No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Abraham the father of nations, Genesis chapters 12:1-20
Abram was called by God to live in a new land. Later God changed Abram’s name to Abraham and he became the father of Israel.
Abraham lived for 175 years from 2165BC-1990BC.
His first wife was Sarah who lived 127 years and died in 2028BC.
They had a son in their old age and called him Isaac which means laughter.
Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 when Isaac was born.
This son was a fulfillment of God’s promise to them.
Abraham the father of the faith all so the friend of God struggled between the spirit and the flesh as seen in his two sons Ishmael and Isaac and his wives Sarah and Hagar and later Keturah.
Abraham, the founding father of the Jewish nation of Israel, was a man of great faith and obedience to the will of God. His name in Hebrew means "father of a multitude." Originally called Abram, or "exalted father," the Lord changed his name to Abraham as a symbol of the covenant promise to multiply his descendants into a great nation that God would call his own.
Prior to this, God had already visited Abraham when he was 75, promising to bless him and make his offspring into an abundant nation of people.
All Abraham had to do was obey God and do what God told him to do.
Father Of Many Nations... Is this Racism?
"Why do Jews and Arabs / Muslims hate each other?"
First, it is important to understand that not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs. While a majority of Arabs are Muslims, there are many non-Muslim Arabs. Further, there are significantly more non-Arab Muslims in areas such as Indonesia and Malaysia than there are Arab Muslims. Second, it is important to remember that not all Arabs hate Jews, not all Muslims hate Jews, and not all Jews hate Arabs and Muslims. We must be careful to avoid stereotyping people. However, generally speaking, Arabs and Muslims have a dislike of and distrust for Jews, and vice-versa.
A Reason to belief so as to be made enemies throughout Eternity!!!
If there is an explicit biblical explanation for this animosity, it goes all the way back to Abraham. The Jews are descendants of Abraham’s son Isaac. The Arabs are descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael. With Ishmael being the son of a slave woman (Genesis 16:1–16) and Isaac being the promised son who would inherit the blessings of Abraham (Genesis 21:1–3), obviously there would be some animosity between the two sons. As a result of Ishmael’s mocking Isaac (Genesis 21:9), Sarah talked Abraham into sending Hagar and Ishmael away (Genesis 21:11–21). Likely, this caused even more contempt in Ishmael’s heart toward Isaac. An angel told Hagar that Ishmael would be the father of a great nation (Genesis 21:18) and, interestingly, that Ishmael would be “a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers” (Genesis 16:12).
If you were to argue that racism is when you feel you are from a superior race then this would probably mean that Jewish are racists. They are God’s chosen people...
And is this not why many condemn the Jews, because Jews think they are the chosen people? So what difference does this make the Arabs from the Jews? And this is why Jews and Muslims fight, because both feel they are God’s chosen people.
The Malay race of Asia however may seems that to be Malay means you are also a Muslim. You cannot separate Malays from Islam. Once you are born Malay you are born Muslim as well and just as you cannot leave Malay, obviously, you cannot leave Islam as well. You are Malay for life and you are Muslim for life as well. You will die Malay and you will die a Muslim as well. You can see Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, Atheist, etc., Chinese. You can see Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Atheist, etc., Indians. But you can, by law, only see Muslim Malays. There is supposed to be no other type of Malays other than Muslim Malays. I would say that Malays are Muslims by accident. And I say this because Malays happen to have been born into a Muslim family. Hence they are Muslims by birth and hence by accident. If the parents of the Malays were, say, Christian, then for sure their children would be Christian as well.
Hence I say Malays are Muslims by accident of birth. Malays, however, do not see it this way. Malays see it that they are Muslim because they are chosen by God to be Muslim. It is a privilege which God gave them and which God does not offer 80% of the other people on earth. Hence that makes them special. And until God opens the heart of the other 80% to also make them want to become Muslim then these unfortunate people are going to die a non-Muslim and will suffer an eternity in hell because of it.
