Letter to Qur'an Burning Pastor About Pro-Women Qur'an

Dear Wicked Rev. Terry Jones,

You claim to serve GOD's only Risen Messiah, Jesus. Yet, because you know absolutely nothing of what the Qur'an truly teaches, you wickedly manipulate sincere Muslims to murder innocent persons, both Muslim and Christians. This awful tragedy was all because of the horrible lies you present as being truth. In so doing you virtually plead with our holy GOD to burn to ashes your flesh at the Final Judgment for what you have done to the Qur'an's testimony to the Risen Jesus/Isa.

For you, Mr. Terry Jones, have made it clear to GOD that you are determined to keep on sinning after you have received the knowledge of the truth. So according to Hebrew 10:26, 27, there is for you only a fearful expectation of Judgment and raging fire that will consume the enemies of GOD which you have made yourself to be. (These are the words from the Book of Hebrews 10:26, 27 which confirm that the raging fire with which you burned the Muslims pro-women and pro-Risen Jesus Holy Book, will also consume you.)

"For you and your partners in wickedness have not worshipped GOD acceptably with reverence and awe." So it is written in the very Bible that ALLAH worshipping Muslims truly respect, that you and yours have greatly offended our GOD who is a consuming fire. (For a frightening confirmation of what your grim future holds for you, please read Hebrews 12:28 in the Bible. Then you should tremble, tremble, tremble.)

Do you have any idea Pastor Jones, that the Qur'an is not the "dangerous book" that you say that it is? In contrast, when the Qur'an is interpreted correctly by sincere Muslims, it exalts the Messiah of the Qur'an who is exalted as anointed Messiah in the Qur'an eleven separate times. Yes, the Messiah of the Qur'an is called Isa while the New Testament calls him Jesus. But wonderfully, he is the same Messiah who raised the dead according to two different verses in the Qur'an (Al-Im'ran 3:45 and Maryam 5:10). Supernaturally, he healed lepers according to the same two different versus in the Qur'an. And compassionately, he gave sight to those who had been born blind as is documented in the same two glorious verses of the Qur'an. Yet, despite these absolutely wonderful testimonies to GOD's now Risen Jesus in the Qur'an, you and yours ignorantly and wickedly burned this book that contains many glorious testimonies of the now Risen Jesus who will be your Final judge. But if you humbly plead for forgiveness for your wickedness to Muslims for ignorantly burning their Qur'an and causing many innocent victims to die and be seriously maimed, it may be that GOD will forgive your wicked, willful ignorance.

You don't have any idea, Mr. Evil Terry Jones, that the Qur'an proudly proclaims that Jesus will be eminent in two different worlds. The Qur'an tells all of the people of the world, not only Muslims, that its now Risen Messiah will be eminent both in this world and will also be eminent in the world to come. (Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:45).

Most all Muslims as well as Christian have wrongly come to believe that the Qur'an teaches that GOD's Messiah did not die so that he was not gloriously raised from death by GOD/ALLAH. But that wrong belief is due to an unfortunate mix-up by both Muslims and Christians of how one verse in the Qur'an has been misunderstood. But to settle any doubt about what the Qur'an actually states and truly teaches about the death and resurrection of GOD's only Messiah, we must and evaluate hear what GOD/ALLAH Himself has to say about the vital historical reality of His own Messiah's death and resurrection. So here is ALLAH's own emphatic proclamation in the Qur'an's own Al-Im'ran 3:55 about His Messiah's definite death and definite historical resurrection that settles any misunderstanding.

"And ALLAH/GOD said, 'Oh Isa/Jesus! I will cause you to die (Arabic verb – mutawafiik, meaning to cause to die) and will raise you to myself.'"

Yes! You who have the audacity to call yourself "Reverend Terry Jones." But you are a hater of Muslims whom GOD loves. Can't you see from this clear verse from their own book, the Qur'an, that ALLAH/GOD Himself clearly states in its pages that the Messiah of Christian Bible is also the Messiah of the Qur'an? Yet you hate and destroy this book. You rage and lie about it so that other Christians will also hate their book and will even hate and kill precious Muslims whom GOD loves and whom he desires to enjoy a relationship with His Risen Messiah.

And listen again to the Qur'an which you hate, Mr. Terry Jones, hater of the Qur'an and hater of the Muslims.

"And ALLAH/GOD raised him (Isa/Jesus) to Himself for ALLAH/GOD is ever All Powerful, All Wise." An-Nisa 4:158.

And listen again Mr. Jones, to these precious words of Jesus Himself quoted in the Qur'an, the book which you hate and burn so that innocents will die due to your poisonous lies.

"And peace be upon me the day I was born and the day I die and the day I shall be raised alive."

Yes! There the words are. The very words of Jesus himself in the Qur'an, testifying to his own miraculous birth, to his own willing death and to GOD miraculously raising him to new life.

Additionally it will be significant for you to know, oh arrogant hater of Muslims, how I personally came to be aware of these wonderful words of Jesus in the Qur'an and also to know about the further wonderful words in the next verse from the Qur'an which add the Qur'an's own very stamp of approval on the truth of Jesus words about his birth, death, and resurrection. 19:34 "And this is a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt."

It was in 1977 when I was working as a personal director for a food distribution company to young Saudi students in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia, just a few miles from Mecca. GOD had very miraculously provided me with this strategic position after I had fervantly prayed to Him about wanting to know more about what the Qur'an truly taught about the death and resurrection of the Bible's Risen Messiah.

In order to answer this prayer, it was no small thing for GOD through His miraculous power to work the many details for this high school counselor and father of five children, ages seven to sixteen, to end up with a position out of my field of counseling to be in a position working entirely with wonderful young Saudi Muslims so near their sacred city of Mecca.

