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		<title>&#8216;Not Even The Angels Nor The Prophets Know The Hour&#8217;,  Except God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 03:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any mortal who predicts that doomsday is here with us is doing a mockery of himself or herself for no one would eventually know the exact time when the rapture will come. It cannot be known by any human being because this is something that it has not been revealed to him by God. Not&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any mortal who predicts that doomsday is here with us is doing a mockery of himself or herself for no one would eventually know the exact time when the rapture will come.</p>
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<p>It cannot be known by any human being because this is something that it has not been revealed to him by God.</p>
<p>Not even the angels in heaven nor the God&#8217;s chosen prophets whom He sent to the world know when the hour but the Knowledge of the Hour is only with God.</p>
<p>Whether if it be Jewish, Christian or Islamic tradition, they are unanimous that the knowledge as to when the rapture will occur is only with God. </p>
<p>What is said about the hour, are just signs that the hour is near but yet it is not the end. </p>
<p>Among the signs that will occur around the world are earthquakes, floods, famine and all sorts of human miseries. </p>
<p>In Islamic traditions not even Jesus Christ&#8217;s second coming will spell the the end of the world, but it is the sign that the hour is near.</p>
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		<title>Polygamy In Islam, Is An Option But It Has Never Been Mandatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Holy Quran permits polygamy, but under certain conditions. &#8220;If you fear that you cannot be fair to the orphans (in your care), then marry (other) women you like &#8211; two, three, four. If you fear that you cannot take care of them (i.e., wives) equally, marry one, &#8221; according to Surah An-Nisa (4:3). This&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Holy Quran permits polygamy, but under certain conditions. &#8220;If you fear that you cannot be fair to the orphans (in your care), then marry (other) women you like &#8211; two, three, four. If you fear that you cannot take care of them (i.e., wives) equally, marry one, &#8221; according to Surah An-Nisa (4:3).</p>
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<p>This verse of the Quran has been gravely abused by polygamy practitioners without realizing that the consequence that God  has set in polygamous marriage which is treating your wives equally is something that every man should comply in order not to do injustice through negligence towards their wives. </p>
<p>God does not condone injustice but rather it is an offense punishable by Him. Here&#8217;s God&#8217;s punishment to injustice, &#8220;And whoever commits that through aggression and injustice. We shall cast him into the fire, and that is easy for God&#8221; according to Surah An-Nisa (4:30). </p>
<p>It&#8217;s clear that if you cannot fulfill to treat your wives equally then you are only allowed to marry one otherwise the fire will be your abode. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s unfortunate that some people assume that it is a blanket privilege for anyone  to marry women up to 2, 3 or 4 without justice and great responsibility that comes along with it. </p>
<p>Negating the consequence that God has strictly set is sheer ignorance. When God set the conditions it is strictly enforced. Polygamy in Islam is more of an option but it has never been mandatory. </p>
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		<title>Malaysian Government  Repudiates Minority Christians&#8217; Use of &#8220;Allah&#8221; In Their Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be some good reasons why the majority Muslim Malaysian government has refused to allow the distribution of tens of thousands of the Malay language version of the bible by the minority Malaysian Christians. Foremost, the government repudiates the use by the minority Christians using the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; in their translation of God for&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There must be some good reasons why the majority Muslim Malaysian government has refused to allow the distribution of tens of thousands of the Malay language version of the bible  by the minority Malaysian Christians.</p>
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<p>Foremost, the government repudiates the use by the minority Christians using the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; in their translation of God for the Malay-language version of the bible. </p>
<p>In Islamic tradition the Arabic word &#8220;Allah&#8221; is the proper name of <a href="http://affleap.com/why-god-has-sent-prophets-with-his-revelations-to-mankind/"> God</a>. It is an equivalent of Jewish and Christian  tradition of &#8220;Yahweh&#8221; or &#8220;Jehovah&#8221; (the transliterated version of Yahweh)  in the Hebrew language which is the proper name of God. </p>
<p>The question now is why the minority  Christians is using the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; in their translation when it is a word alien to Christian tradition and why not use &#8220;Yahweh&#8221;  or Jehovah or  even the Malay language equivalent word for God instead?</p>
