Three Monotheistic Religions Abandon GOD Islam - Judaism - Christianity This paper will stand traditional ways of writing papers on its head because I will begin with the conclusion. This is being done for the benefit of those who may not have the energy to follow my reasoning throughout the entire paper. Yes, ALLAH is searching for those in Islam who will be Men and Women of the Hour; Men and women of Destiny; Men and Women who will kindle the flame of high religion which was originally sparked by the far reaching vision of the Prophet Muhammad. These men and women of breadth and depth will embrace the foreigner and truly love people rather than hating or destroying or exploiting or crushing or manipulating them. These men and women who will possess inquiring minds and tender hearts will love ALLAH and all people with a tender passion. They will be Arab Muslim men and women whose hearts and minds will be an amazing and refreshing contrast to the tiny, shriveled minds and shrunken hearts of the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Neocon types. These spirit empowered persons will bring great joy to ALLAH and a new hope and refreshing to Islam, to the Middle East and to the entire world. Undoubtedly these compassionate persons of vision who will emerge will be emboldened to communicate to the U.S. Empire that it is no longer welcome to tempt the people at the Mid East to worship the bloody American Idol of weapons. Three Religions Wander in Wilderness In order to truly believe in the One True God it is necessary to believe in God as He is and not to believe in Him as current religious leaders may proclaim to us that He is. It is commonly assumed that the main tie between Islam, Judaism and Christianity is each of these religions firm belief that GOD is One. Significantly, this does not mean that each of these religions believe in the same "One GOD" or even believe in the GOD who is indeed the One True GOD. Compelling evidence of our common superficiality regarding our religions is that it appears that most of us view the fact that each of our religions has vastly different concepts about the true identity and purpose of GOD's Messiah to be perfectly normal. So we consider that these differences are not even worthy of open discussion. Thus we choose to wander in a wilderness of disagreement and confusion. Because in the interest of getting along without misunderstanding and tension, we each have decided to be comfortable with the fact that it is a general belief in One God that truly counts, even though that One GOD may be more related to our imaginations and to our individual preferences rather than to the written teaching of the Old and New Testament Scriptures about who that GOD truly is. (I purposely did not list the Holy Quran as one of the main original authorities due to one vitally important fact. The Quran again and again proclaims that it confirms the Scriptures which preceded it and even instructs the Prophet Muhammad to turn to those who had the previous Scriptures when there was any doubt about the revelations that he had received. Yunis/Jonah 10:94.) So we do not seem to treat it as being worthy of serious discussion that our respective religions present differing views about the identity and purpose of GOD's Messiah which are presently considered to be irreconcilable. Consequently, the fact that we so strongly avoid this subject in our dialogue demonstrates how deep in our denial that we are so that it does not truly matter to us whether we have different views about ALLAH's Messiah. But the truth is that it does matter and must eventually be faced. For all of the differing and contradictory concepts about GOD's will and role for His Messiah cannot each be simultaneously correct. Therefore, for the focus of this paper's discussion, I will concentrate on considerations about the God of each of these three religions from the frame of reference of our firm but seemingly irreconcilable beliefs about His Messiah. In that way we will hopefully determine if our God is actually the GOD who is revealed in the Old and New Testaments on the limited basis of that religion's view of His Messiah. Of course, when it comes to Judaism, it will be only the Old Testament which is the major consideration except for the relevant fact that the Risen Messiah of the New Testament appears to fulfill numerous prophesies contained in the Old. By our main focus being only on the Messiah seems to make sense because the God who is revealed in both the Old and New Testament Scriptures either predicts a Messiah or proclaims that this Messiah has already visited this earth and now continues to live in GOD's presence while also spiritually revealing his presence among us. As previously mentioned, numerous verses in the Quran clearly and repeated proclaim that the Quran confirms the earlier Scriptures. Additionally eleven times the Holy Quran awards Jesus/Isa the honored title of "Messiah." Therefore, we will assume that the majority of Sunni and Shiite Islam honors Isa/Jesus as GOD/ALLAH's Messiah. But because of our open discussion with Muslims we remain aware that Islam does not yet acknowledge Isa/Jesus as GOD's Messiah who not only defeated death but also remarkably accomplished one more notable achievement that has not yet been recognized by Islam. Due to GOD's raising Isa from death by His Might and Wisdom, (An-Nisa 4:158) in addition to defeating death, he also simultaneously defeated the evil Jewish apparatus which hated him and unjustly demanded that the Roman occupiers savagely execute him. So by ALLAH's demonstrating His amazing Wisdom and Might in raising him up alive, as the Quran proclaims in 4:158, the Risen Messiah simultaneously defeated no less than three powerful enemies. He defeated death. He defeated the evil Jewish apparatus which denied justice and exalted injustice. And he defeated the evil power of the mightiest occupying empire in existence at that time, the dreaded Roman Empire. The Messiah Man from Bethlehem So we will now evaluate these three significant monotheistic religions on the basis of the position each has chosen to have in relationship to the Almighty's Risen Messiah man from Bethlehem. Because the God who is written about in the earlier Scriptures (which the Quran repeatedly goes on record as confirming,) has emphatically made it crystal clear in His Scriptures that it is His Will that all religions as well as all people everywhere in all nations, affirm His Risen Messiah. So our evaluation of the main three monotheistic religions will be only on the basis of each religion's acceptance or rejection of the role of the Risen Messiah as presented in the New Testament which contains written accounts from four different witnesses about the time when GOD's Messiah walked and served among men, women and children in the regions of Palestine. Additionally, we will consider that religion's commitment to a rigorous ethical monotheism. There are numerous criteria which could be evaluated in regard to whether each of these three religions accept GOD's Messiah as presented in the Injeel (New Testament Scripture.) So as to eliminate unnecessary complications and to avoid confusion, I will limit the criteria in my evaluation to two areas regarding GOD's Messiah, plus the necessary commitment to an ethical monotheism. 