سبحن الرّزّاق

A warning: These might be leading questions to get us thinking! But I do sincerely wonder about each of these questions, and I’m not just trying to be a smart-ass. I would actually like to know Christians’ answers to these. Please feel free to e-mail me at jpo1218 [at] gmail.com or call me at three-three-zero-704-6796.

1. Can God die? Is Jesus God? Did Jesus die for our sins?

2. Is Jesus the ultimate Savior? Can Jesus save without the permission of God? Does Jesus sit at the right side of God on the thrown?

3. I’ve heard ministers invoke each part of the Trinity in their prayers. Do they invoke the different parts for different occasions/reasons?

4. Do you believe that God is All Powerful? Do you believe the God of All that Exists stayed in the womb of a human and was then delivered and had to be suckled, fed, taught, ate bread, drank water, defecated, and other normal activities that all humans must do?

5. Who talks more about the Trinity in the Bible? Jesus, Paul, or other speakers/authors?

6. Were Adam, Noah, and Abraham righteous servants of God?
Did they worship and call upon God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit?
Was Abraham a Christian?

7. Where do the Christians get their information for their holiday rituals and timings? Did/how did Jesus celebrate Christmas, Easter, and Halloween?

8. Did Jesus call himself a Christian?

9. Why does it seem that now Christians (and Christianity?) only hold the first ten commandments of the Bible to be important but not the other commandments?

10. The Trinity seems at face value to contradict the first commandment that we shouldn’t have any deities besides God. How did Jesus explain this perceived contradiction?

11. According to Christian theology, if someone only worshiped God The Almighty, without ascribing partnerships to Him (like a son or mother) in His Lordship, and only thought of God as his savior, and assuming this man lived a righteous life and repented, would he go to paradise or hell?

12. If Jesus was standing here in person should a Christian pray to him or pray to God? If Jesus was standing here in person and he prayed would he pray to God or to himself? If Jesus was standing here in person and he was leading a prayer for us, should we pray to him or to God? If Jesus is God why did he pray at all and what did he pray to in the Gospels?

13. What was Jesus doing when he “fell upon his face”?

Peace and blessings be upon Jesus—The Christ—The Spirit from God—The Master Teacher—’Isa bin Maryam—the one born without a father—and upon all his true followers, and I hope to say nothing about him or his followers that he or God Almighty did not say about them.

Indeed all praises and dominion are do to God Almighty, Who there is no helper except Him. I hope to say nothing about Him that He or His prophets did not say about Him, Glorified and Exalted. And I seek refuge in the perfect words of God The Wise and The Light:

~{From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will God show them what it is they have done. * O people of the Book [Jews and Christians and others who've been sent revelation]! There has come to you our Messenger, revealing to you much that you used to hide in the Book, and passing over much (that is now unnecessary). There has come to you from God a (new) light and a perspicuous Book * Wherewith God guides all who seek His good pleasure to ways of peace and safety, and leads them out of darkness, by His will, unto the light, guides them to a path that is straight.}~
Quran, The Table Spread, 14-16