<p>The Malaysian government&#8217;s stance that the use of &#8220;Allah&#8221; in non-Muslim texts could confuse Muslims and even entice them to believe that both religions are the same and can be interchangeable.  </p>
<p>Allowing the use of word &#8220;Allah&#8221; in their bible would paved way to <a href="http://affleap.com/the-emergence-of-the-anti-christ-doctrine/"> blasphemous</a> abuses by non Muslim and it would lost the objectivity of the word other than what originally intended for. </p>
<p>The usage could tantamount to indiscriminate corruption and abuses of the word into blasphemous ways in Islamic tradition standard like &#8220;Allah&#8221; having a son or &#8220;Allah&#8221; is in three persons but in one God, in which all these man made doctrines of the <a href="http://affleap.com/paul-of-tarsus-the-founder-of-modern-christianity/"> Pauline</a> church by which  Allah Himself rejected these man made doctrines in the Holy Quran.</p>
<p>Nearly two-thirds of Malaysia&#8217;s 28 million people are Malay Muslims, while 25 percent are ethnic Chinese and 8 percent are Indians. Ethnic minorities are mostly Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. </p>
<p>To Know more about the true nature of Allah, please read the Holy Quran (The Speech Of God).</p>
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		<title>Pope Benedict Exoneration Of The Jews Has Some Validity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catholic pontiff exoneration of Jesus Christ&#8217;s death by the Jews in his book has some validity though it was his personal opinion. The charge has estranged the Pauline church and the Jewish faith&#8217;s relationship for centuries. The account of the alleged trial and crucifixion of Jesus in the new testament of the bible authored&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Catholic pontiff exoneration of Jesus Christ&#8217;s death by the Jews in his book has some validity though it was his personal opinion.</p>
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<p>The charge has estranged the Pauline church and the Jewish faith&#8217;s relationship for centuries. </p>
<p>The account of the alleged trial and crucifixion of <a href="http://affleap.com/the-emergence-of-the-anti-christ-doctrine/"> Jesus</a> in the new testament of the bible authored by people like Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, their personalities were surrounded by obscurities  that until now they could not handily pinpoint who really they are but only speculations about their true backgrounds.</p>
<p>The alleged trial and crucifixion of Jesus depicted in the bible was not the actual unfolding footage of an  event as it happened but it was a reconstructed account of what has transpired 40 years back, sources of which and reliability can be put into question. </p>
<p>How would you consider a story when the authors themselves are not personally in touch of what actually happen?</p>
<p>To the remnants of early or classic Christians though they still exist but dwindling in number and who are the original and direct followers of Jesus Christ when Jesus Christ was still with them doubted the story of the alleged crucifixion and has never been part of their teachings.</p>
<p>The brand of Christianity of what we&#8217;ve known today is not that of Jesus Christ but that of Paul of Tarsus, the <a href="http://affleap.com/paul-of-tarsus-the-founder-of-modern-christianity/"> Pauline</a> Christianity.</p>
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		<title>Why God Has Sent Prophets With His Revelations To Mankind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been compelling reasons as to why God has sent prophets along with His revelations to mankind in their different times and they are the following: **** It is of God&#8217;s infinite mercy that He sent prophets to mankind to educate the latter of the basic tenets and proper understanding of salvation. After we&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been compelling reasons as to why God has sent prophets along with His revelations to mankind in their different times and they are the following:</p>
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<p>****  It is of God&#8217;s infinite mercy that He sent prophets to mankind to educate the latter of the basic tenets and proper understanding of salvation. </p>
<p>After we have intently worked hard for it and as a reward, God will enshrine us in a life that is permanent and with everlasting bliss after this temporary life. To be qualified, God simply sets the criteria of how our sins can be forgiven by Him. </p>
<p>God is clear in this issue when He clearly declares &#8220;God forgiveth not, that partners should be set up with Him, He forgiveth anything else whom He pleaseth, but to set up partners with God is to devise a sin most heinous indeed.&#8221; </p>
<p>So the key to our salvation is to obey God and worship Him alone, doing in the contrary is an unforgivable sin to Him.</p>
<p>How many of us has done the right thing so that our worship will not go in vain. Are we really worshiping the right God, when we have god the son, god the holy spirit and god the father? </p>
<p>And yet, the worst part of it, is we accepted to believe that they are in three persons in one God. How can it be? </p>
