Indeed You alone know Yourself by Your internal potency O Supreme Person Origin of all Lord of all beings God of Gods Lord of the universe The Supersoul You are the Supreme Primal Objective You are the ultimate resting place of the universe You are inexhaustible and You are the oldest You are the maintainer of the eternal religion, the Personality of Godhead Oh master of the senses Oh Primal Lord O Limitless One God of Gods Refuge of the universe You are the invincible source The cause of all causes You are the knower of everything and all that is knowable You are the supreme refuge above the material modes O limitless form This whole cosmic manifestation is pervaded by You O unbounded power You are the master of limitless might You are all-pervading and thus You are everything Omniscient The ancient The Ruler of the whole world Minuter than the atom The supporter of all Of form inconceivable Effulgent like the Sun and Beyond the darkness There is nothing whatsoever higher than you You are the Sapidity in Water The Light in the Moon and the Sun You are the syllable OM in all the Vedas Sound in ether You are the Virility in men You are the sweet fragrance in earth and the brilliance in fire You are the life in all beings The austerity in the austere You are the eternal seed of all beings The intelligence of the intelligent You are the Splendor of the Splendid You are the Strength of the Strong Guest
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A MUST READ!! Who Did Cain Marry If There Were No Women On Earth, Except Eve? (See Who)

One Thing That People Have Tried To Use To Discredit The Inerrancy Of Scripture Is The Fact That Cain Was Able To Marry And Have C...
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A MUST READ!! Who Did Cain Marry If There Were No Women On Earth, Except Eve? (See Who)
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One thing that people have tried to use to discredit the inerrancy of Scripture is the fact that Cain was able to marry and have children, even though there is no record of Adam and Eve having daughters at the time when he killed his brother, Abel.

They see this as evidence that there were either other people on Earth at that time, unlike what Scripture says, or that Scripture is inaccurate and reliable.
Neither position is accurate. Let me explain.
1 Corinthians 2:14 says:

“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
If your natural senses lead you, you can never understand the Word of God. The Word is spiritual. Christ said as much in John 6:63:
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
So, how did Cain have children and propagate his lineage after he was banished from the presence of his parents?
If you read Genesis chapter 5, you will see quite clearly that Adam had children BEFORE Seth. Obviously, Cain and Abel were born BEFORE Seth.
Genesis 5:3-4 says:
“Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and DAUGHTERS.”
Hebrew and Ethiopic theology does NOT record female ancestry, that is why the daughters of Adam, which he had BEFORE Seth, are not named. Scripture just says that he had daughters.
If you read Numbers 1:2, you will see that in the first census ever taken, God asked Moses to count only MALES.
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually.”
In Christ’s ancestry in Mathew 1 and Luke 3, only MALES were recorded. Even when Christ fed the 5 thousand with the two fishes and five loaves in Mark 6, and again, when He fed the 4 thousand in Mark 8, only MALES were mentioned.
Some people have promoted alternative theories of one Lilith and suggested that Cain either married her or her daughters. This is false because there was no Lilith and the devil is a liar.
In those days, people married their sisters. For example, Sarah was Abraham’s sister, as we see in Genesis 20:12:
“Indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
Adam and Eve had daughters. Cain obviously married his sister, as did the other male children, grandchildren and male descendants of Adam and Eve, who married either their sisters or female cousins.
Initially, the gene pool in Adam and Eve was perfect. However, after the fall, when man lost perfection, the gene pool began to be weaker and weaker until God intervened in Leviticus 18:9:
“The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you shall not uncover.”
Scripture is a perfect book. I have read it from cover to cover in multiple translations. I have also read it in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
The challenges that people have with Scripture is that they read it in English, or some other language to which it has been translated to.
If I gave you $100 and you converted it to British Pound Sterling, you would get £75.3. But if you take that £75.3 pounds to a bureau de change, you would not be able to buy back the original $100. You could perhaps buy $98. You see, in the course of conversion, some value is lost.
Now, consider that the King James Version was not translated from original Scripture. It was translated from the Latin Vulgate, which itself was translated from the original codexes. So, instead of buying $98, you are actually buying something like $94.
It is like making a photocopy from another photocopy. You can get an image, but you can’t get a perfect image.
In the course of translating Scripture to English or any other language besides the original languages, some value, or should I say power, is lost.
A good example is Matthew 11:12, which reads in the King James Version as follows:
“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
As a born again Christian in university, my colleagues and I read that verse and began praying ‘dangerous’ prayers to take the Kingdom by force violently.
It was not until I read that verse in Greek that I realised that that was not what it said and that the KJV translators mistranslated it.
If you read that verse in subsequent translations, such as the NIV, NLT, CEV, etc, you will see that it is saying NOTHING of the sort of things that the KJV implied.
For example, this is the same verse in the NIV:
“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it.”
Another mistranslated verse is Isaiah 45:11:
“Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.”
I remember that my spiritual colleagues and I were literally obeying God by commanding Him, because He asked us to command Him.
It was not until I read that verse in Hebrew that I realised that that was a question. God was asking us if we had the audacity to command Him concerning the works of His Hand.
Biblical Hebrew has very few punctuations, and it does not have a question mark. So, it is effortless for translators fo turn a question into a licence.
And subsequent translations have since corrected that error in translation. I will now quote the same Isaiah 45:11 in the NLT:
“This is what the LORD says– the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?”
It is a similar thing that occurred in the case of Cain and his lineage. Because Western culture makes men and women equal, Westerners, and those they colonised, have inserted their bias into Scripture, and because Scripture does not acknowledge women in ancestral lineage, they have been misled into thinking that only males existed on Earth (with the exception of Eve) at the time Cain killed Abel.
That is far from the truth. Very, very, far indeed.
And unless Christians learn from Muslims, and instead of translating Scripture, we translate ourselves, by learning the original language of Scripture, we will keep getting tossed to and fro by translators who may or may not have an agenda.
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DO YOU AGREE? Muslims Are More Loyal To Christ Than Christendom Christ Real Name Is Yeshua Not Jesus (See This)