Hence Malays are chosen people and privileged. And not every single human receives this same privilege or is chosen by God. And that is what makes the Malays special and above the rest. On top of that, Malays believe that God chose the Malays to receive the ‘proper’ Islam. Not all Muslims follow proper Islam. Many follow the wrong Islam or are deviants. Malays, however, are not unfortunate enough to receive the wrong Islam, which would make you a deviant such as those Shias, Wahhabis, etc.
Maybe the fault is not really Islam or the fact that Malays are Muslims. I think the problem is that religionists by nature are very arrogant and have a superiority complex and imagine themselves as better than others. Maybe religion was invented by the Devil after all if you believe in things such as God, Devils, Angels, and so on.
‘True’ Muslims do not believe that Islam is a religion of peace because Islam was propagated at the point of the sword
But what these Malays seem to have forgotten is that for two thousand years Christians have been killing one another to claim the right to the title of the true teachings of Christ. But then the true teachings of Christ is Judaism and not Christianity. And that is also the same for Islam.
Everyone claims they are following the true teachings of Prophet Muhammad. If so what are the true teachings of Muhammad? Was Muhammad a Sunni or a Shia? Was he a Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i or Hanbali? Was he a Salafi or Wahhabi, the religion of his place of birth? Was Muhammad a secularist or a theologist? Did Muhammad set up a theocracy or a democracy?
Yes, Muslims claim they are loyal and obedient followers of Muhammad but they do not follow what Muhammad did. The day Muhammad died the Muslims started fighting amongst themselves. They quarrelled for three days about who should be the successor or Caliph before burying the Prophet’s body. And from that day Islam followed the path of Christianity by deviating from the true teachings of their prophet and by breaking up into many groups and by killing each other to claim they are the true followers.
So, what is the truth? Why are there a Christian or Muslim or Jews? Is it because you are following the true path? What then is the true path? And where did your ‘holy books’ such as the Gospels and Hadith come from? From God? How do you know? Can you prove that God wrote those books? Or are the Gospels and Hadith actually ‘Books of Hearsay’? Then we fight and kill one another over whether the Gospels or the Hadith are the true word of God...
Truly, Madly Deeply #Awesome
Then we have the ‘Eminent Malays’ talking about liberalism and moderate Islam and their opposition to what they call ‘extremist’ or fundamentalist Islam.
What is being liberal? What is their stand on apostasy, gay unions, drinking, gambling, couples living together out of wedlock, prostitution, pornography, Christians proselytising to Muslims, inter-faith marriages (especially Muslims marrying non-Muslims without the need to convert to Islam), children from mixed marriages adopting the religion of their non-Muslim parent, and so on? The libertarian or liberalist way of looking at things might seems to contradict the way of the teachings.
However, the fundamentalist would not agree with this view. The fundamentalist would argue that the Jews and Christians have deviated from their religion whereas the Muslims still hold true to Islam. In other words, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all the same. The only thing is the Muslims still follow the true teachings of Islam whereas not many Jews and Christians still follow the true teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
This point, of course, is subject to interpretation and disagreement. Not all Jews and Christians agree with the modern approach (meaning the liberal approach) to their religion. Many are still fundamentalists at heart. But then they are the minority and in western societies where the majority rules the minority has no voice.
So how liberal is liberal and how far does your liberalism really extend? In a way, We are all to a certain extent both liberal and conservative, depending on what we are talking about. Hence to say that one is liberal or another is conservative is not quite accurate. We are normally a mix of both. An example, is smoking. Do non-smokers need to tolerate smokers? Is a place of entertainment a place for smokers or non-smokers? Is smoking a part of socializing that goes with drinking?
l came, l don't know from where or how l came to be l am, or why l came? l don't know!
l saw a path in front of me l began to walk, l must keep on walking willingly or unwillingly ,whether l agree or not.
How did l came to be? How did l sighted my way? l can't perceive the matter ,l don't know!
