Do Islam and Christianity Serve the Same God?
Is the Allah of Muslims the God of Christians?
1) Worship
The Allah of Islam is worshipped at the Kaaba. The Muslims must visit the Kaaba at least once in a lifetime. The Muslims claim that the Kaaba was the first House of Worship, and that it was built or re-built by Abraham and Ishmael on God's instructions.
Kaaba in Mecca 1
Karen Armstrong, in her book, Islam: A Short History, asserts that the Kaaba was at some point dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity. Today Muslims practice all the pre-Islam pagan Arabs worship rituals. They pray to the Moon-god Allah by praying toward Mecca several times a day. They make a pilgrimage to Mecca and run around the temple of the Moon-god, throwing stones, and kissing the black stone. They kill an animal in sacrifice to the Moon-god. They fast following the sign of the crescent moon, etc.
The God of the Bible was first worshipped in Jerusalem in the temple built by King Solomon. He is no longer worshipped there or anywhere else (John 4.20-21). He is now worshipped in spirit and truth (John 4.28). The ancestral line of God’s people was through Isaac and not through Ishmael. God had a covenant with Abraham and his wife Sarah and not Abraham and his slave girl, Hagar. Abraham drove Ishmael from any inheritance in obedience to God’s instruction.
2) The Son of God
Muslims do not believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. They do not believe that they need to accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God to be saved.
In the Bible, Jesus Christ revealed himself as the son of God. He is the only way of salvation and the only way to the Heavenly Father.
3. Beliefs
The beliefs of Islam contrast the beliefs of Christianity
The Allah of the Muslims is NOT the God of the Christians. The Quran is the revelation of another god, the Allah of Mohammed.
Who is Allah?
Allah is the pre-Islamic name coming from the compound Arabic word Al-ilah (“Al” means “the” and “ilah” means “deity”). Al-ilah means the god. Al-ilah is the generic title for whatever god was considered the highest god. Before Islam, each Arabic tribe had its own god and deity. Different Arab tribes used “Allah” to refer to its personal high god. The moon god, Hubal, was the chief god that bore the title Allah. This Allah was the god of the local Quraysh tribe, Mohammed’s tribe. Allah was the title of the chief god among the 360 idols in the Kaaba in Mecca. Mohammed came and conquered all of them to abandon the other gods and worship only his Allah. He converted them from polytheism (worship of many gods) to monotheism (worship of one god).
The book of Revelation, Islam is the false prophet. This false prophet serves the Leopard who serves the Dragon (Satan). The Dragon (Satan) is the god of Islam. The devil now bears the title Allah. The devil claimed this title for because he wants to be worshipped as the one and only true god. Today, the one who bears this title is not the Hubal god, rather it is Satan. When men call on Allah, they are calling directly on Satan. Many people are calling on him. Many people are bowing their heads before him. Muslim means “one who submits to Allah”. One who calls himself a Muslim is one who is submitting directly to Satan (Allah).
Lucifer has declared himself as god and decreed his own worship rites and beliefs. The Quran, its practices and beliefs are founded by the devil. He wants to be the only one to be worshipped. As a result, he exterminated through war all other religions and cults to establish his own deity. Islam is about conquering all people for Allah. Anyone who does not submit to Allah makes himself Allah’s enemy.
Islam comes second among the world religions. They are the most wild, ferocious, and brutal of all religions. Each time they kill, they acclaim the deaths as a service to Satan (their Allah) by calling his name. As requested by Satan, they pray five times daily and make animal sacrifices to him. They believe the Quran as the sacred word of Allah. Just as God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to establish a spiritual Heavenly kingdom, so too, Satan used Mohammed to establish his spiritual kingdom. We must not dwell in the dark but let God open our eyes to see the truth. Islam and Christianity have nothing in common. Islam is a satanic spiritual kingdom while the born-again Christians make up the kingdom of the God of Heaven and Earth.
Controversial Issues in the Quran
Jesus, the Messiah: The Quran acknowledges Christ Jesus as the Messiah (Quran, 3:45-47), yet they do not believe in him for salvation. The Quran will acknowledge Jesus as a true Prophet, yet they reject his words: He called himself the son of God but they do not accept him. This is controversial. If they believe that he is a true prophet, then they will believe in the words of the prophet. If they believe him as messiah, then they will believe in Him for salvation. They claim that the Bible has been distorted over time. Manuscript and archaeological evidence proves that the New Testament is the first best preserved work of Antiquity, with over 25,000 manuscripts.
Islam, religion of “peace”: Muslims claim that Islam is a religion of peace. At the same, there are records of many battles that were fought for the spread of Islam. The very first crusade (holy war) was led by Mohammed. Mohammed commanded Jihad:
“So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds, and either [confer] favor afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens. That [is the command]. And if Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them [Himself], but [He ordered armed struggle] to test some of you by means of others. And those who are killed in the cause of Allah - never will He waste their deeds. He will guide them and amend their condition. And admit them to Paradise, which He has made known to them (Quran, Muhammad 47:4-7).
