Choosing Faith by Dr. David J. Liepert

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CHOOSING
FAITH
DR. DAVID J. LIEPERT
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decided that if I really cared about them, I would have to change my Muslim friends into Christians. Since I made no distinction between faith and doctrine, I felt that by correcting their system of belief, I would be saving Muslim souls from the eternal torment of hell! I knew that although they were concerned about variations in the Bible's translation, Muslims still revered the Bible and considered it to have been divinely inspired. I knew as well that Muslims sought to worship and serve the God of Abraham (PBUH), the same God as Christians and Jews did. I was certain that it would be easy to find in the Bible the specific chapters and verses that would show my friends where they had been taught incorrectly and so lead them to true knowledge and faith in Jesus (PBUH). My task seemed to become even easier to me when I discovered that Jesus was already given the titles of Messiah and Christ in the book of Islam, the Holy Quran. Muslims, in my opinion, were all only one step away from Christianity!
The first thing I did was read an English translation of the meaning of their Book. I still remember the fear that I felt every day when I would sit down, prepared for spiritual combat. I expected with every turn of a page that I would read some horrible blasphemy that would test my faith. Instead, I saw worship and respect for God and the teachings of all of the Prophets. I had always been taught that
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Table of Contents
Author's Prelude
CHAPTER 1 First Steps..
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CHAPTER 2 - My Life as a Baptist.
CHAPTER 3 Bringing Light to the Heathen.
CHAPTER 4 The Divinity of Jesus.
CHAPTER 5 - The Nature of the Messiah
CHAPTER 6 The Claims of Jesus
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CHAPTER 7- The Spirit of Wisdom
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CHAPTER 8 Jesus as a Divine Sacrifice
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CHAPTER 9 - Jesus' Promise.
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CHAPTER 10 - The Epistles.
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CHAPTER 11 - Saint Paul
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CHAPTER 12 - My Choice.
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I recall vividly
CHAPTER 13 - My Reasons.. CHAPTER 14 End Notes..
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Glossary...
her death
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CHOOSING FAITH
About the author
Dr. David Liepert is a physician who was born in Calgary, Canada. He holds degrees and fellowships in Anesthesiology from the University of British Columbia and Critical Care Medicine from Stanford University in California. He is an associate professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Calgary and currently lives with his wife and children in Calgary.
Dr. Liepert has been active in multi-faith relations for many years. He is a founding director of Faith of Life magazine and the Faith of Life Network, an internationally recognized organization dedicated to helping diverse communities live together.
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ISBN 978-603-501-100-6
9786035 011006"