Re: Muslim Misconceptions about Christianity

Robert wrote:

the horned one was the hero of their
Romance, a Christian Alexander.

Alexander lived around three hundred years before the alleged
time of Christ, so how was he a Christian? Coptic, the language
of the Romance, was simply the last phase of the ancient Egyptian
Language, not a Chrisitan language.

Do you still believe that Atlantic is a pool of muddy water? And if it
is, can the sun set in it?

In the Quranic verse, God uses the term "Maghreb Al Shams" or the
setting of the sun. The official name of Morroco, the country, in
Arabic is "Al Maghreb" or the Sun Setting country. That is because
the dark Atlantic was regarded as the place of the setting of the
sun, or furthest west, and that was the case when the Quran was
revealed. The verse with its mystical poetry tells of Dhul Qarnain
reaching the setting of the sun, and that could only be the Atlantic
shores according to the perception of that time.

Yet at the same time God in the Koran tells us in 39.6 that He
encircles [Yokawer] the night over the day and encircles the
day over the night, which for the Arabic readers donates spherical
celestial bodies and movements, since the root word of the verb
Yokawer simply mean "ball."

There was a striking legend in
the ancient world that Alexander had horns

The "horns" of ALexander were related ONLY to the fact
that he was crowned in Egypt with the ancient Egyptian
two horned crown, related to Amen, which I made a reference
to earlier, and not that he had natural horns coming out of his head.
Others, like Sesostris, whom Herodotus also mentioned as
reaching north of the black sea in addition to Yemen, were also
crowned with the two horned crown related to Amen, so it is likely
that he was the one referenced to by such a Yemeni title Dhul
Qarnain in the Koran, since he not only have been to Yemen, but he
also built dykes there, and the Koranic Dhul Qarnain was a builder
who built a barrier of Iron and copper, something the ancient Egyptians
were advanced in. Alexander never been to Yemen nor did he build
anything and died when he was twentyseven and major cities like
ALexandria was named after him. So what is to ask about him?
Thus he is far from being the Koranic Dhul Qarnain.

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