Former Muslim Imam turned Christian Pastor attack with Acid in Uganda

Yet another misunderstander of Islam commits violence against a Christian.
 
Ugandan bishop badly injured in acid attack

by Michael Ireland, ASSIST News Service

Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2011, 11:15 (GMT)

Islamic extremists threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a seven-day revival at his church.

The attack has left Bishop Umar Mulinde, 37, with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten sight in the other.

According to Compass Direct News, Bishop Mulinde, a sheikh before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked in the evening outside his Gospel Life Church International building in Namasuba, about six miles outside of Kampala.

The bishop told Compass from his hospital bed in Kampala that he was on his way back to the site for a party with the entire congregation and hundreds of new converts to Christianity when a man who claimed to be a Christian approached him.



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1979's Mahdi Fervor Part 1

The first installment in a multi-part series recalling the heightened Mahdi fervor that stuck the Muslim world with violent consequences at the turn of the Islamic century
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1979's Mahdi Fervor Part 1



What happens when people literally believe Muhammad's ideology?

" Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of taghut (Satan/False systems/Idols). So fight you against the friends of Shaitan (Satan). Ever feeble indeed is the plot of Shaitan (Satan). " (  سورة النساء  , An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #76)

As Pilgrims from every corner of the world performed the ancient Hajj rituals at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a conspiracy was brewing to raise up, and create a utopian Islamic state by any means necessary. This plot was directly connected to the Islamic belief in the Mahdi, the promised one with the likeness of Muhammad who would arise and bring the Umma back to glory. In the hijri year of 1400 corresponding to November 21st 1979(That same year in October Mahdi fervor stuck Iran with the culmination of the Islamic revolution) armed men tried to take over al-Masjid al-Haram the compound that surrounds the famous cube shaped structure called the Kabaa.

The Messenger of Allah said: "At the end of the time of my ummah, the Mahdi will appear. God will grant him rain, the earth will bring forth its fruits, he will give a lot of money, cattle will increase and the ummah will become great. He will rule for seven or eight years" Sahih in Mustadrak al-Hakim, Sahih in Silsilat al-ahaadeeth al-saheehah.

The incident that took place in 1979 involving a Muhammad Abdullah al-Qahtani who claimed to be the long awaited Mahdi, and his brother in law Juhayman al-Otaibi of Najd(a student of the former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Bin Baz). they led a 500 plus strong group of Islamist into the Grand Masque and demanded al-Qahtani be given the bay'ah(pledge of alliance). The armed men held control of the Mosque for two weeks until Saudi forces(aided by America, France, and Pakistan) where able to wrestle back control. In the process of the may-lay over three hundred souls were killed and returned back to God from which they came. The infamous event has some how gone down the memory hole, it's hard to find a Muslim or non-Muslim today who has heard of it or knows much about it.

The Hijackers orchestrated the 1979 Kabaa seizure by hiding machine guns in coffins. At the daybreak(Fajr) prayer they waded through the crowd carrying the coffins, not a strange thing as it was a custom for mourners to bring the dead into the Mosque so they could receive blessings. The Imam that fateful day was Muhammad al-Subayyil(a Famous reciter of the Quran), after the Imam finished the prayer the rebels took the microphone from his hands and shoved him to the side and declared that the long awaited Mahdi had now finally arrived. Firing their guns in the air and at Saudi security they took the compound by the element of surprise and were ready to kill anyone who did not side with them(Following the Islamist ideology of excommunicating/Takfir of any Muslims who oppose them).

