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COMBINATION OF THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND THE RARE FRUIT TREES AND VEGETABLES.   With the Scripture of the Day first.
[1]    SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 259A]

After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; Revelation 7:9, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

This, of course, raised the question with regard to who they are, and this is answered at Revelation 7:13 - 15, [AV] “And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they? 14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell over them.”

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[2]    THE RARE FRUIT TREES AND VEGETABLES
Here is a Commentary on Bountiful Trees and Vegetables God (YHWH) has provided for mankind, specifically the Mate, Ilex paraguariensis A. St-Hil. var. paraguariensis

Family: Aquifoliaceae

Common names. English: maté, Brazilian tea, Paraguay tea: Guarani: ka'a; Kaingangue: kongóñ: Spanish: yerba maté, té de los jesuitas: Portuguese: congonha, erva mate

Maté, with a very restricted distribution outside America, is a tree that produces a raw material for industrialization and consumption as a stimulating infusion. So far, this has been the main use of this somewhat overlooked crop.
Although no archaeological remains have been found that show that it was used in pre-Columbian times. it is assumed that it was the Guarani Indians who taught the Spanish how to use it. However, what seems to be an indirect consequence of the discovery is the fact that the first people to have cultivated this species were the Jesuit missionaries who, around 1670, already had artificial maté plantations. In time, the settlements of Guarani Indians converted to Christianity were to become economically dependent on maté production.

The expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions (1767) was a step backwards in the history of maté. There was a return to the forest exploitation method which utilized the natural maté plantations exclusively and inadequately. It may be said that this type of laborious and uneconomical forest management extended up to the first decades of the twentieth century, in spite of maté planting having been renewed in Nueva Germania, Paraguay and in Santa Ana, Argentina, in 1897.

Although very much reduced, maté production did not disappear with the Jesuit plantations. During the remainder of the colonial period, the use of this herb, which had spread extensively, persisted even in the region of the Viceroyalty of Peru, where there was another methyl xanthine stimulant of the same genus: Ilex guayusa Loes. emend. Shemluck, also marketed by the Jesuits from that region in Quito.

It has been established that trade in maté was not interrupted and that it was commonly used in what is now Peru and Ecuador. However, following the independence of the Spanish colonies and the adoption of free trade, English tea began to be introduced into those countries and so maté gradually lost the markets of those Andean countries.

The decline and complete disappearance of the maté plantations in the settlements of Christianized Indians (which ended around 1820 after a series of wars waged in the region between the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns, followed by the struggles for independence) and the policy of isolation and control of international trade maintained by the first governor of independent Paraguay meant that, in the 1820s, Brazil began commercial exploitation of its natural maté plantations.

The most accessible plantations were situated in the vicinity of Curitiba, Paraná, and as they were slowly exhausted they were gradually replaced by the others located towards the west. The Brazilian product, which then began to spread on the markets as "Paranagua maté", was considered to be of inferior quality to that from Paraguay. However, in the course of time it replaced the Paraguayan product, a development which became more marked after the war of the Triple Alliance ( 1870).

At the end of the nineteenth century, the limitations of the exhaustive exploitation of this forestry resource stimulated efforts to produce large plantations of I. paraguariensis once again. Eventually. these efforts were successful, especially in Argentina.

At the same time as the increase in Argentinian maté production, the extraordinary expansion of the agricultural frontiers in traditional maté-growing states of southern Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina. Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul) took place. Regrettably, the disappearance of enormous areas of natural forests in those states jeopardized the conservation of maté's genetic richness.

The complicated economic history of this crop (barely sketched out here) which is characterized by periods of scarcity alternating with periods of excessive demand, the sporadic but real existence of periods during which it was adulterated with other plants and the most common method of preparation—maté sucked through a small tube—considered by many to be unhygienic, had a bearing on the limited spread of maté outside southern South America.

Its main use is in infusions prepared as tea with leaves and dried stems which have been industrially shredded. Generally speaking, it is drunk by tilling small gourds (maté gourds or cuias) with maté. to which boiling water is gradually added, the liquid being sucked up through a metal tube (the bombilla). Infusions of cimarrón, or bitter maté, are usually modified with sugar (sweet maté), milk or aromatic herbs. Other methods of consumption are boiled maté, tereré (maté prepared with cold water, common in Paraguay and northeastern Argentina), liqueurs prepared with maté, ice-creams, desserts, etc. The industry also produces compound maté (which contains aromatic and/or medicinal herbs), soluble maté and maté teabags.

The aqueous infusion of maté owes its stimulant properties to the caffeine content (between 1 and 2 percent) so that, 60 minutes after consuming maté, an average of 80 to 120 mg of this pseudoalkaloid is consumed. Its nutritional qualities are due to its content of vitamins A, C and B complex and the existence of minerals (P, Ca and Fe).

Argentina, the main producer and consumer, grows around 130000 ha of maté in the northeast of the country (Misiones and Corrientes), which produce about 140000 tonnes per year. Brazil is the world's second producer, followed by Paraguay. For the Argentinan province of Misiones, maté cultivation represents an important part of the country's GDP.

Botanical description
The maté is a dioecious evergreen tree which grows up to 18 m in height. The leaves are alternate, coriaceous and obovate with a serrate margin and obtuse apex. The inflorescences are in corymboid fascicles, the male ones in a dichasium with three to 11 flowers, the female ones with one or three flowers. The flowers are small, and simple, number four or five and have a whitish corolla. The fruit is in a nucule; there are four or five single seed pyrenes (propagules).

Maté flowers in the spring (from October to November), has entomophilous pollination (diptera, hymenoptera) and fruits from March to June; dissemination is endozoic (birds). There is a rudimentary embryo in many externally ripe seeds which causes a long period of germination From the time of sowing.

Ecology and phytogeography
Prominent among the ecological requirements of this subtropical species are climatic conditions, especially mean annual precipitation and an even distribution of rainfall throughout the year. This must not be less than 1200 mm annually and, during the driest quarter—which in the region is winter—the minimum must be 250 mm. I. paraguariensis' wild distribution area is always unaffected by water shortages. The mean annual temperature of the area is approximately 21 to 22°C. The absolute minimum temperature that this species is able to tolerate is -6°C, even though winter snows are frequent on the plateaus and mountain regions to the south of Brazil and east of Misiones.
It requires lateritic, acid (pH between 5.8 and 6.8) soils that are of medium to fine texture.

Figure 30 shows the natural distribution of I. paraguariensis. The area of economic cultivation of maté coincides approximately with the main dispersion area of the var. paraguariensis.

Genetic diversity
There is still no exhaustive modern picture that explains in biological terms the infraspecific variability of this species, which is widely dispersed geographically in South America. Up to the present, taking as a basis the morphological characteristics alone, at least two varieties are recognized: I. paraguariensis A. St-Hill var. paraguariensis (cultivated maté, almost completely glabrous) and I. paraguariensis var. vestita (Reisseck) Loes. (not acceptable for industrialization, of dense pubescence). Both varieties coexist in limited areas of Brazil.

The wild species closest to I. paraguariensis belong to the subgenus euilex Loes., subsection repandae Loes. Only I. cognata Reisseck lives in the distribution area of maté. I. cognata is very little known; its vernacular name is chá do mato and it is used to adulterate maté.

A number of wild species of Ilex are sympatric with genuine maté and have been, or are, used to manufacture the product although, up to the present and according to the legislation in force, they are to be considered adulterations. Of those most frequently referred to, the following deserve mention: Ilex affinis Gardner (the ca' a chirí or congonha of Goyaz, a species abundant in central Brazil and northeastern Paraguay); I. dumosa Reisseck var. guaranina Loes. (yerba señorita, aperea ka'a, cauna, caá chiri), native to Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the producer of a bitter-tasting maté and supposedly cultivated in Misiones by the Jesuits to produce their famous "caá miní" maté; I. theezans, C. Martius ex Reisseck (cauna de folhas largas, ca'a na, congonha), a good substitute for I. paraguariensis, found in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. I. brevicuspis Reisseck, known as cauna or voadeira, like the previous species, is a faithful companion of I. paraguariensis in plant communities characteristic of the region—where Araucaria is also prominent—but the product obtained from its experimental industrialization is of low quality.

Outside the natural area of distribution and production of maté, in northwestern Argentina and southeastern Bolivia, Ilex argentina Lillo, a related species that is known not to accumulate caffeine but theobromine, has been used to prepare maté. It is a tree characteristic of the area of transition between the forests of Myrtaceae and alder (Alnus spp.) of the phytogeographical province of the yungas.
Known cultivars of I. paraguariensis. The infraspecific classification of I. paraguariensis is still under study. Consequently, the correspondence between the biological varieties and the horticultural varieties of genuine maté is not clear. Following is a list of some of the varieties recognized as such by growers in the three countries: Erva de talo roxo, Erva de talo branco, Erva piriquita (Brazil); Caá verá, Caá manduví, Caá panambi, Caá cuatí, Caá ñú, Caá eté, Caá mi, Caá chacra, Caá-je-he-ni (Paraguay); Yerba colorada, Yerba señorita, Caá miní (Argentina).

INTA in Argentina recently began to distribute seeds of clones and selected clonal progeny which, following comparative trials, demonstrated their superiority.

In wild South American Ilex species and in the maté-growing region, the risks of genetic erosion are high because the natural forest is gradually giving way to agroforestry and livestock production, a process accentuated by the relatively low germinating capacity of many species (especially that of maté). As no suitable method has yet been discovered for maintaining the germinating capacity of I. paraguariensis for prolonged periods, there are no seed banks of the species. Nevertheless, at the Cerro Azul de Misiones experimental agricultural station in Argentina, a maté clonal garden began to be developed in 1976, complemented by the nursery started in 1986 with I. paraguariensis of various origins and with other species of Ilex.

Cultivation practices
In the wide and varied economic production area of maté, the practices for the cultivation or exploitation of natural maté vary considerably in their technical aspects, resulting in different yields per hectare.
Three methods of production can be distinguished which are arranged here in increasing order of importance reflecting the use of techniques and their yields:

Extractive exploitation of the natural forest. Here the richness of natural maté plantations is utilized. Harvesting is not mechanized and the pruning system is generally incorrect. This form of production is diffused mainly in Brazil.
Mixed system or system for the enrichment of the natural forest. This consists of increasing the number of natural plantations and reconstituting those that have been lost. In Brazil, where this method is most commonly practiced, it is called densifying the maté plantation. Since, generally speaking, this technique is accompanied by others that increase the yield, such as cultivation care and improved pruning methods, the higher production cost is compensated for.
Cultivated maté plantations. This is undoubtedly the best system, and came into general use in Argentina around 1915. In spite of higher costs, the yield per hectare greatly increases. Complemented by measures such as improvement in the layout of plantations (which have evolved from trees planted in quincunxes, with spaced out plants used by Jesuits, to cultivation following contour lines, with a high density per hectare and use of the corte mesa pruning and plant management system), with well-timed pruning, cultivation work and harvesting, this system enabled Argentinian production to exceed that of Brazil, in spite of the former being carried out in a very reduced area and even outside the environments most suited for maté. For example, rising from a density of 1000 to 1500 plants per hectare (still fairly widespread) to a density of 2500 or 4000 plants per hectare, production can increase from around 1000 to 1800 kg to 2100 to 3300 kg per hectare.

The corte mesa system not only increases the yield but is also better suited to mechanical harvesting.

Yields are improved by: planting following contours; the use of natural or introduced cover (rape, legumes, etc.); fertilization (NPK); weed control (mechanical and/or using herbicides); suitable phytosanitary treatments; and rational harvesting. The relevant experiments have been going on for some years but, regrettably, their results have not become generalized. The introduction into cultivation of improved cultivars is much less widespread.

Conventional propagation techniques. Sexual propagation ("seeds" = pyrenes). This is the most common reproduction technique. In the case of maté, the advantage of sexual propagation lies in the fact that the variability in descendants may give rise to individuals better suited to different environments (which on other occasions may not be desired).

The seeds are harvested in the region (from February to April). They must be stratified or sown immediately, otherwise they quickly lose their viability.
Stored at 5°C, they maintain a very reduced germinating capacity (1.7 to 6.6 percent) for a further 11 months. The relatively short period of viability together with the low germination rate (immature embryos, phytosanitary problems) have undoubtedly been the cause of the difficulties in its cultivation spreading to other continents in the past.

Agamic reproduction. Grafting, propagation by cuttings and layering are not very widespread. It is relatively difficult to obtain rooted cuttings and this is generally achieved by using young branches from the stools, irrespective of whether plant hormone treatment is used. Additional experiments are necessary if the intention is to increase the rooting percentage.

In vitro cultivation of I. paraguariensis is being tried out in Brazil and Argentina by various research groups, with varying results which still do not clearly indicate which are the economically viable techniques for the clonal reproduction of selected individuals.

According to the Under-Secretariat for Agriculture and Livestock, in Argentina in 1988, the average yield of semi-processed maté was 1220 kg per hectare.

Prospects for improvement
The limitations of cultivation are due to the fact that there is no demand for the product on a macroeconomic scale. The recurrent cycles of surplus supply, low prices, disinvestment in plantations, scarcity of raw materials, high prices—very often linked with international trading terms between producer countries, which result in a greater distortion—have historically acted against a stable supply of the product in terms of quality and quantity. Even worse, they have discouraged the continuation of basic and/or applied research, which cultivation and processing require. The partial or total absence of knowledge concerning maté biology, plant chemistry, dietetics, agronomics and industrialization have made it difficult to adopt international standards which would lay down norms for the quality of the product and improve and guarantee it over time, depending on its distribution to the major international markets for the production of methyl xanthine infusions.

Potential areas for the introduction of this crop are subtropical regions with acid soils and a water supply similar to those of the species' natural area of dispersal.

It has recently been suggested that Ilex verticillata, a North American species, could be a source of biodegradable detergents because of its high saponin content. Since research regarding similar subjects is being continued on I. paraguariensis and, furthermore, since other related species are studied even less than maté from the chemical point of view, it would be advantageous to go into these aspects more deeply.

Ilex argentina is also a possible caffeine-free maté and is, moreover, remarkable for its richness in liver-protecting phenolics similar to those in artichokes (Cynara scolymus).

There are also reports of a range of non-traditional uses for I. paraguariensis, for instance as a source of edible oils, furfural and cosmetics.
Finally, the importance of the wild Ilex species in genetic improvement of the crop should be mentioned.

Lines of research
* Botanical: Infraspecific variability of I. paraguariensis and how it is related to other species of the genus; an updated chorology; crossing systems of I. paraguariensis and other species of Ilex; inheritance of sex.
* Physiology of the seed and micropropagation methods.
* Plant chemistry: Cycle of the xanthines in the species and its relatives; toxic and undesirable compounds of allied species; analytical determination of the infusion's flavour components.
* Updating, from the food point of view and with relation to allied species.
* Architecture of the individual of I. paraguariensis and of allied species; phenology and adaptation of these trees to mechanical harvesting.
* Industrialization: Improvements in the drying and accelerated seasoning systems without organoleptic losses; alternative industries with cultivation by-products.
* New ways of consuming and presenting the product.
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In Genesis 1:11-13, "And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. (American Standard Version, ASV)[for more details, go to www.jw.org].

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iris89 · 9/15/2016 1:14 pm

COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2]   Facts On Hypocrisy Within Islam
[1]   SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 260A]

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.   Psalms 94:12 – 14, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

The need for correction and that it is given to all those believing in Him is given emphasis at Proverbs 3:11 – 13, [AV] “My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.” It is imperative to recognize that Almighty God’s (YHWH’s) law is just at stated at Psalms 19:7 – 9, [AV] “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.” This is because He is our Creator and loves us, and well knows our weaknesses and the need to give His followers correction from time to time.

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[2]   Facts On Hypocrisy Within Islam

INTRODUCTION:

We all desire true justice without hypocrisy, and we all intrinsically know that punishment should fit the crime.   Yet in today's world, due to hypocrisy punishment often bears no relationship with respect the severity and/or level of the offense.   Murder is one of the most heinous of crimes and should bear a very heavy penalty and the prosecution of those committing this terrible crime should be most vigorous, but often is NOT and this is especially true within areas and nations where Islam is in control.   Some Muslim Imams even treat murder's as martyrs and urge some of their members to become murders.    Yet the Quran shows murder is wrong.   What gives?

Reality shows much of Islam gives only lip service to the Quran when what it says goes against their personal agendas, and the remainder of Islam usually goes along with this in reality by turning their backs on what they should intrinsically know is very wrong.    Yet when someone commits what they consider an offense under Shariah Law that really is not based on the Quran, they desire to pronounce the maximum sentence against him/her of 'death.'    We will now examine this situation based on current events and actual statements by members of Islam.