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Recently, I wrote about the difference between Christianity and Islam and the feedback from many Muslims exposed a lacuna in their understanding of Christianity, which is quite understandable, being that vacuum also exists in Christendom.

Many Muslims think Christians worship Christ. No. The worship of Christ is something that exists only in Christendom.

So, what are the differences between Christianity and Christendom?

Christianity is Christ followership. It is the discipline that Christ came to Earth to establish. And is summarised in the following verse:
“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men”-Matthew 4:19.

Even the word ‘Christian’ did not originate from Christ followers. It was given to them by non Christians in a town called Antakya (translated Antioch in English translations of the New Testament), in modern day Turkey.
The faith that Paul took to the then Roman world is Christianity. And it was rejected. Christians were persecuted and stripped of Roman citizenship, until the time of Emperor Constantine, who allegedly become a Christian. (Allegedly, because though professing Christianity, he continued to live his life as a pagan, and only sealed his conversion on his death bed).
However, the one big difference between genuine Christ followership and the emperor’s Christianity, is that Emperor Constantine’s brand of Christianity went through changes in order for it to be accepted as the official Roman state religion.
The Romans were polytheistic and had a pantheon of Gods. And it was felt that they would more readily accept the new religion if aspects of their old religion were syncretised into the Emperor’s new religion.
So, in AD 325, Emperor Constantine convened a council of religious leaders of his new religion in a town called Nicaea, and they came up with the articles of faith for their new religion. That article of faith is known as the Nicene Creed.
The most important article they came up with was the transformation of Christ from the Son of God, to God the Son, a phrase that does not exist in original Christian Scripture. They then made their God the Son equal with the Only True God in a union known as Trinity.
Both the idea of God the Son and Trinity do not originate from Scripture. It originated from the Council of Nicea.
These new ideas led to a split in the Body of Christ, and thus, Christendom was founded. Simply put, Christendom is state control of the Church, to be used to further the political objectives of the Roman Emperor. Those Christians who refused to accept this new articles of faith were abandoned, and gradually their numbers began to reduce. There are still about 20, 000 of them in modern day Turkey and they live harmoniously with Muslims.

Christendom is different from Christ Followrship.