1. Is there an acknowledgment of the historical reality of the Messiah's rising from death after he was murdered by those Jewish leaders who both opposed him and who hated him? 2. The second criterion is whether there is an acknowledgment by that religion of the authority GOD has given His Risen Messiah to be the Judge of men and nations at the "Last Day" Judgment, as the New Testament Sciptures announce that he will be. 3. The true religion must demonstrate a rigorous ethical monotheism. This must be an ethical monotheism which will not shrink from exposing, removing and punishing wicked leaders who flagrantly, immorally and illegally shed the blood of innocents in foreign nations. This ethical religion must also not hesitate from exposing and punishing greedy corporate executives who openly participate in corrupt practices such as stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from tax payers bailout money. The Last Judgment The One True GOD has made abundantly evident in the Scripture is that it is His sovereign Will that these first two above explicit criteria are central to His own purposes regarding His Messiah. Therefore, if either or both of these criteria are rejected or avoided, then the rejecting religion has consciously but possibly inadvertently made a definitive choice not to be a true monotheistic religion due to its rejection of a vital central theme of what is bound up in the purposes of GOD; His Messiah being raised from the dead and his appointment by GOD to be all men's judge. And these purposes have not been hidden in a corner. Instead they are clearly and explicitly proclaimed in each and every copy of the New Testament Scriptures which are available throughout the entire world. (For a religion such as Islam to hide behind the excuse that those Scriptures are unreliable because they have been tampered with and are corrupt, is not going to be an excuse that GOD will accept. That excuse has been exposed as inaccurate many times even on this website. Please see paper about Jews eating their children for one of the several exposures of that useless invalid excuse.) We will now explicitly but briefly examine each of the three monotheistic religions in order to determine how each religion complies or does not comply with these two criteria of the Messiahs resurrection and His being our future Judge. For if the religion does not comply with either of these two criteria, that religion may certainly be quite sincere in its worship and service to GOD. But the crucial problem is that due to that religion's explicitly rejecting what the true GOD has ordained for His Messiah on the basis of what His unchanged Scripture's teach, in essence that religion has rejected the true GOD. It also rejects the true GOD if its religion publicly mocks the ethical component of monotheism by openly tolerating the aggressive murdering of foreign innocents and by publicly accommodating and tolerating aggressive corruption by powerful persons. Judaism: Does Judaism truly Honor the Monotheistic GOD of GOD's Scriptures? No! The Old Testament Scriptures appear to refer to a Messiah in Psalms 16 and 22, in the Book of the Prophet Daniel, chapter 12, and in the teaching of the Prophet Isaiah, Chapters 9 and 53. Thus, each of these Scripture sections contain some type of reference to a Messiah whose life and authority apparently will be extended beyond normal death. However, if the authoritative teaching of the Jewish Scholar and former Rabbi Saul, who became the Christian Apostle Paul, who was the author of almost one half of the New Testament was incorrect in his interpretation of Old Testament prophesies, that leaves the remote possibility that the Jewish insistence that the Messiah Jesus was not the Messiah of prophesy, as New Testament authors proclaim him to be, to possibly have some merit. Or, if this Apostle were blatantly lying about his own personal encounters with the Risen Christ, and his interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies, that would weaken the case for Jesus being GOD's Risen Messiah. But it would definitely not eliminate his being GOD's Messiah because of other's testimonies in addition to Paul's. Yet, there is virtually zero chance that this quite educated and ethical man would have endured the years of suffering he went through to support even one preposterous lie about the Messiah and certainly he would not support numerous lies about him. Since the overwhelming evidence is that the former Rabbi was indeed proclaiming the truth about both his encounters with the Risen Messiah and his interpretation of Old Testament Scriptures, this confronts us with a powerful reality. According to his own authoritative teaching, all people of all monotheistic religions as well as all people of all religions and non-religions, will one day stand before this risen man from Bethlehem for judgment. This is precisely what this Apostle taught to the highly intellectual Greek philosophers on his visit to Athens, Greece. Of course, on that Day of Judgment the just Messiah will undoubtedly take into consideration a wide variety of relevant circumstances when he will be our wise and compassionate personal Judge. (Acts 17:31) "For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead." There are those who will say that the former Rabbi was inventing his encounters with the Risen Messiah and thus could not have known that our Messiah would have authority to Judge us. But there are numerous compelling reasons to believe in the integrity of this one influential man and to accept the reasonableness of his explanation of the meaning of the Old Testament prophecies contained in the earlier Scripture. Additionally, to believe his personal accounts of his encounters with the Risen, Living Messiah, seems to be quite reasonable. The bottom line is that none of this man's encounters with the Risen man or his persuasive teaching is easy to explain away. Is It No Big Deal To Rise From The Dead? Nevertheless, despite compelling reasons to believe in the Risen Messiah which only relate to this one former Rabbi, this is without