Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Should Christians and Muslims Unite?

It's a noble thought when two peoples unite to understand each other better as most people believe. However, rather than looking at things through the world's eye, it must be done through scripture.
"The Christ Episcopal group and a group from the Islamic Center have visited the other's place of worship and talked about their respective religions, which helped 'put a human face on things,' Tivol said.
"The dialogue, the atmosphere was so positive," he said. 'We didn't avoid any subject. The more people can learn about each other, the better our society is going to be.'" (Bowling Green Daily News: Islamic Center Celebrates; Laurel Wilson, May 22, 2015)
Is it desirable that the meeting of the two religions "put a human face on things"?  No, it must be done in the context of right and wrong for both religions. Let's first examine Islam:
 Quran (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."
It would appear that Muslims cannot, according to the Prophet Mohammed, befriend those who are not Muslims! Yet they say that they do!

Furthermore, the command for Judeo-Christians is clear here:
Exodus 20: 3 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
The word "before" means "alongside" God. The acknowledgement of more than one God is syncretism and is why the Jews were defeated and dispersed in patriarchal times. That will happen again if we allow that to happen! Why? That's clarified in Christian texts:

James 3:11 "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12b ...can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."
The pretext for coexistence is that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. That they call him "Allah" and Christians call him  "Jehovah". It's true that Allah and Jehovah are the same in their respective transliterations to English, but God is not identified by his name, but his character. Accepting the premise that we all worship the same God is universalism and is heresy!

JHVH (Jehovah) is in our faith, the "One True God". From him springs forth a "fountain" which represents Jesus Christ.
Zechariah 13:1 "In that day there shall be a fountain (Jesus) opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." (parenthesis mine)
Jesus is the way and only way to salvation according to this verse:
 John 14:6  "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
God sent forth the fountain (Jesus). He is the "sweet water" and the "fresh". All others are "bitter" and "salt water"! They can't come from the same fountain. To accept that it can is the cardinal sin of Judaism. It's syncretism, worshiping other gods alongside Jesus!

Christianity does not condone acceptance of other religions. Neither does Islam. Why then are both the Muslims and Episcopalian churches endeavoring to foster understanding between the two. If one believes in the writings of Mohammad or Christian Holy Scripture, they cannot come to terms!  My belief is that it will be the Muslims who behead the Christians in the Apocalypse:
Revelation 20:4b "...and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
Since Islam is the only contemporary religion which beheads for being to them an infidel, it would appear to me that it will be the Muslims who behead millennial Christians!  I would suggest that we should never coddle those who may behead us! I already understand who they are because I have read history and the Quran!

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