Transcript A Popular Book Declared

Making the Case
for Jesus not
Muhammad
All are “Christian”
Andrew Roberts
Beyonce (InMother
Teresa Eyes),
Billy Graham
Muslim
But Do
All
Believe and Practice Alike?
Jerry Falwell Gene Robinson Benny Hinn
Pope Benedict XVI
Queen Rania AlSalman Rushdie
All are “Muslim”
Abdullah
(In Christian Eyes), But Do All
Believe and Practice Alike?
Yusuf Islam/
Cat Stevens
Ayatollah
Khomeini
Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
Osama Bin
Laden
Making the Case
for Jesus not
Muhammad
Islam in America
• 2.35 million Muslims in U.S.
• 65% of Muslims in U.S. are
foreign born
• 26% of Muslims age 18-29
believe that suicide bombing
can be justified
• 39% of Muslims age 18-29
believe that newly arrived
Muslims should remain
distinct from the society at
large
Source: Pew Research Center, “Muslim Americans: Middle
Class and Mostly Mainstream.” May 2007
“There are so few homegrown Muslim clerics in
America today – and almost no institutions for training
them – that prayer in most mosques is led by a
scholar fresh off the plane from Lebanon, say, or
Saudi Arabia, someone with no connection to America
and no affinity for its culture….The danger is obvious:
if Saudi Arabia is exporting its Wahabi Islam to this
country via imams, pamphlets, Qur’ans and buildings,
how long before a warped version of this extremist
ideology intersects with a vulnerable group of
- Lisa Miller, “American Dreamers,” Newsweek, July 30, 2007
teenagers?”
A Popular Book Declared
“Muslims are the worst of creatures”
“Show compassion to one another but be severe to
Muslims”
“Muslims are perverse”
“Fight the Muslims around you”
“The punishment for Muslims is to kill or hang them,
or have a hand on one side and a foot on the
other cut off”
A Popular Book Declared
“Muslims are the worst of creatures”
COMPARE
Surah 8:55, “Verily the worst of creatures in the sight of
God are those who deny (the truth), and will not believe”
A Popular Book Declared
“Show compassion to one another but be severe to
Muslims”
COMPARE
Surah 48:29, “Muhammad is the Prophet of God; and
those who are with him are severe with infidels but
compassionate among themselves.”
A Popular Book Declared
“Muslims are perverse”
COMPARE
Surah 9:30, “…The Christians say: “Christ is the son of
God.” That is what they say with their tongues following
assertions made by unbelievers before them. May they be
damned by God: How perverse are they!”
A Popular Book Declared
“Fight the Muslims around you”
COMPARE
Surah 9:123, “O believers, fight the unbelievers around
you, and let them realize that you are firm…”
A Popular Book Declared
“The punishment for Muslims is to kill or hang them, or have
a hand on one side and a foot on the other cut off”
COMPARE
Surah 5:33, “The punishment for those who wage war
against God and His Prophet, and perpetrate disorders in
the land, is to kill or hang them, or have a hand on one
side and a foot on the other cut off, or banish them from
the land.”
Making the Case
for Jesus not
Muhammad
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
• Ways to Eternal Life
– Confess Christ or Deny Him?
Islamic doctrine of “shirk”
• Means “association”
• Associating anything
created with creator
• Shirk is idolatry
Surah 4:48
God does not forgive that
compeers be ascribed to Him,
though He may forgive aught
else if He please. And he who
ascribes compeers to God is
guilty of the greatest sin.
Surah 5:72-73
Whosoever associates a compeer with
God, will have Paradise denied to him
by God, and his abode shall be Hell;
and the sinners will have none to help
them. Disbelievers are they surely who
say: “God is the third of the trinity;”
but there is no God other than God the
one.
Surah 3:59
For God the likeness of
Jesus is that of Adam
whom He fashioned out
of dust and said “Be” and
he was.
Surah 9:30
The Christians say: “Christ is
the son of God.” That is what
they say with their tongues
following assertions made by
unbelievers before them. May
they be damned by God: How
perverse are they!
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
• Ways to Eternal Life
– Confess Christ or Deny Him?
– Gospel or Death in Jihad?
The Hope of Suicide
The closest thing to assurance in Islam is
death in Jihad!
Surah 47:4-6, “So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite
their necks until you overpower them, then hold them in
bondage. Then either free them graciously or after taking a
ransom, until war shall have come to end. If God had pleased
He could have punished them (Himself), but He wills to test
some of you through some others. He will not allow the deeds
of those who are killed in the cause of God to go to waste. He
will show them the way, and better their state, And will admit
them into gardens with which he has acquainted them.”
