If you do not believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings you can never be a Muslim

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Comment:

I have to say that you are making inaccurate comments on Islam. In the first few pages of the Quaran it says "If you do not believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings you can never be a Muslim". So what does that tell you about our belief in Jesus Christ? We also believe in the Second Coming of Christ.

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It seems like Muslims are almost as divided as Christians.   Maybe there are many statements that are on the site that only apply to some Muslims.   Perhaps you could give some further information.

Jesus claimed to be God.   That is the reason they gave for killing Him.   He also said that no one comes to the Father except by Him.   I hope that you do believe these things and accept Him as your Lord and Savior from sins and your God.   Do you?

I have heard that Muslims throughout the world are meeting Christ and coming into His presence without another person talking to them other than Jesus.   That is, while they were in prayer, Jesus came directly to them and they received Him.   God usually works through His people, but sometimes goes directly to those He is calling.

On the coming of Christ, I don't think that most Christians understand this very well according to the Bible.   Although the message does come out sometimes just because they are quoting the Bible, but I have found that there is not a firm understanding with most Christians.   In most cases, the word, "coming," is a translation of the Greek word, "parousia."   Parousia means abiding presence.   There is no mention of a second coming in the Bible, but many Christians use this theological term.   There is a mention of the coming of Christ.   There is also a description of the return of Christ. The coming is the abiding presence of Christ, which goes from glory to greater glory.   It goes from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9NS04_WNqc&feature=related to greater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9NS04_WNqc&feature=related.   It is literally the Love of God, Who is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.   God is Love.   The coming (abiding presence) is a very different thing from Christ's return.   Both are in the Bible.

There is also much about the appearing, literally the unveiling, of Christ. This is the apocalypses. You have probably heard the word, apocalypse thrown around quite carelessly, but it is the unveiling. There is only one reference in Scripture that gives us a key as to what this veil is. It is the human flesh. This is the removal of the fleshly nature of man and it appears to be closely related to the redemption of our bodies.

Given all that, I don't want to get into a lot of the crazy speculation about end times. There is no good to come out of speculation. What I want to say is this: the abiding presence of Christ is available to everyone who will accept it. It is an ongoing relationship with Christ. It is real and He is alive. He becomes a flowing well of love in the heart of the person who will yield to Him and accept Him as Lord. That is very hard for a proud human being to become a slave to the Master, Jesus, but the reward is total fulfillment, joy, love, and life. There is much sin among Christians and much that is in rebellion. I'm sure that you have seen this lifestyle. These are those who do not want His abiding presence. Those who do not want His abiding presences will not rejoice at His returning.

If you do not believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings you can never be a Muslim

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