The parables of Jesus

People say to me "if you think you can inherit heaven through good works then good luck." Well any reasonable person would question it at some point. The only way for me to be sanctified for committing a murder is through the death of another man? Him shedding his blood makes right all my wrongs? And when I do a wrong I merely ask forgiveness in the name of Jesus? If a person is truly sorry for their trespasses, why is so much harder to believe that our Creator alone could just accept their repentance then to believe that the only way is through the death of another person? I know my lord is a forgiving God and Jesus states this in Luke chapter 18. Ill get to that later. Ive come with ample verses from the four Gospels of Jesus because when I first examined Islam I thought, "so the only main difference between this and what I believe is the death of Jesus." I thought how could I be sure which one is the truth, so I turned to my scriptures and noticed that the red letters are Jesus words. Everything else is other people's words and opinions. So I read strictly what Jesus taught. At this I suppose I should clarify the basis of Islam. We have 5 pillars that we adhere to which include acceptance of faith (there is one God and Adam, Noah, Moses, Lot, John, Jesus, Muhommed and all prophets before Muhommed are His messengers.) Prayer, fasting during the month of Ramadhan, charity, and making pilgrimage to Hajj if we have the means. If I do these (the ones that I can afford to do) for the sake of God alone then not only will I sin less because trust me 5 prayers a day at specific times keeps your mind focused on not lying, stealing, cheating whatever. And when I do make a mistake I turn to prayer and repentance. Adhering to these acts make me love and fear to do the things that our Creator hates and keeps me straight, its only when I slack on prayers etc. that I start to fall into things of this world. God is surely the most forgiving and merciful. It was in the red letters that I found Jesus stressing exactly this. Not only does Jesus say to do these things but he stresses that you will be judged for your own actions (John 5 28-29 which Jesus also states that well be in our graves and will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment which every Muslim believes while most Christians believe we either go straight to heaven or hell). It was Paul's words etc that I found to declare Jesus as the sacrifice for sin, while Jesus continuously said to do good in order to inherit paradise. I mean that's what the majority of his parables were about.

Luke chapter 18:

18A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, WHAT MUST I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?"
19"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 20You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'[b]"

21"All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said.

22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

23When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. 24Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

26Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"

27Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

28Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"

29"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

Jesus told the man to do certain actions and to give charity in order to receive paradise.


Also in Luke 18:
9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

14"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

The man looked to Heaven (not to Jesus) and asked his creator to have mercy on him and for his repentance he is justified before God.

Also in Luke 18:
15People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. 16But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 17I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

What makes children innocent? They don't have the intentions of harming others, they know they have a Creator and they do good. He says people who are like children (not immature, simply having good intentions in all things.) INHERIT PARADISE.

Also in Luke:
35As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. 37They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by."

38He called out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

39Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

40Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, 41"What do you want me to do for you?"
"Lord, I want to see," he replied.

42Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you." 43Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.

Notice all this man had to do was have faith and love God, also note that it says even though Jesus healed him, the healed man and the others praised God because Jesus would always say it was not him but the power given to him by God. It would be blasphemy to worship Jesus instead of God and that's why Jesus would say I am not good, worship God alone, etc. etc.

Luke 19:
A tax collector that Jesus visited,
7All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a 'sinner.' "

8But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."

9Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

Jesus said he received salvation because the man gave up his ways, gave to charity, of course had fear and faith in God, and was willing to go the extra mile and pay back four times the amount he had taken from others. (Because tax is forbidden in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) In all of these examples, Jesus isn't just saying we should do these, he said these were the way for people to gain paradise. Interesting.

Luke 19:

11While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 12He said: "A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.[a]'Put this money to work,' he said, 'until I come back.'

14"But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'

15"He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.

16"The first one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned ten more.'

17" 'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'

18"The second came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned five more.'

19"His master answered, 'You take charge of five cities.'

20"Then another servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. 21I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.'

22"His master replied, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? 23Why then didn't you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?'

24"Then he said to those standing by, 'Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'

25" 'Sir,' they said, 'he already has ten!'

26"He replied, 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. 27But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me."

Well Muslims also believe Jesus will come back. In fact we believe that he didn't die on the cross but Jesus returned to God until time for his return. And we believe he s the Messiah. Messiah means to wipe or anoint because the Jews were asking for a king sent directly from God. And the way to anoint a king was to wipe oil across his forehead so Messiah (meaning to wipe or anoint) had nothing to do with being a quintessential savior, but instead the fulfillment of a promise that God had granted the Jews. That's why Jesus said he had ONLY come for the lost sheep of Israel. Anyway, the above parable is Jesus clearly referring to himself as that king who would go to a distant place and return.(back to God until he returns to earth) The people were expected to spread the message he had given and when he returns the people who haven't spread his message or had faith in the message (not paul's message) will have nothing and what they do have will be taken away. He even goes so far as to say "those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me." Muslims believe that when Christ returns he will kill the antiChirst and all his followers because they will be killing the believers. At this point there wont be any atheists etc. because they will all believe because they'll see the evidence so they will either be followers of Jesus or followers of the antiChrist it will be split between the two with no question that one of them is supreme. So the ones who decide to follow the antiChrist and massacre the ones who believe Jesus will be slain by Jesus himself as the above verse implies.

Anyway, I could go on and on with the red letters but I wont for now. I hope the people who read this at the very least take it into consideration. Knock and the door shall be opened.
Look at the words of Christ, look at the facts, and use logic and surely that will guide us correctly. Is it logical to think that God, who said in 1 Samuel that it is better to obey than to sacrifice, would need to send his son to be killed in order to accept a sincere heart? Do good to others follow Jesus words and actions, turn from harming others and repent for your wrongdoings and you will surely succeed here and in the afterlife. Just ask Jesus.