My goal here is not to offend. Neither is it to persuade. In matters of the spirit, there is but One capable of opening the eyes of the heart. Rather, my objective is to sow seeds of Truth so that the Holy Spirit might, according to His perfect pleasure, purpose and will, cultivate the soul as He deems just.
We Christ followers are admonished to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us (Matt. 5:44). This obliges us to love and pray at once for, among other Antichrist subsets, the 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, including the hundreds of millions who faithfully embrace Muhammad’s myriad commands to violence against the Christian, the Jew and all other non-Muslims.
It is impossible to do this in our flesh and can only be accomplished through the supernatural grace and power of the Holy Spirit. It is, indeed, our great hope and prayer that every Muslim—every human being—might surrender self and come to the saving knowledge and grace of Christ Jesus, who, alone, is “the way and the truth and the life.” For “no one comes to the Father except through [Him]” (John 14:6).
To be sure, it is the express desire of both God the Father and Christ His Son that each and every Muslim on earth should abandon Muhammad’s broad path to perdition, turnabout and move toward Christ’s narrow path to eternal life. “The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance” (2 Pet. 3:9).
God both created and loves, in a way incomprehensible to the finite human mind, every human being ever born or otherwise. He wove us together in our mothers’ wombs and numbered our every hair. Yet God the Father has but one begotten Son. The rest of us, in order to become God’s children, must be adopted and grafted into the vine by, in and through the One who is the Son—He who is the Vine: Christ Jesus (John 15:5).
Those who are not adopted by God are not children of God.
And so the Muslim is not a child of God.
Indeed, to become a child of God, we must ask God, through Christ, to adopt us. We mustn’t just believe upon Him—for “even the demons believe that” (James 2:19)—but, rather, we must also receive Him as Lord and Savior. We must follow Jesus, the one true God, as our only God. “Yet to all who received Him (Jesus), He gave the power to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name” (John 1:12).
The pluralist notion that, “There are many paths to God,” is an insidious lie spread by the father of lies himself. Jesus said, “Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it” (Matt. 7:13).
Jesus is the “narrow gate.”
Merriam Webster defines “pluralism” as “a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality.”
To embrace pluralism is to embrace certain death.
The aim of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the “narrow gate” that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus), while, at one go, herding us along the “broad road” to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ, or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).
Pluralism is a non-starter. It is inherently self-contradictory and, therefore, self-defeating. Each of the world’s major religions fundamentally contradicts the other. They cannot all be true. Either one is true or none is true. Pick your “ism,” be it Muhammadism, Hinduism, Buddhism, humanism, atheism and so on, and serving to undo each, you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.
Christ is both tolerant and intolerant, utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. Romans 10:13 promises, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord (Jesus) shall be saved.” And John 3:36 warns, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life. He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
Not only do Muslims reject Christ, the Son of God, but those who are faithful to the teachings of their “prophet” Muhammad persecute, under flame and sword, His very body: the Christian faithful.
As I’ve said before, Islam is Christianity’s photo-negative. While Christianity brings eternal life to those choosing to surrender to Jesus, who, as He declared in no uncertain terms, is alone “the way and the truth and the life,” Islam brings eternal death to those who surrender to Allah, who, as declared Muhammad, is “the best of deceivers” [“(A)nd Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers” (Surah 3:54)].
It’s worth again mentioning here that the Bible similarly calls Satan a deceiver. Revelation 12:9, for instance, explains that he “deceives the whole world.” Even though it is often claimed that Muslims, Christians and Jews “worship the same God,” this is so very much not so. Allah is not God. Allah is the deceiver, and, insofar as Christianity, true Christianity, spreads peace, love and truth—Islam, true Islam, spreads violence, hate and deception. Allah definitely exists. He’s just not God. Though he wanted to “ascend above the tops of the clouds” and “make [himself] like the Most High” (Is. 14:14), Allah, most assuredly, is not God.
Indeed, the “best of deceivers” cares not whether we worship the idol of self, as do the secular “progressives,” the deceiver himself, as do the Muslims or some other false god. The deceptive one cares only that we deny God the Father, Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit, three in one.
To the Muslim, to everyone, know this: You may deny Christ until the day you die. But soon after, you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still, but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us, “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
The die was cast before time began. Every Christian, Jew, atheist and pagan, to include each and every Muslim on earth—or, like Muhammad, who once walked the earth—will, in the end, bow a knee in worship to Jesus.
Because “in the end” is just the beginning.
Yet, whether you bow first in this life, or first in the next, you will bow.
And the when and how will mean much.
For it will decide the where and how of your eternity.
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