Bible And Qur’an As Far Apart As The East Is From The West…
06 Sunday Jul 2014
Written by dennisghurst in Xegesis
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Christianity, Conservatism, Constitutional Republic, Everlasting, Freedom, Genealogy, God, Imams, Islam, Jesus Christ, Liberty, Muslims, Posterity, Shari'ah Law, Wisdom
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The recent so-called “coming together” of the Pope and Islamic leaders to a joint inter-faith prayer-gathering has caused more than a few eyebrows to be raised planet-wide. Long in the memory of 25-years-standing is a dire warning from my English close-as-a-brother-buddy Mike who travels into the Islamic Muslim Middle East on a regular basis due to his business. Quote: “DeeGee, do me a favor. If ever you travel to an Islamic Muslim country for whatever reason (and try not to make it a Missions trip) do not – I say, do NOT – carry your Bible with you, ‘cos it is against Shari’ah Law for anyone to be carrying a Bible in a Muslim country, and we may never see you again.”
On a similar topic say, were we in the West to hold the Islamic Muslim Faithful to the same numbers of Christian churches and cathedrals be built in Islamic Muslim Middle East countries and elsewhere, to match the equivalent of the numbers of Islamic Mosques under construction and already completed on American soil, we would then be more likely to experience a really TRUE inter-faith coming together of massive proportions. Wonderful dream, but never to be.
And therein my friends, lies the paradox.
In Part Three of America on the Cusp of God’s Grace, titled “Conflicting Ideologies” I devote fifteen chapters and 150 pages to this very topic, and why there will never, ever, be an interfaith coming together between Christianity and Islam. The gulf is simply too wide, and the journey too far. For starters, the Bible describes Abraham as the father of both Christianity and (what turned out to be) Islamic Muslimism.
In the Book of Genesis, chapters 15, 16, and 17, the story unfolds of both Abraham and his wife Sarah acting against God’s holy promise to Abraham, that his heir will come from his loins through Sarah. Sarah, somewhat frustrated that nothing has happened, instructs Abraham to go into Hagar, her maid, and Hagar produces Ishmael. Despite Abraham’s disobedience, God reiterates his promise that Isaac will be born of Sarah; that Ishmael will be blessed of God but that the caveat would be eternal: “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren .. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
And thus we have the Arab Islamic Muslims through Ishmael; and the Christians through Isaac, from whose lineage Jesus Christ emerged on that glorious night of angelic glory. Allah is the moon god of Mecca, and thus the god of the Qur’an. For anyone to have worshiped Allah the moon god, it would have been an abomination to the God of the Bible and they would have been put to death. It should be clear that Allah cannot be the God of the Bible and just because Muhammad claimed it to be true doesn’t make it so. The fifteen chapters contained in America on the Cusp of God’s Grace are far too detailed to go into on a relatively short piece like this, but they are replete with details, references, and end notes from scores of historical and scholarly determinations.
Getting away from the theological differences between Christianity and Islam, we can acknowledge that the foundational documents of the Constitutional Republic of the United States are at odds with the global aim of Islamic Jihadist Muslim Terrorists that the entire planet must come under the umbrella of Shari’ah Law. In my piece from Independence Day I described how the Qur’an could never, ever be the Book of Authority of the United States, because it has absolutely no standing either with the Declaration of Independence, nor with the contents of the Constitution, and ergo, with the Amendments to the Constitution. As I described it in the opening:
On this, the 238th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence I post a section from Chapter Ten of America on the Cusp of God’s Grace in which the case is made for only the Bible being allowed to be the Book of Authority for the Constitutional Republic of the United States. The Meacham Report to Congress of March 27, 1854 contained the following language: “and, depend upon it, that where there is a spirit of Christianity, there is a spirit which rises above form, above ceremonies, independent of sect or creed and the controversies of clashing doctrines.” In closing out the debate prior to the adoption of the resolution, Meacham concluded: “It must be considered as the foundation on which the whole structure rests. Laws will not have permanence or power without the sanction of religious sentiment – without a firm belief that there is a Power above us that will reward our virtues and punish our vices.
Therefore, reverting back to the topic at hand, yours truly is of the very strong opinion that to even attempt a “coming together” between such disparate ideologies as true Christianity (ie “Christ-followers”, or “followers of Christ”, or “Disciples of Christ” as opposed to the “religion of Christianity”) and true Islamic Muslimism – (“Muhammadism?”) straddles the oxymoronic bridge perhaps more than any other hot topic currently in play. Inviting Islamic Jihadist Muslim Imams into a Vatican City prayer gathering, surely is akin to inviting the devil to the party? Which isn’t meant as a slur by any means, to my many Catholic Church friends and fellow-Godly Christ-worshipers, but considering the make-up of this scourge on all freedom-loving people around the world, why would anyone – particularly the leader of the largest church denomination on the planet – give even the slightest recognition to an organization dedicated to the obliteration of Israel and Western civilization from the planet? Unless of course, there is an even bigger, more political, more evil, more demonic power at work, than even We The People can fathom; except that it has already been foretold in many books of the Bible including those of Genesis; Deuteronomy; Job; Psalms; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Daniel; Zephaniah; Zechariah; and Malachi to Revelation.
Just as King Hezekiah made the fatal error of inviting Babylonian envoys into his palace, so the European nations (and increasingly-so here in the United States) have opened their doors to a flood of Muslim immigrants who have no gratitude or loyalty to their host nations. Now we see an entrenched Islamic time-bomb about to explode in our midst. Pray, pray, pray, and stand up for the righteousness of Jesus Christ and his message, just as this brave and courageous German lady did earlier this year, when she stood up against the imposition of ungodly Islamic Muslim prayers in the Memorial Church of the Reformation. Interfaith get-togethers are nothing more than public places from where propagandizing Islamic Imams can spout their hatred for Israel and Western Civilization. Why even give them the platform?
As Christ was enraged enough to scatter the lying, thieving, deceiving, unscrupulous money-lenders from the portico to His Father’s House, shouldn’t we his followers be exclaiming the same against the evil amongst us? “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word .. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.”
Scripture references: Genesis 15:4/16:12/17:21 … John 8:42-43, 45 … and the many Books as recognized and described in the contents.