Islam...not our Brothers and Sisters

Some people seem to think that islamic people are somehow our Abrahamic brothers and sisters...perhaps because that is what the Moslem community says whan it is convenient. But they are not truly our brothers and sisters. Fellow Christians are brothers and sisters but not people from another religion as if they were going to heaven or something. Before people jump on me, consider that the Jesus that the Islamic world believe in as prophet is not the man or the divine Son of God as He presented Himself to be...so clearly the islamic faith falls into the category of the book of Galatians that talks about as another gospel. It is clearly not enough to say that Jesus is a prophet. Futhermore, the way that the moslems treat and act towards Jews and Israel shows that they are not brothers and sisters of Judaism...not even deeply conflicted brothers and sisters. Islam perverts the gospel and our Christ. They are neither our friends nor our brothers and sisters but they are effective persecuters and deceivers. They believe that if they die in jihad that they will receive some large number of virgins in heaven...good deal for the virgins, huh? They mistreat women and their rights in this life and want to eternally gratify themselves with virgins in the next...unfortunately many a jihadist has awakened in hell and has sadly seen that the promise of islam does not deliver...perhaps that was ninety nine virgin demons...or 99 year old virgins...such irony that islamic folks have been deceived to believe that their eternal reward in the next life is eternal pleasure...is that what our scriptures tell us? I think not. By the way, what is the eternal reward for the faithful islamic woman? When I spent some time in Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar I met some very nice islamic people. Some of them were extremely faithful. And some of them were just extreme. But none of them had a saving faith in Jesus Christ or in our God. Their god, allah is not the same as our God. When you study out the character and nature of our God and theirs you cannot accurately conclude that the two are one and the same even if they say that the two are the same. What is in a name for God? Our scriptures make it clear that God's nature and character are revealed in His Name...God's actions and revealed behavior since the beginning of time also show clearly that Yahweh and allah are not the same. What the Koran tells islamic people that allah requires for salvation are not the same as Christians have been taught. There are certainly many good things about the teachings of islam, but that is not the same as saying that the 1.5 billion islamic people are our brothers and sisters or that we share anything in common in our faith that is saving and eternal. Pray for islamic people...yes. Love them...yes. Care about them...yes. Be a good neighbor...yes. Let them build a mosque at ground zero...no. Tell them about Jesus...yes. Live under their sharia laws...certainly not. Expect them to blend into our culture and adapt...yes. Understand that a central belief of theirs is to lie and practice deception in the name of furthering islam...yes. Understand that liberal and progressive politicians consistently give islam a pass and advantage where Christianity is denied or blocked by them...yes. Islamic people as brothers and sisters...not in this life or in the next unless they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior and acknowledge him as much more than a prophet...the very Son of God and divine...nothing else will get you into heaven...not submission and not good works and not even their warlike jihad will do. We must see the islamists among us accurately and know what their strategies and desires are. Islamists are not friends of America nor of Christians...there is no common struggle nor mission that we share unless it is limited and one that we mutually agree upon. Once we gather ourselves and understand the islamists among us and throughout the World then we can know how to deal with them as believers and as Americans. We must be wise and careful. They seek to take over Europe politically and they also have eyes on America as well. The whole world is in their sights. Christians could learn something from them on keeping their eyes on the mission...but with the strategy and heart of Jesus Christ. Amen.