It has been my experience that the verse from the Word of God most convicting to Muslims is:
1John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.Because it so clearly indicates the monotheistic nature of Christianity, and in terms they can understand through elements in their own religion, Muslims will declare it was a corruption, or added later, or any one of a number of different ways to try to escape the truth contained in the verse.
The reason for this is because it offers them an opportunity to understand exactly what Christians believe, as opposed to what a 7th century desert dwelling illiterate taught them that Christians believe.
Muslims believe in God, who is expressed in the verse as "the Father".
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=316.0Muslims believe the Quran is the
"word" of Allah from preserved
tablets in heaven, and sent down to Mohammed through "Jibriel".
85.21
Day, this is a Glorious Qur'an, 22 (Inscribed) in a Tablet Preserved! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWZqipvqTpMAnd they believe that God has a Spirit:
Sura 38:72 "
When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him OF MY SPIRIT, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."
They become angered at the verse simply because it shows them in simple terms that they believe in a similar three elements in Mohammed's religion! Thus rather than three separate gods, as Mohammed accused Christians of believing, Muslims can see just how preposterous that false accusation is. But the cacophony of cries that the verse was added later, or the verse has been thrown out, and outright hostility toward the verse, further fails to acknowledge that it is the subject of the New Testament. The Father, Word and Holy Spirit are what the new covenant is about, and is reinforced throughout.
Repeated in almost the very same words here:
Mat 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:The only verse needed to achieve an understanding of the relationship between the above two verses being this verse:
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.God "manifest", or revealed Himself, through the flesh of Jesus Christ. The Word made flesh. The perfect and sin free man to provide the perfect example for all mankind. Followed by the perfect sacrifice of himself through which all who believe in His shed blood may be saved. Even some Muslims believe that the first drop of blood shed by a so-called Muslim martyr may provide propitiation for the sins of 70 of his nearest and dearest friends and relatives. Jesus' shed blood is how a Good God allowed us all to be saved from our sins through this new covenant.
So rather than the Word being passed down to a murdering, thief in the 7th century to contradict all of the prior prophets and witnesses in scripture, the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
Stunningly Muslims even believe that God made Mary pregnant with Jesus Christ, yet deny that Jesus is God's Son, and God Jesus' Father, as the hundreds of verses in the Gospel declare. Thus Muslims are stuck having to believe that Mary had a child by and of herself. Because if God said "be", and Mary became pregnant with Jesus, it's painfully obvious who Jesus Father is. Yet they are taught He is fatherless, even as so often we hear them cry for "logic".
The reason is because Islam is the anti-religion. Islam is antichrist. If a Muslim were to declare Jesus to be God's Son they will have committed the most egregious and only unforgivable sin in Mohammed's/Satan's 7th century religion. Thus we can clearly see that this is the work of the jealous fallen angel Satan, ruling in his antichrist kingdom.
If a person deluded into believing themselves to be a Christian, but were to deny that Jesus is the Son of God, they of course would not have been a Christian to begin with.
2John 1:9
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=56.0Here's how the opening verse appeared in the original Koine Greek
(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) 1 John 5:7 oti <3754> {BECAUSE} treiV <5140> {THREE} eisin <1526> (5748) {THERE ARE} oi <3588> {WHO} marturounteV <3140> (5723) {BEAR WITNESS} en <1722> tw <3588> {IN} ouranw <3772> {HEAVEN,} o <3588> {THE} pathr <3962> {FATHER,} o <3588> {THE} logoV <3056> {WORD,} kai <2532> {AND} to <3588> {THE} agion <40> {HOLY} pneuma <4151> {GHOST;} kai <2532> {AND} outoi <3778> oi <3588> {THESE} treiV <5140> {THREE} en <1520> {ONE} eisin <1526> (5748) {ARE.}
