Sunday, February 27, 2011

Another delusional Islamophobic theory of hateful Christian missionaries

I was searching the web and found the following assertion being put forward by many silly Islam hating individuals (who seem to be mostly lying, clownish Evangelical Christian missionary fools).  This assertion of these Christian missionary evildoers is that in the original Greek of the Christian's New Testament Bible; the Greek letters for the number "666" (which is the so-called "mark of the beast" in Christian theology) allegedly look like the Arabic letters for Allah (which is the Arabic word for God).  In this short post I will go about refuting these evil claims made against the divine religion of Islam and Allah the one true God.

To begin with, as my old posts have dealt with, the mark of the beast or the number "666" is mentioned in the following section of the Christian's New Testament Bible.  Revelation 13:15-18

15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
 18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.  That number is 666. (NIV Bible)

All real historians and Christian theologians admit that the mark of the beast and the number "666" specifically are historic references made by the anonymous author of the Book of Revelation to the Roman Emperor Nero Caesar (also spelled Neron Caesar).  The anonymous author of the Book of Revelation used what is called gematria in the Hebrew language to make a secret code for Nero Caesar as the beast: who oppressed the Christians in Rome.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast
Quote- Some scholars contend that the number 666 is a code for the Roman Emperor Nero.[13][14][15][16][17][14][16][18][19][20] Charagma is well attested to have been an imperial seal of the Roman Empire used on official documents during the 1st and 2nd centuries.[21] In the reign of Emperor Decius (249–251 AD), those who did not possess the certificate of sacrifice (libellus) to Caesar could not pursue trades, a prohibition that conceivably goes back to Nero, reminding one of Revelation 13:17.[22]
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However, rumors circulated that Nero had not really died and would return to power.[29] It has also been suggested that the numerical reference to Nero was a code to imply but not directly point out emperor Domitian,[30][31] whose style of rulership resembled that of Nero and who put the people of Asia Minor, whom the Book of Revelation was primarily addressed to at the time, under heavy taxation.[32]
The Greek spelling, "Nerōn Kaisar", transliterates into Aramaic as "נרון קסר", nrwn qsr. The Aramaic spelling is attested in a scroll from Murabba'at dated to "the second year of emperor Nero." [33] Adding the corresponding values yields 666, as shown:

Resh (ר) Samech (ס) Qof (ק) Noon (נ) Vav (ו) Resh (ר) Noon (נ) Sum
200 60 100 50 6 200 50 666

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Lastly on this point, that in Christian theology the mark of the beast aka "666" was simply a historical gematria code in Hebrew that was used to refer to Nero Caesar, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Caesar#Christian_tradition

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Some modern biblical scholars [190][191] such as Delbert Hillers (Johns Hopkins University) of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the editors of the Oxford & Harper Collins study Bibles, contend that the number 666 in the Book of Revelation is a code for Nero,[192] a view that is also supported in Roman Catholic Biblical commentaries.[193][194]
The concept of Nero as the Antichrist is often a central belief of Preterist eschatology.

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So "666" almost certainly meant Nero Ceasar whom the Roman people thought actually had not died and would return to rule the Roman Empire one day.  Neron Caesar again adds up to "666" in Hebrew gematria, and even more telling the spelling "Nero Caesar" (that is Nero instead of Neron, which is a different method of spelling the same name) adds up to "616" in Hebrew gematria and this variant "616" is found in many early Christian New Testament manuscripts in place of "666" for this verse Revelation 13:18!  Adding more clear evidence that this verse of the New Testament means Nero Caesar and thus is in that historical context.

As for the stupid Christian missionary claim I am addressing here, the lying claim is made at this following link (among others): http://makofthebeast.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

One of the images given by these Christian missionary fools is the following, this image below has one top a pair of swords, the Arabic letters of the word "Allah" (meaning God in the Arabic language), followed by another odd looking sword!  Then below these images the bottom line has the Greek language text of "666" taken from the New Testament Book of Revelation 13:18 (again in the original Greek language text).

