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Dual nature of Quran?

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    khyaletanzim
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    Dear pvb,

    Do Christians had any prophet after Jesus?

    Fruit of Prophet Muhammad era is known to everyone but if you compare it with today's versions and their interpretations then it is not prophets fault of what so called Muslims have made themselves today.

    for Matthew 24 part. Muslims will not come in name of Christ so that is also closed for Muslims. So if Muslims are not going to come in the name of Christ then who will come? isn't they from the Christians?

    Christians will be hated by all nations so that time is yet to come so end is not here and the Christians character will be like this then what it have to do with others? so that is also not regarding to prophet Muhammad.

    Now the Muslims have closed the doors for any more prophets so that will be not from Muslims.

    kindly explain what is "gospel of kingdom".

    Regards.

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      Yes there have been and will continue to be prophets- teachers of GOD's WORD, preachers that use GOD's Holy Bible. One you may know - Martin Luther. Billy Graham is also similar to a prophet bringing new understanding of Holy Bible.

      I'm not sure what you mean by this statment - "and the Christians character will be like this then what it have to do with others?"

      It is the Injil mentioned in the Quran, The Good News, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all together make up the Gospel of the Knigdom..

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        Yes there have been and will continue to be prophets- teachers of GOD's WORD, preachers that use GOD's Holy Bible. One you may know - Martin Luther. Billy Graham is also similar to a prophet bringing new understanding of Holy Bible.

        The sunnis, shiites, christians is having a hard time understanding what "NAVI" (Hebrew) or "NABIY" (Arab) actually meant..
        Translating "NAVI"/"NABIY" as "PROPHET" is misleading and incorrect.

        NAVI = MOUTH OF GOD or through NAVI's mouth came out the words of God ...

        "I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I command him."
        Deuteronomy 1818

        The root nun-vet-alef ("navi&quot is based on the two-letter root nun-vet which denotes hollowness or openness;
        to receive transcendental wisdom, one must make oneself ?open?.

        I don't think Martin Luther and Billy Graham is a NAVI or "God's mouth"..
        Besides.. they never claimed to be one either..

        I'm not sure what you mean by this statment - "and the Christians character will be like this then what it have to do with others?"

        It is the Injil mentioned in the Quran, The Good News, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all together make up the Gospel of the Knigdom..

        The Quran didn't explicitly mention Matthew, Mark, Luke, John or other canonic (read authorized by religious authorities/clerics) books of gospel..
        The Quran didn't explicitly mention all of other apocriphal (read not authorized by religious authorities/clerics) books of gospels..
        The Quran didn't explicitly mention all of other apocriphal (read not authorized by religious authorities/clerics) jewish books..
        The Quran does explicitly mention TORAH, PSALM as among of "God's books".
        And the Quran does contains messages / stories previously found in BOTH of CANONIC and NON-CANONIC Christians and Jewish books..

        But since you're asking specifically about Gospel a.k.a "Good News"..
        Here's the "Good News" all about according to Quran....

        "And convey good news to those who believe and do good deeds, that they shall have gardens in which rivers flow; whenever they shall be given a portion of the fruit thereof, they shall say This is what was given to us before; and they shall be given the like of it, and they shall have pure mates in them, and in them, they shall abide."

        And the whole purpose / objective of sending the "Good News".
        "And We send not messengers but as announcers of good news and givers of warning, then whoever believes and acts righteously, they shall have no fear, nor shall they grieve. "

        Salam / Shalom / Peace

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          pvb
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          the Injil that was available to Mohammad and mentioned in the Quran was the one he could hold between his hands is the same Gospel of Mathew, John, Luke and Mark that we have today

          So one has to say I am a prophet and then he is???

          Yes we know Christians will be and are hated by all of the world.

          Matthew 7
          13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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            liquiddharma
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            It's not exactly the same - the Quran carries at least one story of Jesus that is only contained in the Gospel of St Thomas - suggesting St Thomas is part of the 'Injil'. I wish we could just dump that term and translate it properly to gospel.