Am l new or am l old in this existence ? Am l free or am l a captive in confinement?
Do l lead myself or l am being lead? l wish l knew, but l don't know, l don't know! l must coincide, but why ? l don't know!
Is my journey a rough one? Is it a long one? Is it a short unpredictable one? Am l walking or time is doing the walking for me? l don't know, l don't know!
l saw stars ,but l don't know why they are irradiate ? l saw the clouds ,but l don't know why they are sending out the rain? l saw the forest with the trees ,but l don't know why they bear fruit after they bloom? Are they like me ? They don't know why they came to be? l don't know!
l remember nothing of my past life,l can't predict my coming years. l know l have a self, but l don't know what it is? So when would myself knows itself, l don't know!
l see a struggle going on within me. l see myself as the devil then as an angel. Bad and good battling inside my mind. Why they keep on fighting? Why they can't get along? l don't know,
l don't know!
Where are my cries and my laughter? Where are my sadness and my joy? Am l sane or am l insane?
Did l loss everything, but how it happened? l don't know l don't know! Am l going to be send back after my death? Old or young, am l going to know myself? Or am l to be no more? l don't know ,l don't know!
by Elia Abu Madi
In a Place of Once In a Lifetime for no one or anyone shall return except for the Begotten Son???
In Space & In Time Is a place of Once In a Lifetime...
For as time ends..
So does the space; The space just ends in Time!!!
For nothing ever Last In a place of creation
Someday it be an Extinction!!!
As time fades So does Space...
What was once a somebody Is just a Nobody... And in time It's just going to be a memory
A memory of Existence... For time is worthless
As time can never be Earn!!! It's a total waste of Creation!!!
by FND Beast
Abraham - Father of the Jewish Nation
God's Covenant with Abraham
This marked the beginning of the covenant God established with Abraham. It was also Abraham's first test from God, since he and his wife Sarai (later changed to Sarah) were still without children. Abraham demonstrated remarkable faith and trust, immediately leaving his home and his clan the moment God called him to the unknown territory of Canaan.Accompanied by his wife and nephew Lot, Abraham prospered as a rancher and shepherd, as he made his new home surrounded by pagans in the Promised Land of Canaan. Still childless, however, Abraham's faith wavered in subsequent times of testing.When famine struck, rather than waiting on God for provision, he packed up and took his family to Egypt.Once there, and fearing for his life, he lied about his beautiful wife's identity, claiming she was his unmarried sister. Pharaoh, finding Sarah desirable, took her from Abraham in exchange for generous gifts, to which Abraham raised no objections. You see, as a brother, Abraham would be honored by Pharaoh, but as a husband, his life would have been in danger. Once again, Abraham lost faith in God's protection and provision. Abraham's foolish deception backfired, and God kept his covenant promise intact.The Lord inflicted disease on Pharaoh and his family, revealing to him that Sarah must be returned to Abraham untouched.
More years passed during which Abraham and Sarah questioned God's promise. At one point, they decided to take matters into their own hands. At Sarah's encouragement, Abraham slept with Hagar, his wife's Egyptian slave/maidservant.
Hagar gave birth to Ishmael, but he was not the promised son. God returned to Abraham when he was 99 to remind him of the promise and reinforce his covenant with Abraham.
A year later, Isaac was born.God brought more tests to Abraham, including a second incident when Abraham lied about Sarah's identity, this time to King Abimelech. But Abraham underwent the biggest testing of his faith when God asked him to sacrifice Isaac, the promised heir, in Genesis 22: "Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah.
Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."This time Abraham obeyed, fully prepared to slay his son, while fully trusting God to either resurrect Isaac from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19), or provide a substitutionary sacrifice.
At the last minute, God intervened and provided the necessary ram.The death of Isaac would have contradicted every promise God had made to Abraham, so his willingness to perform the ultimate sacrifice of killing his son is probably the most strikingly dramatic example of faith and trust in God found in the entire Bible.
