THE BIBLE WARNINGS AGAINST HERESY CONDEMN ISLAM
1). INTRODUCTION
Muslims have you ever stopped to wonder this? Accept for the moment that the Bible is the true word of God. Set aside your prejudices and preconceptions that its corrupted, misinterpreted or misunderstood by Christians. Just take it as a given fact, that Jesus death on the cross and His resurrection defeated Satan.
Now Satan is not going to roll over and accept defeat right? All the while he is at large in the world and ruler of it, he is going to find ways to stop people getting to heaven. And since our only route to heaven is through Jesus and the atonement of the Cross (Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 10:45, John 14:6), Satan has to block that avenue.
But more than that, Satan is trying to usurp God. Ever since he was cast down from heaven he is the envier, enemy and accuser of God and of God’s people. He wants to be worshipped (Isaiah 14:14; Matthew 4:8-10), so needs an identity that can deceive people into thinking he is God. He needs a disguise and he needs his servants to appear in disguise, for he is not so stupid as to play himself – though the church of Satan does worship him overtly – to attract the masses, he needs to appear more orthodox and mainstream with at least a superficial “pedigree” of legitimacy.
Enter Islam. Islam fits Satan’s purposes perfectly. It denies the crucifixion our only hope of salvation. It also denies the divinity of Jesus and vehemently opposes the Triune God of Scripture. For Satan being a singularity (albeit with a third of the fallen angels as his army), cannot replicate God’s multiple personality. Also Satan demands blind allegiance and submission as Islam’s god does. He discourages and does not accept questions or being tested for he can’t stand up to scrutiny. So he becomes the ultimate in obscurity, making himself inscrutibly unknowable. Just as Islam’s Allah does. He is proud and boastful and covets everything that belongs to God. Just as Allah does. He glorifies death since death is his domain. Hence we find shedding blood, killing and being killed, in appeasement of Allah, the ultimate honour for a Muslim and a straight pass to a sensually alluring Paradise, where God is nowhere.
All that is in polar opposite contra-distinction to Christ who conquered death, redeemed us by shedding His own blood and glorifies God and God’s people with eternal life in God’s presence.
2). THE MUSLIM DILEMMA
Muslims how can you be sure that Islam is from God? How can you be sure that Allah isn’t Satan and that what assaulted Muhammad at Hira wasn’t a demon disguised as an angel?
If you’re still in suspended judgment mode consider what the Bible says. Given that there is no mention of Islam, Muhammad or Allah in all of Scripture how can you test your faith against Biblical precepts?
After all, the Bible warns us of Satan appearing as an angel of light and his servants disguised as servants of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).
We can very simply test Islam against some foundational Biblical principles of which the following is only a selection.
3). BIBLE WARNINGS
The Bible may not mention Muhammad by name but it does warn us of false prophets along with these warnings and strictures for living by and establishing the truth:
● Not going after, following or worshipping “other gods” (Deuteronomy 13:1-4, 18:20).
● Angels appearing and preaching “another gospel” and pronounces a curse on anyone following them (Galatians 1:8-9).
● Not taking up the sword for all who do will die by it (Matthew 26:52).
● Not denying the Cross of Christ which is Satanic (Matthew 16:23).
● Being easily seduced by the many who will come in Jesus name claiming to be the Christ (Matthew 24:23-24; Mark 13:21-22; Luke 21:8) or “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4).
● Against being “carried away by varied and strange teachings” (Hebrews 13:9) or being captivated by “philosophy, empty deceptions based on traditions and worldly principles, rather than on Christ” (Colossians 2:8).
● Against falling back into Old Covenant legalism or being subject to rules of not “handling tasting or touching” based on the rules of men (Mark 7:19; Colossians 2:20-22; Hebrews 8:13).
● Having nothing to do with worldly myths and fables “fit only for old women” (1 Timothy 4:7); not following “cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16) and “paying no heed to (Jewish) myths and the commands of men who reject the truth” (Titus 1:14).
● Against being “enticed by fleshly desires and sensuality” being “promised freedom by those who are slaves of corruption” (2 Peter 2:17-22).
● Against denying the divinity of Christ for the one who does is a liar and the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son (1 John 2:22-23).
● To be discerning and “not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).
● How to recognise the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) “every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist” (1 John 4:2-3).
● For a charge to be brought or settled it requires the testimony of two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15; Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1)
● Against adding to or taking away from God’s word (Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32; Revelation 22:18-19)
4). COMMENTS
Muslims how many of the above 15 criteria does Islam meet?
Let’s mention a few. Islam fails the multiple attestion/witness rule. Just for starters, Muhammad had no witnesses to his cave encounters nor any of his claimed signs. There is zero witness testimony to support the claims of Surah 4:157.
Islam follows “other gods” ie the pagan Allah (previously Hubal) and Muhammad his equal and mediator for Muslims.
The ‘Isa’ of Islam is “another Jesus” as warned about by Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:4. He is always referenced “son of Mary” never the Son of God and is a mere prophet to Israel only, without His universal Biblical titles of priest and king. Although acknowledged as “Al-Masih” (Messiah), Islam does not recognise that He is God.
Islam fails the spiritual discernment tests of 1 John 2 and 4 for it does deny Christ’s divinity and unity with the Father. Moreover it discourages asking questions as a matter of principle. Islam is not an enquring faith it is a blind faith.
Islam does what 2 Peter 2:17-22 says not to do being “enticed by fleshly desires and sensuality” which sums up the lure of Islam’s illusory carnal paradise.
The Quran is rife with embarrassing accusations of Muhammad’s contemporaries that he was a plagiariser and bringer of the fairy tales of the ancients; “mere fables of the men of old” (Surah 16:24 Pickthall); “And they say `these are fables of the ancient; and he has got them written down and they are read out to him morning and evening'” (Surah 25:5 Sherali). See also Surah 6:25; 8:31; 10:38; 11:13, 35; 27:68; 46:8-9, 17; 52:33; 68:15; 83:13.
… all of which is in stark contrast to, and falls foul of 1 Timothy 4:7, 2 Peter 1:16 and Titus 1:14 amongst others.
Islam is a religion of violence and the sword (princially Surah 9:5, see also 2:193 & 216, 4:89, 5:33, 8.67, 47:4 and many others), all contrary to Matthew 26:52.
Islam imposes legalism par excellence burdening Muslims with rules for everything from what can be eaten, to dress code to form and times of prayer and ablution etiquette. This is contrary to the New Covenant based on grace not law, whereby Jesus perfectly fulfilled the law on our behalf and is thus contrary to Mark 7:19; Colossians 2:20-22, Hebrews 8:13 amongst others.
Above all, Islam denies the crucifixion in direct opposition to the Gospel narrative the entire New Testament, hundreds of OT prophecies and not least Matthew 16.23.
5). CONCLUSIONS
Given the premise of our starting position for this post, namely that the Cross defeated Satan how is Islam shaping up as Satan’s thinly disguised attempt to overwrite it Muslims?
Even from this incomplete review, when you look at the tenets of Islam it should by now be obvious that this wholesale opposition to Biblical principles is not mere “correcting” of wrong interpretation or corrupt Bible doctrines, it is ANTITHETICAL TO GOD’S WORD on every level. It is REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY, with not so much theological content, and an emphasis rather on rules for secular life and totalitarian political hegemony. Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf, still a best seller in the Arabic world does much the same, and makes the same enemies of God’s people, while being a lot more coherent and transparent.
Who opposes God? Satan does. Islam is the religion of Satan. Case closed.