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Allah Cannot Compete With the Power of Jesus Christ

Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing. For Christians, it is trust that Jesus is Who He said He is and will do what He said He will do. For instance, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, then I will hear from Heaven, and forgive their sins, and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14.

Elijah taunts the prophets of Baal

Christian faith is based on Jesus Christ being the son of God, His death and resurrection, and His word, as written in the Bible.

Jesus and the Apostles spread the Gospel through preaching, but also through displaying the power of the Name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. "my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power". 1 Corinthians 2:4

Christians can point to thousands of examples of Christ forgiving the sins of reprobates, healing them, saving them, renewing them to become righteous and holy such that they can glorify Christ by the manifestation of His character.

Elijah calls down fire from Heaven

Muslims also have faith. Their faith is in Allah as revealed by Mohammed in the Quran and Hadith. Their faith is taught by memorization of scripture which they are required to believe without questioning even if they don't understand any of it.

They are required to believe what Mohammed said about Allah even though they never see any real example of that manifest. There are no examples of the power of Allah except when it comes to massacres and slaughter of innocents. 

This is not faith, it is fantasy; blind trust! It is like Elijah and the prophets of Baal who were unable to convince Baal to light the fire under their sacrifice. Elijah covered his sacrifice with water and called down fire from Heaven which completely consumed the soaking wet sacrifice.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is real! The god of Mohammed is not!

Watch the video below to see an example of the difference between Islam and Christianity.

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The 'Falling Away' is Progressing Smoothly

POLL: AMERICA IS BECOMING LESS CHRISTIAN AS THE END DRAWS NEAR

by The Right Scoop on May 12, 2015

I’m sure it won’t come as any surprise to you that America is becoming less of a Christian nation:

CBS DC – A new survey from the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life finds that atheists, agnostics, and those claiming “nothing in particular” now compose 22.8 percent of the U.S. population. While America is still home to more Christians than any other country in the world, the number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any faith – labeled by some as the religious “nones” – jumped nearly 7 percentage points in as many years.

Although the sharp decline in Christian affiliation is most pronounced among young U.S. adults, the same trend is occurring among whites, blacks, Latinos, men, women, college graduates and those with only a high school education.

Declines in Christianity have been driven primarily by a large drop in mainline Protestants and Catholics. However, American Christians have become increasingly more diverse, with racial and ethnic minorities now making up 41 percent of Catholics (up from 35 percent in 2007), one-quarter of evangelical Protestants (up from 19 percent) and 14 percent of mainline Protestants.

The new major survey of 35,000 Americans from the Pew Research Center finds that the percentage of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christian has declined by nearly eight percentage points in the past seven years – from 78.4 percent in 2007 to 70.6 percent in 2014. During that same period religiously unaffiliated Americans increased from 16.1 percent to 22.8 percent.

I know some of you don’t think we are nearing the end, but many of you do, including myself, so I thought it would be fitting to share the first few verses of 2 Thessalonians 2 with you:

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

I’m not suggesting that Bible prophecy revolves around the US, because it doesn’t. However this falling away, whether it be apostasy to Islam or Atheism, is becoming more prevalent in the world and the US is emblematic of that.

Even a poll done last month suggests that only 56% of Americans consider themselves religious:

Just 30 percent of citizens of the UK consider themselves religious, while 70 percent of Russians and 56 percent of Americans describe themselves in the same way. China is followed by Hong Kong and Japan, with 34 percent and 31 percent of their citizens claiming to be atheists, respectively.

It’s one thing to identify as Christian. It’s another to identify as ‘religious’, which is why the percentage is smaller. I suspect most of that number is Christianity, with only a very small percentage going to other faiths.

Then many people call themselves Christian but are not religious in the least. There is another problem with these stats; many American Christians are so far off track that their Christianity is really questionable. Between heretical teachings like the 'health and wealth' gospel and other 'me' centered teachings, and American Christian's rabid obsession with politics, it's a good bet that many a Christian is no Christian at all.

Why do I say that? Because real Christians are identified by their fruit, their fruit comes from the love of God flowing through them to others by the manifestation of the character of Jesus Christ. There is no love in politics! Jesus never had anything to do with politics. Neither did any of the disciples. By associating with politics and particularly with those who are selfish and inconsiderate, we denigrate the name Christian and cause the lost to hate us rather than be drawn to us by our love. We become the opposite of what we should be.

