Muhammad and his Religion

The following will offend I'm sure of it...

I write to you this question...

is Islam and Christianity essentially one in the same?

think about that, let it sink in...

I know, it's a really stupid question if you actually

happen to know what being a Christian is.

The thing is, the world we live in would have you believe

that being a Muslim being a Christian...well they

are the same thing, and not only is that false

but it is completely ridiculous.

A couple months ago I watched a film called

"The truth about Islam". Now I've never

associated Islam and Christianity,

meaning I never thought

"Oh generally they are the same thing"

I always thought they were quite the opposite,

and what has annoyed me is everywhere

I seem to look everyone compares

Christianity and Islam like they are the same thing.

Even the Government wants you to believe that,

remember after 9/11 how much fuss was made about Islam?

It's like out of nowhere this huge campaign of

"Islam is a religion of peace" came across the country..

Government officials and the President himself was claiming

that "Islam=Peace" and it's the same as any other religion,

they have the same values and blah blah blah.

It just seems like the world itself is so scared to offend

"Islam" and quick to come to it's defense, but yet

not so quick to defend Christianity.

Think about when there was/is murders or cult groups

killing in the name of Christ, completely giving

God and Christians a black eye...

where was the government officials then?

where was anyone to say "Hey, thats not

really what a christian is about...

Christianity is a religion of peace"

So I figured I'd better look into this "Islam"

so I can at least have my facts straight when I

correct someone comparing the two, like

everyone seems to do now a days.

I always figured how can you compare someone

like Jesus Christ to Muhammad ? So I just so happened

to watch "The truth about Islam" and I'm thinking...

"Ok...wait a minute they must be twisting

words around in the Qur'an"

Because the movie claims that essentially

the only people living like true muslims are

the radical ones, you know the ones going around

killing everyone?, now that obviously goes against

what we are told over here in the west and that whole

"peace" thing. So I figured I would look in the Qur'an

myself and see if those verses actually say what the

people in the documentary said, and to my surprise

they did. Take the ever popular "Verse of the Sword"

9:5 But when the forbidden months are past,

then fight and slay the Pagans(unbelievers) wherever ye find them,

an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them

in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent,

and establish regular prayers(worship Allah)

and practise regular charity,

then open the way for them:

for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

9:33 It is He(Allah) Who hath sent His Messenger(Muhammad)

with guidance and the Religion of Truth(Islam),

to proclaim it over all religion,

even though the Pagans may detest (it).

8:38 Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief),

their past would be forgiven them;

but if they persist, the punishment of those before them

is already (a matter of warning for them).

8:39 And fight them(Christians,Jews,anyone who doesn't worship Allah)

on until there is no more tumult or oppression,

and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere;

but if they cease, verily Allah doth see all that they do.

Those verses are saying Kill whoever doesn't believe

in Allah and Muhammad's "holy word" wherever

you find them, only show mercy if they turn

from their Gods and decide to worship Allah.

It is a Muslims duty to force people into their beliefs,

if someone refuses to worship Allah and claim

Muhammad as a prophet they are to be killed.

Now I know what you are thinking,

"But...but..In the Holy Bible specifically in the Old

Testament God tells the jews to kill people too!"

Yes, specifically the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites,

Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

God chose the israelites to work through,

and to bring punishment down upon those

who ignored God aka the "pagans" or "Idolaters".

He told them to destroy their pillars and idols and

to clear them from the land....

This happened to establish the promise land aka Israel..

so yes there is war in the bible.

Does that mean the Bible says Christians

should go around today and kill anyone who doesn't believe?

No of course not! You can't take God establishing Israel

or telling his chosen people (the jews) to fight in war

to mean the same thing. God chose the jewish people to

work through to punish those who worshipped Idols,

(not because they were sinless or better per say)

as he chose to work through the babylonians to punish

his own people.