The Hope of Suicide
The closest thing to assurance in Islam is
death in Jihad!
Surah 3:157-158, “If you are killed in the cause of God
or you die, the forgiveness and mercy of God are
better than all that you amass. And if you die or are
killed, even so it is to God that you will return.”
The Hope of Suicide
The closest thing to assurance in Islam is
death in Jihad!
Surah 3:195, “And those who were deprived of their
homes or banished in My cause, and who fought and
were killed, I shall blot out their sins and admit them
indeed into gardens with rippling streams.”
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
• Ways to Eternal Life
• Written Revelations
Islamic doctrine of “tahrif”
• The corruption of Jewish &
Christian scriptures.
• Jews/ Christians disregarded
and polluted their scriptures,
“Allah’s” word
Surah 22:52
We have sent no messenger or
apostle before you with whose
recitations Satan did not tamper. Yet
God abrogates what Satan
interpolates; then He confirms His
revelations, for God is all-knowing
and all-wise.
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
• Ways to Eternal Life
• Written Revelations
• Gods
– Different Natures
Surah 4: 171b
So believe in God and His
apostles, and do not call Him
‘Trinity.’ Abstain from this for your
good; for God is only one God, and
far from His glory is it to beget a
son. All That is in the heavens and
the earth belongs to Him; and
sufficient is God for all help.
Surah 17:111
And say: “All praise be to
God who has neither begotten a
son nor has a partner in His
kingdom; nor has He need of any
one to protect Him from
ignominy. So extol Him by
extolling His majesty.”
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
• Ways to Eternal Life
• Written Revelations
• Gods
– Different Natures
– Different Affections
Surah 3:32
Say: “Obey God and His
Messenger;” and if they
refuse (then remember)
God does not love
disbelievers.
I. These Religions Are Not
Sister Faiths – They
Cannot Both Be True
Different and Exclusive
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Ways to Eternal Life
Written Revelations
Gods
Ways of Dealing with Enemies
Different &
Exclusive Ways of
Treating Enemies
Personal Enemies
Surah 22: 39-40
Permission is granted those (to take
up arms) who fight because they
were oppressed. God is certainly
able to give help to those who were
driven away from their homes for no
other reason than they said: “Our
Lord is God.”
Different &
Exclusive Ways of
Treating Enemies
Personal Enemies
Spiritual Enemies
Surah 47:4
So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite
their necks until you overpower them, then
hold them in bondage. Then either free them
graciously or after taking a ransom, until war
shall have come to an end. If God had pleased
He could have punished them (Himself), but
He wills to test some of you through some
others. He will not allow the deeds of those
who are killed in the cause of God to go to
waste.
Different &
Exclusive Ways of
Treating Enemies
Personal Enemies
Spiritual Enemies
National Enemies
Surah 9:5
But when these months, prohibited (for
fighting), are over, slay the idolaters
wheresoever you find them, and take
them captive or besiege them, and lie in
wait for them at every likely place. But
if they repent and fulfill their devotional
obligations and pay the zakat, then let
them go their way, for God is forgiving
and kind.
Surah 9:29
“Fight those people of the Book
who do not believe in God and the
Last Day, who do not prohibit what
God and His Apostle have
forbidden, nor accept divine law,
until all of them pay protective tax
in submission.
II. Who Are These
Religions For?
• Islam is for Arab Men
Limited by Language: Arabic
• Surah 26:192, 195 “This
(Qur’an) is a revelation from the
Lord of all the worlds…In
eloquent Arabic.”
• Surah 16:103, “Yet We know
they say: ‘It is only a man who
instructs him.’ The speech of
the man they imply is obscure
while this is clear Arabic.”
Limited by Geography: Holy Sites
• Ka’bah in Mecca
• Prophet’s Tomb
in Medina
• Dome of the
Rock in
Jerusalem
Inequality of Polygamy
Surah 4:3, “Marry women who are lawful for you,
two, three, or four; but if you fear you cannot treat
so many with equity, marry only one, or a maid or
captive. This is better than being iniquitous.”
Inequality in Punishment for Adultery
Surah 4:15, “If any of your women is guilty of
unnatural offence, bring four of your witnesses to
give evidence; if they testify against them, retain
them in the houses until death overtakes them or
God provides some other way for them.”
Inequality in Rights
Surah 2:228, “Women also have recognized rights
as men have, though men have an edge over
them.”
