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MUSLIMS LOVE JESUS, TOO: 6 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT JESUS IN ISLAM
“Christmas, as everybody knows, commemorates the birth of Jesus and is a major religious celebration around the world.
But what many people don’t know is that Jesus is an important figure in Islam, too, even though most Muslims don’t celebrate Christmas (though some, especially some American Muslims, do).
In honour of the holiday, here are six things you may not know about the role of Jesus --- and his mother, Mary --- in Islam.
1) Jesus, Mary, and the angel Gabriel are all in the Quran (as are Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and a bunch of other Bible characters).
2) Muslims believe that Jesus (called “Isa” in Arabic) was a prophet of God, was born to a virgin (Mary), and will return to Earth before the Day of Judgement to restore justice and to defeat al-Masih ad Dajjal (“the false messiah”), also known as the Antichrist. All of which may sound pretty familiar to many Christians.
3) Mary (called “Maryam” in Arabic) has an entire chapter named for her --- the only chapter in the Quran named for a female figure. In fact, Mary is the only woman to be mentioned by name in the entire Quran. As noted in the Study Quran, “other female figures are identified only by their relation to others, such as the wife of Adam and mother of Moses, or by their Title, such as the Queen of Sheba.” Mary is mentioned more times in the Quran than in the entire New Testament.
4) Just as with all the other prophets, including Mohammed, Muslims recite, “Peace be upon him, every time they refer to Jesus.
5) Muslims believe that Jesus performed miracles: The Quran discusses several of Jesus’s miracles, including giving sight to the blind, healing lepers, raising the dead, and breathing life into clay birds.
6) The story of Jesus’s birth as told in the Quran is also the story of his first miracle, when he spoke as an infant in the cradle and declared himself to be a prophet of God. Here’s the story:
“And remember Mary in the Book, when she withdrew from her family to an eastern place. (1) And she veiled herself from them. Then We [God] sent unto her Our Spirit [the angel Gabriel], (1) and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man. She said, “I seek refuge from thee in the Compassionate [i.e., God], if you are reverent!” He said, “I am but a messenger of thy Lord, to bestow upon thee a pure boy.”
She said, “How shall I have a boy when no man has touched me, nor have I been unchaste?” He said, “Thus shall it be. Thy Lord says, ‘It is easy for me’.” (2) And [it is thus] that We might make him a sign unto mankind, and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter decreed. (2)
So she conceived Him and withdrew to a place far off. (3) And the pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a date palm. She said, “Would that I had died before this and was a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!” So he (4) called out to her from below her, (4) “Grieve not! Thy Lord has placed a rivulet beneath thee. And shake toward thyself the trunk of the date palm; (5) fresh, ripe dates shall fall upon thee. So eat and drink and cool thine eye. And if thou seest any human being, say, ‘Verily I have vowed a fast unto the Compassionate, so I shall not speak this day to any man.”
Then she came with him [the infant Jesus] unto her own people, carrying him. They said, “O Mary! Thou hast brought an amazing thing! O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not an evil man, nor was thy mother unchaste.” Then she pointed to him [Jesus]. They said, “How shall we speak to one who is yet a child in the cradle?” (6)
He [Jesus] said, “Truly I am a servant of God. He has given me the Book and made me a prophet. He has made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and has enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I live, and [has made me] dutiful toward my mother. And he has not made me domineering, wretched. Peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am raised alive!” (7)
That is Jesus son of Mary --- a statement of the truth, which they doubt.” (16:17 to 34)
So although Muslims do not believe that Jesus is the son of God --- an
important distinction between Muslim and Christian views of him ---
Muslims do revere Jesus as an important prophet.
Merry Christmas! ----------------------------------------------
Well, reader; that is a very clever and, in my view, totally unthinking narrative. We will tell you why as we dissect it all and, through just plain logic, show you how mindless it truly is, and thus precisely why it is so unthinking. The truly amazing thing about that series of Koranic verses is that 1.5 billion human beings actually “buy into it” and, moreover, without any degree of logical thought and intelligence whatsoever. For among that Muslim multitude who will not question the Koran or any part of it are any number of engineers, mathematicians, university Imams, doctors and lawyers etc.,.
