TO TAKE SOMEONE'S LIFE - IS A PROFOUND LOSS

"Thou shall not kill!"

... Because they are as wonderful a creation as you are.

They too have hopes and dreams; fears and loves... just as you do.

The Creator God made every person EQUAL, with:

"... an Intellect in order to understand; a Heart in order to love; a Conscience in order to see good and evil, and a Soul so there can be spiritual passion in you and possible encounters between you and God." Valtorta Romans p.264

"The voice of the Conscience is God's call to his creature so that he will not distance himself from the Law or trample on it - the voice from deep inside speaks to me telling me, 'Do this' or 'Don't do that'. Valtorta Romans p. 174

ALL NATIONS – EVERY PERSON - ARE CHILDREN OF GOD

The One Creator God has given successive revelations of Himself to His people, throughout history.

The main accumulation of many authors, written over thousands of years into a summary of Who God is and how He relates to mankind is called the Bible.

The Qur'an was dictated 600 years after Jesus taught His Gospel, and 300 years after the Bible was gathered together,  refers continually to the Bible, as one of Allah's books, so was to be  a PS. or a supplement to the Bible.

Muhammad is several times in the Qur'an affirmed by God as bringing no new revelation, but he is a warner to people about what God has already revealed:

Surah 48: 22 "You will never find a change in Allah's practice."

Surah 35:42 " Do  they expect anything besides the law of the ancients? You will not find any substituting Allah's laws, nor will you find any changing of Allah's laws.

God told Muhammad that if he did not understand anything about the Qur'an, he was to ask those who study the Bible for explanation:

"So when you [Muhammad] are in doubt about what we have revealed to you, ask those who are reading the book that was before you [Bible]. Truth has come to you from your Lord, so do not be a doubter, nor be one who denies Allah's signs." 10:94

Unfortunately, soon after Muhammad died, Muslims were forbidden to read the Bible for the next 1400 years, because it was believed to be corrupted, despite the Qur'an saying that no one can change Allah's words (Surah 18:27/ 6:115):

Surah 5:47 "Whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed are unbelievers. And we revealed the book to you with truth, confirming what he had of  the book before it and protecting it..." [i.e. the Bible]

In Surah 5:43 Allah directs Jews to refer to their Torah for answers - which indicates the Torah was not corrupted.

And Allah then (Surah 5:47) commands Christians - the people of the Gospel - to judge by what Allah has revealed in the Gospel - which again indicates that the Gospel was not corrupted.

Study of the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls, which date from

3 BCE to 2 CE also indicate no significant changes in the Bible through history.

The Reference Qur'an

When Muhammad lived, written Arabic was quite primitive and due its lack of diacritical marks (dots) many written words have several possible meanings when read without a context.

Several such ambiguous words have unfortunately been traditionally interpreted to the most polemic anti - Christian meaning possible, for some reason.

However, the Qur'an itself states that the Torah and Gospel are inspired by Allah - so a group of Islamic and Christian scholars used the original Arabic script and chose interpretations for ambiguous Arabic text, which conformed with the Torah and Gospel.

The result is "The Reference Qur'an" in which an unbiased translation into English is found, which does not have major contradictions from the Bible.

Jesus died - he was not substituted

An example of Islamic tradition disagreeing from the Gospel is the death of Jesus:

"Allah said, "Isa I will make you die* and raise you up to me, and purify you from the disbelievers, and make your followers higher than the disbelievers until the day of resurrection. Then you will return to me..." Surah 3:55

*"This word in Arabic/tawaffa/ means 'to cause to die'.

Some translators ignore the clear  statement of the Qur'an that Isa died, and instead translate common beliefs.

The clearest commentary on the Qur'an is the Qur'an itself, not what others say about it.  This verb, in its various forms, occurs 25 times in the Qur'an. Twice (here and 5:117) it refers to Isa, and everywhere else (2:234,240, 3:193, 4:15,97, 6:60,61, 7:37,126, 8:50, 10:46,104, 12:101, 13:40, 16:28,32,70, 22:5, 32:11, 39:42, 40:67,77, 47:27) , it is the context of death.

