Posted on 09/11/2019 7:38:46 AM PDT by OddLane
In the 8th century, the Great Imam, Abu Hanifa (699-767), coined the term "House of Islam" (Dar al-Islam) as those places where Muslims enjoyed peace and security under the rule of an Islamic government. The rest of the world Hanifa designated Dar al-Harb or "the House of War."
Hanifa's triumphalist worldview had been earned by Islamic armies that had already defeated both the Byzantine and Persian superpowers in their first century of existence. In Hanifa's own lifetime, these Prophet-inspired warriors rolled unabated across Buddhist Central Asia and South Asian Hindustan. By the time of Abu Hanifa's writing, Islamic kingdoms stretched from the borders of France to the Indonesian archipelago.
Islam's expansion continues to the present. As the fastest-growing major religion in the world today, Islam is on track to challenge Christianity as the world's largest religion by 2050.
My wife and I have spent some 30 years as evangelical missionaries engaging the Muslim world, living among Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia. God has given us a love for Muslims, and we have found them to be overwhelmingly hospitable, reasonable, peace-loving people—yet staunchly opposed to the Christian gospel. A major reason for this was found in the roots of Islam...
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The conquest of Islam in the 6 to 14 centuries the simple, if you inspire people to frenzied violence , And engage their last for both gold and sex slavesthey will always win until the great equalizer is invented
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Christ the Savior said “the meek shall inherit the earth”
This is of course True in the long run it is much as those that have found inner peace have conquered over their sins in this life
Those human beings then can set forth to help other human beings in this endeavor
Islam and many other forms of philosophy of this life stress selfishness and greed which are a sure form of self destruction and a path to hell not only on this earth but in the afterlife
Because Jesus is the ONLY WAY to God.
Please see post 22.
I only learned about his work through Acts 17 Apologetics-and watching David Wood’s videos. Unfortunately, I didn’t learn of him until his battle with cancer had taken a turn for the worse.
That is NOT TRUE.
Many Muslims have come to FAITH IN CHRIST.
I’ve been told by a few former moslems that they converted to born again Christians after having a vision. I’ve heard that a lot. God must use those to speak to them.
Keeping your head on your shoulders would be one of the challenges.
Amen to that!
I first heard Mohammedanism eulogized by a Christian theologian in Fall of 1984, at a five-day Family Bible Conference, by the keynote speaker.
I already knew the real history of that tyrannical anti-Christian political system, and was deeply troubled. The man was not regarded as a “liberal” pastor, and he had served as a missionary in a Muslim-dominant country.
I was taught the truth about the Crusades in world history at a Christian School circa 1972 - and I watched what happened to Beirut later. That, coupled with actually studying the Bible, was all I needed to know.
I took that man’s characterization of Islam as a fellow religion that promoted the same moral values as Christendom, and his praise of Muslims as generally more devout and holy than American Christians, as a very bad sign.
Man, was I right.
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