ACQUISANCE TO MURDER BY NONE PROSECUTION OF THE GUILTY -- DIRECT AND INDIRECT:

Now let's investigate how Islam gives only lip service to the Quran's prohibition against killing and murder using quotes from members of Islam. But first a little regression on the differences between Islamic religious divisions and divisions or different paths within so called Christianity.

--So Called Christianity and Islam Divided Differently-

Most religions of the world take a two part single path as they have some good and some bad. Islam divided, for example, along the lines of who was the legitimate successor to Muhammad. The two major divisions of Islam are the Muslim [Sunni] and the Shia [Shiite]. Of course there are many denominational differences within these two groups, but like most religions, both divisions of Islam have some good and some bad.

However, so called Christianity did NOT follow in the mold of other religions such as the Hindus, Islam, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, etc.   Instead, so called Christianity took two different paths, one bad and one good. These two paths are as follows:

[1] In 325 AD the greater part of the so called Christian faith went apostate to when the good favor of a pagan emperor, a worshipper of the Unconquered Sun. And this branch of apostate Christians went on to commit many atrocities such as the rape of Goa, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the burning of individuals at the stake for disagreeing with them including one Bruno for simply saying that the earth revolved around the sun; whereas, they said the sun revolved around the earth.

[2] A second and much smaller group of Christians that remained genuine Christians and did NOT go apostate, but followed in the footsteps of Christ their leader and savior. These did NOT commit any atrocities.

Thus, as can be readily seen, Christianity did not take the same path as most other religions that of having some good and some bad, but instead had a bad large group, and a much smaller good group. The colonial powers, however, brought the bad group to India, Pakistan, the New World [most of South America and North America], and many of the islands of the sea; and they went on committing atrocities in all of these places.    This was because the apostate Christians were actually doing Satan the Devils' work per 2 Corinthians 4:4, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (Authorized King James Bible; AV); and John 5:19, "And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." (AV).

But some members of other religions try to apply the Christian example to themselves to cover up or side step wrong doing. Saying that apostate, Hindus, Islamist, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, etc. are the wrong doers, but this can NOT be correctly applied to members of these groups as those religions did NOT follow the two separate paths of so called Christianity, previously discussed. Instead they followed the general practice of most religions by having a little good and a little bad.

--The Quran Prohibits Killing Per a Member of Islam-

Now let's look at what a member of Islam said with respect the Quran's prohibition on killing.

"When it is said to them; 'Make not mischief on the Earth', they say: ' We are only peace makers'. Indeed they are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive it not." (Al-Baqarah 2:11-12)

Not transgressing the limits means not to kill women and children, for the Messenger of Allaah "forbade the killing of women and children." (5)

Not transgressing the limits means that the elderly, the sick, monks, worshippers, and hired laborers are not attacked. Not transgressing the limits means not killing animals wantonly, burning crops and vegetation, polluting waters and destroying homes, monasteries, churches and synagogues. Allaah said (which means): "Allaah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion, nor dove you out of your homes. Indeed, Allaah loves those who deal with equity." (Al-Mumtahinah 60:8)

After reading such passages from the Qur'aan and knowing about what Islaam commands and prohibits in Jihaad, the rules of warfare are given a new meaning; a meaning of justice. How sad it is then, that while Islaam is condemned for striking terror into the hearts of the people, the likes of the Serbs, the Indian army in Kashmire and the Israeli soldiers in Palestine are left untarnished for the atrocities they have committed in the name of warfare.

So what about suicide bombing, is this too a part of Jihaad in Allaah's path? From what has already been stated above, it can be deduced that this is not part of the religion. However, unfortunately many Muslims have taken suicide bombing as being a virtuous act by which one receives reward. This could not be further from the truth. The Prophet said: " Those who go to extremes are destroyed" (6)

Suicide bombing is undoubtedly an extremity which has infiltrated the ranks of the Muslims. In the rules of warfare, we find no sanction for such an act from the behavior and utterances of the Prophet Muhammad or his blessed companions. Unfortunately, today some of the less-knowledgeable Muslims believe that such acts are paving the way for an Islaamic revival and a return to the rule of Islaam's glorious law. However, we fail to bear in mind that the Prophet said: "Do not be delighted by the actions of anyone, until see how he ends up." (7)

So, for example what is the end of a suicide bomber in Palestine? A leg here, an arm there. Massive retaliation by the Israeli's in the West Bank and Gaza. More Muslims killed and persecuted. How can we be delighted with such an end? What really hammers the final nail in the coffin of this act, is that it is suicide; something which is clearly forbidden in Islaam. The Messenger of Allaah said: "He who kills himself with anything, Allaah will torment him with that in the fire of Hell" (8).

Some are under the misconception that by killing oneself for an Islaamic cause, one commits an act which deserves Paradise. Once when a man killed himself, the Prophet said: "He is a dweller of the fire". When the people were suprised at this, the Prophet said: "A person performs the deeds which to the people appears to be the deeds befitting the dweller of Paradise, but he is in fact one of the dweller of the fire." (9)

The taking of one's life, which Allaah has given as a trust to the human, is a great sin. Likewise, the unwarranted taking of other lives (which is so often the case with suicide bombing) is also forbidden, as human life is indeed precious. Allaah clarifies (which means): "..If anyone killed a person not in retaliation for murder or for his spreading evil in the land, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind. And (likewise) if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole mankind." (Al-Maa'idah 5:32)

Thus, all other types of extremities such as hostage taking, hijacking and bombs in public places, are clearly forbidden in Islaam."

As can be seen, this member of Islam clearly and correctly showed killing and murder is wrong and proscribed by the Quran, but let's look at present day facts.

--Present Day Realities, NOT Related To Quranic Principles--

As previously stated in the Introduction, In today's world, due to hypocrisy punishment often bears no relationship with respect the severity and/or level of the offense.   Murder is one of the most heinous of crimes and should bear a very heavy penalty and the prosecution of those committing this terrible crime should be most vigorous, but often is NOT and this is especially true within areas and nations where Islam is in control.   Some Muslim Imams even treat murder's as martyrs and urge some of their members to become murders.    Yet the Quran shows murder is wrong.   What gives?

As we shall see later, Islam wants to melt out the extreme punishment of death to none criminals, yet even though the Quran condemns murder one of the most heroines of crimes, some Muslim Imams even encourage it, and declare those committing it are martyrs. What gives is simple, lip service only is being paid to the Quran by many members of Islam including their leaders such as Imams.

Now you would think this would cause a great outcry of indignation by right thinking people who are members of Islam, but this as NOT happened. They have simply turned their backs to these heroines crimes and have NOT sought punishment for the wrong doers. In fact, the situation is so bad that I have actually heard a taped recording secretly made by a Muslim (Sunni) in the tribal area of Pakistan of an Imam, a religious leader of the people, actually exhort young men to terrorism! A clear violation of principles set out in the Quran and other members of Islam did NOT call for his punishment, clearly showing their tacit approval by inaction to something they well know is wrong as clearly previously stated by a quotation of what one member of Islam said. Let's just look at a few examples:

3/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 87 0 Eighty-seven victims of sectarian violence are found in at least four separate locations around the city in a 24-hour period.
3/14/06 Indonesia Ambon 1 0 In a suspected Muslim attack, a 33-year-old Catholic nun is stabbed to death by an intruder.
3/13/06 Bangladesh Comilla 3 0 An Islamic militant sets off a suicide blast to avoid arrest. A mother and two children are blown apart as well.
3/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 7 Three civilians, including a child, are killed by two terrorist bombings.
3/13/06 Iraq Tikrit 5 18 At least five people are killed when Islamic radicals set off a bomb along a city street.
3/13/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 0 The Taliban execute four Albanian cleaning-company contractors that were abducted a day earlier.
3/13/06 India Ganderbal 1 0 After keeping him in captivity for two days under harsh conditions, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen hang an abducted civilian.
3/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Radicals gun down a journalist outside his home.
3/13/06 Afghanistan Miansheen 5 6 Religious extremists attack a police post, killing five officers.
3/12/06 Afghanistan Kunar 4 0 Four American soliders are killed by a remote-controlled blast while on security patrol to protect civilians from Taliban attacks.
3/12/06 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Islamic militants kill a 44-year-old Buddhist as he is riding his motorcycle. They also bomb a Buddhist temple, injuring a young girl and her mother.
3/12/06 Pakistan Madakhel 1 0 A civlian is abducted, tortured and killed by Muslim radicals.
3/12/06 Pakistan Anghar 1 0 Islamists kill a man and pin a note to his body.
3/12/06 India Kader 1 0 A boy is abducted and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
3/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 14 Jihadis kill six civilians with a remote-controlled bomb and shoot two policemen to death in a separate attack.

And we all know about the mass murder of 1,000 on 9/11, the London subway bombing, etc. Yet no attempt by Islam to punish its member, Osama bin Ladin, the wicked Muslim [Sunni] behind this egregious violation of the Quran on killing.

Now how do members of Islam excuse these killings when asked? They retort with distortions of truth, false accusations, and outright untruths. Let's look at an actual example by a member of Islam, "Ever stop to wonder why? You're the hypocrite, not me. You claim that no "true" christian has ever committed a murder.   And you lie. You wont admit to your religions violent past but you feel justified to JUDGE Islam. Talk about double standards, hypocrite."   Of course genuine (true) Christians have NOT been committing murder, do not have a violent past, I am not a hypocrit, and I am just making the true facts known and NOT judging anyone as I am NOT a judge and I do NOT have a double standard.   My standard is murder is ALWAYS wrong no matter who the murderer is - period.

This self-same member of Islam went on to bring up the many violent acts committed by apostate (counterfeit) Christians, and the examples she mentioned were factual.   Now what is wrong with this?   Plenty, she is being deceptive any attempting to throw a pale on the innocent genuine (true) Christians, the foot step followers of Christ, and to justify wrong doing by members of Islam, i.e., side stepping pure and simple.

So as can readily be seen, Islam on the whole is turning their head on wrong doing by some members; whereas, they should be calling for their vigorous punishment.   Of course, saying this is NOT hypocritical, but factual.   Now we will look at how they try and make criminals out of NONE criminals and want to put them to death.   Nothing short of murder in the name of their religion.

DESIRE TO IMPOSE THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE ON THE NONE CRIMINAL:

Now let's look at how members of Islam desire to condemn the none criminal to death due to an unjust law which is actually not based on the Quran, nor on the standard acceptable conduct of fairness and true justice. Let's first look at the unjust law's source.

--Source and Misuse of and Unjust Law--

We will now examine the source and unjust use of Shariah Law using Muslim sources. The first source reference is the Anti Terrorism Resources - Free Muslim coalition:

"As one Islamic source admitted, "This is how our Prophet is misused by countless similar examples recorded in core Islamic scriptures. In secondary or tertiary so-called Islamic sources, extremely objectionable words are mentioned in his name. Example: -. "If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back." - Tuffaha, Ahmad Zaky, Al-Mar'ah wal- Islam, Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani, Beirut, first edition, 1985, p. 176. It is also quoted in Al-Musanaf by Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Mousa Al-Kanadi who lived 557H, vol. 1 part 2, p. 255." [reference from - Anti Terrorism Resources - Free Muslim coalition]

And as Imam Shafi'i and Imam Abu Hanifa noted with respect Shariah Law, "It is indeed man-made law because more than six thousand laws cannot be made based on only few Qura'anic verses relating legal instruction, which are indeed contextual. As other sources of Sharia are not divine, those cannot contribute to so called "Allah's Law".[source - Imam Shafi'i's and Imam Abu Hanifa's books as reported by Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism].

As we can readily see human history of injustice, hatred, and crimes against humanity as witnessed in the 'dark ages' under the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is apparently now to be repeated under the new 'inquisition' and 'dark ages' of Islam as shown by the present case of Mr. Abdul Rahman. This is even noted my modern Muslim intellectuals that have no interest to returning to the barbaric times of the original 'dark ages.' One group, the Free Muslim Coalition, said, "It is strange that without taking the burden of the challenge Political Islam acts a copycat of the past, the original "dark ages,' and tries to impose Sharia without updating. Once updated, Sharia might be very similar to existing laws of secular democratic countries. Muslims are not alone regarding objection to few laws such as same-sex marriage or abortion; some non-Muslims share the same vision. It is indeed surprising that Political Islamists remain vague about explaining how to integrate "Islamic teaching" in universal legal matters. They never point out which Western Law is against Islamic teaching and why. Dr. Hisham Kamali showed the serious and huge work done in 7-8th centuries to build Islamic Jurisprudence. But at the end it does not meet justice to humanity in general and women rights in particular. It is like the huge fifty thousand pages research-paper of a medicine that has serious and malignant side effects." [source - Anti Terrorism Resources - Free Muslim coalition].

As noted also Imam Shafi'i and Imam Abu Hanifa "The very concept of Sharia as a tool of governance violates the Qura'an in Chapters Ahkwaf -9, Ahzab-45 & 48, Anam -48, 52, 66, 69 & 107, Araf -61, 62, 67, 68, 79 & 93, 188, Bakara 272, Gashiyah -21 & 22, Kwahf - 29 & 56, and Mayedah -92 & 99, Nisa 165, Kwaf 45, Yunus -108, As-Shura 48, Ra'ad 40 etc. In these verses, the Qura'an clearly declares that the only responsibility of Prophets was not to govern, but only to deliver God's message. Even the word "Poygamber" (Prophet) comes from the word "Poygam" (Message). Examples- "I send messengers only to deliver message", "Prophets' task is only to deliver", "Duty of My Prophets is nothing but to deliver the message", "You are not their administrator, you are only a messenger", "Do you want to force them?" etc. [reference source - Imam Shafi'i's and Imam Abu Hanifa's books as reported by Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism].

--Attempt to Implement Injustice Against A None Criminal To Further Personal Agendas --

Now we will look at an actual well publicized case that occurred in March of 2006, the case of Mr. Abdel Rahman. This case fits perfectly what was said in the introduction, "Reality shows much of Islam gives only lip service to the Quran when what it says goes against their personal agendas, and the remainder of Islam usually goes along with this in reality by turning their backs on what they should intrinsically know is very wrong. Yet when someone commits what they consider an offense under Shariah Law that really is not based on the Quran, they desire to pronounce the maximum sentence against him/her of 'death.' Now let's look at this case and what others have said.

First, a little foreword, some fail to grasp that I am speaking about basic human rights, not specifically granted rights which is a political thing.   I am speaking of rights all individuals should have by the very nature of being human, and any state depriving one of these is denying basic human rights separate and apart from politics.   Now consider the following statement by the UN that defines these basic human rights.

The United Nations defines this basic human right in Article 18 as follows:

" UN covenant on civil and political rights
Article 18

Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.

No one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.

Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.
The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions."[source - United Nations].

A egregious violation of basic human rights occurred in Afghanistan with respect Abdel Rahman where Imams of Islam wanted this man put to death for simply exercising a basic human right of freedom of worship as he pleases. And the Palm Beach Post - March 29, 2006 said the following in an article written by a Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen whose e-mail address is cohenr@washpost.com, the following.

"Apostasy? And he's crazy?    What strikes me about the threat to execute Abdul Rahman, the Afghan who converted to Christianity, is not that Afghanistan remains deeply medieval and not even remotely the democracy that George Bush would like it to be but that with the exception of the (largely) Christian West, the rest of the world has been mostly silent. ...But if there has been a holler of protest from anywhere in the Muslim world, it has not reached my ears.   That is appalling.

The murder of a person for his religious belief ought to be inconceivable.

It is something we in the West stopped doing hundreds of years ago and,...the right of the government to take a life on account of religion has not even been argued in the longest time. We are way beyond that....

:The world is too much with us Wordsworth once wrote. This is the way I feel. To be confronted on almost a daily basis with the horrors of Iraq is profoundly disturbing. The torture and decapitation of huge numbers of people, the casual homicides, the constant suicide bombings - all of this makes you wonder about your fellow man. It no longer is possible to see the world only from your front porch, being disturbed only the ringing of the bell on some passing ice cream truck. Africa, Asia, too much of the world - it is Joseph Conrad much of the time: "The horror! The Horror!"

But you can say that these horrors are being inflicted by a minority. It is a few crazed terrorists in Iraw who are doing the killing. It is not most Iraqis. You can say the same about suicide bombers and torturers and rogue governments, like the one Saddam Hussein once headed. You can take solace in numbers. Most people are like us.

Then comes the Rahman case, and it is not a solitary crazy prosecutor who brings the charge of apostasy but an entire society. It is not a single judge who would condemn the man but a culture. The taliban are gone at gunpoint and their atrocities supposedly a thing of the past. In our boundless optimism, we consign them to the "too hard" file of horrors we cannot figure out: the Khmer Rouge, the Nazis, the communists of the Stalin period. Now, though, this awful thing returns and it is not just a single country that would kill a man for his beliefs but a huge swath of the world which would not protest. There can be only one conclusion: They were in agreement.

