Cults

Islam is built on human works; Christianity is built of God’s works.

Islam’s salvation is by human righteousness; Christianity’s righteousness is by God’s salvation.

Islam’s good works are through human effort; Christianity’s good works are by yielding to the Spirit.

The God of the Bible is personal and loving Father.

The God of the Bible is the Trinity, while Islam doesn’t follow the Three-In-One God of the Bible.

The Koran abrogates passages.

Christianity is not coercive.

Christianity accepts persecution.

Islam’s goal is to rule the world through the sword or any means necessary, but Christ will establish His Kingdom.

Both the Koran and the Bible are used to confuse through false logic and out of context quotes.

There is a huge difference between Islam and Christianity despite the misinformation that worldly counselors continually spew forth.

A friend of mine said that he was converting to Islam from following Christ because, in his words, Islam and Christianity are basically the same. Islam and Christianity are, however, not in any way the same. Ask any Moslem, and they will tell you that it is a big step for a Moslem to convert to Christianity. In Moslem countries, they kill you if you convert to Christianity. For a Christian to convert to Moslem, they leave the grace of God and reject the salvation that is freely given in Christ Jesus. All who reject Christ are condemned by God. Christians won’t attack them—they’ll pray for them and try to convince them of their error. Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.

Islam and Christianity are as opposite as Christianity and New Age or Christianity and liberalism.

Islam is built on the works of human beings, trying to please God by obeying a list of laws.

Christianity is built on Jesus Christ and the work that He did to deliver us from sin so that we fulfill can the law. The only way that we can fulfill the law is by the power of the Holy Spirit, Who dwells within Christians.

For Islam, salvation is by the Moslem’s own righteousness (ability to fulfill the law).

For Christianity, righteousness (the ability to fulfill the law) is a free gift from God, part of the salvation that has been freely given by God through Jesus Christ, but only if we will accept it. It is a change that takes place at salvation. Genuine righteousness and holiness is a gift from God that is given to those who are humble enough to admit that they need God. Those who reject Christ do so because they want to continue as they were, unchanged.

Islam seeks to do good works through human effort.

Christians seek to yield to the Holy Spirit to such a degree that the Holy Spirit begins to do His works through the Christian.

The God of Christianity is the personal and loving Father and wants a relationship with you and me, while Islam has no such concept.

The God of the Bible is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, while Islam has no such concept.

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The Koran abrogates certain passages of the Koran when they are in conflict with other passages of the Koran. "Whatever communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or like it." Sura 2:106

When the Koran abrogates a passage, that passage remains in the Koran, and is sometimes quoted in a way to deceive those who are not aware of the dogma of abrogation.

The Bible has a New Testament that fulfills the Old Testament. Many of those things that were brought in type and shadow in the Old Testament are revealed and fulfilled in the New Testament. Those things that are moral import remain. Salvation is given for forgiveness for breaking the law and to free and empower Christians to fulfill the law. When the Bible appears to conflict with itself, it is always an example of human reasoning plus the Bible that causes the supposed conflict. Take out the faulty human reasoning, and there is no conflict. "The Scripture cannot be broken." John 10:35

The Bible does not abrogate passages.

Biblical Christianity is not to use coercion. It should be noted that, under the Holy Roman Empire, some non-biblical religionists used coercion against those who were having an actual relationship with Christ. This coercion of the unsaved against the saved was called the Inquisition. Often, anti-Christ forces will attack Christians by twisting this bit of history to falsely make it seem as if the followers of Christ were using coercion, but just the opposite is the case. If someone were following Christ, that person could not use coercion or else that person would have stopped following Christ.

Though the Koran says things like, "There is no compulsion in religion" those passages have been abrogated by passages such as Sura 8:12 that say, "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them." There are many such "sword" verses that abrogate the older, abrogated, peace verses.

In fairness to Islam, many clerics teach that those who are killing innocent people, the terrorists, are actually going to go to hell rather than to heaven as they imagine. These clerics teach that it is not just to kill at random or even to kill a Christian without first giving the Christian a chance to deny Christ and join Islam.

Biblical Christians who do not accept persecution for giving a reason for the hope that in them are considered to be immature. Mature Christians accept that fact that they may have to die for their faith. Christians are to be gentle as doves, speaking the truth in love.

Even if a Christian is part of the police force or the armed forces, there is no place for anger in the work—any more than there is a place for anger in the responsibility given to a parent. The anger of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Islam has a mandate to rule the world, by force if necessary.

Christianity has a promise of Christ Coming and ruling the world through His saints after His saints have been perfected. Christians have no mandate to try to take over or to try, by human effort, to be perfect. Another word for perfection is maturity. They have a mandate to spread the word: "Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." They have a mandate to accept persecution for believing in Christ and for telling others about Christ.

A verse that is often partially quoted is Sura 5:32, "On this account [Cain’s crime], we decreed to the Children of Israel that if anyone kills a person—unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land—it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind." Of course, in context of the Muslim belief system, all Christians who testify of their faith are guilty of "spread[ing] corruption in the land" since the doctrines of Christ and of the Bible are considered corrupt from the viewpoint of Islam. And so, Sura 5:32 is quoted only in part, giving a false impression of peace: "Whoever killed a person it is as if he killed all mankind, and whoever saved a life it is as if he saved all mankind."

Partial quotes of the Bible exist also, and the purpose is to make it difficult to know what the Bible teaches. Ephesians 4:11-13 says, "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:" I have heard this quoted as, "And He gave some evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers." What’s missing? Another time, I heard this quoted as, "And He gave some pastor/teachers." Also, some have spoken of righteous anger as if it were Biblical, but the only Biblical righteous anger is the anger that God has—never human anger. Often, partial quotes or misquotes are given to limit God’s involvement in our lives, to limit the power of the Holy Spirit, to deny miracles for today, to deny the gifts of the Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to promote organizations and false doctrines, and many other things. So misquotes (adding to, and taking from the texts) exist not only among the Muslims and also among the Christians. It’s my belief that all such deception is the work of the enemy of our souls. Lord, help us all to discern between the Truth and the lies.

In Christianity, violence, malice, or anger toward unbelievers is considered a sign of immaturity. If we tell others about Jesus and suffer for doing so, this is considered a sign of maturity. We are to keep speaking the truth in love, warning of the dangers of continuing in evil and the dangers of rejecting salvation, encouraging toward righteousness, and we are to have no anger or malice when we are rejected. These are signs of maturity for the Christian.