taking into consideration much additional evidence related to many of the Risen Messiah's other witnesses. But remarkably the official position of Judaism is that there is no compelling evidence to justify Jews believing in a Risen Messiah who was supposedly raised by GOD from death. Therefore, Judaism also totally rejects any possibility that this Messiah's "supposed" resurrection is any proof that he will be GOD's Judge of all men on the Last Day. It seems obvious that Judaism's categorical rejection of GOD's Messiah flies against so much compelling evidence that Jews should accept him rather than reject him, that you would think that thousands of sincere Jews would follow some type of plan similar to the following. In view of their important decision affecting their eternal destiny and considering their supposed fairness and objectivity, there are overwhelming reasons that multitudes of people from the Jewish religion would be searching both the Old and New Testaments daily in order to determine if they have made a grave error in their total rejection of such an obviously noble man. Additionally, the disappeared man leaves behind him all kinds of compelling evidence that he was raised by GOD from the dead. To not be taking such a common sense step of further examination of the relevant evidence seems to be a very risky gamble for each and every Jew, because of how important it is that they make the correct decision about GOD's Messiah. Additionally, the Israeli nation's present obscene treatment of Palestinians and their continuing to build illegal settlements on Palestinian land as well as that nation's unwavering support for the U.S.' inhumane bloodshed in Iraq leave us with no other choice than the following conclusion. Israel has at the least, temporarily abandoned an ethical monotheistic GOD. Islam: Does Islam truly honor the Monotheistic GOD of GOD's Scripture? No! We will now examine Islam regarding these criteria of the Messiah's resurrection and the fact that his resurrection proves that GOD has given him authority to be all person's final Judge. As previously stated, the Quran clearly recognizes the Messiahship of Isa/Jesus when it awards him with the honorable title of Messiah eleven separate times. A Precedent For The CIA But there is one area where Islam gets itself into considerable difficulty by firmly resisting the true purpose of the One Monotheistic GOD as revealed in His Scriptures. This unnecessary difficulty occurs when rigid, literalist Muslims make an unreasonable demand of all Muslims. Though the Arab culture makes much use of exaggeration and hyperbole, these rigid leaders demand that the obvious hyperbole that is used in An-Nisa 4:157, be taken literally by each and every Muslim. By making this obviously serious error, they have forced themselves into the foolish position of insisting that GOD who does not practice CIA type deception, did indeed practice CIA type deception with the Messiah as his accomplice. So the One majestic GOD supposedly made a secret CIA type agreement with the Messiah to sneak him away before his execution while a look-a-like was forced against his will by GOD to be executed in the Messiah's place. So this whole nefarious scenario places the glorious GOD in a compromising situation that if true, would seriously compromise the integrity of ALLAH's character. For Islamic leaders to shamefully claim that the majestic ALLAH deceptively arranged for a look-a-like to be executed while ALLAH snuck the true Messiah away before his planned execution sounds like a sick joke. Yes, it would only be a sick joke if all of Islam was not insisting that the Majestic ALLAH did take part in that kind of deceit and cruelty to an obviously unwilling substitute. So when Islam's leaders demand that this one verse out of all of the thousands of verses in the entire Quran be interpreted in such a bizarre way that the One Majestic ALLAH is crudely mocked, this compellingly demonstrates that such mocking of ALLAH is an exceedingly serious crime. But current Muslim leaders even go far beyond mocking GOD and approving the torturing of an innocent substitute by also insisting that the substitute was savagely crucified. So they invent a ridiculous scenario as a cover for their false claim that the Messiah was not executed while a substitute was. So their false claim of no execution means that ALLAH did not use His Wisdom and Might to raise the Messiah to new life, as proclaimed in An-Nisa 4:158, because he supposedly never died. Furthermore, these agenda and ideology driven leaders are even willing to not only cancel the Messiah's willing death but also to mock ALLAH's own Wisdom and Might that He used to raise Isa up alive (An Nisa 4/158) after his execution. For leaders to arbitrarily fully cancel that resurrection has become a very serious crime against ALLAH and His future plans for man. Because it was GOD's plan for all people to believe in that resurrection in order to see it as proof that GOD had appointed His Messiah to be all men's future Judge. (See again Acts 17:31) That the highly educated and experienced Apostle Paul was led by GOD to explain to learned Greek philosophers in Athens this vital link between the Messiah's resurrection and his authority to judge, was no coincidence or accident. Rather, it was ALLAH's Will that this key concept be proclaimed at the main learning center of the world at that time. Ironically, if Muslim leaders continue to deliberately choose not to acknowledge the shame they have brought upon themselves for shaming GOD and His Messiah by the strange story that they have made up in order to discredit GOD's raising His Messiah from death, they create a terrible future problem for themselves. For if Muslim leaders do not acknowledge their serious error, they will certainly deeply regret this eternity impacting mistake when they vulnerably stand before the Risen Messiah as their Judge on that Last Day. Many Will Wet Their Pants Whether or not men's bodies will continue to function as they do now when they stand before their Risen Messiah at their personal Judgment, I have no way of knowing. But if men's bodies do continue to operate as they do now when they are being personally judged, there will be many, many men with wet or soiled pants among those leaders who still refuse to acknowledge the Messiah's death and resurrection. They will finally experience intense guilt over the deceptive stories they have believed and have demanded that others believe which have undermined the role of GOD's Wisdom and Might in raising His Messiah up alive. So undoubtedly many will lose control of their bodily functions as they tremble with great fear at what they have done against the Risen