The Antichrist in Muhammad: Praying Never to Know Jesus as Lord

1/8/2013

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unfortunate Muslim is praying to God in a manner completely contradictory to the will of God.

The Muslim has grasped one half the truth, that "there is one God." (1 Tim. 2:5a). But he or she prays never to find the other part of that truth: that there is only "one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. 2:5b). In short, without knowing it (and in fact, probably thinking exactly the opposite), the Muslim is praying himself or herself into hell by affirmatively rejecting the Lord Jesus who is the only means for getting him or her to Paradise. Thank God, God, in his mercy, will not listen to this latter prayer uttered, most of the time we must assume in charity, in utter ignorance.

But this raises a significant question. How do you preach the way of the Lord Jesus to someone who, a minimum of seventeen times a day, prays not to know the way of the Lord Jesus? That is a very good question, if one difficult to answer.

Muslims are notoriously difficult to convert. As Hilaire Belloc wrote in his book The Great Heresies: "Islam is apparently unconvertible. The missionary efforts made by great Catholic orders which have been occupied in trying to turn Mohammedans into Christians for nearly 400 years have everywhere wholly failed. We have in some places driven the Mohammedan master out and freed his Christian subjects from Mohammedan control, but we have had hardly any effect in converting individual Mohammedans."

In his book Survivals and New Arrivals, Belloc observed: "I think it true to say that Islam is the only spiritual force on earth which Catholicism has found an impregnable fortress. Its votaries are the one religious body conversions from which are insignificant."

There are many reasons for the notorious difficulty in converting Muslims. I might mention some, though the reasons I present are hardly constitute an exhaustive list. And which of those I have listed are the more important is a matter certainly arguable.

First, in Muslim countries, where Islam enjoys the protection of the police power of the state, there are severe legal punishments associated with conversion, even, in some of the more rigorous Islamic countries, the death penalty. This is a huge impediment.

Second, since Islam is more than a religion--it is an entire religious, cultural, economic, social, and political totalitarian scheme--when a Muslim converts he loses everything--family, tribe, social status, and so forth. He is ostracized from kith and kin, he is largely unprotected, and there is no mechanism in Christianity to substitute for that loss.

Third, in Muslim countries, Christians are severely restricted in spreading the Gospel through all sorts of legal and social impediments. These impediments are still found, perhaps not in their total rigor, among Muslims living in Western countries, especially those segregated in ghettos such as the French banlieues in Paris, or Shari'a zones in London, or even in the United States in Dearborn, Michigan. From a young age, Muslims receive only vicious propaganda against Christianity. Rarely do they hear the other side of the story fairly presented.

Fourth, the moral dissipation of Western societies (which the Muslim associates, wrongly, with Christianity) makes them think that their system is morally superior to the secular systems of the West. (Though here they tend to ignore their own dissipation and moral failures.)

Fifth, the West's (particularly American) interference with Islamic nations (e.g., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan) is often confused with a Christian crusade. This is, in fact, false, for the interests of the secular West generally and secular America in particular are hardly aligned with Christian interests in the region or Christian interests generally. Christians know how anti-Christian their secular governments have become, but Muslims do not seem to separate the two.

A sixth reason I would suggest, however, is found in the Muslim's own prayer regime.

Is it any wonder that Muslims are resistant to Christianity when their supposed prophet inoculated his followers against the truths of the Gospel by having them pray a schizophrenic prayer to God that shuts them out of the Gospel's life?

Objectively measured in the light of Christ, the Muslim is praying to the one God, on the one hand, while praying, on the other hand, that he or she never be found on the only way to that one God: Jesus Christ. Thus, the Muslim is placed in a sort of prayer doldroms, where the prayer up is exactly negated by the prayer down. The Muslim's supposed prophet gave him a sort of pushmi-pullyu kind of prayer, where the prayer to the one God is contradicted in the same breath by a prayer against ...
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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Muhammad, antichrist, prayer, salat, conversion, Andrew M. Greenwell

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judy claar
4 months ago
Andrew M. Greenwell Esp., As always a Wonderful, thoughtful and intriguing article on our Muslim brothers and sisters. By self-indoctrination and the help of their Nanny State government leaders telling them what to do and how to do it, their poor souls and the very Life they live is lacking the Freedom of full Self independent reasonings of their own. Hence, they are Muslim slaves that are slaves to Islam. Muslims that are slaves to their government. Muslim slaves to a man made Egotistical religion. They do not know what it is to live in Freedom. How utterly Sad! And i am not far off from describing a Secular west as well!