So back to the question, can there be One? Will the fight ends between great believers of faith? Will the hatred or so call the Messiah returns to show the true path?
Of Slavery & Submission
The believers and followers of the Abrahamic faiths worship and pray to this God that allows slavery. The believers and followers of the Abrahamic faiths worship and pray to this God that allows some people to get rich from the misery of others. What is wrong with the Jews, Christians and Muslims?
Many Jews and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants. Many translations of the Bible use the word “servant”, “bondservant”, or “manservant” instead of “slave” to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is. While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn’t mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock.
The following passage describes the practice of sex slavery. How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave?
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
So these are the Bible family values! A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and has sex with them!
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom. If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him. If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master. But the slave may plainly declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.’ If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever. (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)
What does the Bible say about beating slaves? It says you can beat both male and female slaves with a rod so hard that as long as they don’t die right away you are cleared of any wrong doing.
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
You would think that Jesus and the New Testament would have a different view of slavery, but slavery is still approved of in the New Testament, as the following passages show.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)
Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)
In the following parable, Jesus clearly approves of beating slaves even if they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong.
The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it. “But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.” (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)
All three religions are classified as the Abrahamic faiths. And this is because all three religions accept Abraham as the patriarch. However, the Jews and Christians consider Isaac as the legitimate heir to Abraham whilst the Muslims consider Ishmael as the legitimate heir.
Now, according to Islam, Isaac, the son of Abraham’s wife Sarah, was born after Ishmael, the son of Abraham’s ‘second wife’ Hagar. Hence, although Isaac is the son of the first wife, Ishmael is the elder brother.
But then Sarah is Abraham’s ‘legitimate’ wife while Hagar is their slave. Therefore, although Ishmael may be the elder brother to Isaac, he is Abraham’s bastard or illegitimate son.
Seen in the context of today, that would most probably be true. But then seen in the context of the time of Abraham, a slave is the property of the master and sex between master and slave is legal and hence the children would also be legal and not considered bastards or illegitimate.
Islam has never abolished slavery although Islam does lay down the rules and regulations on how you should treat your slaves. For example, if you have had sex with your slave and then you hand your slave to your son then you must inform your son so that he does not also have sex with that slave. A son cannot have sex with a slave whom the father has already had sex with.
Of course, in Islam oral sex is allowed while there is a disagreement regarding anal sex — some scholars say it is allowed and some say no. And that is better than the ‘Christian’ laws that stated where you can be sent to jail for 20 years for ‘unnatural sex against the order of nature’.
The Bible (both the Old and New Testaments) as well as the Qur’an and Hadith talk about slavery. And slavery is provided for in the Semitic religions. Islam believes there are 124,000 prophets since the beginning of time and 25 of those Prophets are mentioned by name in the Qur’an. And both the Bible and Qur’an testify that even the Prophets owned slaves.
Slaves are not only legal but you can also have sex with your slaves. That is not considered adultery and the Bible and Qur’an say so. And the common patriarch of the Abrahamic faiths, the Prophet Abraham, himself had sex with his wife’s slave who bore a child named Ishmael, or Ismail to the Muslims. And Ismail, the son of this slave, is the patriarch of Islam while his brother Isaac (Ishaq to the Muslims) is the patriarch of Judaism.
Jews, Christians and Muslims will tell us that their religions are religions of peace and love. At the same time, however, their holy books tell us that their Prophets declared war on the ‘enemies of God’ and they killed all the men they defeated (the prisoners of war) and took their women and children as slaves. And this, according to their religions, is the booty or profits of war.
God loves you. God is compassionate. God is kind. God is forgiving. God is just. God is fair. You only need to accept and believe in Jesus to be saved and all your sins will be erased.
Is this the same God and the same Jesus that allows whites to enslave blacks? Where is the kindness in this? Where is the love in this? Where is the compassion in this? Where is the fairness in this? Where is the justice in this? Slavery is worse than death. I would rather die than to be enslaved and treated worse than an animal. If I were to be captured as a slave I would kill myself than be subjected to a life of slavery. And yet God created some humans to be slaves of other humans. If that is the reason God created me then why create me in the first place?
