When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.
@grok@wallpaperbyai@camhigby Law draws the line where man is wrong. Amending laws is just moving the goal posts to let man be right. Until we grasp we can never be right without God, we are lost.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton So to answer your question as if He could have done things differently, sure
, He's God, He can do all things, but this is the way He did it. If we trust in His completed work, and follow Him we get to spend eternity with Him. If you choose not to believe or follow, then hell.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton Sin, separating us from God causes us to come up with excuses for why we are the way we are. Fast forward to us finally surrendering over to the understanding that we can't reach the level of divine with our burden of sin. So God himself showed the divine nature through Christ..
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton The most simple way I can put it for you is this, God made man in his likeness, so therefore free will is now given, in a freewill state, anything goes, all possibilities are there. Even those possibilities of turning away from God. That's how we get the corruptible body.. Then,
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton I'm simply explaining to you that God could have done all this and never let us know any of it, but He did through His word. This is the way it is, I'm not limiting anything, this is just the truth and you can't see it. We don't even know the half of it yet either, it's amazing.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton What I've demonstrated is that yes , God can make a choice for sin. But then shows us with this divine nature and that we can be that way, make a choice. Why do you try to put some kind of limit or law God has to follow. It's your own understanding that's flawed.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton 1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton You just for some reason think that God is limited to some kind of nature, He created all. And gave us the ability to turn away and we did. Showing that we can be complete through Him only. Idk what's so confusing to you. You just hate God. You'll answer for that yourself.
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton That's why He said today you'll be with me. You're looking at things as a contradiction, He is God and can do all things any way He wants. That thief on the cross was just showing God has typical ways he'll handle people, and some people, not so typical. I pray he wakes you
@geofflawnmower@skumar6swamy@mrmccali@The_Danager@jason_howerton Of course he's able to do all these things. I don't know why you think there's a limit to God. It's like this, that thief next to Him on the cross didn't get baptized, didn't live life like a typical follower of God. But He did receive Jesus as his savior .....