Some associate Jesus with divinity because he performed miracles. Many Unitarian Christians and all Muslims point out that Jesus did indeed perform miracles, but by the will of God and not through any divine powers of his own. To repeat the quote of Acts 2:22: “Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you …
Of all the Christian mysteries, none rank as highly as the concept of Christ’s crucifixion and atoning sacrifice. In fact, Christians base their salvation on this one tenet of faith. And if it really happened, shouldn’t we all? If it really happened, that is. Now, I don’t know about you, but the concept of Jesus …
But, hey, Christians tell us Jesus had to die for our sins. A typical conversation might go something like this: Monotheist: Oh. So you believe God died? Trinitarian: No, no, perish the thought. Only the man died. Monotheist: In that case, the sacrifice didn’t need to be divine, if only the man-part died. Trinitarian: No, …
What we want vs. what Allah wants for us. Those who choose not to vote the prophets and revelation into their lives seem to do so for one of two reasons — the first being that they sample the message with which the prophets were sent and find it to be personally distasteful or, at …
It is sometimes hard to believe the sequence of blunders life occasionally throws together in a buckled and smoking train-wreck of shortsightedness and tomfoolery. However, when we learn that “foolery” by itself is a word, we must logically deduce that Tom must have been such a supreme master of the craft that his contemporaries felt …
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