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| The Koran and the Bible |
"To the law and to the testimony! If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn."--Isaiah 8:20
If you believe in God--and a growing number of people in the western world no longer do, then which God would you prefer to serve and worship? A God who's unknowable, impersonal, mysterious, wrathful, vengeful; hates Jews and Christians and offers no assurance of salvation?
Or, would you rather serve a God who is loving, knowable, unbiased, merciful, generous, fair and offers an easy and understandable path to salvation and eternal life?
Historically, most people have chosen the latter because no one wants to serve an angry, vengeful God who's catatonic, unpredictable and offers no guarantee of eternal life.
But incredibly, many people today have rejected the latter and are choosing to serve the former who didn't exist until the 7th Century C.E. That would be Allah who was previously known as Al-Ilah and was worshiped as the moon god of the ancient Arabian Quraysh tribe.
Muhammad, Islam's founding prophet, took Al-Ilah from the Kabah, a pagan temple located in Mecca where hundreds of pagan idols were worshiped, and reinvented him into Allah, or the supreme God of the universe.
Anyone who's familiar with ancient Arabian culture knows all about Al-Ilah. While Al means "The", Ilah means "god" in Arabic. However, "The god" that Muhammad took from the Kabah was a pagan god who had three daughters named Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat.
Muhammad redefined Al-Ilah into Allah, the God of the universe. During Islam's fledgling years, Muhammad allowed Allah to keep his three daughters before he discarded them. If Allah was no longer allowed to have daughters, he was also forbidden from having a son named Jesus Christ who is the Son of the biblical Judeo-Christian God.
Remember author Salman Rushdie? He was versed in ancient Arabian culture, so much so that he made the mistake of writing a book titled, The Satanic Verses that revealed Allah's daughters. Rushdie so inflamed the Islamic world that he was charged with blasphemy and sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
If Islam is indeed the fastest growing religion in the world, then that's because millions of people across the world are completely ignorant of Islam and unaware of its past.
One man, a self-promoting author named Reza Aslan who recently published a book titled, Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, claims that he was once a Christian who converted to Islam after he discovered the Bible to be full of errors, contradictions and historical inaccuracies. He claims that the Koran contains no such discrepancies.
If Aslan really believes that, then he knows even less about Islam than he does about Christianity. In my previous post: Arabian Fables, I chronicled just a sampling of the numerous errors contained in the Koran.
http://prophecyreviewtoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/arabian-fables.html
Furthermore, Islam's founding prophet was a racist. Even though Christianity is often unfairly maligned as "the white man's religion", Muhammad hated blacks and made no secret of his contempt for them. And that's reflected in the Koran that claims that on Judgement Day, only whites will be allowed into heaven while blacks will be eternally condemned. (Sura 3:106-107)
Incredibly, though Muhammad is considered a prophet, the Koran contains not a single, verifiable prophecy. Contrast that with the Bible that contains over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament alone that reveal the coming of the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ; His life, ministry, death and resurrection.
And the Bible also prophetically reveals God's judgment of ancient Israel for her chronic rebellion against Him as well as God's reestablishment of Israel as a world nation once again after that judgment finally ends. In 1948, God's prophetic word was fulfilled when the United Nations voted to declare Israel a sovereign nation after Israel had been voided by the Roman Empire in 130 A.D.
Ironically, Islam's exponential growth fulfills a biblical prophecy recorded by the apostle Paul who wrote this 2,000 years ago: "The (Holy) Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." (1 Timothy 4:1)
Tragically, when truth no longer matters, then falsehood reigns. Islam is a false religion that can't save anyone. That's not my opinion--that's based upon the evidence. As Psalm 119:105 declares concerning the truth of God's revealed word recorded in the Bible: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path."
Anything else leads only to darkness, gloom and eternal destruction.
Anyone who's familiar with ancient Arabian culture knows all about Al-Ilah. While Al means "The", Ilah means "god" in Arabic. However, "The god" that Muhammad took from the Kabah was a pagan god who had three daughters named Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat.
Muhammad redefined Al-Ilah into Allah, the God of the universe. During Islam's fledgling years, Muhammad allowed Allah to keep his three daughters before he discarded them. If Allah was no longer allowed to have daughters, he was also forbidden from having a son named Jesus Christ who is the Son of the biblical Judeo-Christian God.
Remember author Salman Rushdie? He was versed in ancient Arabian culture, so much so that he made the mistake of writing a book titled, The Satanic Verses that revealed Allah's daughters. Rushdie so inflamed the Islamic world that he was charged with blasphemy and sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
If Islam is indeed the fastest growing religion in the world, then that's because millions of people across the world are completely ignorant of Islam and unaware of its past.
One man, a self-promoting author named Reza Aslan who recently published a book titled, Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, claims that he was once a Christian who converted to Islam after he discovered the Bible to be full of errors, contradictions and historical inaccuracies. He claims that the Koran contains no such discrepancies.
If Aslan really believes that, then he knows even less about Islam than he does about Christianity. In my previous post: Arabian Fables, I chronicled just a sampling of the numerous errors contained in the Koran.
http://prophecyreviewtoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/arabian-fables.html
Furthermore, Islam's founding prophet was a racist. Even though Christianity is often unfairly maligned as "the white man's religion", Muhammad hated blacks and made no secret of his contempt for them. And that's reflected in the Koran that claims that on Judgement Day, only whites will be allowed into heaven while blacks will be eternally condemned. (Sura 3:106-107)
Incredibly, though Muhammad is considered a prophet, the Koran contains not a single, verifiable prophecy. Contrast that with the Bible that contains over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament alone that reveal the coming of the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ; His life, ministry, death and resurrection.
And the Bible also prophetically reveals God's judgment of ancient Israel for her chronic rebellion against Him as well as God's reestablishment of Israel as a world nation once again after that judgment finally ends. In 1948, God's prophetic word was fulfilled when the United Nations voted to declare Israel a sovereign nation after Israel had been voided by the Roman Empire in 130 A.D.
Ironically, Islam's exponential growth fulfills a biblical prophecy recorded by the apostle Paul who wrote this 2,000 years ago: "The (Holy) Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." (1 Timothy 4:1)
Tragically, when truth no longer matters, then falsehood reigns. Islam is a false religion that can't save anyone. That's not my opinion--that's based upon the evidence. As Psalm 119:105 declares concerning the truth of God's revealed word recorded in the Bible: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path."
Anything else leads only to darkness, gloom and eternal destruction.
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