For some religion is dead ....consumerism has killed it
For others it it is not..
in these times more than ever it is necessary to explore the theology that separates and connects the beliefs that people have.
with more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide and the Islamic faith rapidly growing while Christianity is decreasing, we could do well to try and understand the conflict that lies between these two schools of religious thought.
It is a very simple and basic theological problem and it lies with Jesus......
(always getting the blame isn't he! maybe he shouldn't of bothered and just stayed at home with his mum)
The discord arises out of the Resurrection of Jesus because this ,to the Cristian, is the prove that he was not a mortal man and in fact "God"-(whatever that means) where as any Muslim is quite happy to go along with Jesus being a prophet, a great master and holy man......but only ever that ...just a Man, a mortal man, like you and me.
This issue separates theses two cousins of the house of Abraham because essentially the Muslims think that their Christan cousins are living in la la land and believe in people who can do party trick magic as their saviour, and the Christians think that the Muslims are all crazy because they don't believe that the tricks are real!
Sheikh Ahmed Deedat was challenged to a debate to discuss this contentious issue in an historic event held at the Albert hall.
Deedat masterfully deconstructs the theories that the christian scholars put to him on the "immortality" of Jesus and then proceeds to expose how Christians have used the bible as a book of misinformation, which it is has become.
The Christians are nervously shifting in there seats with a look of discomfort by time that Deedat has finished with them, He knows his bible better than they do, he is able to quote and reference it with out a copy in front of him and even corrects and explains misinterpretations that the Christians have made...of their own doctrines!!!
Deedat aimed at providing Muslims with theological tools for defending themselves against the intense missionary striving of many Christian denominations.
Deedat was a master of languages, a master of the Scriptures, a wonderful speaker who held the platform with grace and dignity, with humour and passion and was always a pleasure to listen too.... he was such a great man that as he takes to the platform to begin his response to the christian party, the Christian speakers hug him ( listen to one of them repeatedly say " i love you i love you" to Deedat.)
Here is an example clip of the debate and for the full lecture cut and paste the link below and watch the clip series at youtube.com
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMzHgq2zRo )- for full lecture.
" WE are just WOOORMS! "
"We don't do monkey trickS!"
Deedat gets stuck in to the contradictions of the christian doctrines...
While not wanting to offer my own thought on the issue of Jesus and his mortality, as it is for you do find your own truth, i have always agreed with William Blake in his marriage of "Heaven and Hell" where he says....
God is made manifest through man- Christ was the first to make this distinction.
and as Jesus himself is supposed to of said-
"are ye not all gods?"
here is a some footage of Deedat taken in a more relaxed setting, where he Sheikh Ahmed Deedat debates with the American soldiers of the First Gulf War in Saudi Arabia.
See how the arrogant American soldier enjoys saying his name wrong to try and wind him up and Deedat simply says " just call me uncle"
It is an example of brain over brawn but is sad to see that someone as masterful as Sheikh Ahmed Deedat has to tolerate this petty minded infancy from grown men who really don't know any more than they did when they were 6 and yet now have the ego to think that they actually mean something.
cut and paste the link below and watch the clip series at youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnfOWhuras
- wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Deedat
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