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Here's an obvious statement: Not everybody worships the God of the Bible. I don't know that that makes them worshipers of Satan. Christians don't worship the God of the Koran, Allah. Does that make them infidels? Christians don't worship Krishna or Buddha or Shiva or the sun or the moon or the earth or animals. Are they then worshiping a false god because they don't worship those things? No Christian would claim he or she worships a false God. No Christian would claim to be following Satan or practicing idolatry. Yet it is perfectly fine to say that those who are not Christian do worship false gods, and that they worship satan and that they are idolaters.
I have not studied the Koran, so I will take mpaper's word for it that the teachings of God in the Bible do not coincide with the teachings of the Koran. Here's another obvious statement: Teachings of different religious faiths will not always coincide with each other.
It would be fair to say that a Christian ought not to follow the Koran but should a Muslim not follow the Koran? Because Christianity sees Islam as false, must those who practice it give it up? Idk, maybe that's part of making disciples of all nations. " Give up your false gods and worship the one true God of the heavens and the earth. There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. Repent and be baptized!" And if a Muslim doesn't want to be baptized? If he feels no conviction from God that how he worships is wrong, is he still to be converted?
Suppose a Muslim wanted to convert you away from Christianity to Islam. Suppose he told you that you were an infidel and have strayed from the true path and that you must become a Muslim in order to be acceptable to God, what would your response be? I imagine that most would balk at the idea. I imagine that most would reject the offer of conversion to Islam. Why? And why are your reasons any more valid than the Muslim who doesn't want to convert to Christianity?
I have not studied the Koran, so I will take mpaper's word for it that the teachings of God in the Bible do not coincide with the teachings of the Koran. Here's another obvious statement: Teachings of different religious faiths will not always coincide with each other.
It would be fair to say that a Christian ought not to follow the Koran but should a Muslim not follow the Koran? Because Christianity sees Islam as false, must those who practice it give it up? Idk, maybe that's part of making disciples of all nations. " Give up your false gods and worship the one true God of the heavens and the earth. There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. Repent and be baptized!" And if a Muslim doesn't want to be baptized? If he feels no conviction from God that how he worships is wrong, is he still to be converted?
Suppose a Muslim wanted to convert you away from Christianity to Islam. Suppose he told you that you were an infidel and have strayed from the true path and that you must become a Muslim in order to be acceptable to God, what would your response be? I imagine that most would balk at the idea. I imagine that most would reject the offer of conversion to Islam. Why? And why are your reasons any more valid than the Muslim who doesn't want to convert to Christianity?