I want to suggest a book for… you to get and read. It is very dense (meaning a very slow read) but it is excellent and by a “real” scientist. It’s called Genetic Entropy and is written by Dr. John Sanford, a researcher at Cornell University. I am about 1/2 way through it, and am very impressed with the solid scientific findings. I don’t just say this to try to “convince” you, but rather, you had said you would be interested in reading some solid scientific things, and this is the best I’ve found so far. Here it is on Amazon.com in the U.S.

So, I only have a little time this morning, but will try to answer one of your questions. First, let me address this comment from you: t he stuff you say about islam is the exact same thing the christian church has been doing for hund…reds of years: regression of humanity in every possible way. i know that the institution itself has nothing to do with having a relationship with Jesus in your opinion, and i couldn’t agree more, but this shows that there might also be muslims who don’t believe in the jihad and the similar violent stuff, but only in the “peaceful parts” of their religion, just like you do. a same “kill the infidels” case can be made against christianity just as against muslims, christianity just did that a while back, not today. This is simply not true at the root of each religion. The Koran teaches that infidels must be destroyed. The Bible teaches that we are to love, bless and forgive our enemies.

Therefore, there is a clear, basic difference at the core level of each faith. Now the way people have chosen to “live out” their supposed Christian faith by killing others in the name of Jesus is quite different than what Jesus Himself taught and the core of the faith itself. Truly, only Jesus can live out “Christianity” perfectly, and that’s what makes Christianity (that personal relationship I’ve been talking about that I have) impossible outside of a living, active relationship with Jesus Himself. If you read the Gospel of John in chapter 17, you will see Jesus’ desire and prayer to God the Father where He speaks about His desire that all would be one, in unity, God in Jesus and Jesus in humans that they would know the love of the Father. So, it is Jesus IN me, through the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus talks about all through the Gospel of John and especially in chapter 4 when He says true worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth…it is Jesus IN me that lives out the “Christian life”. Yes, I still live, make choices, and am still fully Arden, but my spirit-man is alive in God’s spirit. (and this is something that can really only be understood and discerned in the spirit and seen in the fruit of one’s life, not proven scientifically….except that maybe the fruit of my life could be that scientific proof). Am I perfect like God?

ha ha ha, absolutely not, and that’s the beauty of Jesus and of forgiveness, which, I don’t know if you know, but there is NO forgiveness in Islam…there is no concept of forgiveness…it’s ALL based on good deeds and being “good enough”. So, what is “good enough”? I digress….I just wanted to address that assertion you made about Islam and Christianity being “the same” because they are not at all. Looking at each of them “from the outside” like you are, I can see, sort of, why you might make that assertion, but when one has the mind of Christ, which a spirit-filled, born-again believer does, then one can understand on a spiritual level and discern truth from error. As I believe I’ve said in the past, Islam is a religion, whereas true Christianity is a relationship. Islam, like other religions, is man’s attempt to try to reach God and do enough “good” to earn His favor, but true Christianity is all about a God who reached out to man in relationship, to restore that which was lost long ago. Enough said on this.

Now, rightly so, you are critical of the actions done in the name of religion. Once again, I am NOT talking about religion. religion is very different than having a living relationship with a living God and the TRUE living God. You make ref…erence to the crusades….yes, that is the classic communistic mindset argument which you have bought into 100%. The crusades were HORRIBLE and never should have happened. They were done by men under the influence of not God, even though they called it God…it was NOT of God, clearly because of the FRUIT that was manifested in their behaviors. Anything OF GOD will bear GOOD FRUIT! So, you mentioning stoning women who commit adultery….that is of the muslim faith which is absolutely a false religion and yes, millions have been led astray. Today, all over the globe, Jesus Christ is showing up to Muslims in dreams and visions and they are giving their lives to HIM, and turning their backs on Allah, recognizing that they have believed a lie their entire lives. Look at the fruit of the muslim religion….all infidels must die. Never once did Jesus teach to kill your enemies…he said to love your enemies and do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you. Do all Christian believers do this? No. Not even I do this perfectly, because I’m not perfect. So, because I am not a perfect Christian I should throw the baby out with the bathwater and say my belief and faith is a delusion? That’s ridiculous!

Deuteronomy 30

1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you, 2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. 4 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back: 5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?” 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?” 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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