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			Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salam alikoum we greet you with the best of greetings as a greeting of
peace, peace be with you and you are here to learn. That's why you turned on to the deen show. Or
you were just flicking through the channels. And you heard Islam and Muslims and you thought
something's about to blow up. And you got excited. Hold on, that's not the case. We are here to help
you develop a better understanding. So sit tight, we're gonna be right back with Dr. Gerald Dirks,
Christian scholar, graduate from the Harvard Divinity School. And we're going to be talking about
Jesus peace be upon him. Was Jesus a Christian? Or was Jesus doing Islam as a Muslim when we come
		

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			Salam aleikum. Wa Alaikum Salaam Peace be with you and with you brother. Now you know I started off
the program to do stupid before that you know I mentioned things blowing up you know the there's
some hype out there people are trying to associate Islam with terrorism and Islam terrifying people.
It's like the boogeyman, it's coming to get you. You as a Christian you did your homework. Is this
far from the truth? Or did you are you miss something here? Maybe you can have to backtrack talk to
us. No is obviously far from the truth. There are a few a handful of
		

			people who are self proclaimed Muslims, who
		

			offer up a violent ideology that is a total perversion of Islam. The same thing, however, can be
said for Judaism or Christianity or for any of the world's religions. There are always going to be
people who try to cloak their own geopolitical or nationalistic ambitions under a mantle of
religion. And they'll grab whichever religion is handy. You know, whether it's Islam or Christianity
or Judaism or Hinduism or what have you. But no, Islam is not a religion of terrorism. It's not a
religion that condones terrorism.
		

			Some might say, and you've probably heard this that all terrorists aren't Muslim, but it seems like
all Muslims are terrorists. Well, first of all, obviously, all Muslims are not terrorists. But it's
also the case that not all terrorists are Muslims. Yes.
		

			We had a case not long ago in Wichita, Kansas, where a doctor who was performing late term abortions
was murdered as he was standing in his church. Yeah, who murdered him? a
		

			right wing Christian video log, yeah, who believed he was saving the lives of unborn children. And
so he murdered the doctor standing in his church. This will be an example of a Christian terrorist.
Yes. Now, Christianity certainly does not condone the sort of behavior that this murderer engaged
in. But this person claimed to be doing it in the name of Christianity. A number of years ago and
Hebron. in Palestine. We had a Jew who went into the mosque at Hebron and started shooting Muslims
as they prayed.
		

			Obviously, this does not represent Judaism, yes. But this person was a Jew and what he was doing he
was doing in the name of Judaism Yeah, you know what we're gonna find these sorts of things and
every religion so it's not fair that you want to single out a few crackpots you know, a few bad
apples in every bunch as they say there are you had the unabomber. If you look a look, Columbine
shooting terrorists by the tons out there. But so we want to separate Islam, which is a perfect
system from the crater. And what some, you know, crazy people might do, let's not put those
together. And it's fair to say, yeah, even though those crazy people may be trying to justify what
		

			they're doing by some perverted notion of Islam. Yeah, you know, that's no more Islam than James
Jones or david koresh or representative of Christianity. One more point before we get into it.
		

			Because they'll say, and I've heard this and it's a shame. They say, Well, why aren't Muslims
condemning this? And we're condemning it here on this show, we've done it so many times, because
people want to revisit 911. And we know Islam, Muslims died in 911. Absolutely, in fact, a
disproportionately large number of the victims of the Twin Towers. And I'm not talking about the
hijackers, I'm talking about people who worked in the Twin Towers were Muslims. You know, it was a
higher percentage than there are Muslims in the population of the United States, who worked in the
Twin Towers, and were killed there. Now, he raised an interesting point, which is people said, Well,
		

			why are mainstream Muslims standing up and condemning these attacks? The answer is we are, and we're
doing it consistently. But the problem is that a Muslim standing up and condemning terrorism, that
doesn't sell a newspaper, yes, that doesn't drive up the ratings. And some top television, it's not
good for business. No, it's not good for business. And it's not going to cover the media will not
cover it. Yeah, you know, but all of the major Muslim organizations in this country that of which
I'm aware, have systematically condemned terrorism, systematically spoken out against it, you know,
whether it's the Islamic Society of North America, or the Islamic circle of North America, or the
		

			Muslim American society, you know, everyone
		

			has spoken up, but the press doesn't cover it. And we're doing it again here on the dean show, and
you're available for CNN, Fox, if anybody wants to bring you on on their mainstream channel, I'll be
glad to condemn terrorism. Definitely. And we are doing it again. So let's get in now to our main
topic, Christianity, Islam, which of these ways are like which of these religions that Jesus Christ,
practice, teach preach?
		

