John R. Houk
© July 21, 2010
I have been very hard pressed to walk the line of being disgusted with the religion of Islam while giving Muslims the benefit of the doubt of being deceived people by a religion that is as political as it is theological. There is a saying among Christians: hate the sin and love the sinner.
The point is in hating the sin; the sinner will have the opportunity in their life to turn their life to faith in Christ even if it is their last breath. Believing that Jesus arose from the dead in bodily form (as opposed to spiritual) making a show openly in victory over Satan’s unjust evil world system leased to him by the First Adam thus defeating death. From death God the Father reasserted Life in the son of man from Mary’s lineage and the Son of God by the Incarnation of God the Second Person of the Triune God. Triune meaning God is ONE. Belief in the Resurrection is the New Covenant of Life by the loving God who was willing to risk the Second Person on the ONE Godhead by an emptying of divine attributes to become a man. The only way for God to save the World he so loved was to have an absolutely Just, sinless and righteous man sacrifice his life as payment to redeem the actions of the First Adam who subleased his charge to Satan. The sublease was an act of disobedience that separated Adam and Eve and their descendants from Union with God. Thus Adam felt naked for God’s Glory no longer clothed Adam.
The Last Adam Jesus Christ sacrificed His Life and Blood on the Cross to die with the sins of humanity imputed upon Him. The death of Jesus was an unjust act perpetuated by the lord of darkness. The Justice of God thus judged Satan’s lease over humanity had been broken. The Father enabled Life in Jesus returning His Perfect Spirit to be reunited with his human body in life. The human body of Jesus the Christ then became transformed as the Divine attributes that left at the Incarnation were reinstalled at the Bodily Resurrection in which eventually sat Jesus at the Right Hand of the Father as the Last High Priest. This High Priest Jesus is the Priest-King to both Jew and Gentile thus uniting humanity by the Blood of Christ.
In Islam hate and intolerance abrogate peace, love and tolerance. In Christianity the Love of God and the Good News of Deliverance and the joint-heirship with the First Born from the dead (AKA the Last Adam, the Christ) is made available to human beings in the flesh by tossing the old man aside and becoming a new creation in Christ Jesus. The process of growing in one’s new creation in Christ life leads away from the fleshly desires and temptations to walk in hate, violence, intolerance and all acts of humanity antithetical to a Godly Life made possible by faith in Christ.
Mohammed’s later life is all about carnal relations with women which can be insinuated to gratify the baser desires of unredeemed through lust for sex slaves. The women that became the wives of Mohammed did not do so because his Allah said there would be some divine benefit for humanity. No my friends: Mohammed’s dalliance with multiple wives and sex slaves was the bad old fashioned carnal lust to satisfy the hunger for sex. Mohammed’s first wife died. The whole time she was alive the paradigm for Mohammed was one wife and one husband. After Kadijah’s death, Mohammed took on multiple wives which included gorgeous Jewish gals captured in war, a wife or two of a companion who Mo could not resist and even the marriage to a seven year little girl whose marriage was consummated when she was the ripe old age of NINE.
Beyond the carnal desire for women, Mohammed’s later life had become consumed for the bloodlust of Jews, Christians and the marketing caravans loaded with wealth to be stolen. Why?
The Jewish Arab tribes of Medina resisted Mohammed’s theopolitical cult as NOT compatible with Judaism. Mohammed did not fit the bill of a prophet that Judaism was specifically looking. The Jewish punishment: Conquest, genocide, theft, sex-slavery and eventually banishment or death from the Arabian Peninsula. Mo’s later life directive toward Jews (and Christians) differed from Mo’s early life of calling Jews (and Christians) the people of the book who were to be respected and not forced to become Muslims. Although that respect was for Mo a little deceptive: For Jews and Christians to live peaceably among Muslims then Jews and Christian had to pay a protection tax which turned out to be humiliation tribute that was to be collected in the most humiliating way possible. The protection tax (jizya) only protected Jews and Christian from summary death or execution for rejecting Islam. There is no compulsion in Islam – Yeah Right! To choose to remain a Jew or Christian entailed a subhuman existence with zero rights vis-a-vie Muslims. Jews and Christians have the right NOT to practice their religion in front of a Muslim without facing death. Jews and Christians cannot build new Churches and Synagogues let alone repair old ones without facing death. Jews and Christians cannot wear the same clothes as Muslims without facing death. Jewish and Christian females are open targets for Muslim rapists who do not have to worry about prosecution because a Jew and Christian are not allowed to testify against a Muslim. For that matter a woman that is raped can be punished by being in a position that her family is not protecting her (that goes for Muslim women as well). Easy targets are deserving targets in Islam. There is more that can be directly linked to Islam’s perfect man’s examples in the Quran, Hadith, Sunna and Sira. All the examples are not good for non-Muslims.
