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salum peace be to you my name is yha
Evans uh former Joshua Evans I uh was a
former Christian Christian Youth
Minister board and 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 N
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
drunkard 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
correct 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 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+ 1 + 1 is 1 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
IDE 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 have three Gods you
could 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 of 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 is 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 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 VG born of a
virgin to bring them out of their
ignorance to show them the miracles of
god he was a pro 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 himself 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 to 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 couldnot 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 and 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 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