Nor does god demand you pray any number of times a day.
it would not make you any "better."

Nor would he demand you dominate the world.
Or have multiple wives AND sex slaves.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 30^th, 2009 at 1:36pm:


Actually the way muslims pray is damaging to their heads and is no wonder that they go wild and nutty after that.

All in the bible eh?  That's why you changed religion?

OK how about some quotes then...  please don't quote the Jewish "Bilble" or the Old testament.  Just Christian teachings.

sprint,

Quote:


This seems to speak about intention and 'showing off' in prayer. Islam likewise forbids showing off in prayer, and Muhammad (pbuh) described showing off in prayer as being a form of polytheism (as one expects to be rewarded by people instead of God, for that prayer).

I don't think it's got anything to do with ritual prayer, which both Muslims and Jews observe, undoubtedly because it's in their books to do so. The Bible also records Moses (pbuh) and other prophets, performing ablutions and praying in prostrations, as both Muslims and Jews still do today.

As for multiple wives, pretty much all of the prophets in the Bible had multiple wives, so it can't have been that hated by God. Surely he would've revealed a law preventing it, if it were that detestable. I can accept your reasoning that Christians don't practise it, fine, but you must know it is certainly not something immoral, or prophets, God's chosen messengers, wouldn't have been doing it for so long and so openly.

General Command:
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Prophet Abraham (pbuh):
Genesis 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Prophet Jacob (pbuh):
Jacob had 4 wives, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah and Zilpah. The first two are actually sisters. He earned them by working seven years for their father.

Prophet Moses (pbuh):
Moses had two wives, one was Zipporah, and the other was an unnamed Ethiopian woman.

Prophet David (pbuh):
2 Samuel 5:13 And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.]

Prophet Solomon (pbuh):
1 Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Rehoboam (son of Solomon):
2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

As for taking women as concubines or slaves during wars (as if Solomon's (pbuh) 300 above wasn't enough evidence):

General Command:
Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Also here's an interesting prophecy from the Bible:

Quote:
Isaiah 4:1

It appears that in the end days, women will outnumber men quite a lot (Muhammad (pbuh) also predicted this) and so many women will ask to marry the same man, even relieving him of the duty of clothing and feeding them. Sounds like polygamy is definitely a part of things to come.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 31^st, 2009 at 12:38pm:

Yeah, but Matthew was a bullshit artist. Made it up on the fly.