Muslims are encouraged to commit acts of heroism in combat. Those who kill and are killed in Jihad will be rewarded with paradise. This is the motivation of suicide bombers.
Unlike the Lord Jesus Christ who taught love, Mohammed taught violence. Unlike the Lord Jesus who perform many miracles to stir the faith of unbelievers, Mohammed used violence and force for the unbelievers to surrender.
Can a Christian accept Islam?
A Christian cannot accept Islam. It is the sin of idolatry, punishable by death.
"But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned! What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned! (Galatians 1.8-9).
Who is the antichrist?
It is he who does not accept the teaching of Jesus Christ. And he, who refuses the son, cannot have the father (2 John 1.7-10).
I personally think that the attempt to trace the roots of Islam to Abraham & Ishmael is just a means that the devil used to gain grounds in the field of God. Without this ground, Islam will lose its identity as “prophet” or “a religion from God”. If it links its roots to God, they will succeed in deceiving many.
What is the truth?
God’s covenant for a child of promise was with Abraham and his wife Sarah and not with Abraham and his slave girl, Hagar. The promise passed through Isaac and not Ishmael. The names of Abraham and Sarah were even changed to reflect the covenant.
Christ Jesus is the Son of God. On earth, he had the fullness of God. He was born of a virgin. He was the spotless Lamb of God. He died on the cross for the redemption of mankind, resurrected and is now seated at the right hand of God. Salvation comes only by faith in the Lord Jesus. This is the truth.
Anyone who does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God.
New information about the history of Islam
An archeological research carried out beneath the Mediterranean Sea and on land, together with a database of ancient documents recently discovered, enables us to track history and economies. This database and archeological research reveals 548 battles that were fought for Islam.
Islam entered the world through the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern side of the Roman Empire). The Byzantine Empire constituted North Africa and Middle East. Classical civilization of the Greeks and Romans was annihilated and replaced by Islamic civilization.
In the first 13 years of Islam, Mohammed attempted to get converts through dialogue but could convert only 150 people. He then resolved to Jihad. Through Jihad, 300000 people were converted within the space of 25years. Ever since then, Jihad has been the only means of spreading Islam. The constant violence in Islam is because of the doctrine of Jihad. Mohammed started and commanded Jihad. The doctrine of Jihad is found in all Islam Manuals:
History of Jihad
7th Century
Destruction of Jazima tribe by Khalid
Khalid at Battle of Olayis, Iraq
Khalid rapes – Khalid beheaded a captain of the Persian-Zoroastrian tribe and raped his wife in the pool of his blood
Umar’s conquest of Jerusalem made Jews and Christians dhimmis
Golden Age 8th – 14th Century
8thCentury
Attack on Sind – 26000 Hindus
Armenian Nobles burned
Ephesus- 7000 Greeks enslaved
9thCentury
All new churches destroyed
Amorium massive enslavement
Egyptian Christians revolt over Jizyah (dhimmi tax)
10thCentury
Thessalonica – 22000 enslaved
Seville – Christians massacred
30000 churches destroyed in Egypt and Syria
11thCentury
6000 Jews in Morroco killed
Hundreds of Jews on Gordoba killed
4000 Jews in Grenada killed
Georgia and Armenia invaded
Hindustan, 15000 killed, 500000 enslaved
12thCentury
Yemen- Jews must convert or die
Christians of Grenada deported to Morroco
India – many cities destroyed under the order of “convert or die”, 20000 enslaved in one town
13thCentury
India – 50000 Hindus freed due to conversion
20-year campaign created 400000 new Muslims out of Hindus
Buddhist monks butchered, nuns raped
Damascus and Safed – Christians massacred
Jews of Marrakesh massacred
14thCentury
Cairo riots, churches burned
Jews of Tabriz forced to convert
India - Tamerlane kills 90000 people in 1day
India – 30000 killed in cold blood
Tughlag took 180000 Hindu slaves
15th Century
India – Tamerlane destroys 700 villages in India
Tamerlane annihilated Nestorian and Jacobite Christians
After 700 years of attack, Islam captures Constantinople
16th Century
India – Son of Tamerlane destroys temples and forced conversion
Generals built two towers of human heads after victories
Hindu women began general suicide to avoid being sex-slaved
17th Century
Jews of Yemen and Persia forced to convert
Forced conversion of Greek Christians
Persia – Zoroastrian persecution
600000 Hindus killed by Akbar
18th Century
Zoroastrian Persecution intensified
Jews of Jedda expelled
Jews of Morroco killed
Hindu persecution continues
19th Century
Forced conversion of Jews in Iran
Jews of Baghdad killed
250000 of Armenian Christians killed in Turkey
Zoroastrians annihilated in Iran
20th Century
Over 1million of Turkish Armenian Christians
Baghdad Golden age
Christians and Jews were dhimmis
Islam destroys 90% of books – if a book did not support Islam doctrine, it was burned. Most ancient knowledge got lost.