Messiah who on that Day is being their Judge. Where Have All The True Leaders Gone? Therefore, Islam must locate genuine leaders who will be men and women of destiny who are courageous enough to acknowledge that GOD's Messiah defeated simultaneously both death and the Jews corrupt, unjust, illegal apparatus. These men and women of the hour will realize that the Messiah was not assisted by our noble ALLAH to secretly escape before his execution. Until the emergence of these men and women who will kindle the flame of a noble religion which was originally sparked by the far reaching vision of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam will continue to suffer from a serious deficit of positive, courageous leadership. So until this vigorous, enlightened leadership emerges, Islam will continue in the negative position of rejecting the true Monotheistic God. For this rejection of the true GOD occurs when Muslims reject GOD's will for them to acknowledge that GOD's executed Messiah truly was raised to new life by ALLAH as is confirmed by the Quran's An-Nisa 4:158 as well as being confirmed by the entire New Testament. So Islam at least has temporarily abandoned the One True GOD. And Islam also abandons ALLAH when Islam's timid leaders hesitate to more vigorously and publicly condemn the U.S. for causing rivers of blood in Iraq and to subtly tolerate the U.S. sponsorship of injustice in the illegally occupied West Bank. Christianity: Does U.S. Christianity truly honor the One Monotheistic GOD of GOD's Scripture? No! On any paper which would describe what U.S. Christians believe, this religion would look good regarding the first two criteria we have been examining. But it is only on paper that current U.S. Christianity appears to please the true monotheistic GOD who raised His Messiah up from death. Enjoying Ugly Evil There is one major difficulty in thinking that a majority of U.S. Christians do actually believe in and follow the One True Monotheistic GOD. Here is the unpleasant reality. GOD is not an official auditor examining a paper trail. Rather, He is the One True GOD who can see deep into the hearts of man. And when He looks into the hearts of many U.S. Christians, He observes an ugly evil. Many of us do not even realize that it is not their right to enjoy this wicked evil and to feel comfortable with it. It is the evil that many right wingers are involved in by being comfortable with the complacency, indifference and lukewarmness of their supposed commitment to the Risen man from Bethlehem that accommodates their not being concerned about the blatant shedding of foreigners blood in Gaza and Iraq in order to callously advance U.S. interests and elevate U.S. prosperity. Even worse than their feeling comfortable with wanton bloodshed, GOD observes virtually no grieving or remorse by those of us who are not right wing, over all the innocent bloodshed our nation has wickedly and needlessly brought to the innocent Iraqi people. For GOD is angered as He observes a fierce, calloused arrogance on the part of persons such as Bush, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others who have been key in visiting horrible bloodshed on the innocent people of Iraq. The harsh, calloused attitude of this gang of mobsters is in extreme contrast to the character of the One True GOD. Their godless attitude is also in total contrast to the graciousness and grace of our Risen Messiah. Is Foreign Blood Worthless? Regretfully, also the extreme shallowness of the personal Christianity of so many American Christians provides us with virtually no personal motivation to cry, scream, pray and repent so that this savage, illegal unjust river of innocent foreign blood will not continue to flow. Speaking candidly, is there any way to reconcile a complacency and indifference about your own nation's sick comfortableness with its supposed entitlement to blatantly shed rivers of foreign blood, with a supposed conviction that we are personally responsible to our Living Messiah who will be our Judge for the despicable crimes in which our democratically elected government engages in. Does our obvious responsibility for Justice not include how we treat the valuable lives of the precious persons in foreign nations? Have we been brainwashed to believe that the people living in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and in the occupied Palestinian West Bank are not valuable human beings? These leaders and their too often Republican and neo-con followers practice a religion whose GOD has absolutely no resemblance to the ethical GOD revealed in the Scriptures of the ancient Prophets whom our Risen Lord Jesus highly respected. In stark contrast to His ethical GOD, these persons have a religion of narrow, unethical nationalism. They willingly choose to follow the four unwritten pillars of the nationalistic highly respected Cheney Doctrine. Cheney Doctrine Pillar One - Hating is necessary Love your own and hate your enemies. Pillar Two – Might makes right GOD has given the superior U.S. the right to hate because might makes right and our nation has the military might. Therefore we can assume that we have the immoral obligation to shed the blood of innocent victims whom we think we have a reason to hate. Pillar Three – Being immoral is a moral necessity Though it is immoral to lie, deceive, manipulate and twist the facts, it is a moral necessity for our leaders to use these immoral tactics so that we can successfully aid the world's stability by militarily defeating those we choose to label as enemies. Pillar Four – It is moral to claim our enemies attacked us first It is a moral necessity that our leaders immorally trick our gullible citizens and other gullible leaders into believing that GOD approves of our attacking other nations first. Therefore, we are moral when we convince our people to believe that the innocent, which we now call our enemy, attacked us first or possibly had vague plans to sometime attack our nation or to sometime attack our interests or to attack Israel sometime in the vague future. GOD is not mocked Though our own citizens may be deceived by our four moral/immoral pillars, GOD is not deceived by this blatant, immoral manipulation of words and facts. Since it all boils down to our leaders justifying immoral bloodshed, we must pay heed to King David's inspired truism in Psalm 72:14. This unchanged Scripture reveals how GOD holds our nation responsible for our shedding the precious blood of our innocent victims. "He will rescue them from oppression and violence for precious is their blood in His sight". It is absolutely necessary that the U.S. political, military, religious and economic establishments take note of the