Not long after 9-11 when things had settled down and everyone was sprouting that Islam was a religion of peace BS the Ladies Group of my church invited a Muslim woman along to speak to them. Of course their was the same old stuff - Jesus is one of their Prophets - the Quran says this and that but never any proof or it read in context. The Muslim left a Quran and the Woman’s group left it in the Church Library. I signed it out and gave it to our minister who got rid of it. The thing is the Muslim woman wasn’t the problem - she was there to give them the spiel of Islam: Religion of Peace and she may have even believed it herself.
The real problem was that the woman’s group did not have the discernment to understand what was being said and to see the point of difference between Islam and Christianity and that after decades in the church they had not been taught how to look at these things for themselves. What they had been taught is not to judge anyone without ever being told that discerning between right and wrong and good and evil was not being judgmental.
The left has sown this belief that if you think something is wrong that you are being judgmental. It seems to dominate every conversation about morality and belief. They have made everything personal and people seem to have this self righteous anger - “How dare you judge me?”
“The real problem was that the woman’s group did not have the discernment to understand what was being said and to see the point of difference between Islam and Christianity and that after decades in the church they had not been taught how to look at these things for themselves.”
The real problem was that they had been used as tools by a PR person for the Mohammedans; they don’t allow Christians to come into their mosques to make sales pitches...
You have touched on one of my gripes with contemporary churches: they’re not teaching people how to think. Forget the Koran for a moment; the average churchgoer, in my experience, isn’t even aware of the ideological distinctions between different translations of the Bible.
They have no idea how words are being added, changed, and removed in modern translations to better fit the progressive agenda, nor are they aware of any distinction between the Critical Text, the Majority Text, and the Textus Receptus. It’s the most important book in their lives, and they think they know plenty about it, but they know nothing about its history.
It’s no wonder, then, that the Ladies Group in your church was unable to see the Muslim’s spiel for what it was.
More to the point...wow, I wish we had more women like Brigitte Gabriel.