But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans 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 and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.  (  سورة التوبة  , At-Taubah, Chapter #9, Verse #5)

Much like many of the Terrorist of today the hijackers led by al-Qahtani and al-Qtaibi voiced strong opposition to the rule of the House of Saud with it's over five thousand princes who live (even according to "loose" secular western standards) sinful lavish lifestyles. Unlike many of the shabab(youth) they where not content on discussing radical change and Jihad while drinking tea, these were men convinced that the Islamic doctrine of Jihad was the only recourse to deal with a disbelieving government that was violating at-Tawheed ar Roobubiyah(Allah's sole right to rule and make Laws by way of Muhammad and the Islamic authorities). To these Men that morning was a cosmic event that would either lead to the return of the Caliphate or martyrdom for the sake of Allah. In their eyes they were doing nothing more then reviving the dawah of their father's who raided with Muhammad bin Saud and learned from the Shaykh Ibn Abdul Wahhab(the spiritual father of modern day Wahhabi/Salafism).

Almost a bicentennial earlier in the deserts of Arabia the tag team of the tribal ruler Muhammad ibn Saud and the Islamic reformer Ibn Wahhab had conquered the land, slaughtered rival Muslims, and took Mecca and Ta'if with the Quran in one hand and the sword in the other. The more things change the more they stay the same, to this day the Saud's run the government and the Ala ash Shaykhs(The family of Ibn Abdul Wahhab) run the powerful religious establishment(An Al ash Shaykh is Grand Mufti now). Otaibi and Qahtan were the fruit from the tree of the call to al-Quran wa Sunnah, not just talkers content to sit in Bin Baz's circles of knowledge, like many of his other students would, they followed their Prophets foot steps literally in order attempt to make Islam upper most in the land.

The two brothers in law Otaibi and Qahtan had already drew the attention of the Saudi state for their preaching, but that did not stop the the youth from among the students of knowledge from the likes of the University of Medina(Like the late founder of the Salafi school in Damaj Yemen Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hadi al Wadi'i who spread Salafism through out Yemen) and from all around Arabia from joining their dawah. The Saudi government did not initially crack down on them, in fact after facing a would be inquisition from some of the higher ranking Islamic scholars of the nation they where ruled to be Orthodox with a ideology no different then the Ihkwan militias of the prior generation(whom were led by Sultan Bin Bajad Al-Otaibi the grand father of Muhammad Abdullah al-Qahtani who was eventually killed for turning on the Saudi's for making a deal with the English to stop their Jihadi expansionism).

The Saudi's and the religious establishment could not have dealt heavy-handedly with the populous movement of Otaibi and Qahtan, because they would have made themselves, the history of the state, and the strict Quran and Sunnah Islamic Salafism it was based upon look hypocritical. Yet that same call to return to the way of the earliest Muslims is the vary same call being pumped all over the world with Saudi Petro dollars. It was the logical conclusion of individuals taking that call to be literally from God that would eventually lead to the violently horrific take over of the Grand Mosque and attempt to start a Theocratic Islamic state in 1979. 

Thank God that the vast majority of Muslims do not take the call to Jihad, to make Allah's name upper most in the land, to subdue the non-Muslims literally..think of the Hell that would be unleashed on the world if 1.5 billion people did? But just because the average Muslim is not seeking to live out Muhammad's sira to the same extent as Ibn Saud and Ibn Abdul Wahhab doesn't give us any reason to feel safe. As long as the ideology that activated these men still exists, then logically the potentiality for more terror for the sake of Allah exists. The issue is the worldview not the people and that must be made clear. 

The reality is regardless of how many Muslim's in the West conduct themselves as law abiding citizens and know matter how may episodes of Little mosque on the prairie CBC shows, all sober minded people who's vision is not clouded by political correctness see the powder keg in the Middle East and know World World Three is coming. As long as millions await the Mahdi and believe that He is coming to Kill the Jews until the rocks and trees speak and say "oh Muslim there is a Jew hiding behind me come and kill him", as long as muslim scholars teach Christians are those who went astray according to Surah Fatiha, as long as someone still believes Umar was a hero when he invaded God's holy city and Temple Mount the next Otaibi and Qahtan will come forth and out do their predecessors.

