Why is the Muslim World So Resistant to the Gospel?

AlbertMohler.com ^ | April 8, 2011 | Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.,

[sasportas]

“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.”

Amen.

Say, would you mind clarifying what you meant when you said that Allah is a demiurge? I’ve never heard it put like that before. It sounds Gnostic. Is there a Gnostic connection with Islam?

[GOPJ]

http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html

[Digger]

I would ask “why is the world so resistant to the Gospel?”

How about "Why is cancer so much of a concern". Bottom line that religion is cancer & no talking but action to rid the world of cancer.

[WPaCon]

Satan was very smart when designing his religion. For example, he didn’t design it to be suicidal like another evil movement known to us as liberalism.

Besides the fact that Islam is such a big part of Muslims’ lives and that leaving it can be very dangerous, Islam thrives on its simplicity and what it has taken from Christianity.

For example, their conception of Allah is much simpler and easier to grasp than the Trinity.

And monotheism, which was taken from Christianity and Judaism, is much better than polytheism.

[wmfights]

...but when you attempt to argue this point denial of this truth flows hard and strong. Their minds cannot digest this for if it were to do that then all of Islam could be a lie to them.

I've got a great book you MUST read!

"Reasoning from the Scriptures with Muslims" by Ron Rhodes.

It's an easy read and for any Christian is eye opening.

One point he makes is to not go straight for the jugular with contradictions such as "abrogation", but to focus on their error about sin. For example, why did Abraham need to sacrifice his son if sin isn't a big problem and why did God provide the atoning sacrifice if it wasn't important.

[Digger]

BTW, if this religion is so pure why does it have to brainwash sheeple consistenly that it is the religion of peace?

[wmfights]

Thank you for some great input.

[Boogieman]

“some have even put korans in church pews.”

Shades of the Abomination of Desolation that is to come. Many Christians are being seduced by multiculturalism, which will prepare them for the strong delusion that is coming.

If a “Christ” appears that is embraced by the Muslim world, how many so-called Christians will rush to embrace him as well, in longing for peace and unity? If they already deny the truth of the Bible, how hard will it be for them to deny a little more, when presented with a miraculous “saviour” they can see with their own eyes?

[Straight Vermonter]

Interestingly that sounds more like a Christian problem than a Moslem problem.

[wmfights]

There is a good deal of evidence that Christianity is eating Islam.

I think you're right. All the more reason Christians understand it so when we get the opportunity to witness we can help the lost find the Truth. Our faith is the only one I know of that commands us to love our enemies.

What's more loving than preaching The Gospel?

[Gideon7]

Qur’an:8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
Qur’an: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.”
Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Qur’an:9:123 “Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you.”
Qur’an: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.”

There's more:

Qu'ran 2:191 "Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter."
Qu'ran 5:34 "Slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have a great punishment in world hereafter."

[SuzyQue]

I’m not sure what you mean. Could you make it a little clearer for me?

[mnehring]

Not sure I would call it a problem, it is simply situational awareness.

[The_Reader_David]

I would suggest that St. Tamara, Queen of Georgia (well, King of Georgia, since the Georgian language only has a masculine word for a reigning monarch) provides a model of how to evangelize Muslims: she managed to convert a fair number of Muslim hill-tribes around Georgia to Holy Orthodoxy. The first step was to decisively defeat them (and larger Muslim powers) in battle. It is also important that she offered them Orthodox Christianity, which provides a complete way of life, not a thin, half-secularized, salvation-by-faith-alone protestant version.

[wmfights]

Great points!

FWIW, because the vast majority of muslims are born into this totalitarian system, rather than choosing to be in it, they have never heard the Truth. For example, they will argue Christians used violence to advance Christianity through the Crusades. They don't know the violence of The Crusades was going against Christian teachings not embracing them.

[NavyCanDo]

The Muslim World can't coexist with Christianity. But the Muslim people once the blinders are removed are starving for the message of Christ, and those who risk their lives and property to become a Christian make more sacrifices they we could ever envision. In Chad where our church has missionaries, those converting to Christianity loose their homes and all possessions, and risk being murdered. Yet they come.