Inequality in Inheritance
Surah 4:11, “As for the children, God decrees that
the share of the male is equivalent to that of two
females.
Inequality in Credibility
Surah 2:282, “And have two of your men to act as
witnesses; but if two men are not available, then a
man and two women you approve, so that in case
one of them is confused the other may prompt
her…”
Paradise is for Men
Islam’s Carnal Picture of Paradise
Surah 47: 15
The semblance of Paradise promised the
pious and devout (is that of a garden)
with streams of water that will not go
rank, and rivers of milk whose taste will
not undergo a change, and rivers of wine
delectable to drinkers, and streams of
purified honey, and fruits of every kind
in them, and forgiveness of their Lord.
Surah 4:57
But those who believe and
do good deeds We shall
admit into gardens with
streams of running water,
where they will abide for
ever, with fairest of
companions and coolest of
shades.
Surah 44:51-55
Surely those who fear and
follow the straight path will be
in a place of peace and security
in the midst of gardens and
springs, dressed in brocade and
shot silk, facing one another…
We shall pair them with
companions with large black
eyes. They will call for every
kind of fruit with satisfaction
II. Who Are These
Religions For?
• Islam is for Arab Males
• Christianity is Universal
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the
power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the
Jew first and also for the Greek.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,
there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
Colossians 3:10-11
and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge
according to the image of Him who created him, where there
is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
III. Which Religion Is
True?
Al-QUR’AN at a Glance:
• QUR’AN means “Recitation”
• 1 author, over 20 years in
Arabic.
Surah 17: 105-106
We have sent it down with truth, and
with truth has (the QUR’AN) come
down. And We have sent you only to
give good news and to warn. We have
divided the QUR’AN into parts that you
may recite it to men slowly, with
deliberation. That is why we sent it
down by degrees.
Al-QUR’AN at a Glance:
• QUR’AN – “Recitation”
• 1 author, over 20 years in
Arabic.
• 2 locations: Mecca & Medina
• Composed of 114 Surahs,
varying lengths.
• Ordered from longest to
shortest, NOT chronologically.
III. Which Religion Is
True?
• The Qur’an is full of Contradictions
– Surah 3:3, “He has verily revealed to you this
Book, in truth and confirmation of the Books
revealed before, as indeed He revealed the
Torah and the Gospel.”
• The Qur’an contradicts the Bible
• The Qur’an contradicts Itself
Surah 50:38
Contradiction
We created the heavens
and the earth and all that
lies between them, in Six
Days, and no weariness
came upon Us.
Surah 41:9
Contradiction
Say: “Do you refuse to
believe in Him who created
the earth in Two Days?”
Surah 3:85
Contradiction
And whoever seeks a way other
than submission to God, it will
not be accepted from him, and
he will be a loser in the world to
come.
Surah 2:62
Contradiction
Surely the believers and the Jews,
Nazareans (Christians) and the
Sabians, whoever believes in God
and the Last Day, and whosever does
right, shall have his reward with his
Lord and will neither fear nor regret.
III. Which Religion Is
True?
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The Qur’an is full of Contradictions
The Qur’an contradicts the Bible
The Qur’an contradicts Itself
The Qur’an offers the doctrine of Abrogation
Islamic doctrine of
Abrogation
• “When we cancel a message (sent
to an earlier prophet) or to throw it
into oblivion, We replace it with
one better or one similar. Do you
not know that God has power over
all things?” (Surah 2:106)
Surah 16:101
Abrogation
When we replace a message
with another – and God knows
best what He reveals – they say:
“You have made it up;” yet
most of them do not know.
III. Which Religion Is
True?
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The Qur’an is full of Contradictions
The Qur’an contradicts the Bible
The Qur’an contradicts Itself
The Qur’an offers the doctrine of Abrogation
The Bible’s Unity declares its Truth!
The God of the Bible…
• Ps 119:89: “Forever, O LORD, Your word
is settled in heaven.”
• Matt 24:35: “Heaven and earth will pass
away, but My words will by no means pass
away.”
• John 10:35: “…(and the Scripture cannot
be broken)…”
• 1 Cor 14:33: “For God is not the author of
confusion but of peace, as in all the
churches of the saints.”
Bible at a Glance:
• Bible – biblios – “book” or
“The Book”
• 40 writers over 1500 years.
• 66 books: 39 O.T. & 27 N.T.
• 3 languages: Hebrew, Greek,
Aramaic.
• NO Contradictions – It is Truth.
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Muhammad
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