Posted on 07/11/2012 2:32:01 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
The head of the religion department at Luther College in Iowa recently argued that Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, was in fact, a Muslim.
“‘Was Jesus a Muslim?" asks Prof. Robert F. Shedinger in the beginning of a book he published this year entitled Was Jesus a Muslim? " I will answer with a very qualified yes."
In a recent interview Shedinger also defended his controversial thesis explaining that a Muslim undergraduate student had sent him on academic odyssey that culminated with him asking himself "Was Jesus a Muslim?"
"Even as a Christian I have to answer yes to that," said Shedinger, who is the head of the religion department at Luther College in Iowa.
Shedinger also argued that Islam is a better fit for Jesus since it is not a religion but a “social justice movement.”
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Jesus was never about doctrines but always about relationships between:
1. God and mankind,
2. man and neighbor.
Ummm...he is about 600 years off there, he isn’t a Christian by any means, and I don’t think the buildings there have adequate ventilation.
The professor will make a fabulous dhimmi.
Please beam me up, ASAP...............
Muslims deny the divinity of Jesus.
If you believe that Jesus was a Muslim, you believe that He is no longer divine.
If you believe that Jesus is no longer divine, then you are no longer a Christian.
I believe that this doc is an idiot. And a Muslim. And a self-serving attention seeker.
Indeed. I remember hearing a Black Muslim co-worker telling her friends that Christianity was only 700 years old. :? Never mind the fact that our calendar was dated around 2,000 years after the coming of Christ.
To the headline: huh? How are you part of something that didn’t evolve until centuries after later.
...or President!
I would say that such a claim consitutes heresy.
Not at all--Luther is an ELCA school . . . they eat this stuff up.
“Shedinger also argued that Islam is a better fit for Jesus since it is not a religion but a “social justice movement.”
Social Justice Movement.................for Islam? Yeah; -
I’ve had a few of those, usually the next day after eating a lot of Chile with Jalapenos in it.
This explains a lot, depending on your interpretation.
Everyone knows he was a Scientologist...
Ia Robert F. Shedinger an oxygen thief?
Jesus was a Jew, because Judaism predated christianity...
Cart — Horse
<-—— Direction of Travel <-——
Putting the cart BEFORE the horse....
Yeeshhh - what a macaroon.
Jesus was a Jew. He worshipped in the temple, not non-existent mosques. His followers called him “rabbi”, not the non-existent title of imam. He kept the Passover, not the freaking non-existent Ramadan.
And if the professor was an actual Christian and not the purveyor of some pseudo-intellectual claptrap, he’d recognize Christ as the Second Person of the Trinity. The last time I checked, those Mohammedans had some real theological problems with the concept of a Trinity.
Qur’an 4:160 “For the iniquity of the Jews We made unlawful for them certain (foods) in that they hindered many from Allah’s Way, that they took usury, though they were forbidden, and that they devoured men’s wealth on false pretenses, We have prepared for those among them who reject [Islamic] Faith a painful doom.”
Qur’an 33:26 “Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.”
Qur’an 5:42 “They are fond of listening to falsehood, of devouring anything forbidden; they are greedy for illicit gain!”
*shrug* I don’t know....what do you think?
Absolutely appalling conclusion by someone who is surely a midget of religious scholarship... the Ward Churchill of revisionist religious history.
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