A warning about the differences between Christianity and Islam
A large complex built in center of the lower city in the 2nd century AD included a gymnasium and a bathhouse.
Let me give you some fluid facts: (the reason I say fluid is that the statistics are changing so fast it is hard to keep them current with any degree of accuracy.)
There are 47 Islamic nations worldwide. There are about 1.6 billion Islamic believers worldwide, of which 22 are Arab nations with over 345 million Islamic believers in the Middle East, and the Northern portion of Africa.
The Islamic religion is the most rapidly growing religion in the world. If you have a problem with the next statement, you going to have a real problem with the rest of the article.
The Islamic religion is often controlled by militants who want to impose their beliefs on the rest of the world.
There 3 stated goals are:
- Drive all Westerners out of the Middle East.
- Exterminate Christians and Jews.
- Establish a one-world Islamic government and religion.
Militants believe all Muslims are soldiers in Allah’s Army who must fight (Jihad), or, if they don’t fight, they must give financial support to those who do.
The Islamic theology belief system includes:
- All non-Muslims are the enemy.
- All non-Muslims must be forced to submit to Islam or be exterminated.
- All territory that has ever been under Islamic rule must be brought back under Islamic rule forever.
- When Muslims become the majority in any country, they must control the government.
- The Jews are only temporary residents of Jerusalem and Israel.
- There can be a temporary peace of up to seven years between Islam and others, but only so Islam can regroup and rearm, and there is no permanent peace with infidels.
- There can be NO concessions to non-Muslims; all concessions by non-Muslims are signs of weakness and an indication to Muslims that they are winning.
- Muslims are in a holy war (jihad) until their Judgment Day.
- Non-Muslims must not be allowed to say the name of Allah, even if that word is used to describe God Almighty.
The Muslim religion teaches that Christians and Jews have distorted the Scriptures (the bible is full of errors), but Allah’s messenger Muhammad, corrected those distortions and gave Islam the Quran.
He also gave them an example of his belief on Judaism and how to treat and deal with the Jews. Long before the Palestinian refugee issue of today, there were hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries in which they had lived for hundreds or sometimes thousands of years, even before the advent of Islam.
Mohammad and his contemporaries created a refugee problem when they banned Jews from Arabia. Then again, more recently, after the creation of a Jewish state, the situation of Jews in many Arab and Muslim countries became so fraught with risk that many felt they had no choice but to leave.
In the years following the establishment of the state of Israel, as many as 850,000 Arab Jewsbecame refugees from Arab countries in which they had been born. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands was far more than the number of Arab refugees from Israel. This is not a fact you will hear from the government, media, or your church.
Among the Jews that lived in Jericho during the seventh century were refugees from Muhammad’s bloody massacre of two Arabian Jewish tribes. The Jews of Khaibar had lived peacefully among their Arab neighbors for hundreds of years until the so-called prophet Muhammad “visited upon his beaten enemy inhuman atrocities,” massacring Jewish men, women, and children.
The Jews of Khaibar “had prided themselves on the purity of their family life; now their women and daughters (the ones spared execution) were distributed among and carried away by the conquerors.(Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1961), pp. 44-45)
Those Jews who managed to escape the sword of the so-called prophet Muhammad were forbidden to remain on the Arab Peninsula, pursuant to the so-call prophet’s command” “Never do two religions exist in Arabia.” Many settled in Palestine, joining Jewish refugees from post-Roman Christian oppression.
The Roman Catholic Crusaders massacred thousands of Jews along with Muslims in the eleventh century, but soon thereafter Jews from France, England, and later Spain, Lithuania, Portugal, Sicily, Sardinia, Rhodes, and Naples established centers of Jewish learning and commerce in the land that is now Israel.
From this time on, Palestine was never without a significant and well-documented Jewish presence. All through history and including the 1830’s massacre of Jewish men, women, and children, the Jews have occupied Palestine as their relatives had for thousands of years.
Think of Muhammad in relation to this statement from the Bible: "For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;" Revelation 22:18.
Islam believes that Muhammad’s teachings supersede (replace) those of Jesus and the Holy Word of God. From the Word of God Muhammad has added to the Bible which is forbidden and carries a curse.
Muhammad’s disciples must do more good works than bad or die a martyr’s death to be saved, in effect, salvation by works. The more radical members of Islam don’t believe in a civil society (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, et. al.) where women and minorities have no rights.
They quickly remove basic freedoms we take for granted: human rights, civil rights, and women’s rights, and justify the killing of innocent men, women, and children to promote their cause.
Let us briefly contrast Muslim beliefs with Christianity to see what the differences are:
Muslims worship the moon god of Mecca called Allah
Muslims say Allah is not a god of love, but Christians believe “God is love”
Muslims say Allah is not a father, but Christians believe that Jehovah is our Father
Muslims say Allah cannot be known personally, but Christians believe each of us can know God personally
Muslims say Allah made a covenant with Abraham to give the promised land to Ishmael’s descendants, but of course the truth is God made a covenant with Abraham to give the promised land to Isaac and his descendants forever.
The Muslim Quran teaches that Jesus was created from dust like Adam, but Jesus was born of a virgin.
Muslims say Jesus was a messenger of Allah, however, Jesus is the Son of God.
Muslims teach that Judas Iscariot died on a cross, however, Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of sins.
Muslims teach that their sins can be forgiven, all they have to do is kill an Infidel (any non-Muslim) to obtain forgiveness.
Muslims believe in a Messiah called the Mahdi, but Jesus Christ is the Lord of Lords and the soon coming King, and Messiah.
Muslims teach that the Messiah will be a descendant of Muhammad, but both Christians and Jews know the truth, that the Messiah is a descendant of King David.
Muslims teach the Messiah will reign on earth for seven years and die; however, Jesus will reign on earth for 1,000 years and he is, was, and always will be the Son of God.
I hope this gives you some facts that will assist in your understanding of Christianity in relation to the Quran. There is no Biblical basis for creating another inspired Scripture beyond that which is available in the inerrant Word of God.
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Sources:
lbn Kathir, The Signs before the Day' of Judgment, Dar Al Taqwa Ltd, London, 1992. (Ismail Abul-FadI Umar lbn Kathir was one of the leading scholars of Islam of the 14th century. Excerpted from his 14 volume history of Islam.)
Robert Morey, The Islamic Invasion, p.158, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, 1992.
Michael Youssef, America, Oil, and the Islamic Mind, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Ml, 1983, 1991.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastings, T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1908.
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