Naaji and Logic,
One thing we all agree on is that we want to hear and believe God's unaltered and unchanged word. We all want to acknowledge and glorify Him as God and give Him His rightful place as Creator and as the One True God in the Universe.
However, in your desire to protect God's word do you realise that you have done the same you claim that Christians have done? You believe that God's unaltered and unchanged speech came to Mohammed and you believe that this is shown in that he in his illiterate state couldnot have written the Quran, but must have received it as a direct revelation from God.
What you have done, is determined that the Quran is an incarnation of God's word.. and therefore one of His attributes.. His speech. In other words, in order to hear and understand God, you believe He gave you His Word.. His Speech incarnated in the form of Quran.
Now if God for whom all things are possible could send His speech to the earth, in such a way that we could read and understand it .. could He not also incarnate that Word (and therefore Himself) in the form of a human and live on the earth? .. and since we both believe that both God and His Word are eternal, does that not mean that as you believe the Quran to be above changing and the revelation of God, cannot Christ, the eternal Word and the I am of God also be a revelation of the eternal word of God?
It's not a case of the Church turning a man into a god, but God himself using His own creation to reveal Himself fully. You see, we are both discussing the same thing here.. The fact that God's word is eternal, and that God has saught to make that Word known to us.. to you it's through the Quran, to us it's through Jesus Christ the Word of God.
Now, the arguement that follows is this.. since we both believe that God has chosen to reveal and give us His Word, it also stands to reason that there is a need for man to hear God's word and to get to know Him personally.. a bridging of the gap between man and God. Why else would He send His Word to the earth unlesss there is a very important message we all need to hear, whether Jew, Muslim or Christian?
If we only had a book.. be it the Quran or the Bible (even just the Torah, the prophets, and the Injil) all of us, Muslim and Christian would still only know about God. All of us would know of Him, we would believe in Him, but we would never KNOW Him.
You only know me from what I write to this forum. You know my name, where I live and you know my faith. You are probably getting a feeling for the sort of person I am based on how I write. If however, I was to come to your country, and live like you and befriend you I would get to know you and you would get to know me fully and completely. Infact it' s the only way you would really get to know me properly, because my actions will always speak louder than my words. My words are always open to different interpretation depending on how they are read, but if I am there with you, no would can misinterpret them.
So it is with Jesus Christ.. the Eternal Word of God for both Muslim and Christian. God come in the flesh, in order to fully reveal God to us. Jesus said to the Disciples who asked Him to show them the Father "If you have seen me you have seen the Father also" (John 14:9 -11) "The Words I say to you are not my own, Rather it is the Father living in me who is doing His work. Believe me when I say I am in the Father and Father is in me."
There is only one question that any of of us need ask therefore whether we want to accept Jesus as God come in the Flesh or not.. whether we want to accept the Quran as His Revelation or not (and Logic, there are many more evidences for the scientific and archological support of the Bible.. even the letters of Paul and the Apostles which I know you do not accept as Revelation) . Time does not permit me to show you these, but I will do so tomorrow if you are interested.) and that is... Why did He send His word to us anyway? I can answer only with His own words in John 3:16 -18
For God so loved the World He gave His only son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever belives in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in Him stands condemned already, because he does not believe in the Name of God's One and Only son.
Why do you say He gave us His word?