The groupthink of the Muslim world is appalling, frightening. I know there are exceptions - many exceptions. But still it seems that a man could be killed for his religious beliefs and no one will say anything in protest. It also is frightening to confront how differently we in the West think about such matters and why the word 'culture' is not always a mask for bigotry but an honest statement of how things are. It is sometimes a bridge too far - the leap that cannot be made.

I can embrace an Afghan for his children, his work, even his piety - all he shares with much of humanity. But when he insists that a convert must die, I am stunned into disbelief: Is this my fellow man?" [source - Palm Beach Post - March 29, 2006 article by Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen].

Or as a cartoon in the Palm Beach Post put it,

"Praise Allah! Afghanistan is free. Religious persecution is over. Christians will be executed." [source - the Palm Beach Post].

CONCLUSION:

Now there is the evil of Islam in a nut shell, what else need be said. It is just plain WRONG, and an attempt to murder the NONE criminal in the name of religion.

And as said in the Introduction, Reality shows much of Islam gives only lip service to the Quran when what it says goes against their personal agendas, and the remainder of Islam usually goes along with this in reality by turning their backs on what they should intrinsically know is very wrong.   Yet when someone commits what they consider an offense under Shariah Law that really is not based on the Quran, they desire to pronounce the maximum sentence against him/her of 'death.'

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COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2] Your Child Is in Danger!
[1]   SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 261A]

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.   Psalms 34:18 – 19, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

And as Psalms 147:3, says, [AV] “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” The Prophet Isaiah wrote at Isaiah 61:1, [AV] “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;” Yes, the Lord understands the plight of the obedient one in an unjust world as shown at Isaiah 57:15, [AV] “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. “ The Apostle Luke highlighted this point at Luke 4:18, [AV] “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”

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[2]   Your Child Is in Danger! [A SHORT SERIES]

How Can We Protect Our Children?

Prevention in the Home
Common Misconceptions
If Your Child Is Abused
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Let Us Abhor What Is Wicked
Comfort for Those With a "Stricken Spirit"

Child Molesting—You Can Protect Your Child

Misconception: Child abusers are usually strangers, deranged misfits who abduct children and use physical force to abuse them. In the vast majority of cases—from 85 to 90 percent by some estimates—the abuser is a person the child knows and trusts. Rather than using force, abusers often manipulate the child into sexual acts gradually, taking advantage of the child's limited experience and reasoning ability. (Compare 1 Corinthians 13:11,[AV] “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” and Proverbs 22:15, [AV] “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”) These abusers are not the drooling loners of the stereotype. Many are quite religious, respected, and well liked in the community. According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "to assume that someone is not a pedophile simply because he is nice, goes to church, works hard, is kind to animals, and so on, is absurd." Recent research suggests that it is also wrong to assume that all abusers are male or that all victims are female.

Misconception: Children fantasize or lie about sexual abuse.

Under normal circumstances children lack the experience or sophistication in sexual matters to invent explicit claims of abuse, although some small children may become confused about details. Even the most skeptical of researchers agree that most claims of abuse are valid. Consider the book Sex Abuse Hysteria—Salem Witch Trials Revisited, which focuses on false claims of abuse.* This book admits: "Genuine sex abuse of children is widespread and the vast majority of sex abuse allegations of children . . . are likely to be justified (perhaps 95% or more)." Children find it enormously difficult to report abuse. When they do lie about abuse, it is most often to deny that it happened even though it actually did.
Misconception: Children are seductive and frequently bring the abuse on themselves by their conduct.

This notion is particularly warped, since, in effect, it blames the victim for the abuse. Children have no real concept of sexuality. They have no idea of what such activity implies or of how it will change them. They are therefore incapable of consenting to it in any meaningful way. It is the abuser, and the abuser alone, who bears the blame for the abuse.—Compare Luke 11:11, 12. [If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? [AV]]

Misconception: When children disclose abuse, parents should teach them to refrain from talking about it and to 'put it behind them.' Who is best served if the child keeps silent about the abuse? Is it not the abuser? In fact, studies have shown that denial with emotional suppression may be the least effective way to deal with the trauma of abuse. Of the nine coping methods used by one group of adult survivors studied in England, the ones who denied, avoided, or suppressed the issue suffered the greater emotional maladjustment and distress in adult life. If you experienced a terrifying assault, would you want to be told not to talk about it? Why tell a child such a thing? Allowing the child the normal reaction to such a terrible event, such as grief, anger, mourning, will give him the opportunity eventually to put the abuse in the past.

* In some divorce cases, contending adults have been known to use an accusation of child abuse as a weapon.

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[1] SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 262A]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.   John 3:16 – 17, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

It is necessary to believe on him as emphasized by John 3:18, [AV] “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Indeed Almighty God (YHWH) loves us as clearly shown by 1 John 4:10 – 13, [AV] “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” And as Jesus (Yeshua) said at John 12:44, [AV] “Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.” Which harkens back to Matthew 4:10, [AV] “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

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[2]    Your Child Is in Danger! [A SHORT SERIES – SECTION 2]

How Can We Protect Our Children?

Prevention in the Home Common Misconceptions

If Your Child Is Abused

Related topics:
Let Us Abhor What Is Wicked
Comfort for Those With a "Stricken Spirit"
Child Molesting—You Can Protect Your Child            The molestation of children is an ugly reality in this sick world. Lear's magazine said: "It affects more of us than cancer, more of us than heart disease, more of us than AIDS." Awake! thus feels an obligation to try to alert its readers to this danger and what can be done about it.—Compare Ezekiel 3:17-21 [Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul, [AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE; AV]].; Romans 13:11-13, [AV] “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”]

IN RECENT years a global outcry has arisen over the molestation of children. But the media attention, replete with celebrities who have publicly disclosed their own experiences of childhood abuse, has led to some popular misconceptions. Some believe that all this talk about attacks on children is simply the latest fad. In truth, though, there is little new about such sexual assault. It is nearly as old as human history itself.

An Ancient Problem
Some 4,000 years ago, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were famous for depravity. Pedophilia was apparently among the region's many vices. Genesis 19:4, [“But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter,’ [AV]] describes a sex-crazed mob of Sodomites ranging "from boy to old man" seeking to rape Lot's two male guests. Consider: Why would mere boys be inflamed with the idea of raping males? Clearly they had already been introduced to homosexual perversions.
Centuries later, the nation of Israel moved into the region of Canaan. So steeped was this land in incest, sodomy, bestiality, prostitution, and even the ritualized sacrifice of little children to demon gods that all these vile acts had to be expressly forbidden in the Mosaic Law. (Leviticus 18:6, [None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.“ [AV]], 21-23, [And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.“ [AV]]; 19:29, [“Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness’ [AV]]; Jeremiah 32:35, {“And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” [AV]]. Despite divine warnings, rebellious Israelites, including some of their rulers, adopted these despicable practices.—Psalm 106:35-38, [“But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.” [AV]].

Ancient Greece and Rome, however, were far worse than Israel in this regard. Infanticide was common to both, and in Greece it was a widely accepted practice for older men to have relations with young boys. Boy brothels flourished in every ancient Greek city. In the Roman Empire, child prostitution was so prevalent that special taxes and holidays were set up specifically for that trade. In the arenas, girls were raped and forced into acts of bestiality. Similar atrocities were prevalent in many other ancient nations.

What about modern times? Is mankind too civilized for such horrible sex acts to flourish today? Students of the Bible cannot accept this notion. They well know that the apostle Paul characterized our era as "critical times hard to deal with." He detailed the rampant self-love, the love of pleasure, and the disintegration of natural family love that overrun modern society and added; per 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 13, [AV] “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away,” and (13), “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”]; Revelation 12:7-12, [AV] “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”]. Has child molestation, so often perpetrated by "wicked men and impostors," got worse?   Yes, and some evil false religions even promote it, and consider the marriage of pedophiles to young female children as young as six.

An Urgent Problem,” Assaults on children are often cloaked in secrecy, so much so that they have been called perhaps the most unreported of crimes. Even so, such crimes have evidently spiraled upward in recent decades. In the United States, a survey on the subject was conducted by the Los Angeles Times. It found that 27 percent of the women and 16 percent of the men had been sexually abused as children. Shocking as these statistics are, other careful estimates for the United States have run considerably higher.

In Malaysia, reports of child molestation have quadrupled over the past decade. In Thailand, some 75 percent of the men in one survey admitted to using child prostitutes. In Germany, officials estimate that as many as 300,000 children are sexually abused each year. According to South Africa's Cape Times, the number of reports of such assaults soared by 175 percent in a recent three-year period. In the Netherlands and Canada, researchers found that about one third of all women had been sexually abused as children. In Finland, 18 percent of the ninth-grade girls (15 or 16 years old) and 7 percent of the boys reported having had sexual contact with someone at least five years their senior.

In various countries disturbing reports have surfaced about religious cults that abuse children with sadistic sexual practices and torture. Often, those who report that they were victims of such crimes are treated with incredulity, not compassion.

So child molestation is neither new nor rare; it is a long-standing problem that is epidemic today. Its impact can be devastating. Many survivors suffer profound feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem. Experts in the field have listed some common aftereffects of incest on girls, such as running away, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, attempted suicide, delinquency, promiscuity, sleep disturbances, and learning problems. Long-range effects may include poor parenting skills, frigidity, distrust of men, marriage to a pedophile, lesbianism, prostitution, and child molestation itself.

These aftereffects are not inevitable for a victim; nor could anyone rightly excuse wrong conduct solely on the grounds of having been assaulted in the past. Abuse does not predestine its victims to be immoral or delinquent; nor does it dissolve all their personal responsibility for the choices they make later in life. But these common outcomes for victims are real dangers. They add urgency to the question, How can we protect children from molestation?

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iris89 · 9/17/2016 7:55 pm

COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2] Protect Your Children!   [A SHORT SERIES – SECTION 3]

[1] SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 263A]

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

Joel 2:32, shows this reality,[AV] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.“ This important reality and its qualifications are recorded for our benefit at Romans 10:12 – 15, [AV] “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”

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[2]    Protect Your Children! [A SHORT SERIES – SECTION 3]

How Can We Protect Our Children?

Your Child Is in Danger!
How Can We Protect Our Children?
Prevention in the Home
Common Misconceptions
If Your Child Is Abused

Related topics:
Let Us Abhor What Is Wicked
Comfort for Those With a "Stricken Spirit"
Child Molesting—You Can Protect Your Child      "Don't ever tell. It will be our secret." "No one would believe you." "If you tell, your parents will hate you. They'll know it was your fault." "Don't you want to be my special friend anymore?" "You don't want me to go to jail, do you?"
"I'll kill your parents if you tell."

AFTER using children to satisfy perverted lusts, after robbing them of their security and their sense of innocence, child molesters still want something else from their victims—SILENCE. To secure that silence, they use shame, secrecy, even outright terror. Children are thus robbed of their best weapon against abuse—the will to tell, to speak up and ask an adult for protection.

Tragically, adult society often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so? By refusing to be aware of this danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft-repeated myths. Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims.
For example, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded recently that it was a "general conspiracy of silence" that allowed gross child abuse to persist among the Catholic clergy for decades. Time magazine, in reporting on the widespread plague of incest, also cited a "conspiracy of silence" as a factor that "only helps perpetuate the tragedy" in families.

However, Time noted that this conspiracy is crumbling at last. Why? In a word, education. It is as Asiaweek magazine put it: "All experts agree that the best defence against child abuse is public awareness." To defend their children, parents must understand the realities of the threat. Don't be left in the dark by misconceptions that protect child abusers and not children.—See box.

Educate Your Child!
Wise King Solomon told his son that knowledge, wisdom, and thinking ability could protect him "from the bad way, from the man speaking perverse things." (Proverbs 2:10-12, [AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE; AV] “When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things”;) Isn't that just what children need? The FBI pamphlet Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis says this under the heading "The Ideal Victim": "For most children sex is a taboo subject about which they receive little accurate information, especially from their parents." Don't let your children be "ideal victims." Educate them about sex.* For example, no child should reach puberty unaware of how the body will change during this time. Ignorance will make them confused, ashamed—and vulnerable.

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iris89 · 9/18/2016 8:28 pm

COMBINATION OF THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND THE RARE FRUIT TREES AND VEGETABLES.   With the Scripture of the Day first.
[1]    SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 264A]

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.   Revelation 18:4 – 5, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

This is made clear in Almighty God’s (YHWH’s) directions to His people in ancient times as given at Isaiah 52:10 - 11, [AV] “The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.” We are warned not to indulge in unrighteous things at 2 Corinthians 6:17, [AV] “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” but to come out of false religions and have no further partaking in their unclean practices. As 1 Timothy 5:24, [AV] “Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.”

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[2]    THE RARE FRUIT TREES AND VEGETABLES:
Here is a Commentary on Bountiful Trees and Vegetables God (YHWH) has provided for mankind, specifically the Matico (Piper aduncum) is a flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. Like many species in the family, the Matico tree has a peppery odor.

The fruits are used as a condiment and for flavoring cocoa.[3] It is sometimes used as a substitute for long pepper.

Traditional medicine
In the Amazon Rainforest, many of the native tribes use matico leaves as an antiseptic. In Peru, it was used for stopping hemorrhages and treating ulcers, and in European practice in the treatment of diseases of the genitals and urinary organs, such as those for which cubeb was often prescribed.[4]

Characteristics
Matico is a tropical, evergreen, shrubby tree that grows to the height of 6 to 7 meter (20 to 23 ft) with lance-shaped leaves that are 12 to 20 centimeter (5 to 8 in) long. It is native to Southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and much of tropical South America. It is grown in tropical Asia, Polynesia, and Melanesia and can even be found in Florida, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. In some countries Matico is considered as an invasive weed.[2] In parts of New Guinea, although Matico is notorious for drying out the soil in the areas where it is invasive, the wood of this plant is nonetheless used by local residents for a myriad of uses such as for fuel and fence posts.[5]

Etymology
According to legends, the plant was discovered by a wounded Spanish soldier named Matico.[2] He learned, presumably from the local tribes, that applying the leaves to his wounds stopped bleeding, and it began to be called "Matico" or "soldier's herb". It was introduced into the profession of medicine in the United States and Europe by a Liverpool physician in 1839 as a styptic and astringent for wounds.[2]

Notes
1. ^ Barlow, Prof. Snow (2003). "Sorting Piper names". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
2. ^ a b c d Taylor, Dr. Leslie (2006). "Technical Data Report for Matico (Piper aduncum, angustifolium)" (PDF). Raintree Nutrition, Inc. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
3. ^ Seidemann, Johannes (2005). World Spice Plants: Economic Usage, Botany, Taxonomy. Springer. p. 289. ISBN 3-540-22279-0.
4. ^ Remington, Joseph P. (Ed); Horatio C. Wood (1918). "The Dispensatory of the United States of America". Retrieved 2007-03-29.
5. ^ Siges, T.; A.E. Hartemink, P. Hebinck & B.J. Allen (2005). "The invasive shrub Piper aduncum and rural livelihoods in the Finschhafen area of Papua New Guinea". Human Ecology 33 (6): 875–893. doi:10.1007/s10745-005-8214-7. Retrieved 2007-04-16.   (source - retrieved from   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_aduncum on 3/25/2013)

In Genesis 1:11-13, "And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. (American Standard Version, ASV)[for more details, go to www.jw.org].

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iris89 · 9/19/2016 2:55 pm

COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2] Learn reality about regular and Muslim society - both are breaking down.

[1]     SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 265A]

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew 24:12, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

Jesus (Yeshua) said of these whose love had grown cold for righteousness at Matthew 7:23, [AV] “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Many in the end times will be as shown at 2 Timothy 3:2, [AV] “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,”

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[2] Learn reality about regular and Muslim society - both are breaking down.

CLEARLY EVERYWHERE SOCIETY IS BREAKING DOWN, WESTERN SOCIETY IS NO
EXCEPTION, BUT ISLAMIC SOCIETY IS FAR AHEAD OF IT WITH RESPECT MORAL
BREAKDOWN.

INTRODUCTION:

Should we be surprised by this breakdown of morals everywhere? No! The Bible foretold this over 1,900 years ago as follows: “Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. 2 Timothy 3:1
(Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible: DRCB)

It is good to note that Paul introduced the prophecy about the last days with the expression, ‘know…this.’ Those words guarantee that what follows is certain to occur. There is no doubt that ungodly society will continue to advance from bad to worse until Almighty God (YHWH) steps in to end it. Historians have documented that here or There some society or nation experienced a steep moral decline and then collapsed. Never before in history, though, has the overall morality of the entire world deteriorated to the extent that is has now. Many people may ignore the implications, but this unique development since 1914 should clearly demonstrate to us that we can trust that Almighty God’s (YHWH’s) Kingdom will soon take decisive action.

