"As for those who Divide their Religion and break up into Sects,
thou hast no part in them in the least: their affair is with
Allaah. He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they
did."(Holy Qur'aan 6: 159)
60 Questions For The Christians
TRINITY
According to most Christians, Jesus was God-incarnate, full man
and full God. Can the finite and the infinite be one? "To be
full" God means freedom from finite forms and from helplessness,
and to be "full man" means the absence of divinity.
1.To be son is to be less than divine and to be divine is to be
no one s son. How could Jesus have the attributes of sonship and
divinity altogether?
2.Christians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote
him in John 14:9: "He that has seen me has seen the Father".
Didn t Jesus clearly say that people have never seen God, as it
says in John 5:37: "And the father himself which Has sent me,
has borne witness of me. You have NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY
TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE"?
3.Christians say that Jesus was God because he was called Son of
God, Son of Man, Messiah, and "savior". Ezekiel was addressed in
the Bible as Son of Man. Jesus spoke of "the peace makers" as
Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan of God
was called SON OF GOD in the Jewish tradition and in their
language (Genesis 6:2,4; Exodus 4:22; Psalm 2:7; Romans
8:14). "Messiah" which in Hebrew means "God s anointed" and
not "Christ", and "Cyrus" the person is called "Messiah" or "the
anointed". As for "savior", in II KINGS 13:5, other individuals
were given that title too without being gods. So where is the
proof in these terms that Jesus was God when the word son is not
exclusively used for him alone?
4.Christians claim that Jesus acknowledged that he and God were
one in the sense of nature when he says in John 10:30 "I and my
father are one". Later on in John 17:21-23, Jesus refers to his
followers and himself and God as one in five places. So why did
they give the previous "one" a different meaning from the other
five "ones?
5.Is God three-in-one and one in three simultaneously or one at
a time?
6.If God is one and three simultaneously, then none of the three
could be the complete God. Granting that such was the case, then
when Jesus was on earth, he wasn t a complete God, nor was
the "father in Heaven" a whole God. Doesn t that contradict what
Jesus always said about His God and our God in heaven, his Lord
and our Lord ? Does that also mean that there was no complete
god then, between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed
resurrection?
7.If God is one and three at a time, then who was the God in
heaven when Jesus was on earth? Wouldn t this contradict his
many references to a God in Heaven that sent him?
8.If God is three and one at the same time, who was the God in
Heaven within three days between the claimed crucifixion and the
claimed resurrect ion?
9.Christians say that: "The Father(F) is God, the Son(S) is God,
and the Holy Ghost(H) is God, but the Father is not the Son, the
Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not the
Father". In simple arithmetic and terms therefore, if F = G, S =
G, and H = G, then it follows that F = S = H, while the second
part of the statement suggests that F S H (meaning, "not
equal"). Isn t that a contradiction to the Christian dogma of
Trinity in itself ?
10.If Jesus was God, why did he tell the man who called
him "good master" not to call him "good" because accordingly,
there is none good but his God in Heaven alone?
11.Why do Christians say that God is three-in-one and one in
three when Jesus says in Mark 12:29: "The Lord our God is one
Lord" in as many places as yet in the Bible?
12.If belief in the Trinity was such a necessary condition for
being a Christian, why didn t Jesus teach and emphasize it to
the Christians during his time? How were those followers of
Jesus considered Christians without ever hearing the term
Trinity? Had the Trinity been the spinal cord of Christianity,
Jesus would have emphasized it on many occasions and would have
taught and explained it in detail to the people.
13.Christians claim that Jesus was God as they quote in John
1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God". This is John speaking and not Jesus.
Also, the Greek word for the first occurrence of God is HOTHEOS
which means "the God" or "God" with a capital "G", while the
Greek word for its second occurrence is "TONTHEOS", which
means "a god " or "god" with a small "g". Isn t this dishonesty
and inconsistency on the part of those translating the Greek
Bible? ? Isn t such quotation in John 1:1 recognized by every
Christian scholar of the Bible to have been written by a Jew
named Philo Alexandria way before Jesus and John?
14.Wasn t the word "god" or "TONTHEOS" also used to refer to
others as well as in II Corinthians 4:4 "(and the Devil is) the
god of this world" and in Exodus 7:1 "See , I have made thee
(Moses ) a god to Pharaoh"?
SALVATION:
Christians say that "GOD LOST His only son to save us". To whom
did God lose Jesus if he owns the whole universe?
15. If it was agreeable with God s Majesty to have sons, He
could have created a million sons the like of Jesus. So what is
the big clear deal about this only son?
16.Why does the Bible say that Jesus wanted to die on the cross,
when the one on the cross was shouting "My God, my God, why have
you forsaken me?" according to Matthew 27:45 and Mark 15:33?
17. If God had wanted to save us, couldn t He have done that
without sacrificing Jesus?
18. God is Just, and justice requires that nobody should be
punished for the sins of others, nor should some people be saved
by punishing other people. Doesn t the claim that God sacrificed
Jesus to save us because He was Just, contradict the definition
of justice?
19. People sacrifice things they have to get something they
don t have when they can t have both. Christians say that "God
SACRIFICED His only son to save us". We know that God is
Almighty; to whom did He sacrifice Jesus?
