http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/05/21/quran-apology-part-ii/ Music - Media - Faith Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:20:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/05/21/quran-apology-part-ii/#comment-778 Roger Sun, 22 May 2005 20:58:04 +0000 http://www.thoughtquotient.com/2005/05/21/quran-apology-part-ii/#comment-778 I agree. As Christians, instead of worrying about offending them, let's concentrate on being truthful - and letting the Truth of Jesus, the Truth of God's Word, break the strongholds of deception. Islam is like any other man-made religion - it's based on what we can do to gain God's forgiveness, where Christianity is based on what Jesus (the God-man) has already done. While Muslims live in fear of 'the scales', that is, "Do my good works measure up to be more than my bad works?", the Koran teaches that muslims can only be sure of forgiveness if they die as a martyr - in an act of Jihad. More than anything, they need to know the truth of the forgiveness that Jesus offers. In regards to the militants that are eager to die and kill others: the shed blood of Jesus on the Cross brings forgiveness, not the shed blood of a man. As Ergun Caner, the writer and former Muslim - now a born-again Christian, has stated, "I wasn't supposed to live by the scales, I was supposed to live by the Cross. Jesus strapped a Cross to His back, so that I wouldn't have to strap a bomb to mine." He has found forgiveness. Let's work towards others finding that forgiveness as well. I agree. As Christians, instead of worrying about offending them, let’s concentrate on being truthful - and letting the Truth of Jesus, the Truth of God’s Word, break the strongholds of deception. Islam is like any other man-made religion - it’s based on what we can do to gain God’s forgiveness, where Christianity is based on what Jesus (the God-man) has already done. While Muslims live in fear of ‘the scales’, that is, “Do my good works measure up to be more than my bad works?”, the Koran teaches that muslims can only be sure of forgiveness if they die as a martyr - in an act of Jihad. More than anything, they need to know the truth of the forgiveness that Jesus offers. In regards to the militants that are eager to die and kill others: the shed blood of Jesus on the Cross brings forgiveness, not the shed blood of a man. As Ergun Caner, the writer and former Muslim - now a born-again Christian, has stated, “I wasn’t supposed to live by the scales, I was supposed to live by the Cross. Jesus strapped a Cross to His back, so that I wouldn’t have to strap a bomb to mine.” He has found forgiveness. Let’s work towards others finding that forgiveness as well.

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