YES THE MORALS IN THE U.K., USA, RUSSIA ARE GETTING WORSE, BUT THE MORALS OF MANY MUSLIMS ARE EVEN WORSE:

Many members of Islam point to the breakdown of morals in the west, but conveniently ignore that their own society’s morals broke down starting with the founding of Islam in the 7 th. Century, and the fact, that their founder, the false prophet, Muhammad, was a pedophile and rabid sexual pervert, and also a very vicious person. For details, go to, Appendix 1 and 2. In fact, a Muslim political active Muslim women, Salwa al-Mutairi, even testified to the fact of the unconscionable wrong sex drive of many Muslim men, when she said,
(quote) ‘“that extra "virile" men—Western synonyms include "sex-crazed," "lecherous," "perverted"—would do well to purchase sex-slaves to sate their appetites without sinning.” (quote) For more details on this, go to Appendix 3.

This shows a moral breakdown in the Muslim world worse than anything in the western world which some members of Islam are always criticizing. Worse yet, many in Islam sexually mutilate little girls and practice honour killings. For details, go to Appendix 4.

APPENDIX 1, MUHAMMAD WAS A SEX PERVERT – SEE THE PROOF

Muhammad was a violent sexual pervert, who formed a false religion
that has 1.4 billion followers today. Muslims who practice Islam have
been prepared and are held in reserve at this hour to serve as God’s
servants, instruments of war from His armory, to punish a disobedient
world, and in particular, rebellious stiff-necked apostate Jews.
Pervert Muhammad married eleven or thirteen women. Historians
sanitize this filth by jabbering about things like “needs of the
tribe,” politics, compassion and “affairs of the heart.”

When he was 25, Muhammad married his wealthy employer, a 40-year-old
merchant named (1) Khadijah. He was her gigolo; he used her wealth to
dally in dreams and pretend he had been told things by God. When he
was 40 he claimed to have been visited by the angel Gabriel who
revealed to him a verse from the Qur’an, after which he claimed to be
a prophet. He spent long hours “meditating” and “speculating” about
the creation. He claimed a series of visions occurred while he was
hanging out in caves and in the hills and ravines near Mecca.

After Khadijah died, Muhammad married (2) Sawda bint Zam’a, (3)Aisha
and (4)Umm Salam. Aisha was six when she was betrothed to Muhammed;
the marriage was consummated when she was nine or ten. In later years
she slipped off to look for an allegedly “lost” wedding necklace,
giving rise to claims she was up to mischief with some man. Not to
worry; Muhammed got some verses written and out into the public
mainstream bespeaking her innocence and condemning anyone who said
otherwise as slanderers.

After killing her husband, during the Muslim war with Mecca, Muhammad
married (5)Hafsa bint Umar when she was 20 (he was 56). Similarly,
after she was widowed at the battle of Badr, Muhammed married
(6)Zaynab bint Khuzayma.

When Abu Salamah died in battle, Muhammad married his widow, (7)Umm
Salama Hin bitn Abi Umayya. In 626 (8)Raihanah bint Zaid was among
those enslaved after the defeat of the Banu Quarayza tribe, and she
became Muhammad’s concubine or wife.

Later, Muhammad married his cousin, (9)Zaynab bint Jahsh, after a lot
of conflict related to her marriage and divorce with another man.
Muhammad decided in favor of this marriage to break the taboo against
incestuous marriages, by informing everyone the Qur’an indicated this
marriage was a duty imposed on him by God.

After he took captives from a skirmish with the Banu Mustaliq, he
married one named (10)Juwayriya bint al-Harith, which led to his new
kinsmen being released from enslavement. Then he signed a peace
treaty with his Meccan enemies, the Quraysh, and soon thereafter
married the daughter of their leader, (11)Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, all for
reconciling with his opponents of course.

Muhammad sent a proposal for marriage to (12)Ramlah bint Abi-Sufyan
when he learned her husband had died. Then in 629, after the Battle
of Khaybar, Muhammad freed (13)Safiyya bint Huyayy, a noblewoman of
the defeated Jewish tribe Banu Nadir, and proposed marriage. She
accepted, so he married her as part of reconciliation with the Jewish
tribe and a gesture of goodwill.

If these women got into a cat fight about how Muhammad was treating
them – in particular how much time or attention each received from him
– he made up new rules that he claimed were revelations from God, to
keep them in line. When he died, he left word behind that no one
could marry them according to God. He kept these women in little
apartments adjacent to the mosque at Medina, and visited them in
rounds day and night.

This was in between his warmongering, whereby he built an estate and
army, which put in motion military expeditions that have influence
still today. The only thing that made Muhammad a “prophet” was his
military successes. In a single decade he fought eight major battles,
led 18 raids, and planned 38 military operations. He revolutionized
Arabian warfare and mobilized an army motivated by an ideology of holy
war (jihad) and martyrdom (shahada). This transmitted to the West
during the wars between Muslims and Christians in Spain and France,
and gave the whore Roman Catholic Church an ideological justification
for the Crusades. But for his success as a military commander, Islam
would not have gained momentum leading to 1.4 billion practitioners
today, making it the second largest religion behind Christianity, and
the conquest of the Byzantine and Persian empires by Arab armies would
not have occurred. Muhammad transformed the armies of Arabia so his
successors could use them to defeat the armies of Persia and Byzantium
and establish the heartland of the empire of Islam.

Muhammad came along at a time when Muslims were in a defensive mode,
often fighting to survive, many living in poverty and oppression.
Muhammad spent thirteen years building a spiritual platform; then the
remaining ten years of his life as a leader in military mode, merging
these notions – of spirituality and warfare – to establish the false
religion known today as Islam. Supposedly when he started preaching,
Muhammad was not violent. He is said to have been persecuted for
preaching his religious ideas – known today as Islam – and denigrating
the pagan religions of the Meccans. He went to Medina after receiving
a “revelation” to fight the Meccans, which caused him to turn to
warfare. His “revelation” coalesced with a group of feuding Arabs in
Media who accepted him as their prophet, providing him with his first
army. He then began to preach that if anyone gained a victory of the
men of Jews, they should kill them. After some acts of violence where
his men killed for him, he saw that he had power, and he became a cold
blooded murderer of anyone Jewish or non-Muslim or otherwise
categorized as his enemy. This led to the brand of terrorism that has
the whole world in fear today. Millions of words have been written
about Muhammad’s violence, with one example of these details found
here: http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/terrorism.htm. Most who
claim to practice Islam today probably don’t even know these details.
Being the descendents of Ishmael, however, it’s of little relevance to
them why; they just know they have a deep enmity in their DNA against
Jews and the arrogant Americans who support them.

Muhammad was a sexual pervert, appointed by God to have military
prowess, to put in motion the Islam people. This prepared the world
stage for the Last Days, so there would be a fierce people ready to
afflict Israel, in God’s appointed time. There was nothing holy about
Muhammad; he was intelligent and charismatic – attributes given him by
God – and he had a role to prepare the Arab people for what God has
planned in the last days. Anyone who worships him is worshiping a
pedophile; Islam is a false religion, man-made, utterly unscriptural.
He was a whoremonger and warmonger, the perfect unclean raven to
prepare a people to give the Beast a barbaric vicious army for when he
becomes king of the world. [source - retrieved from
http://www.godhatesislam.com/pervertmuhammad.html on 3/10/2014]

APPENDIX 2, MUHAMMAD A BRUTAL MAN WORSE THAN ADOLPH HITLER – KNOW THE TRUTH

The Life of Muhammad:
An Inconvenient Truth

Now Includes the Myths of Muhammad


Timeline of Muhammad's Life (A.D)

570 - Born in Mecca
576 - Orphaned upon death of mother
595 - Marries Kadijah - older, wealthy widow
610 - Reports first revelations from angel at age of 40
619 - Protector uncle dies
622 - Emigrates from Mecca to Medina (the Hijra)
623 - Orders raids on Meccan caravans
624 - Battle of Badr (victory)
624 - Evicts Qaynuqa Jews from Medina
624 - Orders the assassination of Abu Afak
624 - Orders the assassination of Asma bint Marwan
624 - Orders the assassination of Ka'b al-Ashraf
625 - Battle of Uhud (defeat)
625 - Evicts Nadir Jews
627 - Battle of the Trench (victory)
627 - Massacre of the Qurayza Jews
628 - Signing of the Treaty of Hudaibiya with Mecca
628 - Destruction and subjugation of the Khaybar Jews
629 - Orders first raid into Christian lands at Muta (defeat)
630 - Conquers Mecca by surprise (along with other tribes)
631 - Leads second raid into Christian territory at Tabuk (no battle)
632 - Dies

"Muhammad is a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer,
a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman
a rapist, a torturer, an assassin and a looter."
Former Muslim Ali Sina offered $50,000 to anyone
who could prove otherwise based on Islamic texts.
The reward has gone unclaimed.

Introduction

What if a man you knew began telling people that God was routinely
speaking to him and only him - and that the "revelations" he claimed
to be receiving were mostly about him and his relative importance to
all other people? Say, for example, that this self-proclaimed prophet
insisted that God had declared him to be the 'perfect example' for
mankind and that others were therefore to accord him with special
privilege, unwavering obedience, wealth and earthly desires, including
all of the slaves and women that his lust could handle.

Such figures still arise from time to time. Some of the more dynamic
manage to develop a small group of followers so taken with their
leader's self assurance that they willingly offer their own children
to him for "marriage" or even kill on his behalf if requested.

Would it really validate the message of any such cult leader if his
followers did successfully kill and seize the property of anyone who
dared disagree? What if they gradually expanded their power and
numbers in such fashion that eventually they were enough to be
recognized as a major world religion? Would that make the cult
leader's claims about himself true? Would it really change the fact
that what they believe ultimately sprang from the imagination of a
narcissist?

In 610, an Arab salesman with a commanding personality attracted a
small cult of credulous fanatics by claiming to be a prophet. Though
his "revelations" were self-referential and occasionally
contradicting, he was successful in manipulating his followers with
promises of heavenly reward and threat of divine wrath. The god heard
only by him told them to lie and steal for him, to give their children
to him for sexual pleasure and, eventually, to gruesomely murder his
detractors.

There are two ways to approach a study of Muhammad. One is with
reverence and the other is with skepticism. Thinking persons choose
the latter. They are not influenced by the number of Muslim believers
in the world today or by their force of belief because these are
meaningless for determining truth. They care only about fact.

The facts presented here about the life of Muhammad and the origins of
Islam are fully supported by the works of early Muslim biographers
upon which all later historians rely.

Origins

To understand Islam, you must understand the harsh circumstances into
which the religion was born. The Arabian Peninsula at the time of
Muhammad (b.570 AD) was a barren and desolate region with scorching
sun and oppressive heat by day, and chilling cold at night. There was
little vegetative growth, and the nomadic inhabitants lived between
jagged rocks and shifting sand dunes.

While Europe and much of the Middle East was transitioning from the
Roman to the Byzantine Empire, with roads, irrigation canals,
aqueducts, and a culture that included philosophical discourse and
theater, the Arabians lived short and brutal lives in warring tribes
with little to offer the rest of the world beyond their own harsh
existence.

This partly explains Islam's inherent hostility to music and art,
which some extremists, such as the Taliban, take quite literally.
Islam does not encourage the pursuit of knowledge outside of itself.
It is, as Oriana Fallaci puts it, it is “the religion which has
produced nothing but religion."

The inhospitable climate protected the peninsula from conquest and
cultural influence. No foreign army felt that sheep and goats were
worth taking from the desert fighters, so the area was relatively
isolated, with the exception of certain trading routes. The
renaissance of knowledge that the rest of the world had been
experiencing since the Greek revival was largely missed out on by the
Arabs, whose entire energies were devoted to daily survival against
the ruthless environment and other tribes.

For these people, morality was dictated merely by necessity, and
obligations did not extend beyond one’s tribe. This is a critical
basis for the development of the Islamic attitude toward those outside
the faith, including the moral principle that the ethics of any act
are determined only by whether or not it benefits Muslims.

There were pagan religious traditions in Arabia, particularly among
those based in the trading centers such as Muhammad's birthplace of
Mecca. Some of these towns had Kaabas - cube-like structures that
would attract pilgrims during holy months. The Kaaba at Mecca housed
various idols, including the black meteorite that remains to this day.

In addition to the black rock, Muhammad's Quraish tribe worshipped a
moon god called Allah. Other gods were recognized as well. In fact,
the town of Mecca was renowned for religious tolerance, where people
of all faiths could come and pray at the Kaaba. (This would later
change once Muhammad gained the power to establish his authority by
force).

Islam was created both from these crude pagan practices and from the
basic theological elements of Christianity and Judaism as Muhammad
[often erroneously] understood them (his inaccurate interpretation of
Christianity, for example, is often attributed to an early experience
with fringe cults in the Palestinian region, then known as Syria).

Early Life at Mecca

Muhammad was born around 570 AD to a widowed mother who died just six
years later. He grew up poor and orphaned on the margins of society,
which was controlled by tribal chiefs and trading merchants. He
worked for his uncle, Abu Talib, as a camel herder. Although his
uncle had some standing in the community, Muhammad himself did not
rise above his lowly station until he was 25, when he met and married
a wealthy widow, Khadija, who was 15 years older.

His wife's trading business not only nurtured Muhammad's natural
talents of persuasion, but it also gave the successful salesman an
opportunity to travel and acquire knowledge that was not as accessible
to the local population. He would later use this to his advantage by
incorporating the stories that he had come across into his
"revelations" from Allah, particularly the tales from the earlier
religions, Judaism and Christianity.

Having attained a comfortable lifestyle and the idle time that wealth
affords, Muhammad would wander off occasionally for periods of
meditation and contemplation. It is quite likely that he was
experiencing the symptoms of a midlife crisis, including a desire for
personal accomplishment and meaning.

One day, at the age of 40, he told his wife that he had been visited
by the angel Gabriel in a dream. Thus began a series of "revelations"
which lasted almost until his death 23 years later. The Qur’an is a
collection of words that Muhammad attributed to Allah. The Hadith is
a collection of narrations of the life and deeds of Muhammad. The
Sira is his recorded biography. The Sunnah is said to be Muhammad's
way of life, on which Islamic law (Sharia) is based.

With his wife’s influence and support, Muhammad proclaimed himself a
prophet in same "lineage" as that of Abraham and Jesus, and began
trying to convert those around him to his new religion. He narrated
the Quran to those who believed him, telling them that it was the word
of Allah (heard only by himself, of course).

Muhammad's Quran did not contain a single original moral value and it
contributed only one new idea to world religion - that Muhammad is
Allah's prophet. In fact, Muhammad's "Allah" seemed oddly preoccupied
with making sure Muslims knew to obey Muhammad's every earthly wish,
as this mandate is repeated at least twenty times in the narration of
the Quran.

In the beginning, Muhammad did his best to compromise his teachings
with the predominant beliefs of the community’s elders, such as
combining all 300 of their idols under the name “Allah.” His
amalgamation of Judeo-Christian theology and pagan tradition grew more
sophisticated over time. He also used his "revelations from Allah" to
repeatedly affirm his own position. Even if he did not remember the
Biblical stories correctly, for example, each one was conspicuously
modified to incorporate a common theme: "Believe in the Messenger
(Muhammad) or suffer the consequences."

Preaching and Persecution at Mecca

According to early Muslim historians, the Meccans did not mind
Muhammad practicing his religion, nor did they feel threatened by his
promotion of it. This changed only after the self-proclaimed prophet
began attacking their religion, including the customs and ancestors of
the people (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 167). This was enough to stir up the
resentment of the influential leaders of Mecca, who then mocked his
humble background against his pretentious claims. (See also MYTH:
Muhammad was Persecuted for Preaching Islam)

Still, Mecca at the time was a remarkably tolerant society. Muhammad
was allowed to attack the local customs for thirteen years, even
though the town's economy depended on the annual pilgrimage attended
by visiting pagans, whose religion he actively disparaged.

At first, Muhammad was only successful with friends and family. After
thirteen years, “the street preacher” could boast of only about a
hundred determined followers, who called themselves Muslims. Outside
of his wife, his first convert was his young cousin Ali (who would
later become his son-in-law and the fourth caliph of Islam). Another
early convert was Abu Bakr, a wealthy merchant whose money and
credulous acceptance of Muhammad can be credited with the survival of
the fledgling cult. (Muhammad would later "marry" Abu Bakr's
6-year-old daughter).

Relations with the Meccans turned particularly sour after an episode
known as "the Satanic Verses" in which Muhammad agreed to recognize
the local gods in addition to Allah. This delighted the Meccans, who
generously extended their welcome. But Muhammad soon changed his mind
after his own people began to lose faith in him. He claimed that
Satan had spoken through him, and he rescinded recognition of the
Meccan gods (Tabari 1192, Quran 22:52 & 53:19-26).

The locals intensified their mockery of Muslims and made life
particularly difficult for some of them. Although Muslims today often
use the word "persecution" to describe this ordeal (justifiably, in
some cases), it is important to note that the earliest and most
reliable biographers (Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari) record the death of
only one Muslim during this period, an older woman who died from
stress.