Christian women were sex-slaved
Christians did all the vaunted translations of books from Greek and Latin
The Islam world came about from relentless brutal persecution of anyone who was not a Muslim. There is a database of 19000 Jihad attacks since the 9/11/2001 attack in the US. Islam is bad for both Kafis and Muslims. The Kafis includes all those who are not Muslims (The Jews, the Buddhist in Thailand, the Hindus in India, the Christians, the Secularist -Europe).
This list excludes the number of Muslim victims
The Origin and Growth of Islam
According to Islamic tradition, the “angel Gabriel” appeared to the Prophet when he was 40 years of age for over a period of 20 years, revealing to him many messages from “God”. In his forties, he began to retire to meditate in a cave on Mount Hira, just outside Mecca. One day, as he was sitting in the cave, he heard a voice, later identified as that of the “Angel Gabriel”, which ordered him to:
“Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created, Created man from a clot of blood.” (Quran 96:1-2)
The Prophet dedicated the remainder of his life to spreading a message he had received from the “angel Gabriel”. In 622AD, he fled from north to the city of Medina to escape growing persecution. This event marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. Eight years later, Muhammad returned to Mecca with an army and conquered the city for Islam.
Mohammed led the first battle for Islam and it took place near Badr, now a small town southwest of Medina. The Muslim forces routed the Meccans. A year later the Meccans struck back. Assembling an army of three thousand men, they met the Muslims at Uhud, a ridge outside Medina. After initial successes, the Muslims were driven back and the prophet himself was wounded. Two years later, the Muslims gathered an army of ten thousand, attacked Medina again but with quite different results. In this battle (known as Battle of the Trench or the Battle of the Confederates), the Muslims scored a signal victory. Thereafter Medina was entirely in the hands of the Muslims.
The clans that accepted Mohammed as the Prophet of “God” form an alliance, the constitution of Medina. The constitution defined the political status of the Muslim Community and the role of non-Muslims in the community. Muhammad also made a series of alliances among the tribes that, by 628AD, he and fifteen hundred followers could demand access to the Kaaba.
The Muslim community was faced with the problem of succession after the death of Muhammad. Abu Bakr succeeded Mohammed. Abu Bakr swiftly disciplined those who attempted to revolt against Islam. Later, he consolidated the support of the tribes within the Arabian Peninsula and subsequently funneled their energies against the powerful empires of the East: the Sassanians in Persia (today’s Iran) and the Byzantines in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
The second caliph, Umar, appointed by Abu Bakr, extended Islam’s temporal rule over Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Persia. Within four years after the death of the prophet, the Muslim state had extended its sway over all of Syria and had, at a famous battle fought during a sandstorm near the River Yarmuk, blunted the power of the Byzantines. Umar, who served as caliph for ten years, ended his rule with a significant victory over the Persian Empire. The struggle with the Sassanid realm had opened in 636AD at al-Qadisiyah, near Ctesiphon in Iraq. With the Battle of Nihavand, called the “Conquest of Conquests,” Umar sealed the fate of Persia; henceforth it was to be one of the most important provinces in the Muslim Empire (A Brief History of Islam (part 4 of 5): The Caliphate of Abu Bakr and Umar).
Today, Muslims are of two main denominations: Sunni (75–90%) or Shia (10–20%). About 13% of Muslims live in Indonesia, the largest Muslim majority country, 25% in South Asia, 20% in the Middle East, and 15% in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sizable Muslim communities are also found in Europe, China, Russia, and the Americas. Converts and immigrant communities are found in almost every part of the world, with about 1.62 billion followers or 23% of the global population.
Today, Islam is the second largest religion by number of adherents and, according to many sources, the fastest growing major religion in the world.
Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam
Mohammed was born into a family belonging to a clan of Quraysh, the ruling tribe of Mecca, a city in the Hijaz region of northwestern Arabia. His father died before his birth and his mother died when he was six years old. As an orphan, he was taken care of by his grandfather. When his grandfather passed away, he was taken custody by his Uncle, Abu Talib.
About the year 590AD, when Muhammad was in his twenties, be began to trade caravans under the service of a merchant widow named Khadijah. He later married her and had two sons and four daughters. Only one daughter, Fatimid survived. He was raised illiterate, unable to read or write, and remained so till his death.
As written in Islam Mohammed and the Quran (Mohammed’s wives);
Mohammed had fourteen wives in addition to many concubines. Not one of them was mentioned in the Quran by name, for Islam has no regard for women. They were, however, mentioned in Muhammad's biography written by Ibn Hesham. His last wife was called Aisha. She was betrothed to him at the age of six and when she was nine, married and consummated the marriage. He also married his daughter in law, called Zainab, the daughter of Gahsh and wife of his adopted son.
According to the Qur'an, “God” forbade anyone to marry the wives of Muhammad after he died, because of their respect and honour for him (Quran 33:53).