 All right guys welcome back to the channel if you're new man was Bobby guys today We're gonna react to how Christianity is different from every Religion by the channel daily dose of wisdom. So I am a recent revert to Islam However, I come from a Christian background to be precise from an orthodox Christian background and to be totally honest here Once you see the world through an Islamic lens You see that every religion is actually the same except of Islam because they all follow the same doctrines They do not worship God alone. They always attribute something to God in Christianity You have the Trinity so you do worship Jesus and Buddhism. It is even more complex, of course They do not really believe in God However, they do believe in the Buddha in his way and they worship him as a person and the same thing yet Again in Hinduism even in Hinduism if you look into it in detail, you will see that there is one God However, they do worship a billion Deities so therefore I make the bold claim over here that every religion is identical pretty much They just appear to be different on the surface level However, one religion truly stands out and that is Islam the submission to one God alone All right guys, but with no further ado, let's have a look I literally beg you to listen to this video at least until the point where John Linux gives his analogy about his wife and cooking because it is one of the best analogies I've ever heard in explaining the difference between Christianity and every other religion. Let's go ahead and die It is so hilarious every couple of months or so you see a new Christian YouTube being hyped up about a new Nailogy it was the same thing with the Trinity But have you ever thought about the Trinity as an egg the egg is three in one. Is it not? You have the egg yolk you have the egg white and you have the egg shell It is three parts, but one egg after all every couple of months a new analogy that you can wrap your head around Islam doesn't need an analogy. We have the facts in a society where we have access to many religions How do we decide which one to follow? Well, I only know one way of deciding which of anything to believe is on the basis of evidence Yes, please you see that makes sense There's a confusion about faith Many people have accepted Dawkins definition of faith as believing where there's no evidence. That's nonsense Thank you. There's an ordinary word. It's not just a religious word It's an ordinary word. It means trust and usually I suspect that all of you You don't trust either facts or people without having evidence or else you're a bit silly I would make the claim that most people are silly ignorant and arrogant at the same time Trust you with a loan unless you provide evidence of collateral. Isn't that true? We all know what evidence-based faith is but somehow The word has been spread around by Dawkins and co that faith is a vice Because it's believing for there's no evidence. That's nonsense. That is blind faith and it's very dangerous Absolutely, I would agree. This is blind faith and to cut this whole video short Please explain and give me the evidence for the Trinity. Can you give me any evidence for the Trinity? If not, then it is blind faith. It's the kind of faith that causes young men to Fly planes into tall buildings. Oh That's the blind face. I get it. It's not like the Christian nations The so-called Christian nations like America that sent their soldiers to those Muslim countries No, no, no, of course not. It is the blind faith that led to 9 11. Listen to this. Yes John at the end of his Gospel he says smug old man Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book But why are they not are written? That you might believe that Jesus is the Messiah the son of God and that believing you may have life in his name In other words, here's the evidence on which faith is based now How do you decide between religions? No, in other words, you're simply talking about a text now The text itself is not evidence because we have to question ourselves Where did that text come from who wrote that text and the matter of fact is that we do not know We have no idea who those authors of the New Testament are and moreover the New Testament has been written in Greek Jesus nor his disciples talked Greek. So therefore who are those people surely not the disciples of Christ just look into it You will find it yourself. Some of those texts have been written over a hundred of years after Jesus Christ So therefore those texts are not reliable So how can you tell me then that you have evidence? You don't even know the authors of those texts There are several ways very briefly really quick before he gets into this I think it's interesting that because I'm putting myself in the mindset of the maybe more skeptical viewer of this video I know that there's gonna be this complaint. Well, that's John who is in this book called the Bible So he's biased and illegitimate for that reason, but it's interesting to note that yeah As I said, it's not only John It is the other authors as well that we do not know who those people are in the first place So this is of course a legitimate reason not to trust in those texts on how can you when he wrote that didn't even know That there was going to be this, you know canonized thing called the Bible that was going to be included With all of these other books and sort of put together in the way that it is today He's just a a real person who experienced real events in history and is Proclaiming the reality of those events, but he never met Jesus to to the original audience And I just think that's interesting to I think sometimes we can put the cart before the horse in terms of quickly discrediting a Eyewitness to events in history. So that but he was not an eyewitness