Why, reader, do they not “publicly” question such obvious impossibilities as that which you have just read? For in truth they are unworkable distortions that do not possess even a shred of just plain, intelligent logic. Yet that is a series of verses from just one chapter of the Koran. Despite the official line that Islam as a “religion of peace”; it seems that any clear-thinking Muslim who might want to challenge such illogical dogma from the “only perfect religion” for the only “true believers”, would surely put them at serious variance with most of the rest of global Islam.
Now read our commentary on good and accepting Muslim, Jennifer Williams’s, contribution to Islam’s “global crusade”, and then in pure honesty try and refute what we can clearly “see” as impossible nonsense. For what we will explain to you in very simple logic, you should recognise as a terrible affront against everything that pertains to GOD and HIS PERFECT WILL!
[We have checked the verses in the Koran of our preferred Muslim scholar, M.M. Ali, and also three other Korans to ensure that the verses read similarly; and they do. We will use some of Ali’s commentary to emphasise the crass nature of the whole narrative.]
Reader: Remember as you read the following counter-points of clarification, that the Koran is stated by Muslim Imams and 1.5 billion Muslim adherents --- and counting ---- to be delivered direct from God to the archangel, Gabriel; and thence to Muhammad. It is thus proclaimed by Islam to the one and only perfect and ordained Truth --- for all of humanity. I think that we would all agree that Truth, to be Truth, must hold Perfect Logic, don’t you think? Unfortunately for Islam in this case, read and weep!
Notwithstanding the fact that this very subject and narrative will necessarily strongly feature in Discourse 2:
THE “SONSHIP” OF GOD
The “Monumental Error” of Islam, Christianity and Judaism ---------
And in Discourse 5:
JESUS
The Christian “Son of God”! --- The Muslim “Son of Mary”? --- The
Jewish “Prophet”.
-------- It must first necessarily be heard in this Addendum to The Foundational Text which, without apology, is centred on the great and ultimately humanly-incomprehensible LOVE OF GOD and how we have spurned and denigrated that SUBLIME and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!
[If you now think; ‘where is God’s Love when humankind has suffered so much’, then think on His Perfect Laws of Creation; specifically, the great Law of Reciprocal Action first. It means precisely what it says in that your decisions will return to you the commensurate outcome of whatever deeds you committed --- from the decision! That is how it works. DIVINE LAW: Simple and absolute in Perfect Justice!]
Right, back to our key subject: To begin with, we will by-pass the 6 points of Williams’s introduction to the Koranic verses of relevance, for whilst we could begin to “put right” certain errors there, the sequence of “Mary’s travail” as depicted in the Koran holds far greater distortion of The Truth! In clear logic, we herewith present our “dissection” of the major, very illogical, points.
(1) We are here told that Mary, born into the Jewish race and culture, would somehow separate herself from the women of her village and go off alone to a “far place” to conceive. Are we expected to really believe that? Fortunately for her in this disjointed Islamic narrative, she at least has the protection of the archangel Gabriel.
(2) The hoary old argument rears its stupid head here: A Perfect God Who brings forth a Perfect Creation through the outworking of Perfect Laws that are inviolable, immutable and thus unchangeable, suddenly --- for human religions, mind --- “permits” a “law change” for Jesus only! What that must obviously mean is that the human vessel into which He had to be incarnated in order to simply exist in the World of Matter was somehow conceived “outside” the Perfection of Immutable Creation-Law! Sorry! It doesn’t work!
Yet the great scholar, M.M. Ali, in commentary 21 b; observes:
‘She conceived him in the ordinary way in which women conceive children’.
And in commentary on 19 a:
‘The words I will give thee a pure boy are the words of the message. The
Spirit, in fact, only conveyed the Divine message, as it always does. Every
word of the Holy Qur’-an is the word of God, but every word was
delivered to the Prophet by the angel.’
(Bold and underlined emphasis mine.)
Reader: You have read this key point more than once so far, but because it is so crucial to the truth or otherwise of the Koran, we will state it many more times yet as we proceed. So, the statement:
Every word of the Holy Qur’-an is the word of God. -----
----- is supposedly from the Archangel Gabriel to Muhammad; from out of
The “Divine”!