Read the Qur'an for yourself, But you know what?

lets take all that out of the picture, lets say those scriptures

from the Qur'an are taken out of context. Lets ignore everything

I just said about Islam and say I don't have my facts straight,

because I'm taking verses of war, when there are plenty

of verses in the Qur'an about peace.

The fact still remains that they deny Christ

as the son of God, the fact still remains that

they don't believe Christ died for sins and rose again

and will return again not to bare sin but to bring

salvation to those who are waiting for him.

that in itself makes Islam totally different from Christianity,

it doesn't make any sense to say they are one in the same, when

they both think differently not only about a scripture but

THE scripture that means everything to Christian faith.

All you really have to do is compare Jesus Christ

and Muhammad. Comparing Jesus Christ

and Muhammad is like comparing

apples and oranges, You see

Muhammad was a perfect man(in the religion of Islam),

he was "the perfect Muslim" and of course he

should be considered that since he created

the freakin religion but thats besides the point.

Was Muhammad a man of peace? seriously..

did he live a life of peace? NO..Muhammad was

as peaceful as Genghis Khan,he ransacked jews and killed

anyone who didn't believe like he did...

He was ruthless and cut peoples heads off

claimed it was ok to beat your wife and

have sex with prisoners. He had many wives

and even one who was six years old, yes

Muhammad loved the little Children..

only in a much more perverse way then

Jesus Christ.

Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88; Narrated Ursa:

The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract)

with Aisha while she was six years old

and consummated his marriage with her

while she was nine years old

and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).

Do I really need to explain the difference between

Muhammad and Jesus Christ? they are exact opposites,

Muhammad is what a muslim considers a perfect man

and would be lucky to live how he did...

I don't remember Jesus killing anyone,

I don't remember him lopping peoples heads off..

I don't remember him sleeping with six year olds

Oh wait so sorry (9 year olds)

Plain and simple Jesus preached love and peace,

Muhammad forced people to believe like he did

with immorality and violence. How can Islam

be a religion of peace when it is founded on

violence?

Jesus died for you

Muhammad would kill you

Hmmm...Muslims and Christians the same thing?

I think not..

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I live to offend

There is therefore now no condemnation to those

who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according

to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Romans 8:1

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May the words of my mouth and the

meditation of my heart be pleasing

in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my

redeemer.

Psalm 19:14

I pray for your will(Lord)

I pray for your grace.

I shall not be ashamed

I shall live by your name

I won't live for this world

I'll live for the next,

even when I stumble and fall

I'll stand back up again

I shall speak your name,

even when I'm put in chains.

I'll never shut up,

even when threatened with death.

As REAL Christians we can't compromise our beliefs,

like I said last week If we our honest with people

then the bottom line is we will offend.

It's always hard to do the right thing,

It's so much easier to

1. Not say anything at all

or

2.Just simply say God hates the sin not the sinner

I'm guilty of keeping my mouth shut far to much,

and I'm not saying to throw a bible at everyone

but we must speak the truth and tell it like it is,

We have to say what we mean and mean what we say.

It seems to me nobody cares about offending Christians

when they continually use Gods name in vain, shouting out

"G D" this or "G D" that or the ever popular "Jesus Christ!"

that doesn't offend you? because it sure does me...I cringe

every time I hear it, I could careless if someone is cussing...

but if I hear those words my ears perk up and I feel disgusted.

Try to follow me here, we are not suppose to be of the world...right?

but that doesn't mean we ignore the world, I think that happens

far to much with "Christians" we choose to not be apart of the world,

to not live like the world, and thats great..

but we can't just ignore it completely.

A disciple takes the things of society(the world)

and then give it a righteous flavor..

they don't shut themselves off to the world and it's needs,

hide in their church's with their noses in the air as if they

are better and have nothing to repent for.

When I write or speak, when I correct someone...

I don't do it because I want to be right,

I don't do it because I think I am better then you.

I do it for the love of Christ, I speak his name

I tell you about Christ because he is the only way to salvation...

everything else is MEANINGLESS! Houses,Cars,Sex,Money and

Human selfishness is MEANINGLESS you can have it all

and still feel as empty as you did before you had "it all".