 These pathetic anti-Islamic Christian missionary charlatans claim that if you "flip" the middle character in the bottom Greek language text of "666", in Revelation 13:18 of the Greek Bible, this Greek character allegedly "looks" like the Arabic script for Allah.  By claiming this these Christian missionaries are asserting that Islam and Allah are allegedly the Antichrist or the "666" mark of the beast mentioned in the Bible (which historians tell us means Nero Caesar anyway): Almighty Allah forgive me for repeating these evil kaafir disbelievers claims!  One of the many good refutations of this Christian missionary insanity and propaganda is the following post from this Islamic forum from a poster named "Gajibur": http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-22387.html


Quote- Here's my answer to this propaganda. Firstly, the presenter of this little propaganda film shows his deep ignorance, because like brother "sahih baba" indicated rather sarcastically, the Arab Christians also call God "Allah". Arab Jews also call God "Allah", Why? Because "Allah" is the Arabic word for God. The Arab Christians and Jews were using the word 'Allah' way before Prophet Muhammad(s.a.w) was even born. They think the Muslims invented the word 'Allah' but it was in use before Islam. So now this ignorant presenter has to say that those christians and jews were also worshipping the devil. :lol: .

Secondly, the Greek symbol for '666' only has a slight resemblance as far as i can see to the Arabic 'Allah'. Therefore it is quite desperate on their part to say the word 'Allah' is the same as the Greek symbol for '666'. What about those "x" shapes i saw in the Greek symbol for '666', why have the Christians conveniently forgotten about that.

Thirdly, Christian prophecies say that the Antichrist will deny Jesus(a.s) came from God. Islam does not deny this, in fact Islam says Jesus(a.s.) came from God and that he was a prophet of God. So according to Christian scriptures Islam can't be a satanic or Antichrist religion because it does not deny Jesus(a.s.) came from God.

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The silly Christian missionary website I cited and posted the image from above again includes swords, claiming these are the "X" looking letter or Greek character from the Greek language version (or translation) of "666".  See this link with an original Greek language version of the Christian New Testament Bible: http://gknt.org/gnt/chapters.html

For Book of Revelation 13:18 see: http://gknt.org/cgi-bin/gnt?id=2713

The last two letters or characters are the Greek language text of  "666" or "mark of the beast".  As for the "X" portion of this Greek text, the silly Christian missionaries again assert that this "X" like character somehow looks like the Saudi Arabian "sword" emblem!  To begin with the "sword" emblem is only a symbol or emblem of the government or monarchy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia the religion of Islam itself has no "symbol" as that is part of idolatry which we as Muslims fight against as true monotheists.  As for the "sword" emblem it is the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Saudi_Arabia
This coat of arms from Saudi Arabia, looks nothing like an "X" lol!  Just look at this above Saudi emblem (or coat of arms) again it has two clearly hooked swords that hook outwards.  This would be a very deformed alleged "X"!


In fact again this "X" like character or letter from the Greek New Testament of Revelation 13:18 is actually just the Greek letter X!  And looks nothing like the Saudi Arabian coat of arms (emblem) which again has two swords crossed hooking clearly downwards which would be a very deformed alleged "X"!
Greek"X" or Chi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_%28letter%29:

To conclude the Christian missionary clowns have nothing but their own imaginary claims made by flipping the Greek text sideways and claiming these Greek letters allegedly look somewhat like the Arabic word "Allah" (meaning God in the Arabic language).  And then also these deceptive Christian missionaries claim the "X" and other Greek symbols included in the Greek of Revelation 13:18 allegedly look like "swords" which these Christian missionaries claim look like alleged "Islamic" swords (putting aside the "sword" is not an Islamic symbol as the religion of Islam forbids symbols as idolatry,  the Christian missionaries only try to use the Saudi monarchy's coat of arms or emblem).  As I showed the Saudi Arabian coat of arms looks nothing like a standard "X" shape as the two crossed swords in the Saudi coat of arms have sword blades that hook sharply downward and could only be called a very deformed alleged "X"! As for the last shape or "sword" the Christian missionaries use in their image, this is not a symbol found in any Arabic or Islamic source whatsoever (much less some alleged "symbol" of the religion of Islam as these Christian missionaries absurdly try to claim)!  It is just a random hook like blade, that actually looks nothing like the Greek language text below it: showing the Christian missionary liars are just grasping at straws.

