In other words, Muhammad was such a great guy that he can dispense with all considerations of chronology and logic, and you'll still believe whatever he says!
If you want to convince Christians or Jews of anything, why are you quoting an apocryphal book which is in neither the Jewish nor the Christian Bible?
What the heck does that have to do with Gideon, Saul or Goliath???
It doesn't bother me much at all -- UNLESS MUSLIMS TRY TO CLAIM THAT THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT BIBLICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS THAN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS THEMSELVES DO. Unfortunately, that's an extremely common claim among Muslims who converse with Jews or Christians. The author of the original piece in this thread was implicitly making this claim when he said "Mohamed was the last profit and was given the message of message of the prophets before him".
Where the heck did you get that idea???? What I dislike is to see Muslims claiming that "Islam is really almost just the same as Christianity, with a few slight minor additions and intensifications of monotheism" -- something which is in fact not true.
That's pathetic -- you maliciously altered the pbuttage to include the Arabic word "Allah" when neither Jesus nor Thomas was an Arabic-speaker, and the Gospel of Thomas was not written in Arabic. Here's how the pbuttage appears on the scholarly Gnosis.Org site:
44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
In other words it's very similar to Matthew 12:31-32 and Luke 12:10 in the actual REAL Bible!
I'm quite content to be amicable -- UNLESS MUSLIMS TRY TO CLAIM THAT THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT BIBLICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS THAN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS THEMSELVES DO.
Where was I charater-buttbuttinating any Muslim? I'm sure that many individual Muslims are very virtuous, wise, and kindly individuals, but WHEN THEY TRY TO CLAIM THAT THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT BIBLICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS THAN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS THEMSELVES DO, then they're just wrong -- and furthermore, they're really being anti-Christian and-or anti-Jewish when they make such claims.
-- Some Qur'an quotes: 5:20 qaala muusaa 5:21 "yaa qawmi «dkhuluu «l-'arDa «l-muqaddasata «llatii kataba «llaahu lakum" 17:104 waqulnaa ... libanii 'israa'iila "«skunuu «l-'arDa" In English: Moses said, "My people, go into the Holy Land which God has buttigned to you!" And we said to the