This fact is a source of embarrassment to modern apologists, who do
not like admitting that Muslims were the first to become violent at
Mecca (see MYTH: The Meccans Drew First Blood against Muhammad) and
that Muhammad was the first to resort to militancy... and at a later
time, when it was entirely unnecessary.

To deal with this unpleasant truth, sympathetic narratives of the
early Meccan years usually exaggerate the struggle of the Muslims with
claims that they were "under constant torture." They may also include
apocryphal accounts that are unsupported by earliest and most reliable
historians (see MYTH: Persecution of Muslims at Mecca - Many Deaths).

Modern storytellers and filmmakers (such as those behind 1976's The
Message) have even been known to invent fictional victims of Meccan
murder, either to dramatize their own tale or to provide justification
for the "revenge killings" that followed. But, in fact, the only
Muslim whose life was truly in danger was that of Muhammad - after 13
years of being allowed to mock the local religion. (See also MYTH:
Muhammad was Tortured at Mecca).

The Hijra - Flight from Mecca to Medina

The death of his uncle, Abu Talib, in 619 left Muhammad without a
protector against the Meccan leadership, which was gradually losing
patience with him. The true agitator in this situation, however, is
quite clearly Muhammad himself, as even Muslim historians note.
Consider this account of what happened at Abu Talib's deathbed, as the
Meccans implored him a final time for peace with his nephew:

[Muhammad's chief adversary] Abu Sufyan, with other sundry notables,
went to Abu Talib and said: "You know the trouble that exists between
us and your nephew, so call him and let us make an agreement that he
will leave us alone and we will leave him alone; let him have his
religion and we will have ours." (Ibn Ishaq 278)

Muhammad rejected the offer of peaceful co-existence. His new
religion was obviously intended to dominate the others, not be on
equal standing with them. Meanwhile, the Muslims were beginning to
become violent with the people around them.

Muhammad's search for political alliance led him to make a treaty of
war against the Meccans with the people of Medina, another Arab town
far to the north (Ibn Ishaq 299-301). This was the last straw for the
Meccans, who finally decided to capture Muhammad and put him to death.
(see also MYTH: Muhammad and his Muslims Fled Mecca because of
Persecution)

Although this sounds harsh against Western standards, it is important
to note the contrast between the Meccan reaction and that of Muhammad
when he had the opportunity to deal with perceived treachery in Medina
at a later date on the part of those who hadn't even harmed anyone.

The Meccans limited their deadly aggression to Muhammad himself. This
is quite clear from the episode in which Muhammad escapes his home by
using his son-in-law, Ali, to trick his would-be assassins into
thinking that they had him trapped (Ibn Ishaq 326). No harm was done
to Ali or his wife, both of whom subsequently remained in the city for
several days to complete the transfer of Muhammad's family business to
Medina.

Compare this to the episode of the Banu Qurayza (below), in which
Muhammad slaughtered an entire tribe of people based on their leader
having switched loyalties in a conflict in which none of them even
participated.

The year that Muhammad fled Mecca for Medina was 622, which marks the
beginning of the Muslim calendar.

Medina and the Origin of Jihad

Stinging from the rejection of his own town and tribe, Muhammad's
message quickly become more intolerant and ruthless - particularly as
he gained power. Islam's holiest book clearly reflects this contrast,
with the later parts of the Quran adding violence and earthly defeats
at the hands of Muslims to the woes of eternal damnation that the
earlier parts of the book promises those who will not believe in
Muhammad.

It was at Medina that Islam evolved from a relatively peaceful
religion borrowed from others and into a military force that was
intended to govern all aspects of society. During these last ten
years of Muhammad's life, infidels were evicted or enslaved, converted
upon point of death and even rounded up and slaughtered depending on
expediency.

To fund his quest for control, Muhammad first directed his followers
to raid Meccan caravans in the holy months, when the victims would
least expect it. This was despite the fact that the Meccans were not
bothering him in Medina (see MYTH: Muhammad and his Muslims were
Persecuted by the Meccans at Medina).

Muhammad provided his people with convenient revelations "from Allah"
which allowed them to murder innocent drivers and steal their property
(Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 426). The people around him gradually developed a
lust for things that could be taken in battle, including material
comforts and captured women and children. (See also MYTH: Muhammad
Raided Caravans to Retrieve Stolen Property).

Often the people captured in battle would be brought before the
self-proclaimed prophet, where they would plead for their lives,
arguing, for example, that they would never have treated the Muslims
that way. The traditions are quite clear in portraying Muhammad as
largely unmoved by their pleas, and ordering their deaths anyway,
often by horrible means. In one case, he orders a man slain, telling
him that “Hell” will take care of the poor fellow’s orphaned daughter
(Ishaq 459). (See also MYTH: Muhammad Never Killed Captives)

The raids on caravans preceded the first major battle involving a
Muslim army, the Battle of Badr. This was the spot where the Meccans
had sent their own army to protect their caravans from Muslim raiders.
Although, Muslims today like to claim that they only attack others in
self-defense, this was clearly not the case in Muhammad's time. In
fact, he had to compel his reluctant warriors with promises of
paradise and assurances that their religion was more important than
the lives of others. (See also MYTH: The Battle of Badr was
Defensive).

The Consolidation of Power

Muhammad defeated the Meccan army at Badr, which emboldened him to
begin dividing and conquering the three local Jewish tribes at Medina.
Their mistake was to accept the Muslim presence, but reject
Muhammad's claim that he was in the line of Jewish prophets. His
stories from the Torah simply did not agree with their own.
(Muhammad's recited version of Bible stories sounds more like
fragmented fairy tales with the same moral - believe in his personal
claim to be a prophet or else).

How these three tribes, the Banu Qaynuqa, the Banu Nadir, and the Banu
Quyrayza met their fate is insightful into the Muslim mindset, which
employs an inherent double standard in its relations with those
outside the faith.

First, to try and gain their favor, Muhammad briefly preached that
Christians and Jews could attain salvation through their own faith.
In fact, he changed his followers' direction for prayer from Mecca to
Jerusalem, which prompted the Jews' tolerance of him while he worked
surreptitiously for the power to evict them. These earlier
concessions and teachings were later revoked by Muhammad, since the
Jews ultimately refused his religion. The rare early verses of
tolerance in the Quran are abrogated by later verses such as 9:29.

The Jews' knowledge of the Torah naturally threatened the Muslim
leader's credibility, since it easily refuted the claims that he made
about himself as a prophet of God. They also saw through the Biblical
narrations that he had picked up from secondhand sources and knew that
these contradicted established revelation. Conveniently, Allah
stepped in to tell Muhammad that the Jews had deliberately corrupted
their own texts to hide the very evidence of his own prophethood that
he had previously insisted existed. (To this day, Muslims have never
been able to produce a copy of the "true" Torah or Gospel to which
their own Quran refers).

While the Jews remained unconvinced by such obvious gimmickry, Arab
polytheists converted to Islam in large numbers, which soon gave
Muhammad the power to make his intentions clear that Islam would be
imposed by force:

While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, "Let us go
to the Jews" We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to
them, "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that
the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you
from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is
permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs
to Allah and His Apostle." Bukhari 53:392

The Jews of Mecca were the first in a very long line of unfortunate
people to be offered the opportunity to convert to Islam under obvious
duress. Forcible conversion is very much a Muslim tradition started
by Muhammad (see MYTH: Muhammad Rejected Conversions to Islam made
under Duress)

Since they chose to hold on to their religion (and their property)
Muhammad looked for reasons to go to war against the Jews at Medina.
According to some Muslims, the first tribe, the Qaynuqa, were driven
from their homes and land on the pretext that one of their own had
harassed a Muslim woman. Although the offender was killed prior to
this by a Muslim, the Muslim was also killed by Jews in retaliation
for the first murder.

After laying siege to the entire community and defeating the tribe,
Muhammad wanted to put every male member to death, but was talked out
of it by an associate - something that Allah later "rebuked" him for.
The Qaynuqa were forced into exile and the Muslims took their
possessions and property, making it their own. Muhammad personally
reserved a fifth of the ill-gotten gain for himself (a rule that he
was sure to include in the Quran).

This episode helped ingrain within Islam the immature principle of
group identity, whereby any member of a religion or social unit
outside of Islam is just as guilty as any of their peers who insult or
harm a Muslim - and just as deserving of punishment. (Muhammad's
punishments usually did not fit the crime).

Members of the second tribe, the Banu Nadir, were accused by Muhammad
of plotting to kill him. What is most intriguing about this episode
is that it occurred after the Muslims had killed several prominent
Jews on Muhammad's order, including a leader of the Banu Nadir (named
Ka'b al-Ashraf). (See also MYTH: Muhammad Never Approved of Murder)

When the prophet of Islam learned that he might be targeted in
retaliation (something that he claimed was "revealed" to him by
Allah), he promptly laid siege to the Banu Nadir community. After
forcing them to surrender, these original inhabitants of Medina were
then banished from their homes and land by the Muslim newcomers, who
again started to take as much as they could for themselves (Ibn Ishaq
653). (To the disappointment of his people, this time Muhammad
produced a revelation from Allah that allowed him to confiscate the
entire portion for himself).

In a critical example of how deception is sanctioned under Islam, a
surviving contingent of the Banu Nadir (under Usayr ibn Zarim) was
later tricked into leaving their fortress by promise of peace talks.
The contingent of Muslims sent by Muhammad to "escort" them, however,
easily slaughtered the victims once they let down their guard (Ibn
Ishaq 981). (See also MYTH: Muhammad always Disapproved of
Dishonesty).

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The Qurayza Massacre

By the time the Banu Qurayza met their fate, Muhammad was wealthy and
powerful from his defeat of the other two tribes.

The Jews of the Banu Qurayza tasted Muhammad's wrath after their
leader half-heartedly sided with the Meccan army during a siege of
Medina (the Battle of the Trench). By then, Muhammad had evicted the
other Jews and declared that all land at Medina belonged to him, so
the original constitution of the town was no longer in effect. It is
important to note that the Qurayza did not attack the Muslims, even
after switching loyalties (contrary to another popular myth).

Although the Qurayza surrendered peacefully to the Muslims, Muhammad
determined to have every man of the tribe executed, along with every
boy that had reached the initial stages of puberty (between the ages
of 12 and 14). He ordered a ditch dug outside of the town and had the
victims brought to him in several groups. Each person would be forced
to kneel, and their head would be cut off and then dumped along with
the body into the trench.

Between 700 and 900 men and boys were slaughtered by the Muslims after
their surrender.

The surviving children of the men became slaves of the Muslims, and
their widows became sex slaves. This included the Jewish girl,
Rayhana, who became one of Muhammad's personal concubines the very
night that her husband was killed. The prophet of Islam apparently
"enjoyed her pleasures" (ie. raped her) even as the very execution of
her people was taking place.

In some ways, women were much like any other possession taken in
battle, to be done with however their captors pleased. But Muslims
found them useful in other ways as well. In fact, one of the methods
by which Islam owed its expansion down through the centuries was
through the reproductive capabilities of captured women. In addition
to four wives, a man was allowed an unlimited number of sex slaves,
with the only rule being that any resulting children would
automatically be Muslim.

Muhammad ordered that a fifth of the women taken captive be reserved
for him. Many were absorbed into his personal stable of sex slaves
that he maintained in addition to his eleven wives. Others were doled
out like party favors to others. (See MYTH: Muhammad was an
Abolitionist)

At one point following a battle, Muhammad provided instructions on how
women should be raped after capture, telling his men not to worry
about coitus interruptus, since "Allah has written whom he is going to
create." (See also MYTH: Muhammad Never Approved of Rape)

Following the battle against the Hunain, late in his life, Muhammad's
men were reluctant to rape the captured women in front of their
husbands (who were apparently still alive to witness the abomination),
but Allah came to the rescue with a handy "revelation" that allowed
the debauchery. (This is the origin of Sura 4:24 according to Abu
Dawud 2150).

The Origin of Islamic Imperialism

From Medina, Muhammad waged a campaign of terror, to which he openly
attributed his success (Bukhari 52:220). His gang of robbers launched
raids in which hapless communities were savaged, looted, murdered and
raped. The tribes around the Muslims began to convert to Islam out of
self-preservation.

The excuse for military campaign began to shrink to the point that it
hardly existed at all. Muhammad told his followers that Muslims were
meant to rule over other people. Supremacist teachings became the
driving force behind Jihad (see also MYTH: Muhammad Waged War Only in
Self-Defense) and Jihad became the driving force behind Islam.

The brutal conquest of the people of Khaybar, a peaceful farming
community that was not at war with the Muslims, is a striking example.
Muhammad marched in secret, took them by surprise and easily defeated
them. He had many of the men killed, simply for defending their town.
He enslaved women and children and had surviving men live on the land
as virtual serfs, paying Muslims an ongoing share of their crops not
to attack them again.

Muhammad suspected that the town's treasurer was holding out and had
his men barbarically torture the poor fellow by building a fire on his
chest until he revealed the location of hidden treasure. (See also
MYTH: Muhammad Never Approved Torture).

Afterwards, the prophet of Islam beheaded the man and "married" his
widow on the same day (she first had to pass through the hands of one
of his lieutenants). Given that the woman's father was also killed by
Muhammad, it isn't much of a stretch to say that true love had very
little to do with this "marriage."

A Life of Hedonism and Narcissism

Muhammad's personal life became the picture of hedonism and excess,
all justified by frequent “revelations” from an increasingly arbitrary
and capricious god In his later years, he frequently used his
influence for purely personal goals, including sex, wealth and power.
Allah's authority for him to pursue these earthly ambitions is even
immortalized in the Quran (suras 33 and 66, particularly).

The same man who earlier in his career had justified his claims as a
prophet by saying that he "asked for no reward" from others, reversed
course and began to demand a fifth or more of all booty taken from
conquered tribes. According to his biographers, he became fat from
living off this enormous share of ill-gotten gain. (See also MYTH:
Muhammad was a Brave Warrior who Trusted in Allah to Protect him)

In the span of a dozen years, he married eleven women and had access
to an array of sex slaves (see MYTH: Muhammad Married Multiple Women
as a Favor to them). When he wanted a woman, even if she were the
wife of another man, his own daughter-in-law, or a child as young as
6-years-old (see MYTH: Muhammad Condemned Pedophilia), Muhammad was
able to justify his lust and inevitable consummation with an appeal to
Allah’s revealed will for his sex life - which was then preserved
forever in the Quran, to be faithfully memorized by future generations
for whom it has no possible relevance.

The first verse of Sura 66 is a good example of this. It was narrated
by Muhammad to his wives shortly after two of them pressured him into
not visiting a favorite sex slave:

O Prophet! why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made
lawful for you, seeking to please your wives? (Quran 66:1)
Allah (according to Muhammad) was so upset with his prophet for
denying himself an afternoon of pleasure with the concubine that Allah
had provided for him that it was a good thing for Muhammad that Allah
was a forgiving and merciful god! (For the Muslim faithful, it must
surely be a source of embarrassment that Allah evidently had more
interest in Muhammad's personal sex life than he did about tolerance
or universal love. The god of Islam encourages sex with slaves in
several other places as well).

Muhammad used eternal paradise and damnation to solicit strict
obedience to his every command: "Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Whoever obeys
me will enter Paradise, and whoever disobeys me will not enter it’”
(Bukhari 92.384).

Islam became centered completely around its founder. Of all the
prophets, new converts are required to affirm only the legitimacy of
Muhammad. The Muslim leader even shares the Shahada with Allah
("There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger"). To this
day, every Muslim must bow down five times a day "toward" Muhammad's
birthplace (Islam's "prophet" did not know the earth was round).

The prophet of Islam was also an extremely superstitious person,
leaving many bizarre rules for Muslims to follow, including which
direction they should defecate and how many stones they should wash
their anus with afterwards (any odd number... for anyone who's
curious). (See also MYTH: Muhammad did Away with Superstition).
Sketchy hygiene apparently left him with an annoying lice infection.

Not content with waiting for Allah to act on his behalf, Muhammad had
personal critics executed, including poets. One of these was a mother
of five children, who was stabbed to death by Muhammad's envoy after a
suckling infant was removed from her breast (see MYTH: Muhammad Never
Killed Women). Other innocent people were killed merely because they
were of a different religion, sometimes including children (see MYTH:
Muhammad Never Killed Children).

The glaring double standards of Islam were ingrained by the prophet of
Islam during his lifetime. This included commands to execute
apostates (those who wish to leave Islam) and evict people of other
religions from their homes.

An elderly woman named Umm Qirfa once ran afoul of Muhammad merely by
fighting back when her tribe was targeted by Muslim raiders.
Muhammad's adopted son tied the woman's legs separately to two camels,
then set the camels off in opposite directions, tearing the woman's
body in two. He also killed her two sons - presumably in gruesome
fashion - and made her daughter into a sex slave. (See also MYTH:
Muhammad Never Killed the Elderly).

