Christians Brazenly Mock Allah After consistently writing articles for this web site for almost ten years, I am trying hard to write no more articles. But like so many Muslims, I feel strongly committed to definite times of concentrated prayer each day. While Muslims faithfully pray five times per day, I follow the pattern of the Prophet Daniel of the lion's den fame and only have three definite prayer periods per day. Yet, it is these personal times of prayer that prevent me from stopping my writing. For it is during these prayer times that I receive exceptionally strong convictions that I must write on a particular subject. And I also receive overwhelming convictions during prayer that if I do not write on the particular subject, I am directly disobeying GOD's Will. So it seems that the only way that I can stop this cycle that leads to writing more articles is to stop praying. To discontinue this vital communion with GOD through prayer is a step I refuse to take. I readily agree that it is not a small thing to strongly and unequivocally state that I am absolutely convinced of this mocking phenomenon. Christians are stridently mocking GOD and virtually no one in either Islam or Christianity is even noticing, let alone complaining. It is as if mocking the ALMIGHTY is really no big deal. It is a Big Deal to Mock ALLAH It is an excessively serious crime to mock ALLAH no matter how many millions or billions may consider that to mock GOD is everyone's GOD-given right. Amazingly, GOD has not set up a prevention mechanism to keep people from mocking GOD. Nevertheless, that does not mean that there are not heavy negative consequences for those who claim to have a sincere belief in GOD but have no reluctance to brazenly mock Him. How Do Christians Mock GOD? The Prophet Jude makes it abundantly clear that all Christians, not just Christian leaders, have a responsibility to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the Saints. "I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the Saints." Jude 3 Even though the urgency of the appeal of the Prophet Jude was so clear, the entire Christian Church, including for centuries the Catholic Church, have totally ignored this inspired urging from the Prophet Jude to contend for the faith in the Risen Christ. Making the significance of this near total disobedience to the Prophet Jude all the more blatant is this reality. The faith in the Risen Christ of which he speaks had its inception in the Middle East. But also the Islamic doctrine that denies the Messiah's death on the cross as well as denying his ALLAH empowered resurrection from death also occurred in the Middle East. However, in this 21st Century, the significance of the resistance of the world-wide Christian church to ignore the request of the author of the Book of Jude has taken on much greater proportions and significance than Jude ever could have imagined. This is due both to the great numerical increase of those who have ignored the admonition to contend for the faith as well as Christians' new world-wide presence. The other side of this same coin is this. By these Christians passive resistance to their responsibility to defend the faith, they have helped create a very negative circumstance. They not only have passively watched one fifth of the world aggressively teach that the Messiah did not die and rise, but in fact these indifferent Christians have facilitated the new world-wide Muslim movement to increase the number of Muslims who are aggressively and effectively modifying the minds of those who would otherwise have an opportunity to respond in faith and trust in the Risen Messiah. For the Scriptures previous to the Quran definitely desire all of mankind to be able to respond to what the new Risen Messiah's death and triumphant Resurrection accomplished for each of us. For those Muslims who are reading this and thinking that I am disparaging the authoritative statement in An Nisa 4:157 in the Quran that the Messiah was not killed, I most definitely am not. Rather, I am strongly disagreeing with the current, wrong interpretation of 4:157 that convinces Muslims to believe that this verse is intended to teach that the Messiah did not endure a temporary death before his glorious ALLAH empowered resurrection from death. I will not elaborate on the details of this alternative explanation in this paper, since I have several times in previous papers given many details for this explanation. But I will add that I have also previously thoroughly explained why I am convinced that the Prophet Muhammad was also convinced that the Messiah both died and was raised from death by ALLAH's Wisdom and Might (4:158). Lethargy and Neglect But the regrettable, if not deplorable, bottom line for Christians is this. By our lethargy and neglect for almost fourteen hundred years, we have allowed and even encouraged a false teaching to grow and grow which de facto denies one billion three hundred million precious human beings their right to share in the blessings of the Risen Messiah's death and resurrection. Currently we are living in a small apartment next to a large department store mall. At this very time, December 15, there are long lines of bumper to bumper cars lined up to find parking spaces so that the cars' occupants can purchase Christmas gifts. Significantly, although they do not realize it, every one of these persons in those hundreds of cars have an indirect connection with the concepts I am expressing in this present paper. That is, there would be no Christmas gifts being purchased if there were no Christmas and there absolutely would be no Christmas without the amazing story of the circumstances of the Messiah's birth. But here is where there is a significant disconnect in the majority of the minds of those who buy presents to celebrate Christmas. Whether this truth will be acknowledged or not, if the Messiah had not been successfully executed and then had been raised by GOD from the dead, there would not be any long lines of cars to buy Christmas presents to drive the U.S. economy. Because it was definitely the death and resurrection of the Messiah which made his amazing birth take on the significance which has led to the holiday of Christmas. Christians neither know nor care that Muslims deny the Messiah's death and resurrection. Nevertheless, if we were to stop each and every car lined up at every shopping mall in Seattle to buy Christmas presents and interview each Christmas shopper, there would be virtually a unanimous response. There would not be one person who would make the following connection that I have made. They would not sense any connection with Islam's categorical denial of the execution of the Messiah with the exchange between people in general and Christians in particular of Christmas presents. In fact they would not even know or care about that denial. But despite all the benefits that especially Americans receive from the birth of the Messiah, whether they are related to Christmas presents or not, almost each and every western Christian gives virtually zero consideration to whether or not all Muslims are totally denied the privilege of believing that the Messiah was both unjustly killed but that ALLAH raised him up alive three days