The last sword image the Christian missionaries put on the Arabic section of their deceptive photo actually looks a little like a flipped around picture of this Roman Gladiator sword/big dagger I found called the "Sica": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sica http://www.lonelymountain.hoplologia.org/roman.htm


This particular Christian missionary claim against the true religion of Islam reminded me of another thing American Christians are famous for doing.  That is claiming they allegedly found images of Jesus Christ on different food items!  These include claims of Christians that they have found alleged "images of Jesus" on such benign food items as grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, cheetos, bananas, etc!  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Religious_pareidolia

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nwzchik/category?cat=1182
Jesus allegedly on a grilled cheese sandwich LOL!
Jesus allegedly on a Potato Chip!


A Cheeto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetos that allegedly looks Jesus: nicknamed the Cheesus!  Followed by some photos of other regular Cheetos.

              
Jesus allegedly on a banana


Another famous image many desperate Christians make claims about is this image below of what these Christian claim is the face of the "devil" in the fireball of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.

Apparently these Evangelical Christian nutcases see this kind of stuff everywhere!
Bringing up "9/11", here are some good links on that:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html
(Above: "Some People Push Back: On The Justice of Roosting Chickens"By Ward Churchill
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
(Above: Five Dancing Zionist "Israeli" Mossad agents arrested on September 11, 2001 dancing and celebrating in New Jersey across the river from Manhattan as the World Trade Center towers burned)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
(CIA created "al-Qaeda" aka al-CIA-duh!)
http://www.rense.com/general61/myths.htm
(CIA created "al-Qaeda" aka al-CIA-duh!)
http://killinghope.org/
(Above: Excerpts of a good book "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII" by American author William Blum
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Rogue_State_Blum.html
Another good book: "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" by William Blum

Also the list of food products were Evangelical Christians claim to have seen images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary could go on and on!  These lying Islamophobic Christian missionary clowns are refuted.


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  1. Dear friend I am a christian, but I fully agree with ur explanations. In fact, today I m giving a talk on these false Islamophobic interpretations of Scripture. However my arguments to do this are different.

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  2. Yahshua is the Son of God Almighty. Anybody not confessing that Yahshua (Jesus) is the Son of God Almighty is from Anti-Christ. 1 JOHN 4:2-3

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    1. Let us read 1 John 4:2-3 from your own corrupted "New Testament" itself.

      1 John 4:2-3 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. (NIV version)

      Okay so these verses are saying that a spirit is true if it acknowledges that Prophet Jesus (PBUH) is "from God"! Guess what, all Muslims are required to believe that Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was sent by God Almighty to the Jews as their Messiah. And your different "New Testament" even confirm this with Prophet Jesus (PBUH) saying he was sent only for the children of Israel.

      Matthew 10:6- Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. (NIV)

      Matthew 15:24- He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” (NIV)

      So again your own corrupted, contradiction filled "New Testament" in 1 John 4:2-3 doesn't even say anything about Prophet Jesus (PBUH) allegedly being the so-called "son of God" (God Almighty is high above your kinds blasphemous lies and claims) 1 John 4:2-3 simply says that a true spirit accepts that Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was sent by God and a false spirit (or "antichrist") rejects that Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was sent as a Prophet of God.

      Also even using your own "New Testament" the term "son of God" is clearly a metaphor as Jesus PBUH himself says in your Bibles.

