My answer is that God did not send Islam to punish mankind. When you leave God, God lets you suffer the consequences of your decisions. Nature abhors a vacuum and making God absent leaves you prone to idealogical vulnerabilities.
My answer is that God did not send Islam to punish mankind.
Very much agree.
God wants you upright to sing with him.
Allah demands you kneel with your butt in the air in submission.
NO
The giant bell-curve of life requires it.
Where there is darkness, there is light.
Where there is good, there is evil.
Well said.
I would add, Islam looks like a fake totalitarian religion Satan cobbled together from Judao/Christianity.
As is said about socialism, its features are so appealing (or not) that they have to be forced on a population with totalitarianism (i.e., total control of every aspect of your life).
I think it more likely that God sent Islam to punish believers in Allah.
islam is bad for its adherents.
Us too.
I had a mystical sort of rabbi at Chabad. Great guy.
He said, “G-d is so vast we cannot possibly understand him. G-d is essentially the nature of the universe. We can look at the outcomes of behaviors in the natural world to understand whether G-d approves of them or not.”
islam sucks for its adherents. There is no successful islamic country on the planet except those WE built on their oil.
G-d is clearly opposed to islam because it is a failure for humans.
islam indicts itself with “Inshallah”, approximately “if it is allah’s will”. “allah” apparently hates islam and muslims, because his will is apparently to keep them poor, enalaved to others, and murdering other humans.
We may disagree on who sent it, but I think we can agree on what it is.
Agreed.
It’s a bent of human nature, the sin nature really, that man does not tend to seek God when things are going well.
Ideally, it would be fantastic if people sought after God out of love and gratitude for what He has done for them, but we don’t.
It’s only during times of trouble that we seek Him.
The great thing is, He loves us so much, that instead of being offended by that, He uses that to draw us to Himself. So no, I don’t believe that God sent islam to punish us, but He did allow it’s expansion, because we (mankind) allowed for it and He can use it.
Amen
He needs to be invited back into our institutions, our culture, our homes and our hearts.
Speculative drivel.
A pitiful attempt to produce meaningful words for which the writer can claim a paycheck
no, just the false prophet Jesus warned of
During the Reformation, some Protestant leaders like Martin Luther saw Islam (specifically the Ottoman Empire) as a scourge or punishment for Christendom’s sins or corruption within the Church
I’m with you on this one.
There are those in Islam who have only been exposed to that socio-political system that masquerades as a religion and know nothing of any other. Will God in His Mercy assure that they hear of His Word and have the opportunity to accept it?
Did God send Islam to punish mankind?
This is deep. Very relevant to our current times. First and foremost, this is an extremely delicate area to tread because one would not want to act as if access to God’s Throne to have direct interaction with the Almighty Himself is available to any Tom, Dick and Harry. Jesus Christ the Intercessor and the Holy Spirit...all three know exactly why Islam has manifested for over 1400 years.
The timing of the advent of Islam occurring after the Council of Nicea (325AD) lends credence to the notion that the Council of Nicea being a “political compromise” was an abomination before God ...ie. Nicea was a desperate attempt to manufacture social cohesion thus God could have allowed the advent of Islam to punish_torment the post Nicea apostate system however more proof would be needed.
The prophetic promises in Genesis 17:20 made to Abraham’s son Ishmael may also be
related to Islam’s advent.
The issue of Islam is one of the advanced imponderables associated with certain key events in God’s prophetic timelines
Christian church system
Satan sent Islam to destroy faith in God. That’s my opinion.
Old Country Song: “It wasn’t God who made honkey-tonk angels” ... or Islam. More like SATAN.
Nope. It’s a test. Fight for what is yours or lose it. Period.
Survival of the fittest.