<p>Have we tried to investigate personally of why this is so? Or we just blindly accepted this man-made innovated <a href="http://affleap.com/the-emergence-of-the-anti-christ-doctrine/">dogma</a> as the truth without an iota of doubt? </p>
<p>Have you ever realized that the man who helped in formulating this dogma in the person of Athanasus, the archbishop of Alexandria has honestly declared, that while in the process of creating this dogma, that the more he thinks of it, the more that he doesn&#8217;t understand and his very person void of reason is marred with confusion of what he did! </p>
<p>We have to remember that God is not the author of confusion nor He made things that would be difficult for us to understand, that there is only one absolute God, that He has no partners as portrayed in a trinity, the Pauline church innovated  dogma. </p>
<p> **** Prophets have been chosen by God to receive revelations from Him through His messenger archangel Gabriel. Prophets are chosen by God to disseminate His revelations to the consciousness of mankind in their different era but the message remains the same, that there is an absolute one God that is worthy of worship and nothing else. </p>
<p>All that exists around us is a living testament of the Uniqueness of His Power, Majesty and Glory and nothing can be comparable to Him. He grasps all visions but all visions cannot grasp Him. </p>
<p>Each of the five dominant prophets whom <a href="http://affleap.com/investigating-our-own-religion/"> God</a> has chosen at different times had brought the same basic message of the revelation that is to worship Him alone. </p>
<p>The following books of revelations that God has given to His prophets are : Abraham in his lifetime has his &#8220;Suhuf&#8221; or The Belief of One God, Moses has his &#8220;Torah&#8221; or the The Law (Ten Commandments), David has his &#8220;Psalm&#8221; The Hymns, Jesus has his &#8220;Gospel&#8221; or The Good News and lastly, Muhammad has his &#8220;Quran&#8221; The Speech Of God (peace be upon them). </p>
<p>The Quran is the ultimate revelation by God and Muhammad is the seal of all the prophets, meaning that there will be no more revelations and prophets that will come after the advent of Muhammad (peace be upon him). </p>
<p>From &#8220;Suhuf&#8221; of Abraham up to the &#8220;Gospel&#8221; of Jesus, it&#8217;s unfortunate to say that the originals were lost. </p>
<p>What we have known as the &#8220;bible&#8221; today, is a reconstructed document about 40 years at the earliest after Jesus Christ has left this world. It was compiled by the church mostly from unknown authors and spurious sources of heresy. </p>
<p>Hence, we cannot attribute this reconstructed book in essence as the word of God.<br />
The old testament depicts the history of the Jewish era while the new testament depicts that of the <a href="http://affleap.com/paul-of-tarsus-the-founder-of-modern-christianity/">Pauline</a> Christian era. </p>
<p>As we observed the bible in itself has so many contradictions and discrepancies that they have brought to a point that people using the same book and yet they end up with different opinions, interpretations and heated arguments between them are always at hand.  </p>
<p>My brothers and sisters, is it now, is the time to investigate your faith if it is in accordance of what God has envisioned for you? Albeit, knowing the truth will set you apart from those that are astrayed. Hence, your decision is important because  your own salvation herein is at stake.</p>
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		<title>Is Christmas Relevant To Our Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few people knew that celebrating birthdays and observing the commemoration of the birth of Christ Jesus were derived from the Roman pagan custom and tradition and has nothing to do with the faith. From the evidence of the church reconstructed gospel or from any other sound tradition it was impossible to determine the birth&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very few people knew that celebrating birthdays and observing the commemoration of the birth of Christ Jesus were derived from the Roman pagan custom and tradition and has nothing to do with the faith.</p>
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<p>From the evidence of the church reconstructed gospel or from any other sound tradition it was impossible to determine the birth of Jesus Christ. </p>
<p>Some said, that it has transpired based on speculation that Christ Jesus was born on the coolest and the longest night of the year which happen to be on December 25.</p>
<p>But based on historical facts, it was the triumph of Emperor Constantine who was the emperor of the Roman empire and during his reign that the church of Rome (Vatican) assigned December 25 as the date for the celebration which took place around 320 or 353 AD.</p>
<p>The choice of December 25 is based on paganism&#8217;s tradition, that Romans, which are mostly pagans (believers of many gods), they have celebrated one of their gods&#8217; festivity, known as Mithraic feast of the sun-god.</p>
<p>The indication left the church grasped the opportunity to turn the people and its followers from paganism&#8217;s observance to a day of adoration of Christ Jesus which later become the trademark of Christendom and modern Christianity.</p>