For other verses which state or imply Isa's death, see 5:117, 19:33, 2:87 etc.

Footnote: The Reference Qur'an  v.4 2016  p.66

Jesus was not substituted

"Because they broke their covenant and disbelieved in Allah's signs and wrongfully murdered the prophets... and because they disbelieved in Allah and accused Mariam of a great scandal, and because of their saying, "We killed the Messiah, Isa son of Marian, Allah's messenger", they they did not kill him, nor crucify him, but it seemed so to them**. Surah 4:155-157

"There is no contradiction between this verse  and 19:33, which talks specifically about Isa's death, because this verse only says that the Jews did not kill him. It does not say that the Romans did not kill him.

Thus there is no contradiction within the Qur'an itself, or between the Qur'an and the previous books, which affirm that the Romans killed him.

See the Injil (Gospel) Matthew 20:19, 27:26-35. For those who claim that Isa has not died yet, 5:117 is clear, where Isa  speaks  of his death in the past tense, and is clearly alive, for dead people do not speak at all."           

**This phrase does not say someone was made to look like him /shubbiha bihi/ or /tashaabaha alayhim (2:70) but /shubbiha lahum/ (it seemed so to them).

Footnote: The Reference Qur'an v4 2016 p.116

Holy Trinity

Some Muslims believe that Christians believe God had sex with Mary, and then she had a baby called Jesus.

However, the idea that Allah had sexual relations with a woman and fathered a son by her is not supported at all in any of the books.

All the former books agree with the Qur'an that there is only one God, and there is not a single verse in any of them that uses the number 3 in relationship to God.

Also this contradicts the Qur'an itself:

"Truly the Messiah, Isa son of Mariam is Allah's messenger  and his Word which he sent down on Mariam, and a spirit from him." Surah 4:171

This verse clearly states that the eternal Word of God - a spirit - existed beforehand and came from God upon Mariam.

The Word of God, a spirit, took DNA (flesh) from Mary to become a human being - became incarnate.

The Holy Trinity

In the Qur'an, Allah explains the Trinity:

"Allah said, "Isa son of Mariam, did you tell people: Take me and my mother as two gods in addition to Allah?" He said "May you be glorified. I could not say what I have no right to say. If I has said that you would have known. You know what is in my soul, and I do not know what is in your soul. You know what is unseen." Surah 5:116

Mariam has a role in the incarnation of the Word of God - she is not divine.

In the Gospel, God calls Jesus - (the eternal Word of God, who existed before the man Jesus was conceived) - 'My Son',  and of course in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches everyone to call God 'Our Father - and his Father too.

However the Word of God and the Spirit of God - both mentioned in the Qur'an, like the "Arm" of God would also be - are each part of the One God.

The significant differences now apparent, between Christianity and Islam are because Muslims were forbidden to read the Bible for for so long until very recently, which meant that they had a Supplement to the Bible - the Qur'an - but not the Bible itself.

Hadith - Following Muhammad not the Bible

And so, after 200 years since the death of Muhammad, stories and historical actions from Muhammad's life were compiled by ancestors of the original witnesses, to form a volume of stories about Muhammad's life, called the Hadith.

This Hadith collection took the place of the Bible, and this source - copying the life of Muhammad a Bedouin tribesman, distinct from The Dictation (Qur'an) dictated to him by Allah - still remains the main model for Muslims to follow, instead of the 10 Commandments given to Moses in the Torah, and the Gospel of Love given to Jesus in the Gospel.

Surah 5:67 "People of the Book, you have no foundation unless you uphold the Tawrah and the Injil and what was revealed to you by your Lord."

Surah 5:43 "We revealed the Tawrah, in which is guidance and light"... 5:45 "We made Isa son of Mariam follow in their footsteps, confirming the Tawrah in his possession, and we gave him the Injil, in which there is guidance and light... Whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed are unbelievers."