man things. I let's what we're talking about Just think of the three major monotheistic religions Judaism Christianity in Islam When it comes to Christ my Jewish friends, and I've many of them believe that Christ died and did not rise I As a Christian believe he died in rose My Muslim friends believe he didn't die. Those three things cannot be simultaneously true and Therefore, I simply invite people to Investigate the evidence and one of the most Seminal experiences my life was sitting on the ground in a bright sunshine and Trinity College Cambridge listening to one of the world's top Lawyers actually an expert in Islamic law, but a Christian and He was a Queen's Council amongst many other things Sir Norman Anderson I think his book is still obtainable and he got up and says I want to do a Forensic investigation of the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Right a place was absolutely packed I'll never forget it because that was the beginnings of understanding that there is a rational Forensic defense of this and we have to make up our own minds But there's another method of approach and it's this He's not saying anything man Of every world view and religion I Ask several questions Oh, man, why do you make it so complicated and why did you talk so slow? The fact is you mentioned the three main Abrahamic faiths even though I disagree with that terminology I believe that Islam is the only Abrahamic faith because Islam practices what Abraham practiced very very simple Abraham was not a Jew Abraham was not a Christian Abraham submitted his will to God it went so far that he would have sacrificed his only son This is true submission to God. This is his religion. I Islam Islam means submission to God case closed But let's dive into the simple statements of those faiths Judaism says there is only one God He is one a hat but then it displays God in ways that is not befitting to him For example, God needs rest or God lost a wrestling match against a human being etc. etc So this God is not all powerful Then Christianity comes around and all of a sudden God is three in one. What is your evidence for that? Jesus never spoke about a trinity. This is a later invention at the Council of Nicaea Finally they come to the conclusion that the trinity is the true God Jesus never spoke about this and no other prophet spoke about this However, this is the main claim of Christianity Christianity claims that the real God is Triune and moreover you should pray to Jesus. We have saints we venerate mother Mary Etc etc you name it and in Islam on the other hand we worship an all-powerful God Which is uniquely one? That's it. That is the main claim of Islam God is one. He doesn't need rest. He's not like a human being That's what the Bible says as well by the way. Nothing in creation is like God Which religion makes more sense and more over where is the evidence for the other claims? Where is the evidence for the trinity don't get me even started? Where is the claim for God losing in a wrestling match against a human being? There is no evidence for that what so ever more over all the textual evidence that Christianity delivers is Not bullet proof as I said most of the time. We don't even know the author is how can we trust it comes to Doesn't make sense. I ask what is the shape of the religion? Okay, is Relationship with God determines. So let's just confine ourselves for a sake of illustration to God fearing religions not religions that don't really believe in God and so on yeah, but God fearing religions like the three I've mentioned and What I discover by constant cresting of people is that there's a general pattern that There's some sort of initiation right perhaps performed on a child perhaps performed on an adult and the person is on the way and The descriptor the way is often used that I often draw this and I draw a little door You get in and a wavy line. This is the way it goes up and down and then there's a Gate another big door at the far end and I draw the scales of justice there And at the other side of that gate is Nirvana heaven what have you paradise? Okay, and I say as You're on the way you various people that teach you and help you and so on But even they cannot guarantee your acceptance Into Heaven or whatever at the end. Yeah, neither. Can you only God can That's it cause you have to go through the final assessment a judgment Yes, true and why is that because the principle of the religion is merit And so you have to hope that with all the teaching you've got and all the experience That your good deeds will outweigh your bad deeds and you'll be accepted. That is not accurate either And it's a misconception about Islam in particular sure We are commanded to do good deeds But in the end it is God who decides if we will enter heaven or not Most people say that's exactly what we believe And I say it's exactly not what I believe and they say of course you do you're a Christian You believe as well as no Christians that good works are important. Yes. I say I believe they're important But they're not the basis of acceptance Well, I say you think of that wavy line Jesus died for your sins Therefore you get a free entry ticket into paradise we get it However as I said in Islam it is not only based upon your good deeds It is based upon what the God decides and you're not wavy line and You cannot by definition be sure of acceptance. It's like Birmingham University. Yeah, we don't know you get in You do your a-levels wonderful You're in and then they're nice professors like me teaching you but I can't guarantee you get a degree Why because you have to get through finals. Yeah, you can't that's the day of judgment folks, isn't that? That's right. And many if you remember it and That is what the vast majority of people