Like billions on this earth, I am a believer in One God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. He is the One and Only God of Noah, Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and all the other prophets, (Peace be upon them). They all submitted to the Will of God. Thus, they were all Muslims. But all too often, western media and TV Evangelists exclude Islam from their terminology of Judeo-Christian heritage, keeping in mind that Judaism does not worship the same God of Christianity. The promoters of this terminology fail to understand that Islam, which means “Submission to the Will of God”, was the main focus of all prophets. The Bible and Quran have abundant stories of people rejecting the message of God through the prophets. The Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah, and some claim that he was the illegitimate son of Mary. Even Jewish sources name a Roman soldier called Panthera as the real father of Jesus. Christians reject Muhammad, and claim that he was a false prophet. It is the same old story.

            TV Evangelists claim that Allah, God of the Muslims, is not a real God and is not the same God of Christians. This is because the mainstream Christian God is the trinity. Muslims do not agree with the Christian doctrine of trinity or the divinity of Jesus. Millions of Christians also reject this trinity doctrine. At least five Presidents of the USA: John Adams (Signer of the Declaration of Independence), Thomas Jefferson (writer of the US Declaration of Independence), John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and William Howard Taft did not believe that Jesus was the son of god. They were Unitarians that respected the teachings of Jesus but rejected his divinity.  Moreover, Sir Isaac Newton, the greatest scientist in the history, Lev Tolstoy, the giant of the Russian literature, and Johann Von Goethe, the greatest German writer (Goethe Institutes for teaching the German language exist in many parts of the world) did not agree with the trinity doctrine.

The Library of Congress, American Memory, holds the largest collection of Jefferson and Adams manuscripts. The following are the writings of the second US President John Adams (1735 – 1826):

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

“As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed?" John Adams letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816.

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." --John Adams

The following are the writings of the third US President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826):

“In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.." in a letter to John Adams (January 24, 1814).

“Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus.” --Jefferson in a letter William Short, April, 13, 1820.

“My aim in that was, to justify the character of Jesus against the fictions of his pseudo-followers, which have exposed him to the inference of being an impostor…These could not be inventions of the groveling authors who relate them. They are far beyond the powers of their feeble minds. They shew that there was a character, the subject of their history, whose splendid conceptions were above all suspicion of being interpolations from their hands... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore. But that he might conscientiously believe himself inspired from above, is very possible...” Letter to William Short (August 4, 1820) on his reason for composing a Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus and referring to Jesus’ biographers, the Gospel writers

“No historical fact is better established, than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity…Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the Athanasius.” Letter to James Smith (1822)

President Jefferson was obsessed with editing the New Testament to the extent that he worked late at night in his study at the White House, using a razor to cut out large segments of the four Gospels and pasting the parts he decided to keep onto the pages of a blank book, purchased to receive them. He titled this original project of 1804 "The Philosophy of Jesus," which he refined and greatly expanded in his later years. The final product, completed in 1820, he called the "Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," which was the version Congress published. Jefferson's "Life and Morals" argues no theology. It is simply his edited version of the Gospels. He literally cut out the virgin birth, miracle stories, claims to Jesus' divinity, the resurrection, and portrayed Jesus as just an extraordinary man and a powerful moral leader.

In an article published by Kevin Hayes in American Literature, June 2004, he stated that Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of the 1649 English translation of the Quran by Andre du Ryer and taught himself Arabic and basic Arabic grammars. It should be noted that Arabic is a Semitic language written from right to left as opposed to English which is a Latin language written from left to right.  It is suggested in this article that Thomas Jefferson went to all this work in the Quran and its language to study Islamic Law to help him in his legal work! You be the judge!

Jesus never referred to himself as son of god, but always presented himself as son of man in front of many audiences. There are about 98 references to the term son of man in the New Testament.  When someone called him son of god, he did not object, but also he did not explain this term. But certainly he did not refer to himself as god. Even when Jesus talked about God as his father, it was meant to be in the Jewish sense as many personalities in the Bible by being close to God. He certainly did not explain the implication of the terms “son of god” and “my father.”

Some Christians maintain that anyone who does not believe in Jesus as part of the trinity will face a big surprise in the Day of Judgment. So if Jesus happened to be son of god or god, and if it happens that Jesus call upon me in the Day of Judgment and asks me why I do not believe in him as god, I will tell him:

“You did not explain simply and clearly that you are a god or son of god. You always referred to yourself as son of man 98 times in the New Testament. You did not explain how God, you, and the Holy Spirit are made of the same substance as the First Ecumenical Council advocated.  Some of your present followers claim that this concept was too hard for you to explain to your audiences simply and clearly. And if that concept of the trinity was very hard for you to explain during your existence on earth, how do you expect me to believe in this confusing trinity after 2000 years, depending upon people who claimed to follow what you did not say. Even in the present time, Christian teachers have a hard time explaining trinity to their students.”

