Posted on 03/29/2008 2:53:23 PM PDT by dvan
After the attacks of 9/11, many people in the West, including Christians, were asking, Where are the moderate Muslims?
They may have showed up last fall. A group of what appeared to be moderate Muslim leaders sent a conciliatory message to representatives of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant faiths, offering to work toward a more peaceful coexistence between the worlds two largest religions.
How should Christians in the West respond to this offer?
A basis for peace? Issued October 13, 2007, and titled A Common Word Between Us and You, the Muslim document stressed the need for peace between members of the Christian and Islamic faiths, since the two groups represent 55% of the worlds population.
A Common Word highlighted the common sentiments of the Quran and the New Testament, where man is commanded to love God and love ones neighbor: The basis for this peace and understanding already exists. It is part of the very foundational principles of both faiths: love of the One God, and love of the neighbor. These principles are found over and over again in the sacred texts of Islam and Christianity.
The 138 signatories of the document impressed numerous Christian leaders, since these Muslim leaders represented virtually the entire religious landscape within the Islamic world.
More than 300 Christian leaders and theologians soon penned a response to the Muslim letter.Evangelical heavyweights like Richard Cizik, Bill Hybels, Brian McLaren, John Stott, Jim Wallis and Rick Warren added their names to that response, titled Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.
For the complete Disgusting Article:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Journal/stories.aspx?id=72859
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Actually, John Stott is a solid Christian. He has been writing some of the best Biblical commentaries out there over the last 10 years.
There are lots of ‘bad’ Muslims that can be reached for Christ. I know a few, and we talk to them from time to time. I have a couple of friends who are much better at it than I am- they’ve actually lived in the ME before, and understand the Koran much better than me, and they’re perfectly comfortable hanging with them, hashing out theological debates and making invitations to grace.
These are the types of things the church had better wake up to if we truly intend to bring salvation to them.
If we don’t, Jesus will be our judge.
Sorry, don’t buy that there can be peace between us.
There are, after all, three Abrahamic religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Silly, you know the answer to that one!
Yeah, let’s not read further or think through it or anything. Knee-jerk reactions are far more fun.
There you go, trying to make people, like, think and stuff. Don’t you know that hurts?
How about we start a dialogue with them if they:
1) Bring the body of Osama
2) Stop rioting over cartoons
3) Bring bodies of radical Muslims
4) Blame leaders of Muslim countries for the atrocities and poor conditions of their own countries.
5) Oh, did I mention bring dead bodies of terrorists?
6) Start their own airlines
I know. I overreacted. I just hate to see folks caving in to them-like the Archbishop of Canterbury, for example.
PugetSoundSoldier: some day your CAD engineer's imam may want him to commit acts in support of the global Jihad. At that point he will have to choose between being your friend and being a faithful Muslim. He cannot be both. He may think he can, because the choice has not yet been put to him. He may even believe he can be both for a while, as long as his pro-jihad acts do not directly harm you, but he will eventually need to fully commit to one side or another.
Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day ... until they pay the tribute readily, being brought lowSee my homepage for more selections for the Quran and Hadith
Surah IX:29O ye who believe! Choose not for friends such of those who received the Scriptures before you
Surah V:57Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush...
Surah IX:5And slay them wherever ye find them ... Such is the reward of disbelievers.
Surah II:191
And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman that they should have any choice in their matter when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter; and whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he surely strays off a manifest straying.
Surah 33:36O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)
Surah 9:123Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah.
Surah 33:21 (note that this is important -- All that Mad Mo did is to be considered ideal conduct)
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