However, as you will read here, far too much of what the “poetic and perfect Koran” says flies in the face of just plain logic. Thus, my assessment of point 3:
(3) Nonetheless, she “conceived him” and then supposedly withdrew from her family and all the help that any culture would naturally offer a pregnant woman of their village, to --- according to M.M. Ali’s translation --- go off to “a remote place” to give birth alone. That doesn’t work, either.
(4) Now, in the throes of childbirth --- completely alone, remember --- Mary is led to the base of a date palm. She is thirsty and in need of sustenance. What happens next is so bizarre and ludicrous as to be laughable. Let’s explain! Firstly, Mary is under the guardianship of the Archangel, Gabriel. He is not one of the many lesser serving angels of God, but one of the seven Highest Archangels. He is a Proclaimer of Divine Messages, yet he somehow ends up “in the ground” beneath Mary! According to A. Yusuf Ali’s interpretation, simply for the purpose of telling Mary that there is a “rivulet flowing beneath her” --- which she would surely see in any case ---- and from which she can assuage her thirst. Gabriel, the Lord’s great Messenger, is reduced to being “a voice from beneath the palm tree”. So, this very special Messenger of God is relegated by Islam to some kind of lesser creature that can somehow transition to a place ‘in the dirt’ under a date palm, just to give advice to Mary. How crass is that? Is that not truly more than just ridiculous, but quite insane? No “Message from God”, even delivered by His Messenger, would ever be heard from below the ground. The sheer effrontery of that Koranic narrative is truly staggering!
(5) Then, to assuage her hunger, Gabriel advises Mary --- who is sitting at the base of the palm tree and surely weakened through giving birth --- to reach out and, at its base, mind; shake the “trunk of the palm tree” so that ripe dates will fall from it. Think about that, reader! Who would have the strength to shake the trunk of a fully-matured date palm sufficiently-vigorously to loosen its fruit? Even icon “Arnie” [Arnold Schwarzenegger] in his prime would be hard-pressed to do so. The great Samson could have, but not a woman weakened by childbirth. Silly in the extreme.
(6) Mary then journeys home with her new-born, shows him to her people, who then ask a truly stupid question. Obviously knowing that successive generations of “new-born” have never had the ability to speak, the people who “welcome her home” nonetheless ask how to “speak to a child in the cradle”.
(7) Of course, to maintain the lie of the Koran being this great wondrous “book” full of God’s grace and exception for the “only true believers”, Jesus must say “something”. So to fit the Muslim narrative, and against all that is Perfect from God; as a “babe in the cradle”, Jesus speaks --- we must presume in this truly foolish tale --- perfectly and eloquently.
Now, let’s hear more from M.M. Ali and his desperate attempts to try to logically explain the complete illogical reality of the very “perfect beyond all measure” Koranic verses that we are currently dissecting.
Point 3: Ali, 21 a. ‘Jesus was a sign to men, in the sense that he was made a prophet, and every prophet is a sign, because the Divine revelation which is granted to him affords a clear proof of the existence of the Divine Being. Or, he was a sign to the Israelites in particular, because with him Prophethood came to an end among the Israelites.’
Ali once more denigrates the whole notion of Jesus as The Son of God and consigns Him to just mere “Prophethood”. Moreover, by so doing, Ali elevates the “calling” of Muhammad and Islam to a level exceeding that of Jesus. Foolish, indeed!
Point 4. 23 a. ‘This shows that Mary gave birth to Jesus while on a journey; hence the reference to water and food in vv. 24 and 25, such as one can only find on a journey. That she was going to a distant place is shown by v. 22. She may have had recourse to the trunk of a palm-tree to find a support in the throes of childbirth.’
Ali now actually questions his own belief that every verse of the Koran is the very word of God. For if we compare Ali’s own translation vis-à-vis the actual verse 19:23; “And the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree”, and his commentary; “She may have had recourse to the trunk of a palm-tree...”, a serious and very obvious “disconnect” is immediately evident.