One of the astonishing aspects to this Mahdi fervor was the predictions concerning the arrival of al-Mahdi made by some Muslim scholars like al-Suyuti, Rabbani and repeated by others. Many of them claimed He would appear in the 100 year span between the Hijri years 1400 and 1500. Add to this that Islam teaches reformers appear in the beginning of every century and Mahdi would be like Muhammad beginning his career at age forty, taken literally this Mahdi would be appearing in 8 years(from 2011).  At the same time many Christians are awaiting the advent of the Anti-Christ who will(according to Dispensational interpretation of Daniel and Revelations) persecute the saints, cause another Holocaust, set up the abomination that makes desolation on the temple mount, and lead a world wide religious and political empire. 

To be continued God willing.

Other resources:

A timeline of the History of Saudi Arabia

Photos of the 1979 Hajj Hijacking

Declassified documents the day of the hijacking

A interview with New York Times reporter Yaroslav Trofimov who wrote on the subject

Ka'ba attack 02.flv

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Can a disciple of Christ be racist ?

Can a disciple of Christ be racist ?

Considering that to this vary day at the close of 2011 black Africans can be purchased in Muslim majority nations such as Mali, Mauritania and Sudan, I would have thought that Muslim Dawahist's would have wanted to avoid the topic of slavery at all costs. The notion is creeping up yet again that Christianity was the cause of the trans-atlantic slave trade and that the Bible is a book of White racist ideology, a throw back to more Biblical ignorant times of propagandist promoting "Black Islam" and Elijah Muhammad's Message to the black man"(Does anyone else find Muslim preachers running to the arguments of Liberals, Atheists, and Cults troubling besides me? Or maybe its just a issue birds of a feather? )

What the people of rumors and conspiracy theory's must understand is that the egregious actions of the trans-atlantic slave traders were categorically condemned in the Holy Bible the only Word of God(before even the advent of Islam). A prime example of this can be found in 1 Timothy 1:8-10

8 Now we know that rthe law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 understanding this, that the slaw is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,2 liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to tsound3 doctrine, 11 in accordance with uthe gospel of the glory of vthe blessed God wwith which I have been entrusted.

It does not require one be a theologian to see from the plain reading of the above text that "enslavers" or as some translations put it "manstealers", are Sinner's grouped in with the worst of rebels against God's law.  Slavery was a reality of the world in ancient times, there is not a people who did not engage in some form of it. Yes slavery was in the Old Covenant law's, it was governed and regulated but just as we see in the N.T an enslaver/manstealer/kidnaper was a Sinner in the Mosaic law as well.

Exodus 21:16  Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

Here is an excerpt from a article in CRI's book "The Complete Bible Answer Book" on slavery in the OT..

" Furthermore, slavery within the Old Testament context was sanctioned due to economic realities rather than racial or sexual prejudices. Because bankruptcy laws did not exist, people would voluntarily sell themselves into slavery. A craftsman could thus use his skills in servitude to discharge a debt. Even a convicted thief could make restitution by serving as a slave (Exodus 22:3)."

Some of these dawahist desperate to give poor unsuspecting westerners "shahadah"(maybe to marry them?), may try to use Genesis 9:21-24 as proof that the Bible endorses racism. If anyone with at least half a bit of intellect would read the whole passage there is nothing in the text about Africa or African slavery. The prophecy of Noah regrading Canaan was fulfilled in the Old Testament, there is no bases to apply it to anyone else or any other time period. If ignoramuses in the 1700's tried to read their racist ideology into the text, then they are no worst off then the Muslim slavers(many illiterate unable to read the Bible see Quran 62:2) who used the same misunderstandings to justify their own actions in Africa.

Nothing resembling the trans-atlantic slave trade can logically be justified by the Bible, the fact that Slavers attempted to is irreverent to the Bible itself.  The facts to the discerning mind with any shed of Spiritual insight are that European slavery and racism confirms what the Bible teaches about the nature of Man and God..