after his cruel death. Simply stated, despite the urging by Jude to contend for the faith which is contained in every Bible owned by most Christians, Christians could not care less about whether each and every Muslim is either intellectually convinced or psychologically coerced to believe that the Messiah was not :"killed or crucified". Thus, for Muslims there was no triumphant resurrection, but why should that bother Christians? Immoral Indifference But despite it being GOD's will for Muslims to know about those liberating events, Christians have an immoral indifference to the legitimate right of one billion, three hundred million precious persons to know about the death and resurrection of the Messiah. If the U.S. Christians actually made any attempt at all to create a strategy to help Muslims realize that the Messiah died and rose, the following statement sums up their strategy. The Christians' strategy effectively embraces both strategic paralysis and strategic indifference. This strategy leaves Christians boldly mocking both GOD and mocking the Risen Messiah who died for the people of all nations. He definitely did not die only for the nations which are not Muslim whether this is what Christians consciously or subconsciously think. Yes, in view of Jude's teaching about contending for the faith, every Christian church , each and every Christian school, all Christian seminaries, Bible schools, etc. should at the very least be fervently praying that Muslims will come to understand that Jesus both died and rose. For not to do so is mocking GOD. And by not sincerely praying, they also mock God's Messiah who endured unimaginable suffering in order to die for those one billion three hundred million precious persons. Yes, Muslims are indeed precious persons, whether Bush and many Christians think so or not. On the very morning I began this paper (Dec. 15), the Seattle Times gave me the metaphor for the cold disregard with which U.S. Christians treat one billion three hundred million Muslims. These prejudiced against Muslims are unanimously prevented by their own leaders from having their rightful share of very good news from ALLAH. Yet, the vast majority of American Christians could not care less that this quite visible one fifth of the world's population is being deprived of liberating news in this way. It is not as though these Christians do not know of Muslims' existence because they are constantly talking about how Muslim extremists are the ones who produce the world's terrorists. For these Christians to be so judgmental of Muslims while simultaneously being so complacent about these precious persons being denied access to the world's greatest physician does not make an ounce of sense. In fact, it is as senseless and counterproductive as the discredited strategy of the two lame ducks, Bush and Cheney. They still think that killing and maiming more and more Middle Eastern Muslims will change the minds of their youth so that their respect for the U.S. government will increase and that their disrespect will be extinguished by our virtual crusade to kill and maim them. Why Care About Horrendous Torture of Human Beings in North Korea? The following statement from the newspaper contains the metaphor I am speaking of. This statement is about how a young Korean boy who escaped from horrible treatment in a North Korean prison cannot comprehend why the free South Koreans (a large percentage of whom are Christians) are not sympathetic at all with the horrible suffering of the tens of thousands of their brother North Korean prisoners. "Shin also struggles to understand why prosperous Koreans in the South seem so uninterested in and unmoved by the suffering of thousands of fellow Koreans living in torment in the North's prisons." Please allow me to modify that paragraph in order to express my own inability to understand the cold callousness of U.S. Christians towards one billion three hundred million Muslims who are currently denied the liberating news of the Risen Messiah's death and resurrection. "Tom struggles to understand why U.S. Christians are so uninterested and unmoved by the denial of spiritually liberating news to one billion three hundred million Muslims living in spiritual isolation from understanding the death and glorious resurrection of ALLAH's Messiah." Indifference and Lethargy Why do U.S. Christian leaders and followers allow such indifference and lethargy to stifle their compassion? Although multitudes of Muslims live quite happy lives and raise caring families, they are still being psychologically and spiritually deprived of ALLAH's greatest gift to man, His Risen Bethlehem man who simultaneously defeated death, injustice, sin and the tyranny of the evil Jewish apparatus when ALLAH victoriously raised him up alive. (An Nisa 4:158). Despite this tremendous, comprehensive victory, Muslims are dogmatically and authoritatively taught by their own thought police that He was not even killed so that ALLAH did not victoriously raise him up alive from death. Consequently, to live under the deprivation of that liberating news has been greatly unfair to both individual Muslims and to the world-wide Islamic society. We have seen that the metaphor is the North Korean boy's disillusionment with the calloused indifference of the free South Koreans. He would never forget climbing over his friend's electrocuted body to escape the torture that was daily life in the brutal North Korean prison. By South Koreans not caring about the tortured tens of thousands of North Korean prisoners still enduring terrible suffering, they were mocking suffering. Is this not quite similar to how North American Christians mock Muslims' lack of knowledge of ALLAH's Risen Messiah's death and resurrection by not caring? The Thought Police It is a total contradiction and a terrible shame that the following is occurring. Millions of Christians have assumed that they have invited the living, Resurrected Christ into their hearts to eternally forgive them for their sins against both GOD and man. Then these same Christians have de facto made a choice not to expend the energy and emotion to pray for the immediate release of Muslims who are imprisoned, but not in an ordinary prison. Their minds and hearts are imprisoned by the Muslim Thought Police. These misguided men have forced on their over one billion Muslim prisoners a wrong understanding of one of the most profound and victorious verses in all of the Holy Quran. So their Muslim victims have been coerced to believe that ALLAH's Messiah did not die and rise. Please plead and pray that millions of Muslims will be delivered from the cruel bondage forced upon them by the Muslim Thought Police. ALLAH does deeply care about the unjust deprivation being unfairly forced upon Muslims, even if both Muslim and Christian leaders do not care. Though both groups may be fully satisfied with how the unfair status quo of Muslims being denied the death and resurrection is negatively impacting Muslims in today's broken world, ALLAH is definitely not satisfied. So please decide who is more important to please: man? Or ALLAH? back to "Late 2007 - 2010" page __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ __________________________ _____________