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              The oldest fragments of St. Thomas date to only 140 AD.

              http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas

              The Gospel of Thomas may have been excluded from the canon of the New Testament because it was believed to be

              not have been written close to the time of Jesus
              not have been written by apostolic authority or was forged in Thomas' name
              not used by multiple churches over a wide geographic range
              heretical or unorthodox

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                But it may have been recieved spiritually, in the same way that St Paul spiritually recieved guidance from the church.

                The Jesus seminar judges that the Gospel of Thomas is more reliable than the Gospel of John.

                http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar#Overall_reliability_of_the_five_gospels

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                  Please list the verses that corresponds to the common Quran and Thomas Gospel story. Thanks.

                  The Thomas Gospel says that the Kingdom of God is spread out upon the earth now, today.

                  Does the Quran agree?

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                    I'm thinking of the story where Jesus breathes life into clay birds, which fly away - in the Quran 3.049 and 5.110 - and The Infancy Gospel of Thomas 21-5

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                      The Gospel of Thomas

                      http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/LostBooks/thomas.htm

                      These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded.

                      1 And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."

                      2 Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. "

                      3 Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you.

                      When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

                      4 Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.

                      For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one."

                      5 Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

                      For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

                      6 His disciples asked him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?"

                      Jesus said, "Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed."

                      7 Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."

                      8 And he said, The person is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!

                      9 Jesus said, Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.

                      10 Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes."

                      11 Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.

                      The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

                      12 The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?"

                      Jesus said to them, "No matter where you are you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."

                      13 Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like."

                      Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a just messenger."

                      Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."

                      Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like."

                      Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."

                      And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"

                      Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."

                      14 Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.

                      When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them.

                      After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you."

                      15 Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."

                      16 Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to casy peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth fire, sword, war.

                      For there will be five in a house there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone.

                      17 Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."

                      18 The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"

                      Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.

                      Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning that one will know the end and will not taste death."

                      19 Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.

                      If you become my disciples and pay attention to my sayings, these stones will serve you.

                      For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."

                      20 The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what Heaven's kingdom is like."

                      He said to them, It's like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky.

                      21 Mary said to Jesus, "What are your disciples like?"

                      He said, They are like little children living in a field that is not theirs. when the owners of the field come, they will say, "Give us back our field." They take off their clothes in front of them in order to give it back to them, and they return their field to them.

                      For this reason I say, if the owners of a house know that a thief is coming, they will be on guard before the thief arrives and will not let the thief break into their house (their domain) and steal their possessions.

                      As for you, then, be on guard against the world. Prepare yourselves with great strength, so the robbers can't find a way to get to you, for the trouble you expect will come.

                      Let there be among you a person who understands.

                      When the crop ripened, he came quickly carrying a sickle and harvested it. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!

                      22 Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom."

                      They said to him, "Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies?"

                      Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter ."

                      23 Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they will stand as a single one."

                      24 His disciples said, "Show us the place where you are, for we must seek it."

                      He said to them, "Anyone here with two ears had better listen! There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark."

                      25 Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."

                      26 Jesus said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."

                      27 "If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a sabbath you will not see the Father."

                      28 Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty.

                      But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways."

                      29 Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.

                      Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."

                      30 Jesus said, "Where there are three deities, they are divine. Where there are two or one, I am with that one."

                      31 Jesus said, "No prophet is welcome on his home turf; doctors don't cure those who know them."

                      32 Jesus said, "A city built on a high hill and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."

                      33 Jesus said, "What you will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.

                      After all, no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, nor does one put it in a hidden place. Rather, one puts it on a lampstand so that all who come and go will see its light."

                      34 Jesus said, "If a blind person leads a bind person, both of them will fall into a hole."

                      35 Jesus said, "One can't enter a strong person's house and take it by force without tying his hands. Then one can loot his house."

                      36 Jesus said, "Do not fret, from morning to evening and from evening to morning, what you are going to wear. "

                      37 His disciples said, "When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?"

                      Jesus said, "When you strip without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample then, then will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid."

                      38 Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear these sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will seek me and you will not find me."

                      39 Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so.

                      As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."

                      40 Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish."

                      41 Jesus said, "Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little they have."

                      42 Jesus said, "Be passersby."

                      43 His disciples said to him, "Who are you to say these things to us?"

                      "You don't understand who I am from what I say to you.