But there I was in Ta'if, close to Mecca. So I prayed very earnestly this prayer to GOD.

"Oh GOD, you brought my family and I through miracle after miracle to get us here in Saudi Arabia. And I don't know entirely why you brought us here. But now I have the time in my long evening hours after work to read the Qur'an in English from cover to cover. So please, make some verse jump out at me in order to show me the key in the Qur'an about its teaching about the death and resurrection of your own precious Lord Jesus."

In GOD's wonderful answer to that prayer, I had just reached the verse in the Qur'an, Surah Maryam (Mary in English) 19:33. Significantly, 1933 was the year of my own birth. And as I read this key verse and the following 34th verse, I was absolutely shocked and over joyed. I may have even trembled with excitement. Jesus himself is speaking about himself in this verse that wholly answered my prayer.

"Peace on me, the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive". So said Isa (Jesus) son of Maryam (Mary) 19:33. And the next verse is a statement confirming the birth, death, and resurrection so concisely and clearly stated in verse 33.

"This is a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt." (34) So this next verse 34 even anticipated the doubting of Jesus' death and resurrection that was and is so prevalent among Muslims. But this verse 34 was intended to put an absolute end to that doubting by issuing a strong statement confirming the truth of the documented death and resurrection.

Yes, there is a similar verse about John the Baptists in the Qur'an and his birth, death, and future resurrection. But that somewhat similar verse does not detract about the supreme importance about the verse confirming Jesus' death and resurrection. Because there was no doubt about the Baptist's death which was quite publicly known about. And there is not even any question that the Baptist's resurrection will be during the final resurrection. Thus, there was no verse needed in the Qur'an to clarify doubts about John the Baptist's (Yahya) death and resurrection because there were no doubts about these events in his life as there have been doubts for Muslims about Jesus' death and resurrection.

And Mr. Terry Jones, there are many, many other verses in the Qur'an awarding much glory to the Risen Messiah. Yet, you contemptuously and arrogantly burn the Qur'an which contains so much honor for Jesus. So let me now demonstrate to you how your severe contempt for the Qur'an seriously injures multitudes of especially Muslim women who deserve and need your help rather than your persecution.

As you are aware, at the present time the Muslim culture does not yet realize that the Qur'an's Messiah is ALLAH/GOD's Risen Messiah. Consequently, the men of Islam do not have the benefit of knowing that GOD's Risen Messiah is residing in their midst and observing their wrong treatment of women. For if the men had that knowledge that there was GOD's Risen Messiah in the midst looking over their shoulders, remembering each and every one of their negative activities against vulnerable, precious women, his presence would influence most men to act much more responsibly and sensitively toward Muslim women.

So Mr. Jones, just stop a minute and consider the great, great horrible harm that you are unintendedly bringing upon Muslim women. You focus all of the men's rage against you and cause them to focus on defending their Qur'an as it is, rather than realizing their Qur'an presents the Risen Messiah who had a great compassion for vulnerable women.

Mr. Jones, does it really give you a morbid satisfaction that you are doing everything you can to keep certain Muslim communities practicing the crude, evil practice on women of the mutilation of their genetilia? You perpuate this ugly practice by keeping these men from realizing that the Qur'an Risen Messiah is among them and is disgusted with what they do to girls and women?

Or Mr. Jones, does the crude, ugly practice of brothers, cousins and fathers killing young innocent women even if they are only suspicious of possible sexual promiscuity by the girls even when there has been none. For if Muslim men were to realize that their own Qur'an teaches that GOD's Risen Messiah was residing in their midst watching their evil behavior toward girls and women 90% of "Honor Killings" would soon become a practice of the post.

Or, Mr. Jones, does many of the Taliban's men despicable, ill treatment of vulnerable women really appeal to you and yours? For if multitudes of the Muslim Taliban were to realize that GOD's compassionate Risen Messiah was living and observing among them, think how much kinder many, many Taliban men would be to vulnerable, abused Taliban women?

So Mr. Jones, I plead with you to consider becoming a servant of GOD's Risen Messiah instead of being a consistent, successful servant of the Hater of Men – The Devil. For with your ugly fame that you have worked so hard in achieving for yourself, you now have a wonderful opportunity to do well instead of consistently achieving wickedness. For if a well known wicked man like yourself were to call a press conference and explain your repentance and your reversal regarding the Qur'an, a series of wonderful miracles could occur for Muslim girls and women. And then you could compassionately plead with all Muslims everywhere to serve the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an's Al Im'ran 3:55. Then you would have followed the positive example of the Radical Rabbi from Tarsus, the compassionate Apostle Paul, who in the power of the Risen Messiah did a total reversal from evil to good, from causing death to bringing life, when he planted love from communities rather than hate churches like yours. For your church causes people to crave to hate Muslim and causes Muslims to hate you kill each other. Please think and pray about my proposal to show our Risen Messiah love to Muslims, instead of Satan's hate, Mr. Jones.

So please, oh Reverend Terry Jones. Please earnestly pray about my practical suggestions. For if you follow these suggestions you can become a true Reverend instead of a pretend Reverend. And even more wonderful, under your new wise leadership your now small flock will bring healing to Muslims rather than hate and suffering. For darkness will ultimately be defeated by our Risen Messiah's love.

P.S. in the wonderful words of the hymn,

And the darkness shall turn into dawning.
And the dawning to noon day bright.
And Christ's great Kingdom shall come to earth.
His Kingdom of Love and Light.

Just think, Reverend Jones and friends, you can be a vital part of making this happen!

With sincere love,
Thomas Griffith