Believe it or not I wanted to write about a couple different

subjects, like for example "Islam" but then I changed my mind

and said "Naw...I don't want to offend anyone"...

I almost didn't write about what "Pat Robertson" said

a couple weeks back because I "Didn't want to Offend

those who hang on that guys every word"

but you know what I've come to realize something...

"I live to Offend"

and I don't mean I live to attack and rain judgment down on everyone,

I mean:

I live to spread the word of Christ,

I live to say what is right and what is wrong

not because I'm judge and jury...

or because I know all,

but because Gods word and God himself

is the judge, and his word is plain and simple,

it's black and it's white...

when it comes to what is right and what is wrong.

Keith Green

So I've been reading an interesting book this week,

It's called "No Compromise" the story of Keith Green.

Keith was many different things but was mainly known

as a Christian music artists,and sadly he died in a plane crash

in 82 but his music is still well known and loved.

I pretty much grew up listening to Keith Green,

as if I had a choice, as it was heavily played in

my parents car. I never really respected the music

until I of course truly found Christ for myself.

Keith was talented for sure and you can see

just how blessed he was with the holy spirit

through his music.

Keith took what he was singing very seriously,

and it was more then music to him...

it was one of the ways to get his foot in the door

to preach and tell people about Christ...

Keith wasn't making music for the money,

and you may be thinking

"Yeah...right"

But the fact is the man gave his music

away for free and didn't believe in charging

for concerts, because his mission

was to spread the gospel...he lived by

the verse Matthew 10:8 where Jesus himself

said:

"Freely you have received, freely give."

Outside of his music Keith and his wife Melody

took in total strangers to live with them,

they took people off the streets who were struggling

and told them about Christ. Crazy right?

most of this I already knew about Keith, but

what I found out about him from reading this book

was something that shocked me. Keith was only

a Christian for 7 years....To listen to his music,

to read about how much he did for people, I guess I figured

he must have just grown up a Christian, but thats not the case.

He gave his life to Christ when he was 20/21 and died at the age of 28

to me for a man who seemed to be so filled with the love of Christ

and actually went out of his way to disciple to many many people

I find it so amazing and at the same time tragic that God would

take him at such an early age.

What it comes down to is very simple...life is short..

wether you die at 28 or 88 we only have so long on this earth,

and we are called to disciple to others in this life we live.

Was Keith perfect? of course not he was human..

through-out the book you see how much Keith

struggled in his Faith just like we all have

our struggles.

I'm sure Keith rubbed a lot of people the wrong way

the man was on fire for God, but things he said

sometimes he went a little overboard and it seems

he was constantly struggling with "grace".

However I can understand where he was coming from

when he would go on a rant about people with their

"Jesus Bumper stickers" and "Jesus shirts" claiming

their christians because they have a fish on their car.

Keith even called out sinners at a concert he had for

a major Christian College, he told it like it is...and

he was sick of seeing the "Fake Christians"

again at times he went overboard specially when

he said every christian music artists should

do free concerts, but the man was still learning about grace

and sadly he didn't live much longer when he put

all the pieces of the puzzle together. Yes of course

we are saved by Grace and not works but the fact is

that doesn't mean we keep the love of Christ to ourselves

it also doesn't mean we throw it in peoples faces either

but you have to find middle ground...

and you don't do works to earn a spot in heaven,

you do what God tells you to do because you love him

and want to please him, because the love that he's given you inside

urges you to share it with others.

He came off strong but I truly believe he was a gift from God,

he was a much needed voice to that generation, and a much

needed voice in this generation.

This would be something where he came across strong at the end,

and he realized that and said next time he would say it differently,

sadly there wasn't a next time, overall his message was right...

People of all places need to hear about Jesus Christ,

they need to hear the truth in America aswell instead of

the watered down prosperity church version of Jesus Christ...

but not everyone is called to go to a different country

as he somewhat made it seem like.