Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 11.02.2001
Islam
In this world Muslims usually are not Muslims and Christians usually are not Christians. It is in this way because those who bear the name of a Muslim have not totally submitted themselves to God and those who bear the name of a Christian don't totally obey Jesus Christ. They are not what their names say, but God is. He can change Muslims and Christians so that they are what their names say by allowing them to know God. Jesus Messiah has come for knowing God. He is the exact representation of God's being. You can totally submit yourself to God only through Jesus Messiah.
True believer
According to the Quran an Islamite means a person who has totally submitted himself to God. Islam means submitting. An Islamite is the same as a submitter. So do not look at Islam as a religion and as a human organisation, but see its real content: Submitting totally to God's will.
Christianity means the doctrine of Jesus Christ. A Christian is a person who lives for Jesus. So do not look at Christianity as a religion and a human organisation, but see its real content: Jesus Messiah is the Saviour.
According to the Quran an Islamite means a person who has totally submitted himself to God. Islam means submitting. An Islamite is the same as a submitter. So do not look at Islam as a religion and as a human organisation, but see its real content: Submitting totally to God's will.
Christianity means the doctrine of Jesus Christ. A Christian is a person who lives for Jesus. So do not look at Christianity as a religion and a human organisation, but see its real content: Jesus Messiah is the Saviour.
Islamic and Christian faith
The Quran says: "The only religion approved by God is Submission ( = Islam )." Sura 3:19 The Quran stresses that the submission is the base for the whole relationship with God. "Anyone who accepts other than Submission (= Islam ) as his religion, it will not be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter, he will be with the losers." Sura 3:85 So what is it that saves? Is it totally submitting to God or becoming a member of the Islamic community?
The Bible says: "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.'" John.14:6 "In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33 So what is it that saves? Is it totally submitting to Jesus or becoming a member of the Christian church?
I don't believe that the Quran is from God, but I have submitted myself totally to God through Jesus Messiah. Is it so that I am a Muslim because I am a submitter? I think that he who calls himself a Muslim considers me a disbelieving person. I answer to him using the words of the Quran: "If they argue with you, then say, 'I have simply submitted myself to God; I and those who follow me." Sura 3:20
Where is the difference between us? Nobody can submit oneself to something that one doesn't know. The Islamic nation of the Quran has submitted itself to God of Muhammad. The Jesus people of the Bible have submitted itself to God of Jesus. Whose God is the real One, Jesus' or Muhammad's? Although their testimonies have some common things there is the irreconcilable conflict between them.
The Quran says: "The only religion approved by God is Submission ( = Islam )." Sura 3:19 The Quran stresses that the submission is the base for the whole relationship with God. "Anyone who accepts other than Submission (= Islam ) as his religion, it will not be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter, he will be with the losers." Sura 3:85 So what is it that saves? Is it totally submitting to God or becoming a member of the Islamic community?
The Bible says: "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.'" John.14:6 "In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33 So what is it that saves? Is it totally submitting to Jesus or becoming a member of the Christian church?
I don't believe that the Quran is from God, but I have submitted myself totally to God through Jesus Messiah. Is it so that I am a Muslim because I am a submitter? I think that he who calls himself a Muslim considers me a disbelieving person. I answer to him using the words of the Quran: "If they argue with you, then say, 'I have simply submitted myself to God; I and those who follow me." Sura 3:20
Where is the difference between us? Nobody can submit oneself to something that one doesn't know. The Islamic nation of the Quran has submitted itself to God of Muhammad. The Jesus people of the Bible have submitted itself to God of Jesus. Whose God is the real One, Jesus' or Muhammad's? Although their testimonies have some common things there is the irreconcilable conflict between them.
Motive of submission
The motive of submission is important. The Quran's god tries to get people to submit themselves with fear of retribution or hope of reward. "O you who believe, let Me inform you of a trade that will save you from painful retribution. Believe in God and His messenger and strive in the cause of God with your money and your lives. This is the best deal for you, if you only knew. In return, He forgives your sins, and admits you into gardens with flowing streams, with beautiful mansions in the gardens of Eden. This is the greatest triumph." Sura 61:10-12 So the salvation promised by the Quran is the trade between God and man.
The Bible's God tries to get people to submit themselves to the truth that God is righteous and they themselves are sinners. After they have experienced God's love in the forgiveness of their sins they submit themselves to God - through the power of His love.
God has demonstrated His own love for us in Jesus, so that we could submit ourselves to Him. Jesus died on the cross instead of us.
The salvation that the Bible promises is not a trade between God and man, but it is the gift of God. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no-one can boast." Eph 2:8-9
The Quran denies the death of Jesus so that you could not experience God's love. "They are condemned for disbelieving and uttering about Mary a gross lie. And for claiming that they killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God. In fact, they never killed him, they never crucified him-they were made to think that they did. All factions who are disputing in this matter are full of doubt concerning this issue. They possess no knowledge; they only conjecture. For certain, they never killed him. Instead, God raised him to Him." Sura 4:156-157
Without the Gospel of the death and resurrection of Jesus nobody can submit oneself to God - by love. On the other hand nobody can understand the greatness of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, if he doesn't receive the fact who Jesus is. The name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful is Jesus!
