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So you're picking out parts of the Qu'ran that support your twisted interpretation and ignoring the rest?Since I'm sure you hate when people do that with the Bible, why do you think that's an appropriate way to interpret the Qu'ran?

I'm not even a little bit interested in how people interpret the bible, only in what it means to me and what it means to me I come here to share. I am however very interested in what certain peoples are taught from their 'scriptures' that spells injury to me. The suras I posted are explicit, read them. They are not an invitation to tea. Christianity has nothing similar, nothing even close. Christians are not instructed to go and kill everyone not believing the way they do. In fact, Christ's reminder that he has sheep in other flocks, is exquisite.

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"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit!"
2 Cor. 7:1

But your book damn sure instructs the Chosen People (TM) to kill just about everybody they come across, George! They save a few virgin girls for slaves in a case or two, but the verses say "Go kill 'em all, Joshua!" Dammit, man, open your eyes!

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Matthew 10:34 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

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Oh? Maybe you want to ask the Canaanites about that.

jesus asks the pharisees whose son christ is. by christ he's talking about the messiah. he is not directly talking about himself, and saying he's the messiah. notice that the pharisees respond, saying he's ben dabid. they're not saying that jesus is of the family of david, they're saying the messiah they are expecting is.the messiah david is speaking of in psalm 110 is probably not jesus. let's read.

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Psalm 110:
1. [[A Psalm of David.] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2. The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3. Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4. The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5. The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill [the places] with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7. He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

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have a good look at verses 5 and 6. did jesus do that? well, first of all, "god with us" in a name doesn't mean anything at all. traditionally, a lot of people in the old testament were named with things that gave people a message about god. a name saying that god is with us, and has not forgotten about us, is not the same as saying someone IS god. the only way to do that would be to name the child yhvh, which would be strictly forbidden.second, isaiah is not talking about jesus. immanuel was the name of a prophesied messiah to save the hebrews from the assyrians. he would have been a military leader (as the rest of that chapter asserts) and his name would actually have been immanuel. not jesus. immanuel. jesus is called this once in matthew, and it's the only two places the name appears in the bible. it appears the author of matthew had read parts of isaiah, seeing as how he quotes it as out of context as you just did. philemon only has one chapter. let's check philippians.

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Phl 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Phl 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Phl 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

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etc.things people write about jesus are nice and all. but being charged with a sin, how responsible is it to point to the next guy and go "he did it too!" you know, the bible doesn't get 4 chapters in before it deals with that. the son of god is not the same as god. adam was the son of god. david was the son of god. we are all sons of god in some respect, all being members and products of his creation.notice also he says at the right hand of the mighty one? not in the place of. not the same as. next to, and below. different gospels tell this story a little differently. matthew and luke both having saying "you say that i am" and then saying that. it almost sounds like "you're the one who's putting me there, not me"again, he doesn't call himself god, and he doesn't even call himself the son of god. he calls himself the son of man. speaking god's name aloud, unless for teaching purposes his blasphemy. writting god's name, unless for teaching purposes, or in copying the torah, is blasphemy. do you think christ did either of these things?if he actually said "i am" which is doubtful at best, he said it in aramaic. god's "name" is hebrew for "that which exists," which often gets told as "i am." hebrew and aramaic are different languages. "i am" is used a number of times in the christian bible. how many imply god's name?jesus was answering a question. he said, at the very most, that he was the son of god.

Just about everybody?
If you are referring to the extermination of the eight tribes of Canaan, then you should know why the chosen were told to do so.
The koran does not apply to me, except where it says that those who believe it should kill me, that applies to me.

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"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit!"
2 Cor. 7:1

man you are nuts. anything, say anything just to be counter and throw a wedge. thoughless diatribe without concern for how you are perceived. Ignorant of the depths you must travel to understand the depths to be achieved to understand the ramifications of the word of God and its results. Go take a shit in the middle of the street. You are clearly able to handle that.

I know exactly "why the chosen were told to do so" - a fictional massacre of the occupants of the land you took sounds kind of mean until you dress it up with a little moral authority. (A real massacre, like the US visited on the Indians, is even worse, despite the dressing up we used to give it.)

You left your sig about "filthiness" off....

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"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit!"
2 Cor. 7:1

and you immediately opened your bible and read from the beginning, let's say Abraham, and followed the trail to that very moment the Canaanites became marked. Yes?
Don't do it. You are confused enough.

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"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit!"
2 Cor. 7:1

I wonder why... maybe its because people tend to think you're nuts when you go around talking about yourself as "the Christ". He wanted them to answer objectively, which they would not do if he referred to himself first as the Christ. And Jesus WAS of the family of David. Operation footstool is the 2nd coming of Christ. At the end of the Tribulation Christ will fulfill all of these things. This one is DEFINATELY talking about Christ's 2nd coming: Operation footstool. God will put all his enemies under his feet and then Christ will literally rule for 1000 years. The "government will be on his shoulders." I have no idea what you're talking about. Sigh... I never thought it was possible to so distort the scriptures as to remove Christ's divinity from him, but I guess in your mind you have done so.

I apologize for furthering this off-topic tendency, but how can Jesus be of the family of David if both Matthew and Luke's geneologies (geneologies = Mormons, we're still on topic here ) trace his lineage to Joseph who is NOT Jesus' father? This may sound ignorant to a Bible scholar, but it has always bothered me.

Lineage is determined through the mother. Joseph, however, was also a descendant of David. Read the begats in Matthew 1

Please again forgive my ignorance, but I am unable to find the lineage of Mary in matthew or elsewhere. Could you please point me to where that is. Thanks for your patience!

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