Thom Dell

DeSantis 2028. Retired aerospace, part-time bus driver, happily married. No DM’s please.

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@ThrillaRilla369 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

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@MasterMaliq this is amazing. What do you think about it?

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When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote.

“Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”

I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran.

Then I read it slowly.

The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…”

Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking.

And I found it.

Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD — four centuries before the Quran.

Rabbis discussing why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” cry out — plural — and concluding: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world.

Word for word. Same context. Same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5.

The most beautiful verse in the Quran is a rabbi’s classroom commentary.

And that’s when the question changed for me. It was never “is this verse beautiful?” It was: what is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?

Because there are only two options:

Either Allah quoted the rabbis.

Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said.

The Bible predicted men would do this too.

Jeremiah 23:30 — “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.”

Once I stopped defending man’s word… I found the Living Word. Christ Jesus my King.

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@rabbriansamuel Thank you for sharing. I’d never heard that and it really is a great way to look at scripture. I’ll have to remember that.

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@MattH_4America I’m going with none of the above. It does not have to be one of those just because you say it does. He could be “crazy like a fox.”

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@PahlaviReza @ShahramMakoui48 Who were those hundreds of thousands of Iranians at the funeral of the Ayatollah? Seems that it all of Iranian people are “yearning to breathe free.”

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@MasterMaliq I don’t care because I don’t even know what Kafir is without googling it.

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@MasterMaliq Good question. 2 Cor 5:21 says, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Our sin was imputed to him and his righteousness was imputed to us. Substitutionary atonement. How are Moslems sins atoned for?

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@tuuu28283 I live in a suburb of a large city and I haven’t seen one yet, other than on the news.

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@TheresaArueyin1 I would agree with you, Joseph. From the bottom of a cave to a great leader of Egypt and “savior” for his people.

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@DrMamoudYoussef @MasterMaliq This is true. Estimates are that there are 1-2% of Muslims “radicalized.” So, you are basically talking about 1-2 million terrorists.

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@NiohBerg Judging by all the people at their leaders funeral it does not appear that the Iranian people are ready or wanting regime change.

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@tuuu28283 No worries. Any of us who have used a translator on our phones know it sometimes gets it wrong.

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@Handre Democrats and Socialists do not like to be confused by the facts.

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@ApexSeeker_ Sure, honestly I am not an Anime fan (I’m old). I would like to visit for the history, culture and food.

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@ApexSeeker_ No, absolutely nothing Z

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@lady_valor_07 “Let me tell you a story ‘bout a man named Jed…” start that and someone will finish it for or with you

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@5Solas No.

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@MasterMaliq what do you say about this? Are you serious about the truth?

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@DavidFischer G. ESV & CSB, sometimes a Spanish language in parallel.