I am inclined to start this thread to explain some misconception about muslim religion. I have been born and bred in a muslim country for all my life. As such I think I have the standing (right) to comment on this subject. Muslims, like Christians are godly people. They also believed in God, live a moderate and peaceful life. In fact there are some similarity with Christianity. They believed in the same God as we do. Let me explain. If you were to read the Quran or aware of its content, you will notice that their Quran is basically the OT of Christian bible. All characters that were mentioned in the OT were also reflected on the Quran. Couple of years back, I had the opportunity to tell this statement to my muslim friends. They looked disbelief and we eventually agreed to test it by I mentioned all characters in the OT of the bible (Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph etc...while they mentioned those characters in their Quran. You know what, they turn out to be the same name, the OT one in English while the Quran is in Arabic.
I remembered what our lord Jesus have said before He gone up to heaven "he had commanded His follower, Christians, to share the good news about God's salvation for mankind to everyone on the face of this earth baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with promise that he (Jesus) will be together with us. (Matthew 28:18-20)." Without any hesitation I told them (my muslim friends) about Jesus. Their response was they don;t believed that Jesus is the Messiah. However, they believed Jesus to be a prophet of God like Muhammad, who were sent by God as God's messenger. I was unsuccessful to convinced them bearing in mind that it is an offense under the Syariah laws for a muslim to convert to other religion.
Like in any other religion, there bounds to be cults, extremists who manipulate the truth of their religion for their own agenda, benefit. I personally think that thats the reason with muslims terrorist/ extramist like IS,Abu Syaaf, Osama bin laden etc.... They hate the west and they manipulate the truth with lies in order to win enough support in their communities to against the west to achieve their personal agenda. Sadly, there are many muslims who fall into their lies. This reminds me of what the bible said about Satan, a roaring lion looking for someone to devour (1Peter6:8-9), and a master deceiver. He (satan) likes to deceived people so that they will perish like him in the last days. But take courage, our lord Jesus will be the one winning this spiritual battle for us, Praise the Lord.
I remembered what our lord Jesus have said before He gone up to heaven "he had commanded His follower, Christians, to share the good news about God's salvation for mankind to everyone on the face of this earth baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with promise that he (Jesus) will be together with us. (Matthew 28:18-20)." Without any hesitation I told them (my muslim friends) about Jesus. Their response was they don;t believed that Jesus is the Messiah. However, they believed Jesus to be a prophet of God like Muhammad, who were sent by God as God's messenger. I was unsuccessful to convinced them bearing in mind that it is an offense under the Syariah laws for a muslim to convert to other religion.
Like in any other religion, there bounds to be cults, extremists who manipulate the truth of their religion for their own agenda, benefit. I personally think that thats the reason with muslims terrorist/ extramist like IS,Abu Syaaf, Osama bin laden etc.... They hate the west and they manipulate the truth with lies in order to win enough support in their communities to against the west to achieve their personal agenda. Sadly, there are many muslims who fall into their lies. This reminds me of what the bible said about Satan, a roaring lion looking for someone to devour (1Peter6:8-9), and a master deceiver. He (satan) likes to deceived people so that they will perish like him in the last days. But take courage, our lord Jesus will be the one winning this spiritual battle for us, Praise the Lord.