Adstar, I think Ezekiel 38 is about seven years before Armageddon.
Jesus and a Muslim co-ruling the world is hard to believe.
Numerology was very very important back then. Every single number in the Bible is signficiant. Every name in the Bible is realted to a number. These number are always connected to one another geometrically.
My point is, the overwhelming amount of numerology in the Bible points to the great influence Gnostic Xians had over early Xian tradition - over, per say, that of "literalistic" Xians - who are now considered orthodox. Xianity itself was a Jewish attempt to reconcile Greek/Egyptian theology with Jewish theology.
So with this mind it is easy to see that the Gnostic view of Jesus as the reasonable and as their belief was that Jesus was an allegory - well we should take it that he was.
Not that it really matters. The events in the Bible that are attributed to Jesus did not occur. So if there were a Jesus, again, he may as well have been Isis and born 2500+ years earlier - for all that it matters. Is there anything "new" philosophically in the Bible? Not really at all. It's pretty much a Jewish rewrite of the prevalent Greek and Roman thoughts on fairness and equality occurring within the Roman empire at the time.
Sop again, there's no need to postulate an actual Jesus character anymore than to postulate an actual Hercules. The evidence for both is exactly the same - zero.
Michael
Adstar, I think Ezekiel 38 is about seven years before Armageddon.
No thanks, the Bible mentions Persia, Meshech, Tubal, Put, and Cush, as against Israel in that battle, .
No thanks, the Bible mentions Persia, Meshech, Tubal, Put, and Cush, as against Israel in that battle, after which Israel will know that it was the Lord's victory, which will soften their hearts toward the Jewish Messiah.
Islam has been around since before Jesus, The term Christainaity came about i have read by the people who were against Christ (eg Romans) etc. By labelling all jesus' follows as Christians.
Ermmm Islam was founded in 622 AD. After the supposed Christ had already been and gone so to speak.
I understand, however Islam means to Submit to the will of God, so technically it hasd been around since the early prophets becuase they followed Gods wishes.
I would imagine that the man who started your religion my take some offence to that. After all, he did fight and face adversity to bring it into existence. To say it kind of always existed diminishes his input a tad, don't you think?
Zak, Allah was the pre-Islamic Arab Moon god, so he's not the God of the Bible.
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Christians and Jews don't support the notion of an Islamic theocracy, nor evangelism by the sword, for a faith which is antithetical to the teachings of the Bible, you'll have to ally with the Bahais and Mormons, I guess, for religious common ground.