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None of the world "Saviors" were real

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None of the world "Saviors" were real

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Mohammad

Islam is probably an offshoot of Christianity so isolated and separated from the rest (and probably shunned by them too) that it became a separate religion. Mohammad appears to be Jesus (just as Jesus appears to Mithras, Tammuz, Dimuzi, Helios, Krishna, etc.) The earliest Muslim coins, for example, depict Mohammad holding a cross. Mohammad is, in fact, a variation of the title "Christ" and means "chosen one" or "praised one." In fact, the Quran only mentions the name of Mohammad four times and three of those times it is clearly being used as a title and not a name. The attributes of that name, the Quran also applies to Jesus! For instance 3:144 states, "Mohammad is nothing but a messenger; messengers have passed away before him." While 5:75 states, "the messiah, son of Mary, is nothing but a messenger; messengers have passed away before him."

In reality, the person of Mohammad is only mentioned in the Quran once while Jesus (Issa) is mentioned 25 times.

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8th century Islamic coin showing the two fish of Pisces violating the Islamic ban on depicting living creatures also glorifies the age of Jesus the fish.

The earliest preserved verses of the Quran are the inscriptions at the Dome of the Rock (completed in 691). Strangely, many of these verses do not appear in the modern Qurans including more verses pertaining to Jesus, son of Mary!

Jacob of Edessa wrote that Muslims "confess firmly that Jesus is the true Messiah who is to come" but "they do not assent to call the Messiah God or the Son of God." So we see the possible source of why these early Christians transformed into the Muslims.

In the 7th century, Christian writer, Sophronius of Jerusalem, wrote extensively about the Muslims laying siege to the city. He called them "Saracens" simply because the term "Muslim" was unknown to him. Nor did he mention that these Saracens had any religion called Islam, had a holy book called the Quran or a messenger named Mohammad. How could he not have known any of this unless none of it existed in his day? He did mention that they vandalized churches and disdained the cross showing that they were evolving (or devolving) further away from the early cross-bearing Mohammad. As late as 874, there are manuscripts that discuss the Arabs extensively and yet fail to refer to them as Muslims or mention Mohammad although they do mention that these Arabs denied the divinity of Jesus.

The earliest mention of Mohammad is by Sebos around 670. He called him Mahmet of the Ismaelites who preached a form of monotheism but Sebos made no mention of Islam, Muslims or the Quran.

In fact, the Quran appears to have originally been a work in Aramaic and not Arabic. It contains words that are not words in Arabic (or any known language). One example is Sura 108 called "Al Kawthar." What does it mean? No one knows. Translators translate it anyway they want to but few admit that the word has no meaning. All the names of the Old Testament figures in the Quran are given in Aramaic. Much of the sentence structure in the Quran is Aramaic and not Arabic. Most damning of all is that the very word "quran" is Aramaic!! it means a book of scripture to be read from for liturgical purposes. Another bit of evidence is that the Quran has no polemics against Arab paganism which was the predominant religion in Arabia when Mohammad supposedly grew up. Had the book been written in that region, surely this paganism would have been mentioned at least once! It is not which indicates that the book was not written in Arabia but Syria. Why should the Quran proclaim itself to be written in Arabic (16:103) and would have been sent by Allah in no other language but Arabic (41:44) unless there was a problem with its Arabic authenticity?
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Re: None of the world "Saviors" were real

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fascinating stuff in there DB, as always, thanks.
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