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The Koran is like the Bible for the Muslim people
The western world religions
Today western world religions
Most of the western world religions as we
know them today start with Abraham
and the Bible. The Bible in reality is a history and religious book of the
Jews. Most of us believe, or have been thought to believe that the Bible is the
written word of the living God, as God has spoken through his prophets.
As most of us know the Bible starts with
the book of Genesis, and it starts with God creating the world, and from there
it tells us briefly what happens from the creation of the world to the times of
Abraham.
When Abraham was 99 God appeared to Abraham
and said I am El Shaddai (God almighty) Walk with me and be trust worthy. I
will make a covenant between us and I will give you many descendants and many
other things God said to Abraham.
With the covenant with God start the story of
Abraham and the descendants of Abraham. Today some of the descendants of
Abraham are known as the Jews. In a nutshell sometime later on, the Jews become
slaves of the powerful Egyptian king, they cry to their God to help them, and
God delivers them from the Egyptians with the help of their leader Moses, who
has met God on Mount Sinai in the form of a burning bush, this burning bush
talked to Moses and said that his name was Yahweh (which laterally means, I am
who I am) the God of Abraham and he wanted to deliver his people from the
Egyptian Faeroes. So, God then told Moses to go back to Egypt and help rescue
his people.
After a long argument with the Egyptian
Faeroes with the help of Yahweh Moses succeeds in freeing the Jews from the
Egyptian Faeroes and they leave Egypt to go to the Promised
Land. In the way to the Promised Land the Jews don’t do what Yahweh
wants then to do and believe; and Yahweh punishes them by making them stay for
forty years in the desert, that is until all those who did not believe in God
were dead.
In the end the Jews reach the Promised Land
and stay there for a very long time under various leaders the most known and
mentioned even these days are Salomon and David. In the Bible through his
prophets Yahweh
promises the
Jews that from the line of David will be born a man with great powers and he
will be the messiah to the Jews and the world, this great man will let the
world know about everything that there is to know about religions and lead the
world.
So, the messiah is born in the form of our
Lord Jesus Christ at the time when the Promised Land is occupied from the
Romans; the Jews hope and believe that the messiah is going to be their king
and be able to deliver them from the Romans that were occupying their Promised
Land. But when they saw that Jesus Christ was not what they wanted him to be,
they found a way how to eliminate him by crucifying him with the help of the
Romans. But the follower of Jesus Christ continued to believe in Jesus Christ
and thus a new religious era was born, Christianity. At the same time the Jews
rejected Jesus as the messiah and continued in believing God in the same old
ways of their religious order.
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There are many Christian religions
Christianity is a general name that includes many religions; they all
come from the Bible.
So, as we can see Christianity is a continuation of the religious laws
and beliefs of Abraham and Moses, but after the death of Jesus Christ and many
other happenings it split away and became another religion in its own rights as
we know it today. Of course Christianity took a long time to become the main
religion of the western world as we all know, because at the beginning it was
not accepted and many people died martyrs just because they believed in this
new religious order of Christianity, history is full of many prosecutions that
the new Christian had to endure before they became accepted as a religious
order. There are reasons to believe that Christianity became accepted under the
Roman emperor Constantine the great early in the fourth century AD. Emperor
Constantine was the first Roman emperor that converted to Christianity.
Christianity nowadays has got several orders like the Roman Catholic,
Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans and many others. As we can see all these
religions have come from the Bible, and one can go on talking about these
religions for a long time, if one has to explain them better, So, I better stop
talking about them now, as there is another main religion that I would like to
talk about now, which is the Islamic religion.
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Islam, Koran book is their Bible.
Islam religion
There are reasons to believe that the Koran
also comes from the Bible, and even though today we (the western world) seem to
be so far away from our brothers Muslims the fact remains that they are
descended of Ishmael first son of Abraham and Hagar the Egyptian maidservant,
then Abraham had his second son was Isaac with his wife Sarah: These two are
the most important two children of Abraham, and therefore we can say that
through Abraham we are brothers with the Muslims.
Now, I would to say that we should really
try at least to read some of the Koran, so that we might be able to understand
what these Muslims are talking about. Therefore we need to put aside those
extremists fanatic that in their twisted way seem to think that they need to
kill those that do not follow their religion.
Anyhow, I have read part of the Koran and
it seems to me that God is the same God of Abraham, and it says so many times,
the only difference is that they call their God Allah instead of Yahweh, and
have many different laws compared to our laws. So we still need to learn a lot
more before we pass our own judgment on this religion?
(Writer comment) So hereunder is a link
that might take you to the Koran, let us hope it works in hub pages.
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Speech conclusions
I need to say that there are a lot more
religions in the world today which have come from different civilizations, and
we could go on and make a list of them all and it will be a long list. Anyhow
here and now, our task is to find which one is the most suitable to use, or to
make up another religion capable of satisfying the human need for religions. As
we have already said before, Man
needs God. And we have also said that God is hope for those who need hope
most.
That is all I want to say now, as my speech
has been too long and some of you wonder when I am going to stop. Thanks for
listening anyhow.
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Frank short comment
At the end of Mark speech we all were
congratulating Mark and saying that he knew more than most of us about
religions, and that we surely would reflect on what he had said: I said I
am sure that our friends here are going to discuss a lot more about religions
because of what you said, so let us see what they are going to argue about
soon. Look over there, I see our friend Gino looking at John as if he wants to
speak to him, perhaps he is going to have a good interesting chat with him
presently. We might even have a laugh Ha, ha, ha.
My dear readers, let us postpone what Gino
and John are going to argue about for next article, because I believe that I
have said enough in this post. But, let me say briefly what sort of conclusion
we can find in Mark speech. The only conclusion that I can see, is that there
is no conclusion at all, because religions are very complex and we are going to
need a lot of time to sort them out, if we have the courage and strength to
continue to look for a solution.
My dear readers, this is not the end of the
meeting and if you would like to see what happened next at the end of Mark
speech you have to wait when I post our next article; Religious discussions
three.
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Man
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The western world religions
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