I am very sorry that your parents did not fill your heart with the love and joy of Jesus Christ. Please remember, that no matter what, he stills loves you and accepts you and just asks for your heart to be open for Him.
You have entered a faith that I hope you study in depth and in detail. The Quran teaches that only Islam is the true religion, and unbelievers have three options: 1) convert to Islam; 2) remain an infidel, and submit to humiliating subordinate status under Islamic (Sharia) law, including paying a hefty poll tax; or 3) wage war with, or be killed by, Muslims.
Keep in mind that in Islam it is “good works” (good vs. bad deeds on the scale of life) that you DO that may get you into heaven. Somehow you must win Allah’s favor. If you fall just .0001% short on the scale, you will be cast down into Hell.
But the problem is you never know when you have done enough. It is like being a salesperson who must meet a quota but never being told what that quota is. You can never be sure you have actually done enough (except dying in Jihad fighting infidels – but I don’t know if that is for you though).
Worse yet, the Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that we can never do enough. We will always fall short of God’s holy and perfect standard.
But be thankful – for there is hope. Jesus has DONE something for us that we could have never done for ourselves. Christ lived the perfect life that we could never live and He willingly died on the Cross to pay the penalty we owed for the wrongs we have done.
To become a Christian (a follower of Christ) means to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and commit to His following and His leadership. When we do that, He adopts us into his family and begins to change us from the inside out.
Also consider - If you ever want to leave Islam, it will be considered an act of apostasy, which carries the death sentence in much of the Islamic world.
Best Regards,
2banana
PS – I spent a year in Afghanistan; living, eating, sleeping, talking, praying, fighting and dying with Muslims.
She sounds about as bright as a member of “Jews for Hitler.”
:)
((Blessings to you from a Jesus freak!))
It is because I live in the ‘West’ that I have the freedom to practice Islam.
Sigh. Someone needs to think harder. She presents herself as a thoughtful intellectual, and then shows her absolute lack of scholarship and critical thinking skills in her "findings" regarding islam.
That freedom she speaks of comes from a "West" which is heavily influenced by a Christian worldview. Christianity is based on the need for inner change, which cannot be forced.
As soon as that is said, I hear echoes of "crusades", and "inquisition". I believe that I can make a reasonable argument that both the crusades and the inquisition came not from a Christian worldview, but from the influence of islam on Christian Europe.
I believe that islam, which has always practiced forced conversions, in spite of modern claims, brought these practices to Europe, and I believe history backs me up on this.
Jesus can still forgive you.
I was just listening to a Muslim PLO terrorist turned Christian talking about the Muslim Mahdi. Every characteristic of the Mahdi matches the Christian description of the Anti-Christ. Food for thought...