following vital truth regarding GOD. Any religion which has divorced itself from compassion for the foreigner neither worships nor serves the One True GOD. The truth of this last statement is so significant that it will now be repeated. Any religion which has divorced itself from compassion for the foreigner has abandoned GOD. Also, a nation which openly encourages favoritism toward corrupt but powerful allies does not serve the God of ethical monotheism. No More Than a Remnant So by the aforementioned reasoning and the evidence cited leaves me overwhelmingly convinced that each of the three main monotheistic religions have substantially deserted and abandoned GOD. Consequently, this disgraceful situation leaves God without any more than a remnant of people who truly take Him seriously. (I am not factoring into my disturbing conclusion sincere Christians outside the U.S.) Therefore, ALLAH is now considering which of these three monotheistic religions may soon see His light and sincerely repent. And this sincere repentance must definitely include for especially American Christians a new respect for the dignity and rights of all humanity including black minorities in the U.S. We are now very proud of ourselves for having elected as President a person who is physically one half African. Yet I personally do not want to even consider what the election results would have been if President Elect Obama had both an African mother and an African Father instead of a white American mother. Yes American Christians must truly repent for our propensity to see people in other nations, not as true persons, but rather as objects on a chess board for us to manipulate and exploit as a means to continue U.S. domination and U.S. affluence. The Obama Factor For those in other nations who have been deceived into thinking Senator Obama's election as U.S. President means that U.S. Blacks have now achieved equality in America's social and private life, this is far from the truth. It is also not true that the Senator Obama victory indicates that U.S. Christians have significantly contributed to the social integration of Blacks. With few exceptions the Church on Sunday continues to be the most segregated U.S. institution in America. The following are some heart-breaking insights from Orlando Paterson in the November 10, '08 Newsweek about the disgraceful social status of Blacks in the U.S. "But if the work of political inclusion is largely done, that of social incorporation is half finished and may be regressing." In 2002 the median net worth of white Americans (total value of all assets less all debts and liabilities) was $88,000, while the median net worth of blacks was $6,000 with whites having a net worth 14.5 times that of blacks. "Segregation is worse in those parts of the country that have the highest levels of black participation in public life. New York has among the worse levels of segregation in the nation." Chicago also has extreme segregation. "In these great cities, blacks mingle with whites in the public sphere, often in positions of authority, then after work return to gilded ghettos or segregated slums blighted by unemployment, violence, addiction and horrendous rates of youth incarceration." Less Arrogance Among Muslims Hopefully, all three religions will soon demonstrate true repentance for our wicked crime of not caring about the purpose of GOD's Messiah or about how much innocent blood is shed in Iraq and Gaza. But my own observation tells me that there is, at the present time much less arrogance and feelings of entitlement among Muslims than there presently exists among Christians and Jews. So that provides me with more hope for repentance among Muslims than the hope I currently have for repentance among Jews and Christians. From my perspective, because of each of these three religions different degrees of rejecting GOD's Messiah and/or practicing blatant cruelty toward foreigners, none of the three can now be considered as true believers in the One Monotheistic GOD. But we can all pray fervently that this tragic situation will soon change, at least for Islam. A quality that Arab Muslims (except for radical Islamists) have over American Christians, is that they are more tolerant of foreigners than American Christians are. It is absolutely necessary that key persons from each of the three monotheistic religions finally recognize this obvious reality. It is God, not man, who determines who GOD is and what His Will is. When fragile, limited man attempts to define who GOD is we not only get ourselves into big trouble. But we also potentially cause needless and avoidable horrible suffering for others such as George W. Bush has done with his god which he personally invented. He Invented His Own GOD In this regard, there is much we each must learn from President Bush's destructive example. This arrogant, impulsive, but powerful man successfully but imorrally invented his own god which he used certain code words from the Scriptures to describe. But in reality his man created god has virtually no relationship to the Scriptures and no relationship to the true GOD of the Scriptures. But this naively sincere Bush man faithfully worshipped and served this god of his own creation which originated from his own warped imagination. And because of the authority which came with his office and the gullibility of other powerful people and especially sincere but gullible evangelicals, neoconservatives and a broad base of others, he was able to successfully coerce and manipulate millions to follow and serve his own militaristic god. This god created from his own sick imagination and badly damaged sub-conscience, had a vocabulary that included many positively sounding code words such as freedom, democracy and elections. His god even developed a system of priests composed of professional and soothing arms merchants with an efficient network of close ties with the Pentagon, with the State Department and with foreign governments. (Foreign governments who would not allow traditional religion's priests into their country, open wide their nations' doors to the high priests of the weapons' industry. A Ritual System of Blood Sacrifice Quite out in the open this virtually omnipotent god of Bush sustained itself and satisfied it's gluttonous appetite from the ritual sacrifice of human blood that flowed much more often from the mutilated bodies of tens of thousands of innocent foreigners but also from exploited American military men and women. Way too many Americans both applauded this disgusting system of ritual human sacrifice that was institutionalized by the vast military-industrial complex. Even today millions continue to applaud and support this widely accepted system