<p>With the truth unraveled as to the origin of what most people believe as a legitimate  birthday of Christ Jesus, one makes to wonder of how is Christmas relevant to our time. How long this scenario of making believe and false pretenses would last? </p>
<p>In reference to the bible&#8217;s version of the gospel, nowhere in Christ Jesus&#8217; lifetime, it can be found that birthdays were observed  and celebrated. That only shows that people during those times have not given so much attention and importance as to the occasion of their very existence in this world.</p>
<p>It is only through the plagiarist approach of the church adapting the paganism belief and giving relevance to it that it came into being.</p>
<p>The collusion and conjugal partnership of the church and emperor Constantine at the expense of other religions  had made it possible that was once started as a church innovation become a major celebration in modern Christianity.</p>
<p>If Christ Jesus is only alive today, surely he will not condone that his name be dragged by the church in a controversy based on pretension and false belief which is not only misleading to people and its followers but in essence it&#8217;s morally wrong.</p>
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		<title>The Spiritual Perspective Of Grief And Death</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sudden blow of an unexpected passing can bring up potent emotions like despair, anger, shock, or even guilt. But these are normal during the process of grieving and finding healing after a great loss. Death is already painful as it may seem but even more devastating is the untimely departure of a loved one.&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sudden blow of an unexpected passing can bring up potent emotions like despair, anger, shock, or even guilt. But these are normal during the process of grieving and finding healing after a great loss.</p>
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<p>Death is already painful as it may seem but even more devastating is the untimely departure of a loved one. You can never be prepared for the heart wrenching news of losing your parents or relatives in their respective appointed times that have passed on them, a spouse to a natural calamity, a child to a tragic accident, or a close friend to a grave illness. </p>
<p>Emotionally, it is difficult to overcome grief over a death in time that we have yet to learn  of what it really means in its proper spiritual perspective.  </p>
<p>How do you deal with emotions brought to you by your grief over a loss due to death? There&#8217;s no definite answer but there are reasonable and inspiring ways to get through your loss. To give yourself time to grieve of all that had happened by accepting that your love one is gone, and you can do over with it definitely, no doubt. </p>
<p>Herewith, are some tips, to help you cope with your emotional pain and win yourself  the grief  over a death in the proper setting.</p>
<p>*** Think and remember the good memories that you and your love ones had shared together, focus on the good things and accept the reality that each individual has its own appointed time set by God and your stay in this world is temporal and your time soon will come just like the others before you and subsequently after you. </p>
<p>The similitude of this life, is a long journey, after having traveled for a certain distance and  you get tired, you rested for a while under the shade of a tree (this world) and after you are done, you continue your travel again for that long journey.</p>
<p>*** Think positively of life, that you should not be scared of death, it is a natural phenomenon compared to birth; when there is awake, there is sleep; when there is war, there is peace;  when there is happiness, there is grief; and when there is temporal life, there is death; a premise of natural occurrence that you need to accept it.</p>
<p>God give you this temporal life to spend it wisely and not wastefully. He did it for a purpose, that you  should  only worship Him and Him Alone and there is no other god besides Him and this is the Message of Truth, He wanted to convey to us. </p>
<p>He has made revelations of Himself and made it clear since the beginning of time as to His true Nature, His Oneness, His Uniqueness as God. That He has no associates nor a family that He has  been attributed to by unscrupulous people and let it be known to mankind about the truth.</p>
<p>The Message of Truth is the key to salvation and it is for this  reason why He has sent His five dominant prophets to the world from Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus Christ and Muhammad (Peace be upon them) to serve them as a reminder and a warner to mankind for the follies of men deviating from God&#8217;s message and the punishment that awaits for them if they don&#8217;t mend their ways.</p>
<p>God desist you from worshiping the man made doctrine of the triune god or trinity as it is popularly known which was invented by the church in the council of Nicea in 325 AD during the reign of emperor Constantine to appease the pagans and the believers of more than one god into their fold.</p>
<p>Your life is a testament of your deeds and how you did spend it during your lifetime and God see to it, if you really have adhered to His Message of Truth. This testament of yours will be used against you by God on judgment day if either you deserved for the everlasting life in paradise or be doomed for the everlasting life in hell in which God has in stored them for you.</p>
