Islam, Mohammed and the Muslims
CHRISTIANITY'S SUPERIORITY TO ISLAM
The Muslim a "natural man"
One of the main reasons for the rapid spread of Islam was the comparative ease of obedience to its requirements. The
Islam, Mohammed and the Muslims
CHRISTIANITY'S SUPERIORITY TO ISLAM
The Muslim a "natural man"
One of the main reasons for the rapid spread of Islam was the comparative ease of obedience to its requirements. The presenting and daily use of one's human all as an acceptable offering to God (acceptable because offered in the appointed way, i.e., justified in God's sight by faith in the merit of Jesus' blood—see Rom. 3:20-25; 5:9), which the Bible shows is the Christian's "reasonable service" (Rom. 12:1), done in unselfish, disinterested love (1 Cor. 13:1-13), is unknown in the teachings of Islam. The unresentful endurance of trials of faith (1 Pet. 1:6, 7; 4:12), which are often caused by the enmity and persecutions of others and are experienced frequently by the footstep followers of Jesus, is comparatively unknown in Islam.
For the Muslim, it is enough that he regularly prays with a form of words, practices some self-denials, fulfills some rituals and makes pilgrimages. The deeper, inner spiritual life, which includes that "peace of God which passeth all [human] understanding" (Phil. 4:7), coming as it does to the Christian by God's grace through the operation of the holy Spirit, is relatively unknown to the Muslim, for he is not spiritual, but natural (1 Cor. 2:14).
Islam a Religion without a True Messiah
Jesus is the Son of God (Mohammed's disbelief notwithstanding). By Jesus' sacrificial death, foreshadowed in the Atonement Day's sacrificial bullock (Lev. 16:3, 6, 11, etc.), God provided the Ransom-price and atonement for Adamic sin for all who believe and accept it by faith. This He did while the world was yet in its sins (John 3:16, 17; Ezek. 18:23, 32).
From long before His birth (Rev. 13:8), Jesus was marked out as separate and distinct from Adamic stock (Matt. 1:18, 21; Luke 1:26-35), as a perfect man without blemish (1 Pet. 1:18, 19), sinless and therefore blameless under the Law of Moses (which was the mark of a perfect man) both in his non-Adamic lineage (Son of God—Matt. 3:17; 16:16; Mark 15:39; Luke 2:41-49; John 11:27) and in His life (Heb. 4:15; 7:26; 2 Cor. 5:20, 21). Thus Jesus, and only Jesus, was found worthy in God's sight (Rev. 5:1-14) by offering up His life as a Ransom-sacrifice in payment of the price incurred at the bar of God's justice for the sin of Father Adam (1 Cor. 15:20-22, 45, 47), to redeem the Church (first) and also all the rest of mankind which was in Adam's loins when he sinned, from the penalty of death (1 John 2:2). Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Mohammed was a son of Adam, even though many generations removed. He was born and died a sinner of Adam's race, in common with all others (Rom. 3:10-16) who did not or do not accept Jesus as their Redeemer. Those who do not believe in Mohammed are unloved by Islam, or Islam's Allah, as the unbelieving world was loved by God (Rom. 5:8), even though subject to oppression and death!
Mohammed knew nothing of God's great Plan of the Ages for the reclaiming of the race from sin through Messiah and the restoring again of the willing and obedient to Edenic perfection through Him. His Son Jesus was originally the mighty Logos (John 1:1-3), made flesh by His power, in the womb of a virgin (Isa. 7:14; Matt 1:18-25; John 1:14). Jesus the Messiah died a perfect man, sinless and blameless before God (Heb. 7:24-27) and was resurrected to the Divine plane of being, having become by His death the Savior of the whole world of mankind from the sin of Adam and its curse of Adamic imperfection, sin, sorrow and death. The understanding of Mohammed was not enlightened concerning these things, because the true Gospel of peace in its fullness never reached his ears in his lifetime (Rom 10:14).
The Muslims were instructed by Mohammed and other Islamic leaders to establish an Islamic Kingdom in this present world (2 Cor. 4:4) by the power of the sword. The Christian is instructed to seek the future (Millennial and eternal) Kingdom of Christ, to strive for deliverance from the ensnarements of this present evil world (2 Cor. 1:10; Rom. 8:21; Gal. 1:4), and to conquer the world, the flesh and the devil by the power of the holy Spirit (Matt. 6:33; 2 Pet. 2:9; 2 Tim. 1:7, compare Zech. 4:6). Furthermore, God's Kingdom was not to be set up by the conquering armies and carnal weapons (Matt. 26:52; 2 Cor. 10:4), for it was to be the gift of God to the Little Flock, the Body of Christ (Luke 12:32; 1 Cor. 12:12-27). Such a kingdom is infinitely more desirable to the humble seeker after truth and righteousness (Matt. 5:6) than the Paradise of sensual satisfaction which is the only hope of Islam.
All of God's dealings with mankind are just, orderly, understandable (to the enlightened—Matt. 13:16) and reliable, because He first draws up and announces His covenant. God has made a number of covenants, such as those with Adam,