think a religion is and then I drop a little bomb Let's go into their minds And I say but that isn't Christianity folks in religion acceptance comes at the end on the basis of an assessment of merit Well, if that's religion Christianity is not a religion it's a relationship and Acceptance comes in the beginning There's a claim of every religion You know, I believe in our country and in my original country many people have rejected Christianity Why because they've never understood this They don't realize that Christianity is not a merit-based religion Because Christ came into our world and he told us what did he tell us did he go against the prophets? No, he said he came to fulfill the law He did not come to go against the former prophets all those former prophets said that God is one We should worship God alone. No idol worship. No worshiping the golden calf Etc. Etc. You name it. It's always the same message and Jesus did not go against that message It is not as Christians say that Jesus said now we should worship three in one or that we should worship him This is not the message of Jesus and guess what newsflash Jesus was not a Christian There you go that if we Listen to him and accept his word and believed on him as the savior of the Son of God We would have in that moment eternal life, and we would not come into judgment. That's Utterly radical no, it's not utterly radical. That's what all the prophets said as well We have to believe in God and the messenger and his message is the transmission of God if we follow the messenger We are following God. It is not radical at all. It is always the same message. So the acceptance comes at the beginning It's the same with Islam the first step of Islam the first pillar is the Shahada la ilaha illa la Muhammad Rasool Allah Which means there is no God worthy of worship, but God and Muhammad is his messenger The same would have applied during the time of Jesus. There is no God worthy of worship But God and Jesus is his messenger Moses is his messenger Abraham is his messenger Noah is his messenger. It was always the same message. Don't you see? I don't give lectures like this and discussions like this to earn God's forgiveness Okay, I do them because I got it That's radical. You all understand that. Let me ram this in with a little illustration. Can I do that? Only take a minute This is it then yeah, you've heard you've heard about my wife well Over 50 years ago. I saw this vision in Cambridge. So I decided I'd like to marry her So I came to her one day and I had a little present wrapped up for her. It was a cookbook So I said I Like to marry you Sally now the condition will be this let's look at page 147 It's apple cake and here are the laws for making apple cake thou shall take so much flour Thou shall take so much sugar And there you are now here's the way it's gonna be if you keep these laws for the next 40 years. I Think about accepting you If you don't you can go back to your mother But look why are you laughing? Yeah, they should laugh but not because of the reason they are laughing Ultimately, it is laughable because Christians always anthropomorphize and they cannot help it Of course because they are God is a human being Once you accept God as a human being in the form of a human being you're worshiping men then anything goes every Example every analogy then will be based upon a man made subject This is what you see here this man in this instance is God and he is giving the laws to his wife And she has to obey those laws Ultimately, it is a joke of course because like that you're discrediting the Old Testament all together Everything that has been revealed to the prophets. You are mocking your laughing at all of those laws that have been sent down to us Humans all of a sudden are invalid all of a sudden. We don't need them anymore. Now. We can sit there We can sin we can do whatever we want works do not count whatsoever and we are forgiven This is a satanic doctrine. It's what man you sitting here think about God and you would never insult a fellow human being By basing a relationship of merit You wouldn't or no you wouldn't what are you talking about man as a human being? Absolutely, you would what God does is up to God. We don't know his ways. We cannot fully comprehend it However, as a human you do not love unconditionally that is an absolute scam Of course, you found your wife back then attractive. So therefore one of the conditions was her beauty It is what it is. It was her beauty. It was her youth. It was her fertility It was something about her that you found attractive and Valuable and because you found it valuable. This is why you enter the marriage This is why you love her in the first place It is based up on the condition and the same applies to your wife as well There was something attractive about you that she admired she needed and therefore she fell in love with you This is why she got married with you. We humans always love conditionally and we're entering relationships Conditionally, otherwise, you would love everybody in that room and you would have the same relationship with everybody in that room Which you do not have however yet again all of this is Human you are a human the way that you have relationships does not apply to God surprise and so my marriage It's been good. Why because my wife is not cooking in order to gain my acceptance She likes cooking because she's got it and the wonderful thing about Christianity is precisely that It's not really how is this different from any other religion when we do something We do it for the sake of God because God loves it Do you think in Islam we do it to earn points? What kind of ridiculous statement is this? We of course do it for the sake of God in that sense. What is it? It's a relationship It's