Answering Christianity?
I found answering-christianity.org, which is an obvious rebuttal to answering-islam.org. I was just poking around and found a few interesting tidbits.
Jesus in the Bible guaranteed Paradise to non-Trinitarians.Notice that the man’s question [Luke 10:27–28] was straight forward: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” No other question can be more straight forward than this! Notice how Jesus answered this straight forward question: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart.…..and love your neighbor as yourself.…..Do this and you will live.”
Notice that Jesus didn’t talk about any trinity concept, nor did he say to the man that he must accept Jesus as a mediator between him and GOD Almighty to win eternal life. No Jesus was pretty clear and straight forward here: LOVE GOD ALMIGHTY AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS AS YOURSELF. That is simply all there is to it to win eternal life in Jesus’ standards. It certainly wasn’t necessary for the man who asked the question to believe in trinity in order for him to be saved. Jesus assured him Paradise if he believed otherwise.
So what is the way that Jesus talked about in John 14:6 then?
When Jesus said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (From the NIV Bible, John 14:6)”, if we take the meanings of this verse in the same context in Luke 10:25–28 and the other verses that teach about love, harmony and forgiveness, then we would clearly see that the way that Jesus talked about is the goodness in you.
If you love GOD Almighty with your heart and soul and you are a good person and love people and always try to be the best example to every person you meet, then you will win the eternal life. Accepting Jesus as the mediator between you and GOD Almighty (believing that Jesus died on the cross to purify your sins) is not necessary to win eternal life.
Like I said above, It certainly wasn’t necessary for the man who asked the question to believe in trinity in order for him to be saved. Jesus assured him Paradise if he believed otherwise.
What about John 3:16 — “For God loved the world that he gave his one and only son.…”
First of all, it is important to know that John 3:15–17 is not a quote from Jesus himself in the Bible. It is a quote that exist in the “Gospel of John”, but the Gospel itself according to the theologians and historians of the NIV Bible had been tampered with and altered by men, along with most of the Bible’s books and gospels.
Now both sites are bad for solid apologetics, but this material is awful. I am not going to even bother myself with attempting to answer them; in fact, the texts he quotes from in fact refute their very arguments. Notice he misconstrued John 14:6 but didn’t include John 14:7. Also, this apologist obviously hasn’t looked at the multitude of texts that prove there is no “goodness” in us (Ephesians 2:1, Romans 3:10–12).
To effectively minister to Muslims, we do not need to look for contradictions in the Qur’an, attack Muhammed, or the Muslim culture. In their own holy book it says they are to read the Bible:
Say: O followers of the Book [Jews/Christians]! you follow no good till you keep up the Taurat and the Injeel and that which is revealed to you from your Lord; and surely that which has been revealed to you from your Lord shall make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief; grieve not therefore for the unbelieving people.
Surah 5:68
Now, it is said in this Surah that the Trinity is a lie, but it does not say anywhere that the Injeel (Arabic word for New Testament) is corrupted. Muhammed was born almost 300 years after the canonization of the New Testament, and no where does he say: “O followers of the Book, read the uncorrupted Injeel and Taurat [Torah].”
In fact, Jesus is mentioned four times as often as Muhammed. Just approach a Muslim, always one-on-one, and talk about the Prophet Jesus and the Injeel. There’s no need to attack their beliefs; it will get you no where. Christians have such a base to discuss their faith with Muslims, but they feel they have to attack the Muslim foundation instead of just sharing the Gospel through the very book they are commanded to read.
I love Muslims.