      John 20:17- Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (NIV)

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    3. You are not reading the passage correctly. It did not say that Jesus came from God, it said that Jesus came in the flesh. And that every spirit who does not acknowledge that Jesus came in the flesh, is not from God. But every spirit who acknowledges that Jesus came in the flesh, is from God.

      Coming in the flesh infers that he is from heaven in human form; in other words, divine. In the gospel of John, Jesus is called the Word of God:

      Joh 1:1 In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
      Joh 1:2 From the very beginning the Word was with God.
      Joh 1:3 Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him.
      Joh 1:4 The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to people.

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    4. Hello, I will simply refer you to a Unitarian Christian website on this issue and you can debate with them if you want: http://www.biblicalunitarian.com/videos/but-what-about-john-1-1

      http://www.biblicalunitarian.com/verses/john-1-3

      etc.

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    5. As I am sure you can attest to as a faithful muslim You believe that Jesus (Yahshua) was only a man and a prophet sent from God and not the Son of God. As a faithful muslim you probably declare that "Allah has no Son" Thus you deny that God (Allah)is a Father. If this is correct then God (Allah) declares that you do not know him.

      John 5:23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
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      John 8:19 Then they asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
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      John 16:3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
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      1 John 4:15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
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      1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
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      1 John 5:20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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      2 John 1:9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.


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    6. Even in the corrupted Bibles the term "son of God" simply means a servant of God: http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/how_many__sons__does_god_have___by_misha_al_ibn_abdullah_al_kadhi

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    7. And then you talk about "you deny that God (Allah) is a father"; as Sheikh Ahmed Deedat (Rahimullah) noted we do not use the term "father" for God as it leads to blasphemies like claiming God Almighty supposedly has literal "children". And for example the literal meaning of the word "beget" (put aside in the Bible say Psalm 2:7 referring to King David PBUH, as Jews say from Psalm 2:1-2 mentioning a political context involving David PBUH further mentioned in 2 Samuel 5:17 according to Jews) is CARNAL sexual intercourse! Are you seriously claiming God Almighty supposedly had carnal relations/sex with the Virgin Mary AS?! Allah SWT forbid!

      Qur'an al-Kareem Surah Iklhas (Surah 112)

      1 Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One, 2 Allah , the Eternal Refuge. 3 He neither begets nor is born, 4 Nor is there to Him any equivalent." (Sahih International translation)

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  3. Salamu alaikum to all Muslim readers (and hello to non-Muslim readers) I made a follow up article to this article already http://muslimbeliefsandnews.blogspot.com/2011/03/follow-up-to-my-most-recent-post-about.html

    But I just noticed one more thing I wanted to add, in the Greek text of the corrupted New Testament (note that Prophet Jesus PBUH did not even speak or teach in the Indo-European Greek language, he spoke and taught in the Semitic language of Aramaic) the number "666" (that again all scholars and historians tell us was used in Hebrew gematria to refer to Nero Caesar or another Roman Emperor like Domitian that was the Christians enemy at the time the magic mushroom taking John of Patmos was writing "the book of Revelation" that Thomas Jefferson called incoherent nonsense like one's nightly dreams) anyway again Revelation 13:18 looks like this in the original Greek text

    http://www.greekbible.com/

    Revelation 13:18

    *(=ωδε ἡ σοφία ἐστίν: ὁ ἔχων νοῦν ψηφισάτω τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ θηρίου, ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν: καὶ ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτοῦ ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ.

    ἑξακόσιοι Means Six Hundred

    ἑξήκοντα Means Sixty

    ἕξ Means Six

    So this is a large string of Greek characters, and what these propagandist, anti-Muslim hatemongering "Christian" missionary liars take is simply this Greek ἕξ Meaning "Six" and try to falsely claim that if you flip it around it allegedly "looks" similar to the Arabic name Allah (the Creator, God)

    Allah in Arabic الله

    Note this ARABIC does NOT even look anything like the Greek text from (Revelation 13:18) ἕξ meaning SIX note in the Greek text ἕξ (six) where oh Christian missionary liars/propagandists is the symbol equivalent to the Arabic letter ALIF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7#Arabic

    The Arabic letter ا is the first letter of the Arabic name Allah (which is 4 letters in Arabic: Alif, Lam, Lam, Ha)

    Again Arabic is a cursive language that is written and read from right to left.

