Christians love to call Jesus, The Prince of Peace. Indeed, Prophet `Esa (Jesus), peace be on him, is a prince of peace, an extraordinary man, a true human prophet, the Al-Masee’h (Messiah), a patient and courageous messenger from Allah. Prophet `Esa, peace be on him, was -and still is- rejected by the majority of the Jews, especially those in his time who disbelieved in him and, unsuccessfully, tried to kill him.
Prophet `Esa, peace be on him, is also rejected by most Christians, who disbelieve in his being human not divine. They falsely ascribe divinity to a man who never claimed it for himself. Another type of aggression Christians commit against `Esa is that they call him, Jesus. Jesus is not `Esa’s name. The name, Jesus, came as a result of a cultural habit found in Christian Europe: they translate people’s names or change them to suit their culture. `Esa was not Greek, never spoke it, and was never called ‘Jesus’ in his lifetime.
Christians call Jesus, ‘Son of God; God; Lord; Yahweh,’ with Yahweh being the alleged name of the Old Testament’s God. Of-course there are no scriptural texts that support the outrageous claim that ascribes divinity to Jesus, and Yahweh is an unknown name that the Jews somehow introduced into their holy books to refer to Allah.
However, Christians do not care what we say, because they have appointed Jesus as a god whether he likes it or not; and he certainly does not like it. Christians, who insist that Jesus ‘is’ God, should thus be ready to deal with the consequences of their claims about Jesus, and about the Old Testament and Yahweh.
If Jesus is Yahweh is Lord is God, as Christians claim, then he is responsible for these horrible edicts: “The Lord said unto Joshua … to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. … And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua … smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. … And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.” (Joshua 11:6-15)
Christians say that Jesus is Lord, that being, the Christian Lord, The Prince of Peace, who, according to Christian doctrines, was divine then became human [i.e., incarnated], so he can die for all the drinking, adultery, violence and other sins Christians can commit. They enjoy sin and let Jesus die for it!
If, to Christians, Jesus is Yahweh is Lord is God, then it is Jesus who allegedly issued these violent Old Testament commandments, and henceforth, deserves the title, The Lord of War. Yet, we must add, in Islam, `Esa is never considered Jewish or Christian, but a Muslim prophet, human, not divine; and he had nothing to do with the Old or the New Testaments.
How did, The Lord of War, suddenly become, The Prince of Peace? It must be the added quality he acquired when he created a human Jesus within his divine Jesus, and then, reformed himself to become more humane than when he was a full god minus the human edition. Let Trinitarian Christians explain the unexplainable!
However, the ‘becoming reformed’ theory is completely struck dead once we notice that there is not a single statement in the New Testament where Jesus apologized for all the bloodshed he -allegedly- commanded in the Old Testament, promising that he has indeed changed his ways and, now, is calling for peace.
The Jews won’t listen to `Esa (Jesus) even if he made such a declaration; they do not believe in him to begin with. They are also having a grand time fulfilling the ‘Holy War’ commandments they added into their own creation titled, The Old Testament, which they then ascribed to God and to His prophets. They are using these commandments against the Palestinians, whether Muslims or Christians.
Christians are adamant, though, to ascribe the Old Testament, as is, to Jesus because, they say, he revealed it to the Jews. Also, Jesus, and contrary to the reformation theory mentioned above, said in the News Testament, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” (Mathew 5:17).
Therefore, Jesus came to fulfill the Torah of Moses and the prophets, not to destroy them as Paul did. Indeed, `Esa (Jesus) did not annul the entire original Torah law, which Allah (God) revealed to Moses, peace be on him.
We should note that what we are discussing here is not the original Torah, which was massively corrupted by the Jews. We are discussing two testaments here: The Old Testament, and, The New Testament, both of which were written by the Jews, about the Jews, for the Jews. Then, both of them were falsely ascribed to God. Again, to Christians, Jesus is Yahweh is Lord is God. Additionally, Jews and Christians believe that the Old Testament is the, Literal Word of God.
Conclusion: ‘Christian Jesus’ is responsible for the holy war edicts in the Old Testament.
Is it strange then that the Old Testament holy war edicts were faithfully carried out by Christians against every community on earth, including against each other?
The Old Testament law is still being faithfully carried out to this day against Muslim countries in extremely violent wars that only recently led to the death of more than a million Muslim men, women, children, infants, sucklings, as well as, sheep, chickens, donkeys, horses, camels, in addition to almost total material destruction in Muslim countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Chechnya, among others.
We must never forget what Christians did to the Palestinians; they helped the Jews create their own holocaust against a civilian population in Palestine that still suffers every type of human misery man ever inflicted against other human beings.
This leads to another significant question: are the Muslims, who carry out terroristic attacks, applying the Old Testament law Jesus allegedly commanded ancient prophets to fulfill, being the Christian Yahweh, lord, god? Or, are they applying the law of the Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad?
The Quran states, {Fight in the way of Allâh those who fight you, but transgress not the limits; Truly, Allâh likes not the transgressors} (2:190). The Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, explained this Quranic Ayah (statement) by explicitly forbidding killing women and children (as reported by scholars Bukhari and Muslim).
Thus, ‘Ezlamic terrorists’ must have been reading, or at least implementing, the Old Testament holy war law, not the Quran or Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah.
No doubt, the forged Old Testament is the oldest terroristic manual ever. How can anyone say otherwise, if this is what the Old Testament commands, “The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. … Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe … And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. … And they slew the kings of Midian … And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses … Moses was wroth with the officers of the host … Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor. … Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. … Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war … This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses … And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast … And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them … and between all the congregation: And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep … And the booty … was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, And threescore and one thousand asses, And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.” (Numbers 31)
Numbers surely knows its numbers; all those sheep and donkeys; all those virgins! Do you think the Jews, who wrote Numbers with their own hands and falsely ascribed it to the Torah, took these 32,000 virgins to teach them the Torah?
Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, His Honorable Prophet Moses, peace be on him, and Joshua, may Allah be pleased with him, have nothing to do with this utter falsehood that claims Allah ordered the killing of men, women, children, infants, and sucklings and to only keep alive girls that have not done sex, i.e., virgins, even though we are not exactly told about the test the Jews performed to determine who was a virgin and who wasn’t.
So, the next time Muslims hear a Christian or a Jew complain about all those terrorist MUZLUMS, they should print out chapter 31 in Numbers in the size of a poster and hang it on a wall in their house and anywhere else allowed. Buses, which do carry posters that denounce Islam and Muslims, are a good advertising choice to hang such posters. But I doubt bus companies will allow MUZLUMS to hang such posters on their buses.
Jalal Abualrub (www.islamlife.com)
July 17, 2019