1. One finds that Mankind according to the Bible is a habitual wretched Sinner with a fallen Sinful nature, He inherited from His forefather Adam. The horrors of slavery, later Jim Crowism and Apartheid should solidify that human beings are not born into a utopian state and then potentially corrupted. No the Human race is certainly totally corrupted. And just as the Quran testifies " Al Rum(The Romans):42 "Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned".

2. Romans 3:5 " When we do wrong, that shows more clearly that God is right." The Bible clearly teaches All Human life originated from Adam and Eve, and Man is the image bearer of God. Genesis proves there could never be any Master race, and the N.T clarifies all men are in the same spiritual condition.. Romans 3:23-24 " Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard,  and all need to be made right with God by his grace, ..", and John 3:16  “For hGod so loved ithe world,9 jthat he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not kperish but have eternal life. ". There is no Race besides the Human race and there will be no racially pure super state or new Atlantis, there will just be those Sinners saved by Grace and those Sinners damned to the rightful Hell they deserve.

Further more the reality is that Slavery was not nearly eradicated from the earth  by Mullahs, Ulamah, and Caliphs, but the abolitionist movements which were germinated and watered by many Christians who looked keenly into the Bible and saw that the enslavement of people of African decent was abhorrent and needed to be stopped. May I remind the reader that the only reason slavery is not as prevalent in the Muslim world as it was even 60 years ago is because the principles of the abolitionist movement enshrined in Western culture influenced(or just shamed) the Muslim world?

"..although the total abolition of slavery might seem a reprehensible innovation and contrary to the Qur'an and the practice of early Muslims, the realities of the modern world caused a "discernible evolution in the thought of many educated Muslims before the end of the 19th century." Encyclopaedia of Islam (emphasis mines)

  I ask these Dawahist if you want to lecture us on slavery teach us simple ones by clear example..where is the Muslim world's William Wiberforce? Where is the Islamic John Brown fighting slavery in Dar ul Sudan? When has there ever been any indigenous grassroots abolitionist movement in a Muslim land? Oh I forgot I have to reason like a Islamist, you can not use the Muslim world with its Millions of Muslims, Islamic institutions, and Mosques on every corner as a barometer of Islam(unless its convenient for doing Dawah).  See the theoretical Islamic abolitionist lives in the (supposed)theoretical utopian Islamic state that hasn't existed in almost 1400 years, but will one day return and that's when the poor little black Christians in Sudan can get free from the big bag Janjaweed(who also don't exist you Islam-o-phobe!)

In summery the Bible is clear of any of these false charges. There is one principle in the Body of Christ ....

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.Galatians 3:28–29

Also by the 19th century Christian majority Western democracies had made Slavery in all forms illegal, yet in the world of the five times a day Athan and Quran recitation, even the Land of Tawheed...

" In nineteenth century Mecca, the majority of eunuchs were in the service of the mosques" Encyclopaedia of Islam

Other resources

Pictures of Sudan's slaves

The Arab Muslim Slave Trade, Part 1

Slavery in Islam

John Brown the Christian abolitionist

Sudan Freedom Walk 2010 Begins in NYC:"How many people have to die in Sudan in order for people to speak out?"

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Nigeria's Boko Haram: More Misunderstander's of Islam?

Nigeria's Boko Haram: More Misunderstander's of Islam?

Yet another Terrorist group on the arise killing at will and destroying kafir law and order with impunity. Where is Cair and MAS to tell these misguided souls that Jihad is merely a sufic inner struggle of thikr beads and  dua? Maybe instead of shipping Imam's into American Mosques from overseas, holding tele-links with Middle Eastern Shaykhs, and attending universities in Saudi, Egypt and other Muslim nations, American Muslims(the true understanders of Islam) should go to Dar ul Islam and teach their brothers the true meaning of the deen(so they can stop killing Christians, Jews, and other rival Muslim sects)

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Once again Christians are targeted on Christmas

Once again Christians are targeted on Christmas


This seems to be a annual event of evil on display, Islamic terrorist targeting Christians worshiping with bombings, shootings and other related violence. Some of these Islamist are intent on helping Christians live up to the saying of Jesus Christ..


