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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Recieved this, thought to pass it along
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:59:21 -0700

Yes, that is true which doesn't negate the fact that he wasn't happy with
what he had learned/experienced in Christianity. He didn't like the way it
was going and decided, after one of his meditation trips to the caves to
teach Christianity his way.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: C Russell <mtbetter AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Recieved this, thought to pass it along


>
> > lurine AT softcom.net writes:
> >
> > Ray, Mohammed was a Christian that left the
> > teachings because he was not
> > happy with the turn they were taking. Even basic
> > grammar school history
> > books have that info in them.
>
> Check out http://www.muhammad.net/bio/profbio.html
>
> Mohammed reacted against polytheism, not Christianity.
>
>
> "From the point of view of religion, Arabia was
> idolatrous; only a few individuals had embraced
> religions like Christianity, Mazdaism, etc. The
> Meccans did possess the notion of the One God, but
> they believed also that idols had the power to
> intercede with Him. Curiously enough, they did not
> believe in the Resurrection and Afterlife. They had
> preserved the rite of the pilgrimage to the House of
> the One God, the Ka'bah, an institution set up under
> divine inspiration by their ancestor Abraham, yet the
> two thousand years that separated them from Abraham
> had caused to degenerate this pilgrimage into the
> spectacle of a commercial fair and an occasion of
> senseless idolatry which far from producing any good,
> only served to ruin their individual behaviour, both
> social and spiritual."
>
> I sincerely hope that elementary schools have not
> gotten this wrong.
>
> Cathy (in fl)
> >
>
>
>
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