Today's Muslims inherit this legacy of self-consumption and disregard
for those outside the faith. They may or may not agree with terrorist
attacks on non-Muslims, but they are nearly united in their belief
that the victims have no right to strike back, even if it is in
self-defense.

The Quran distinguishes Muslims from others, bestowing the highest
praise for believers while heaping the vilest condemnation on those
outside the faith. Islam is a true supremacist ideology. (See also
Is the Quran Hate Speech?)

The Taking of Mecca

Though many of the Arab and Jewish tribes were eliminated and absorbed
through military victory and forced conversion, the city of Mecca
remained.

In 628, six years after fleeing, Muhammad’s followers were allowed to
re-enter the city under an agreement whereby he set aside his title as
“Prophet of Allah.” This was a temporary ploy that enabled him to
gain a political foothold in the city through the same “fifth column”
activities that are still used today by organizations such as the
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which use their host’s
language of religious tolerance to disguise an ulterior agenda that
includes systematic discrimination against non-Muslims.

Many of his followers were disappointed that Muhammad had made
concessions to the Meccans, not understanding how it actually fit
perfectly with his ultimate agenda of domination. It was during this
time that he led the campaign against the Khaybar, to assuage their
lust for blood, women and loot.

Technically, Muhammad was the first to break the treaty with the
Meccans when he violated the portion of it that restricted him from
accepting members of the other tribe into his camp. His own people
also staged deadly raids on Meccan caravans (see MYTH: The Meccans
were the First to Break the Treaty of Hudaibiya). Although he
evidently had no personal obligation to the treaty, the prophet of
Islam held the other party to the letter of the law, particularly
after he amassed the power to conquer in overwhelming fashion.

The excuse that Muhammad eventually used to march his armies into
Mecca was provided when a tribe allied to the Meccans conducted a raid
on a tribe allied with the Medinans. Although a true man of peace
would have heeded the fact that his enemy did not want war, and used
non-violent means to resolve the tension while respecting sovereignty,
Muhammad merely wanted power and vengeance. (See also MYTH: Muhammad
always Chose Peace over War).

In just under a decade, Muhammad had evolved from trying to sell
himself as a Judeo-Christian prophet, seeking followers, to an Arab
warlord, seeking subjects, slaves and total dominance. The early
Quran (of Mecca) tells unbelievers to 'follow the example' of Muhammad
or suffer Hell. The later Quran (of Medina) tells unbelievers to
'obey' Muhammad or suffer death.

Following Mecca's surrender, Muhammad put to death those who had
previously insulted him (see also MYTH: Muhammad was a Forgiving Man).
One of the persons sentenced was his former scribe, who had written
revelations that Muhammad said were from Allah. The scribe had
previously recommended changes to the wording that Muhammad offered
(based on some of the bad grammar and ineloquent language of "Allah")
and Muhammad agreed. This caused the scribe to apostatize, based on
his belief that real revelations should have been immutable.

Although the scribe escaped death by "converting to Islam" at the
point of a sword, others weren't so lucky. One was a slave girl who
was executed on Muhammad's order because she had written songs mocking
him.

In what would also become the model for future Muslim military
conquests, those Meccans who would not convert to Islam were required
to accept third-class status. Not surprisingly, almost the entire
city - which had previously rejected his message - immediately
"converted" to Islam once Muhammad came back with a sword in this
hand. This included has adversary, Abu Sufyan, who was bluntly
ordered to "Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that
Muhammad is the apostle of Allah before you lose your head."

Those who would not convert to Islam were banned from the city a few
months later - again underscoring the dual ethics of Islam. When
Muhammad was previously banned from Mecca, he described it as a
"persecution" that justified his "slaughter" of those who prevented
him from performing the Haj. Yet, when he attained power, he
immediately chased anyone who would not convert to Islam from Mecca
and prevented them from performing the Haj.

To this day, people of other religions are barred even from entering
Mecca, the city where Muhammad was free to preach in contradiction to
the established religion. Islam is far less tolerant even than the
more primitive Arab religion that it supplanted. A person preaching
the original Arab polytheism on the streets of Mecca today would be
quickly executed.

Jihad and Jizya

Tellingly, some of the most violent verses in the Quran were handed
down following Muhammad's ascension to power, when there was no threat
to the Muslim people. The 9th Sura of the Quran exhorts Muslims to
Jihad and dominance over other religions:

"Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor
do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor
follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the
Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they
are in a state of subjection." (9:29)

The verse that follows curses Christians and Jews by name and says
"May Allah destroy them" (as with other sections of the Quran, it is
unclear whether it is Allah or Muhammad speaking).

Before his death, Muhammad ordered 30,000 men to march on Christian
lands (which were Byzantine at the time). It is possible that he
believed false rumors of an army amassed against him, but there is
absolutely no evidence of such a force having been assembled.
Instead, Muhammad subjugated the local people and extorted
"protection" money from them - something that has come to be known as
the jizya (a tax that non-Muslims pay to Muslims).

Another episode from this period that offers insight into the legacy
of Muhammad is the forced conversion of the al-Harith, one of the last
Arab tribes to hold out against Muslim hegemony. Muhammad gave the
chief of the tribe three days to accept Islam before sending his army
to destroy them.

Not surprisingly, the entire people immediately embraced the Religion of Peace!

Most Arab tribes recognized Muhammad's quest for power and wisely
pledged their political allegiance without a fight. This quickly
presented a problem for his core band of followers, however, since
they had become used to living off of what could be stolen from others
via raids and battle.

Since it was against the rules to attack fellow Muslims, Muhammad
began demanding tribute from his new "converts" instead, but this
proved to be less profitable than the jizya - not to mention that it
carried the risk of internal resentment and strife.

Khaybar, the remote Jewish city that had been turned into a
sharecropper state on behalf of its Muslim masters was a more
preferable economic model for a growing Islamic empire that had become
dependent on extortion justified by religious superiority.

Years before attacking Christian and Persian lands, Muhammad wrote to
governors in each, telling them, "embrace Islam and you will be safe."
There was no mention of oppression or liberation cited as a
justification. The only threat these people faced would be from
Muslim armies. (Only six years later, 4,000 peasants in the
modern-day Palestinian region would be slaughtered for defending their
homes).

At the time, the wealth of other nations was an open source of envy
among Muhammad's followers, which he promised to rectify. The
subsequent military expansion that he set in motion may have been
sanctioned by Allah and powered by religious zealotry, but the
underlying motives of money, sex, slaves and power were no less
worldly than any other conqueror of the time.

The Legacy of Islamic Imperialism

Muhammad died of a fever in 632 at the age of 63, with his violent
religion spread over most of Arabia. His method of forcing others to
convert under duress had several negative consequences, beginning with
the civil wars that were immediately engaged in following his death.
Many tribes wanted out of Islam and had to be kept in the empire via
horrific violence.

Abu Sufyan, the Meccan leader who was literally forced to "embrace"
Islam at the point of a sword actually had the last laugh. He
skillfully worked his own family into the line of succession and his
son, Muawiya, became the heir to Muhammad's empire at the expense of
the prophet's own family. In fact, Abu Sufyan almost lived to witness
his son and grandson kill off Muhammad's own grandchildren and assume
control of the Islamic empire.

Muhammad's failure to leave a clear successor resulted in a deep
schism that quickly devolved into violence and persists to this day as
the Sunni/Shia conflict. His own family fell apart and literally went
to war with each other in the first few years. Thousands of Muslims
were killed fighting each other in a battle between Muhammad's
favorite wife, Aisha, and his adopted son, Ali.

Infidels fared no better. Through Muhammad's teachings and example,
his followers viewed worldly life as a constant physical battle
between the House of Peace (Dar al-Salaam) and the House of War (Dar
al-Harb). Muslims are instructed to invite their enemies to either
embrace Islam, pay jizya (protection money), or die.

Over the next fourteen centuries, the bloody legacy of this
extraordinary individual would be a constant challenge to those living
on the borders of the Islam’s political power. The violence that
Muslim armies would visit on people across North Africa, the Middle
East, Europe and into Asia as far as the Indian subcontinent is a
tribute to a founder who practiced and promoted subjugation, rape,
murder and forced conversion.

In Muhammad's words: "I have been ordered to fight the people till
they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they
say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we
slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we
will not interfere with them..." (Bukhari 8:387)

It is certainly the basis not just for modern day terror campaigns
against Western infidels (and Hindus and Buddhists) but also the broad
apathy that Muslims across the world have to the violence, which is an
obvious enabler.

As Indonesian cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir recently put it, "If the West
wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule." [source
- retrieved from
https://www.facebook.com/thegreateststoryevertoldretold/posts/424404047665539
on 4/18/2014] also [source - retrieved from
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896693/posts   on
4/18/2014]

APPENDIX 3, Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slaver
Front Page ^ | June 6 2011 | Raymond Ibrahim
Posted on 6/10/2011 1:52:47 AM by Ethan Clive Osgoode

Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast
about how Islam allows Muslims to buy and sell conquered infidel
women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick
whichever female I desire and buy her."

This week's depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman—Salwa
al-Mutairi, a political activist and former parliamentary candidate
for Kuwait's government, no less: She, too, seeks to "revive the
institution of sex-slavery."

A brief English report appeared over the weekend in the Kuwait Times
(nothing, of course, in the MSM):

Muslim men who fear being seduced or tempted into immoral behavior by
the beauty of their female servants, or even of those servants
"casting spells" on them, would be better to purchase women from an
"enslaved maid" agency for sexual purposes. She [Mutairi] suggested
that special offices could be set up to provide concubines in the same
way as domestic staff recruitment agencies currently provide
housemaids. "We want our youth to be protected from adultery," said
al-Mutairi, suggesting that these maids could be brought as prisoners
of war in war-stricken nations like Chechnya to be sold on later to
devout merchants.

The Arabic news website, Al Arabiya, has the sordid details, including
a video of Mutairi addressing this topic. I summarize and translate
various excerpts below (note: I am not making any of this up):
The Kuwaiti female activist begins by insisting that "it's of course
true" that "the prophet of Islam legitimized sex-slavery." She
recounts how when she was in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, she asked
various sheikhs and muftis (learned, authoritative Muslims) about the
legality of sex-slavery according to Sharia: they all confirmed it to
be perfectly legal; Kuwaiti ulema further pointed out that extra
"virile" men—Western synonyms include "sex-crazed," "lecherous,"
"perverted"—would do well to purchase sex-slaves to sate their
appetites without sinning. [[What a breach of morals this is.]]

Here's a particularly interesting excerpt from her taped speech on the
rules governing sex-slaves:

A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state—sorry, I mean any
non-Muslim state—and they [the women, the future sex-slaves] must be
captives of the raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to
Islam, sex slaves are not at all forbidden. Quite the contrary, the
rules regulating sex-slaves differ from those for free women [i.e.,
Muslim women]: the latter's body must be covered entirely, except for
her face and hands, whereas the sex-slave is kept naked from the
bellybutton on up—she is different from the free woman; the free woman
has to be married properly to her husband, but the sex-slave—he just
buys her and that's that.

She went on to offer concrete suggestions: "For example, in the
Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy
those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men
engage in forbidden sexual relations. I don't see any problem in this,
no problem at all."

Mutairi suggests the enslaved girls be at least 15 years-old.
She further justified the institution of sex-slavery by evoking 8th
century caliph, Harun Rashid—a name some may recall from Arabian
Nights bedtime stories; a name some may be surprised to discover
politically active Muslims modeling their lives after:

"And the greatest example we have is Harun al-Rashid: when he died, he
had 2,000 sex slaves—so it's okay, nothing wrong with it."
Mutairi's rationale is ultimately guided by a sense of efficiency, a
desire for the good of society: legalizing sex-slaves helps prevent
Muslim men from transgressing Allah's laws (as we have seen,
extramarital relations with fellow Muslim women is strictly forbidden,
but not with infidel sex-slaves, since they are scarcely considered
human). Thus, the institution of sex-slavery provides a convenient,
Sharia-compliant way of satiating the libidinous urges of Muslim men.
The Kuwaiti activist's blunt approach actually has universal
parallels. For example, in the West, some seek to legalize marijuana,
arguing that, since people use it anyway, let it be made compliant
with the law. In the Muslim world, we have those who seek to legalize
sex-slavery, arguing that, since Muslim men will use women anyway, let
it be made compliant with Sharia law.

Such are the inevitable differences between the Western mindset (based
on reason and universal rights) and the Sharia mindset (based on the
life of a 7th century Arabian caravan-raider and slave-trader).
Mutairi concluded by piously supplicating Allah: "Oh I truly wish this
for Kuwait, Allah willing—Oh Lord, Lord, you are bountiful…"
While she waits, Mutairi can take solace in the fact that, if
sex-slavery is not institutionalized in Kuwait, it thrives underground
throughout the Muslim world, where non-Muslim girls—mostly
Christians—are routinely abducted, enslaved, and forced into lives of
unspeakable degradation.

After all, just because a practice is not formally institutionalized
does not mean that those who deem it their divine right are not
practicing it. [source - retrieved from
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2732655/posts on 4/28/2014]
APPENDIX 4, When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free
circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is
handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with
apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals. Sponsored
by the Assalaam Foundation, an Islamic educational and social-services
organization, circumcisions take place in a prayer center or an
emptied-out elementary-school classroom where desks are pushed
together and covered with sheets and a pillow to serve as makeshift
beds. The procedure takes several minutes. There is little blood
involved. Afterward, the girl’s genital area is swabbed with the
antiseptic Betadine. She is then helped back into her underwear and
returned to a waiting area, where she’s given a small, celebratory
gift — some fruit or a donated piece of clothing — and offered a cup
of milk for refreshment. She has now joined a quiet majority in
Indonesia, where, according to a 2003 study by the Population Council,
an international research group, 96 percent of families surveyed
reported that their daughters had undergone some form of circumcision
by the time they reached 14.

The Assalaam Foundation runs several schools and a mosque in Bandung,
Indonesia’s third-largest city and the capital of West Java. The
photographer Stephanie Sinclair was taken to the circumcision event by
a reproductive-health observer from Jakarta and allowed to spend
several hours there. Over the course of that Sunday morning, more than
200 girls were circumcised, many of them appearing to be under the age
of 5. Meanwhile, in a nearby building, more than 100 boys underwent a
traditional circumcision as well.
According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social
services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.
“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter.
“Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her
husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”
Female genital cutting — commonly identified among international human
rights groups as female genital mutilation — has been outlawed in 15
African countries. Many industrialized countries also have similar
laws. Both France and the U.S. have prosecuted immigrant residents for
performing female circumcisions.

In Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, a debate
over whether to ban female circumcision is in its early stages. The
Ministry of Health has issued a decree forbidding medical personnel to
practice it, but the decree which has yet to be backed by legislation
does not affect traditional circumcisers and birth attendants, who are
thought to do most female circumcisions. Many agree that a full ban is
unlikely without strong support from the country’s religious leaders.
According to the Population Council study, many Indonesians view
circumcision for boys and girls as a religious duty.
Female circumcision in Indonesia is reported to be less extreme than
the kind practiced in other parts of the globe — Africa, particularly.
Worldwide, female genital cutting affects up to 140 million women and
girls in varying degrees of severity, according to estimates from the
World Health Organization. The most common form of female genital
cutting, representing about 80 percent of cases around the world,
includes the excision of the clitoris and the labia minora. A more
extreme version of the practice, known as Pharaonic circumcision or
infibulation, accounts for 15 percent of cases globally and involves
the removal of all external genitalia and a stitching up of the
vaginal opening.
Studies have shown that in some parts of Indonesia, female
circumcision is more ritualistic — a rite of passage meant to purify
the genitals and bestow gender identity on a female child — with a
practitioner rubbing turmeric on the genitals or pricking the clitoris
once with a needle to draw a symbolic drop of blood. In other
instances, the procedure is more invasive, involving what WHO
classifies as “Type I” female genital mutilation, defined as excision
of the clitoral hood, called the prepuce, with or without incision of
the clitoris itself. The Population Council’s 2003 study said that 82
percent of Indonesian mothers who witnessed their daughters’
circumcision reported that it involved “cutting.” The women most often
identified the clitoris as the affected body part. The amount of flesh
removed, if any, was alternately described by circumcisers as being
the size of a quarter-grain of rice, a guava seed, a bean, the tip of
a leaf, the head of a needle.

