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Old 2 Weeks Ago: 6th November 2009 20:25 #1 
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and converted to Islam, by Yusha Evans.

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)


















[/edit] His short bio:
"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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OR


...just watch this as this guy sums up similar points in a shorter vid (although the above is very interesting too):




Peace.

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Hmmm.
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Curious and curiouser....





EDIT: Ive not seen all of it, but im just gonna guess, couldn't the same be said with islam as well.........

EDIT 2: If you move the page up and down, up and down very fast... Then it almost becomes a moving picture....

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In my opinion all religion is bull, there is nothing when you die.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire
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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.)
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The 1st Commandment, 'I am the Lord thy God, Thou shalt have no other God's before me.'
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Originally Posted by TheNack
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.)


Clearly you didn't, he'd researched many religions before finally coming to Islam.

If you're not gonna watch them and wanna reply with BS...don't bother.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire

Couldn't have put it better.
 
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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.
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same story as him
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Default Re: Why I left Christianity...
 
Originally Posted by Hello Laura!
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.
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I would never leave my religion.
 
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Originally Posted by Diaz89
same story as him

Really?

I watched this video posted by someone on TSR a while ago, made me a bit tearful watching it actually (and i'm not usually over-emotional!).
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Originally Posted by spacepirate-James
EDIT: Ive not seen all of it, but im just gonna guess, couldn't the same be said with islam as well.........

EDIT 2: If you move the page up and down, up and down very fast... Then it almost becomes a moving picture....

Heeeeeehehehehehehe! Thanks for giving me a really good giggle!
 
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Originally Posted by pinkpanther786
Really?

I watched this video posted by someone on TSR a while ago, made me a bit tearful watching it actually (and i'm not usually over-emotional!).

pretty much, I was supposed to tell this other tsr user my story but it's really hard to put into words exactly and I'm still writing it out lol
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Originally Posted by Diaz89
pretty much, I was supposed to tell this other tsr user my story but it's really hard to put into words exactly and I'm still writing it out lol

Mashallah. I'd be interested in reading it too
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Originally Posted by Diaz89
pretty much, I was supposed to tell this other tsr user my story but it's really hard to put into words exactly and I'm still writing it out lol
I'd be interested, could i read it when you finish?
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Originally Posted by TheNack
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.
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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?
 
 
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