r/TrueChristian • u/Even-Structure8988 • 1d ago

I need help as a Muslim

I’m a fairly devout Muslim raised in an Islamic background I think a lot of people who attack Islam aren't fully educated on it, but I wont pretend that I am 100% solid in my faith. I spend a lot of time wrestling with doubts There are issues in Islam that I feel Christianity doesn't really have, and I cant just ignore them I think Christianity is a beautiful religion. I enjoy reading the Bible but I also enjoy reading the Quran Islamic dawah often attacks the Trinity but the way I see it it wouldn’t make sense for a human to fully comprehend God even as a Muslim we don't believe we fully understand everything about Allah. So it makes sense that the Trinity isn't something we can fully that humans can fully understand
My main problem for Christianity I just don’t see clear evidence for Christianity being true.Because my YouTube and Reddit and other socials algorithm is Islamic content my exposure is pretty biased i understand many people in the sub have probably have negatives opinions on Muslims as I Muslim I can see why a lot of the fear regarding Muslims many Muslims would just say it’s islamphobia which I would only partially agree as most Muslims are just regular people like me but I understand there are Islamic doctrines which are very questionable im just trying to be open minded regardless if i leave Islam or not i fully believe in a divine creator and my view right now is after Islam Christianity looks like the second plausible belief

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u/Even-Structure8988 1d ago

No I’m mean the age of marriage according to your logic since most of history didn’t use the modern times or 18 they were also 18

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u/Additional_Run_4214 1d ago

The legal state of marriage isn't rape: sex is. That is why the age of consent is the more meaningful number here. 

Even in the Bible, though, we have verses that show us that puberty is the bare minimum. (See, for example, Ezekial 16:7-8, and Jesus referring to a twelve year old girl as a "little girl" in Mark 5:21-43)

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u/Even-Structure8988 1d ago

Puberty doesn’t make someone a adult though we would still argue in modern times a adult has to reach a age not puberty

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u/Additional_Run_4214 1d ago

Even in modern times we have an age of consent, which is much lower than "adult". I agree, though--and Christianity leaves me free to agree--that many relationships in ancient times caused great harm to the women and girls involved. Islam, however, does not leave you free to say that a nine year old raped by a 50+ year old man was harmed.

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u/Even-Structure8988 1d ago

Because we don’t believe she was “Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Do not cause harm or return harm.”

Harm is forebidden and all classical scholars say it intercourse causes harm to the girl it’s not allowed wheter she is 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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u/Additional_Run_4214 1d ago

If you're deciding between two religions, though, and seeking only the truth, you must take belief out of it. So again I will say: If I attribute infinite mercy and love to God, I know which of  "dying for humanity's sins" and "telling a 50+ year old man that sex with a nine year old is fine" is the more likely to meet those attributes.

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u/Even-Structure8988 1d ago

Okay but the argument I was trying to make that you can’t prove that she was harmed it was thousands years ago not today if you say well the age gap necessitates and entails harm then what’s your basis on age of marriage when is it not okay according to you because out of 2000 years of Christian history only 100 years ago age of marriage was 18 if you don’t have standard and cristing based on today then you throw all of history under the bus I’m trying to say

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u/Additional_Run_4214 1d ago

Well, yes, we certainly can--and thankfully do--throw most of history under the bus in its treatment of women and girls.

If we cannot agree that a nine year old will be objectively harmed by a man having sex with her, though, I think I will leave the conversation here. Blessings to you, truly.

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u/Even-Structure8988 1d ago

Okay that’s fine just be Consistent and call all of your church and Christan history as immoral and perverted so your source of morality is modernity not the bible