Can I follow the Old Testament in Islam?

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anatolian said:
I dont say that anyway. Allah doesnt have a gender ofcourse but HE has a personality according to Quran. But, as you say it is beyond our capability to understand the essence of HIS personality
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There are 99 attributes of Allah.It is not within our capacity to think of it.Can a cat think about human body?..Can a mosquite got capacity to think of a cats body?...Our purpose is not finding or discovering...Our purpose is to live practical worshipping Allah swt.Fear Allah..
 
azc said:
He said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." (1 Kings 19:10)
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This is not early Israel, it is centuries later.
 
fschmidt said:
Moses - 1300s BCElijah - 800s BCDo you need references?
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what about it:'' They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.'' (Numbers 31:8)
 
The main story of Balaam occurs during the sojourn of the Israelites in the plains of Moab, east of the Jordan River, at the close of forty years of wandering, shortly before the death of Moses and the crossing of the Jordan. The Israelites have already defeated two kings in Transjordan: Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan. Balak, king of Moab, [3]consequently becomes alarmed, and sends elders of Midian and his Moabite messengers, [4]to Balaam, son of Beor, to induce him to come and curse Israel. Balaam's location, Pethor, is simply given as "which is by the river of the land of the children of his people" in the Masoretic Textand the Septuagint, though the Samaritan Pentateuch, Vulgate, and Syriac Peshittaall identify his land as Ammon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaam
 
azc said:
what about it:'' They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.'' (Numbers 31:8)
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The Midianites tried to corrupt Israel. So this was self-defense. This is explained in Numbers 25.

The Lord told Moses: “Attack the Midianites and strike them dead. For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”
-- Numbers 25:16-18
 
I referred to the killing of Balaam and his people in previous post. How you can say this killings was in self defence...? I think You accept him a prophet, a diviner, a magician, in contrast, a corrupted one as well........ But As a matter of fact Balaam himself was not a killer
 
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[MENTION=30692]fschmidt[/MENTION] : Do think Balaam was an apostate...?
 
“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.
-- Numbers 31:16

Balaam wasn't innocent. He wasn't apostate because he was never an Israelite, he was a priest of Midian.

Now you tell me, are you sure that every single member of Banu Qurayza was guilty of a crime? I doubt that. Sometime communities are held jointly liable.
 
fschmidt said:
“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.-- Numbers 31:16Balaam wasn't innocent. He wasn't apostate because he was never an Israelite, he was a priest of Midian.Now you tell me, are you sure that every single member of Banu Qurayza was guilty of a crime? I doubt that. Sometime communities are held jointly liable.
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Balaam wasn't innocent. He wasn't apostate because he was never an Israelite, he was a priest of Midian
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So this killing can't be justified as it was not in self defence. Plz clarify it
Now you tell me, are you sure that every single member of Banu Qurayza was guilty of a crime? I doubt that. Sometime communities are held jointly liable
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their case was decided as per the rulings of torah. Children who hadn't reached to puberty and women were left alive, rest all the adult were considered liable for the collective effort to violate the treaty in order to exterminate the Muslim community as the whole.
 
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