@Xtopher_Uzo I respect a good many things about Catholicism. But, if we go back to the line quoted, we are told they are worshipping the one and same “god”.
@MagicFmirza1950@unironicneocon@RealShahriqKhan All our good deeds are filthy rags friend. Even on your finest day, you aren’t fit for Heaven. You must be clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence.
He says he regrets his decision…
When I was Muslim, I read the golden calf story in Surah 20 and never blinked.
The Quran says the man who led Israel into making the golden calf was “as-Samiri.” The Samaritan.
At Mount Sinai. Around 1400 BC.
Here’s the problem: Samaritans did not exist yet. Not for another 700 years.
The Samaritans emerged after the Assyrians conquered northern Israel in 722 BC and foreign settlers mixed into the region of Samaria — a city that itself wasn’t built until 1 Kings 16, centuries after Moses.
You cannot have a Samaritan at Sinai for the same reason you cannot have an American at the fall of Rome.
So how did a Samaritan end up in the Exodus?
By the 7th century AD, Jews and Samaritans had despised each other for centuries.
Jewish polemic blamed Samaritans for idolatry — one later tradition even ties a Samaritan to calf worship.
If you’re composing a story and you need a villain the local Jewish audience will instantly hate, “the Samaritan did it” writes itself.
That’s not the fingerprint of God. That’s the fingerprint of a 7th-century neighborhood feud leaking into “eternal scripture.”
And here’s the JESUS FLIP. Buckle in.
Jesus knew exactly what Samaritans were — hated, half-breed, heretics — and He made one the HERO of His most famous parable.
Then in John 4, He crossed into Samaria on purpose to offer living water to a Samaritan woman with five husbands.
The Quran wrote the Samaritan in as the villain.
Jesus wrote the Samaritan in as the neighbor and friend.
Tell me which one sounds like God.
Praise the Lord Jesus.
When I was Muslim, this shook me:
The story of Noah.
Because when I compared the Quran to the Torah, I found a difference that isn't small at all.
In Genesis, Noah brings his wife, his three sons, and their wives onto the ark. Shem, Ham and Japheth - All three survive. In fact, the entire post-flood world is traced back to those three sons.
That's the foundation of the biblical genealogy of nations.
Then I read Surah 11.
And suddenly one of Noah's sons refuses to board the ark, says he'll escape by climbing a mountain, and drowns in the flood.
And I remember thinking:
Wait. Which son? What happened to the genealogy? What happened to the nations that were supposed to come from him?
This isn't a minor detail. It's a completely different version of a foundational story.
And the more I studied, the more I noticed the pattern.
Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Mary.
The Quran repeatedly retells biblical accounts with significant changes.
That forced me to ask a question:
If God does not contradict Himself, why do these stories change? Because the Torah's account existed centuries before Islam.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, and other ancient manuscript traditions all preserve the same core narrative.
Yet the Quran presents a different version.
At some point you have to decide:
Is this revelation?
Or is it revision?
Because if two accounts make contradictory historical claims, they cannot both be preserving the exact same story.
And that question was one of many that eventually led me to reexamine everything I believed.
When I was Muslim, I thought the Quran and the Bible told the same Adam story.
Then I actually read them side by side.
In the Quran, Adam sins, says sorry, and Allah just forgives him. Clean. Done. Surah 2:37.
No blood, covering, nor cost.
But in the Bible, God is very clear: Sin, and you will CERTAINLY die. There’s a real punishment for going against God.
Yet the moment Adam sins, he doesn’t die - something else does.
God kills an animal to cover their shame and clothes them.
Genesis 3:21. The first death in history is God covering a sinner He could’ve destroyed.
That’s the whole story right there.
One book says sin is a debt you apologize for.
The other says sin is a death someone has to absorb.
And bro, if sin is just a “my bad” to God — then the cross is a cruel overreaction.
But if sin actually kills — then the cross isn’t overkill.
It’s the only thing that was ever going to work.
I left Islam the day I realized forgiveness without blood is just God pretending He didn’t see it.
Church: Stop romanticizing the idea that Muslims and Jews are somehow “almost there” faith side.
Islam rejects Christ. That’s not “almost” right: it’s completely wrong.
Muslims don’t need sentimental unity. They need the gospel. Same as Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and Mormons.
Stop treating Islam like it’s halfway home. Muhammad wasn’t an Ishmaelite. Islam isn’t Abrahamic. If Abraham had a passport, Mecca wouldn’t be stamped in it.
The only son of promise is fulfilled in Christ. The only seed is Christ. The only path to God is through Him. Stop idolizing theological fan fiction and go teach the truth of the gospel.
Maranatha 🔥
@KevinSVanHorn@MasterMaliq The website I referred you to is the one I made. I’ve done the research. Josephus was contemporaneous. Jesus lived died and lives again and is coming back.
@walk_colb@BasedMikeLee Yet we all know something in name only means something different…Jesus himself pointed out using His name does not equate with reality necessarily
As somebody who read it in the Quran and is now Ex-Muslim, I knew that Jesus was coming back.
Surah 43:61 says that Jesus is a sign of the hour, as in the end, the day of judgment.
And even when I was Muslim, I had this deep conviction like, yo, if He’s alive and if He’s coming back, I gotta know who He is and actually know Him.
Because the more I read the Bible trying to disprove it, the more I saw one theme:
When He returns, people will not recognize Him.
They will miss the signs. Oof.
Your boy was not trying to be one of them.
So, I started digging.
The Quran says in Surah 3:47 that He’s born of a virgin. In Surah 3:49 that He gives life and heals the blind. In Surah 19 that He’s sinless. And in Surah 4, He’s called the Word from God and Al Masih, the Messiah.
And I had to stop and ask:
What do those titles actually mean?
Because Islam gives Jesus these divine labels, but no meaning, no prophecy, no story, no relationship. Just titles floating in space.
So I opened the Bible. That’s where I found out who Jesus really is.
Not just what He did, but who He is.
That’s what hit me the hardest.
You can believe Jesus is coming back and still not know who you’re meeting.
And now that I’ve met Him, I’m not just waiting for His return.
I’m living like He could knock on the door today.
Islam gave me titles. Christianity gave me a Savior.
@MasterMaliq@GangstArNanny How about the broad claim that Muslim men don’t respect women period? Do women get to beat their husbands? Can they divorce them for abuse?