I thank you all for responding. It has encoraged me much. I work in an community that has an reglious diversity in that Roman Catholics, Protestant (pentecostal and baptist particularly) churches dominate the area but by and large are mostly depleted of members. In the midst of all of this is a Nation of Islam temple. However not all muslims worship there. There are splinter groups scattered throughout and feeding the idea that what Islam testifies to is true.
Like bus billboards financed by CAIR "Abraham - Jesus - Mohammed" (which is preposterous since the most important fundamental of Islam makes it specifically antichrist.
There is a difference of something being truly stated and the truth. Hopefully you would like one to be in concert with the other but it is not always the case. The Quran state alot of things truly, ei: The virgin birth, God protects his revelations including the bible,.....
But in the OP didn't you suggest they believe the reverse of this? (and indeed they must to follow Mohammed)
...... That God is the creator of all things.
While Mohammed did a poor job of plagerizing even the few elements that allude toward scripture, with the help of Jabr and/or his tri-lingual secretary, Christian/X-Christian slaves, relatives, and a defrocked Roman priest, there is little that is true, and that more by happenstance.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=452.0 However speaking the truth is where it lacks detail for example it expresses that the disciples that asisted Jesus in his mission were confessed muslims. The problem with this is that the terminology of Muslim did not come about till about 600AD. So it begs the question what is a muslim? A muslim is a person who has submitted himself to the obedience of God, that is funny, isn't that is what a disciple is.
Muslims are disciples of Satan as was their false prophet Mohammed.
Mohammedan is an older and far more descriptive term since they follow Mohammed and must reject the Word of God to do so.
The Arabic term "Islam" means submission to God. Christians and Jews are submitted to God. The Mohammedans have only been deceived into believing they are through their false prophet Mohammed. According to the Word of God they are submitted to Satan.
Jhn 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. So a muslim is a misdirected disciple of Christ! because most muslims don't even read the Quran they follow the teaching of Muhammed.....
How do they follow the teaching of Mohammed without reading the Quran, unless you meant to say they follow the teaching of their Imams?
........ which always points back to Christ.
I see it pointing
anywhere but to Christ. Pointing directly to Satan
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:-
The perfect and exact opposite of Christianity.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=698.0 You will rarely see the word Christ in the Quran but it is in there. Other passages use the term messiah which is the same as the word Christ. I have assembled a number of Quranic passages which cover Christ's birth, ministry and ascension when I am done I plan to publish them as the Injil of the Quran so that Christians can understand what most muslims believe about Christ. So that the Christian can be informed so that they can effectively lead these misguided disciples back to Christ. For if the first disciples confessed they were muslims then all of them that they have preached and discipled are also muslims under the teaching of Christ.
Surah 9.29
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth,
(even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. 30 The
Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.
Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! If Christians are your intended audience why not focus on the direct opposite and antichrist nature of Islam? Why not start with the bare-bones fundamentals of Islam rather than going down a proof texted verses trail.
When some Christians credit the Quran with prophecy - for example those that believe that the Mahadi is the same as their "The" "Antichrist" - they are necessarily crediting the Quran as being inspired, at least in part, by God.
I think the similarity should instead be considered as a compelling case for reconsidering one's eschatology if it aligns even in part with what Mohammed taught.
Why muck around with proof texted plagiarized verses, that try to imitate the Word of God, since you suggested your interest was "so that Christians can understand what most muslims believe about Christ"? Seems to me some ecumenical types will want to come away with "See the Muslims believe in Jesus too!". But then so does Satan and more than a few unregenerates. It's all about
what we believe about Jesus.
Muslims believe the
exact opposite of the Gospel. I think it's high time that Muslims
and the church both wake up to that fact.
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