We are told good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. But then some people are sent to hell on earth just so that others may get rich from slave labour. What is wrong with this God? Is this the mark of a compassionate, kind, just, fair, loving, etc., God that they keep talking about? I do not see a God that allows slavery as being a good God that you tell me He is. The believers and followers of the Abrahamic faiths worship and pray to this God that allows slavery. The believers and followers of the Abrahamic faiths worship and pray to this God that allows some people to get rich from the misery of others. What is wrong with the Jews, Christians and Muslims?
The Future: Rise of the Sex Slave but its going to be Robots...
Today, slavery is not allowed. And if you have sex with your slave that would be sex out of wedlock and the children would be considered bastards. But that is today. We are talking about maybe 5,000 years or so ago. Values and standards then were different from that of today.
And this is where the divide between Judeo-Christianity and Islam begins. All three follow Abraham. But two follow one of the sons of Abraham and another the other son. And since the Bible tells one story and the Qur’an another, and since all consider their respective holy books the word of God, this matter can never be resolved till the end of time.
Submit!!! In The Name Of Thye God
(#Submit, #Submission, #Slavery, #Slave)
Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is One God! Therefore you shall adore the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. [Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Luke 12:29-30, Quran 3:18]
Let us meditate on God, His glorious attributes, who is the basis of everything in this universe as its Creator, who is fit to be worshiped as Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and self existent concious being, who removes all ignorance and impurities from the mind and purifies and sharpens the intellect. [Gayatri Mantra, Yajur Veda]
"Submitters" are the true followers of God's religion. While every religion has been corrupted by innovations, traditions, and false, idolatrous doctrines, there may be "Submitters" within every religion. There may be Submitters who are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or anything else.
This is God's final message to humanity. All of God's prophets have come to this world, and all the scriptures have been delivered. The time has come to purify and consolidate all the messages delivered by God's prophets into one message, and to proclaim that henceforth, there is only one religion acceptable to God, "Submission" (3:19, 85). "Submission" is the religion whereby we recognize God's absolute authority, and reach an unshakeable conviction that God ALONE possesses all power; no other entity possesses any power that is independent of Him. The natural result of such a realization is to devote our lives and our worship absolutely to God ALONE. This is the First Commandment in all the scriptures, including the Old Testament, the New Testament, and this Final Testament.
These Submitters, collectively, constitute the only religion acceptable to God. All Submitters who are devoted to God ALONE, and do not set up any idols beside God, are redeemed into God's eternal kingdom (2:62).
In Every Action, there Is an equal and Opposite reaction... Put forth the Light For a Shadow to be form And a hidden Beast is Born!!!
Between the Shadow and The Beast... Without Light there'll be no Shadow And without Darkness there'll be no Hidden Beast...
A world of 2 forces coexist... In harmony and in rhythm truly.
I I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart!!!
Slaves!!! Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh Heed To his every word, live in fear Faith Of the unknown one, the deliverer Wait Something must be done, four hundred years So let it be written So let it be done I'm sent here by the chosen one So let it be written So let it be done To kill the first born pharaoh son I'm creeping death Now Let my people go, land of goshen Go I will be with thee, bush of fire Blood Running red and strong, down the Nile Plague Darkness three days long, hail to fire So let it be written So let it be done I'm sent here by the chosen one So let it be written So let it be done To kill the first born pharaoh son I'm creeping death Die by my hand I creep across the land Killing first born man Die by my hand I creep across the land Killing first born man I Rule the midnight air, the destroyer Born I shall soon be there, deadly mass I Creep the steps and floor, final darkness Blood Lamb's blood, painted door, I shall pass So let it be written So let it be done I'm sent here by the chosen one So let it be written So let it be done To kill the first born pharaoh son I'm creeping death