Notwithstanding any factual errors which may have been included into the collecting together of numerous recollections of the orally-received Qur'an teaching, 3 main themes may be of significant value for the Christian Church to be reminded of, from the Qur'an supplement:

If God is happy enough in speaking to, and guiding, both Muslims and Christians, according to our respective scriptures:

1. Hellfire as punishment for sin is mentioned frequently throughout the Qur'an.

This compares with the messages given by the Virgin Mary to three young children at Fatima Portugal - a place named after Fatima the daughter of Muhammad, and considered the second highest woman in Heaven, after the Virgin Mary herself.

In particular, the First Secret given to the children was a vision of souls screaming in Hell, to remind mankind that Hell is real, and that many souls go to Hell, who did not believe their actions may cause damnation to hell.

2. Submission to God. Islam means 'submission' to God (not submission to Muhammad), and a 'Muslim' means 'one who is submitted' to God.

At the present time mankind is being called by several prophetic sources, to be docile and abandoned to God's will, to achieve a lifestyle of peace and security, and fulfilling the petition of the Lord's Prayer ( Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth).

3. Be Guided by God. The Christian Church has forgotten that it is routine for a person to be guided directly by God in their understanding, their decisions and actions. Within the Spiritual Armour of God, described in Ephesians 6, the only offensive part of the armour is the Sword of the Spirit, the word of God.

However, it is not widely realised that this 'word' is a 'Rhema' word, not Logos - a personal word from God to you in the moment; and not 'Logos', which is a written word, as in the Scriptures. "My sheep hear My voice."

In the Gospel the followers of Jesus asked Him to give them a set prayer, because the followers of the Baptist had such a prayer, and they did not. Jesus dictated the Lord's Prayer to them. But this episode demonstrates that it was routine for people to pray in the Prayer of Silence, to dialogue with God, and hear His guidance in the early Church.

Children of God

The 23rd Psalm was written 1000 years before Jesus and 1600 years before Muhammad, yet it refers to God being a very generous and protective God for the believer, even though David was neither Christian or Muslim:

"The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want..."

So if God is happy to speak to and guide, both Muslims and Christians, and other groups with kindness, according to our respective Scriptures - then who are You or Me, to judge that that other group should be condemned, as evil, sinful or idolatrous?

In his book The Final Quest, recounting his visit to heaven, prophet Risk Joyner writes of a dialogue which he had with a deceased Christian leader in the lowest rank of Heaven. The leader said :

“I became the worst thing that a man can become on the earth – a stumbling block who produced other stumbling blocks. We sowed fear and division throughout the church, all in the name of protecting the truth…

“I recalled how I had allowed disgruntled former members of a church to spread their poison about that church without stopping them. I knew that just by allowing them to do this without correcting them I had encouraged them to continue. I remember thinking that this was justified because of the errors of that church…

“And we always comforted ourselves by actually thinking that  we were doing God a favour when we attacked His own children” came the voice of the man…

“It is in your power to retain sins or to cover them with love. I entreat you to love those who are now your enemies…

“This really is heaven,” I blurted out. “This really is light and truth. How could we who live in such darkness become so proud, thinking that we know so much about God?

"Lord!” I yelled in the direction of the throne, “Please let me go and carry this light back to earth.”

Immediately the entire host of heaven seemed to stand at attention …!”



In 2007 following the initiative ‘A Common Word’ Muslims are now permitted to read the Bible, which the Qur’an referred to, and was written to supplement. For 1400 years Muslims were not allowed to read the Bible, so referred to the Hadith, stories of Muhammad as a guide.

Now that the Bible is again available for Muslims to refer to, we may wonder when the Divinely inspired Bible will be used authoritatively, instead of the anecdotal stories of historical Bedouin life in the Hadith, collected 100-200 years after the death of Muhammad?

All One Family Before God

Recognising that God cares for, shepherds and guides His children – all the people of the world - with both their Conscience and other guidance, especially enhanced after receiving the Flame of Love of the Virgin Mary, brings us all universally to a potential Formational Theology, realising God’s guidance and formation of those of us who listen to His Voice, instead of an Interpretational Theology – comparing and interpreting their different sacred books, and attacking everyone who differs with us.

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