                      Rather, you have become like the Judeans, for they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the fruit but hate the tree."

                      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."

                      45 Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they yield no fruit.

                      Good persons produce good from what they've stored up; bad persons produce evil from the wickedness they've stored up in their hearts, and say evil things. For from the overflow of the heart they produce evil."

                      46 Jesus said, "From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women, no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his eyes should not be averted.

                      But I have said that whoever among you becomes a child will recognize the kingdom and will become greater than John."

                      47 Jesus said, "A person cannot mount two horses or bend two bows.

                      And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise that slave will honor the one and offend the other.

                      "Nobody drinks aged wine and immediately wants to drink young wine. Young wine is not poured into old wineskins, or they might break, and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin, or it might spoil.

                      An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, since it would create a tear."

                      48 Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."

                      49 Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again."

                      50 Jesus said,

                      "If they say to you, 'Where have you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself, established , and appeared in their image.'

                      If they say to you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the chosen of the living Father.'

                      If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"

                      51 His disciples said to him, "When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?"

                      He said to them, "What you are looking forward to has come, but you don't know it."

                      52 His disciples said to him, "Twenty-four prophets have spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you."

                      He said to them, "You have disregarded the living one who is in your presence, and have spoken of the dead."

                      53 His disciples said to him, "is circumcision useful or not?"

                      He said to them, "If it were useful, their father would produce children already circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect."

                      54 Jesus said, "Congratulations to the poor, for to you belongs Heaven's kingdom."

                      55 Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate father and mother cannot be my disciple, and whoever does not hate brothers and sisters, and carry the cross as I do, will not be worthy of me."

                      56 Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."

                      57 Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a person who has seed. His enemy came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, "No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them." For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned.

                      58 Jesus said, "Congratulations to the person who has toiled and has found life."

                      59 Jesus said, "Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."

                      60 He saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea. He said to his disciples, "that person ... around the lamb." They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He said to them, "He will not eat it while it is alive, but only after he has killed it and it has become a carcass."

                      They said, "Otherwise he can't do it."

                      He said to them, "So also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest, or you might become a carcass and be eaten."

                      61 Jesus said, "Two will recline on a couch; one will die, one will live."

                      Salome said, "Who are you mister? You have climbed onto my couch and eaten from my table as if you are from someone."

                      Jesus said to her, "I am the one who comes from what is whole. I was granted from the things of my Father."

                      "I am your disciple."

                      "For this reason I say, if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."

                      62 Jesus said, "I disclose my mysteries to those of mysteries.

                      Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."

                      63 Jesus said, There was a rich person who had a great deal of money. He said, "I shall invest my money so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouses with produce, that I may lack nothing." These were the things he was thinking in his heart, but that very night he died. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!

                      64 Jesus said, A person was receiving guests. When he had prepared the dinner, he sent his slave to invite the guests. The slave went to the first and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said, "Some merchants owe me money; they are coming to me tonight. I have to go and give them instructions. Please excuse me from dinner." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master has invited you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought a house, and I have been called away for a day. I shall have no time." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said to the slave, "My friend is to be married, and I am to arrange the banquet. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me from dinner." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My master invites you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought an estate, and I am going to collect the rent. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me." The slave returned and said to his master, "Those whom you invited to dinner have asked to be excused." The master said to his slave, "Go out on the streets and bring back whomever you find to have dinner."

                      Buyers and merchants not enter the places of my Father.

                      65 He said, A person owned a vineyard and rented it to some farmers, so they could work it and he could collect its crop from them. He sent his slave so the farmers would give him the vineyard's crop. They grabbed him, beat him, and almost killed him, and the slave returned and told his master. His master said, "Perhaps he didn't know them." He sent another slave, and the farmers beat that one as well. Then the master sent his son and said, "Perhaps they'll show my son some respect." Because the farmers knew that he was the heir to the vineyard, they grabbed him and killed him. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!

                      66 Jesus said, "Show me the stone that the builders rejected that is the keystone."

                      67 Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking."

                      68 Jesus said, "Congratulations to you when you are hated and persecuted;

                      and no place will be found, wherever you have been persecuted."

