Hello,
Thank you for the email, though it did include some empty accusation, without specifics regarding the "hate, bigotry and nonsense" you suggested. Since we operate several websites it would help if you could be more specific.
The ecumenical/interfaith pluralist nature of your email, would suggest you're more victim of than remedy for, the prophesied "falling away" which even you suggest the "church" may unhappily find itself in.
http://www.christianeschatology.com/falling_away_apostasy.htmYou might agree that Jesus
IS truth, so wouldn't the best way to serve Him need to begin by seeking out and following the truth? Yet you seem to desire to run and hide from or paper over the truth, regarding Islam, rather than face and address it.
A Christian only needs a single verse from the Quran to understand that all Muslims must
DISbelieve the crucifixion of Christ and thus reject His shed blood -
the whole subject of the Gospel -
as an article of their faith in
THE false prophet Muhammad alone:
Quran Surah 4:157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but
they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow,
for of a surety they killed him not:-
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/Is my pointing out the matter of fact opposite and opposing nature of Islam, what you would characterize as "If you pick and choose the bad parts of things..."?
Do you think the best way to love Muslims, is to pretend that Muhammad was a prophet of the God of Christians and Jews, thereby endorsing Muhammad's lies and encouraging them to continue down the path they are on?
Muslims must deny (and even blaspheme)
the Son of God as another article of their faith in Muhammad alone:
Quran Surah 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/islam_is_antichrist.htmHow can we help Muhammad's followers overcome Satan's
specifically counter-Gospel, antichrist, anti-religion of Islam, if we hide the truth from them and pretend that Muhammad was a "messenger" from other than Satan himself? Indeed Islam is a direct inversion of the Gospel.
Regarding churches emptying out, it has been going on in Europe for nearly a century and finishing up now, just as prophesied for these times. Satan is filling the vacuum left:
http://www.christianeschatology.com/falling_away_apostasy.htm#apostasy_in_europeHowever you seem to misunderstand the growth of Islam. Islam is growing because Muslims have children at 3 to 4 times the rate of westerners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYUAbout 50% of which are inbred, throughout the Arabic world (some Islamic countries such Saudi Arabia's rates are much higher):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2w4zAken08But while Islam grows through baby making, over
6 million Muslims come to Christ every year, in Africa alone. Many African pastors are former Imams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbARhSI2xioYou are flirting with blasphemy yourself, by suggesting an equivalence between the historical
anti-Gospel murderous violence of the Roman Church, which was as you suggest "contrary to Christ" and what we are commanded through the Gospel.....
.....as compared to the very specific commands through the Quran and Hadith,
as thoroughly understood by hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world, to conquer and subjugate all non-Muslims to ultimately join them in DISbelieving the crucifixion of Christ and denying and blaspheming the Son of God:
Bukhari, V1 B2 #24 Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle.....
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/jihad_islamic_terrorism.htmSimply ask your Muslim friends by whose authority, and on what date, that Hadith and the following command from the Quran was nullified:
Surah 9.111 Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise):
they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in ..... the Qur'an:
Certainly that verse isn't lost on true, fundamental, orthodox Muslim scholars like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who heads The Islamic State and whose actions are supported by the Quran and Hadith, Muhammad's own behavior, and 1400 years of Islamic history:
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/the_islamic_state.htmPerhaps yours is one of the partial-preterist, anti-Zionist, interfaith pluralist "church" institutions, that even lets Imams come in and conduct Islamic worship services. If so, I am sorry for how sorely and conspicuously you have been deceived.
http://www.historyofzionism.com/zionism_in_christianity.htmIt is true that my simple matter-of-fact approach may seem more of a hardball approach, even though I simply present the truth, as I have come to understand it. The body of Christ contains many members that are individually and uniquely called.
Since Muslims are killed by State statute, or at least disinherited and shunned by their families and community for coming to Christ, it can take many years for them to stop blinding themselves to the truth.
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/death_penalty_apostasy.htmMy most sincere hope is that exposure even to just a line or two, in any one of my websites, will result in that first spark of cognitive dissonance, that could begin Muslim's journey to the truth. In that quest they will automatically find many fine sites (that I copiously link to on my sites) that can take over from that first spark of cognitive dissonance and help them find the love of God through a relationship with Jesus Christ:
http://www.muslimjourneytohope.com/watch.phpWhile the politically correct crowd hurls oxymoronic epithets like "Islamophobe", at honest people that love Muslims enough to show them the truth, their amusingly transparent efforts are always a conspicuous effort to squelch dialogue because their ideology cannot stand in the light of truth and rapidly collapses through discourse.
http://www.falseprophetmuhammad.com/islamophobia_or_christian_love.htmIs the best way to love Muslims really, to excuse away Muhammad's (Satan's) lies thereby encouraging them continue in those lies, or to show them the truth?
Instead of engaging in empty hollow accusation, why don't you instead see if you can be constructive and help out, by beginning with a critique of this site:
http://www.islamandthetruth.com/Again, thanks for the email.
Pete