I can't say if this is true? Or not..

[Dragonjack]

‘Jesus Was a Muslim’: Religion Professor Makes Unbelievable Argument"

 

religion comes from, after all, and the story of Christ allowing himself to be killed by the local Roman government as penance for the sins of humanity is integral to the entire ethical system underlying Christian thought.

 

However, Robert F. Shedinger, a professor at Iowa’s Luther College, has a different argument. He thinks Jesus was actually…a Muslim. Yes, really. In fact, he wrote a book explaining all about it:

 

Got that? According to Shedinger, Islam is a “social justice movement,” not a religion, and since Christ supposedly supported “social justice,” that makes him a Muslim. To quote him, “I came to the conclusion that [islam] was a social justice movement and I think that’s who Jesus was in the first century so I conclude Jesus is more like a Muslim.”

 

Where do we begin with what’s wrong with this picture? The first and most obvious point would have to be that Christ, being born roughly 600 years before Islam even existed, is not capable of being a Muslim. To be sure, if you believe there are commonalities in values between Islam and Christianity (which scholars in both faiths do, in fact, believe), you could argue that Christ held some Islamic ideas. But to claim that he was a Muslim is to take it entirely too far.

 

Moreover, if we are talking about which religious founder actually got his ideas from the other, would it not be more accurate to say “Muhammad was a Christian.” After all, if Christ‘s teachings are virtually indistinguishable from Muhammad’s (which seems to be the main thesis of Shedinger’s argument), and Christ came first (which he unquestionably did), then clearly it’s Muhammad who ripped off Christ, not the other way around. Of course, a book titled “Was Muhammad a Christian” might get a sizably larger amount of backlash from some of Muhammad’s less…shall we say, “socially just” followers, but it also would have been more intellectually honest"

 

Source

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jesus-was-...vable-argument/

Any thoughts?

Edited October 4, 2012 by Dragonjack

[buzbegone]

Don't you dare start this religious debate here. Lest we have another riot on our hands

[Mike Tequeli]

From a Muslim perspective every virtuous follower of an Abrahamic faith from before the time of Muhammad would be considered a good Muslim sort of. It's just a way of making your religion consistent with an older order, it's not like anyone says Moses is damned for not believing in Christ because that would make no sense.

[faizanali]

Im a Muslim and i can assure you that there was no Islam before our Holy Prophet (PBUH)

BUT there was GoD so Jesus was the Good guy. So Yes he was.............kinda

Also for all non-muslims i want you to know that we (Muslims) believe in Jesus and in Moses its written in our Holy Book

Edited October 4, 2012 by faizanali

[Girish]

 

One f*cked up topic is enough. We can't deal with such sh*t in every other topic.