the way the truth the life

Bruno Lot Otchoun Who told you that ?

What did they mean by that ?

Why are they a reliable source of information about the Messiah ?

 

Every Prophet is the Way, the Truth, and the Life for the people of their time.

We are no longer in the time of the Messiah, and he certainly did not say "I will be the way", nor "I have been the way", and every rational mind knows that the way is not the Destination. If you were alive in the time of Moses, and among his people, then Moses would be the Way, the Truth, the Life, and we would similarly have no issue with such an attribution to either Moses, Noah, or the Messiah.

However, we are not in the times of these Messengers, nor are we the people that they were sent to — and we do not have a reliable transmission from them.

Yet, in their times, they were given revelation which would have been the most reliable source of information about the previous nations and previous messengers who found their success through God.

 

If you want to know the truth, act by the truth, and stay upon the truth — it is in complete and voluntary submission to the source of supreme guidance: God Almighty, the One Who everything is in need of, but Who is free of need; Who is not a reality to be explained, but the explanation of reality.

 

We affirm of the self-evident Creator what He taught us to affirm, and we deny what He taught us to deny.

The Creator affirmed for us, in His Book and by His Prophet ﷺ ,

that the purpose of our creation is to submit to Him and worship Him alone (without partners or likeness), developing a direct relationship and understanding with Him through this complete submission, and He ordered us to propagate this Message to others (of worship solely for the Creator alone).

 

In Arabic, this word for "Submitting to the Will of the Creator" is Islam,

coming from the root word for "submission" (silm, aslama) and "peace" (salaam).

 

In English, when someone does something, like "walk", or "breath", we add an "-er" at the end, to say that someone is doing that thing (walker, talker); in Arabic, we add "mu-" at the beginning.

Thus someone who does submit to the Will of the Creator, is someone who does Islam, and in Arabic is referred to as "Muslim".

 

Similar as no person invented walking, or breathing — no person invented Islam,

or gave a name to Islam; Muhammad ﷺ did not claim to innovate a new religion,

but announced himself as the Last Prophet, with the same religion and teaching

of all of the Prophets of the Most High, peace be upon them all.

Think about it. When a baby is born, does it decide its nature, or does it submit to its instincts?

It submits to its instincts — and Who instilled those instincts?

The Creator, the same Creator who gives us the names of what He creates and ordains.

 

Accordingly, we are all born Muslim, and even the planets submit to the decree of God which sets them in motion; the stars, plants, trees, animals are all Muslim.

To be Muslim and accept the religion of God, which was practiced and propagated by His Prophets, is indeed what God Almighty ordered us to in His Book,

and has affirmed for us in the teachings of His Prophets, peace be upon all of them.

 

What else should we claim ourselves to be?

The first record of the term "Christianity" in any ancient source appears first

in the writings of Ignatius, in the year 110CE.

This teaching and naming did not come from the Messiah, peace be upon him,

but was named by people who came after him, and named about him.

Indeed, even in the Bible, the anonymous author claims in the book of Acts, chapter 11, that the first use of "Christian" was long after the Messiah, in the town of Antioch.

This name was not coined by the followers of the Messiah, but rather by non-Christians.

 

Because there is no clear affirmation of this name from God or His Prophets as being The Religion, but rather is a term given by those without clear & evident authority from God Almighty —

we do not see any sense in claiming this title for ourselves.

Nor can we be sure why this anonymous author writes that the disciples allegedly went on to adopt this term which describes a religion about the Messiah,

and we can not be sure what defines "Christianity", or its followers.

In its modern form and orthodoxy, Christianity teaches unreasonable doctrines

with logical problems, professing absences from what is claims to be scripture;

necessitating a certainly false premise,

an emotional preference to their claim of 'revelation' due to its conflict with reason.

 

In the face of so many departures from the theology of the Messiah they prefer over God, what could we possibly reason "Christian" to mean to the Christianities?

Surely, if "Christian" means follower of the Messiah, peace be upon him, then the religion of Islam is more Christian than Christianity.

 

Truly, the religion of the Messiah is not possibly a religion about the Messiah (as "Christianity" developed into);

and likewise, Abraham certainly shared the religion of the Messiah, peace be upon them both.

Abraham, peace be upon him, could not have adopted this term, for similar reasons

that he could not have adopted the term "Jew" or described himself as one.

The term "Jew" & the religion of Judaism come long after his descendants.

Therefore, Abraham, peace be upon him, could not have described himself as a Christian, or a Jew;

rather, he was one who was righteously devout and voluntarily submitted to the Will of the One, Almighty God.

 

Abraham, peace be upon him, was united upon One religion, as are all Prophets of God Almighty; that is Islam, confirmed by the final Prophet of God Almighty, Muhammad ﷺ, and by God Almighty in His perfectly preserved Book: the Holy Qur'an, the last revelation.

 

To be Muslim and accept the Religion of God, which was practiced and propagated by His Prophets, perfected and prescribed by Him,

is indeed what God Almighty ordered us to in His Book (the Holy Qur'an),

and has affirmed for us in the teachings of His Prophets, peace be upon all of them

(such as the previous scriptures of the Scrolls of Abraham, the Torah of Moses, Psalms of David, and Gospel of the son of Mary).

 

Thus, we affirm His Religion which He perfected, completed and named, "Islam",

and that is described by Him as voluntary submission to His Will;

likewise we deny false gods and false worship as He taught us to deny.

He alone is sufficient for us & our salvation,

He is our Lord and to Him is our final return.

 

This is the purpose which God has revealed He intended us in our creation,

and which He has called to all peoples—to each having sent Guides;

the Way, the Truth, the Life through which to come to Him,

which He ordained and sustains.

 

For God the Most High, the Mighty Forgiver, sent His Last Prophet ﷺ as a Mercy for All Worlds; that whosoever believe & follow him shall not perish, but have everlasting life eternal.

 

Now, we are in the time of the Final Prophet ﷺ, the Spirit of Truth, who remains with us forever to guide us into all truth: Muhammad ﷺ is the Way, the Truth, the Life.

 

Truly, Allah the Most Praiseworthy certainly knows best.

 

God Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an, in chapter 43 verse 85:

“Glorious is the One to whom belongs the Kingdom

of the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them.

With Him is the knowledge of the Hour; and towards Him you are to be returned.”

 

Categorically, belief in His Oneness

 

1) it means affirming Him as One & Unique with regards to His actions

(such as creation, sovereignty, control, provision, giving life & death, and so on);

2) and it means devoting all acts of worship, both inward & outward, in word & deed,

to Him alone, and not worshipping anything or anyone other than God,

no matter who else that is;

3) and it means affirming the Names and Attributes of Him,

which He has affirmed for Himself or that His Prophet ﷺ affirmed,

and denying that He has any faults and denying any shortcomings

that He has denied Himself,

(thus He has affirmed that there is none like unto Him,

and denied that He bears any resemblance to His creation,

and affirmed that He has attributes of perfection

in a manner that befits Him, may He be glorified)

 

God Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an, in chapter 3 verse 64:

“Come unto an equal arrangement between us and you,

that we should serve none save God,

associating nothing with Him,

and not taking one another for Lords besides God.

And if ye decline,

then bear witness that we have submitted our will to God.”