Have heard many stories from foreign missionaries of Jesus appearing to Muslims in their dreams, sometimes on a white horse, sometimes just standing alone - but always calling to them.
Gives me chills to read this. Good chills.
how hard can it be to give up a religion that’s based on conquest, murder and dispensing misery to all others when Christianity is, for most Christians, based on love and forgiveness?
Must be the bravest people on the planet. I wish a lot of Christians would convert to Christianity.
Maybe the hypocrisy of Islam being the religion of peace and yet executing everyone who doesn’t bow down to their beliefs or ridicules them or their prophet has turned a lot of folks against them.
Now if only atheists would start converting in large numbers. May happen; the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Christianity has a water-tight moral logic and consistency of behavior and thought which expands infinitely if you accept a few simple premises, such as that God exists, we were all made in His image, and Jesus Christ was his son.
I believe this is far easier to accept for a sensitive and intelligent Muslim with faith (who already know much about this) who looking for Truth in this world, than it is for a Western atheist or Western agnostic without faith.
I suppose I can see that happening. There is a lot of pressure on them at prayer time. Screw up a prayer and you lose your head. Yep, lots of pressure.
Interesting.
Sergei Rachmaninoff has composed two of the most gorgeous settings of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgies; The All-Night Vigil and the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. I listen to both of these magnificent pieces frequently, even though I am neither Russian nor Orthodox.
I never knew Sergei’s ancestors were moslem. What a gift to the church that conversion turned out to be!