Matthew 16:24  Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.


We know the life of a real Christian involves suffering at the hands of the wicked from the Bible and the example of those saints who have proceeded. As each year passes the fires of prosecution seem to be inflamed more and more, a sign that Christ is to return soon. We see signs of perilous times everywhere, what will be the long term consequences of the Arab spring? When when the leaders of the West publicly recognize the concerted effort by some to exterminate Christianity from the Middle East? When will some Muslims who take Muhammad's Sunnah literally decide to fulfill his prophecies of killing Jews, breaking the Cross,and establishing a world wide Caliphate?


In case anyone has forgotten or does not know here is a partial list of Islam's call to terror:


From the Qur'an


3:151 "We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve."


8:12 "I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger."


33:35-36 "Allah repulsed the disbelievers. ... He brought those of the People of the Scripture who supported them down from their strongholds, and cast panic into their hearts. Some ye slew, and ye made captive some


59:2 "He it is Who hath caused those of the People of the Scripture who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile. Ye deemed not that they would go forth, while they deemed that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place whereof they recked not, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O ye who have eyes!"


8:60 "And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to terrorize thereby the enemy of Allah..."


2:216, "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you "


9:29, " Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, .."


48:29, "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other."   4:95 "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons."


9:73 "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them

25:52 "Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness..."

47:35 "Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost


From the Sunnah


Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."


Bukhari (52:220) - Allah's Apostle said... 'I have been made victorious with terror'..

Abu Dawud (14:2527) - The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious

Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah

Tabari 9:69  "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" 

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 327: - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’"

God bless the martyrs of Christ and protect us from the evil doers




Top stories of Terror and Violence targeting Christians during this Christmas season

Islamists kill dozens in Nigeria Christmas bombs

Belgian gunman Nordine Amrani(Moroccan Muslim) launched gun and grenade attack on a crowds in Leige's.

Twin blasts rock Nigerian city

Terror in pictures

Other resources


http://www.thereligionofpeace.com 
http://www.answeringmuslims.com

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The Gospel, What is Salvation, Why Christmas ?

G.O.S.P.E.L. - Propaganda

What is Salvation? (In 2 Minutes) - Paul Washer

John Piper - Why Christmas?

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The flawed man centered salvation of "religion"

The flawed man centered salvation of "religion"

Introduction

I once heard a talk show host describe religion as " Man's attempt to appease God", out of all the definitions I have heard I think that one gets to the heart of the matter.  Any historian or sociologist can tell you human beings have invented all sorts of means to connect themselves to the Divine. From meditation, repetitive formulated prayers, pilgrimages, fasting, self mortification, to things which to our contemporary minds seem rather extreme, such as mutilating their own bodies, and sacrificing their children to idols.

Since our father Adam and mother Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, we have dreamed of returning to eternal life and communion with God as we once had. You could say man has a internal urge to "find God" that is never satisfied or met. I myself can testify to this, from a early age I desperately looked for God in various manners, from Yoga, to Kemetic Egyptian magic I have had some personal experience with almost every major world spiritual system.

What dreams are made of

Like a drug religion makes you feel good for just a little while, but the high never lasts that long, not to mention you live a life of allusion. That is just what the synergistic man centered salvation of all the world religions produces, no wonder Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people(yet he called to his own man made utopianism). Through systems of rituals and rules, religious hierarchy's, hopes of utopia on earth, people drug themselves into believing the gap between them and the Divine has been bridged until something shocks them into reality.

I think human beings have had more then enough time to show and prove they could work themselves into redemption and build utopia. If man would only stop and ask Himself how he can ever reach God by focusing in on himself? It's hard for many of us to think of the holy men of the world like the Dalai-lama, the Pope, Muhammad, the various spiritual guru's as being peddler's of self centeredness and flawed self righteousness , but that is exactly what they are and we will explore why.