Islam, you cannot have it both ways, for on that huge and fundamental difference pertaining to just one verse of the whole Koran between what is supposed to be the “Word of God” and a subsequent interpretation of that “claimed Word” by an acclaimed Muslim scholar, we could rest our whole case. Despite that reality, many more Koranic verses than we are dissecting and “putting right” here also await our attention. In the meantime, we will quote two more verse-commentaries from M.M. Ali, and then leave this behind us until we must address it again in the main Work.
Point 4. 23 b. ‘Mary gave birth to Jesus under ordinary circumstances which women experience in giving birth to children. The throes of childbirth were too severe for her to bear, and hence she gave utterance to such words (“Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten”). The reference to the throes of childbirth clearly shows that an ordinary human child was coming into the world. Or, there may be a reference to Gen. 3:16, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.
The same serious “disconnect” is evident here too. Quite literally “ignoring” the actual “words” of the verse, M.M. Ali opines that it may be this, or, it may mean something else. Either Gabriel related everything “word by word” and “verse by verse” to Muhammad, which was then immediately written down verbatim, remember, or he did not! Instead ---- as the many Islamic commentators state --- the Koran in its present state was “cobbled together” from many different sources after Muhammad’s death.
[Reader: In the main Work, we will quote from actual “ancillary works” of The All-Truth and reveal to you what really happened towards the end of Muhammad’s life.] M.M. Ali continues:
Point 6. 27 a. ‘The conversation that is related to have taken place in the verses that follow is alone sufficient to make it clear that the coming of Mary to her people with her son, as stated in this verse, relates to a time when Jesus had grown sufficiently old to have been raised to the dignity of a prophet, and to have received Divine revelation, as he speaks of having been given the book in v. 30. The commentators, merely because the verse follows one in which the birth of Jesus is spoken of, understand the incident to relate to a time when Jesus was still a baby. But it should be noted that the Holy Qur’-an does not relate stories in all their details, and often omits a number of incidents which are not needed for its purpose. --------- Moreover, it is unreasonable to suppose that, as soon as Mary gave birth to the child, she took it to her people to make a show of it. The Qur’-an v. 22, states that she was then going to some remote place, and thus the incident related here could not have taken place immediately after the delivery. .....’
What are we to make of M.M. Ali’s commentary on other commentators here? Either Jesus arrived with Mary to her people as a baby --- as the Koran actually says ---- or the commentators have supplanted what we have been unequivocally told is the very “Word of God” with a different narrative; one that attempts to make more sense of Koranic verses that, on their own or even in a given sequence such as in this case, actually make very little sense at all. So, either a baby, or a grown man! It cannot be both! In this example, it is not simply a case of one or the other being correct; for both narratives are completely unworkable, and both are therefore wrong!
Reader, you can surely read that for yourself. So, if you can, there must be at least some Muslims of logical intelligence who do not live in fear of their religion, who can also “see” the obvious disconnects. We surely wish that it were so in all Muslim societies. We will conclude this line of “dissection” with two more of M.M. Ali’s commentaries, vis-à-vis 30a and 31a.
Point 7. 30 a. ‘It is clear that this conversation did not take place when Jesus was an infant in the cradle, but when he had actually been made a prophet.’
Point 7. 31 a. ‘It is absurd to suppose that prayers and alms were enjoined on Jesus while he was only a day old and that he really observed these injunctions at that age. In fact, Jesus’ answer clearly shows that he was addressing his people after he had been entrusted with the mission of prophethood.’
A truly strange and very dangerous “Islamic paradox”: Despite what M.M. Ali constantly defends in “his Koran” as it being the very “Word of God” in every “word”; by correctly identifying that certain verses cannot be so in their literalism, he has thus “opposed” the very “supposedly authoritative position” of the much-vaunted “verbatim aspect” of the Koran as being “Perfect from God”. I don’t think we need to point out what in 30a and 31a the clear discrepancies and disconnects are. For if we must do that for global Islam as well, then it is no wonder that none of this has ever been questioned and “put right”!
American Muslim Jennifer Williams concludes her little contribution to the great errors propagated by Muslims globally with the pithy Koranic verse:
That is Jesus son of Mary --- a statement of the truth, which they doubt.”
(19:34).
