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peace be to you my name is yha Evans uh
formerly Joshua Evans I uh was a former
Christian Christian Youth Minister board
raised in Greenville South Carolina
raised in a very traditional Christian
household I accepted Islam in 1998 and
uh and now I work as full-time uh
Project Director for yslam trying to
teach other people and bring other
people to the religion of Islam through
education I um I left Christianity in
late 96 early 97 after my own personal
study of the Bible with an unbiased mind
and seeing the contradictions not only
in the texts but in the messages of the
Bible in the different places the Old
Testament versus the New Testament
Jesus's teachings versus Paul's
teachings all of these things compiled
together with some of the teachings of
Paul realizing that they were not in the
teachings of Jesus they came from things
like Roman paganism Pagan worship and
different things of this nature these
proofs to me uh told me that
Christianity could not be the form of
religion that God had sent down for
mankind that there must be something
wrong with this message and then also
with looking at the prophets in the Old
Testament that Noah was being called a
drunker and and uh David slept with
bashia killed Uriah to cover up the
thing you know all of these things said
to me that you know this could not be
the example that was given to me of how
to live my life this could not be a man
of God that God chose for me to live my
life when he was worse than the common
people around him so I knew something
was wrong with this message and I
understood that the Bible was not the
source to get the information about the
true religion of God so after that I
decided to leave Christianity take a
step back and analytically uh look at
what is going on and try to find the
right religion of
God I am asked uh is Jesus God Can Jesus
be God and the answer is no for a couple
of reasons logically Jesus cannot be God
because God is the creator of the
heavens and the Earth God is the creator
of everything that exists therefore he
cannot exist inside this which he
created he created time therefore he
cannot be subject to time he created all
of the elements that bring about our
existence therefore he cannot be
controlled by them and Jesus himself
never ever attests to himself being God
every time he was praised in any way in
the Bible he would always direct the
people's attention from him to God and
he would refer to God many times as
being God in the heavens the Father
which is in heaven you know and he was
even asked once um um sayest oh Master
uh good Master how do I enter in the
Kingdom of Heaven he asked him why do
you call me good because there's none
good but one and and that is God so
basically Jesus cannot be God no man can
be God God cannot be a man in any
form I've been asked can God be a
trinity can God be a Triune God can God
be three gods and one God they're all
the same God but yet have separate and
and and uh and correlating identities
this cannot exist for quite a few
reasons a very logical reason is that
you cannot take three and make one you
cannot say 1 plus 1 plus one is one 1+ 1
+ 1 makes three this would not fit in
any logical person's mind and also the
Quran very beautifully explains away
this this um idea ideal it says that if
there had been more than one God truly
you would have found confusion in the
heavens and in the earth one would have
overpowered the other you could not have
three Gods you can not have three people
working in the same system doing the
same thing and end up with such a
perfect harmony that you have in the
world around us this can only come from
one single uh source to have such
Perfect Harmony in order for that
Harmony to exist it must come from
someone who is harmonious in his
existence meaning that he is one in
every aspect of the
word I've been asked is can Jesus is he
the Son of God or can he be the only
begotten son of God God and this one is
answered very very easily to be honest
with you uh number one that verse in the
Bible where Jesus referred to as the
only begotten Son of God there's only
one verse and Bible scholars themselves
will even tell you that this verse did
not exist in the original text of the
Bible it was added in when the the Bible
was compiled by the Roman Church But to
answer more logically if Jesus is the
son of God and the argument for him
being the Son of God is that he was born
of a Virgin Mary he was born without a
father
this is a very Miracle indeed now if
this was the criteria for saying that
someone should be the Son of God that
they were born without a father then
what about Adam if anyone has the right
or had the right to be the only begotten
Son of God it should be the one that God
created with his own hands Adam with no
mother or father and then Eve whom he
created from that person so this this is
not a miracle that it is just for Jesus
alone this is something that God says
when he Wills something to be he only
says Be and it is so Jesus cannot be the
Son of God as the God as even in the
Bible says many times he refers to
Jeremiah as the Son of God he refers to
the Israelites as the chosen sons of God
he says in in in Hebrews that those who
follow God have the right to be called
the sons of God so this was just a term
used as a semblance of reverence for
Jesus I am asked then so then who is
Jesus Jesus is as we attest to him that
he was as the Bible says a word from God
he was a word made manifest he was the
word of God made manifest into the flesh
which is very well attested to in the
Bible but he is not God he was chosen by
God he was given as a miracle a sign to
the Jews as a Virg born of a virgin to
bring them out of their ignorance to
show them the miracles of god he was a
prophet and a messenger given to the
Jews by God himself he was chosen from
his birth to be a messenger unto the
people and he always called people unto
this message and called them unto God so
we as Muslims attest that he was a
Muslim meaning that he always submitted
himself to the will of God this was his
eternal message that you should submit
yourself completely to God and even he
himself was questioned what is the
greatest commandment when the companions
of his were asking what is the greatest
commandment he said the greatest
commandment and he did not even refer to
the Commandments of Moses he said and he
was self was was coming to the Jews he
but he said that the greatest
commandment is to love the Lord your God
with all your heart with all your might
with all your strength and then love
your neighbor as you love yourself he
said the rest of the Commandments of the
prophets hang on these two so this was
Jesus a prophet of
God and I am asked did Jesus die for our
sins Jesus did not die for our sins he
did not die at all uh and the reason for
his necessitating to die die for our
sins itself can be wiped away from the
Bible itself in the Bible we are told
that one man cannot bear the burdens of
another nor can the father bear the
iniquities of the son nor can the son
bear the iniquities of the father I
cannot be responsible for your
wrongdoings you cannot be responsible
for my wrongdoings Jesus could not be
responsible for all of our wrongdoings
and you
cannot if Jesus was said to be as God as
he was you can't kill God God is not
able to be killed he is the ever living
the all existing so Jesus was not killed
but he was saved from this by God
himself because we know that as the
Bible says anyone hung on a tree is
cursed so had Jesus Christ been
crucified on a cross then he would have
been cursed himself and this cannot be
something that could ever be attested to
one of God's prophets so the the necess
the
necessary of Jesus having died on the
cross for our sins is all the way
negated by the Bible itself saying that
no person can bear the iniquities of
another
I was asked what is my suggestion for
someone who is searching for the truth
my suggestion to you is to open your
heart and your mind take a step back and
open your heart in your mind to whatever
comes to you whether it be something
that goes against what you have always
believed or not you have to take a step
back look analytically look with an open
mind to what you have believed in go
back and read the Bible go back and read
the Old Testament go back and read what
Jesus taught and look at it with an open
mind and you will find as I found that
throughout the whole entire Bible the
message is the same that God is one that
he should be worshiped in his Oneness
and that the prophets that was sent to
us should be followed their example
should be followed and they should be
the ones that guided towards Humanity
even Jesus himself so I I suggest you to
sit back have an open mind and go
through everything that you have been
taught and then read and read with an
open mind and open heart and see what
God and ask him for his guidance tell
God you are earnestly and sincerely
seeking his guidance and he will guide
you because he is the only one who can
guide