<p>*** You should not squander the opportunity of this life that God has given you. You should do the best of your ability to make your resume&#8217; most appealing and eventually  earns God&#8217;s pleasure for His acceptance and give it to you the everlasting life in paradise, a permanent life which is your  ultimate goal. </p>
<p>A permanent life that there&#8217;s neither no death, nor grief, nor sickness, nor aging, nor hunger and there&#8217;s no more other world&#8217;s travails to experience of these sorts. </p>
<p>Hence, this temporal life should not be wasted or taken it for granted. It is either for  you to make or to break it.</p>
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		<title>Investigating Our Own Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion, they say is a way of life. It is something that we practice more often. It is the epitome of our own personal behavior and character. It reflects of what we are, how we project ourselves and how we spend our lives in this world. Why this is important? Because we need to understand&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Religion, they say is a way of life. It is something that we practice more often. It is the epitome of our own personal behavior and character. It reflects of what we are, how we project ourselves and how we spend our lives in this world.</p>
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<p>Why this is important? Because we need to understand that we are here on purpose. Though there are some people who don&#8217;t believe in God, these are the people who believe that their existence is a mere product of chance and never thought of any accountability for their deeds when they die. Respecting their belief tantamount of leaving their fate to God.</p>
<p>However, the vast majority of us, believe that there is God, no doubt, who created us and all everything that exists around us. Because of that belief, each of us, has an affiliated religion of his or her own. It might be our new found religion or a religion that we already inherited from our parents or guardians that raised us since birth.</p>
<p>Whatever it maybe, each of us has the right to know about our religion. Is our religion consonant to what God has mandated us to do? </p>
<p>a) Does our religion teach us to believe and worship in only One God?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what God has declared to the above question, &#8220;Such is God, your Lord, the Creator of all things. There is no God except Him&#8221;. Moreover, he said, &#8220;And I did not Create the Jinn and Mankind except to worship Me&#8221;.</p>
<p>b) Does our religion teach us to worship and pray to Jesus Christ?</p>
<p>God is clear on this issue when He said, &#8220;Jesus Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Apostle, many were the Apostles passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth, they had to eat their daily food, see how God doth make His signs clear to them, yet see in what ways they are alluded away from the truth!&#8221; </p>
<p>God further said, &#8220;They do blaspheme who say, God is Jesus Christ the son of Mary; &#8230;&#8230;. . Whoever joins other gods with God, &#8211; God will forbid him the paradise and the fire will be his abode&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>c) Does our religion teach us the trinity?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what God has said to this man made doctrine, &#8220;They do blaspheme who say, God is one of three in a trinity, for there is no god except One God, if they desist not to their word of blasphemy, verily a grievous penalty will befall to the blasphemers&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>d) Does our religion teach us that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what God said, &#8220;That they (Jews) said in boast , we killed Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, the Apostle of God, but they killed him not, nor crucified him, But it was made it to appear to them. And those who differ, they therein full of doubts, with no certain knowledge but only conjecture to follow. For of a surety, they killed him not&#8221;.</p>
<p>To know more of what God has mandated us to do, please read the &#8216;Speech of God&#8217; to mankind, The Holy Quran.</p>
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		<title>Is Our Existence A Product  Of Chance?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists had speculated that our universe existed because of &#8216;cosmic miracle&#8217;. They claimed that it is a result of billion years of random self assembly. But How? This is something that they could not give a straightforward answer. The similitude of this assumption is someone that would come out from his house and unexpectedly find&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scientists had speculated that our universe existed because of &#8216;cosmic miracle&#8217;. They claimed that it is a result of billion years of random self assembly. But How? This is something that they could not give a straightforward answer. </p>
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<p>The similitude of this assumption is someone that would come out from his house and unexpectedly find a car in his driveway and demand to know who put it there. </p>