No: Doubt is not the word! That kind of puerile “stuff” goes far beyond that into an outright rejection, never to be even considered in any shape or form as being even remotely connected to Divine Truth! Like Christians and Jews, Islam, too, should embrace the serious warning-admonition of Jesus to the Jewish Religious Authority and the people during His tragically short but earth- shattering Ministry:
“I come not to overthrow the Law, but to fulfil it!”
Reader: As we advised earlier, take very careful note once again of M.M. Ali’s Islamic “mantra:
----- ‘Every word of the Holy Qur’-an is the word of God’ -----
And carry it with you as you journey through the rest of this Text and, indeed, on through the complete Work. With it, you will be able to clearly differentiate between mere man-made earthly religions and the many revelations of PURE DIVINE TRUTH we are tasked to offer!
To that end, and in association with our recent necessary dissection of Koranic verse on the birth of Jesus, we herewith Proclaim such knowledge, albeit just a tiny fraction.
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND
THE BIRTH OF THE SON OF GOD
Every man who truly understands this praises his Lord and Creator more than he who wants to admit other possibilities! The former shows such unshaken faith in the Perfection of his God as to be convinced that any exception or change in the Laws He has ordained is absolutely impossible. And that is the greater faith! Besides all other events entirely agree with this! Christ became a human being on earth. It having been thus resolved, as the Perfection of God ordained, He was obliged to submit to all the Laws God had decreed for physical procreation! -----------------------
In order to fulfil His mission Christ had therefore inevitably to submit to all the Natural Laws, that is, to the Will of His Father. That Christ did so is proved by His whole life --- His normal birth and growth, His feeling both of hunger and fatigue, His suffering and finally His death on the cross. He was subject to everything to which man’s earthly body is subject. Why then should His procreation alone have been different, when there was absolutely no necessity for it? It is just because of the naturalness of everything that the Saviour’s task appears greater, by no means smaller! Likewise Mary was no less blessed in her calling on that account!
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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Reader: Recognise the sheer Power of Divine Knowledge there! Let’s revisit and reinforce once more what we are tasked to do! If we extrapolate M.M. Ali’s claim here; it is that the Koran therefore holds the complete knowledge of all of Creation-Law. Since not one thing in all of Creation --- material and non-material --- can possibly take place except under the immutable aegis of those Perfect and “Divinely-logical” Laws; of the two sets of explanatory commentary --- Ali’s, and what we explain --- only one will reveal genuine logic in every example.
Consequently, we must constantly bear in mind what “global Islam” really believes; that every word of the Koran, in every verse therein in all its one thousand odd pages, there is not one single error. That means, therefore, not one single thing out of place, not one single aspect that does not conform with PERFECT, DIVINE, CREATION-LAW!
Does global Islam really believe that the Koran has that degree of “Perfection” --- not one single error? Given Islam’s “global crusade” against all “unbelievers”, we must assume that Muslims really do believe their own vociferous rhetoric. Well, reader: In just the previous few verses on Mary and Jesus that we looked at --- in quite incredulous disbelief, we might add --- we have learned that that degree of Perfection is simply not there in the Koran at all.
We can open any Koran and read any number of explanations about the verses of the book from an endless parade of scholars and Imams. Despite the fact that they all purport to support the “verbatim Divine mandate” claimed by Islam; nonetheless, they still constantly debate the “meaning” of many verses of their Koran!
In Truth: The Perfection of Truth is the sole preserve of the All-Truth of the actual Spirit of Truth, of which you will shortly read a little more, and very much more in the main Work!
Despite Islam’s vociferous yet nonetheless tragic denial of Jesus as The Son of God, His words of “Divine Warning” also applies to global Islam! In terms of how the Koran has presented itself to the world; what has been lauded for well over a millennium is the so-called “literary beauty” of its “poetic style”. That impression seems to have conferred on the Koran some kind of perceived “righteous religious authority” that is supposed to pass as the “Absolute Truth of God”!
Unfortunately, however, that “religious/poetic prose” aspect actually has the opposite effect; for to those who are not sufficiently “spiritually awake” to question all that passes before them, the so-called “poetic style” of the Koran ultimately masks the very many errors and distortions therein.
What should we choose: The real TRUTH of GOD, or “poetic style? Reader: There really is no contest, is there?
