Authenticity Proven in Destination - Which Leads to Peaceful Eternity?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Apr 12, 2021 at 13:33

Serious time has been spent in this forum in discussion and plain outright arguments as to which of the religious persuasions are superior to others; or not to make too fine of a point of it, determinations of disingenuous characterizations of those ideologies with which one does not agree are legion; and there are no loss of words to overwhelm or overwrite contradictory points of view of contravening works of belief. Which one wins?
The religious observations of pre-Babylonian, Babylonian (and its contemporaries in Chaldean history), the initial beginnings of Judaism in the Hebrew father Abraham, the subsequent 'paganism' of the tribal predecessors in Canaan (and elsewhere in the orient and eventually the world); then we come to the one everyone has a problem with; the outgrowth of a ministry stemming from a nation with its troubled history ever since its religious foundation was overturned after putting to death one of its own from proclaiming the truth from their own law, the their own prophesied Holy One of Israel; then everyone balked except those who believed in His words and saw His redemption and claimed it.
Various readers and observers, followers of Islam and followers of the Messiah alike have argued and remonstrated each other, specifying and deliberating which course of belief is better, supporting those arguments with passionate rewards of death for infidelities; or persuading some in terms of grace and love for believing in faith the One who was crucified to redeem in love many in humanity that are lost in their sins, but have salvation for looking to that Savior who, though crucified, is now risen and preparing humanity for the very times we are now observing. Things are being readied for the upcoming changes of empires so many are intent on imposing on an unsuspecting world. Proof of truth is impending.

Are the adherents of Islam truly ready to take on the tragedies that are in preparation in the Middle East; or does the Quran present sufficient credentials, in its attempts to replace Christianity as the reigning religious persuasion in the world, really have the spiritual affirmation necessary to bring peace to a world starved for harmony, peace and love?
In the alternative, ask the same of the followers of the Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus Christ, how is their belief supported in the works of the Hebrew Holy Writ, the Holy Bible in the Christian realm: how is that faith justified? Many people, as attested to here in this forum, are not so convinced. And the ones who are, have a very difficult time debating their affirmation of what they believe is the truth, since the arguments of disbelief go all the way back to the cross and the disbelief of the religious authorities, in spite of the facts of the cross, and continue to spread the lies instead.

This disinformation of those days gave rise to Islam and in its fervor to be the reigning religious authority decimated total populations of 'infidels' for the sake of not wanting to believe in a Jewish Savior, that from its Arab roots, infiltrated by non-Arabic translations and traditions, ruled in replacement theology, conquering entire societies (Hindu, Persian (post Babylonian Zoroastrian), Urdu, Jewish and the rest of the Middle East); and going beyond to influence a third of the world's multiple billion population (such as in China), but incomplete world-wide since the Middle ages and fighting now with the neo-Christian influences in the crucible of empires such as are the Middle East. Still, Christianity survived until today.

Thus, there is the inevitable query: whose faith is to be justified? If the attitude of non-Muslims cannot be convinced of a 'complete' concise Quran which purports to replace the completed Holy Bible, how does one expect the conflict to be resolved? As long as this is argued in human terms, there is no such expectation; mankind is doomed to repeat the mistakes of the histories of empires until no one is left; unless someone intervenes, right? Therein lays the promise of the Holy Bible, being fulfilled like it is.
Going just a little further, the fulfillments being seen as they are presented in the Hebrew Holy Writ, where does the Quran tell of a resurrected Jewish Nation as we see it today? This is what leads to the eternal question; if Israel survives as it appears to be doing, which narrative leads to eternity? Which basis of belief survives? Israel is the clue; Israel is the key.

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