			Well, obviously, it wasn't Christianity, because Christianity didn't exist, at least by name, at the
time of Jesus, were told in the book of Acts in the New Testament, that the first people to be
called Christians arose in Antioch some years after the end of Jesus's personal ministry here on
Earth.
		

			No, Jesus was a Muslim, were told on Muslim, well, not let's look at what the word means.
		

			Let's look at what the word means. Islam means surrender. And in any religious context, it means
surrender or submission to God, to God, to God to the one guy, right. Okay. Muslim is simply a
variant on the word Islam. It means one who submits or one who surrenders again used in a religious
context. It's one who submits to or surrenders to God. That's what Muslim means. Now, when we look
at that definition, obviously, does that make sense? Now? Yeah, Jesus was a Muslim. Yeah. And that's
also the word. He was submitted to God. Yes. Now, what is Christian when you take the do the same
thing and take if someone says, Well, no, no, Christianity means to submit to God, connect, connect,
		

			if you translate it, what is Christianity? Christianity doesn't. You can't derive that from the word
Christian, you can't know you can give it some kind of interpretation to say, yeah, that's what it
mean by that's not what it translates to. No, it doesn't translate to that Christianity. Obviously
from the word Christ. Christ is the Christos to the Greek form of the Hebrew word, Masha, or
Messiah, which in English means anointed. Yeah. So that mean that's the etymology of the word. Okay.
So let's back it up. So it goes from the Hebrew Messiah. Masha to Greek Christos, Christos.
translated. So Messiah translated to Greek crystals. Yeah. And then you got what? Christ Christ.
		

			Well, you're cutting off the stones at the end. You're just shortening the word. So you have Christ
and those who follow Christ. They came up with Christians, the Christ followers. Well in Antioch
they did in Antioch. Yeah. Okay, so then how did people well, you know what, we're gonna take a
break and this is really getting exciting. I'll be right back with more of Dr. Gerald Dirks here on
the show.
		

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			Back here on the deen show with Dr. Gerald Dirks, you finished seminary school, you have a divinity
degree from the Harvard University. So we're not talking to, as I always say, just a car mechanic.
We're talking to a Christian I like call your Christian scholar because we got to face it. You know
more about the Bible than probably 95% of the Christian world. Well, let me let me most people don't
even read the Bible. Well, that's true. Okay, so most Christians would ever read the entire Bible.
Yes. But no, don't don't call me a scholar, call me a student. That's a more accurate term. Okay.
Now tell us, Dr. Gerald Dirks, we're going to back it up, we'll even go back to Moses this time,
		

			because many people, and we are trying to really enlighten people to these facts is not fiction. So
people attribute Moses to being a follower of Judaism. Is this true? Was he following the religion
of Judaism?
		

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			Moses also was obviously someone who submitted to God, I Muslim. Well, in that sense of the word,
yes, he was a Muslim. He was someone who submitted to God. Now if we look at the origins of the
word, Judaism, yes. You know, really, it begins with Judah, Judah, who was one of the 12 sons of
Jacob. So Jacob, that's one of his sons, Judah. Okay. So I mean, here, here's the origins of the
word, but really what we call Judaism today, yes, doesn't really begin and Tao
		

			around the year 400 BCE, when Ezra and man of the great assembly, as we're returning from the
Babylonian captivity, returning to Palestine, when they began to put together
		

			the great assembly and begin to write, apparently, some of the Old Testament, at least according to
the Jewish Talmud. And this is really the origins of Judaism as we know it today. Before that time,
we might talk about the religion of the Israelites. And that might make more sense. Talk to us about
that, please, in terms of what so the religion of the Israelites were they ones that the children of
Israel? Yes, of course. So so that was during the time of Moses? Well, this was a Division I would
make, okay, you know, that I, I see Judaism really beginning at the time of Ezra in the middle of
the great assembly. But even then we have different branches of Judaism that were going on. And
		

			Judaism that we have today, Rabbinic Judaism, really is something that begins to take hold and
develop after the destruction of the Temple of the year 70. See?
		

