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Gabriel a 7th c. Priest gave Muhammad a Xtian Qur'an!

In this video Joe refers to the influence of a priest named Gabriel concerning Omar's (i.e. the 7th century Muhammad's) conversion, followed by references to Gabriel giving him, what later became the Qur'an, but was initially Christian lectionaries and Hymns. Joe discovered this Muhammad, who went by Omar (or Umar, Ahmr, Khaled, and even Ambrose) and his backstory from 7th century clues and non-Islamic documentation and references in Chinese writings in the East. There are 'echoes' in parts of the SIN (Standard Islamic Narrative) on the origins of Islam corroborating his discovery. One reference in the SIN suggests Omar and Muhammad rise from the same grave, implying they were the same person, but that Omar was up in the north. In 647 AD we find a Byzantine Coin with an image of a king holding a cross in his hand with the name MHMD imprinted on the left, suggesting that Omar used that name towards the end of his life, but wanted the world to know he was a Christian. So how did he convert to Christianity and where and when did he receive the Qur'an? Joe mentions this could have initially begun over his remorse upon reading Christian writing on a jaw bone which he used to kill his sister (from Sean Anthony). But, the more likely reason had to do with a priest named Gabriel, who also lived at the same time. Joe suggests that Literalist Jews would have demanded a tax like the Jizya from Christians. But Gabriel after spending time with Omar releases the Monophysites from all taxes (i.e. the Jizya and Tithe/Zakat taxes) which supports the notion that Omar thus became a Christian at this time (as only the poorest believers are released from Tithe/Zakat). Hoyland dismisses this account, due to the fact that there were references to worship with wooden gongs, and a treaty, all happening during a conquest, which Hoyland believed didn't exist that early, as worship would have not taken place, nor a treaty signed during a conquest. Shaun O'Sullivan's PhD thesis disputes Hoyland's analysis saying that both the worship and a treaty could both be accurate evidences from the 7th century, as wooden gongs were being introduced then, and a treaty was perfectly feasible. In 644 AD, before his conversion, Omar lost a debate with John of Sedre after which he was introduced to an Arabic version of the Gospels (probably the Diatessaron, a composite of the 4 gospel accounts first created by Tatian in the 2nd century). It could be that it was not only this document, but other Syriac Christian Lectionaries and Hymns which were then given by Gabriel to Omar, which could have comprised the nascent Qur'an, which were credited to the Muhammad of the 7th century (i.e. Omar). The Birmingham folios (made up of 33 verses which include stories of the '7 sleepers of Ephesus', James the Lesser, and the story of Moses) could be an example of this earlier nascent Qur'an created in the mid 7th century between Omar and Gabriel. It was about this time (644 AD - 647 AD) that Joe believes Omar finally converts to Monophysite Christianity, due to his relationship with Gabriel the priest, after which in 648 AD Gabriel dies. In conclusion, Joe believes that Omar was initially a Fanatical Literalist Jew, who was converted to Monophysite Christianity by a priest Gabriel, who also subsequently bequeathed Syriac Christian lectionaries and hymns (known in Syriac as the 'Qariana'), to Omar. Interestingly, Leo the Isaurian in 728 AD states that the Quran comes from Omar and "Abu Turab". Joe says this probably refers to the events reported a little less than a century earlier suggesting Gabriel, as "Abbot of Tur Abdin", who gave Qariana materials to Omar. Thus, an early 7th century priest, Gabriel, is influential in not only converting Omar (last known as Muhammad), but helping him create a nascent Qur'an, made up of Syriac lectionaries and hymns, then changed in the later 9th - 10th century Traditions not as a priest, but as the angel Gabriel. This suggests that much of the much later Abbasid SIN traditions begin with a germ of historical truth, but then embellish and add to it, and change not only the principle participant from a man to an angel, but change the place where it all took place from Cizre (Ad flumen Tigrim) down to Mecca as well. This also helps us understand how bits and pieces of fragments of the Qur'an are carbon dated to the 7th century, as they could very well be parts of the earliest nascent Qur'an, but not from heaven, nor from an angel Gabriel, but made up of folk tales, Jewish apocryphal accounts, and Christian Monophysite lectionaries and hymns. Once we look at what was happening historically on the ground in the 7th century, we can begin to find who Muhammad really was, and where the Qur'an really came from. Joe's 'Red Judaism' Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHmaIx7u2VvZRHNXViafQQ © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2021 (54,800) Music: 'Reaching the Sky', by Alexander Nakarada, from filmmusic-io

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