 Friends, what really motivated a Catholic professor to join Islam? The title of this video is to be confusing and also shocking. What really led him to that decision becoming a Muslim is really a very easy thing. But most times, learned and highly educated people within Christianity tend to accept Islam very easily. I really don't know the definition of that, whether they do so because of the amount of knowledge they have amassed so far in the research and then discover that Islam has something deeper than the way the laymen or ordinary men on the street really view it. I do not know whether this argument hold water, but it's surprising the majority of those who later identify with Islam generally and at the end of the day are pretty to others. Guys like Yusuf Estis and many other Americans in the West have significantly changed the dynamics of people understanding Islam and that has also motivated a barrage of others to test the waters and it's significantly effective. So today a professor decided to pitch his tent with Islam. His reasons we do not know why he decided to do so is to be very vague. I think this video which is not relatively long would give a veritable insight into his thinking and what motivated him generally. There are books and books written about Muhammad that tell you one thing we know for sure about this man. He had an outside source of information. One book I've got says the Quran was written by a committee because they've established so well that there's information in there that an Arabian shouldn't have known he must have had someone from the outside bringing him this information. One thing we know for sure he had an outside source of information. Now he said this book was a revelation so they say you see he was a liar. He got it from somewhere he put it in a book and he gave it to someone telling him it was from God he was a liar. Other people write books and books on the subject of Muhammad and they say one thing we know for sure he thought he was a prophet. He was crazy because they look at his life very carefully and they see episodes like for example when he hid in the cave with Abu Bakr. He was running from the whole city who wanted to kill him and he hid in the cave and when the Meccans came running up to the cave to kill them what did he say to his friend? Did he tell him see if you can find a back way out of the cave? What he told his friend was relax. He was telling him you know I see what you see but he said God is with us God will save us. So people on that basis they say you see he thought he was a prophet he thought God was with him because he said things like that. He was a liar. They never seem to realize that one man can't be both. So you can't be a liar and a crazy man at the same time. If you think that an angel gives the words of God in your ear and somebody says I have a question for you what does God tell you about this thing? I want to hear an answer tomorrow. If you're a crazy man if you think an angel whispers in your ear then you don't sit up that night thinking what will I tell him tomorrow? What can I find? Who knows the answer? You're crazy. You think the angel will tell you the answer. You don't go and look it up somewhere. You see you can't be a liar and a crazy man at the same time. You can be one or the other or neither but you can't be both. Just someone who has significantly started the Catholic faith and not just started the Catholic faith prior to the Catholic faith for a very long time I would love to say that I am an authority in the following reaction I'm about to give to the middle of this video. Now one thing we have to understand when it comes to divine revelation is that it has no boundaries. I understand that in the history of the Catholic church before any divine revelation will be declared public and be made to be accepted by every member of the church it is vetted thoroughly and there are criteria for saint revelation. One of those criteria is whether the message conforms to original teachings in the Bible or some of the teachings of the church. If we should apply same logic to Muhammad most of the things Muhammad thought were not different from what was already known at the time of Jesus Christ. Most of those ones he condemned were things that were already in disputes in the church itself. Take for example the idea that Jesus Christ was God the early Christians never saw Jesus as a God as someone who has divine nature that recognized Jesus Christ as someone who is blessed a man who even the apostles in their pictures identified as a man that found favor in the face of God. So with that logic what Muhammad was teaching that Jesus was not God was a novel it wasn't something they knew to the Christian mind everyone knew it. You see I read two non-Muslim biographies of Muhammad one was by Rodentzen who was an atheist who hated the man but many interesting things come up about his life that I had to wonder about one story that's told is that when he was an older man he had a son named Ibrahim Abraham the son died when the child was two years old the same day the boy died there was an eclipse of the sun sky went dark and the Muslims came running to their prophet and said Luke it's a miracle your child died and the sky went dark in sadness that occurred to me see if he was a crazy man he'd probably believe what they said he probably think yes it's a miracle my child died the sky is dark yes it's a miracle if he was a crazy man if he was a liar he would have taken advantage of it he would have said yes right my child died the sky is dark you tell everyone it proves I'm a prophet it's a miracle but what did he do he became angry with the Muslims he told him that was nonsense he was angry with them how dare you say that he said the sun and the moon are signs of God and they don't worry themselves about the birth of a man or the death of a son of Muhammad doesn't look very crazy doesn't look much like a liar now you have a third alternative of course which people tell you all the time I say no he was not a liar he was not a crazy man he was deceived by the devil it's an interesting idea but whatever you say you better be ready to back it up there's a lot of difficulties with that idea for example there is a verse in the Quran which tells the reader about a good habit to develop it tells him before you read this book always say which means I take refuge in God from Satan the rejected is this Satan who wrote this who said before you read my book ask God to save you from me is that Satan who wrote that as Jesus said if Satan is divided against himself then his kingdom will fall he's fighting against his own interests so let me finish with a point that our story that illustrates a point as I said there's many theories and many explanations around many explanations but an explanation something somebody tells you is just so much air coming out of his mouth unless he has proof and unless he offers you something that you can use to falsify it