Christians And Muslims Do Not Worship The Same God

 

The name "Jesus" is mentioned twenty-nine times in the Koran and "Christ" is mentioned another eight (8) times without "Jesus" adjoined to it. Is it good simply because the Koran speaks so much about Jesus? Does that not depend upon what exactly it states about him?

What the Koran says about Jesus Christ:

SURA 4. Nisaa, or The Woman

157. That they said [in boast], "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no [certain] knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-

171. O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was [no more than] a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: Glory be to Him: [far exalted is He] above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.

SURA 5. Maida, or the Table Spread

19. In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary. Say "Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His Will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all--every one that is on the earth? For to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power over all things."

75. They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord" Whoever joins other gods with Allah, --Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrongdoers be no one to help.

76. They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: For there is no god except One God. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.

78. Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His Signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!

SURA 9. Tauba (Repentance) or Baraat (Immunity)

30. The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; [in this] they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!

Summary of what the Koran says about Jesus Christ:

• Jesus only appeared to die, but did not really die on the cross
• There is no God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
• It is blasphemy to claim Allah is a triune God
• It is blasphemy to say that Jesus Christ is Allah
• Christ was only an Apostle
• Allah's curse is upon those who say that Christ is the son of Allah

What does the Bible say about Jesus' death:

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

What does the Bible say about the Trinity:

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost

John 10:30 I and [my] Father are one.

1Ti 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

What does the Bible say about Jesus being God:

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Christ was much more than an Apostle. He is the Creator:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

What response does the Bible have to the assertion that Allah's curse is upon those who say that Jesus is the son of Allah? 

Nothing. Jesus is not the son of Allah and I dare say that anyone who says that he is might well be cursed. This is because by now it should be clear that the Jesus of the Koran and the Jesus of the Bible are not the same person nor is Allah the same person as the God of the Bible.

According to the Bible one is cursed if one cannot see that Jesus is the Son of God because the only way to get to God the Father is through the Son.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

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.

Since the days of my youth I have heard it often repeated that Christians, Muslims and Jews worship the same Abrahamic God. But this is simply not true, as the verses above demonstrate the distance between Islam and Christianity. 

But it is also false to state that Christians and Jews worship the same God.  

John 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

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. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

In John 8:19 above, Jesus was speaking to Pharisees. These were Jews and as Pharisees they believed in the Old Testament prophecies of the coming Messiah, yet they could not recognize him as being the man who was speaking to them. They most certainly did not worship the Father either. Neither do modern Jews, as they too reject Jesus Christ. Whatever god they do worship is not God the Father who is one with Jesus Christ his Son.

If Muslims and Jews worshiped the same God as Christians there would be no need to evangelize them. They would already be saved. But Scripture states that no man comes to the Father but through the Son and this is what both Islam and modern Judaism reject.

Don't Fall For Theistic Evolution

I Timothy 6:20  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21  Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.  

Theistic Evolution Is A Trap

Many Christians have been falling into the trap of Theistic Evolution, which states that God created life, but he created it to unfold and develop through evolutionary processes. Theistic Evolution posits the claim that man was not created as he is today, but was created as a lesser organism and indeed if one adopts Theistic Evolution, then there can be no half measures and one must take the process all the way back to simple carbon compounds. 

We know that the Bible does say point blank that man began with simple carbon compounds: 

the dust of the earth

But there were no intermediary forms, as evolution requires.

Man went instantly from dust of the earth to a fully formed and mature human being.

Genesis 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

The Hebrew word "bara" ברא is translated in this verse as "created." The first use is in the imperfect mood indicating that it is a process not yet completed. The reason for this is not because man is evolving. It is because "man" was not yet complete having as yet no wife. The second and third use of "bara" within this same verse is in the perfect mood indicating completion.

Furthermore, the image of God does not change, as God himself does not change. God does not evolve. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

Man Is Created In The Image Of God (Jesus Christ)

What is this "image of God" in which God made man? Do we know? Is there room for it to be some evolutionary intermediary form?

The Bible answers this question.

1 Corinthians 11:7  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

Man in his current form is the image of God.

And furthermore:

2 Corinthians 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Jesus Christ himself is the image of God.

It is very clear that God looks like a man if Scripture is to be believed. He has the semblance and likeness of us.

God crowned his creation with the image of himself.

Us.

Not a monkey or a lemur or any ancestor of them.

Jesus Christ is not the savior of the apes.

Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity and we are the image of God and have always been the image of God.

The Genesis Creation Account Is Literal

The New Testament contains so many references to a literal Genesis creation that if one chooses to discount Genesis, then one must also throw out essentially all of the New Testament as well.

