
"No one is good but God alone"?
Jesus did not want to be called
"good" because he was not God. That
title, as Jesus admits, belongs to none but
God.
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CONCLUSION
If all of this has confused you
it's probably because you've been trying to
justify your belief in the Trinity. To believe
in the Trinity goes against all of the
teachings of Jesus, as well as the Bible. This
is because the Trinity is a man-made doctrine
that was drawn up several hundred years after
Jesus. In this time period different
interpretations of the Bible were causing
serious debates among Christians. The various
interpretations were, undoubtedly, due to
human perversion of the original scriptures,
poor preservation, and/or shoddy translations.
One of the main things being questioned was
the nature of God and Jesus. Was Jesus
actually God, the son of God, or just a
messenger? The Council of Nicea was formed in
an attempt to settle this dispute, and the
Nicea Creed (the Trinitarian doctrine) was
subsequently hammered out.
Again,
as I stated in the beginning, this writing has
not been complied to put down or destroy the
true teachings of the Bible and the Prophets.
I would like to quote from a version of the
Bible wherein Jesus is represented as saying:
"Think
not that I came to destroy the Law [Torah] and
the Prophets [prophethood]. I did not come to
destroy them, but rather to fulfill them. For
truly, I say to you, not an iota, not a dot,
will pass from the Law until all is
accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the
least of these commandments [from the Law] and
teaches men so, shall be called least in the
Kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and
teaches them shall be called great in the
Kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your
righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of
heaven." [Matt. 5:17]
It is wrong to assume that our
beliefs are true simply because our teachers,
preachers and parents have taught us something
passed down to them by generations of
forefathers before them. What I would invite
all of us to do is to do research for
ourselves and learn from reliable sources what
is the origin of modern Christianity and what
should be our perspective on true belief in
general. We can only achieve this with open
minds and hearts.
So, may the Great God of the
Universe guide us all with His perfect
Guidance to all truth, ameen.
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Please
research for yourself the Council of
Nicea and the preservation of the
Bible, or lack thereof.
There are a
number of books which are easily accessible
written by experts and scholars on the Bible
which are very enlightening on this subject:
"Who
Wrote the Bible"
- Richard Elliott Friedman
"Who Wrote the Dead Sea
Scrolls?" - Norman Golb
"The Book of 'J'" - Harold
Bloom & David Rosenberg
"The Text of the New Testament - Its
Transmission, Corruption, &
Restoration" - Bruce M. Metzger
It is not a
all logical to simply accept a belief system
because it was passed down to you by your
parents. After all, what if it is not correct?
A system for belief should be based upon sound
principles of reasoning and understanding,
rather than feelings and emotions.
As regards
the Muslims treatment of Jesus, peace be upon
him, it should be kept in mind that, although
they do not hold him to be the 'son of god' in
Christianity, he is definitely held in high
esteem as great prophet, 'Miraculous
birth" and also believe in the same
unseen God that he referred to as
"Your Lord and my Lord, your God and my
God."
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Islam is
truly and simply a complete way of life and
set of rules taught by all the prophets to
mankind, similar to Biblical teachings that
were revealed to humankind after Jesus through
the last and final prophet Muhammad.
Why? Good Question...
For more
details about ISLAM, please visit our web page
at:
http://www.IslamTomorrow.com/islam
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"Who
is the God of the Bible?" |
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"Does
the Bible Say 'Jesus is God'?" |
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"What
Does it all Mean?" |
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