Islam: Hard and final will be the end of your religion, for, like the rest of most of us of global humanity, you, too, really give nothing back to GOD!
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Before we continue, it is crucially-important that we strongly state what we really only just touched on earlier! For this Work: What we have revealed to you in just those small excerpts from out of The All-Truth of “The Spirit of Truth” should clearly show you how appallingly distorted the once pristine Teachings of the great Truth-bringers now are. Tragically, they possess very little of what was then the great gift of Truth to the various peoples of the earth, each at their commensurate time of developing maturity. For only at the appropriate era of the particular “human grouping” concerned could the gift of Truth ------- for that time and for that people ------- be permitted; but through the incarnation of their relevant “Truth-bringer”!
Yet, despite all the distortion and non-understanding, what is still evident in the basic tenets of each religion in terms of what they all inherently possess, is at least the foundation of Truth.
Despite that reality Now, at the beginnings of this Work, what we must state absolutely-categorically is that there cannot be any comparisons made between those “religions” and the “final” All-Truth --- to which you have now been exposed. The very fact that we must show those distortions through quoting relevant texts from The Divine Knowledge of The All-Truth, may thereby give the impression that this Work makes comparisons.
BE SERIOUSLY ADVISED: THAT IS NOT THE CASE --- IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM!
Reader: precisely because you will yet read much more from that inexhaustible well of absolute Knowledge, expunge the word, comparison, from your thought-processes, and replace it, supplant it, with the concept and thus “form” of the word ------- CORRECTION!
For that is what we are “Mandated” to do: Correct the terrible religious errors that have denigrated and denied the wondrous reality of the TRUTH of GOD and HIS PERFECT LAWS, and thus HIS PERFECT CREATION. And that can only be achieved with the knowledge of The All-Truth of The Spirit of Truth!
Be seriously warned, therefore: The too-long “era” of human desecration of DIVINE TRUTH is at an end!
So, only with that necessary change in your thought-processes i.e., from comparison to Correction; will you have the “right picture” of what this Work offers you. And, of course, all of global humanity should they so choose which, of course, they won’t! Nonetheless, may that be so for you!
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For the moment, however; on the question of “consort” we draw your attention to the Creation-Words: “LET THERE BE LIGHT”! That means the “Coming–into-being” of the whole of Creation --- from the non-material Realms all the way down to the World of Matter --- through the Power of Creative- thought!
Unlike us humans who sometimes need an “other half” to fulfil various aspects of life on earth, that kind of incomprehensible Power does not need a “consort” or humanly-presumed “other half” for anything.
[Reader: Attempting to explain all of this is, in its worst excrescence, thoroughly distasteful. For in any shape or form, just to enter into this explanatory-debate is tantamount to a serious affront toward the SUBLIME PERFECTION OF GOD!]
That being the case, we will go no further with this subject here. The Spirit of Truth has truly described us as we actually are in our religious distortions of The Truth. In the Lecture, Omniscience, He has unequivocally, and quite obviously-correctly, stated:
‘However, all their good thinking in this matter is too human, for
ever and again they commit the one big mistake of seeking to
picture God and the Divine as the crowning point of what it is to be
human!’
(Emphases are mine)
The whole notion of a “consort” should be left alone as too outrageous a belief to bother with. Unfortunately, however, as we have already noted, we must and will broach this subject again, but in much more detail further on in the main Work in Discourses 2 and 5. You will therewith have the opportunity to come to the correct understanding of what all this really means, for as we have also already said and will say many times into the main Work; there is very much revelation and spiritual illumination yet to come!
Islam: Those are two of your monumental errors. There is yet one more inexcusable falsehood and distortion you also push onto the rest of the world; one that is inextricably linked with your implacable rejection of JESUS as the SON OF GOD and one that is already bringing down your religion.
It is your placing of Muhammad --- even though an especial Prophet of GOD ---- above THE SON! That cannot --- and therefore will not --- be continued with. Global Islam; in his especial and exalted place above you:
Muhammad is surely weeping at what you have done to his once- true Teaching, for he knew Who JESUS truly was!
[Once more we say to you: In the main Work you will read this fact and more from Muhammad’s very words forever recorded on the Pages of Time --- The Book of Life --- and now on earth as ancillary writings to The All-Truth of the real Spirit of Truth, and from which we will quote the relevant “illumination”!]
