“MOST?
You have sampled them ALL???
Perhaps you meant ‘a few’.”
I had the good fortune to care for a man who was a devout Muslim who read and studied the Koran daily. I cared for him in his final year of life through his death of cancer. I have his Koran on my bookshelf, a gift he gave me as he was dying.
He was an excellent MD, a surgeon who was never married and had no family and no relatives in the USA.
He saved many lives and treated his patients with a Love similar to a mother’s love for her children. If I were to list the characteristics Jesus taught us to exemplify as Christians, he exhibited all of them, including the most important, Love in his heart for God.
I am a Christian and accept Jesus whom I Love, as my Savior.
Remember what Peter said in 4:1, if you say that you Love God but do not Love your neighbor, you are a liar. Most proclaiming Christians are liars, including myself some days. My dear Muslim friend truly Loved everyone and reflected it in his actions.
Not just a few, but most.
I was fortunate in that this hospice work with him was prior to 911 as I observed the good side of the Muslim religion.
>>I was fortunate in that this hospice work with him was prior to 911 as I observed the good side of the Muslim religion.
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This doesn’t make sense to me. The Koran says muslims must kill the infidel. To kill the infidel is to be a “good” muslim, following the Koran.
I can only conclude the man must have been a very “bad” muslim.
You do not need to be a Christian to be a decent person.
The reason to become a Christian is to enter a relationship with God and have eternal life.
Having entrusted yourself to Christ, His life should be reflected in the fruit of your life.
Jesus had another list:
John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
What was your friend's take on JESUS?
Do you think he is going to be SAVED thru Him??