The Messianic reality

The reader must first realize Jesus Christ is not a religion, it should be obvious He is a person. When the Divine Messiah came to earth some 2000 years ago, He did not come to be just another religious guru offering the world yet another methodology.  Jesus is not peddling self help, He does not have 7 ways for you to get the life you always dreamed of, or 10 easy steps to self improvement.

The Divine Messiah the Son of God came to live the life you and I will never ever manage to live even if we were given a thousand lives after this one. He then by His own will offered up this perfect life to His Father as a atonement for the Sins of the world, and once and for all provided a way and means to God that must be taken by way of Him alone. Like The Messenger and Prophet Isaiah predicted in the 8th century B.C concerning Messiah, He was wounded for the lies, murder, adultery, lukewarmness and all the Sin of mankind.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

 (Go and read all of Isaiah chapter 53 and ask yourself who is being described, certainly not just another mere messenger )

I have used a term "synergistic" a number of times now, its related to synergism which means in lay man's terms; two(or more) agents cooperating to produce something greater then what they could have produce on a individual level. All of false man made religions see salvation as a act of synergism, Man and God co-operate to produce salvation for the devotee. Some holy man claims God told him of a set of rules and rituals for man to adhere to, man if successful in adherence to these rules and rituals earns the good graces of God.

This salvational synergism has two important aspects to it:

1. Man has absolute free will: It is man who has the sovereignty to decide to accept God, in fact he can accept and reject Him over and over again, or never acknowledge Him at all.

2. God is at the will of man's will: God must wait and react to what Man decides to do, if man wants to obey Him God can grant His mercy, if Man changes His mind, God must sit and wait until man makes his mind up.

These two inherent truths of all religion lead to the following logical implications:

1. God is subject to mans will .
2. Man can help to accomplish or subvert the will of God.
3. Everyone could potentially be saved (universalism)
4. Everyone could potential be damned (God manages to save no one)
5. God may have created the Garden and after life in vain since ultimately the outcome is dependent on man and what He wills(i.e God could fail)

The God centered salvation

Dear reader these things can not be so, its a mutilation of the character of God. God has declared Himself Savior..but what kind of savior must wait on the permission of the one who needs saving in order for Him to save? God in His Holy inerrant Word said concerning Himself..

Isa_59:1  Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save
Isa_43:3  For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior..
Isa_43:11  I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
Isa_45:21  Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

And God our only Savior has ordained the means and ways of salvation which is offered to Israel first then to the gentiles.

Hos_1:7  But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."

Re-read that verse carefully and notice whom God said He will save Israel by. God said He would save by the LORD their God that is just what He did in the fullness of time, God incarnated into time and space to accomplish salvation.

Luk_2:11  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luk_19:10  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
1Ti_1:15  The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
Jas_4:12  There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy

And it is this Divine Savior who does the saving and gives eternal life to those whom He saves, to Him alone is the credit and glory.

Joh_4:14  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Joh_10:28  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Joh 17:1 - 5  When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,  since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.  I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.  And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

Man has nothing to stand on before God

Besides co-operative salvation being a defamation of God's immutable attribute of Sovereignty, you don't need to be Tom Cruse to know its a mission impossible. God's Holy standards of righteousness are not the same as Sinful men, it is perfection not merely being some ambiguous 'good person".  The adherents to man centered religiosity can not explain to us what exactly this cloudy concept of being a "good person" or "religiousness" is Neither concept has any boundary line or demarcations to alert us as to when we have done enough work to finally arrive at their status. How do you with doubtless assurance know that you have held up your end of this synergistic bargain, you can never know.. at least not until you meet your Maker and He tells you...at that point its too late if you have been mistaken.

What has been said and will continue to be said could all be summed up as..

1. Man lost connection with the Holy God when He sinned.

2. Man lost in Sin created religions to reach a Holy perfect God.

3. Man invents false superstitious origins for his religions to justify them(Like an "angel" gave me a revelation in a cave).

