Muhammad
How can Christians criticize Muhammad for allowing women to nurse grown men when it is a practice mentioned in their own scriptures?
Quick answer
While some may point to the nursing of adults in Islamic texts, the context and implications are vastly different from Christian teachings. Christianity emphasizes the sanctity of familial relationships and the nature of love and respect within them, which differs from the permissiveness seen in these hadiths.
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Key verses
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
Matthew 5:8bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Ephesians 5:3bible
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
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