    الله

    Notice again the first Arabic letter Alif ا in the word Allah has nothing that even looks equivalent whatsoever in the Greek text ἕξ (Six) even if you flip this Greek text around like these Christian missionary blowhards want to to do try to make their flimsy, ridiculous claim to start with! Also there is nothing in the Greek text (that has to be "flipped" around to even make the stupid Christian missionary lying claim to start with) that even resembles in looks to the Arabic vowel Shadda ّ ‎

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadda

    Shadda is above the second Arabic letter Lam in the name Allah in Arabic (again Allah in Arabic is Alif, Lam, Lam, Ha). The Arabic letter Lam, ل

    Here are the four Arabic letters that make up the name Allah in Arabic (Allah is the Creator)

    ا ل ل ه

    And since Arabic is written in a cursive style (again written and red from right to left as well) the Arabic name of the Creator/God Allah is written like this in Arabic.

    الله

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    1. Some Greek manuscripts have 666 written out in words, sixhundred sixtysix, some have it in numbers.

      The Greek Old Testament called the LXX was the bible of the early church, but Greek was the universal language of that time, the way English is today. This is why most of the books of the New Testament were originally written in Greek.

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    2. The two most famous variants are the infamous (and most common) "666" and then there is also the famous "616" variant that appears also. And it is actually 616 that appears in the oldest fragment of this section (Revelation 13:18) of the New Testament "Book of Revelation" (a book by the way which was widely rejected by the early Christian church, for example see the writings of Bart D. Ehrman and other academics on this) that oldest fragment with 616 in Revelation 13:18 is Papyrus 115 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_115 again with "616" in Revelation 13:18

      The LXX i.e. the Septuagint was the "Biblical Hebrew" (side note: which is not the same as modern spoken Hebrew, and said "Biblical Hebrew" has to be very controversially "reconstructed" see works like http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Bibles/StudyBibles/TanakhJewishversion/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTI5NzUxNQ==, etc) anyway again the Septuagint was of course the "Biblical Hebrew" Old Testament translated from a Semitic language into the Indo-European Hellenic language of Greek. Jews have always rejected this and go with their "Masoretic tradition" that has very late manuscripts: the less complete Aleppo Codex of the late 10th century CE and the more complete and even later Leningrad Codex of either 1008 CE or 1009 CE.

      The Septuagint has very few manuscripts existing today, the main more complete manuscripts of it (the Septuagint) being included as the form of the Old Testament used in the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century CE i.e. the two most important 4th century Greek Christian New Testament codices. The oldest Septuagint examples are a few very small, badly preserved fragments from the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century BCE and also with the whole Septuagint you have TONS of controversy about how to translate stuff as one is again going from a Semitic language (what is today "reconstructed", "Biblical Hebrew" see the Oxford University Press again) into an unrelated Indo-European language; which again presents HUGE issues of translation problems, etc that scholars debate till today.

      And to close most academics and historians say Jesus PBUH spoke Aramaic, and some say he exclusively (i.e. only) spoke Aramaic and would have had little if any knowledge of the Indo-European language of Greek. In particular Notre Dame academic John P. Meier states this in his works: http://theology.nd.edu/people/faculty/john-p-meier/

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  4. May Allah Almighty greatly bless you brother Abdul-Rahman! Ameen.

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  5. Historians do not say that the Antichrist was Nero, historians do not interpret the New Testament. Many Christians say that, but they are wrong, as there are many interpretations of those verses, not just Nero.