4. Religions co-operative salvation is a affront to The True and Living God.

5. This false salvation is man centered instead of being God centered.

6. If this salvation is true, then God is not the only savior as He claimed (Isa_43:11).

7. This false salvation would mean God's hands are tied and he must wait on us to will, before He can will.

8.  This false salvation plays the seriousness of man's Sin and God's Holiness down.

9. Not only does God need to wait on us to will, but He needs to accept that He has been Sinned against and take it.

10. All the hundreds of prophecies about the Messiah are to be tossed out or explained away so man can be the star of his own salvation.

To be continued

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The Impossibility of Salvation, Part 1 by Pastor John MacArthur (Video)

The Gospel for Muslims by Matt Slick (Video)

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The Gospel for Muslims by Dr. James White

The Gospel for Muslims: If you want justice then you only deserve hell, your Sin stained good deeds and confessions are not good enough for a Holy GOD.

The god of Islam is not Holy like the God of the Bible, Sin is not taken as seriously as in the Bible, Sin can not just be brushed under the rug or just put away. Sin must be paid for... the Wages of Sin is Death. A god that just arbitrary looks over Sin is a product of Man's own mind ..a idol .

Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Prophet of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wassallam) said: "There was a man from among a nation before you who killed ninety-nine people and then made an inquiry about the most learned person on the earth. He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine people and asked him if there was any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the negative and the man killed him also completing one hundred. He then asked about the most learned man in the earth. He was directed to a scholar. He told him that he had killed one hundred people and asked him if there was any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the affirmative and asked, `Who stands between you and repentance? Go to such and such land; there (you will find) people devoted to prayer and worship of Allah, join them in worship, and do not come back to your land because it is an evil place.' So he went away and hardly had he covered half the distance when death overtook him; and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of torment. The angels of mercy pleaded, 'This man has come with a repenting heart to Allah,' and the angels of punishment argued, 'He never did a virtuous deed in his life.' Then there appeared another angel in the form of a human being and the contending angels agreed to make him arbiter between them. He said, `Measure the distance between the two lands. He will be considered belonging to the land to which he is nearer.' They measured and found him closer to the land (land of piety) where he intended to go, and so the angels of mercy collected his soul".

[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

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People Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones

Jesus is Lord! Greetings

Hijaz of callingchristians has made a big fuss over me implementing moderation on comments ...oh the hypocrisy!!! You see in the screen shot below he is holding one of my comments up for moderation, yet posts a comment to a earlier comment of mines!!


 

And this one



Don't throw rocks at glass houses oh Muslim preachers.

Here are the questions Hijaz refused to answer that I have referenced on the comments page of the last post on the site.

" Actually, the very second page (Chapter 2) of the Qur’aan would like to differ, how funny is it that the refutation for his statement comes from the second Surah of the Qur’aan? The very first 5 lines (ayat) are the answer to his question:

“This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah; Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them; And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter. They are on (true) guidance, from their Lord, and it is these who will prosper. – Suratul Baqarah (2) : 2 – 5.

There are 6 things in this ayah that you say assures one of salvation
Fear of Allah, Believe in the Unseen, steadfast in prayer, spend out of provisions, Believe in the revelation sent before and after, have assurance of the hereafter in the heart.

Questions:
What is the definition of each one of these points, or how does one know they achieved them?
How does one achieve these things?
In what measure must these things be achieved before you know for certain you have assured salvation?
By you citing this am I to take it that you hold that salvation in Islam is based on the effort of the creature ? "

Also these...

" I would like to make clear Islamic salvation is it purely a work of the creature, is it purely a work of God or is it synergistic a combination of the two? "

And these .....

‎(1) We have assurance of salvation, if you do X you get Y.(Hijza)

So its conditional correct ? (CL)

(2) We don't know God's will, so we don't claim to be saved(Hijaz)

So you have salvation but you do not know you are saved?(CL)

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