of human sacrifice and do not even realize that this sacrificial system exists through thousands of the U.S.' best and brightest competing each year to take part in one of its highly respected military leadership training centers. In these centers these eager students soon learn to be low level priests and ministers in its highly effective system of ritual human sacrifice. (This sacrificial system operates under the cover of the euphemism of military schools for national security, international defense and the promotion of supposed democracy.) Admittedly, it is not always easy to delineate between this wicked system of human sacrifice and the legitimate national needs of security. But there can be little argument that to live under the high priesthood of any leader who replaces dialogue and communication with an emphasis on human sacrifice is wrong. A U.S. religion that is predominantly based on human sacrifice which will continue to dominate our nation's economy depending on our system of coercive diplomacy with weaker nations is also wrong. (I discovered the arrogant, unpleasant term "coercive diplomacy" while reading an interview that the (at the time) presidential candidate Clinton gave to Newsweek when she referred to it as the most effective tool in our foreign policy toolbox. I was both embarrassed and shocked at her arrogance and presumption which I think may have been modified now.) So this U.S. ritual sacrificial system that has risen to such an absurd level under a disturbed patriotic, religious, nationalistic, fanatic follower of his own religion like Bush did while in office, should sound a disturbing alarm among each member of monotheistic religions and among all religions as well as among all non religious people. We must beware of those who invent their own gods and who worship and serve their own appetites rather than worshipping and serving the One True Almighty GOD of compassion and mercy who is proclaimed in the Scriptures which are confirmed by the Holy Quran. Because serving any man created gods will inevitably cause extensive suffering and multitudinous deaths as especially Iraq has daily reminded us. Therefore, in view of how essential it is to believe in and serve the One True GOD and to no longer abandon Him in order to serve a GOD of our own creation, we must also give our allegiance to His Risen Messiah to the degree that GOD's Scriptures teach us. Additionally we must be ever mindful that it is our compassionate, wise Messiah who is also highly honored in the Holy Quran, whom GOD has appointed to be our Judge. It is truly regretful that at this present troubled time each monotheistic religion has made the unwise decision to abandon our true GOD and serve and worship ourselves rather than to worship and serving the One True Monotheistic GOD. Yet, perhaps if our repentance is earnest enough and our prayers are urgent enough a wonderful new breakthrough will occur. So then our religions can return to the One true GOD instead of our wandering around in the barren wilderness as the ancient Jews did for 40 long years of meaninglessness. All Jews Died but Two It should be instructive for each of the three Monotheistic religions to soberly consider this ominous lesson from the Old Testament Scriptures. It was the One GOD's decision to allow that whole wilderness generation, with the exception of two men to die in the barren wilderness. They all died due to their irrational decision to invent their own rules rather than choosing to be a people of GOD who would choose to live in a communicative fellowship with the One True GOD, and to obey him. An Ominous Lesson for Today They refused to Listen To the GOD who was True So every wandering Jew Died but two. Stomach Over Soul U.S. Christians and U.S. culture have not learned what the unwise choice of the eldest son of the biblical Isaac teaches us. There is a costly price to pay when we repudiate things spiritual and replace them with the material. Esau made his tragic error when he was temporarily hungry and sold to his younger brother his valuable birthright for a bowl of stew. Thus he exalted his stomach over his soul, which our nation does on a daily basis under Bush in our immoral foreign policy. Summary Judaism: Judaism not only publicly murdered GOD's Messiah but the descendents of the murderers will not even hold their own forefathers accountable for that horrible non judicial execution. So Judaism has abandoned GOD. Judaism also continues to ruthlessly steal land from Palestinians and build illegal settlements on that land and when it serves their purpose, even murders Palestinians. So Judaism has abandoned GOD. Judaism by and large has remained mute about the horrible bloodshed that the U.S. has visited upon Iraq. Yes emphatically, Judaism had abandoned GOD, and chooses to wander in a godless wilderness. Islam: Islam mocks the One True GOD of the Biblical Scriptures by denying Him the right to express some of His great love for man by allowing His Messiah to suffer a cruel death at the hands of hateful Jews. Do presumptuous Muslim leaders actually assume they have the right to tell the Almighty what He can and cannot do? These Muslim leaders, by taking GOD's rights away from Him by telling Him what He can and cannot do with His own Messiah, have obliterated GOD's rightful part in His Messiah's glorious resurrection. So these Muslims leaders have abandoned GOD. These leaders have also corrupted Justice by finding a ridiculous way to explain one profound verse in the Quran so they can cover up Israel's brutal murder of the world's Messiah. This is Islam mocking Justice in order to excuse the Jews of a blatant murder so that Muslims can cancel the resurrection. Therefore Muslim leaders have abandoned GOD and choose to wander in a godless wilderness. U.S. Christianity: U.S. Christianity has by and large stood silently by and not aggressively condemned its elected government officials for ordering its own massive military to bring cruel destruction to the innocent people of Iraq. So much of U.S. Christianity has abandoned an ethical GOD. (Shamefully, yesterday, November 11, '08 - Veterans Day, our U.S. democratically elected Vice President, Dick Cheney, proclaimed arrogantly this bold faced lie to the veterans who had gathered to hear him. The following were almost his literal words: "And we are fighting them in Iraq because seven years ago they attacked us in our nation." It is commonly accepted that if a leader tells a blatant lie often enough, it is soon viewed by most citizens as the truth even though it remains a blatant lie. Please be reminded that though the U.S. military is shedding much of other's innocent blood and the blood of its own military in