05-21-2011, 05:14 PM
(05-21-2011, 04:48 PM)SAFC link Wrote: Unfortunately that's the world we live in. Since the 9/11 attacks, anything bad that has a link with Muslims is just confirming that Muslims are terrorists. That's the way it's projected in the media. Whats more interesting to the narrow minded pessimistic public? A story about a Muslim man saving people from a fire? Or a Muslim man starting a fire that kills many British or American non-Muslims?
Obviously it's the second option that is going to generate more interest and emotion, in this case anger. So that will get more news ratings, and sell more news papers. That's the main focus of the media today, less truth more exaggerated headlines to gain interest. Muslims are an easy target because of a minority, who call themselves true Muslims, when really they're not following true Islam according to the Qur'an.
People use verses from the Qur'an to say that Muslims hate non-Muslims, and that Muslims believe God says they should kill non-Muslims. I could get a news paper and string a few lines together and make it look like the newspaper is telling us to kill and rape people. That's what happens when things are taken away from their context, they can be manipulated.
I notice a lot of talk about the Bible, people saying its metaphors. Well the Bible wasn't originally written in English, so the translation causes some changes. The New Testament wasn't written and preserved in its original form, if it was it hasn't yet been discovered. The only copies of the originals that exist are copies of copies of copies, and so on, of the original. So there are mistakes, things missing, things added. The Bible is not one of a kind, because there are many different versions of it. The Qur'an has remained the same since it's creation.
Here are a few questions I'd like to ask directed to Christians concerning the Bible, and it's contradictions.
This is concerning the resurrection.
Who went to the tomb and first discovered Jesus wasn't in the tomb?
Was it discovered in the early morning before sunrise, or after sunrise?
Who rolled the stone away from the tomb?
Was there anything or anyone in the tomb? If so who or what?
Who told the disciples to go to Galilee?
I'm interested to see what answers I get, and if they differ from each other.
One question, do you believe the press if they report about a story? Do you think different people report the events differently?
If something happened 2000 years ago, will the real story be told or will different people make different stories out of it? At that time a lot of people couldn't read so the story will have led it's own life. People love spectacular things.