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    1. http://www.preteristsite.com/docs/demar616.html

      Legitimate historians are in pretty firm agreement that the New Testament "book of Revelation" (that Thomas Jefferson actually compared in a disparaging manner to individual's nightly dreams) was written by an anonymous Christian writer/s as one giant metaphor criticizing the pre-Christian Pagan Roman Empire and its Roman Emperors. The metaphors were a sly way for the anonymous writer/s to get their point across without having to mention the pre-Christian (i.e. pre-Constantine, pre-Council of Nicaea of 325 CE, etc) Pagan Roman Emperors and Empire directly by name but rather again in a secretive sly manner by a bunch of different metaphors and symbols that the readers would have understood.

      See issues like Domitian being used as a metaphor for Nero as well, and what was known as the Nero Redivivus legend as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Redivivus_legend

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  6. How can you say "the religion of Islam itself has no "symbol" as that is part of idolatry which we as Muslims fight against as true monotheists."

    When your entier goverment system is derived from Islamic Sharia Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Law_and_human_rights

    That is derived from the teachings of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah.

    As much as i would like to say your "correct" your foundations are compleatly off tilter not to mention all the other factors (but thats offtopic).

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  7. Many if not all Christian Missionaries I know do not speak ill of Islam nor any other religions, nor link it with the beast of the Book of Revelation, so I see you are confused as to who may be saying these things. I know agnostics and godless who are confused about these topics and the Hollywood films also foster confusion among people. I also know there are people who are bent on destroying Christianity and everything it stands for, and they spread lies and rumors. I have also heard some of these things repeated by the uneducated or misguided-- and muslims do it as well!

    Christ was begotten of God, not by sex, but the Holy Spirit of God.

    He was sent to the Jews to fulfill divine prophecy of the Holy Scriptures concerning His lineage and His sacrifice for all who have sinned-- an atoning and perfect sacrifice that only God can provide.

    Also, Christ Himself spoke of grafting believers into the vine of the Kingdom of God, and even cutting branches out of the vine (please don't read into this some notion of who is in or not in the vine as it is clear). The Apostles and believers knew this to be part of the prophecy made regarding believers of all nations being part of that kingdom.

    Regarding wrong teachings, the Apostle Paul even recognized wrong teachings of his day, even correcting those who did so, and he addressed agnosticism when he heard it. Regarding these wrong teachings he stated in the Holy Scripture, "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:18 KJV). The word being "anathema" or literally "go to hell". In II Corinthians 11:14 of the Holy Scriptures, it says, "Also, And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light." referring to deceivers and devils who try to pervert the message of Christ and deceive people and even the very Believers in Christ. We see this happen with those religions and even some Christian denominations created later. The devil is bent on perverting the message of Christ, especially through wrong teachings, and some of those those religions and denominations were started by "angels" misguiding certain people.

    Real Christians do not want to speak ill of any person or religion, but they will speak when something is wrong or not right. We love all people and want to see them come to know the God of Love and Peace and Justice, and have a real relationship with His only begotten Son.

    Some Christians will still wonder why the antichrist will chose to use the method of beheading Christians, which seems to also be a method of radical islam. Christians are always concerned about regimes and governments bent on conquest and unifying the world, as this is also part of the prophecy regarding antichrists and the one final Antichrist. Thus, some Christians will see this and wonder if this is part of the prophecy regarding the antichrist or just coincidence? But, as prophecies are meant to be, this will be revealed through an unfolding of the prophecies,

    Christ came to give us life and Christian Believers are commissioned to spread the Good News. It will only stop when Jesus returns to fulfill prophecy, bringing His judgement to the nations, and to set up His rule on earth. God does not need our help with any of this, and it will happen regardless of Christians, Muslims, or any other religion, or an antichrist. With my God, all things are possible and I cannot limit Him even if I wanted to. He is still Lord Supreme of the Universe. I am not judge, He is, and he does not need my help to usher in His Kingdom.

    Finally, I know you will want to respond to this "silly notion" but I hope you will see that all is not black and white as you try to make it.

    Peace!

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