Iraq, Iraq had absolutely no connection with the blatant 9/11 attack on the U.S. that we use as an inhumane, cruel, destructive excuse to attack and occupy that oil rich, innocent nation. Yet our supposedly Christian nation has very few Christians who are aggressively condemning our government's bloodshed and lies. Additionally, very few of us who call ourselves Christians are crying out to GOD day and night for forgiveness for our nation for the deplorable bloodshed we have brought to the innocent people of Iraq. Yes, the majority of U.S. Christians have abandoned GOD and choose to wander aimlessly in a godless wilderness. Therefore, if heavy repentance does not soon visit the U.S., both this nation and eventually the whole world will be negatively impacted by the U.S. abandoning an ethical GOD. There May Be a Positive that Emerges But the silver lining that could bring positive out of the negative of the U.S. and others abandonment of an ethical GOD is this. When Islam makes the logical appropriate adjustments that it will make regarding recognizing that the Risen Messiah simultaneously defeated hostile Jews and death itself, Islam has the opportunity to more than fill the empty space created by the desertion of GOD by U.S. Christians. And there is reason to believe that once Islam has more fully embraced GOD's Messiah, they will not eventually desert him as so many in the U.S. have done. Conclusion Yes, ALLAH is searching for those in Islam who will be Men and Women of the Hour; Men and Women of Destiny; Men and Women who will kindle the flame of high religion which was originally sparked by the far reaching vision of the Prophet Muhammad. These men and women of breadth and depth will embrace the foreigner and truly love people rather than hating or destroying or exploiting or crushing or manipulating them. These men and women, who will possess inquiring minds and tender hearts, will love ALLAH and all people with a tender passion. They will, in the beginning, be Arab Muslim men and women whose hearts and minds will be an amazing and refreshing contrast to the tiny, shriveled minds and shrunken hearts of the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz types. These Spirit empowered persons will bring great joy to ALLAH and a new hope and refreshing to Islam, to the Middle East and to the entire world. Undoubtedly these compassionate persons of vision who will emerge will be emboldened to communicate to the U.S. Empire that it is no longer welcome to tempt the people of the Mid East to worship the bloody American Idol of weapons. New Voices from the Wilderness To gain perspective we will recall this amazing reality. It was only one man praying alone in the desert over fourteen hundred years ago who had the perception to recognize that those around him had abandoned the One True ALLAH and worshipped multiple false gods. But now because the number of people in our world has multiplied many fold and technology has brought scientific and educational advances that were unimaginable in that earlier time, these perceived advances have not provided any guarantee that man would not again stray from GOD like a lost sheep strays from its good shepherd. Therefore, the people of Islam, the religion that the Prophet Muhammed founded, that even Muslims in crucial components of Islam, have now abandoned GOD. So Islam has now virtually returned to wandering alone without GOD in a cruel and barren desert as Arabs did in the days before the Prophet. Today this barren desert contains a deceptive mirage because though still a wilderness, it is filled with books, advanced killer weapons, giant jets, TVs, I-pods, skyscrapers, prostitutes, lucrative contracts, pornography, promises, alcohol, drugs, riches, promiscuity, fast cars, fame, deceptive political ideologies and every other imaginable idol to tempt man to wander from our One GOD. Although many of these potentially lethal distractions, temptations and idols are attractive to our wandering eyes and hungry appetites, when any of them replaces GOD in our hearts and minds, the wilderness desert in which we choose to wander still remains a barren wilderness without the One True GOD. This remains true despite the fact that our modern wilderness is now packed full of all these often lethal distractions. But tragically, we have cast aside ALLAH even though our barren desert is filled with so many tempting toys. These toys deceive many into mistakenly beleiving that many of these virtually useless toys are blessings from GOD. Also, the other two monotheistic religions are no less without GOD and so their people are also wandering in a similar barren wilderness in Christianity and Judaism as are other wandering world citizens. But under the emerging wise Muslim leadership, multitudes will choose to embrace a faith which truly honors God and His Risen, Anointed man from now illegally and brutally occupied Bethlehem. Please recall that this man born of the Virgin Maryam in West Bank, Bethlehem is the same GOD appointed man to whom the Holy Quran no less than eleven times gives the honorable title of Messiah. The Compelling Motivation of the Judgment Day There is one major compelling reason why Islam will be the first of the three major monotheistic religions which will respond to truth from GOD which will bring its religion out of the wilderness of unbelief and rebellion to a renewed vital relationship with ALLAH. And due to this main reason, this will occur for Islam before Judaism and U.S. Christianity are willing to leave their respective wildernesses. And the compelling reason that Islam will be the first can be summed up in two short English words; The Day. Woven into the fabric of both the culture of Islam and the Islamic religion is "The Day". Yes, prominent in the mind of each Muslim is The Day; The Day of Judgment; The Great Day; The Last Day; The Day of Resurrection; The Day of Reckoning! The Day! The Day! The Day! Due to the profound emphasis and unparalleled focus that the Holy Quran gives to the Last Day, the Day of Reckoning, the Day of Judgment, each adult Muslim and most of the children have a decisive awareness of "That Day". Thus, they have an awareness that they will be answerable to GOD on that Day which appears to be far beyond the concern that either Christians or those in Judaism have of being held accountable by GOD on the Day of Judgment. Consequently, when Muslims are finally able to grasp the evident fact that ALLAH chose to overwhelmingly defeat the results of the wicked execution of His own Messiah by evil Israeli leaders by raising him to new life, exciting will be the opportunity for newly enlightened Muslim leadership. With the observable reality of Muslims putting