20. A real sacrifice is when you can t get back what you have
offered , so what would be the big deal about such a sacrifice
if God could recover the same offering? (according to the
Christians terminology)?
21. If all the Christians are saved through Jesus and are going
to Heaven no matter what they do, then the teachings of Jesus
are irrelevant and the definition of good and bad are also
rendered irrelevant. If this is not so, then do Christians who
believe in Jesus yet do not follow his teachings nor repent go
to Hell?
22. How can Christians take deeds as irrelevant after becoming
one when Jesus says in Matthew 12:36; "But I say unto you that
every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the Day of Judgment. For by the words thou shalt be
justified, and by the words thou shalt be condemned"?
23. Christians say that people go to Heaven ONLY THROUGH JESUS,
yet Paul says in 1 CORINTHIANS 7:8-16 that the unbelieving
husband is acceptable to God because he is united with his wife
and vice versa, and their pagan children are also acceptable to
God. So people can go to heaven without believing in Jesus
according to this.
24. How come the Bible says that ALL Israel is saved although
they don t believe in Jesus? Doesn t that contradict the claim
in the Bible that the only way to heaven is through Jesus?
25. According to Christians, those who have not been baptized
will go to Hell. So even the infants and babies go to Hell if
not baptized, since they are born with an inherited original
sin. Doesn t this contradict the definition of justice? Why
would God punish people for sins they never committed?
HOLY SPIRIT:
The only place in the Bible where the Paraclete was called the
Holy Spirit is in John 14:26 "But the Paraclete, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you
all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to
you". What has the Holy Spirit brought or taught for the last
2000 years?
26.Christians say that the Paraclete means the Holy Spirit (John
14;26). Jesus said in John 16:7-8 "If I do not go away the
Paraclete will not come to you". This could not mean the Holy
spirit, since the Holy spirit was said to have been there before
Jesus was even born as in Luke 1:41 "Elizabeth was filled with
the Holy Spirit". Here, the Holy spirit was also present during
Jesus life time. So how could this fit with the condition that
Jesus must go away so that the Holy spirit will come?
27.In John 16:7-8, it says: "But if go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes, he will convict the world of sins and of
righteousness and of Judgment". What do "he" and "him" refer
here? Don t they refer to a man?
28.Does the Holy Spirit talk to good Christians and bad
Christians as well? Is the Holy spirit with them all the time or
just at certain times? When does it start visiting a person who
wants to become a Christian?
29.How can you as a Christian tell if the Holy Spirit is inside
another Christian? How come many Christians fooled people by
claiming that the Holy spirit was inside them only to be
converted to another religion later on ?
30.Does the Holy Spirit dictate what Christians should do
without choice or freedom at all or does it only guide them and
they have the freedom to follow or not ?
31.If the Holy Spirit dictates what Christian should do, why do
Christians commit sins and make mistakes ? How can you explain
the conversion to other religions and atheism of many
Christians? Are they told to do that by the Holy Spirit?
32.If the Holy Spirit guides Christians only, and they are free
to do what they want, then how do we know that the writers of
the Gospels didn t make mistakes in writing them?
33.If Christians believe that the Holy Spirit comes and talks to
them everyday, why don t they ask the Holy Spirit about which
version of the Bible to follow since there are too many versions
floating around?
MISSION OF JESUS:
Without borrowing from other religions and systems, can
Christianity provide people with a complete way of life? Since
Christianity is limited to spiritual life and does not provide
law, how can a society decide which laws are right or wrong?
34.Why do the Christians say that Jesus came with a universal
mission when he said that he was sent to the Jews only? He said
to the Canaanite woman who asked him to heal her daughter from
demon-possession: "I was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel"
and also said: "It is not right to take the children s bread and
toss it to their dogs", Matthew 15:21-28.
RESSURECTION:
If you read Matthew (28:1-10), Mark (16:1-20), Luke (24:1-12),
and John (20: 1-18), you will find contradicting stories. They
all agreed that the tomb was guarded for three days. However,
they reported the discovery of the empty tomb differently.
Matthew (28) and John (20) reported that Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary were the first to discover the tomb.
Mark (16) reports that Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James,
and Salome were the first to discover the empty tomb.
Mark (28) reports that there was an earthquake that removed the
rock from over the tomb. He says that an angel caused it. The
other gospels do not mention of an earthquake.
Matthew and Mark say that only ONE man in white clothes was
sitting on the tomb when the woman arrived, and that he was an
angel.
Luke says that TWO men in white clothes, who were angels, were
sitting. Johns says that the two women did not meet anybody the
first time they came to the tomb, but when they returned, they
saw TWO people, ONE was an ANGEL, and the other was JESUS.
Matthew reports that when the guards reported this to the chief
priest, the chief priest paid them a large sum of money, telling
them: "You have to say that his disciples came at night and
stole his body." He claims that the soldiers took money and
spread the story around and since then, the story had been
circulating among the Jews until today (according to Matthew).
The other gospels do not report of any such thing.