                      69 Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who have been persecuted in their hearts they are the ones who have truly come to know the Father.

                      Congratulations to those who go hungry, so the stomach of the one in want may be filled."

                      70 Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you kill you."

                      71 Jesus said, "I will destroy house, and no one will be able to build it ."

                      72 A to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with me."

                      He said to the person, "Mister, who made me a divider?"

                      He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I'm not a divider, am I?"

                      73 Jesus said, "The crop is huge but the workers are few, so beg the harvest boss to dispatch workers to the fields."

                      74 He said, "Lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there is nothing in the well."

                      75 Jesus said, "There are many standing at the door, but those who are alone will enter the bridal suite."

                      76 Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a merchant who had a supply of merchandise and found a peal. That merchant was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself.

                      So also with you, seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys."

                      77 Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all from me all came forth, and to me all attained.

                      Split a piece of wood; I am there.

                      Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

                      78 Jesus said, "Why have you come out to the countryside? To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a person dressed in soft clothes, rulers and your powerful ones? They are dressed in soft clothes, and they cannot understand truth."

                      79 A woman in the crowd said to him, "Lucky are the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you."

                      He said to , "Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'"

                      80 Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy."

                      81 Jesus said, "Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce ."

                      82 Jesus said, "Whoever is near me is near the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom."

                      83 Jesus said, "Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."

                      84 Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!"

                      85 Jesus said, "Adam came from great power and great wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been worthy, not death."

                      86 Jesus said, " their dens and birds have their nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest."

                      87 Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."

                      88 Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what belongs to them?'"

                      89 Jesus said, "Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Don't you understand that the one who made the inside is also the one who made the outside?"

                      90 Jesus said, "Come to me, for my yoke is comfortable and my lordship is gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves."

                      91 They said to him, "Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you."

                      He said to them, "You examine the face of heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the present moment.

                      92 Jesus said, "Seek and you will find.

                      In the past, however, I did not tell you the things about which you asked me then. Now I am willing to tell them, but you are not seeking them."

                      93 "Don't give what is holy to dogs, for they might throw them upon the manure pile. Don't throw pearls pigs, or they might ... it ."

                      94 Jesus , "One who seeks will find, and for it will be opened."

                      95 , "If you have money, don't lend it at interest. Rather, give to someone from whom you won't get it back."

                      96 Jesus , The Father's kingdom is like woman. She took a little leaven, it in dough, and made it into large loaves of bread. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!

                      97 Jesus said, The kingdom is like a woman who was carrying a full of meal. While she was walking along distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal spilled behind her the road. She didn't know it; she hadn't noticed a problem. When she reached her house, she put the jar down and discovered that it was empty.

                      98 Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a person who wanted to kill someone powerful. While still at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one.

                      99 The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are standing outside."

                      He said to them, "Those here who do what my Father wants are my brothers and my mother. They are the ones who will enter my Father's kingdom."

                      100 They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us."

                      He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."

                      101 "Whoever does not hate and mother as I do cannot be my , and whoever does love mother as I do cannot be my . For my mother , but my true gave me life."

                      102 Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger the dog neither eats nor the cattle eat."

                      103 Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who know where the rebels are going to attack. can get going, collect their imperial resources, and be prepared before the rebels arrive."

                      104 They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray today, and let us fast."

                      Jesus said, "What sin have I committed, or how have I been undone? Rather, when the groom leaves the bridal suite, then let people fast and pray."

                      105 Jesus said, "Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the child of a whore."

                      106 Jesus said, "When you make the two into one, you will become children of Adam, and when you say, 'Mountain, move from here!' it will move."

                      107 Jesus said, The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. One of them, the largest, went astray. He left the ninety- nine and looked for the one until he found it. After he had toiled, he said to the sheep, 'I love you more than the ninety- nine.'

                      108 Jesus said, "Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him."

                      109 Jesus said, The (Father's) kingdom is like a person who had a treasure hidden in his field but did not know it. And he died he left it to his . The son not know about it either. He took over the field and sold it. The buyer went plowing, the treasure, and began to lend money at interest to whomever he wished.

                      110 Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has become wealthy, renounce the world."