But if you think America is bad, just check out Israel:

In Israel, 65 percent of those surveyed said they are either not religious or are atheists, compared to just 30 percent who say they are religious.

Out of that 30% only a very small number will be Christian, as most are Judaism.

Evangelist Franklin Graham: Obama’s Mom “Must Have Been a Muslim”

Controversy and criticism, in spades

From Right Wing Watch:

Franklin Graham was a guest on the Family Research Council's "Washington Watch" radio program yesterday where he asserted that President Obama is "refusing to fight ISIS" because he wants to protect Islam since even his mother was a Muslim.

The phrase, 'refusing to fight ISIS' appears to have been coined by Right Wing Watch, not Graham.

Ignoring the fact that Obama's father was an atheist and his mother agnostic, (and how do we know this?) Graham told FRC head Tony Perkins that "one of the problems we have [is that Obama's] father was a Muslim, and his step-father was a Muslim. [He] lived in Indonesia and went to Muslim schools. His mother must have been a Muslim — we don't know that, but she married two Muslim men, so there must have been something there. And the framework that the president has growing up, his influences in his life was that of Islam."

"My influences growing up, as many in this country, were under the Christian influence and the biblical influence," he continued. "But our president did not have that, it was Islam and many feel that he's protecting Islam. I don't know that, but it certainly seems that way"

President Obama
It's almost irrelevant whether his parents were Muslim or not. President Obama's beliefs and attitudes are what is critical. In his last statement above, Graham accurately states that 'many feel Obama is protecting Islam', and that 'it certainly seems that way'.

As I have stated before, if he was a closet Muslim, his actions and language would not likely be any different than they have been. His apparent unwillingness to recognize any connection between ISIS, or Boko Haram, and Islam; his unwillingness to use terms like militant, radical, or terrorist in the same sentence as Islam or Muslim is clearly protecting Islam.

He seems incapable of blaming Islam for any recent atrocity, while he goes back a thousand years to condemn Christians for the Crusades. He doesn't condemn Islam for their part in the crusades, only the Christians who were responding to real and present danger from the advancing hordes.

Then there are the advisers that he has on staff who are Muslims, some from the Muslim Brotherhood who were complicit in arming Gaza for their fight against Israel, our ally. The Brotherhood was so evil that Egypt staged a coup to remove them from power, otherwise, they would still be arming Gaza. 

0.6% of the population of the US is Muslim. I wonder if Obama's Muslim staff is well in excess of 0.6%? I would bet a small fortune that it is.

Franklin Graham
The son of the iconic Billy Graham has come under some considerable heat for his outspoken views. Many unfairly compare him to his father, who, like Christ, was completely a-political. But in criticizing Graham for being political, people are guilty of the very thing that they criticize. It's more than a little hypocritical to criticize someone for doing something that you yourself are guilty of.

As for me, I try very hard not to be a hypocrite, but confess, I am not always successful. For instance, I am here criticizing Christians for being political for criticizing Graham for being political, and in so doing, I myself am guilty of being political. Nevertheless, in my quest for the truth in all circumstances and in my desire to hold up a mirror before Christians to help them to see themselves as they really are, it seems to be necessary. Although, I admit, it's sometimes a bit uncomfortable when I turn the mirror around.

Nevertheless, I rue the day when the 'Moral Majority' was born and the politicizing of Christians began. The extremely unfortunate distraction of Christians from Christ has done more damage to the church than anything Obama or any Democratic President or Congress has done. 

Christ was a-political! So were his disciples. The apostles who wrote the majority of the New Testament never counselled anyone to be politically active, only to pray for those in authority over them - that should be the limit of most Christian's political involvement. 

The Apostles wrote some of  their Gospels and letters during the reigns of the monstrous Caesars Caligula and Nero. Yet not a word of criticism was ever labelled against them, only a request for prayer for them and faith and courage for those whom they persecuted. There was no call to arms. No-one counselled anyone to carry a weapon for self-protection - their faith was in God, not guns.

American Christians have come a very long way from being Biblical Christians!