Avi Lipkin joins us today for an insider’s look at the latest news from the Middle East. Plus we’ll continue our discussion on “Chrislam,” a movement many emergent churches are promoting.
I have not been aware of ‘Chrislam’ as a movement of many emerging churches. If the term is a joining of ‘Christian’ and ‘Islam’ I think such a movement is an abomination of the Christian faith. Both Christianity and Islam go back to God’s servant Abraham. Christians come immediately and directly from Sarah and Jacob to David onto Jesus Christ as of God. This is the lineage of my religion and faith. Islam was established about 600 years after the the Christian faith took roots by Mohammed who is what anyone believes him to be as a prophet of Allah. I don’t believe Mohammed’s Allah is the same Creator as my God because my Bible is vastly different from what I have learned about the Koran.But my skepticism as to a ‘Chrislam’ goes back to Abraham. Islam came out of Abraham after his maid servant Hagar, not of Israelite roots, had a child by Abraham but who was put out of Abraham’s family. Quick forward to Mohammed. I believe he was of the root of Hagar and in search of his own faith but separate from the root of Sarah. My real concern about the faith established by Mohammed is that it carries with it’s religion a worldly political government which is not reconciled with Christ’s teaching to ‘give unto Caesar those things that are of Caesar and unto God that which is of God’. I believe this Nation’s Founders were much aware of the dangers in Islam when they adopted our Constitution.