Another major difference between Christianity and Christendom is in the Name of Christ.
Acts 4:12 teaches that “there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Notice that the power is in the NAME.
Christendom came up with a name for their God the Son and this name is Jesus. It will shock many so called Christians to know that the Name of Christ is not Jesus, but actually Yeshua. It will also shock many Christians to note that the Islamic name Isa is actually the same name as Yeshua. Y’isa is how the Arabs pronounced the name. They did not change it. They just pronounce it differently from Hebrews because of tonal differences in their pronunciation of the letter H when it features in the middle of a word. To understand this, ask a true Arabic speaker to pronounce the word Ahmed for you. If they pronounce it, it will sound different from the Ahmed most non Arabs are used to hearing. They pronounce the H almost like a K when it does not start a word.
Some Christians would argue there is nothing wrong with transliterating the name Yeshua to Jesus. But, why must the name be transliterated. How hard is it to pronounce the name Yeshua? Why not leave it as it is?
So, why would Emperor Constantine’s Council come up with a new name and a new concept, when 2 Timothy 3:16 says:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
The answer is that Emperor Constantine wanted to adjust his new religion to fit Roman culture, rather than adjust Roman culture to fit his new religion. Some people feel that the name change was to make the name sound similar to the name of the head of the Pantheon of gods the Romans worshipped. What is his name? Zeus! I leave you to judge whether Jesus sounds like Yeshua or Zeus.
There are many Christians who are prepared to fight and die for the Trinity. But the fact is that for the first 325 years of Christianity, the Trinity DID NOT exist. The word itself can’t be found in Scripture.
Christ never claimed He was equal to God, as the Trinity claimed. In fact, if Christians behaved like Muslims and read Scripture in its original language, they themselves will reject their Trinity.
Christ said “My Father is greater than I.”-John 14:28. When this was put to the Trinitarians as proof that their doctrine was false, they claimed that ‘Christ was only being modest.’

Christ also differentiated Himself from the Supreme God, to whom we pray to when He said:

“This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”-John 17:3.
Paul, who was the man that took Christ followership to Rome, also never claimed that Christ was equal to the Supreme God.
Paul wrote about this clearly in 1 Corinthians 15:27-28 as follows:
“For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.”
There is no basis for the Trinity in Scripture. And for years, this plagued the Roman Empire until Pope Damasus I commissioned Jerome to translate Scripture into Latin, and then the Johannine Comma was INSERTED into the Latin Vulgate translation of Scripture to change 1 John 5:7 from its original reading to read as follows:
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
The above verse does not exist in original Scripture. It is a fact. It is not a debate. The Roman Catholic Church does NOT even hide this fact. Sadly, because it is not hidden, many Christians have not researched it.
If you open other translations, apart from the Latin Vulgate, and the King James Version of The Bible (which was translated not from original Scripture, but from the Latin Vulgate itself), that verse is not there.
When prophet Mohammed first had his encounter with the angel, he and his wife, Khadija, went to his wife’s cousin, a man called Waraqah ibn Nawfal, who was a Christian priest. It was this man, Waraqah, who encouraged prophet Mohammed to carry on in the revelations he was receiving.
In his lifetime, prophet Mohammed had no problems with Christians. When the Quraysh of Mecca wanted to kill the first Muslims, these people, then known as the aṣ-ṣaḥābah, fled to the Christian nation of Ethiopia, then known as Abyssinia. They lived harmoniously with Ethiopian Christians, and their religion was almost indistinguishable from Christianity, because at that time, Ethiopian Christians had not even heard of the Trinity. Their Christianity was the pure Christianity of Christ, brought back to Ethiopia by the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:26-39.
The only major difference between Islam and true Christianity is that of the Sonship of Christ. Muslims follow the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15, which says:
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.”
Since that was the first direct prophecy of the Messiah, they insist on strict adherence to Moses’ use of the word “Prophet”. In fact, Muslims will tell you that if on the last day, God tells them they were wrong, they will accept it, but until then, they hold fast to what Moses said about the Messiah being a Prophet with a capital P, not a son. However, we know that Christ is the Son of God, because God told us so by Himself in Matthew 3:17.
That is why the Abyssinian Christian king, Negus, accepted them, gave them political asylum, and protected them from the Quraysh.
The issue that Muslims have is not actually with Christianity. They can cohabit harmoniously with Christianity. Their issue is with Christendom.
In Christianity, we worship God only, and we come to God only THROUGH Christ, whose real Name is Yeshua. There is no other Way to God except through His Son, as we learn from John 14:6. In Christendom, they worship the Trinity, which was invented by men at the Council of Nicae, of which Yeshua the Son of God became Jesus, God the Son.
Christianity and Christendom are different. Christianity is a faith. Christendom is a religion. It was used by Rome as a tool of colonisation. They first bring the religion to you, use it to weaken your institutions, and then they take over and become colonial masters.
After Rome broke up into smaller European states, these European powers used the same Modus Operandi to colonise nations and people around the world. They changed NOTHING.
The most important thing in my life is God and His Son Yeshua the Messiah, and I spent my time and money to visit Ethiopia 9 times, Turkey (where Nicea, now called Iznik is) 2 times, Rome and the Vatican, Israel, Egypt, Palestine and Jordan, in search of the truth.
I taught myself Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek and read Scripture in its original language, and then I read an English translation of the Quran.
I did this because I wanted to know the truth, because as Christ said:
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”-John 8:32.
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