+setversion GNT

John 3:16

**John 3:16 - Good News Translation (GNT)**

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<16> For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. ```

Whether valid or not, every complaint that secular critics say they have about Christianity, from women's issues to slavery, is not only a tangible part of Islam, but usually magnified.

While the Catholic church is castigated for not allowing female priests, the fundamentalists of Islam force women into burqas and blow up schools that educate girls. Even activists known for championing women's rights in the Muslim world rationalize keeping captured women as sex slaves, since it is explicitly permitted in the Quran.

While Christians usually object to extra-marital sex, only Islamic purists plant consenting adults in the ground and stone them to death. And, if a gay couple doesn't get a wedding cake from a Baptist baker, this hardly compares to being thrown off a high building.

Christians are told to emulate Jesus - a pacifist and servant - and "walk, even as he walked" (1 John 2:6). Unlike Muhammad, who ordered military assaults against Christians, for example, Jesus told his followers not to resort to violence and to pray for one's enemies.

Jesus and Muhammad could hardly have been more different in how they lived or in what they taught others. Why should we not expect starkly contrasting legacies? Indeed, that is what we see, from the conduct of their closest companions to the livability of modern-day countries influenced by the predominance of one founder's teachings over the other.

**1 John 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<6> whoever says, "I abide in him," ought to walk just as he walked. ```

The difference between Christianity and Islam starts at the top: Muslims are told that their prophet Muhammad - a slave-owner, sexual glutton, thief and killer - is the most "beautiful pattern of conduct" and "example" for mankind to follow (Quran 33:21), as well as the "exalted standard of character" (Quran 68:4).

(Matthew 26:52)

**Matthew 26:52 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<52> Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. ```

(Matthew 5:9)

**Matthew 5:9 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<9> "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. ```

(Matthew 5:44)

**Matthew 5:44 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<44> But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ```

(Exodus 21:24)

**Exodus 21:24 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<24> eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ```

(Deuteronomy 14:2) Good goy bot.

**Deuteronomy 14:2 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<2> For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. ```

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(Matthew 5:39)

**Matthew 5:39 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<39> But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; ```

(1 Peter 3:15)

**1 Peter 3:15 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<15> but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; ```

(Colossians 3:19)

**Colossians 3:19 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<19> Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly. ```

(1 Timothy 2:4)

**1 Timothy 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<4> who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ```

**Matthew 5:44 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<44> But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ```

Genesis 1:1

**Genesis 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

<1> In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ```

+setversion KJV

why come muslims and jews can read their scriptures in their original languages but christians cant read the bible in its original language (archaic)

and it seems christianity is the only religion that cant do this

out of the abrahamic religions

It's original language is hebrew @󠂪󠂪

ok

aramaic and greek

John 3:16

**John 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)**

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<16> "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ```

@󠂪󠂪 Because Christianity has done a better job at spreading through the world and has it's origins in a very small desert nation

I'm Christian