<p>Imagine of what would be someone&#8217;s reaction if he is told like this, &#8220;No one put it there, in fact the parts of that car just gathered from unknown sources and assembled by themselves without anyone&#8217;s help because of cosmic miracle&#8221;. Would<br />
you believe that?</p>
<p>If you cannot accept such premise, then how could one believe that the entire universe existed because of that cosmic miracle thing?</p>
<p>By looking at the world around us, is all it takes to understand to many of us who has never took time to reflect about the details of this awesome universe we live in, by looking at the sky, the clouds, the stars, the moon and the sun which is a ball of fire, millions of miles away from the earth, provides us with the heat and light that we depend on everyday.</p>
<p>Mankind indeed needs a rest from the warmth and illumination of the sun. God causes the sun to set and gives us darkness to rest. With a perfect nightlight, the moon and the splendorous stars. What a wonderful masterpiece it is! </p>
<p>You can think of how everything is organize in such a perfect way. Some have denied the existence of the Creator behind by relying on their invented theories, assumptions derived from unproven conjectures and wild guesses.</p>
<p>Herewith, are what God has said to mankind about the stars, the moon and the sun, &#8220;He (God) has put the night and the day at your service, as well as the sun, the moon and the stars, all in subjection to His Command. Verily in this, there are signs for people of intellect.&#8221; </p>
<p>He further said, &#8221; Don&#8217;t you see how God merges the night into the day and He merges the day into the night, (don&#8217;t you see) that He subjected the sun and the moon (to His Law), each running its course for an appointed term and surely God is well acquainted with what you do&#8221;.</p>
<p>Scientists has commented on the precise balance of the sun and the moon, guessing at the in numerous disasters would occur if the sun and the moon were to stray from their paths the slightest bit. The rational mind can come into one conclusion, that indeed something is keeping all of this in order. </p>
<p>God also said, &#8220;Among His Signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Do not prostrate to the sun or moon rather prostrate to God, the one who created them if you really wish to worship Him.&#8221;</p>
<p>We understand quite clearly that anything cannot exist by itself without an author or a creator. So our universe and our own very existence that we cannot deny there is a Creator behind to all of these things and everything all that exists.</p>
<p>In conclusion, God has said, &#8220;Such is God, your Lord, the Creator of all things. There is no God except Him.&#8221; </p>
<p>To know more about of how God created something out from nothing, please read the Speech of God to mankind, the Holy Quran.</p>
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		<title>The Emergence Of The Anti-Christ Doctrine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outlandish subversion and corruption of the pure Unitarian gospel of Jesus by Paul of Tarsus to trinitarian has opened the door to more anti-Christ doctrines which were not based on convictions but rather on Pauline church policy and apparent necessity to protect the church vested interests of their established religion which was originally and&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The outlandish subversion and corruption of the pure Unitarian gospel of Jesus by Paul of Tarsus to trinitarian has opened the door to more anti-Christ doctrines which were not based on convictions but rather on Pauline church policy and apparent necessity to protect the church vested interests of their established religion which was originally and mainly intended for the Gentiles.</p>
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<p>Paul&#8217;s obsession to be identified as the &#8220;Apostle of the Gentiles&#8221; did turn into reality when the famous council of Nicea in 325 AD has formally declared the doctrine of trinity as the official main doctrine of the Pauline church as it grew in size and power. The church association with the Roman emperors and its compromising stance in itself with those in authority was well known and it has helped strengthen the basic foundation of the church.</p>
<p>From the more than three hundred gospels existing at that time, four were handpicked by the church as canonical to their interest namely, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. The rest were either ordered destroyed or labeled them as apocryphal with the likes of Gospel of Barnabas, through an edict by Emperor Constantine, to avoid any blatant contradictions that would be detrimental to the church made doctrines.</p>
<p>The effective abandoning of the teaching of Jesus was largely due to complete obscuring of his historical reality. Pauline Christianity was based on a belief in Christ after his supposed crucifixion, and the life and teaching of Jesus while he was still in this world was no longer important.</p>
<p>Paul justified his new doctrine with the use of an analogy as expressed by him in his epistle in Romans 7 :1-4. The analogy clearly indicates that Paul made a distinction between Jesus and &#8220;Christ&#8221;. According to his reasoning, the law which had bound Jesus and his followers was no longer necessary, since Jesus had died.</p>