35. Which narration now is more authentic?
36.Why is the appearance of Jesus after the crucifixion taken as
a proof of his resurrection when there is an explanation that he
was not dead because someone else was crucified in his place
when God saved Him?
37.How did Matthew know of the claimed agreement between the
soldiers and the chief priest? Can t someone say that someone
paid the women a large sum of money and told them to spread the
word around that Jesus rose from the dead, with the same
authenticity as that of the story of Matthew?
38.Why did they believe that man in the white clothes? Why did
they believe he was an angel? John s narration is too strange,
since he says that Mary did not recognize Jesus (one of the two)
while talking to him, and she only recognized him when he called
her by her name.
39.How does an empty tomb prove that Jesus was crucified ? Isn t
it that God is capable of removing another man from the tomb,
and of resurrecting him too?
40.The Gospels are believed to be the verbatim words of God,
they are supposed to be dictated by the Holy Spirit to the
Disciples who wrote them. If the source were the same, why
shouldn t they correspond with each other in reporting such an
important event?
41.How could Matthew, Mark, Luke and John be considered
eyewitnesses of resurrection when the Bible implies that nobody
at all saw Jesus coming out of the tomb?
BIBLE:
If the Christians consider the Old Testament as God s Word, why
did they cancel the parts of the Old Testament that dealt with
punishment (example: the punishment for adultery)?
42.Why doesn t Mark 16:9-20 exist in as many versions of the
Bible while it exists as a footnote or between brackets in some
other versions? Is a footnote in the Bible still considered as
God s word, especially when it addresses an important feature
like the Ascension?
43.Why does the Catholic Bible contain 73 books while the
Protestant Bible has only 66? With both claiming to have the
complete Word of God, which one should be believed and why?
44.Where do those new translations of the Bible keep coming from
when the original Bible is not even available ? The Greek
manuscripts which are translations themselves are not even
similar with each other.
45.How can you take two gospels from writers who never met
Jesus, like Mark and Luke?
46.Why is half of the New Testament written by a man who never
even met Jesus in his lifetime? PAUL claimed with no proof that
he had met Jesus while on his way from Jerusalem to Damascus.
PAUL was the main enemy of Christianity. Isn t that reason
enough to question the authenticity of what he wrote? Why do the
Christians call those books of the Old Testament "God s Word"
when the revisors of the RSV Bible say that some of the authors
are UNKNOWN? They say that the author of SAMUEL is "UNKNOWN" and
that of CHRONICLES is "UNKOWN, PROBABLY COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
EZRA"!
CONTRADICTIONS:
47.Concerning the controversial issues in the Bible, how can
Christians decide by two-thirds majority what is God s Word and
what is not, as the prefaces of some Bibles say like that one of
the RSV ?
48.Why does Luke in his gospel report the Ascension on Easter
Day, and in the Acts, in which he is recognized as the author,
FORTY days later?
49.The genealogy of Jesus is mentioned in Matthew and Luke only.
Matthew listed 26 forefathers from Joseph to David while Luke
enumerated 41 forefathers. Only Joseph matches with Joseph in
those two lists. Not a single other name matches! If these were
inspired by God word by word, how could they be different? Some
claim that one is for Mary and one is for Joseph, but where does
it says Mary in those two Gospels?
50.If Moses wrote the first books of the Old Testament, how
could Moses write his own obituary? Moses died in the fifth book
at age 120 as mentioned in Deut. 34:5-10.
51.In the King James Version, why does it report SEVEN years of
famine in II SAMUEL 24:13 while it reports THREE years of famine
in I CHRONICLES 21:12? Why did they change both to THREE years
in the New International Version and other versions?
52.Still In the same King James Version, why does it say that
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign in II
CHRONICLES 21:12, while it says EIGHTEEN years in II KINGS 24:8?
Why did thessey change in both to EIGHTEEN in the new Versions?
53.In all versions, why does it say that David slew the men of
SEVEN HUNDRED chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand
HORSEMEN as evidenced in II Samuel 10:18 while its says SEVEN
THOUSAND men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand
FOOTMEN, in I CHRONICLES 19:18?
54.In all versions, why does it report TWO thousand baths in I
KINGS 7:26 while II CHRONICLES 4:5 reports THREE THOUSAND?
55.In the King James version, why does it report that Solomon
had FOUR THOUSAND stalls for horses in II CHRONICLES 9:25 while
it accounts that Solomon had FORTY THOUSAND stalls of horses in
1 KINGS 4:26? Why did they change both to FOUR THOUSAND in the
new versions?
56.In GENESIS 1, God s creation progresses from grass to trees
to fowls, whales, cattle and creeping things and finally to man
and woman. GENESIS 2, however, puts the creation of man before
cattle and fowl and woman subsequent to beast. How can this be
explained?
QUR AN AND CHRISTIANS
This section does not inquire or interrogate, but rather
provides the reader with some of the Qur anic verses that
address the Christians in particular, and the people of the
scripture in general. A great portion of the Qur an pertains to
or involves the Christians and the Jews and I decided to just
choose verses that are related to the topic of this manuscript.
"Lo! The likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of
Adam. He created him of dust, then said unto him: Be, and he
was." Al-Qur an 3:59.
"Say: