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OUT NOW! Is Islam Compatible With The West? With Raymond Ibrahim (@RaymondIbrahim5) vs Maajid Nawaz (@MaajidNawaz)
Good question.
So let me get this straight. We are uncovering massive fraud in healthcare, welfare, and government entitlement programs across Democrat-run states — involving sums so astronomical, so staggering, they almost defy belief. Fraud on a scale that raises profound questions about government oversight and accountability. And yet we are supposed to accept, without question, that the very same systems and officials overseeing this colossal fraud are somehow conducting elections that are perfectly clean, fair, honest, and legitimate?
Considering how many wars have been fought over doctrine, this is an extremely important topic.
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Steve Gregg’s book ‘Why Hell?’ Is a must read. You don’t have to believe the suffering in Hell is never-ending to be a Christian.
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Don’t be quick to believe everything Christians from the Middle East tell you.
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‘If you place more importance on obeying the plain commands of Christ than on having correct theology, you will really like George MacDonald’s sermon “The Truth in Jesus” in Unspoken Sermons. But if you value correct theology more than obedience to Christ’s plain commands, you will hate that sermon.
What exactly do I mean by the “plain commands” of Christ? ‘
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Bradley Hooper retweeted
So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from a Buddhist winning an election?
Because Buddhism is a religion. Islam is a state.
Islam has a population: the ummah. It has a constitution: Sharia. It has courts, criminal law, family law, taxation, rules for minorities, doctrines of war and peace, and a foreign-policy framework governing relations between the land of Islam and the lands outside it.
The ummah is not tied to Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or any other modern country. It crosses all of them.
Islam's population "Muslims" belong to one political-religious community.
That is fundamentally different from Buddhism.
A Buddhist American may practice Buddhism faithfully, but Buddhism does not give him a second universal political order with its own law, sovereignty, territorial doctrine, and theory of government.
Islam does.
This is why reducing Islam to “just another religion” misses the point.
Muslim officeholders are literally citizens of another existing country, and their loyalties can never be American first, because the two projects are contradictory.
Add to that the religious hatred of Jews in Islam and the special relationship between Israel and America.
A Muslim in a position of power in America, with a religious mandate to hate Jews, will not approach Israel from the perspective of what is in America’s best interest, but rather from the perspective of what Islam commands him to do.
What incentives do people have to lie, cheat, and steal in a communist state? Many (see video below).
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If you place more importance on obeying the plain commands of Christ than on having correct theology, you will really like George MacDonald’s sermon “The Truth in Jesus” in ‘Unspoken Sermons.’ But if you value correct theology more than obedience to Christ’s plain commands, you will hate that sermon.
What exactly do I mean by the “plain commands” of Christ? I mean all the commands that children agree on.
“Which children?”
The children in Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches. If you went to all the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches in America, and asked the children in each, “What does Jesus want us to do?” What do you think the children would agree on?
They’d all agree that we should love people. We should be kind. We should forgive. We should be honest, etc.
These are the things that according to Jesus are more important than saying we believe this or that about him. These are the things that are more important than “correct” theology.
Btw, I’m not saying doctrine is unimportant. It is. But according to Christ, believing the right things about him is not as important as obeying him (see “The Truth in Jesus”. For confirmation read the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.).
“Had he done as the Master told him, he would soon have come to understand. Obedience is the opener of eyes.” Unspoken Sermons
“Men would understand: they do not care to obey,—understand where it is impossible they should understand save by obeying….For the sake of knowing, they postpone that which alone can enable them to know, and substitute for the true understanding which lies beyond, a false persuasion that they already understand. They will not accept, that is, act upon, their highest privilege, that of obeying the Son of God. It is on them that do his will, that the day dawns; to them the day-star arises in their hearts. Obedience is the soul of knowledge.” ‘The Hope of the Gospel.’
Btw, MacDonald is the first to acknowledge that without God’s help we can do nothing. In our attempts to obey, we will fail again and again. But like a little child learning to walk, we must get up again and again. Each time we must confess to God our sin, and then ask him for help. We will grow closer to him through this process. And with his help, we will begin to overcome. We will become more and more like Christ.
The more we become like Christ (through trust and obedience), the more easily we will understand the mind of Christ. Trusting and obeying is the only way to begin to set our theology right. Correct hermeneutics (interpretation) can only get us so far. We need the Spirit of God. And God gives the Spirit to those who ask (pray) and obey (see Acts 5:32).
“To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good.” George MacDonald
