Paul wrote... Is Allah (swt) at least partially responsible for the rise of Christianity?

A central Christian claim is that Jesus the Messiah died on the cross. Christians have varied in their understanding of this event - some like St Paul vested it with enormous soteriological significance, others like Peter (according to Acts) had no sense of Jesus' death as atonement for sin. But all were agreed that Jesus died on the cross. There is no historical evidence (despite what some ill-informed Muslims say) that any of Jesus' disciples thought the Romans did NOT crucify Jesus.

Now the Quran says that it was ‘made to appear that it was so’. So it follows that the Christian belief I have outlined above, a belief held by all the early church, is a direct result of God’s deceptive action. My dictionary defines deceptive thus: ‘likely or designed to deceive; misleading’.

I do not hold God responsible for what Paul made out of this crucifixion event, but the genesis of the development of the Christian understanding of Jesus’ death starts with God’s misleading Jesus’ disciples.

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Some of you my recall my mentioning of my experience with dawah at the American university of Beirut, Lebanon in the video "The challenge to Muslim minds".

Well, I just received this very encouraging message and I felt had to share it.  All praises to Allah.  Her last comment was excellent mashallah. Adam Deen.

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Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah Adam,

I hope that you arrived home safely.  I just wanted to thank you for your inspiring talk.  It was thought provoking and although it was a broad topic it was succinct. I hope that you understand what I mean when I say that it was good to hear you talking with emotion but not emotionally, it felt so true and I was able to relate to your message so easily.

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When will I be home?

Oh Allah, until I’m reunited with the One,

Let the invocation of your name quench my thirst,

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Maryam Namazie, member of the very much disgruntled Council of Ex Muslims, takes another opportunity to strike at Islam with her recent article in the Guardian, "What isn’t wrong with Sharia law ?”.  She claims that the current Muslim arbitration tribunals which operate under the arbitration act and Sharia councils are a demand of ‘Islamism’ to restrict citizens rights, in particular those of women, and that Sharia law is functioning as a parallel legal system here in the UK. Sharia courts do not in anyway work as parallel systems, but work in conjunction with British Law, so that tribunals can only result in rulings that comply with UK law.

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