ONCE I WAS TALKING TO A CHRISTIAN PASTOR AND HE HAD AN INTERESTING THEORY ABOUT ISLAM THAT I LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU. ACCORDING TO HIM,GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO THE ISRAELITES,GAVE THEM THE LAND OF CANAAN AND BECAME THEIR GOD. THE ISRAELITES BECAME THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WROTE THE TANAKH (KNOWN TODAY AS THE OLD TESTAMENT). BUT GOD WAS ONLY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE REST OF HUMANITY HAD MANY OTHER GODS AND RELIGIONS,UNTIL (BY THE TIME OF THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF ISRAEL),A JEWISH RABBI NAMED YESHUA (JESUS),DECIDED TO PREACH IDEAS THAT CONTRADICTED THE TEACHINGS OF THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES OF JERUSALEM. HE EVEN SAID THAT HIS MESSAGE (GOSPEL) WOULD BE PREACHED TO ALL THE WORLD,SO HIS FOLLOWERS,NOT ONLY STARTED PREACHING YASHUA'S MESSAGE BEYONG ISRAEL,BUT ALSO ADDED A NEW SECTION TO THE TANAKH (BIBLE),KNOWN AS THE NEW TESTAMENT. EVENTUALLY,YASHUA'S MESSAGE BECAME SOMETHING SEPARATED AND DIFFERENT FROM JUDAISM AND A NEW RELIGION WAS BEING BORN (CHRISTIANITY). IN ABOUT THREE CENTURIES,CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE OFFICIAL RELIGION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THEREFORE THE WORLDWIDE RELIGION OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD. HOWEVER,BY THE 7th CENTURY,ISLAM WAS BORN IN ARABIA,WITH A DIFFERENT BOOK (THE KORAN) AND A DIFFERENT GOD (ALLAH). LIKE CHRISTIANITY,ISLAM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BUT NOT BY PREACHING IDEAS FROM THE BOOK BY WORD OF MOUTH BUT RATHER BY THE EDGE OF THE SWORD. THE WORLD WOULD BE CONQUERED FOR ALLAH BY WAR AND DEATH. ACCORDING TO THAT PASTOR,IF THE BIBLE WAS ALREADY COMPLETED AND THERE WAS ALREADY A WORLDWIDE RELIGION BASED ON THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE BIBLE,THEN ISLAM HAD TO BE THE RESPONSE FROM THE DEVIL TO THE SUCCESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN SPREADING THE BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE BIBLE TO ALL MANKIND. RIGHT OR WRONG,IT'S AN INTERESTING THEORY.
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