you see there's many theories of how do the planets go around the sun and how do the stars burn and all the rest of it many theories most of them are just so much wind scientists pay no attention to them because they don't contain something that could be checked to prove it false you see Einstein was considered an intelligent man because when he offered his theory in 1905 and again in 1915 he didn't just offer a theory he said here's three ways to prove I'm wrong now it's worth listening to he's told me here's three different things you can do if you can do this I'm wrong here you are is there anything like that in Christianity as the Christian ever said you want to prove I'm wrong all you have to do is this has he ever done that the Quran is filled with that kind of thing filled with it saying you want to prove this book is wrong do this prove it go ahead do it filled with that kind of thing there's an example of it that made a big impression in its day during the lifetime 14 centuries ago of the prophet of Islam you see he had an uncle named Abul Dahab that was his nickname Abul Dahab this man hated Muhammad he hated anything the man said he used to watch him going through the city and if he saw him talking to someone he waited till they split up he'd go after the man he spoke to and take him and say what did Muhammad tell you whatever it is it's a lie did he tell you day it's night did he say black it's white exact opposite whatever he heard the muslim say he said the opposite that was the way his mind worked there's a little chapter of the Quran called Lahab and it says about this man that he'll never change it condemns him to hell, jahindam you see if the man had ever become a muslim the muslims would believe well now he's not condemned anymore you see for ten years before Abul Dahab died that was a part of the Quran and the muslims could come to Abul Dahab and say do you know it's been revealed to us in your in our book that you will never be a muslim God says you will never be a muslim for ten years they told him that all he had to do was say well your book is wrong I want to be a muslim what do you think of your book now it's all he had to do he had ten years to think about it and that's the way he was see if somebody is your enemy you don't come to him and say you want to prove I'm wrong, here say this come on say it, if all you have to do is say the words and I'm wrong, you finish me well I do not agree with that logic it might be very scary but I beg to differ from that you know the reason why I do not agree with that theory is that the man in question may have been thinking that that revelation of the Quran was actually meant to lure him into a sect in Islam and I'm actually looking at his own thinking and one thing is that remember the context with which this guy see him first is that the guy in question see Muhammad as a liar so I think with that mindset he may have rejected everything believing that he is actually dealing with someone who is false whether his theories were true because he was there, he lived with Muhammad what motivated, what made him believe that Muhammad wasn't real absolutely defies my understanding of the lies of Muhammad at that time he never did it see this is one of many cases of something that was offered that could have been falsifiable so it was as I say in 1978 after, how long would that be 15 years of arguing with the church authorities one place or another I got the idea I'm going to argue with some other people I'm going to read the Quran see how much of it is any good pick out the true, pick out the false thought it will take a few years it will take some serious study and so on I read through it about 3 days later I finished it this is what I've been saying for 15 years so I went to find some Muslims I don't want somebody to feel you've been tricked into something I haven't said anything about Christianity that isn't true I haven't said anything about Islam that isn't true unless it was a slip of the tongue or something I'm simply trying to remind an individual don't close your mind before it's too late don't make up your mind before you have all the facts most people who used to be Christians and become Muslims will tell you I am a better Christian than I used to be now I follow Christ I didn't before that's what I would tell you the Bible says Jesus told his disciples when you greet one another let your greeting be peace be with you he set the example peace be with you who says that today Christians once in a great while maybe Muslims whether they speak Arabic or not they say Salam Alaikum Jesus when he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane put his forehead on the ground who prays like that Christians or Muslims Jesus used to fast for more than a month at a time who fasts today Christians or Muslims who really is trying to imitate Jesus somebody said to me before coming in here they said the Muslims make Jesus out they insult him and so on and so on how possibly do they insult him they lift him up up they can't tolerate anything bad said about him they would just as quickly tell you that you know they say Muhammad Rasool Allah Muhammad is the messenger of God they will just as quickly say Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Rasool Allah no problem just as quickly tell you that because it's true occupy the same place if God himself wants to make distinctions among his prophets that's his business not ours treat them all with same amount of respect may God guide us always closer to the truth this video is an amazing video I love it when people recognize the truth and go for it now most times people discover the truth but because of pride, some circumstances most times doesn't really affect them in general but you know hold back their decision to embrace it this guy may have recorded a video for I think who knows when but to be completely honest this video is as strategic as it was at that time this video is as important as it is now because it offers us a veritable insight into the thinking of someone who has studied both religion he was once a Catholic Protestant he went into Islam this is Dr. Gary Miller and we are very proud of him I do not know how really you see this video but for me, I rate this video 5 stars because his explanation are basically built on fact though he was actually sounding as someone who has danced I really understand his passion to send forth this truth just like many others that have done so that are not even Muslim because I know of different books like the top 100 people of the world that was written by a non-Muslim that plays Muhammad as number one I also read about George Bernard Shaw and his messages about Islam I also have listened to countless of lectures even in this seminary they would teach you that Islam contains some degree of truth well, what do you think about it drop it in the comment section below and do not forget to be part of the growing family I would love to see you next time