			So this is around is this after, again, the time of Moses is definitely after the time of Moses. Oh,
yes. So if he was to if you were to bring him back to life right now, would he be practicing
Judaism, Christianity, or Islam? Well, obviously, the Muslim moment, so he's going to practice the
slop. But by definition, if we had all these terms, now we, you just described where Judaism come
from, from, from the tribe of from the Judah, you have Judaism, and then you gave the history, then
you have Christianity from Christ. This is named after a person, and then persons and then you have
Islam, which causes a person to acquire peace, by submitting, like you said, submitting your will to
		

			the will of the one God. So I mean, just as a layman, I know that Moses, he was calling people to
that he was doing that. Yes. So we had a multiple choice? Well, I mean, well, I think if we had a
multiple choice, what we'd have to say is that Moses would probably recognize elements in all three
religions. You know, but there would be elements within Judaism, he certainly wouldn't recognize,
okay, that came into being a long after his time, certainly elements in Christianity, that he would
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			God having a son or the Trinity or any of these things? Did he preach teacher or, or give four
warning about this coming? No, no, no. Okay, this is very interesting. It's enlightening. And that's
what we're trying to do it enlightened the hearts and minds of the people now bringing it back to
Jesus peace be upon him. So the main question here is, was Jesus peace be upon him? Was he
practicing Christianity or Islam? And if you can just continue from there? Well, again, Christianity
didn't exist even by name at the time of Jesus.
		

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			when I look at the origins of Christianity, to a great extent, we have to look at politics.
		

			Yeah, as the person who originated Christianity, much more so than than one would look at Jesus. So
is it safe to say okay, in the Arabic it's Islam? Yes. But now if you were speaking Aramaic, just
like you and correct me, you're our teacher here today. The language of Jesus wasn't Aramaic. Yes,
it would have been Aramaic. So when we look and we dig how he called on God, the Creator because he
didn't speak English, he would say Aloha and Aramaic because it's true. Well, even even when we look
at Hebrew, yes, you know, we have in the Old Testament, we have the words Elohim and Elohim. These
are the words typically translated as God in most English versions of the Old Testament. And these
		

			words are linguistically similar, comparable to the Arabic word Allah. Yes. Now, Hebrew and Arabic
are sister languages is a Semitic language group. And we're told that the word Allah by Eben Abbas
simply means our Illa. In other words, Allah is a contraction for our illa An owl Illa. literally
translated is the God the God period. The one guy yeah. Now
		

			eloheem in Hebrew, again, the gods plural, but that's a plural of respect.
		

			Now, let's dig a little deeper. If I spell out Illa in Arabic letters, it's Alif Lam LS la Ha.
		

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			Remember these letters? Alif? Alif. laam. Ha,
		

			that's a la. Now if I spell Ll o heme in Hebrew letters. I spell it Alif laam Alif Lam?
		

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			What about this? yawei? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is this can we could we say that this is the same law? Or
what would what would you give? And how would you translate this the meaning of this yawei. Now
biblical scholars have some debate amongst themselves. Yeah. As to the proper translation of YALI.
		

			I've heard it somehow translate as the everliving God
		

			Hmm, I Am that I Am I cause to be what I cause to be. I mean, these are all sort of translations
that have been offered by one or another. Yeah, biblical scholar. But certainly, yeah, yeah, way. is
the God. Yeah. You know, the Quran tells us, you know, call upon Allah or call upon Rockman, the
Compassionate by whatever name you call upon it as well. You know, so yes, yes, way. Yeah. Elohim.
Allah God. So as long as we're not now mixing up the Creator with his creation and forming a mental
image of picture, having God turned into a man, and then he overhears a cat. Oh, no, he's a monkey,
or anything in the creation? That is where we draw the line. I say, No, that can't be the Creator.
		

			Absolutely. But we don't draw the line in terms of language language, okay. You know, if you if
you're Greek, you're gonna see fayose if you're Latin, you're gonna say that they use. Yeah, you
know. So it's the concept here that we're really the attributes of God and how he defines himself
that we go by Tell, tell it we were going to take a break. We'll be right back with more.
		

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			Coming to the truth requires two things. It requires deep thinking that you've already done but it
requires another step. And that's courage. If you have the truth, but you don't have courage, you
won't stand up for the truth. And that's as good as standing up for falsehood.
		

			I would say this thing that you just told me, it's not in the Scripture, and they would say a
marginal note added by a scribe. Yeah, okay. We know that. And I'd be thinking, if you know, this is
not the Bible. Why are you preaching it as if it's gospel truth.
		