strong spiritual emphasis on the inevitable coming of the final Great Day, combined with these leaders now realizing that on that Last Day, their Judgment Day, it will actually be the Risen man from Bethlehem whom ALLAH has appointed to be their Judge. Thus these two combined factors will have an extraordinary impact on Islam. With Muslim leaders and Muslim followers now becoming aware of this factual reality of ALLAH's Risen Messiah being their Judgment Day, Judge, a wonderful spiritual phenomenon will occur. Islam, with its broad permeating infrastructure of mosques throughout the world will make a wondrous world-wide impact for ALLAH'S Risen Bethlehem man. Yes, GOD has proven to the entire world that His Messiah will be all men's Judge by raising him from death. (Acts 17:31) But relatively few from the west even now take this coming event of Judgment seriously. So it appears that the majority of the non Islamic world will unwisely and foolishly choose to ignore the overwhelming evidence that this awesome event of man's Judgment will one rapidly approaching Day actually occur. But, praise be to ALLAH, for with the Muslims' emphasis on this Day of Judgment, this necessary warning will soon be going forth from every Mosque. Faithful Muslims will proclaim to millions: "ALLAH's Risen Messiah will be all men's Judge." (Please read Acts 10:33, 43 and 44 about what Peter was commanded to preach about Isa/Jesus being all men's Judge.) The following are Peter's main words to officials from the First Century mighty Roman occupying force. "And he/Isa commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom GOD appointed to be the Judge of the living and the dead." (Acts 10:43) The Proof and Mutawafek And know that ALLAH has given us His proof of His Messiah being our future judge by His raising him up alive from death. ALLAH raised him up three days after ALLAH's bitter enemies had manipulated the Roman occupiers to cruelly execute him. Wicked Israeli leaders brazenly pressured the occupiers to shamefully murder ALLAH's own Messiah in ALLAH's own Holy City. But never, no never would ALLAH allow such wickedness to triumph in His Own Holy City. For it was in that same wicked city which murdered him where, three days later, wickedness and death were suddenly defeated. ALLAH triumphantly empowered His murdered Messiah and our Future Judge to walk out of his tomb alive. (The Quran – Al-Imran 3:55, An-Nisa 4:158, Maryam 19:33,34, Yunas 10:94. Please read Injeel, the Quran's verses in the original Arabic because in 3:55, mutawafek means "to cause you to die" which is not what the English translations say that mutawafek means.) The Message "O wanderers from the One ALLAH! Hear Him! He now calls you to stop wandering. Compassionately, He pleads with you to follow His Justice; His Compassion; His Righteousness! And know that ALLAH has appointed His Risen Messiah to be our Just Judge when the rapidly approaching Day of Judgment soon arrives." "And your lord comes and angels row upon row." The Quran – Al Fajr 89:22 Fear and Trembling Exceptionally significant is this climactic, decisive event of the "Lord"-Messiah coming to judge us accompanied by angels as the Holy Quran's Al-Fajr emphatically proclaims. Consequently there are three emphatic testimonies to this same event in the previous Scriptures. In fact, almost the same wording as used in Al-Fajr is also used by both the ancient Prophet Zechariah and the more recent Prophet Jude. They both refer to the very ancient prophecy of Enoch, the seventh descendent of the Prophet Adam. "Then the Lord will come and all the holy ones with him." Zechariah 14:5 "Enoch, the seventh from Adam prophesized about these men: 'See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of His holy ones to judge everyone…'" Jude 14,15 Some Muslims will suggest that in Al-Fajr, when the word "Lord" is used, is referring to ALLAH coming to judge and not to the Lord-Messiah coming to judge. But there is a reasonable explanation. This explanation comes from the unanimous conclusion of respected Muslim theologians. Since ALLAH's presence fills the entire universe, they say that it is inappropriate and incorrect to refer to ALLAH as coming or as moving from place to place. Therefore, when Al-Fajr refers to the "Lord" coming to judge, the Quran is referring to ALLAH's only Messiah. It is He who moves from place to place and not ALLAH. In view of the extreme importance that both the Quran and the three Prophets preceding the Prophet Muhammed (Prophet Enoch, Prophet Zechariah and Prophet Jude), put on this decisive event of judgment by the Messiah, this brings us back to one very unpleasant reality. Unless certain leaders in Islam change their position about the Messiah having not defeated death by being raised by ALLAH from death after he had been executed, they are publicly requesting extreme trouble for themselves at the coming judgment. For it is a very dangerous course of action to remain on record as demanding that all Muslims believe that ALLAH's Messiah did not prove that he would be their judge by being raised by ALLAH from the dead (Acts 17:31). Especially is it foolish and risky to put themselves in this vulnerable position of opposing ALLAH's Risen Messiah since He is the very person whom they will be standing before as their Risen Judge. The strong, strong words of the ancient Prophet Habakkuk are quite accurate in describing the horrible, horrible fear that will grip these vulnerable men when they stand before ALLAH's Risen Messiah as their Judge. When they finally realize how they have stubbornly, blatantly, and wrongly misrepresented his victory over death, they will: 1.  Hear their hearts pound. 2.  Their lips will quiver at the sound of their hearts pounding. 3.  Decay will creep into their bones. 4.  Their legs will tremble. And in my own street language, I will add two additional phenomena of what will occur to these leaders who have dared to defy ALLAH by claiming that the way that ALLAH willed that His Messiah demonstrate His love for us did not occur. And they also wrongly insist that the way that ALLAH demonstrated his great Might and Wisdom to us by triumphantly raising His Messiah from the dead, did not occur. (An Nisa 4:158). They will: 5.  Wet their pants. 6.  Soil their underwear. Oh Merciful, we plead with you to provide these sincere, vulnerable men the assistance they need in order to understand the true intent of An Nisa 4:157 and 158. Then they will have clear consciences on your rapidly approaching Day of Judgment rather than being gripped by horrible fear and dread. back to "Late 2007 - 2009" page __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ __________________________ _____________