                      111 Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will roll up in your presence, and whoever is living from the living one will not see death."

                      Does not Jesus say, "Those who have found themselves, of them the world is not worthy"?

                      112 Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh."

                      113 His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"

                      "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

                      114 Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."

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                        Sorry for the long post!!

                        I found it.

                        http//www.interfaith.org/christianity/apocrypha/new-testament-apocrypha/5/4.php

                        II. 1 This little child Jesus when he was five years old was playing at the ford of a brook and he gathered together the waters that flowed there into pools, and made them straightway clean, and commanded them by his word alone. 2 And having made soft clay, he fashioned thereof twelve sparrows. And it was the Sabbath when he did these things (or made them). And there were also many other little children playing with him.

                        Just because the Quran uses the story doesn't make either true.

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                          The Quran tells us that some of its stories are true, and some are allegorical. This one represents the all enveloping nature of the power of Allah that accompanied Jesus throughout his life. It also accompanied the Prophet Muhammad, and protected him from harm. And it can accompany all human beings who make room for it in their lives.

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                            "The Quran tells us that some of its stories are true, and some are allegorical"

                            Can you show me this verse? Thanks!

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                              Salam pvb,

                              37

                              He is the One who sent down to you the Scripture, from which there are governing verses; they are the essence of the Scripture; and others which are similar. As for those who have disease in their hearts, they will follow what is similar from it seeking to confuse, and seeking to derive an interpretation. But none know its interpretation except God and those who are well founded in knowledge, they say "We believe in it, all is from our Lord." And none will remember except the people of understanding

                              the root word used is

                              shiin-ba-ha

                              From PRL

                              = Shiin-Ba-ha = to be like, to resemble/assimilate/liken/imitate, to compare one thing with another due to an attribute connecting them or is common to them can be real or ideal - real "this dollar is like this dollar" ideal "John is like the lion/ass (i.e. strength/stupidity)", appear like another thing, ambiguous/dubious/obscure, comparison/similitude/parable/simile, co similar, resemble (in quality or attributes), conformable.
                              With reference to the Quran is that of which the meaning is not be learned from its words and this is of two sorts one is that of which the meaning is known by referring to what is termed "muhkam" and the other is that of which the knowledge of its real meaning is not attainable in any way or it means what is not understood without repeated consideration. (e.g. 37)

                              shabbaha vb. (2) perf. pass. 4157

                              tashabaha vb. (6) perf. act. 270, 2118, 37, 1316
                              pcple. act. 225, 37, 699, 6141, 6141, 3923

                              ishtabaha vb. (8 ) pcple. act. 699

                              LL, V4, p 223, 224, 225

                              Hebrew

                              H7617

                              shabah
                              shaw-baw'
                              A primitive root; to transport into captivity - (bring away, carry, carry away, lead, lead away, take) captive (-s), drive (take) away.

                              H7618

                              shebu
                              sheb-oo'
                              From an unused root (probably identical with that of H7617 through the idea of subdivision into flashes or streamers (compare H7632)) meaning to flame; a gem (from its sparkle), probably the agate - agate.

                              Also compare
                              H7620

                              shabua shabua shebuah
                              shaw-boo'-ah, shaw-boo'-ah, sheb-oo-aw'
                              Properly passive participle of H7650 as a denominative of H7651; literally sevened, that is, a week (specifically of years) - seven, week.

                              H7623

                              shabach
                              shaw-bakh'
                              A primitive root; properly to address in a loud tone, that is, (specifically) loud; figuratively to pacify (as if by words) - commend, glory, keep in, praise, still, triumph.

                              Salam,
                              Arnab

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                                Thanks. That is so interesting - So many Muslims believe the Quran is to be taken as all literal? There are also many Christians that believe all of the Bible is to be taken literally.

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                                  Fundamentalists are always astonishingly ignorant about their own religion.

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                                    The quran confirms this, it acknowledges that it is Jesus who is going to save the world.

                                    peace anders,

                                    your proof on the above claim please. the last time i heard is that God is the savior of mankind. the God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, other named & unnamed prophets and/or messengers & the God of all muslims and mumins.

                                    peace all.

                                    O0 ramon O0

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