SUNDAYS TWO-CENTS WORTH- #27:

To Those Who Have Eyes to See and

Ears to Hear, Let Them Read and Learn

Islam (which means to ‘submit’) is a religion created by the pagan Arab named Mohammad (579-632 A.D.) It is more of a socioeconomic movement backed strong-ethical (?) ideals. Followers of this movement are known a “Muslims”. Martin Luther, the “Father” of the Protestant Reformation, identified Mohammad as “The Disciple of Satan”. In truth, Islam is a satanic reinterpretation and reformulation of Judaism and Christianity.

The creed of Islam is expressed by the affirmation that “There is no god but god, and Mohammad is his prophet.” This creed exalting an unnamed “god,” is to be expressed several times a day by the “pious” Muslim.

The anthropomorphic nature of Islam comes as a surprise to most religious scholars. Heaven is described in the Koran (Mohammad’s holy book) in very human terms and Hell is described as a place of intense heat, scalding water, and very hot winds. The faithful Muslim is promised a Heaven of beautiful gardens, wine (even though drinking of alcoholic beverages are forbidden), and unending abundant sex.

Acceptance of the above named creed is followed by belief in Six Articles of Faith:

1. Belief in the one (unidentified, unnamed) god (?? Satan ??).

There is only one true “god” (“Allah” in Arabic), the sole Creator of all that exists (in both heaven and earth) and the Agent of all that happens. The god of Islam is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Who is revealed in Genesis to be a plurality of Persons: And God said; “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26; 3:22; 11:6-7). In the New Testament this plurality is more explicitly revealed to be a Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One in Essence, Ever-existing, Undivided and Indivisible. Muslims do not accept this mystery and go so far as to accuse Christians of being polytheists, often compounding their inability to believe God’s revealed doctrine of the Trinity by mistakenly following Mohammad’s ‘holy book’ when it erroneously proclaims that Christians worship THREE gods: Allah, Jesus and Mary (Sura 5:116). Yet Mary and her mother Anne are said by Mohammad, to be the only women not touched by the power of Satan. The mystery of the Trinity, which is fundamental dogma of the Christian faith, has been described by the Church fathers as a Trinity in Unity, the perfect expression of perfect love. This love is not only an attribute of God; God is love (I John 4:8, 16).

Although Muslims claim their god to be loving, merciful, and just, he is more frequently shown in their scriptures and traditions to be stern, demanding, retributive, vengeful and even arbitrary: “Those that disobey Allah and his Apostles shall abide forever in the fire of hell” (Sura 72). The faithful Muslim is further ordered by his god to actively fight all unbelievers: “And slay them wherever you catch them” (2: 191). Islam is not a religion of forgiveness and faith but one of good works and blind obedience. After several centuries of brutal military conquest, ruthless pillage, and enslavement of over two-thirds of Christendom, Christians finally launched defensive measures now known as the Crusades against the uncivilized and barbaric glorification and manifestation of the Old Adam that is ruthlessly encouraged by the Satanic philosophy/religion called Islam.

2. Belief in angels

The pure and sexless beings created by the Islamic god before he made the earth are named “angels” by Mohammad who borrowed this concept from the Old and New Testaments. Some angels support god’s Throne and sing his praises, some are employed as god’s messengers, and some act as man’s guardians or intercede for man before god.

Mohammad teaches that below the rank of angels is lower order of beings carried over from pre-Islamic Arab paganism called “jinn”, which today are more commonly known as genies. Jinn are said to be able to take the form of humans, male and female as well as the form of many different animals, but mostly snakes. Islam teaches that jinn dwell in every conceivable inanimate object such as trees, rocks, old ruins, under the earth, in the air and in fire. Although some jinn are said to be friendly to humans, they will usually harm them and are the intentional source of many human diseases and the cause of all sorts of accidents. Mohammad taught that jinn share the same bodily needs as humans and can even be killed, but he says that jinn are free from all physical restraints and posses extraordinary power.

3. Belief in Mohammad’s holy book – (the Koran)

Mohammad teaches that certain prophets were given the revelations of god in the past. These revelations were written by the prophets into the “holy books”. Islam teaches that the most recent, infallible and last revelation of god was dictated to Mohammad in Arabic NOT by god himself but rather by the Archangel Gabriel. Therefore the Koran is NOT the direct word of God but rather the Archangel Gabriel’s interpretation of God’s Will and Commands. The Koran is viewed by Islam as (a) a canon of faith for pious Muslims, (2) a textbook of civil law, (3) a molder of true culture, and (4) a code of honor. Thus Islam claims to be MORE than a religion and does, indeed, exercise greater control over and influence on politics and culture than Christianity ever had. It is this point that Christians fail to comprehend, or recognize.

4. Belief in prophets

In a further attempt to deceive true Believers, Islam asserts that it reveres the prophets of Israel (both the Old and New Testaments) Muslims claim to regard the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Gospels to be inspired writings. Jesus of Nazareth, however (contrary to God’s clear testimony in both the Old and New Testaments), is not accepted as the Incarnation of the One True God, but rather as just another prophet, inferior to Mohammad. Yet the Muslims believe that Jesus Christ was truly born of a Virgin, unlike Mohammad, and that he was totally without sin, unlike Mohammad, and that he really performed miracles, again unlike Mohammad. However, they also assert that before the crucifixion God took Jesus away, leaving a “shadow” in His place, that it was not the real Jesus who was crucified on the cross at Golgotha, in fact, Muslims claim that it was Judas who was mistaken for Jesus and crucified, that this Jesus certainly did not rise from the grave. Jesus will, however, Mohammad teaches, return at the end of the world to fight the Anti-Christ.

To be continued on Monday