The existing essence of Christianity is a belief, a particular claim: that god the father, god the son, and god the Holy Ghost are all one god and are all made of the same substance, and that Jesus was the sole son of God and that he redeemed mankind from sin by his crucifixion and resurrection. Many modern Biblical scholars and average Christians have rejected this belief. The true belief of Jesus was entirely within the Jewish tradition. He never founded a new religion; Saint Paul was the real inventor of Christianity as a sect separate from Judaism. The Gospels are highly doctored texts, rewritten to suit the theological environments and political needs of the budding Church. Thus, the injunction to pay taxes to the Romans ("Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," Matthew 22:21) and the depiction of Roman governor Pilate as innocent of Jesus' crucifixion were included to satisfy the Romans after the defeat of the Jewish revolt in 70 CE.

A reader of the Bible and history observes the following:

·         Adam (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Noah (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Abraham (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Isaac (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Ishmael (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Moses (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Jesus (Peace be upon him) never mentioned trinity.

·         Athanasius introduced trinity in the first Ecumenical Council of Church in 325 CE.

·         Muhammad (Peace be upon him) rejected all sorts of trinity.

Now you have a choice, do you believe Athanasius against all prophets???

In the Gospel according to John (10:30), Jesus said: "I and the Father are one”, therefore Christians believe that Jesus is the same, or "co-equal" in status with his Father. In Greek, `heis' means `one' numerically (masculine), `hen' means `one' in unity or essence (neutral).   Here the word used by John is `hen' and not `heis'.  The marginal notes in New American Standard Bible reads: “one - (Lit. Neuter) a unity, or, one essence.” If one wishes to argue that the word `hen' supports their claim  for Jesus being "co-equal" in status with his Father, then one would read the following verse in the Gospel according to John 17:22:

"And the glory which Thou hast given me, I have given to them (disciples); that they may be one, just as we are one."

Now this is a big surprise. If one was to believe the Father and Jesus Christ  to be "one" meaning "co-equal" in status on the basis of John 10:30,  then that person should also be prepared to believe  "them" - the disciples of Jesus, to be "co-equal" in status with  the Father and Jesus ("just as we are one") in John 17:22. I have yet to find a person that would be prepared to make the disciples (students) "co-equal" in status with the Father or Jesus. And if one consider that the number of the disciples is 12 then the trinity should be fifteenity (from 15: father + son + Holy Ghost + 12 disciples).

The unity was of the authorized divine message that originated from the Father, received by Jesus and finally passed on to the disciples. Jesus admitted having accomplished
the work which the Father had given him to do. (John.17:4). There is another verse in the Gospel according to John (14:28) that unequivocally refutes the claim by any one for Jesus being "co-equal" in status with his Father:

Jesus said: "I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I."

It does not require great logic to observe that we have a monumental mathematical crisis. Greater does not mean equal, co-equal, or one in essence. This paradox needs an expert (not an amateur) Christian apologetic to twist language to justify how can greater is equivalent to equal.

Christians are continuing to shrink in USA and Europe because an educated population, which applies its mind to religious questions, cannot keep on managing contradiction between this Christianity and reason forever. It is mathematically certain that this will happen. Just as the belief in a flat earth cannot survive mankind's inquisitive interest in the facts of nature, the beliefs underlying Christianity will not survive the advancement in knowledge. But then, losing an illusion is also liberating. And to avoid being trapped in that illusion is even better. Generations of Christian intellectuals have tried to harmonize faith and reason. Many attempts were made to prove the basic unity between Aquinas' Christian philosophy and modern science. Jesus never introduced contradictions, but some of his followers did.

Saint Paul stated in 2 Timothy 3:16 that all scripture is inspired by God:

“All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”

 The above Paul’s statement was written before the Gospels of the New Testament and therefore exerts a great impact over the selection and the authority of the gospels. All but the gospels acceptable to the Pauline faith were systematically destroyed or re-written. Christians take the above statement literally, and apply it to all the verses of the Bible regardless of the contractions of the Bible that are left to Christian apologists to justify in a complicated and twisted approach.

