Thank you all for your sincere comments. My teacher and I discussed the sense that the first Muslims were trying to be God’s people as portrayed in the 1976 Anthony Quinn film “The Messenger”. Despite their best intentions to be saints, they were cut off from authentic Christianity by corruption in the Byzantine Empire which, with its 13th apostle, the emperor, disregarded Christ’s commands to go and make disciples among all nations and to render unto Caesar his things, but unto God the things due God. (Debate welcome.) Mohammed first reported to his wife that he thought his visions or locutions were diabolical, but they were repeated and he accepted them as authentic. A similar attack on devout people seeking God happened in Russia, the most religious people in Europe at the end of WW 1. It’s a warning that Q, the immaterial, immortal, vastly intelligent and irrevocably evil spirit, most delights in trying to attack people who want to be Godly. Only Faith in Jesus Christ can save us. Many sincere people in Muslim lands are receiving personal visits from the True Jesus. There are many hidden Christians there who are temporally isolated but joined spiritually to the Body of Christ. Along with Christians hidden in China and suffering openly in Africa, the devil’s domain is tottering and will crumble soon.
The Quinn film is "The Message".
Mohammed first reported to his wife that he thought his visions or locutions were diabolical....
What number wife was that?
Faith in Jesus is a wonderful thing, especially for those perpetually outside his influence by oppression.
For myself it's still difficult to see him as divine in the sense that The Father, through Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11 had deemed all souls salvageable so long as they were not practicing immorality or other acts contrary to common humanity.
And therein lies the rub with the agency of human evil - or the devil, by any other name. In the whole history of the universe, while there is plenty of evidence for God therein, their is absolutely none whatsoever for the devil until the human mind becomes capable of abstracting him as a reason or excuse for its own sinfulness, thus also undermining monotheism.
IMHO, there is but One God, and One God only.