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”I also said that ‘if’ a generation was forty years and ‘if’ the generation of the ‘fig tree’ (Matthew 24:32-34) started with the foundation of the state of Israel, then Jesus ‘might come back by 1988.’ But I put a lot of ifs and maybes in because I knew that no one could be absolutely certain.”
-- Hal Lindsey
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News: Story of Jesus Through Iranian Eyes
Posted on Sunday, February 17 @ 10:54:55 PST by Virgil |
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A new movie in Iran depicts the life of Jesus from an Islamic perspective. "The Messiah," which some consider as Iran's answer to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," won an award at Rome's Religion Today Film Festival, for generating interfaith dialogue. The movie will be adapted into a television series, shown on Iranian TV later this year. Filmmaker Nader Talebzadeh spoke to ABC's Lara Setrakian in Tehran.
LS: Why did you feel a movie showing Islam's take on Jesus needed to be made?
NT: I've been witnessing what's been going on in Iran for the past 28 years; I've been living here after I lived a decade in America. Everybody knows Jesus, so why not make a film about something everyone relates to? And made in Iran.
LS: What are the key differences between Jesus through Islam's eyes and Jesus through the traditional Christian perspective?
NT: We are talking about the same beautiful man, the same beautiful prophet, the same divine person sent from heaven. In the Koran, it emphasizes maybe three main points: about the birth, about the fact that he was not the son of God, and then, that he was not crucified. The rest is [the same] Jesus ... the sermons, and the miracles, and the political situation.
LS: So, when it comes to Jesus, the message and the reverence are there.
NT: Yes.
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LS: But the virgin birth, the crucifixion...
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NT: The virgin birth was the same. The difference in the Koran, God says Jesus was saved. Instead of having him hung and crucified, the person who betrayed Jesus was crucified. This is how the Koran sees it, through the Gospel of Barnabas.
LS: So, you gave the alternate ending.
NT: Yes, two endings. I thought, the Christians, when they see it, it'll be important for them. [In the Koran] God says, emphatically, he was not crucified. Somebody was crucified in his stead. In the Gospel of Barnabas, there are explications of this. The majority of [Muslims] say the one who betrayed Jesus [was crucified].
LS: There's plenty of news today about Christians being persecuted, or even killed, today, in Muslim countries. So, where does the Muslim reverence for Christians go off-track?
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Re: Story of Jesus Through Iranian Eyes (Score: 1)
 by Islamaphobe on Sunday, February 17 @ 13:20:46 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | This article irks me enough to take out a few minutes from the windup of my current book project to comment. Isn't it remarkable that despite the first-century accounts of the life of Jesus that we have at our disposal, Allah saw fit to reveal the TRUTH about Him almost six centuries later to a merchant in Mecca who was supposedly illiterate. And since we know that the Quran was dictated by Allah through the angel Gabriel to Muhammad and is, therefore, the very Word of God, we must simply disregard all the conflicts between the Quran and the New Testament. And never let the thought enter your head that what Muhammad actually wrote about Jesus was stuff that he picked up around campfires from his fellow illiterates. Does not God (Allah) work in mysterious ways!
Talebzadeh beautifully illustrates the basic point that when dealing with kafirs (non-Muslims), deception is as much a part of the culture of Islam as praying toward Mecca. There is so much nonsense in this interview that you can pick and choose almost at random and have a field day. I especially love the part where he says that "Jesus talked about the Prophet Mohammad, many, many times. And it was eliminated in the Gospels and the Bibles that [made it through] history." Can't understand why Allah would go to all that trouble and then let those nasty early Christians edit Muhammad out of the story. I thought Allah was all-present and all-knowing. Maybe he took a long nap.
Also, I love the part where he writes about how Iran has been so hospitable to the Jews and Christians. I notice the he somehow omitted the Bahais, who have been viciously persecuted for the crime of trying to drastically reform Islam into something that the modern world can live with.
Anyway, thanks for posting the interview with this clown. Unfortunately, there are people who will take his work seriously. Fortunately, with the information that is becoming available about Islam that is readily available on the Internet for most of the world to read, it is becoming more difficult to get away with such nonsense.
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Re: Story of Jesus Through Iranian Eyes (Score: 1)
 by Windpressor (Giddi_one) on Monday, February 18 @ 01:33:56 PST
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That movie and related textual support could be good for comparison with:
THE BIBLE FRAUD, the best-selling first book of Australian author TONY BUSHBY reveals the Royal Bloodline of Jesus Christ
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"Now, Australian publisher / entrepreneur Tony Bushby has uncovered some of the deceit of the last two millennia in The Bible Fraud— the result of 12 years of painstaking fulltime research. The central thesis is one that other scholars and mystics, as far back as Michelangelo and Sir Francis Bacon, have known about and referred to in codes and ciphers: that the figure we know as Jesus Christ is a composite character.
According to Bushby, the real story is about the twin brothers, the illegitimate sons of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and Princess Mariamne Herod, the granddaughter of King Herod, who has Nabatean Arab/Hasmodean ancestry. The two boys were brought up in the Essene community; indeed, the Essenes had a prophecy about twin Messiahs, so the brothers seemed to fit the bill. The elder, Judas Khrestus, became a sword-wielding Galilean revolutionary ("the Wicked Priest"), while the younger, the Rabbi Jesus (or Yeshu’a), had a ministry with strong links with the Druids of Gaul and Britain and actually became a Druid King."
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Glowing reviews on Amazon.com outnumber the detractions.
Scholarly assessment anyone?
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- by tom-g on Monday, February 18 @ 04:48:40 PST
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