Posted on 01/24/2016 1:06:10 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Muslims and Christians do not worship the same God, celebrated evangelist Franklin Graham said in response to the controversial claim by a faculty member at Wheaton College in Illinois. In a series of tweets late Saturday night, Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, laid out his opposition to the recommendation of the college’s faculty council that the school drop its plans to terminate a professor who published her belief that Islam and Christianity worship the same God, which Graham said was "no minor issue." In December 2015, Larycia Hawkins, who teaches political science at Wheaton College, was put on administrative leave after wearing a hijab to school in solidarity with Muslims. Wheaton is a private evangelical Christian college, which has sometimes been called the "evangelical Harvard" because of its reputation for academic rigor.
Hawkins announced that she would wear the hijab to demonstrate support for Muslims in the aftermath of the shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, California. She also used the gesture as a platform to express her belief that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In a separate Facebook post, Graham said both his father and mother attended Wheaton College, where they met for the first time. "I'm surprised and disappointed that the faculty council there is now recommending the college drop their plans to terminate a professor who published that she believed Islam and Christianity worship the same God in December. This is no minor issue that should be debated," Graham wrote...
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Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness being tempted by Allah, so there’s a connection between Islam and a real religion.
Because their so-called prophet says he is a descendent of Abraham through Ishmael, this is the lineage that Islam has stolen for hundreds of years. This is how Islam fools Jews and Christians. By telling the world they are an Abrahamic religion just like the Jews and Christians, the three all worship the same god. However, should one ever do just a tad bit of research into this, the claim can be disproven within their own contexts. Islam uses the Bible and the Torah to justify its existence. When those are taken away from Islam, Islam cannot be justified in a divine way at all. Whenever a muslim begins to argue with you, tell them you are neither Jewish nor Christian and they won’t have anything to say. When they bring up the Bible ask them if man changed the Bible before the existence of the Qurap how can it be used as a credible resource. And it is the same with the Torah. In other words, make them debate the merits of Islam based on Islam not through the works the deem unholy. You never have to spout one Biblical verse nor do you have to ever spout one verse from the Torah. Get them to argue Islam versus Islam. I have seen so many convert this way. Then when they have left Islam, help them to safety and let them find God in their own way like so many of us did before. Let them explore other religions and see that Islam is of Satan not of the God of Abraham Jacob and Moses. When you argue with the Bible against the Quaran the muslims never hears you. When you argue the Quran versus the Quran then they listen.
When I say let them find their own way I don’t mean abandon them. Be there when they have questions. Allow them to explore other religions and find something to compare. They will undoubtedly see the light. You can guide them but if you push them they will pull away as they feel it will be just like what they have so recently escaped from.
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Good to hear! In the past he made some questionable statements. Perhaps he has seen the light!
This is the second really kewl thing I’ve learned today. Thankyou for your post about islam!
Right is right and what’s left is wrong. PERIOD!
Isaiah 5:20
They say that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
I don’t think it is relevant to the problems we have w Muslim culture.
No. This ain’t it. The God of the Bible is also a God of wrath. (So many verses.) Here’s one John 3:36 —
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
The critical difference is that Jesus Christ is God and the only God there is. If you don’t have the Son, you don’t have the Father, as expressed in 1 John 2:22.23:
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”
Those who deny that Jesus is the Christ are antichrist. That includes a lot of religions, specifically Muslims and Jews. They are each looking for some messianic figure to return and conquer. They will embrace the antichrist and persecute Jesus’ saints. When Jesus returns hr will rescue his own and begin to or our his wrath (Revelation 8,9,10,11 in the trumpet judgements)
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