Loving God makes one submit to Him totally. Apostle Paul describes his experience of submitting to God as follows: "For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Gal.2:19-20
The motive of submission is important. The Quran's god tries to get people to submit themselves with fear of retribution or hope of reward. "O you who believe, let Me inform you of a trade that will save you from painful retribution. Believe in God and His messenger and strive in the cause of God with your money and your lives. This is the best deal for you, if you only knew. In return, He forgives your sins, and admits you into gardens with flowing streams, with beautiful mansions in the gardens of Eden. This is the greatest triumph." Sura 61:10-12 So the salvation promised by the Quran is the trade between God and man.
The Bible's God tries to get people to submit themselves to the truth that God is righteous and they themselves are sinners. After they have experienced God's love in the forgiveness of their sins they submit themselves to God - through the power of His love.
God has demonstrated His own love for us in Jesus, so that we could submit ourselves to Him. Jesus died on the cross instead of us.
The salvation that the Bible promises is not a trade between God and man, but it is the gift of God. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no-one can boast." Eph 2:8-9
The Quran denies the death of Jesus so that you could not experience God's love. "They are condemned for disbelieving and uttering about Mary a gross lie. And for claiming that they killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God. In fact, they never killed him, they never crucified him-they were made to think that they did. All factions who are disputing in this matter are full of doubt concerning this issue. They possess no knowledge; they only conjecture. For certain, they never killed him. Instead, God raised him to Him." Sura 4:156-157
Without the Gospel of the death and resurrection of Jesus nobody can submit oneself to God - by love. On the other hand nobody can understand the greatness of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, if he doesn't receive the fact who Jesus is. The name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful is Jesus!
Loving God makes one submit to Him totally. Apostle Paul describes his experience of submitting to God as follows: "For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Gal.2:19-20
God's name
Only one God exists. He is so great that it is obvious that He has many names. Does it matter what name is used of Him? It depends on who has given the name. If human beings call God with the names that they themselves invented, it is objectionable. The name that God Himself uses of Himself is His real name. This should be obvious to all who believe in one God.
It is said in the Quran: "God: there is no other god besides Him. To Him belong the most beautiful names." Sura 20:8 I would expect that the Quran after the previous verse would tell us one of those names, but it doesn't. This case is odder to me when I notice that the next verse tells about Moses, who saw God's fire in the desert. The Bible tells about the same event. There it happens that God exposes His name to Moses. The Quran tells also other biblical stories more unclearly than the Bible.
God said to Moses that His name is, "I AM." Exodus3:14 From this name becomes the name Jahveh or Jehovah or Lord. Jesus Messiah said that if we don't believe that He is "I AM" John 8:24,28 , we will die in our sins. So Jesus Messiah is Lord or Jahveh.
The word allah comes from the Arabic word al-ilah which means divinity (ilah = god). So the word Allah has not very personal meaning, though it is the name of God for Islamites. If it is compared the names "divinity" and "I am" it is easy to recognise which expresses a person.
Islamism is a religion of an unknown god. Indeed in the header of a sura it is said one name for God: "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful". The Quran often uses names of God which leave Him distant, like Omniscient and Omnipotent. They tell something about His character or His position, but not until in Jesus the person of God, "I AM" comes near us.
If God is only one person, why does He often say in the Quran, "We", when He tells what He has done? For instance: "He said, 'We have put your people to the test after you left.'" Sura 20:85 So God is also in the Quran at the same time I and We.
Only one God exists. He is so great that it is obvious that He has many names. Does it matter what name is used of Him? It depends on who has given the name. If human beings call God with the names that they themselves invented, it is objectionable. The name that God Himself uses of Himself is His real name. This should be obvious to all who believe in one God.
It is said in the Quran: "God: there is no other god besides Him. To Him belong the most beautiful names." Sura 20:8 I would expect that the Quran after the previous verse would tell us one of those names, but it doesn't. This case is odder to me when I notice that the next verse tells about Moses, who saw God's fire in the desert. The Bible tells about the same event. There it happens that God exposes His name to Moses. The Quran tells also other biblical stories more unclearly than the Bible.
God said to Moses that His name is, "I AM." Exodus3:14 From this name becomes the name Jahveh or Jehovah or Lord. Jesus Messiah said that if we don't believe that He is "I AM" John 8:24,28 , we will die in our sins. So Jesus Messiah is Lord or Jahveh.
The word allah comes from the Arabic word al-ilah which means divinity (ilah = god). So the word Allah has not very personal meaning, though it is the name of God for Islamites. If it is compared the names "divinity" and "I am" it is easy to recognise which expresses a person.
