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THE BOOK TITLE
I am J. A. Welty, 35 years. If God has a book, He will surely give it a name, i.e., a title. As for The Bible, God has not called it The Bible; nor has He called The New Testament as such, nor has He called The Old Testament as such.
Is God's book not worthy of a title? Surely, it is. However, those three titles were not given by God; they were given by the church. This proves the point that he who writes a book is the one who gives it a title. That is exactly what happened: the church and other human sources supervised writing different parts of The Bible, and hence they gave the titles. God did not give those three books the titles they have now, i.e., The Bible, The Old Testament, and The New Testament. Men wrote them, and men named them.
Look at The Holy Quran. Its name, i.e., The Holy Quran, is given to it by God in the very text of the Holy Quran. When God gives a book, He gives its name. This did happen to The Holy Quran, but not to The Bible.
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GOD'S RELIGION
I am G. C. Bailey, 35 years. God wants us to obey Him, surrender to Him, and follow His way. Every philosopher gives a name to his philosophy, which usually ends in -ism. Every way has a name such as naturalism, socialism, and existentialism. What is the name of God's way?
The church says that God's way is named Christianity. If so, why do we not find this name in The Bible? God, in The Bible, never gave the order to us to be Christians. Jesus never said that he was Christian. He never described his disciples as Christians. The word Christianity never appeared in The New Testament nor in The Old Testament.
As for Islam, God, in The Holy Quran, explicitly mentions Islam to be the only religion accepted by God. Literally, Islam means submission. Theologically, Islam means willing submission to God. That is why The Holy Quran refers to all prophets, even those before Muhammad including Abraham, Jesus, and Moses, as Muslims, i.e., true submitters to God.
God’s way is Islam, as The Holy Quran tells. The term “Christianity” is not mentioned, not once, in The Bible. It is a term invented by the church. Islam is a term given by God to God’s way. This gives the clue that Islam is what God wants us to follow. God wants all humans to be Muslims, not Christians, not Buddhists, not Hinduists, not anything else.
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THE BEGINNING
AND THE END
I am D. L. Clark, 39 years. I had a Muslim friend who used to keep talking to me about Islam. I repeatedly asked him to stop doing so, but he earnestly insisted on his attempts. He told me something interesting about the Book of Islam, i.e., The Holy Quran. He said that The Holy Quran has a beginning verse, which marks the beginning of God's revelation, and a closing verse, which marks the end of God's revelation, i.e., a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation began and a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation ended.
I thought that this is a really significant indicator. A revelation of God really deserves an opening marker and a closing marker, a matter which surely takes part in the text preservation.
In contrast, The Bible never gives you a clue where and when God's revelation began or ended. The Bible, in fact, is an open book: many people felt free to add to it, delete from it, and even change it. That is why there are different Bibles: the international one, the authorized one, that of king James, the simplified one, the shortened one, that of the Protestants, and that of the Catholics. Which Bible is The Bible?
There are many Bibles. There is one Quran. I felt more at rest with The Holy Quran. That is why I have become a Muslim.
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HOW MANY GODS?
I am M. D. Crow, 27 years. I used to attend Sunday church prayers, but the more I went there, the more confused I got. The pastor referred to Jesus as God's son; all right so far. Then, to my surprise, he began to refer to him as God. How can one be X and the son o/X at the same time? I could not grasp it.
The pastor played hide and seek with my mind. He addresses God through God's son, i.e., Jesus. Then he begins to address Jesus as if he were God Himself.
I felt there is something wrong with what I heard. The pastor was not clear whether Jesus is human, God, God's son, or what. He gave contradictory clues.
In Islam, I feel more at ease. Everything is clear and logical. Jesus is God's messenger. God is God. Man is man. I like the logic and simplicity of Islam. The more you know Islam, the more you accept it. Don't be afraid of knowing.
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YAHWEH
I am R. W. Ebel, 38 years. The Old Testament says that God's name is Yahweh, but strangely, this name never shows up in The New Testament. Why? Has God cancelled His old name? The only answer to this question is that either Yahweh is not God's name or The New Testament is not God's pure word. In both cases, the obvious conclusion is that The Bible is not God's pure word.
Is God's word so cheap and so insignificant to play with? If God's name is Yahweh as The Old Testament says, why don't we find this name in The New Testament? '
In the case of The Holy Quran, God's name in it is Allah. This name is referred to thousands: of times in The Holy Quran. It is the only name; given to God by all Muslims. Other words such as: the Merciful and the All-Knowing are merely Allah's attributes.
Looking into this matter, I felt that The Holy Quran is quite consistent with itself, and it leaves no doubt about the fact that it is God's true pure word.
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