Both Matthew and Mark state as a matter of fact that male and female human beings were the beginning of God's creation of man and not some lower form:

Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Luke when giving Jesus' lineage through his earthly father ends with this verse:

Luke 3:3838  Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Paul confirms the Genesis account:

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Jude confirms the Genesis account:

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

The writer of Hebrews confirms the six day creation:

Hebrews 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

Never once anywhere in the Bible does anyone claim that the Genesis account is anything but literal. Most notably is the fact that Jesus Christ himself confirms the Genesis account and never questions it and HE WAS THERE. But I suppose that liberal theologians also do not accept the deity of Jesus Christ or his role as creator of all things.

Theistic Evolution is a trap to lure Christians into incremental disavowal of Biblical truth that ends with having no faith in any Biblical truth. 

This is how APOSTASY unfolds. 

Evolution Itself Requires Faith

Evolution is a trap that is easy to fall into when you, as a Christian, attempt to debate the world on the world's turf using the world's terms.

The truth of God can never be revealed through anything BUT FAITH.

And faith is illogical so the world cannot ever see faith as the answer.

And so it is written:

I Corinthians 3:18  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Christians get into trouble when they start falling for the systems of this fallen world, as they COMPROMISE Bible truth to align with worldly wisdom. 

This world is designed to give apparent answers and seemingly sound explanations to lost men who wish to rule out God. The "answers" are all VAIN and never quite answer anything completely.

Therefore, it takes a leap of faith to believe in evolution. The lost accept it not because it is proven, but because it is the only option other than God's Word being true.

Many who claim to be Christians are lifted up in PRIDE these days. Their faith is in themselves. They follow man. They glorify themselves with vain arguments rather than falling on Christ and sacrificing their own prideful desires. 

Paul was very educated. Paul was a Pharisee among Pharisees. Paul was the Pinnacle of the teachers of the Law. But he was wrong. Paul was separated from God by his own ARROGANCE. 

Paul did not get right until he fell on the ROCK and was broken. 

Are you feeling a little bothered? A little upset? A little under attack by these words? Perhaps this is God working on your character. Do you take offense? We need to stop being "me" oriented and start being Christ oriented. Human logic is all about "me." Faith is about Jesus Christ. 

Science Falsely So Called

How many people today are relying on their education, their position, their supposed accomplishments as a justification of themselves? 

Many who claim to be Christians are falling away from the WORD of God to chase after every new teaching in an attempt to lift themselves up above one another. They are full of endless arguments and debates and fascinations with worldly wisdom. 

It is argued that Genesis was written for simple pastoral and nomadic tribal folk, therefore the message was dumbed down to a simplistic form because neither the writers nor the audience of the day had our modern understanding.

But such arguments ignore the  power of God to do exactly what he has said that he did. 

And such arguments ignore the god of this world who has inspired many to run to and fro and to increase the knowledge of mankind.

Science - Latin for knowledge 

Isn't coveting knowledge what got you kicked out of the garden to begin with?

What, man? You never learn? 

Satan is the god behind modern science. Science tells a lot of truth, but the truth is told with the strategic intent of leading to the greatest of lies. All science is being brought to bear to fulfill prophecy that mankind will be marked in totality by a final totalitarian ruler. The world joins hands in unity to welcome this antichrist as god to rule over a one world government, economy and religion.

Is there no skepticism for any of the fruit we are being offered by the Powers That Be?
 
Do not be intimidated by the mockery of a lost and dying world that calls traditional Christianity ignorant and unlearned. Their mocking will grow louder as we all march inexorably toward six hundred threescore and six.

The Christian should take the path of faith in God's Word. Not man's science. 

Give up no ground to the world. Not an inch.

How Do You Find God?

Through logic?

Through evidence?

What does the Word of God say? 

The Just shall live by faith. Not by evidence. Not by logic.

We walk by faith not by sight.

Without faith it is impossible to please God.

There will always be a gap between the evidence and Biblical truth.

Faith will always be the only bridge for that gap.

When you reject faith and look instead to the world and science for an answer you will find an answer.

You will find a wrong answer, because:

“There Is A Way That Seems Right To Man…” 

That is how God has designed the world and your life.

You simply must take the leap of faith and believe what God has said in His Word.

There is no other way to please God or to find God.

When you are a believer and you have faith everything is evidence of God.

Conversely, when you are lost nothing is evidence of God.

Faith is required for salvation and to restore you to God.

Proof destroys that. If there was real proof of God to be found through science or logic, then faith would not be required. The gap would be bridged by iron clad facts.

But that is not the reality we live in.

Faith And Faith Alone Pleases God 

And that faith begins with rejecting humanistic reasoning and accepting God at His Word in those things that seem impossible.

Faith in man’s devices, in your own devices, will never please God and can never find God’s truth.

To the saved person the logic gap in God’s account is an opportunity for faith.

To the lost it is a stumbling block.

Do not stumble in your faith.

There is an internal struggle that takes place when we are at the precipice of one of these very important Biblical assertions that seem to make no sense. Our human understanding wants to search for a way to make the pieces fit. 

When you find your self at one of those places just remember that faith is required. 

Stop looking for secular answers to insert in between what the Bible says or in place of what the Bible says. 

Insert faith instead.

Just believe God.