"If Jesus was God, why didn't He just say it?"
I used to ask that as a Muslim.
I thought I had Christians cornered. Then I actually read the Bible I was criticizing.
And I realized I wasn't looking for evidence. I was looking for a specific sentence.
But does God need your preferred wording to still be God?
Because God said: "Before Abraham was, I AM."
The Jews immediately picked up stones to kill Him. Why?
Because they knew exactly what He was claiming.
He wasn't just saying He existed before Abraham.
He was identifying Himself with the "I AM" of Exodus 3:14.
The divine name of Yahweh.
And here's what wrecked me:
The Quran calls Jesus the Messiah: The Word of God. A Spirit from God. Born of a virgin. Sinless and alive today. Returning to judge the world.
Yet I'm supposed to believe He's just another basic prophet?
No other prophet gets that description. Not Moses, David, Abraham or Muhammad.
Then you open the Bible and Jesus forgives sins, accepts worship, claims authority over heaven and earth, and rises from the dead. So no, Jesus never walked around saying, "I'm God, worship Me" in the exact sentence structure I demanded.
He did something far more powerful: He lived it, He proved it.
And honestly, after reading the Scriptures for myself, the problem wasn't that Jesus wasn't clear.
The problem was that I didn't want to hear Him.
@SorryAyy@mak1221383@Acts17David@dawahxdialogues I didn't say it didn't but that's besides the point. If you look at the same article you clipped you will see Aquinas makes no reference to natural law. Marriage is a contract it comes under the ordinance of positive law. In this case Roman Law.
@CConcern Here's a tip for anyone in the workplace: If a superior says speak your mind this is a safespace. It is a trap! Much like HR dept are not for your benefit but the company's. However, if you do so seek legal advice on wrongful dismissal and suing the company.
@ProtoSinwarism The Jizya is a humiliation (dhimmi) tax. It was to protect from further violence until they could no longer pay and were either forced to convert or were murdered for not.
@KerryBurgess The flaws of this argument, make it that individual muslims who fought at a given time and place for Britain therefore ALL the world's muslims have a right to come to Britain. Not the most robust form of argumentation.
@Jamesputty8@dawahxdialogues I'm arguing from the Church's objective standard which is: marriages involving parties below the canonical minimum age are invalid for a legal-moral reason tied to capacity—especially the capacity for sufficient, free consent and for assuming the essential obligations of marriage
The first ever book released by the allies about WW2 in 1945.
No mentions of gaschambers and no mentions of basically anything else they propagated on us.
I wonder why
One of the most inspiring stories from the early Church is that of Saint Polycarp, who lived from around 69 to 155 AD. As an 86-year-old bishop and a direct disciple of Saint John the Apostle, Polycarp was a living link to the apostles.
During a Roman persecution, he was arrested for being a Christian. When ordered to curse Christ and worship the emperor, the elderly bishop boldly replied: “Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?”
The crowd demanded he be burned alive in the stadium. As the executioners lit the massive pyre, something extraordinary happened. According to the eyewitness account written by his own church, the flames did not consume him.
Instead, they formed a protective wall around his body like a ship’s sail billowing in the wind. In the center of the fire, Polycarp stood unharmed. Witnesses said the smell was not of burning flesh, but like sweet baking bread.
Eventually, he was stabbed to death, but his courageous faith and the miracle of the fire left a powerful witness that still inspires Christians today.
Saint Polycarp reminds us that God can deliver us through the fire, or give us grace to stand firm in it. In a world that often pressures us to compromise our faith, may we have the same courage and trust.
“Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” (Revelation 2:10)
@Proud_Aboki Weird how Christians were utterly pillaged, slaughtered, persecuted and enslaved from middle East to north Africa to Europe over the last 1400 yrs. https://t.co/zGDNuQO1Zh
@KeithWoodsYT@Quasy021 The will is free to choose according to Church teaching. You are confusing that with whether you have the right to choose evil for good which the Church teaches you do not. Nonetheless, you have the God given freedom to do it.
@PeterDClack These aren't the only issues. They require far more area than a traditional PP. They need constant maintenance to get the most out of them and they can only ever produce a limited voltage. And only work in direct sunlight. Madness!
A staggering 7 to 8 billion solar panels have been deployed globally—but up to 90% of them are currently on a direct trajectory toward disposal.
While modern solar panels are technically made of roughly 95% recyclable materials (glass, aluminum, copper, and silicon), recycling currently runs at a steep economic loss.
* The cost: Processing runs $500–$1,000 per tonne ($10 to $40 per panel).
* The yield: The value of recovered materials doesn't even cover the transport fees.
Compared with minimal landfill fees, economics dictate that burial is the default option. But the world is rapidly running out of room, and governments are beginning to panic.
We are already seeing a preview of this crisis in the wind sector, where an expected 43 million tonnes of turbine blade waste by 2050 has led several European nations—including Austria, Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands—to actively ban decommissioned blades from landfills.
Solar is hitting the same wall. Panels built over two decades ago are reaching the end of their 20-to-24-year lifespans, while many more become economically obsolete and are replaced long before that.
This has created a massive regulatory catch-22: To prevent heavy metals like lead and cadmium from potentially leaching into groundwater, jurisdictions like Victoria, Australia, have implemented strict bans on putting solar panels into landfills, classifying them as hazardous e-waste.
Yet, with recycling remaining economically non-viable, we are creating an impossible bottleneck. While industry bodies like the IEA maintain that leaching risks from broken panels are negligible and within safety limits, the sheer volume of impending waste tells a different story.
If it costs too much to recycle, and it is illegal to landfill, where do several billions of panels go?
The 'clean energy' solution is rapidly staring down the barrel of a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.
Image: Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined - Shutterstock.