Yeah ok...you probably don't want to go any further! I'm not posting this to try and 'convert' anyone...just wanna see what people make of his comments.
I thought this interview was rather interesting...
If anyone's got the patience to sit through an hour of the youtube clips below...I was just wondering what Christians make of this? Have you ever had similar doubts or have they not really crossed your mind? (I'm referring more to the arguments he makes in the middle about the trinitarian stuff in the Bible etc)
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"I am Yusha Evans, aged 28. I live in Jacksonville FL.
I was raised by my grandparents in Greenville, South Carolina in a very strict Methodist home. In my teenage years, I became very involved in the church and was studying at a small Bible college in my hometown with the intention of eventually enrolling in Bob Jones University. I was learning to read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek and was very interested in textual criticism of the Bible. It was during these years of intense Bible study that I read the Bible cover to cover a half a dozen times. In doing so, I realized there were many inconsistencies and contradictions. I realized the Bible was not the inerrant Word of God as I had always been taught. I eventually left Christianity and searched for the truth about God elsewhere.
I studied every religion from Judaism to Buddhism, Wicca to Bushido. While many religions had certain truths to them, they had major tenants or flaws I could not accept. All praise is due to God, one day I found myself talking with a young Muslim who invited me to jumuah, the Friday service and congregational prayer. When I saw the Muslims praying, bowing and prostrating with their heads on the floor, all the verses of the Bible describing the prayer of the prophets came flooding back to me. I asked for a copy of the Quran, read it from cover to cover in three days, and the rest (as they say) is history."
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...just watch this as this guy sums up similar points in a shorter vid (although the above is very interesting too):
I think that all religions are related somehow, all religious people basically believe in the same thing, sort of.
There's always a God.
Always a message of 'good is good and bad is bad'.
I wish I could see the videos you posted, but my internet is being crazy slow.
Aw, tis a shame.
This guy said something similar in another interview actually:
Do you see your adopted faith as the one true religion, and would you recommend it to anyone else?
I absolutely would recommend it – not as the one true religion separate from everything else, but as the middle ground of all religions because almost every religion has some form of truth in it. But Islam is the only religion that has contained its originality and its truthfulness over its 1,400-year span. We believe it’s the same religion preached since Abraham, since Adam, because God is not someone who changes his mind.
So you stopped believing in the Christian God and started believing in Allah? Why not Thor? Or Zeus? What have you got against their religions?
(No, I did not watch the videos.)
ummmm the christian god, the jewish god, and muslim god are the same being.
in order of terms of age (oldest to youngest) it's judaism>christianity>islam. this is why as you progress through the relevant holy books they makes references to the previous religions prophets (i.e moses the prophet of judaism is important in christianity and moses and jesus are important figures in the Qur'an.
EDIT: if you read the short bio the OP put up the guy talks about how he related what he saw in the mosque with what he learned about God in the bible and decided to read Qur'an thereafter.
Why does he have to believe any religion? While I applaud his effort to study and evaluate many religions and not be completely ignorant to all other religions like many other religious folk do, why does he HAVE to believe in a God? Has he ever considered the possibility of not following any religion?