At the Assalaam Foundation, traditional circumcisers say they learn
the practice from other women during several years of apprenticing.
Siti Rukasitta, who has been a circumciser at the foundation for 20
years, said through an interpreter that they use a small pair of
sterilized scissors to cut a piece of the clitoral prepuce about the
size of a nail clipping. Population Council observers who visited the
event before the 2003 study, however, reported that they also
witnessed some cases of circumcisers cutting the clitoris itself.
Any distinction between injuring the clitoris or the clitoral hood is
irrelevant, says Laura Guarenti, an obstetrician and WHO’s medical
officer for child and maternal health in Jakarta. “The fact is there
is absolutely no medical value in circumcising girls,” she says. “It
is 100 percent the wrong thing to be doing.” The circumcision of boys,
she adds, has demonstrated health benefits, namely reduced risk of
infection and some protection against H.I.V.
Nonetheless, as Western awareness of female genital cutting has grown,
anthropologists, policy makers and health officials have warned
against blindly judging those who practice it, saying that progress is
best made by working with local leaders and opinion-makers to
gradually shift the public discussion of female circumcision from what
it’s believed to bestow upon a girl toward what it takes away. “These
mothers believe they are doing something good for their children,”
Guarenti, a native of Italy, told me. “For our culture that is not
easily understandable. To judge them harshly is to isolate them. You
cannot make change that way.” [source - retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20circumcision-t.html?_r=0
on 5/4/2014]

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COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2] THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS IS NOT AN INSPIRED WRITING:

[1]    SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 267A]

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.   Revelation 18:4 – 5, [authorized King James Bible; AV]

This is made clear in Almighty God’s (YHWH’s) directions to His people in ancient times as given at Isaiah 52:10 - 11, [AV] “The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.” We are warned not to indulge in unrighteous things at 2 Corinthians 6:17, [AV] “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” but to come out of false religions and have no further partaking in their unclean practices. As 1 Timothy 5:24, [AV] “Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.”

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[2]   THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS IS NOT AN INSPIRED WRITING:

The Gospel of Barnabas is NOT an Inspired Writing of the Bible. Let's look at the facts with respect Aprocypha Books such as the Gospel of Barnabas.

THE APROCYPHA OR DEUTERCANONICAL BOOKS:

First, let's consider what they are as defined by the Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition, by Columbia University Press.   This encyclopedia defines the Apocrypha as, "(pk´rf) (KEY) [Gr.,=hidden things], term signifying a collection of early Jewish writings excluded from the canon of the Hebrew scriptures.   It is not clear why the term was chosen."   In reality they were nothing but uninspired writings, many purporting to be written by other than who was actually their author, or basically illegitimate and lacking credence.   In fact, the real author of only one of the Apocrypha is actually known.   Some religions, unfortunately, have included some of the Apocrypha in their Bibles, but even these were few in number.   A list of most of the Apocrypha follows:

1 Clement, 1st Apocalypse of James, 2 Clement, 2nd Apocalypse of James, 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Acts of Andrew, Acts of Apollonius, Acts of Carpus, Acts of John,Acts of Paul, Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas, Acts of Peter, Acts of Peter and the Twelve, Acts of Pilate, Acts of the Apostles, Acts of Thomas, Additions to the Book of Esther, Anonymous Anti-Montanist. Anti-Marcionite Prologues, Apelles, Apocalypse of John, Apocalypse of Peter, Apocryphon of John, Apollonius, Apology of Aristides, Aristo of Pella, Ascension of Isaiah, Athenagoras of Athens, Authoritative Teaching, Bardesanes, Baruch, Basilides, Eel and the Dragon, Book of Elchasai, Book of Thomas the Contender, Books of Jeu, Caius, Celsus, Christian Sibyllines, Claudius Apollinaris, Clement of Alexandria, Colossians, Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, Coptic Apocalypse of Peter, Dialogue of the Savior, Diatessaron, Didache, Didascalia, Dionysius of Corinth, Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth, Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony, Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, Egerton Gospel, Epiphanes On Righteousness, Epistle of Barnabas, Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus, Epistula Apostolorum, Excerpts of Theodotus, Fayyum Fragment, Fifth and Sixth Books of Esra, Fronto, Galen, Gospel of Barnabas, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Peter, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of the Ebionite, Gospel of the Egyptians, Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of the Nazoreans, Gospel of the Savior, Gospel of Thomas,Gospel of Truth, Hegesippus, Heracleon, Hippolytus of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Infancy Gospel of James, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Inscription of Abercius, Irenaeus of Lyons, Isidore, Judith, Julius Cassianus, Justin Martyr, Kerygmata Petrou, Letter from Vienna and Lyons, Letter of Jeremiah, Letter of Peter to Philip, Lost Sayings Gospel Q, Lucian of Samosata, Mara Bar Serapion, Marcion, Marcus Aurelius, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Maximus of Jerusalem, Melchizedek, Melito of Sardis, Muratorian Canon, Naassene Fragment, Octavius of Minucius Felix, Odes of Solomon, Ophite Diagrams, Origen, Oxyrhynchus 1224 Gospel, Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel, Pantaenus, Papias, Passion Narrative, Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs , Philostratus, Pistis Sophia, Pliny the Younger, Polycarp to the Philippians, Polycrates of Ephesus, Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews, Prayer of Manasseh, Preaching of Peter, Ptolemy, Quadratus of Athens, Rhodon, Secret Book of James, Secret Mark, Serapion of Antioch, Shepherd of Hermas, Signs Gospel, Sophia of Jesus Christ, Suetonius, Susanna, Tacitus, Tatian's Address to the Greeks, The Additions to the Book of Daniel, Tertullian, Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Theophilus of Antioch, Theophilus of Caesarea, Tobit, Traditions of Matthias, Treatise on the Resurrection, Trimorphic Protennoia, Valentinus, Victor I, Wisdom of Solomon, etc.

As can be seen many of these none illegitimate books try to give themselves credence by closely mimicking the names of actual legitimate canonical books of the Bible. These books are often called the pseudepigrapha? The term is a transliteration of the Greek plural noun that literally means "with false superscription". According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (p. 1830), the term can be defined as, "spurious works purporting to emanate from biblical characters". The Random House Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language defines the term as, "Certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character, but not considered canonical or inspired. These are NOT lost books, just NOT legitimate books of Bible cannon.

THE EXTERNAL BOOKS QUOTED IN THE BIBLE:

There are many external books quoted by inspired Bible writers as references.   Many are, "not aware that the Old Testament authors depended upon other writings as their sources which they freely admit. Among these are: the Book of the Wars of Yahweh (Num. 21:14), the Book of the Jashar (Josh 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:18), the Book of the Acts of Solomon (1 Ki 14:19; 2 Chr 33:18), the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah (1 Ki 14:29, 15:7), the Annals of Samuel the Seer (1 Chr 29:29), the History of Nathan the Prophet (2 Chr 9:29), the Annals of Shemaiah the Prophet and Iddo the Seer (2 Chr. 12:15), the Annals of Jehu the Son of Hanani (2 Chr. 20:34), and others.    Some teach that Moses compiled the Book of Genesis from other writings that surely had to have been handed down and preserved by his forefathers. Genesis can be broken down into eleven separate history books, each being separated by colophons at the conclusion of the books. This is known to have been a popular style for such ancient writings. ...According to this theory we have eleven separate books having the following authors: Adam, Noah, and eight other authors which Moses merely compiled into one book. [source= Ronald G. Fanter Cutting Edge Ministries].

One of these books is still existent today, the Book of Jashar or as it is sometimes called the Book of the Just, and another, the Book of the Wars of Yahweh, is actually thought my most scholars to actually be the Book of Jashar.    The Book of Jashar is quite interesting, but one must be careful in obtaining a copy as there are counterfeit books masquerading as the Book of Jashar which are not.   Also, there is a counterfeit Book of the Wars of Yahweh which is of course a fake since as previously said, this book is thought to just be another name for the Book of Jashar.

THE 4 BOOKS OF MACCABEES:

This is by far the strangest case of all.   The 4 Books of Maccabees are ranked by many as part of the Apocrypha; however, they should be ranked as history books of the 1 st. and 2 nd. Century roughly before the incarnation of our leader and savior, Jesus (Yeshua) Christ.   Very strange is the fact that the Catholic church accepted only two of them into their Canon of Bible Books; whereas, there are four of them. The Greek Orthodox, however, accepted three of them, and only the Cathars accepted the fourth.   Strange to say the least, but none should have been accepted as canonical as they are history books, and one would NOT THINK of accepting H. G. Wells, 'Outline of History," into the Bible cannon; we are getting into the absurd. However, they make excellent reading as history books that fill in the history of these two centuries.

WHAT IS AN INSPIRED BOOK?

First, The Bible is NOT the product of one committee or strongman. It has over 40 individual writers who wrote under divine inspiration/guidance putting the thoughts of God (YHWH) into the words of men much as transcribing secretaries today taking transcription and then later typing it out. In other words one real author, God (YHWH), and many scribes each of whom wrote in his own style over a period of approximately 1,600 years. All of what people call or consider inconsistencies are really not such, but most often just a problem of translation and/or understanding, i.e., lack of understanding of what the original writer writing in his own language and culture meant/said in his original writing. What is remarkable, is the writers over such a period of time all wrote in harmony when even most posters on threads on this forum can not even stay on track or subject over a period of a few days and/or weeks at most with the original subject of the thread. This fact of harmony over a period so great as to almost stagger the imagination shows that it had one guiding force or author who divinely inspired its writers as humans of their own volition can not keep on track over short periods of time.

Second, To wit, the Bible is the ONLY book God (YHWH) ever inspired men to write as his scribes. In other words, God is its author and men only put his thoughts given to them by divine inspiration into their own words, the words of men. Not only that, all the other writers of later so called religious guidance books borrowed from it and made changes in accord with their strong man or so called prophet. Take the example of Joseph Smith who borrowed from it to write the Book of Mormon, but failed to give credit or source to the Bible and twisted some borrowed things into bizarre distortions. Other examples are of course the bizarre writings of David Koresh the Prophet of the Branch Dividians of Waco, Texas; and the Quran, etc.

APPENDIX to the Gospel of Barnabas is NOT an Inspired Book of the Bible:

[1] One scholar, Malcolmite, wrote:

Some Muslims claim that the True Gospel is the "Gospel of Barnabas." This "true Gospel" was they say, written by Barnabas, who accompanied the apostle Paul on his first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-4). Modern scholarship, however, has this to say about the "Gospel of Barnabas":

There was also a "Gospel of Barnabas," referred to by several ancient authors, especially in the "Decree of Galasius" (500 AD); but there is no mention of its contents or character. However, there is in existence a long Italian manuscript under this title written from the Muslim standpoint and containing a strong element of Gnosticism. It was edited in 1907 by Lonsdale and Laura (M Roberts) Ragg, who held it to be the work of an apostate from Christianity, sometime between the 13th and 16th century. Like most of the patristic and medieval apocrypha, the work is highly imaginative, a work of fiction rather than of historical tradition, but it has a strongly marked ethical emphasis. (Encyclopedia Americana 1976 edition, page 247)

Because of the suspicious nature of this book very few have taken it seriously. And I suggest that anyone with a moderate education and well versed in the Bible or the Qur'an, who is familiar with the history and geography of Palestine will realize that this book is not divine. In fact to claim that this book is of divine origin is an outright embarrassment to the cause of Islam.

The "Gospel of Barnabas" contradicts the Qur'an and the historical background of Palestine in the days of Jesus.

The Identity of the Messiah

One of the main objectives of, this work is to remove the title "Messiah" from Jesus to the prophet Muhammad. This however, is contradicted by both the internal and external evidence.

The Qur'an is very clear in attributing the title Al-Masih (the Messiah) to none other than Jesus, son of Mary. This distinct title is used nowhere in all the Qur'an for any other prophet, including the prophet Muhammad.

... Christ Jesus (Al-Masih Isa) the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of God, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from Him. (Sura 4:171)

Behold! the angel said: 0 Mary, God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word ftoni Him; his tiame will be Christ Jesus (Al-Masih Isa), the son of Afary, held in honor in this world and the hereafter. (Sura 3:45)

Muslims agree that Jesus was of Jewish descent, from of the lineage of the prophet David, who descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. However, the Qur'an also identifies Jesus as "the Messiah", so the statement in the Gospel of Barnabas that the Messiah is not Jesus, and is not of the seed of David or Isaac is clearly in direct opposition to the Qur'an.

And I note also that the writer, uses the name Jesus Christ. Thereby again totally contradicting himself, for the word "Christ" comes from the Greek language, and is the same title as the Arabic word "Masih." Both of which are translated "Messiah"! So the author uses the title Christ which means Messiah, in reference to Jesus and at the same time claims that Jesus is not the Messiah!

Scriptural and Traditional Inaccuracies

chap. 3: - Claims that Mary bore Jesus without any pain. The Qur'an, however, clearly says otherwise:

So she conceived him (Jesus), and she retired with him to a remote place. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had been a thing forgottn and out of sight!" (Sura 19:22-23)

chap. 23: - The claim is made that circumcision began with Adam. However, both Muslim tradition and the Bible say that this began with the community of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael.

chap. 35: - It is said that man's navel was made from the spittle of Satan. Yet on page 50, chap. 39, the author says that the dog was created from Satan's spittle. But neither the Qur'an or the Bible indicate that Satan had any part in the creation of man's body, including his navel. Furthermore, most Muslims would agree that the Mighty Creator God certainly did not need help in creating man.

chap. 39: - Adam and Eve were supposedly forbidden to eat of the apples and the corn. However, the Qur'an relates the following:

0 Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden; and eat of the bountiful things therein as (where and when) ye will: but approach not this tree, or ye run into harm and transgression. (Sura 2:35)

It is quite possible that "apples" may have been on the forbidden tree, however we all know that "corn" does not grow on trees.

chap. 44: - The idea of the Promise or Covenant being made to the seed of Isaac is refuted. However, nowhere in the Qur'an is mention made of a "covenant" with Ishmael and his descendants. References of such a "Promise" or "Covenant" are in regard to the seed of Isaac which means Israel (Jacob) and his descendants. Thus in the Qur'an we read:

0 Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your Covenant with Me as fulfill My Covenant with you, and fear none but Me. (Sura 2:40)

chap. 105: - Mention is made of "nine heavens." The Qur'an speaks of only seven:

... Moreover His design comprehended the heavens, for He gave order and perfection to the seven firmaments; (Sura 2:29)

chap. 106: - Hell is spoken of as a place of intolerable snow and ice. But the Qur'an speaks of hell as a place of burning flames and boiling water.

chap. 112: - Jesus is reported to have said that He would not be raised into heaven until the Day of Judgment. But the following references of the Qur'an indicate otherwise:

Behold! God said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself ..." (Sura 3:55)

Nay, God raised him up unto Himself: and God is exalted in Power, Wise. (Sura 4:158)

chap. 124: - It is stated that the Book of Psalms was given because of the corruption of the Books of Moses, and that the New Testament was given because of the subsequent corruption of the Psalms.

However, this line is nowhere to be found in the scriptures of the Qur'an. To the contrary, the Holy Books of the Bible are spoken of as light and guidance to mankind. Had the Books of the Bible been corrupted, the Qur'an would not have contained the following admonitions:

If only they had stoodfast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that was sent to them from their Lord, they would have enjoyed happiness from every side. (Sura 5:66)

0 ye who believe! Believe in God and His apostle, and the scripture which He hath sent to His apostle and the scripture which He sent to them before him. And who denieth God, His angels, His Books, His Apostles, and the Day of Judgment hath gone far, far astray. (Sura 4:136)

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COMBINATION OF [1] THE SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY AND [2] Some Misunderstand the Usage of Firstborn - Literal Vs. Figurative - and Phillipians 2:6
[1]    SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY [VOL. 268A]

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[2]    Some Misunderstand the Usage of Firstborn - Literal Vs. Figurative - and Phillipians 2:6

INTRODUCTION:

It appears some are having a problem differentiating the very simple; to wit, the difference between the literal usage of first born or only begotten and the figurative usage of first born.   In the case of the literal usage as with respect to Jesus (Yeshua) Christ first born literally means the first of creation in keeping with Colossians 1:15, "who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;" (American Standard Version; ASV); and Colossiana 1:18, "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." (ASV); Revelation 1:5, "and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;" (ASV); Luke 2:7, "And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." (ASV); Romans 8:29, "For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:" (ASV); and Revelation 3:14, "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:" (ASV).

LITERAL USAGE EXAMPLES:

This literal use also is shown in its usage with others, for example Hebrews 11:28, "Heb 11:28 By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them." (ASV); which refers to Exodus 12:21-27, "Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped." (ASV).

FIGURATIVE USAGE:

Whereas the symbolic or figurative usage refers to a special level or status as shown clearly by Exodus 4:22, "And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:" (ASV) which is clearly symbolic as it is referring to a nation and NOT an individual and this is quite clear; to wit, it showed that the true God (YHWH) of Abraham regarded the Ancient Nation of Israel as something special, the number one nation among nations.   And this figurative use is further shown in Exodus 4:23, "and I have said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born." (ASV) so there is no excuse for anyone failing to see this is figurative and NOT literal usage.

Also, 2 Chronicles 21:2-3, "2 And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 3 And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born." (ASV), clearly shows the figurative usage as Jehoram was NOT the literal firstborn, but the symbolic firstborn as his father considered him the most important and gave him the kingship.

PHILLIPPIANS 2:6 CLEARLY SHOW CHRIST DID NOT CONSIDER HIMSELF EQUAL TO HIS FATHER:

Some will contend otherwise on the basis of Philippians 2:6, "who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped," (ASV) based on the defective Authorized King James Bible (AV) rendering of same which is misleading, "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" (AV).

This fact, that God's Son, Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH saves) is a separate spirit being from his Father (YHWH) is even made much clearer if we view more than one scripture at a time:

"Let Christ himself be your example as to what your attitude should be. For he, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to his prerogatives as God's equal, but stripped himself of all privilege by consenting to be a slave by nature and being born as mortal man. And, having become man, he humbled himself by living a life of utter obedience, even to the extent of dying, and the death he died was the death of a common criminal. That is why God has now lifted him so high, and has given him the name beyond all names, so that at the name of Jesus "every knee shall bow", whether in Heaven or earth or under the earth. And that is why, in the end, "every tongue shall confess" that Jesus Christ" is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:5-11 J B PHILLIPS Translation of the NEW TESTAMENT)

The J.B. Phillips Translation of the New Testament makes clear the Son's, Jesus's (Yeshua or YHWH saves) attitude with respect to being obedient to his Father, Almighty God (YHWH). It states, "Let Christ himself be your example as to what your attitude should be." Which clearly shows that all genuine followers of the Son should also be humble. Also, it clearly says, "For he, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to his prerogatives as God's equal, but stripped himself of all privilege by consenting to be a slave by nature and being born as mortal man." That although he was existing as a spirit creature just like his Father (YHWH) that he gave no thought to being the equal of his Father (YHWH), but was subordinate and obedient to him in clear conformity to " But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (1 Corinthians 11:3 AV).   Clearly then, he, Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH saves) can not then be a member of a co-equal trinity of beings in a Trinitarian Godhead since he is neither equal to his Father, nor did not always exist as did his Father (YHWH) " And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" (Revelation 3:14 AV) and " Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" (Colossians 1:15 AV).

His subjection was made quite clear as follows, "And, having become man, he humbled himself by living a life of utter obedience, even to the extent of dying, and the death he died was the death of a common criminal." Clearly he, Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH saves) was doing the will of his Father (YHWH) . In fact, when tempted by Satan the Devil he stated " Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." (Matthew 4:10 AV), " Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17 AV), "21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he." (John 4:21-26 AV).

Of course, since Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH) is Almighty God (YHWH) only begotten Son, he is also a God, but a lessor one; therefore, The First Commandment of the Ten Commandments, " Thou shalt have no other gods before me." (Exodus 20:3 AV), is not violated since he is neither equal to or before his Father.

Since he has proved his obedience to his Father (YHWH), his Father (YHWH) has " That is why God has now lifted him so high, and has given him the name beyond all names, so that at the name of Jesus "every knee shall bow", whether in Heaven or earth or under the earth. And that is why, in the end, "every tongue shall confess" that Jesus Christ" is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father." And his Father has subjected all things onto his Son, except himself, "17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 20 ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." (1 Corinthians 15:17-28 AV). Therefore, it is clear that Almighty God, the Father (YHWH) is the superior one since he has put all things under his Son, Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH saves), except himself, and could not do so unless he was above or superior to his Son. Also, it is clear that after he accomplishes his Father's purpose, he, Jesus (Yeshua or YHWH saves), will subject himself to his father, "And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." This clearly shows that Trinitarian Theology and Dualism Theology are false dogma and should be clearly rejected by all Christians.

COMMENTS BY OTHER BIBLE SCHOLARS ON PHILIPPIANS 2:5 -11:

Bible Scholar, Theodore Beza, stated:

2:5 2 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(2) He sets before them a most perfect example of all modesty and sweet conduct, Christ Jesus, whom we ought to follow with all our might: who abased himself so much for our sakes, although he is above all, that he took upon himself the form of a servant, that is, our flesh, willingly subject to all weaknesses, even to the death of the cross.
2:6 Who, being in the d form of God, e thought it not robbery to be f equal with God:
(d) Such as God himself is, and therefore God, for there is no one in all parts equal to God but God himself.
(e) Christ, that glorious and everlasting God, knew that he might rightfully and lawfully not appear in the base flesh of man, but remain with majesty fit for God: yet he chose rather to debase himself.
(f) If the Son is equal with the Father, then is there of necessity an equality, which Arrius that heretic denies: and if the Son is compared to the Father, then is there a distinction of persons, which Sabellius that heretic denies.
2:7 But made himself of g no reputation, and took upon him the h form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
(g) He brought himself from all things, as it were to nothing.
(h) By taking our manhood upon him.
2:9 3 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a i name which is above every name:
(3) He shows the most glorious even of Christ's submission, to teach us that modesty is the true way to true praise and glory.
(i) Dignity and high distinction, and that which accompanies it.
2:10 That at the name of Jesus k every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;
(k) All creatures will at length be subject to Christ.
2:11 And [that] l every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(l) Every nation. [Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Philippians 2". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". 1600-1645.]

Bible Scholar, Matthew Henry, said:

Note, this scholars comments cover more than Philippians 2:5-11, it cover Philippians 2:1-11.
The apostle proceeds in this chapter where he left off in the last, with further exhortations to Christian duties. He presses them largely to like-mindedness and lowly-mindedness, in conformity to the example of the Lord Jesus, the great pattern of humility and love. Here we may observe, I. The great gospel precept passed upon us; that is, to love one another. This is the law of Christ's kingdom, the lesson of his school, the livery of his family. This he represents (v. 2) by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. We are of a like mind when we have the same love. Christians should be one in affection, whether they can be one in apprehension or no. This is always in their power, and always their duty, and is the likeliest way to bring them nearer in judgment. Having the same love. Observe, The same love that we are required to express to others, others are bound to express to us. Christian love ought to be mutual love. Love, and you shall be loved. Being of one accord, and of one mind; not crossing and thwarting, or driving on separate interests, but unanimously agreeing in the great things of God and keeping the unity of the Spirit in other differences. Here observe, 1. The pathetic pressing of the duty. He is very importunate with them, knowing what an evidence it is of our sincerity, and what a means of the preservation and edification of the body of Christ. The inducements to brotherly love are these:-(1.) "If there is any consolation in Christ. Have you experienced consolation in Christ? Evidence that experience by loving one another.'' The sweetness we have found in the doctrine of Christ should sweeten our spirits. Do we expect consolation in Christ? If we would not be disappointed, we must love one another. If we have not consolation in Christ, where else can we expect it? Those who have an interest in Christ have consolation in him, strong and everlasting consolation (Heb. 6:18; 2 Th. 2:16), and therefore ought to love one another. (2.) "Comfort of love. If there is any comfort in Christian love, in God's love to you, in your love to God, or in your brethren's love to us, in consideration of all this, be you like-minded. If you have ever found that comfort, if you would find it, if you indeed believe that the grace of love is a comfortable grace, abound in it.'' (3.) "Fellowship of the Spirit. If there is such a thing as communion with God and Christ by the Spirit, such a thing as the communion of saints, by virtue of their being animated and actuated by one and the same Spirit, be you like-minded; for Christian love and like-mindedness will preserve to us our communion with God and with one another.'' (4.) "Any bowels and mercies, in God and Christ, towards you. If you expect the benefit of God's compassions to yourselves, be you compassionate one to another. If there is such a thing as mercy to be found among the followers of Christ, if all who are sanctified have a disposition to holy pity, make it appear this way.'' How cogent are these arguments! One would think them enough to tame the most fierce, and mollify the hardest, heart. (5.) Another argument he insinuates is the comfort it would be to him: Fulfil you my joy. It is the joy of ministers to see people like-minded and living in love. He had been instrumental in bringing them to the grace of Christ and the love of God. "Now,'' says he, "if you have found any benefit by your participation of the gospel of Christ, if you have any comfort in it, or advantage by it, fulfil the joy of your poor minister, who preached the gospel to you.'' 2. He proposes some means to promote it. (1.) Do nothing through strife and vain glory, v. 3. There is no greater enemy to Christian love than pride and passion. If we do things in contradiction to our brethren, this is doing them through strife; if we do them through ostentation of ourselves, this is doing them through vain-glory: both are destructive of Christian love and kindle unchristian heats. Christ came to slay all enmities; therefore let there not be among Christians a spirit of opposition. Christ came to humble us, and therefore let there not be among us a spirit of pride. (2.) We must esteem others in lowliness of mind better than ourselves, be severe upon our own faults and charitable in our judgments of others, be quick in observing our own defects and infirmities, but ready to overlook and make favourable allowances for the defects of others. We must esteem the good which is in others above that which is in ourselves; for we best know our own unworthiness and imperfections. (3.) We must interest ourselves in the concerns of others, not in a way of curiosity and censoriousness, or as busy-bodies in other men's matters, but in Christian love and sympathy: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, v. 4. A selfish spirit is destructive of Christian love. We must be concerned not only for our own credit, and ease, and safety, but for those of others also; and rejoice in the prosperity of others as truly as in our own. We must love our neighbour as ourselves, and make his case our own. II. Here is a gospel pattern proposed to our imitation, and that is the example of our Lord Jesus Christ: Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, v. 5. Observe, Christians must be of Christ's mind. We must bear a resemblance to his life, if we would have the benefit of his death. If we have not the Spirit of Christ, we are none of his, Rom. 8:9. Now what was the mind of Christ? He was eminently humble, and this is what we are peculiarly to learn of him. Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, Mt. 11:29. If we were lowly-minded, we should be like-minded; and, if we were like Christ, we should be lowly-minded. We must walk in the same spirit and in the same steps with the Lord Jesus, who humbled himself to sufferings and death for us; not only to satisfy God's justice, and pay the price of our redemption, but to set us an example, and that we might follow his steps. Now here we have the two natures and the two states of our Lord Jesus. It is observable that the apostle, having occasion to mention the Lord Jesus, and the mind which was in him, takes the hint to enlarge upon his person, and to give a particular description of him. It is a pleasing subject, and a gospel minister needs not think himself out of the way when he is upon it; any fit occasion should be readily taken. 1. Here are the two natures of Christ: his divine nature and his human nature. (1.) Here is his divine nature: Who being in the form of God (v. 6), partaking of the divine nature, as the eternal and only begotten Son of God. This agrees with Jn. 1:1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God: it is of the same import with being the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15), and the brightness of his glory, and express image of his person, Heb. 1:3. He thought it no robbery to be equal with God; did not think himself guilty of any invasion of what did not belong to him, or assuming another's right. He said, I and my Father are one, Jn. 10:30. It is the highest degree of robbery for any mere man or mere creature to pretend to be equal with God, or profess himself one with the Father. This is for a man to rob God, not in tithes and offerings, but of the rights of his Godhead, Mal. 3:8. Some understand being in the form of God - en morphe Theou hyparchon, of his appearance in a divine majestic glory to the patriarchs, and the Jews, under the Old Testament, which was often called the glory, and the Shechinah. The word is used in such a sense by the Septuagint and in the New Testament. He appeared to the two disciples, en hetera morphe - In another form, Mk. 16:12. Metemorphothe - he was transfigured before them, Mt. 17:2. And he thought it no robbery to be equal with God; he did not greedily catch at, nor covet and affect to appear in that glory; he laid aside the majesty of his former appearance while he was here on earth, which is supposed to be the sense of the peculiar expression, ouk harpagmon hegesato. Vid. Bishop Bull's Def. cap. 2 sect. 4 et alibi, and Whitby in loc. (2.) His human nature: He was made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man. He was really and truly man, took part of our flesh and blood, appeared in the nature and habit of man. And he voluntarily assumed human nature; it was his own act, and by his own consent. We cannot say that our participation of the human nature is so. Herein he emptied himself, divested himself of the honours and glories of the upper world, and of his former appearance, to clothe himself with the rags of human nature. He was in all things like to us, Heb. 2:17. 2. Here are his two estates, of humiliation and exaltation. (1.) His estate of humiliation. He not only took upon him the likeness and fashion of a man, but the form of a servant, that is, a man of mean estate. He was not only God's servant whom he had chosen, but he came to minister to men, and was among them as one who serveth in a mean and servile state. One would think that the Lord Jesus, if he would be a man, should have been a prince, and appeared in splendour. But quite the contrary: He took upon him the form of a servant. He was brought up meanly, probably working with his supposed father at his trade. His whole life was a life of humiliation, meanness, poverty, and disgrace; he had nowhere to lay his head, lived upon alms, was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, did not appear with external pomp, or any marks of distinction from other men. This was the humiliation of his life. But the lowest step of his humiliation was his dying the death of the cross. He became obedient to death, even the death of the cross. He not only suffered, but was actually and voluntarily obedient; he obeyed the law which he brought himself under as Mediator, and by which he was obliged to die. I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again: this commandment have I received of my Father, Jn. 10:18. And he was made under the law, Gal. 4:4. There is an emphasis laid upon the manner of his dying, which had in it all the circumstances possible which are humbling: Even the death of the cross, a cursed, painful, and shameful death,-a death accursed by the law (Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree) -full of pain, the body nailed through the nervous parts (the hands and feet) and hanging with all its weight upon the cross,-and the death of a malefactor and a slave, not of a free-man,-exposed as a public spectacle. Such was the condescension of the blessed Jesus. (2.) His exaltation: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him. His exaltation was the reward of his humiliation. Because he humbled himself, God exalted him; and he highly exalted him, hyperypsose, raised him to an exceeding height. He exalted his whole person, the human nature as well as the divine; for he is spoken of as being in the form of God as well as in the fashion of man. As it respects the divine nature, it could only be the recognizing of his rights, or the display and appearance of the glory he had with the Father before the world was (Jn. 17:5), not any new acquisition of glory; and so the Father himself is said to be exalted. But the proper exaltation was of his human nature, which alone seems to be capable of it, though in conjunction with the divine. His exaltation here is made to consist in honour and power. In honour; so he had a name above every name, a title of dignity above all the creatures, men and angels. And in power: Every knee must bow to him. The whole creation must be in subjection to him: things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, the inhabitants of heaven and earth, the living and the dead. At the name of Jesus; not at the sound of the word, but the authority of Jesus; all should pay a solemn homage. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord -every nation and language should publicly own the universal empire of the exalted Redeemer, and that all power in heaven and earth is given to him, Mt. 28:18. Observe the vast extent of the kingdom of Christ; it reaches to heaven and earth, and to all the creatures in each, to angels as well as men, and to the dead as well as the living.- To the glory of God the Father. Observe, It is to the glory of God the Father to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord; for it is his will that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father, Jn. 5:23. Whatever respect is paid to Christ redounds to the honour of the Father. He who receiveth me receiveth him who sent me, Mt. 10:40.
[Henry, Matthew. "Commentary on Philippians 2". "Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". 1706.]

Bible Scholar, Barton W. Johnson, stated:

5-8. Let this mind be in you. He points to Christ as the example of humility and consecration to the good of others. 6. Who, being in the form of God. He refers to the state of our Savior before he took human form. His form was divine. "He had a glory with the father before the world was." See John 1:1; 2 Cor. 4:4; Heb. 1:3, etc. Thought it not robbery to be equal with God. The Revision says, "Counted it not a prize." The meaning is not entirely clear, but probably is that "Having a form of glory like God, he did not count it a prize which must be clung to tenaciously, especially when he appeared upon the earth, that he should be equal with God, that is, appear in a divine form, but was willing to lay aside his glory and make himself a servant." 7. Emptied himself. Of the divine form and glory, and took the form of a servant, of our own race, a race whose duty it is to serve God. The divine glory was exchanged for human lowliness. 8. He humbled himself. Note the infinite condescension: (1) The form of God and sharing the divine glory. (2) He divests himself of this. (3) Nor does he then take the divine form, or even the form of an angel, but of lowly, sinful man. (4) But this is not all. He not only takes the form of man, but the mortality of the flesh, and dies. (5) Nay, more; he dies the most shameful and painful of all deaths, even the death of the cross.

9-11. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him. His wonderful humility had been shown, but it is the law of the universe that he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Therefore God lifted him up from the grave to the heavens, gave all power into his hands (Matt. 28:18), and gave him a name above every name. The idea is an authority, a position, above that of all intelligences. This exaltation made the humble name, Jesus, a name above every name. 10. That at the name of Jesus. That name, by the exaltation, has become the name of the King of kings. It is supreme. Hence, every knee in all the universe bows to its majesty. Under the earth. In the under-world, hades, the abode of the dead. 11. And that every tongue should confess. All the universe is called to confess him as Lord, and thus glorify God. All will yet confess him, either in joy or shame. [Johnson, Barton W. "Commentary on Philippians 2". "People's New Testament". 1891.]

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