On the other hand the example of Jesus emerges to greater degrees of righteousness right up until the time of His Crucifixion on the Cross. Just prior to the death of Christ, one of two thieves crucified with Christ asks to join Jesus in His Kingdom. He was promised a place in Paradise with Jesus. Jesus’ last breath to His Father in Heaven was to forgive those who Crucified the Son of God for they knew not what they had done. Mohammed’s last breath was to kill all Jews and Christians in the Arabian Peninsula because they refused to acknowledge Mohammed as the last Prophet and his god he called Allah as God Almighty.
Do I have a problem with Islam? Yes.
Christ commands me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. Hence I do so for Muslims.
The Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit tells me to pray for unrepentant sinners and disbelievers. For Christians do not wrestle with flesh and blood but with different levels of spiritual beings under the command of Satan. All that is evil is influenced directly or indirectly by Satan, Satan’s minions and by anti-Christ spirits that will culminate eventually in the two men that are the Anti-Christ and his False Prophet.
It is time for Christians to rise up and keep their eyes upon Jesus. It is time for a Holy Crusade that more than likely will not be supported by any Western government especially in America. In America Muslims that are attempting to follow the purist revival of the Mohammed example has used the American Constitution to become aggressors against Judeo-Christian spiritual values and have convinced politicians (especially of the Leftist persuasion) that American Muslims are poor victims of Islamophobia. God help that it would become true that Islamophobia would take a hold of Americans; HOWEVER not because of irrational fear or to act out hatred against the physical person of a Muslim. God’s Word tells us that Godly Love overcomes fear. Also a physical attack based on hatred sucks a Christian into the same credo of Theopolitical Islam: kill that which offends Mohammed and his Allah. Regardless of the history of Christianity in which Christian embracing Sovereigns would slaughter Jews, Muslims and those considered heretical Christians in the name of Jesus Christ; that slaughter was definitely contrary to the example of Jesus Christ and the Word of God.
The Modern Christian Crusade should be all about confronting Islam head on publicly even if Muslims attempt to paint such action as racism. Christians should NOT engage in violence, but share the Good News of Jesus Christ the Son of God even though they may be provoked to respond to Islamic violence. American Muslim organizations have used their definition of Islamophobia to use law enforcement to disperse Christians exercising their right of Free Speech and Religious Freedom. Muslims have deceitfully used the U.S. Constitution to use the money from foreign Muslim billionaires to engage in Legal Jihad (aka Lawfare). There was a time in Europe and Asia Minor that Christians were thrown in the slammer, to the lions and to the torture chambers to get them to recant their faith in Christ (long before Islam for those were the days that Romans persecuted Christians). Now that is real martyrdom.
Muslim martyrdom is dying in battle spreading Islam or in a homicidal suicide bomb designed to strike fear in non-Muslims in the death of men, women and children. The reward for dying a martyr in Islam: eternal access to the carnal sexual pleasures of 72 eternal virgins that satisfy a martyr's every sexual desire. What does a Christian martyr look forward to?
8 And Stephan, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. 11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him and brought him to the council. 13 And they set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. (Acts 6: 8-15 KJV)
1 THEN said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, … (Acts 7: 1-ff)
Steven proceeds to tell the council the history of the Hebrews from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and the other Eleven Patriarchs, Moses, David, Solomon and the Prophets as the Scripture points to Jesus the Christ as the Messiah promised by Moses. Then:
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened , and the Son of man standing on the right of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge, And when he had said this , he fell asleep. (Acts 7: 51-60 KJV)
Now that is what true martyrdom is: A culture of Life willing to die to be an example of Life. This is as opposed to a culture of death that divinizes death to receive carnal sexual pleasure for all eternity in Paradise.
Even from a human perspective, which theological perspective of the afterlife promises the Holy Bliss of Union with God? Is it a martyr with a vision into an afterlife that ends all human suffering or a martyr who glorifies death with expectation of sensuous carnal sex to fulfill human lust?
JRH 7/21/10
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