			Started out actually, in high school, I was a born again, Christian. I accepted Christ as my Lord
and Savior as we used to say and I, I became very committed as an evangelical Christian and I went
off to Moody Bible Institute for college, which was a fundamentalist Bible College. After that I
went to Wheaton College, which is a liberal arts college. It's Billy Graham's alma mater, it's and
Evan jellicle school. So I had very solid angelical Christian commitments and eventually, I got
		

			A seminary degree and I was a pastor of a Baptist Church for a year.
		

			But gradually, for a large number of reasons, I started to question some of the assumptions that I
had about the faith. For a long time, I thought that the Bible was inspired and inerrant, that there
were no mistakes in the Bible. But as I engaged in historical research on the Bible, as I was
getting my PhD in New Testament studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, I started finding
mistakes in the Bible. And this this cut away at my assumptions that the Bible was an errand. And
then I started questioning other parts of my faith is Jesus really divine? is a really a trinity.
Today we're talking about answering the question, Jesus, peace be upon him, who is beloved to our
		

			hearts. And we do this, these type of programs, because we want to share, because we care. And
there's some misinformation about many of God's messengers. And God Almighty sent the last and final
revelation, the last testament, and the verbatim Word of God to clear these things up. So we're just
trying to share and give a different perspective. And all we ask is people that they have an open
heart and open mind and consider, tell us now, this concept of acquiring peace of submitting
yourself to the one God. So if you were to take that into the Hebrew language, Aramaic language,
French language, it's that concept. That's the main thing that you submit and surrender your will to
		

			the will of the Creator, God Absolutely. still get hung up on a word and a word people get hung up
on Arabic in ages. Yeah, you know, whether you say Allah, or whether you say, God, or whether you
say your way, you know, we're talking about the same thing.
		

			You know, if you're German, you say, instead of God, thing, you know, and let's not let differences
in languages drive us apart. What we're talking about is the one and only deity. Yes. So when we say
the one and only deity, when we describe his attributes, I feel as most of us do that these connect
with the human being, that he is without beginning without and that he is not like his creation,
that he is independent of all, but we're all dependent on him. We are all very dependent upon. Yeah.
So is this also something that all the messengers that we see, I mean, you know, the Bible, you
know, back and forth? Is this what we see if anyone who is sincerely looking to do God's will, if
		

			they even study as being a Christian, or a Jew? And they study it? Will they come to the same
realization as most of us have that? You know, Islam is definitely indeed in the Bible. And it's
there, as a message was teach by all the prophets taught by all the prophets? Sure, I think anyone
who reads the Bible with an open mind,
		

			and does a little digging, will find the answer. And the answer is that there is one God, and that
we, as God's creation, are called upon to submit to Him, to surrender to Him.
		

			And that our one God is a very much a personal God. Yes, as a God who offers us love offers us
compassion offers us mercy. When we fail, he offers us forgiveness if we turn to him with repentance
in our heart, and the effort to change our ways, many attributes of God and by the way, another
pitfall of language is one that we can't avoid. We both have here today refer to God with the
masculine pronoun, yes. And obviously God.
		

			You know, we can't categorize according to masculine or feminine pronouns, etc. This is just simply
the convention of the English language that we use the masculine pronoun, but the attributes of God
Some are masculine in nature, some are feminine in nature. Dr. Gerald Dirks, thank you very much. If
people want to invite you to come and to give a talk, a lecture or a seminar How can people get a
hold of you? They can reach me at my website which is Dirks online books.com that's Dirks online
books that's all one word.com Thank you very much make it the crater love rewards you for being with
us. Thank you. Thank you. And we hope that you got to benefit from another episode of the deen show.
		

			The question was raised and the question was answered Jesus peace be upon him. He did Islam, Moses
did Islam. Abraham did Islam. What Islam? Yes, they all sought peace. From the owner of peace. They
submitted themselves humbly to the One God The one who created you mean who created man woman but
he's not a man or woman. It's the one guy, the one that has given us so much the one that we should
be grateful for thankful to. And if you like what we had to say here, continue to tune in every
week. You can also call the number on the screen one 800 662 Islam
		

			To learn more, and we'll see you next time here in a dish show until then peace be unto you is the
link to one of the beautiful things about our religion of Islam is the emphasis on direct ritual and
prayer to God directly. There is no intermediary, the lights will go on after the party, and the
party will end. It's very simple and very clear. There are no superstitious rituals, no strange
incantations the Time's running out, we might not make it till tomorrow. And this is something that
we need to think about. No speech is better than to do that we call people to Allah and to do the
word no speech is better. No, nothing is better than that. Is it true that if one person on the
		

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