I don't think a Muslim would or could get along with me since I believe Muhammed is a false prophet. I wish I could get along with Muslims, but it is they who insist that Muhammed is a prophet and I say he isn't.
I do not have any experience of this personally so I can't speak from experience but I can't see why in theory at least you could'nt be friends and still strongly disagree if you can both remain gracious and love the person enough not to get bitter against them. That said I know a person who had a friend of another religion and it came between them because one kept trying to convert the other and kept playing mind games and being deceitful.
Two cannot walk together unless they agree is a scripture right out of the Bible.
That's true.
I ask the Christian here, should I ignore that Muhammed is a false prophet?
Or should I stand and say he is false?
It is always one is right and the other wrong because both cannot be right.
You must stand for truth, speak the truth in love, do not compromise - truth is not for dialoging about it is for declaring and living.
When you look into the eyes of a muslim, a hindu, a mormon, a jew and bahai , you will see that they are no different than you once were, "
but for the grace of God there go I" They are people who desperatly need Jesus Christ and to be reconciled to God by Him through faith alone, just like we once were, this should move us to compassion and to pierce through our very strong differences, we are all made in the image and likeness of God, God loves us all and has paid the awesome penalty for us on calvarys cross - God has comamnded us to preach the gospel to them because He loves them and desires reconciliation with them too. The gospel is the only hope for humanity and we are much better off proclaiming that in an uncompromising manner and hitting at the very root of every mans dillema- sin and Gods justice than breaking off small branches all of the time. I'm not saying though that these things should not be pointed out either, there is a right time to do it and a wrong time, all I am trying ot say is sometimes people spend all their time trying to disprove certain apsects of people religion that they forget how to proclaim what is so excellent about biblical Christianity - this:
2nd Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Crowley,
Please don't think I am not saying this to try to teach you something as though you didn't already know this by the way I am just saying it in general, I have been impressed with your posts you seem a strong Christian.
, i should be happy about that but in the face of such human misery how can any real man be happy.