Hyam Maccoby makes an interesting observation regarding the influence of Paul as follows:

“We should remember that the New Testament, as we have it, is much more dominated by Paul than appears at first sight. As we read it, we come across the Four Gospels, of which Jesus is the hero, and do not encounter Paul as a character until we embark on the post-Jesus narrative of Acts. Then we finally come into contact with Paul himself, in his letters. But this impression is misleading, for the earliest writings in the New Testament are actually Paul's letters, which were written about AD 50-60, while the Gospels were not written until the period AD 70-110. This means that the theories of Paul were already before the writers of the Gospels and colored their interpretations of Jesus' activities. Paul is, in a sense, present from the very first word of the New Testament. This is of course, not the whole story, for the Gospels are based on traditions and even written sources which go back to a time before the impact of Paul, and these early traditions and sources are not entirely obliterated in the final version and give valuable indications of what the story was like before Paulinist editors pulled it into final shape. However, the dominant outlook and shaping perspective of the Gospels is that of Paul, for the simple reason that it was the Paulinist view of what Jesus' sojourn on Earth had been about that was triumphant in the Church as it developed in history. Rival interpretations, which at one time had been orthodox, opposed to Paul's very individual views, now became heretical and were crowded out of the final version of the writings adopted by the Pauline Church as the inspired canon of the New Testament.”

There is no doubt that the influence of Paul is much more dominant than the influence of Jesus himself in the New Testament. Some Christian scholars admit that Paul was the real inventor of Christianity. They have known and recognized the influence Paul exerts over the New Testament, due to the fact that Paul even declares that he has his own gospel which is different from the Gospel of Jesus:

Romans 2:16 “on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.”

Notwithstanding the above statement of Paul that all scripture is inspired by God, the Book of Moses predicted that the Law (Bible) will get corrupted:

Deuteronomy 31:25-29 “Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, "Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you. For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death! Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them. For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, turning aside from the way that I have commanded you. In time to come trouble will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands."

Moreover, the Book of Jeremiah which came approximately 825 years after Moses did indeed confirm this corruption:

Jeremiah 8:8 “How can you say, "We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us," when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?”

The above statement of Prophet Jeremiah made it clear that the writers of the Old Testament used false pens to write lies into the Holy Books of God, which were later claimed to be totally inspired by God.

The Roman Catholic Version of the Bible, RCV, is the oldest version that one can buy today. Despite its antiquity, the whole Protestant world condemns the RCV, because it contains seven extra books, which they refer to as the Apocrypha. Notwithstanding the terrible warning contained in the Apocalypse, which is the last book in the RCV (renamed as “Revelation” by the Protestant), it is “revealed”:

Revelation 22:18-19 “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book; if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”

In spite of the above warning, the Protestants have eliminated or the Catholics have added seven whole books from their “Words of God”. These books are: Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 Machabees, and 2 Machabees.

Furthermore, there are references in the Old Testament about books that do not exist:

Numbers 21:14 “Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, Waheb in Suphah and the wadis. The Arnon..”

Joshua 10:13 "..Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?..”

1 Kings 11:41 “Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did as well as his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?”

1 Chronicles 29:29 “Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the records of the seer Samuel, and in the records of the prophet Nathan, and in the records of the seer Gad.”

One should have the right to ask about these books and whether they were inspired on not.

Just as Jesus did not introduce a new religion, Islam was also not a new religion, but the original and oldest religion of all the Prophets. It was the fundamental and unadulterated religion of Abraham, as the Quran states:

Surah 3, Ayah 6 “Ibrahim (Abraham) was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a true Muslim Hanifa (Islamic monotheism – to worship none but Allah alone) and he was not of Al-Mushrikun (those who associate anyone or anything with Allah)”

This religion of Abraham existed until the time of Muhammad. The Christian Palestinian historian Sozomenus described “pre-Mosiac monotheism” which some Arabs had practiced in his time. Also, during the time of Muhammad, there were Arabs who were still committed to the religion of Abraham. All the prophets were sent to recall people to the Truth of Monotheism. Consequently, the message of Muhammad was to restore the people to the pure religion of their ancestor Abraham, and to declare the conclusion of revelations by the Quran, the conclusion of prophethood by Muhammad as the final prophet, and the promise of God to preserve the Quran and Islam until the end of time. The Quran incorporates the pure and unadulterated sources of Monotheism: the Pentateuch of Moses and the Gospel of Jesus.

            Many average Christians under the influence of unfair agenda of Christian neoconservatives and the fundamentalist Christians tend to believe many myths about Islam and Muslims. These myths are publicized with intention of creating a toxic atmosphere and a wall of apprehension between Christians and Muslims. This is done by a systematic brain washing of the public by some conservative politicians and Evangelists. The effect of distorted brain washing is remembered vividly during the late communist Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany. Osama bin Laden won’t need to make videos anymore. He can just put together the greatest hits of some American politicians and Evangelists and they will make his point nicely – that many Americans see all Muslims as enemies.