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@Coach
>One man's truth is another man's lies. Ask ATLian and his ilk .....

Let those fellow alone....the only real problem they have with God is the requirement for 'good morals' and/or 'not having received favours from God'.

>Muslims believe that every people on earth have been >sent a Prophet/Messenger. This is why we agree with some >aspects of the Veda, Upanishad and other religion's
>scriptures for they have divine origin but in the case
>of i.e. Hinduuism polytheism has taken root and the
>original Messgae got lost in the midst.

Would like to know more, please.

>This is why you find that despite people
>living in different areas of the globe they have similar >views on values, morals, the belief in a Higher Being >etc.

Since men and women were created by God (in His own image) they will always have the desire to worship (God or any other idol). Godd and bad are defined in their inner man.

>I find this to be ironic! The Christians don't agree on the authenticity of parts of the Bible among themselves. The >Protestants omit the seven Pseudepigraphal books while the >Catholics recognise them as "words of God". So who is right?

Not until AD 1546 in a polemical action at the counter-reformation council of Trent (1545-63), did the apocryphal books receive full canonical status by the Roman Catholic Church. Before then, they were never accepted because :-
1. Were not written by an Apostle or under his direction.
2. The writers were not confirmed by acts of God.
3. Unlike the other books, these did not come with the power of God to transform lives and for evangelization.
among other reasons.

>If you (Christians) can't decide which is RIGHT then what is >an 'outsider' to make of it?

My point is that Muhammed and 400 years of Islam did not question the Bible in the way most morden muslims think. It only when people discovered that Muhammed was not mentioned un the Bible that all the noise started.

>There are also about 17 (!) English versions of the
>Bible and with every version you have
>different words, with the differeing words comes different
>intepretations and the essence is eventually lost!

For someone who is well knowlegded, you surprise me. Translations are not from copy 1 to copy 2...then copy 2 to copy 3......until copy 17. Current translation are being done from greek mnuscripts written between 100 and 250AD