JEWS:
JESUS: He --- sent to you at your centuries-long petitioning for a Messiah
to save you from being the “stiff-necked” people that you have long-revealed
yourselves to be. Despite your extensive “holy-lands” tenure under the guidance
of many prophets also sent to you to save you from yourselves; inevitably, your
“stiff-necked” attitude resulted in many of those same prophets being put to
death by you, as were some of the Disciples of Jesus!
He Whom you petitioned for, fulfilled the prophecy of the Coming One --- for you at that time. The prophecy also stated He would be born in Bethlehem. Thus, was it so!
Yet did you accept HIM as THE ONE? No; you did not, for in your “religious” eyes, He was just another meddlesome prophet. So even HE --- now reader, this is the truly insane part --- at your hands and in the most unbelievable and quite senseless, religious, arrogant blindness, was accused and condemned for being the very ONE that HE actually was, and then brutally- tortured and murdered. How could that possibly be? Yet it stands so for all time, for that is written on your Jewish “Book of Life”!
Now: After more than 2,000 years of denial of that immutable and therefore unassailable TRUTH, the “today-Jews” clearly believe they are “still the chosen” and are now secure in their “returned homeland” --- their “diaspora in reverse”. Yet, if there is any kind of lingering doubt somewhere among the “modern Israelites” in that “once-holy” land over that inexcusable crime --- for it was ultimately against THE CREATOR HIMSELF --- has there ever been any public admission to that effect from any noted Jewish scholar? To this writer’s knowledge, there has not.
For if there had, any such questioning of that dark deed by a Jewish academic or scholar would have been a “bombshell”, and the ensuing tidal wave would have ripped apart the still-accepted “narrative of the Jews”. It is a particular narrative carefully nurtured by the religious and political power base that personifies Israel and the Jews today. Nonetheless, such was the nature of that unlawful murder of Jesus that despite the centuries-long “Jewish narrative”, there is no exoneration for that crime of “religious madness”. Why do you think that might be the case, reader? Simple: It has not yet been “paid for in full” --------- but it will be!
CHRISTIANS:
Reader, The Foundational Text strove to portray something of the
impossible-to-grasp “concept” of INFINITY in which, in the World of Matter for
our “time-span” of conscious life, we humans are graciously permitted to share
something akin to just a “page-dot” in time. That equally “impossible-to-grasp”
concept of just our “page dot of time”, alone should be recognised as the key
frame of reference that at least the “big three” of monotheism need if they wish
to place the One Invisible God in His Unapproachable Majesty and
Sublimity very far from human “arrogance of ownership”, and thus not brought
down to our low earthly level of ignorance.
So in absolute and direct concert: In the case of this largest group of the three monotheistic religions on earth, Christians unequivocally accept Jesus as The Son of God Who did bring The Truth of GOD from GOD to earth --- from HIS INFINITE and FOREVER-ETERNAL THRONE, remember --- exactly as the prophecies decreed. That is all fine and correct so far. So, what is your great transgression, Christians; for that is what this Text is all about, before we even begin the Main Work?
The serious and inexcusable offense here is that; despite the correct recognition of Who Jesus was and Is; what followed was complete misunderstanding of His Teachings on the one hand, and purposeful distortion on the other. What that produced was a dogmatic doctrine, ultimately of lies and deceit, about the actual Truth of HIS Divinely-Ordained Mission -------which, in the end, was for the benefit of all on earth, then and now!
Wilful distortion of His true purpose brought forth the illogical and quite sickening doctrine that The Very LOVE OF GOD would somehow sanction a “propitiatory sacrifice” to save “Christian believers” from their rotten sins. Every Easter throughout Christendom millions of the “false-pious” attend re- enactments of His brutal and torturous Crucifixion.
That is probably your primary transgression. In its train, however, are a myriad of others; all of which contravene The Divine Laws of Creation and thus Divine Will! Perhaps the greatest contravention of Divine Law in this case is the post-Crucifixion doctrine of “the resurrection of Jesus in his physical body”.