<p>Now, they were no longer &#8220;married&#8221; to Jesus but to Christ who had brought another law. It was therefore, necessary to follow Christ and not Jesus. Thus, anyone who held to Jesus&#8217; teachings had gone astray. It was the use of this reasoning that he assembled his doctrine of redemption and atonement, a theory which Jesus had certainly never taught.</p>
<p>It preached that a man could do what he wanted and not face the inevitable consequences of his actions, provided that at the end of the day, he said: &#8220;I believe in Christ&#8221;. However, the premise on which Paul reasoning was based is false, since Jesus was neither crucified nor resurrected.</p>
<p>The &#8220;arrest&#8221;, the &#8220;trial&#8221; and the &#8220;crucifixion&#8221; are hedged around with so many contradictions and misstatements that is extremely difficult to untangle and penetrate to them in order to arrive at what actually happened.</p>
<p>The part played by Pontius Pilate, the Roman Magistrate, is hard to determine. His indecisiveness as described in the bible, his partiality towards the Jewish leaders, together with his goodwill towards Jesus, make a story hard to believe.</p>
<p>This could be the result of an attempt to throw the responsibility of the &#8220;crucifixion&#8221; issue unto the whole Jewish nation and so to exonerate the Romans completely from their participation in Jesus&#8217;s supposed death.</p>
<p>The early classic Christians, which are the true followers of Jesus Christ, denied that Jesus was crucified but instead one of his followers who was closely resembled to him. In the account given by the Gospel of Barnabas, it has been told that at the time of the arrest of Jesus, Judas was transformed by God so that even Mary, his mother and his closest followers believed him to be Jesus.</p>
<p>It was not until Jesus appeared to them, after his supposed death, that they were informed of what had really happened. This would explain why there is such confusion surrounding the events which took place at that time, and why some accounts, written by people who were not present at those events, support the mistaken belief that it was Jesus who was crucified. Cerinthus, a contemporary of Peter, Paul and John, also denied the resurrection of Jesus.</p>
<p>Paul&#8217;s doctrines of redemption and atonement are fallacious. This has resulted to further changes being made to what Jesus had taught, but also prepare the way for completely changing of people ideas of who Jesus was. He was being transformed from mortal to a divine being.</p>
<p>This shift of emphasis from Jesus as a man to the new image of Christ who was divine was one of the innovation by Paul to legitimize his position as the &#8220;Apostle of Christ&#8221; and not of Jesus. The said innovation of Paul enabled the intellectuals in Greece and Rome to assimilate to their own philosophy what Paul and those who followed him were preaching.</p>
<p>Their view of existence was a tripartite one, and with the Pauline church&#8217;s talk of &#8220;God the Father&#8221; and the &#8220;Son of God&#8221;, it only needed the inclusion of the &#8220;Holy Ghost&#8221; to have a trinity to match theirs. With the passage of time, then the two pictures merge into one, thus the doctrine of trinity came into being.</p>
<p>It was in this doctrine, which lead to Mary, mother of Jesus being put not only to a difficult but an impossible position of being regarded as the &#8220;mother of God&#8221;. The theory of redemption was the child of Paul&#8217;s brain, a belief entirely unknown to Jesus and his disciples.</p>
<p>It was based on the belief of &#8220;original sin&#8221;, the &#8220;crucifixion&#8221; and the &#8220;resurrection&#8221;, none of which has any validity. Thus, a synthetic religion was produced: A brand of Christianity, mathematically absurd, historically false and yet psychologically impressive.</p>
<p>As a result, Pauline heresy became the very foundation of Christian orthodoxy and the legitimate church established by Jesus was disowned as heretical. In the magnificent temple of the religion which Paul help erect, he built doors on all sides, people who came across his brand of Christianity for the first time, when they entered its temple, were given the impression that they were paying homage to the same deity they had been worshiping all along, whether they were Jews or Gentiles.</p>
<p>As the basic misconception introduced by Paul evolved and became established, many a man who thought that he was following Jesus followed Paul without knowing it instead. Due to Paul innovation, the discontinuity between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the Pauline church became so great that any unity between them seemed irreconcilable.</p>
<p>To the followers of Jesus, the path of truth is like a straight line, had length but no breadth. They did not agree to change the teaching of Jesus which could be superseded by the alleged teachings of Christ as allegedly revealed to Paul.</p>
<p>They continue to affirm the true nature of Jesus being human and the divine unity of God which revered Him as the only Almighty Ruler of the universe, the Highest of all with no one equal to Him.</p>
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