A
Stunning Contrast
On February 7, 2019 Newsmax.com
carried a story with the following headline: “Former Member of
Dutch Anti-Islam Party Becomes a Muslim.” The convert in question is
former lawmaker Joram van Klaveren, who previously had been fiercely
critical of Islam. His conversion to Islam stunned
many. When conversions like this take place, it always raises
the question: “What is it about Islam that would make a former critic
embrace it?”
The primary reason any man or woman
embraces religious doctrine is a desire to find acceptance with the
religion’s God after their sojourn on earth is done. Apparently Joram
van Klaveren has come to believe Allah, whom he formerly disavowed, is
indeed the only true God. He is making preparation to face Allah one
day and desires to be accepted of him.
Conversations about Islam always
create a stunning contrast with Christianity. If one is truly committed
to Islam and believes the Koran to be the expression of Allah’s mind,
then he must by default believe his final acceptance by Allah is
contingent upon the killing of (or at least making life
miserable for) infidels.
Contrast this to the message of
Christianity, wherein a loving Creator showed compassion
toward his fallen creatures by providing for sinners what they could
not provide for themselves—a blood sacrifice to atone for their sins.
The sacrifice was nothing less than ALL he had in the Person
of his Son, Jesus of Nazareth.
In the Christian faith, God made
possible a sinner’s acceptance by killing his own Son on behalf of
those who sinned against him. In Islam, Allah makes possible a
follower’s acceptance by his killing of infidels.
In Christianity, acceptance is a free gift of grace that has
the power to transform a life. In Islam, acceptance is earned by evil
acts directed toward infidels.
There is no religion on earth more
counterintuitive than Islam, which condones violent, sinful acts in
this life as appeasement for sins for which Allah will hold them
accountable in the next life. How can sin be the remedy for
sin?
Moreover, those who embrace the
Christian faith have the iron-clad assurance that its Head was
resurrected from the dead. And if he raised himself from the dead, he
can and will resurrect to everlasting glory those who put their trust
in him. Those who embrace Islam are placing their trust in the prophet
Mohammed, a demon-possessed pedophile who concocted Allah, is STILL
dead and has no ability to offer sinners acceptance or the forgiveness
of their sins.
The embrace of Islam begins a journey
into everlasting darkness, the current abode of the prophet
Mohammed.
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