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| Domenico Fetti The Sacrifice of Elijah Before the Priests of Baal |
It’s quite clear in scripture there is one God. The apostles
saw Him in Christ. If one believes in God, though I prefer ‘if one knows God’,
then that is all the same God. Jesus said “He who sees me sees Him who sent Me”,
and “He who has seen me has seen the Father”. The disciples, and others, saw “Him” eventually.
What prompted this are Christians not using discernment and
seeing Allah and God as one in the same. I see “Allah” much as the ancient
prophets saw false gods. In 1st Kings, there’s the showdown between
Ahab and Elijah. Elijah had Ahab get all the people of Israel together with the
450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah. Elijah stood before all
these and said, “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then follow him!’ But the
people were completely silent.”
Muslims claim Allah and the Christian God are the same
because both are descendants of Abraham. Think of this. Did Allah have a Son?
God provided his only begotten Son. Did Allah sacrifice any part of himself for
our salvation? Allah only sent a prophet, Mohammad.
Jesus was sacrificed. Painfully, and for a specific purpose.
This sacrifice is not recognized in the Koran. Jesus is only a human prophet to
Muslims.
Muslims can turn to God, to Jesus Christ for salvation. They
have an option, “if the Lord is God, follow Him!’ Allah is as much a false god
as Baal. Don't think Christians would want to take the option of turning to a false god.
Question is, if Muslims think it okay to slaughter
Christians, to force them to worship their false god, how is it possible that god is the same as the Christian
God? The apostles, the prostitutes, the tax collector and others that saw
Christ, saw Him for what He is, and did not need to be forced. It is revealed.
And we can see Christ revealed to this day, because he is a living Christ. And
please Atheists, Secularists and anti-Christian bigots, don’t go back hundreds
of years and say stuff about those Christians that forced people to convert to
Christianity. You have a problem if you have to go way into the past to prove a
point. The people that did that went against scripture, the Word of God. That
was then, this is now. Christianity experienced a reformation, and have an
improved understanding of scripture since then. Islam is stuck in the 6th
century. No reformation.
Christians must make a distinction between the false god
Allah, and the true God, manifested in Jesus Christ, who sacrificed Himself for
our salvation. And we must talk and teach this, and be clear, so Muslims,
Secularists, Atheists and anti-Christian bigots have this revealed to them, as
Elijah revealed Baal and Asherah as false gods to the people of Israel.
