>>Most Muslims have been kept from the real word because of the extremists. Those that have been educated in the past have been silenced. I agree, satan has most definately been working overtime.<<
I’ve been reading this thread and thinking.
Since I believe there is one God, then anyone praying to God must be praying to the same God even if they pray for things that are wrong and that He will not grant.
Men can certainly get God wrong and too many latch onto interpretations of the Koran as a replacement for what is ultimately a pretty simple message to treat each other well and to love and respect God and to ask forgiveness in his Son’s name when we do wrong.
I think, just like innocent children, if they are in their hearts attempting to see the true face of God and the only message they are allowed to get comes from a false prophet, they will be given one last chance to accept the correct path when we stand before the throne.
Our relationship with God is more significant than our prayers to Him.
He is immutable.
Think about how He reveals this to the Israelites of the Old Testament. Inside the Holy of Holies was the Arc of the Covenant. The Arc contained the broken tablets of the Law of Moses, Aaron’s rod that budded and a pot of manna.
The Arc had a Mercy Seat placed on top, upon which were two golden cherubim facing one another. The two Cherubim represent God’s Holiness. One represented His Perfect Justice, and the other His Perfect Righteousness.
When we pray to God, His perfect justice demands perfect righteousness. He cannot in His immutable nature, have any relationship with anything sinful by His perfect justice.
He has provided a way for any and every man to have relationship with Him, through faith in Christ, because that faith has been found to be righteous, because it is one and the same faith as exhibited by Christ Himself on the Cross.
All true faith in from God, but not all faiths are true.
People get misdirected thinking His Holiness depends upon our thinking. On the contrary, the only way any man can have a prayer received by God is through faith in the salvation He provides.
One can say we pray to the same God, but without the proper protocol, i.e. through faith in Christ, those prayers are not heard by the Father. It is also not fully witnessing the magnificent simple gift He has provided by attempting to first make a Muslim believe we are basically the same by denying the fundamental difference between faith through Christ and any false faith. Such an approach is likely to affirm those who do not understand Christ, rather than introduce them to true faith.
BTW, a common ploy in antichristian deception is to convince believers that we have commonality with unbelievers regarding our accessibility to God. This is a calling card amongst unbelievers to share each others arrogance. I don’t doubt many unbelievers feel less threatened by this approach. The real threat doesn’t come from Christ, though, but from the thinking process which is removed from any and all faith through Him. When one sugar coats the Gospel to the point of not delivering the Gospel, and further encouraging others to linger in false faith, one is simply acting either out of spiritual rebellion, or seeking worldly acceptance over any relationship with god through faith in Christ.