that sense of acknowledgement of Need for God of our own moral depravity of yes We need not holy in and of ourselves as he is he is perfect and perfectly holy correct And he wants to have relationship with us. How do you square that circle? How can God? Relate yeah, we just agree here I don't think that God wants a relationship with us if he wanted a relationship with us He would have it. It's just that simple just the way that the angels see God if he wanted us to see him He would have done it. It's that simple for God. This is easy We need God we are of need of God and we are created in a certain way Everything has a specific nature created by God just as we men are created to procreate with a female and create a Family then we take on the nature of being a father taking care of our children Those are relationships dictated by God if we go against them We experience the suffering right here and the same applies to the relationship between us and God We are commanded to worship one God alone as Muslims If we do not do that we suffer a depressed life because we go against the nature of humans created by God God created us to worship him alone. We can do whatever we want. We can go against God However, the result is suffering yet again. How do you square that circle? How can God? Relate to and unite himself to a species that is Unsuitable for him based on based on the way that we have exercised our own free will and fallen and the way that collectively and Individualistically every single person has fallen short of the glory of God and yet God still wants us the scriptures are riddled with This while we were sinners Christ died for us We were his enemies and he and he came for us That we were orphans that he had done. Yeah in Islam We do not prescribe to the doctrine of the original sin. It is quite uplifting It is quite positive because we relate to the fitra The fitra is the natural predisposition of men to worship one God alone And guess what God's gift is that we can return to that fitra to that natural predisposition and worship God alone yet Again, this is Islam Every child every baby is created beautifully perfectly by God in a state of a pure fitra In the natural state in the understanding that there is one God Later on then the parents teach us that we have to worship Jesus that we have to worship Krishna that we have to worship multiple deities etc etc you name it However in Islam, we believe that we have not fallen We are created perfectly and then our parents might teach us something that goes against our nature Society might teach us something that goes against our nature. The good news is we can return to our nature Opted etc etc He made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us that we might become their righteousness of God in Christ Jesus our Lord it is it is literally littered throughout the entire New Testament this idea Yes, absolutely. It is littered through the New Testament However in the Old Testament, you cannot find it and what does it truly mean? Jesus died for our sins Now our sins are forgiven now we are lifted out of that fallen state However, the original sin still exists some Christians take the position that Jesus died for the original sin other Christians take the position That Jesus died for sin period. However, what does that lead to now? We find ourselves still in a fallen state apparently because if you look around people still sin However yet again if Jesus died for our sins Then we do not need to do anything but accept Jesus into our life And that's it then we can go on about our life and we can keep on sinning because Jesus died for us How does this make sense that we have radically fallen short that we're desperately in need at the same time We're desperately loved by God in spite of that in spite of the fact that we're rebelling against him constantly And that he's made a way that his like he said it's not merit-based because if it were No one would ever be with God We cannot reach to the to the heights of what is necessary to become suitable creatures for him Only through that beautiful atonement that took place. I think you're aiming for an unrealistic standard here God after all created us with intent. He knew why he created us even the angels according to the Quran Asked him why he would create a creature that causes bloodshed, but God said to the angels I know something that you do not know Meaning that God is all-knowing and hence he has his plan and he is the best of planners We cannot understand why he does certain things However, it cannot be so complicated the way that you portrayed here to gain God's favor Why would it be the Old Testament the Quran the Torah tells us exactly what we need to do We need to worship one God alone. And yes, we need to do good deeds as well We need to become better people go figure. We're not just forgiven because Jesus died for us No, we need to consistently improve our cells However, God is the most merciful and it is ultimately in his hands if we will go to paradise or not But what I'm saying here is in Islam. We have certain commandments certain pillars that we follow. We're fasting We are praying five times per day. We're giving to charity Those are the things that we have to observe as Muslims Why? Because God commanded us to do so. However, the Christians say they do not need to do anything Nothing is commanded to them and they believe that God will forgive them anything as long as they proclaim that Jesus is their Lord Again, how does this make sense? It doesn't the cross only through God himself Heroically living the life that we couldn't live dying the death that we deserved to die Absorbing the raft that was that that was towards our sin and Then conquering death and rising again only only if that is true is