Islamism is a religion of an unknown god. Indeed in the header of a sura it is said one name for God: "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful". The Quran often uses names of God which leave Him distant, like Omniscient and Omnipotent. They tell something about His character or His position, but not until in Jesus the person of God, "I AM" comes near us.
If God is only one person, why does He often say in the Quran, "We", when He tells what He has done? For instance: "He said, 'We have put your people to the test after you left.'" Sura 20:85 So God is also in the Quran at the same time I and We.
Who is a polytheist?
In the Quran it is also spoken about Jesus, but it has been done in the way that doesn't give a proper picture of Him. Although the Quran speaks about Jesus as Messiah, it denies that Jesus is the Son of God: "The Christians said, 'Jesus is the son of God!' These are blasphemies uttered by their mouths. They thus match the blasphemies of those who have disbelieved in the past. God condemns them. They have surely deviated. They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords, instead of God. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god." Sura 9:30-31
Jesus says in the Bible: "My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me." John 8:54 Jesus calls God as His Father. He is not a polytheist, who worships one God as the three persons, but he is a polytheist, who in practice worships many gods.All people are polytheists, if Jesus has not saved them. God is Omniscient!
I understand the feelings of Muhammad, when he has seen the renounced Christianity, which really worships idols. Many who are called Christians honour Jesus only as an idol as they also worship Mary, the Bible or the Church or Pope or money and property or fatherland. In the same way many Islamites worship Muhammad, Mecca, the Quran, money and property and their fatherland as idols.
Many who say that they are monotheists are in practice polytheists. God is the Hearer, the Seer!
In the Quran it is also spoken about Jesus, but it has been done in the way that doesn't give a proper picture of Him. Although the Quran speaks about Jesus as Messiah, it denies that Jesus is the Son of God: "The Christians said, 'Jesus is the son of God!' These are blasphemies uttered by their mouths. They thus match the blasphemies of those who have disbelieved in the past. God condemns them. They have surely deviated. They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords, instead of God. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god." Sura 9:30-31
Jesus says in the Bible: "My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me." John 8:54 Jesus calls God as His Father. He is not a polytheist, who worships one God as the three persons, but he is a polytheist, who in practice worships many gods.All people are polytheists, if Jesus has not saved them. God is Omniscient!
I understand the feelings of Muhammad, when he has seen the renounced Christianity, which really worships idols. Many who are called Christians honour Jesus only as an idol as they also worship Mary, the Bible or the Church or Pope or money and property or fatherland. In the same way many Islamites worship Muhammad, Mecca, the Quran, money and property and their fatherland as idols.
Many who say that they are monotheists are in practice polytheists. God is the Hearer, the Seer!
Jesus can save a Muslim
If a Muslim wants to submit himself totally to God, he can experience it only by turning to the Jesus of the Bible. It is maybe most difficult for him to admit that the Jesus of the Quran is a lie and a wrong testimony. Every Muslim can test himself which Jesus is the real one. If he calls on the Jesus of the Bible he will experience the power of the Holy Spirit in his life.
When you bow down and worship God, confess your sins against Him and praise Him that He is righteous and good. Say thanks to God that He punished Jesus on the cross for the sake of your sins so that you could get forgiveness and be saved from the Hellfire. Ask God to accept you through that sacrifice. Surely your heart will be cleansed, if you approach God honestly wanting your sins to be washed away. God is waiting for you that He could give you His gift.
When you have experienced the peace given by Jesus bow down and worship God. Don't bow down towards Mecca neither towards Jerusalem, but towards Jesus Messiah. Submit yourself to Jesus Messiah and say to Him: From now on, in my life, let your will be done and not mine.
If Allah is God, then Jesus Messiah is Allah!
The Quran in English is taken from www.submission.org
If a Muslim wants to submit himself totally to God, he can experience it only by turning to the Jesus of the Bible. It is maybe most difficult for him to admit that the Jesus of the Quran is a lie and a wrong testimony. Every Muslim can test himself which Jesus is the real one. If he calls on the Jesus of the Bible he will experience the power of the Holy Spirit in his life.
When you bow down and worship God, confess your sins against Him and praise Him that He is righteous and good. Say thanks to God that He punished Jesus on the cross for the sake of your sins so that you could get forgiveness and be saved from the Hellfire. Ask God to accept you through that sacrifice. Surely your heart will be cleansed, if you approach God honestly wanting your sins to be washed away. God is waiting for you that He could give you His gift.
When you have experienced the peace given by Jesus bow down and worship God. Don't bow down towards Mecca neither towards Jerusalem, but towards Jesus Messiah. Submit yourself to Jesus Messiah and say to Him: From now on, in my life, let your will be done and not mine.
If Allah is God, then Jesus Messiah is Allah!
The Quran in English is taken from www.submission.org
The Bible version used in references is NIV