Ross: The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
When someone tells you something, have you ever stopped to consider what exactly it is that causes you to accept that they are saying is the truth? Is it because the person speaking is a friend, maybe they are a person you respect, or is it simply because the person holds a position of authority? Whatever a persons reason may be, something causes them to make the decision that what they have heard is in fact the truth.

Do you ever feel like you are inside an enclosed trailer of an 18-wheeler, locked up with a whole bunch of other scared-to-death people. The driver has gone nuts and is weaving all over the road, he won’t hit the brakes and the truck is headed down a steep hill, picking up speed with every foot and there is a sharp curve at the bottom? Or perhaps the truck driver is playing chicken with the driver of another truck, also loaded with scared people and they are both headed towards a cliff at an ever-increasing speed, to see who will chicken out first and hit his brakes just before the cliff’s edge.
Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet of Allah, died in 632 AD. As historian James Carroll notes in his forthcoming book about Jerusalem, “The next year, only two years after the Byzantine Christians had reconquered Jerusalem…a mounted force of Bedouin fighters who revered the Prophet’s memory invaded the Byzantine-controlled territory of Palestine, near Gaza.” They called themselves Muslims.