On the subject of the physical resurrection of a dead body, therefore; the very idea that the exalted body of Jesus could somehow transgress every Divine Law of Creation --- of which HE was a Living Part --- and then ascend in a physical body to a level of CREATION that is essentially the very INFINITE is just too stupid a belief to give any credence to. It is, in truth, quite simply an insane dogma! Reader, we surely struggle to make sense of such a strange belief, yet it is nonetheless foolishly locked-in to the collective mind-set of somewhere around two thousand million “Christians”!
A question: Are you two billion Christians totally incapable of thinking logically, even to the smallest degree? Get this fact into your collective heads: A PERFECT GOD Who, at the very inception of HIS CREATION, placed into IT Perfect LAWS. What does the word, Perfect, mean to all of you? When it comes to “your religion”, obviously something very different from its actual meaning! For your serious elucidation, it means that not one single Part of those DIVINE LAWS can be changed --- precisely because they are Perfect!
Reader, I am sure that you will understand this quite simple reality; this quite simple TRUTH. Religion, unfortunately, does not inherently possess that kind of logical understanding, for religion has always been more concerned with its “doctrines” than with the actual TRUTH of GOD. And that is our historical reality! Our near-future reality, however, will be very different, for it will have to contend with Divine Justice --- which is the greater Part of HIS LOVE!
Where, then, will all these self-centred “religions” stand? Well: From the Hand of The Spirit of Truth, Himself, let’s try and gain some understanding of what Love truly is. From one of His many Lectures that comprise His All-Truth:
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THE RELIGION OF LOVE
What is now called love is anything but love! If all so- called love were relentlessly sifted to the bottom, nothing would remain but selfishness, vanity, weakness, desire for ease, conceit or instinct.
Genuine love will take no account of what gratifies the other, of what is agreeable to him and gives him joy, but will only direct itself towards what will benefit him, regardless of whether it affords him pleasure or not. That is genuine love and service!
If, therefore, it is written: “Love your enemies”, it means: “Do that which will benefit them! Punish them if they cannot otherwise be made to understand!” That is serving them! But justice must prevail, for love cannot be separated from justice --- they are one!
Misplaced indulgence would mean fostering the faults of the enemies and thus letting them slide further on the downward path. Would that be love? On the contrary, by acting thus one would burden oneself with guilt!
Through the unexpressed wishes of man alone the Religion of Love has deteriorated to a religion of laxity, as also the personality of the Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, has been dragged down to one of weakness and yielding, characteristics which He never possessed. It was just because of His all-embracing Love that He was so harsh and severe among the men of intellect.
That He was often overcome with sadness is natural when one considers His high mission and the human material He had to deal with. This sadness had nothing whatever to do with weakness.
After eliminating all distortions and dogmatic restrictions, the Religion of Love will be a doctrine of the strictest consistency, in which no weakness or illogical indulgence is to be found.
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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There we have a refreshingly-different take on the word, religion, a clarification which could only come from The Hand of The Spirit of Truth Himself. What we also have is clarification of the unyielding strength of Jesus, The Son of God!
How does the human brand of “love” stand up against DIVINE LOVE? In notating the primary transgressions of the “big three” against that level of LOVE; by comparison all we have produced is a weak, simpering, mawkish and over-emotional earthly caricature of what is ultimately an immensely powerful “Force”. In short, we have never developed any real understanding of what constitutes the actual LOVE OF GOD!
Now, in precise concert with the Title of this Work illuminating the “religious battle” between Islam, Christianity and Judaism; the very reality of that centuries-long conflict resonates perfectly with the unmistakeable “Heading” of this Text.
For from out of THE LOVE OF GOD came JESUS to the Jews and the world, and much later THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH Who, in the 20th century, proclaimed the prophesied and final ALL-TRUTH that came to earth with HIM --- to clarify IT for the last time for all of humanity and all religions, including Islam!
[Reader, in this early, “in-your-face” text, we only “allude” to knowledge that ventures into areas that have thus far not been part of global humanity’s “knowledge quotient”. We have a very long way to go yet, and in that distance very much more will be revealed; but it is all there waiting for you.]
Let’s now look at just a few recent historical examples of the doctrine of “the Church” that claims descent from Peter through supposedly Divine Ordination.