Posted on 04/09/2011 10:24:59 AM PDT by wmfights
IIRC, Islam loses about 6,000 each day to Christianity. Their conversion numbers from Christianity are miniscule and are primarily women who marry a muslim.
There is a good deal of evidence that Christianity is eating Islam.
Hmmmm....
It's only recently (last 60 years), as a reflection of the idiotic western guilt about Slavery, that politicians and their negro cronies started using the history of bigotry during the 50's and 60's as a propaganda point.
Christian evangelism of Muslims must begin with the knowledge that Mohammed is not a prophet but was a thoroughly evil despot. He distorted the truth of the Judeo Christian world in a vain attempt to defeat and assimilate Jews and Christians.
The Crusades were Muslim invasions that were forced back by Christian nations and the Roman church. They were not Christian invasions. Christians never invaded the centers of Muslim nations, only those areas invaded first by Muslims.
The Muslim belief system must be treated for what it is, a thoroughly dark, malevolent, demon centered religion worthy of no respect by genuinely loving people. Until Muslims are confronted with the reality of their personal hell, enforced by their malicious religion, they will not experience their need for the salvation of Christ. More than any other culture of people Muslims stand in terror before their demiurge god. They must confronted by those who know the One True and loving God who stands before all of creation.
You make a great point. My perspective changed some when I realized that the vast majority of muslims are people born into this counterfeit religion and never hear the truth. For example, muhammed believed Christians viewed the Trinity as God the Father, Mary, and Jesus Christ. muhammed never had a copy of the Bible to draw on, but was influenced by radical heretics who denied that Jesus is God incarnate.
Who is Satan?
Such a response may be overly simplistic and naive. Actually, there are other, more specific reasons:
Quran:8:39 Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.
Quran:9:5 Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.
Quran:9:29 Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission. Quran:9:123 Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you.
Quran:47:4 When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle, smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them
Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.
Obsolete verses? That 1400 year old view continues to 2010:
- Arab and Muslim regimes are betraying their people by failing to confront the Muslims real enemies, not only Israel but also the United States. Waging jihad against both of these infidels is a commandment of Allah that cannot be disregarded.
- All Muslims
crucially need to understand that (what) the (Muslim) nation seeks can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by raising a jihadi generation that pursues death just as the enemies pursue life.
- Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, October 2010
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democracy is
forbidden for Muslims
democracy (is) incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker
humans have no right to make laws."
(http://www.news.com.au/national/islamist-leader-burhan-hanif-tells-aussie-muslims-told-to-shun-democracy/story-e6frfkvr-1225887784755#ixzz0slho45BW)
>Muslims themselves are very open to Christianity.<
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With all due respect, I wish that you could give me proof of that.
Having lived in Muslim countries for 25 years, I have never seen evidence that Muslims are even interested in Christianity.
Do you see evidence of it in our free society where any Muslim can pick up a Bible and study it, unhindered by their co-religionists?
Wow. A lot to read. (though I know most of it)
The Antichrist will only be able to take the seat in the temple of God in Jerusalem and declare himself God because a majority of the people have become antichrist.
Also, it is possible that the Antichrist will not be just one person, but a very tightknit group of say, 3 people. Just in what you quoted, there are at least TWO, the Dragon and the Beast. Isn’t there also a harlot?
One of them will be the Leader, as far as the public is concerned, so he could be labeled the Antichrist.
At any rate, the Antichrist (whether one person or several) will have the ‘power’ of all the humans who have become antichrist. I think that is what is being explained by the Dragon giving the Beast power. The Dragon controls the populace, and gives the power to the Beast (making the populace do whatever the Beast wants).
Basically, we agree, don’t you think?
It's probably pretty wise on their part.
Because of the way islam treats any who disagree I believe individuals can only be reached in small groups, or one on one. Unfortunately, because so little of the truth about Christianity reaches Islamic countries the majority of muslims have no idea how the Scripture have bee perverted by islam.
Suppose you knew the asnwer to this question. Would your head be better attached to your neck after being savagely attacked by throwbacks to the 9th centruy, or would you like to carry your lunch to school?
I thought that Marilyn Manson was Satan.
Just a thought, but after God had Israel taken into the Babylonian captivity the Jews never practiced idolatry again. Maybe God is allowing Satan to use Islam to cleanse Christians in the same way.
Which should make Christians very eager to embrace any converts and invite them into their lives. These are people (converts to Christianity) that have lost everything in pursuit of the Truth.
Matt 10:14 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
In other words, present the gospel and if they do not recieve it, MOVE ON! To shake off the dust from the feet was a significant act, denoting that they regarded them as impure, profane, and paganish, and that they declined any further connection with them. It is recorded that this was actually done by some of the apostles. See Acts 13:51; Acts 18:6.
We can present the gospel, but we ONLY sow the seed, It is the Holy Spirit who makes the heart “fertile” or not.
Even though it is very plain from scripture, that was hard for me to understand. I wasted alot of time with various people, beating them over the head with the gospel, to no avail, and always thinking maybe if I presented it another way they would “get” it. I have since wised up.
In one of Joel Rosenberg’s nonfiction books (Epicenter?), he recounts several instances of Christ appearing to muslims in remote villages and converting them. So He is opening the path.
Amen.
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