their hope for humanity There is no other possible System or worldview or ideology or way that can square the circle of the fundamental problem of the holiness of God And the depravity of man it is only on that old rugged cross That the solution it has been offered that is actually legitimate. No, that is an ideology of despair if you ask me It's actually very saddening and depressing because ultimately what you're saying there is that God has a wrath upon us humans He's wrathful against us because we are so sinful But you're talking about a God that created us He knew certainly how we will play out He knew what kind of creature we are when he created us, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt God is wrathful against us He holds a grudge against us and now the only way he can forgive us is by sending his only son however plot twist his son is God himself and now God kills himself on the cross because yet again He's so angry at us and we deserved that death. However, because he loves us as well. He's kind of schizophrenic He hates us. He loves us. He sacrifices himself, but then go figure. He actually doesn't die. Whoopsie. What a trick He dies as a sacrifice to forgive sins However, he does not die at all because three days later He is rising into the heavens back to God Which he is in the first place and now you're telling me this is the only way anything makes sense They're claiming religion and any other religion whether it's Buddha, Muhammad, etc. None none of No one else is offering us The solution to the problem that we have. No one else has actually even claimed to do this thing Worship one God alone Pray fast that Jesus has claimed to do and then I love the beginning of this one Linux says it is a matter of fact. It is a matter of it is evidence-based. I love that. He goes there Where is the evidence? That's exactly what the the ancient church believed Paul Where is it that if Jesus didn't rise from the dead then we're the most pitied of all because we've placed our hope and an Illusion, but here's the good. I agree folks. He did make sense. He all right I'm gonna cut it off here the video is long enough. You get to the point He's talking about evidence evidence evidence evidence, but ultimately there is no hard evidence not historically and of course Not if you look into the Bible as I said throughout the video the New Testament has been written by who knows We have absolutely no clue who wrote it. We don't have the original names of the Apostles of Christ Do you believe they were really called Matthew and Mark? Yay Moreover as my Muslim viewers know as well There are contradictions within the New Testament and within the Old Testament as well if you truly observe the Bible in detail You put it under scrutiny. It cannot pass the test But what I observe with those Christian apologists is that they always claim that Christianity is different and therefore it is true Therefore it must be true. However Christianity sprung out of Judaism And this is the environment that Jesus Christ grew up in he was a Jew Jesus grew up in a Jewish environment He was going to the temple. He was preaching in that temple and more over He was called a rabbi and therefore if you want to be historical about this You just have to ask yourself what Jesus preached even if you take your own Bible as evidence You will see that Jesus always puts the focus away from him on to God He always says worship one God and this is why Islam is nothing new in Islam We do not believe that Islam came with Prophet Muhammad Salahu alayhi wasalam we do not believe that Islam was founded during the time of Prophet Muhammad either what we believe is That Islam is the submission to God that has always existed from the beginning of Time we believe that the angels are in submission to God We believe that Adam the first man was in submission to God We of course believe that all the prophets are in submission to God We even believe that all the creatures the animal kingdom all of it is in submission to God We as humans have of course the choice the free will that you mentioned as well We can rebel against God to our own detriment of course and like this We are not in submission but in rebellion those are the two options and this is truly what religion boils down to Submission is the true religion where we are submitting our will we're getting away from our ego We're submitting everything we have to the one God the other option is Rebellion rebellion against God of course we can go to an extreme become a Satanist sacrifice a cat So yeah, then you are really extremely rebelling against God But there's minor rebellion against the will of God as well when you think that it should go your way You go throughout the day your grumpy or not happy with your situation because you think it should be a certain way But well God planted otherwise and then there is the rebellion that is a great sin in Islam Which is called shirk every time we attribute other things to God partners for example like in your case here You're not worshipping the pure one God anymore, but now you started worshipping a man a profit So you are deviating from the pure monotheism in Islam. That is a huge problem in Islam This is a sin. This is shirk as I said So therefore the trick that the devil played on you here is that you believe that you are pious By not needing to follow anything and worshipping a man rather than God Maybe you should think twice All right guys, but this is it for today's video if you liked it leave the thumbs up if you haven't subscribed ready guys Please do so and if you want to support this channel via patreon or via merge all the links are in the description box below Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may God bless you all much love and peace