Your prayer is both beautiful and appropriate. i will be honored to join in a communion of prayer on Friday nights. i am going to add our Secularists brothers and sisters as well, and my normal: I pray for the Conversion of sinners, the good my family, and the good my own soul. Prayerful Blessings....
Andrew M. Greenwell
4 months ago
@bob: What, what, Bob! The essence of the Trinity--that there are three persons in one God--is communion. The eternal communication between the three persons is called circumincession (in Latin) or perichoresis (in Greek). Is God the Son no longer to commune with the Godhead because he has taken on human nature? Is is human nature, joined to the Word, not to enjoy that communion? Isn't prayer a form of communion? Your comment makes no sense unless you believe in a unitarian God, a lonely God, a God without circumincession or perichoresis (like Islam), so that there is only one person in God, and one alone, and that one so very lonely God became man and therefore is left, both in eternity and in time, with no one to commune with. That's one reason (of many) that the anti-Trinitarian vision of God must be false.
bob
4 months ago
if jesus is our lord then who dd jesus pray to ? also islam teaches that jesus was an example of how man should be and very important prothit same as mohamid. They dislike western use of debt based money to invade non nata countries. The distrust of jews is unclear but most jews in israil protest the treatments of palistine's people. Some money men may be pretending to be jewish. The money changers are behiind disinformation. So called catholic's have ruined the uk public's debt into beyond and then left to run at european level. The world is messed up.
Lilian
4 months ago
A religion of hate with a prayer of hate and discrimation founded by a genocidal and morally bankrupt prophet ...ISLAM! Because they are disgruntled that God chose Issac over Ismail, they pray to never follow the Son of God who has come to reconcile the whole world to God, irrespective of the past and all transgressions. They deceive the innocent and use devilish means to advance a religion of hate to rival a religion of love, peace, and holiness. Now that Moslems are learning the truth about hardened Ishmailites, they should abandon them and come to Christ, the Risen Lord and Savior of Mankind. Moslems, please deliver yourselves from pitch darkness and come into the light of Jesus Christ.

I thank God for what we are learning from this website!
BFrancisco Marto
4 months ago
Sacredly Obey+ Like Christ Towards The Divine Father ...

Sons of Ishmael will obey and end believing false "prophets" :

http://bible.cc/genesis/17-20.htm
http://bible.cc/genesis/17-21.htm
http://bible.cc/john/8-56.htm
Barbara Logan
4 months ago
Thank you for your brilliant series on Islam and its founder.
There is an organisation - Global Media Outreach - which, while not Catholic, is reaching many through the media. Long before I returned to the Faith, I joined GMO's general online missionaries, and then more recently, the Islamic outreach group as a result of your articles.
So far I have been able to send Gospel messages to more than 50 muslims across the muslim world. Your articles have helped me tremendously to understand their mindset, and, the cherry on top - the prayer for muslims. Many, many thanks! Barbara
Jorge
4 months ago
Fantastic article with a beautiful ending!Thanks andrew.May the light of our Lord Christ Jesus fill the hearts of all muslims with LOVE and grace, so that they embrace the TRUE GOD and reject islam for ever and ever. Amen!
Emma
4 months ago
Yes! Every Friday Night those who gather in our house will add this to our prayers! May we one day live in a world where we all recognize each other as one family, beloved Children of God, brothers and sisters in Christ. Let it start with me.
Terentius Antonio
4 months ago
I have never known a Muslim to employ a Christian within a meaningful capacity within the UK.

Yet when I was in the Forces, which I left due to issues of faith, I saw many Muslims empolyed in the Persian Gulf states under the auspices of the UK forces.

I had been stopped carrying the Bible there, and Yet they can carry the Koran to the UK.

Can you tell me why one is allowed control and the other is not, or do we have to have an Imam confer what Christians can do.

I love Jesus and the faith, I do not want the SS Imam's taking over.
Peggy Lindenthaler
4 months ago
To say that muslims will never know Jesus as Lord is definitely showing a lack of faith on the Church's part. With all the miracles that Christ performed while here on earth, you're basically saying that Jesus is incapable of performing "some" miracles, and calling Him a liar. You seem to forget the scripture that says, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me". You need to have a little more faith, and maybe pray a little harder? Just my opinion, my two cents worth.

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