OPINION LEFT: Why Are We So Afraid of a Ground Zero Mosque?

My tax dollars should not be paying for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife U.S. Government funded trips. Read this book and it will blow you mind and realize what is going on today specially with this Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf! I have readseveral pages all read and has made realize what si going on.

Is the Qur'an the Word of God? by Aaron Goerner
www.bible-quran.com

Excerpt:

EMAILS FROM MUSLIMS:3

•We believe that Jesus was a great prophet and that his mother was a pure woman. We don’t believe in trinity, crucifixion, or the first sin or savior. Excluding these four things and practicing Christ’s teachings is more than enough for Christians to be good human beings. Why philosophizing and complicating things ??? !!!


•I WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION “Did Jesus die on the cross? IM NOT SPEAK TO ANTAGONISE ANY RILIGIOU BUT TO SAY THE FACT. ACCOUNDING TO QURʼAN, IT LET US REALISE THAT JESUS DID NO DIE ON THE CROSS, GOD RAISED HIM UP UNTO HIMSELF (4:157-158) WHILE BIBLE SAY JESUE WAS CRUCIFIED (MATTHEW16:21) BUT IF YOU READ (MATTEW27:30-37),(MARKS15;19-... 23:26-27) SIMON OF CYRENE WAS THE ONE THEY CRUCIFIED


MY CHRISTIAN RESPONSE:


Please consider the facts behind the historical event of Jesus’ death on the cross:

The Old Testament prophets testified to Jesus’ death and burial. For example, Isaiah wrote almost 700 years before Jesus,

Isaiah 53:7-9
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

Jesus testified to His death on multiple occasions. Here are a few examples:

Matthew 16:21
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Matthew 20:17-19
Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!”

Matthew 26:1-2
When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
“As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

Matthew 26:6-12
While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper,
a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked.
“This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”
Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.
When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Here are some eyewitnesses to the death of Jesus on the cross:

•Mary Magdalene
•Mary the mother of James and Joseph
•Mary the mother of Jesus
•The disciple whom Jesus loved (John 19:26)
Here is a list of names of people who participated in the burial of Jesus’ dead body:

•Joseph of Arimathea
•Nicodemus
•Mary Magdalene
•Mary the mother of James and Joseph
Even non-Christian sources wrote that Jesus died:

•Josephus (Jewish historian born around 37 AD and died 100 AD) refers to Jesus’ death (Antiquities 18.3.3).
•Tacitus (AD 55-120), a renowned historian of ancient Rome wrote around 115 A.D. that Christ was “executed” by Pilate (Annals 15.44).
The law/Torah requires that a matter be established by two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 17:6-7). Therefore, the testimonies of Jesus, Old Testament prophets, Jesus’ followers, non-Christian historians, etc. is true, legal and believable compared to the testimony of Muhammad (or the Qur’an), which was written nearly six hundred years after the event. To put it simply, the Law of Moses makes it unlawful to believe the Qur’an.

Here is another reason why it is unlawful to believe the Qur’an. Muhammad’s claim that the angel Gabriel spoke to him is an HISTORICAL CLAIM. What historical evidence is there that the angel Gabriel spoke to Muhammad? Is there eyewitness testimony, or is Muhammad the only witness to his claim that Gabriel spoke to him? The Bible says such claims as Muhammad made need to be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Unlike Moses and Jesus, Muhammad was the only witness to what he claimed concerning the angel Gabriel. This means that believing Muhammad’s claim is a violation of God’s Law and is especially sinful because he contradicted the previously validated and lawful testimony of Moses and Jesus.

I have read that the Qur’an requires four witnesses when a woman is accused of adultery (Al-Maeda 4:15; Al-Noor 24:4; cf. 2:282). Of course, adultery is a serious charge and witnesses should be required. And yet, Muhammad’s claim that the Christian Scriptures are adulterated is an even more serious claim. What testimony/witnesses did Muhammad give to support his allegation that the Christian Scriptures are adulterated?

Muhammad lacks witnesses that the angel Gabriel spoke to him. Muhammad lacks witnesses that the words he spoke are more authoritative than the Christian Scriptures. Muhammad did not and could not produce superior testimony to the historical fact of Jesus’ death on the cross and neither can you.