The Unbridgeable Gap
January 2008 Bible Believers’ Bulletin
In this series of articles, we have been looking at the possibility of bringing Islam and Christianity together in one, big, ecumenical “global community.” Then the Moslems will stop bombing Christians and Jews, and the Christians and Jews will “accept” their Islamic “brothers” as a “religion of peace” and let them have the land Jehovah God promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David.
In our last article, we began looking at the life of Mohammed, who all Moslems consider their “prophet” and the lawgiver. At the beginning of his “ministry,” when he was trying to convince all the Jews in Arabia that he was a “prophet,” he proclaimed, “let there be no compulsion in religion.” Supposedly, the 600-winged angel “Gabriel” gave him this quotation from Allah (“the God”).
Of course, when the Jews turned him down for the fraud he was, “Allah” suddenly reconsidered and told him (through “Gabriel” of course; Allah never personally said one word to Mohammed) that all unbelievers should be summoned to Islam, put to tribute, or be slain by the sword. That last “option” became the identifying mark of “Mohammedanism,” so much so that the national flag of Saudi Arabia and “Islam” has the Shahada, the official Moslem creed (“There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet”), connected with a sword.
With that new “revelation,” Mohammed raised a large army of enthusiastic followers and took the field against his enemies. In regards to this, we print a strange evaluation of Mohammed: “He had great morals, but very little physical courage. He braved for thirteen years the taunts and threats of the people, but never exposed himself in battle, even though he always accompanied his forces.”
How unlike Jesus Christ who told the soldiers who came to arrest Him, to let His disciples go. Jesus Christ exposed Himself to danger and protected His followers; He demonstrated both moral and physical courage.
- Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
- Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
- That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
Said to be “a slave of sensual passion,” Mohammed was 51 when he “married” a six-year-old girl named “Aisha.” She was playing on a swing when Mohammed took her to go live with him. She brought her dollies to his residence when she came at nine years old to consummate the marriage.
According to the Arabian historians, Aisha charmed “The prophet” with her playfulness, vivacity, and wit. She could read and had a copy of the Koran. [I wonder where she got that. She must have gotten it after he died because the Koran didn’t exist until after Mohammed’s death.] She knew much about theology, genealogy, and poetry.” She was his favorite wife, and he died in her arms at 62 when she was 17.
Do you know what Aisha (as a first-hand eyewitness who knew him best) said about Mohammed? She said the “prophet” loved three things. Do you care to guess what they were?
I mean, you are going to get these religions together, aren’t you? You know, to avoid war so you can secure your oil supply and control the drug traffic. Well, if you are, then you are going to have to find out what the founder of the Islamic religion loved so you can make his followers happy. Who would be better to tell you than the one whom Mohammed personally trained for his own sexual gratification for three years (when she was six to nine years old) and then bedded for the next eight years until he died. Do you think you are smarter than Aisha, when it comes to these matters?
Don’t play games, okay? Don’t talk like a jackass. (I found out a long time ago in the Army that you can judge a man by what he loves and by what scares him. I found out many, many years before I became a Christian that the “measure” of a man is not what he believes or what he professes; the measure of a man is what he loves and what he is afraid of.)
The Lord tested Abraham’s character by what he loved.
- ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
- And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
The reason no Bible-believing Christian will ever “get along” with everybody is that God commands him:
- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
- And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
God has told the Christian:
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
- Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
- ¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
- ¶ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
The question for any man is: What do you love? If you want to find out what “Pete Ruckman” is like, then find out what he loves. When you have found that out, then find out what scares him, and when you have found out those two things about him, then you will have a good idea of what he’s like.
Well, now! Do you know what Mohammed loved according to his favorite wife who lived with him the last eleven years of his life from the time she was six years old? Do you know what she said he loved?
Well, it wasn’t “Allah,” it wasn’t the Koran, and it wasn’t “God.” Do you know what it was? Here is an eyewitness with more experience than you could possibly have.
“The prophet [referring to an epileptic, illiterate, fornicating killer] loved three things: women [carnal, fleshy], perfumes [carnal, fleshy], and food [carnal, fleshy].”
According to Aisha (who observed all of his habits from an intimate perspective for eleven years), Mohammed grew more carnal and fleshy and worldly the older he got. He was a paranoid fleshpot.
Although the Koran restricts all of Mohammed’s followers to only four wives, Mohammed received a special revelation from Allah (actually “Gabriel”; “the God” never said one word to Mohammed a day in his life) which gave him greater liberty of sexual indulgences. These special revelations allowed him to have as many women as he wanted to shack up with him. Of course, he was speaking in collusion with himself, for nobody else heard those “revelations”! Mohammed was simply a fleshpot trying to justify his sins; he was a neurotic, psychotic, sex-obsessed nut.
Not only did he marry a six-year-old girl, he married his own daughter-in-law, which the Koran forbids. The historians plainly say that when he heard of a pretty woman, he would ask for her hand in marriage. Occasionally a woman refused him and he did not always consummate a marriage with every woman he “wed.”
He had at least fourteen legal wives and a number of slaves and concubines besides. You can find a list of eleven of them, and a couple of them were “Christians” and Jews. At his death, he left nine “legal” widows.
The motive behind Mohammed’s excesses in polygamy (twenty women at the same time) had nothing to do with “the will of Allah” at all; it was his sensuality (what the Bible calls “the lust of the flesh”).
So, are you are going to “dialogue” with people who follow a man like that? You are going to “honor their beliefs,” aren’t you?
Martin Luther said, “Cursed be that love for whose sake the Bible must be put to the stake.” You put the Bible to the “stake” the moment you nod your head in a Moslem’s direction.
Christians are to pray for unsaved sinners, to witness to unsaved sinners, and to get the Gospel to them. But don’t ever try to waste five minutes of your time trying to “honor” a pile of godless, depraved garbage that is afoul of every verse in the New Testament.
(Continued next month)