That is the way we think of "Christians" who are racist and segregate.
There is no contradiction. There is information that each supplies that each other does not, and added together we get the full picture. If two wtinesses see a car accident, and one of them says a red car hit another one, and the second witness says a blue car hit another one, then one car was blue and one was red, and there is no contradiction.
Did you even read what was posted? When one witness says "I saw two cars hit each other after I arrived" then says "When I got there I saw 2 wrecked cars and the wreck happened before I arrived" those are directly contradictory. See the difference?
How can you sit there and distort what I said? I did not say all versions were paraphrases, I said the GOOD NEWS BIBLE is a paraphrase, whereas versions like the KJV are
translations. Now at least be honest here.
I did not say that YOU said all versions are paraphrases. I implied or said the versions were paraphrases myself. See the difference? It is not all about you..
Jesus said He is the SON OF GOD and also said HE IS THE ALMIGHTY. It is God manifested in flesh, where there is 100% humanity in the flesh and 100% deitry as per His person.
An Angel told John to not worship him when John attempted to do so. Jesus saw Thomas fall down and worship Him as his Lord and God. Jesus accepted the worship.
Only in John's version when Mary (alone) came to the tomb while it was still dark. LOL Can't happen in the version where the women were afraid and left and did not tell anyone what they saw. At any rate the gospel of thomas was removed from the bible by the council of Nicea. Withdraw the comment. Rephrase to when the council decided what was and was not to be included in the bible they removed the writings of thomas that were used by some of the churches and ordered them destroyed.
You said that the Koran teaches that Christians who reject the truth are not the true Christians Mohammed told you to respect.
So, are you saying that a Christian who claims Jesus is God Almighty, as Revelation 1 shows Him saying, Himself, is a true Christians?
True christians are known by their fruits not their beliefs. So Jesus himself taught.
The quotes I made from the Koran were racist. They degraded black people.
1. You did not post a quote from the Quran. It is deceptive to claim otherwise. But without being deceptive you cannot make this point.
2. Your source is from a non-Muslim translation of writings that represent a small sect (Shi'a) of Islam. Interesting that Shi'a do not exactly get along with other Muslims due to their brand of beliefs. It is by the way the most common source of material for christians to degrade Islam. Which does not make your comments new or special.
If there is a problem with blacks and whites in a church together, then that situation relates to me as an apostolic as your relationship is with Osama Bib Ladin. Bin Ladin calls himself Islamic. So do not use distorted "apostolic" examples if you have your Bin Ladins.
In apostolic churches sadly this has been the rule and not the exception. At least it has been in the South. This is personal observation. On the other hand, do not apply "Bin Ladin" examples to true Islam as long as you have child-molesting pastors and youth leaders or sunday school superintendents who get caught up in gay sex stings in parks. Bin Laden is stamped "made in USA" anyway thanks for nothing. Guess we showed those russians!
And it is the same as you posting words about "apostolics" who segregate.
I have seen the segregation myself. It is still common. It is not "written down" but it is, undeniably and for unknown reasons, practiced. Declaring it wrong is correct. I will leave your denial that it "does not happen" on this board for the judgement of your peers and will not comment any further. Playing the race card about Islam is funny to me however. Islam can be said to be a lot of things but certainly not a racist religion.