The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged Christians to imbibe the qualities and teachings of Jesus Christ as part of measures to contribute to the nation's development.
MURIC Director, Prof. Is-haq Akintola, said in a statement yesterday that the lessons of the life of Jesus are enough to surmount the problems facing Nigeria as a country if all the citizens would emulate him regardless of religious or ethnic background.
"If we can all be God-fearing, nobody would hate his fellow man or contemplate taking the life of another homo-sapien. Nigeria would be paradise on earth if we could all be as loving as Jesus. Seeking revenge would become history in our country if all would embrace the qualities of fortitude and forgiveness. Neither would poverty pervade the land if we adhere to Jesus' pattern of simple life.
"The Glorious Qur'an reveals that the life of Jesus was filled with piety, humility and simplicity (Qur'an 6:85). He was "held in honour in this world and the hereafter" (Qur'an 3:45) just as he was righteous (Qur'an 3:46) and was blessed (Qur'an 19:31)," Akintola said.
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What they mean is they want Christians to emulate the ISLAMIC VERSION of Jesus, which is quite a different thing altogether. Islam is ANTI-Christian. Go check for yourselves.
Islam is not anti christ as some people think what the so called christians don't know is that Jesus is not in the Bible as they think the Bible is nothing more than a collection of stories that were written by various people long after Jesus and many of the bible's stories are based on 4th accounts about Jesus. The Bible is not the actual Gospel that Jesus spoke the Bible is not even the inspired word of God as people have been made to believe ibecause it has many false stories about Jesus written by people long after Jesus even none of the authors of the Bible were present with Jesus when he spoke the Gospel. The is a book of fabricated stories changed countless times by people through out history. So many of us who were taught Christianity in the we western world are discoveringthe facts about the Bible and Christianity that is why now so many people are leaving Christianity in the western world for the truth of Islam. What the so called Christians don't know is after Jesus mission was over God revealed the Holy Quran as the last and final revelation for all mankind to know the truth about Jesus and to correct the false teachings of Christianity. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1590080696
Jesus never taught anyone to worship him or take him as the Lord and Saviour. Jesus was not even killed nor crucified on the cross but most people have been decieved the truth about jesus is in the Quran the last and final revelation of God sent for all humanity.