What drew me out of Islam to follow Christ

In over 20 years of being a devout Muslim, I never heard God referred to as being love or commanding us to love others. Islam teaches that God is merciful and kind, but the word love is never mentioned... You cannot rely on him to console you in times of trouble, and he was mainly there to judge you...In a life filled with disappointment from people who claim to love you and a God that doesn't consider love significant enough to mention, the simplicity of this Truth was very appealing.

All Muslims believe Jesus was born of a virgin birth resulting from God's Divine Spirit impregnating Mary. They know Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, and performed countless miracles...They also believe Jesus ascended to Heaven and will descend in the End Times to defeat the Anti-Christ.

However, Islam claims Jesus did not die on the cross. Instead, they claim Judas Iscariot's soul was placed inside Jesus' body so people would think it was Jesus, but God took him to Heaven...planting the seeds of doubt about how Islam portrays the crucifixion is essential.

In Islam, it says God is closer to you than the veins on your neck, but he will not speak directly to you...Once I was saved and baptized, I was excited for what would happen next. I kept asking my mentor, "so now what?" She would lovingly but persistently keep saying, "wait to hear from the Lord." I had no idea what she meant by this. I did not know how to talk with God, and I surely did not expect Him to talk back! It was not until I studied what it meant to receive the Holy Spirit that it made sense...

Christianity is also a religion of the intellect and reason. With faith in Jesus Christ comes an entire 2000 year tradition of logical theological and moral reasoning, leading to the basic concepts, developed only in the Christian West, of science, law, government, human rights, etc...

I’ve seen time and again, this is attractive to high IQ, educated Muslims, many of whom, if they do are not converted, wish to conform to Western practices.

The issue is the masses of reactionary, uneducated and uncivilized Muslims.

This is why, IMHO, western marxists focus on importing the absolute “worst of the worst” from places like Somalia, Afghanistan, mountain Pakistan, etc... in their efforts to destabilize, demoralize and control Western societies.

I believe God seeks the conversion of every soul and that it doesn’t take rocket science to understand His Love.

THAT being said there is a difference between Evangelism AND *secular* government policies surrounding national security and interest. Evangelism means seek out the lost. It doesn’t mean bring the lost here en masse through political initiatives. We are lost enough as is!

Is there room for asylum and refugee policies with strong legal oversight? Like after the Vietnamese War, or Khmer Rouge for example? Yes but the plot on that has been completely lost.

Pope Leo encourages educated Cameroonians to stay and apply their expertise in improving their country, instead of migrating:
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-more-than-a-half-million-people-expected-at-pope-leo-xivs-mass-in-cameroon/amp/

God designed the boundary lines of nations:

“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” - Acts 17:26

The difference between Islam and Christianity is clear. Christ teaches forgiveness. Mohamed teaches killing. Killing is the nature of their religion.

The example of Mohamed on forgiveness Sahih Muslim, Book 17: 4206

There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: Allah's Messenger, I have committed adultery, so purify me. He (the Holy Prophet) turned her away. On the following day she said: Allah's Messenger, Why do you turn me away? Perhaps, you turn me away as you turned away Ma'iz. By Allah, I have become pregnant. He said: Well, if you insist upon it, then go away until you give birth to (the child). When she was delivered she came with the child (wrapped) in a rag and said: Here is the child whom I have given birth to. He said: Go away and suckle him until you wean him. When she had weaned him, she came to him (the Holy Prophet) with the child who was holding a piece of bread in his hand. She said: Allah's Apostle, here is he as I have weaned him and he eats food. He (the Holy Prophet) entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and then pronounced punishment. And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her. Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) heard his (Khalid's) curse that he had hurried upon her. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Khalid, be gentle. By Him in Whose Hand is my life, she has made such a repentance that even if a wrongful tax-collector were to repent, he would have been forgiven. Then giving command regarding her, he prayed over her and she was buried.

The example of Jesus on forgiveness (John 8:1-11)

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. "Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?" They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground. But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court. Straightening up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more."

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