Islam is the first monotheistic religion. It is the religion of all the prophets from Adam to Muhammad(PBUH*). Islam is the religion that God chose and perfected for mankind. It is not a man made religion like Christianity and Judaism.
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"all the prophets from Adam to Muhammad"
Wait, you mean the Adam of Judaism and Christianity? I thought we were supposed to have just made him up?
It doesn't matter what the religion, the more fundementalist your are, the less you actually know about it.
Flying Spaghetti Monster(BHNA*) gave us Bolognese, which is far superior to Islam.
Otherwise, monotheism = monomania.
Wait, you mean the Adam of Judaism and Christianity? I thought we were supposed to have just made him up?
According to standard Muslim theology, Adam was a true prophet, but the Jews have garbled the transmission of his teachings. Incidentally, they take the same position wrt Jesus and Christians.
In the words of the great Bob Marley:
If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldnt have to ask me,
Who the eck do I think I am.
Year 662 AD, that is, after Christ, who was born YEARS after Judaism was formed and Islam was formed MIXING BOTH "MAN-MADE" RELIGIONS. I don't know what revisionims is more stupid, Christian, secular or Islamic.
"Islam is the first monotheistic religion."
Ra was around millennia before Abraham, let alone Mohammad. You fail, slave.
That whole thread is a minefield of stupidity...
Oh, wait, its Yahoo Answers!
LOL A Muslim spin on the old IFB "Jesus made the Baptist church, all others are Satanic" ploy. But now they are claiming Muslim is the original faith of Adam?
Wonder how they explain the whole, "Islam is only 1400 years old" thing, then.
Adam was never a prophet, and never meant to be. Moreover, he was the first man, according to that man-made religion, called judaism. If, according to your profile, you intend to educate people in Islam, Ehud Olmert and the far right will never have words to thank you.
Judaism was True Religion 1.0, and the Jews corrupted it. Christianity was True Religion 2.0, and the Christians corrupted it. Islam is True Religion 3.0, and this time, Allah is finally going to get off of his divine butt and keep his believers from corrupting it. Yeah, sure, I believe that.
Sandman:
Muslims believe islam is the One True Religion, therefore it has always existed.
Adam, Moses and Jesus were all prophets of islam. Unfortunately their followers fucked up allah's message and invented Judeaism and Christianity so we got Mohammed to set us straight.
Amd Muhammad is believed by Muslims to be the last, definitive, final and best prophet.
Now I wonder what does Pat Robertson, Tim la Haye, Billie Graham, Ted Haggard, Phred Phelps etc think of that. Not to mention some vairous Ayatollahs. They all say they are only preaching the word of god/allah, but really they are on their personal power trips, telling everyone else what to do and trying to infiltrate the political world with their version of Gawdliness/allah-liless.
Akenaten would like to dissagree with you.
Yes about 3300 years ago an Egyptian pharaoh invented monotheism, And nothing has been right since.
Judaism is derived from a fusion of Atenist teachings and Hyksos/Apweru mythology.
Christianity is an attempt to civilize judaism.
And Islam is an atempt to correct the mistakes of Christianity.
Go learn some history.
He could have a point in one way-Islam is the only Abrahamic religion whose main character actually existed. There most likely never was an Abraham, or a Noah, or a Moses, or a Jesus. But Mohammed was a real, historical person. You just have to not be bothered by the fact that he was a lying, stealing, sadistic, mass-murdering, psychotic child rapist.
*iz ded*
Oh God... it's just too perfect.
Islam is the first monotheistic religion.
Hahaha! O RLY?
Fuck, sometimes I love this site.
"Islam is the religion that God chose and perfected for mankind"
Your god has perfected it? Sure, if by "perfected" you mean "got bored halfway thru and left it unfinished to go and watch TV or something".
Well he's right with the first sentence only. Islam is, really, the first genuine monotheistic religion. Judaism originally was NOT monotheistic (although in modern times it has become that), but "henotheistic" - a term most people don't know any more, but that sheds great light on the Bible. Henotheism is in-between polytheism and monotheism - it means that you believe in the existence of many gods, but that only one out of those many is worthy of worship, and worship of all other gods is to be discouraged (at best) or exterminated (at worst).
Christianity maybe started out on the path of monotheism, but the early church quickly messed that up by trying to equate Jesus with God, and ending up with this "holy trinity" idea that really is no less polytheistic than the Hindu concept of the Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva triad. (And that's not even mentioning the Catholic church's incorporation of pagan polytheism, which was converted into worship and prayers to patron saints and the Virgin Mary.)
Islam, still to this day, has discarded any concept of there being any supernatural being other than God/Allah, making it truly monotheistic.
(Not that this is any better or more enlightened, mind you.)
*raises hand* Excuse me, but what about Zoroastrianism? Does anyone care about the Zoroastrians?
I always learned they were the first monotheists...of course, this person is obv. using the 'My Religion ONLY' argument.
Naw, things were messed up in Egypt long before Akenaten forced his monotheistic worship of Aten on everyone. He just made things worse, since many many people in power (read: priests) suddenly lost their support since they weren't allowed to reference their specific god anymore...and it was the belief in their god that gave them the political power.
So, Islam appears 600 years AFTER another monotheistic religion AND the said monotheistic religion appeared, at least, 5000 years before. Numbers don´t match, sorry.
Now, Jokes aside, this person is a troll or an attention whore, probably. It´s true that there are some illiterate muslims who think that Christianism is a polytheistic religion and have an erroneous idea of Judaism but they´re, for the most part, from the lower strata of society and in countries where Christians and Jewish people are not in substantial numbers. This woman is, supposedly, a converted to Islam so she should have known, BY NOW, that Christianity and Judaism predates Islam and that they´re fully monotheistic. She´s just provoking in order to gain attention.
Confused?
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