ISLAM

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ISLAM JIHADA RELIGION OF PEACE?

• Dr. Douglas Jacoby
• Dr. John Oakes

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• FIVE PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)

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ISLAM, 7th century AD

• SIX PILLARS
• Confession
• Almsgiving
• Prayer
• Fasting (Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hadj)
• Jihad

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• MOHAMMED

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• MOHAMMED
• Claimed Gabriel spoke to him
• when he was 40 (610 AD)
• Turned from persuasion to warfare
• Attacked caravans ? attack cities/nations
• Conversion at sword-point
• Mohammed ordered assassination of those who
  mocked him in their poems.
• Massacred 700 Jews in Medina
• Fifteen wives

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AFTER MOHAMMED

• Mohammed dies AD 632.
• Islam spreads from Persia to Spain within 200
  years.
• Islam splits into two major sects, Sunni and
  Shia over caliphate.
• Sufism a mystical sect of Islam

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• I. History of Islam
• II. The Quran
• III. Islamic evidences
• IV. Grace
• V. Jihad and terrorism

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Quran and paradise

• The true servants of Allah will be well provided
  for, feasting on fruit and honored in gardens of
  delight. Reclining face to face upon soft
  couches, they shall be served with a goblet
  filled at a gushing fountain delicious to those
  who drink it. They shall sit with bashful,
  dark-eyed virgins, chaste as the sheltered eggs
  of ostriches.
• -- 3740-49. See also 7832ff.

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• Bible corrupt!
• Quran only is pure.

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• Based on revelations from Gabriel to Mohammed.
• Compiled in the 7th century AD (the 600s).
• Contains 114 chapters, or suras, arranged from
  longest to shortest. Quite repetitive.
• About 80 the length of the New Testament.

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• Based on revelations from Gabriel to Mohammed.
• Compiled in the 7th century AD (the 600s).
• Contains 114 chapters, or suras, arranged from
  longest to shortest. Quite repetitive.
• About 80 the length of the New Testament.

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• Based on revelations from Gabriel to Mohammed.
• Compiled in the 7th century AD (the 600s).
• Contains 114 chapters, or suras, arranged from
  longest to shortest. Quite repetitive
• About 80 the length of the New Testament.

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• Based on revelations from Gabriel to Mohammed.
• Compiled in the 7th century AD (the 600s).
• Contains 114 chapters, or suras, arranged from
  longest to shortest. Quite repetitive.
• About 80 the length of the New Testament.

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Early Period in Mecca. Muhammad sees
himself as following tradition of Judaism.
Muslims pray toward Jerusalem. Early Medina
period. Mohammad begins to be politically
powerful. The idea of Jihad introduced.
Later Medina and Meccan period. Muhammad
strongly opposed to Jews and Christianity.
Islam definitely a distinct religion.
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• WOMEN

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Quran and wives

• Marry women of your choice, two, three, or
  four. -- 43
• Sexual relations with captive female slaves is
  acceptable
• 235,6 7030

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Quran and women

• Men have authority over women because Allah has
  made the one superior to the other, and because
  they spend their wealth to support them. Good
  women are obedient If they are rebellious,
  rebuke them, beat them, and send them to bed.
• -- 434

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Quranic view of biblical inspiration

• Follow the Injil 547
• ( euvaggelion ) (below)
• Follow the O.T. 692, 37117, 4053
• Quran unchanged MS
  Discoveries...
• The people of the Injil shall rule in accordance
  with Allahs revelations therein. Anyone who does
  not rule in accordance with Allahs revelations
  -- these are the wicked!
• Inconsistency Use OT and NT to refute
  Christians. Why, if the scriptures are corrupt?

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Quranic view of biblical inspiration

• Inconsistency Use OT and NT to refute
  Christians. Why, if the scriptures are corrupt?

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Historical errors in the Quran

• Ishmael Isaac 37102
• 2 trees in Eden 1 tree 20120
• Noahs 4th son drowns 1143
• Zechariah silent 3 days (not 9 months) 341
• Pharaohs magicians repent 2070
• Judges 7 / 1 Sam 17 conflated 2249
• Jesus childhood miracles 349, 5110, 1930

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Theory of Abrogation

• Whatever Mohammad said later abrogates his
  previous sayings.
• Examples Only 4 wives Jihad?

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Scientific errors in Quran (II)

• 2133Sun and stars orbit the earth
• 4112 7--heavens, stars, comets in lowest
  heaven
• 349, 5244Piece of sky falls and kills someone
• 364, 2314--Man deposits child into the mother

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Purported Prophecies (I)

• Deut 1815-18
• 15The Lord your God will raise up for you a
  prophet like me from among your own brothers. You
  must listen to him. 16For this is what you asked
  of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the
  assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the
  voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire
  anymore, or we will die. 17The Lord said to me
  "What they say is good. 18 I will raise up for
  them a prophet like you from among their
  brothers I will put my words in his mouth, and
  he will tell them everything I command him.

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Purported Prophecies (I)

• Deut 1815-18From among their brothers
• Cf. Deut 1715 (brother ? foreigner)
• Deut 3410Since then no prophet has risen in
  Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to
  face, who did all those miraculous signs and
  wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt
• Like Moses miraculous signs and wonders, which
  Mohammed never did, but Jesus clearly did.

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Purported Prophecies (III)

• Deut 331-2This is the blessing that Moses the
  man of God pronounced on the Israelites before
  his death. 2 He said
• The LORD came from Sinai
• and dawned over them from Seir
• he shone forth from Mount Paran.
• He came with myriads of holy ones
• from the south, from his mountain slopes.
• Muslims claim Sinai Moses
• Seir Jesus
• Paran Mohammed
• Paran is nowhere near Mecca (Hab 33)

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Purported Prophecies (III)

• Isa 217 when he seesriders on donkeys or
  riders on camels, let him be fully alert
• Muslim claim riders on donkeys Jesus, riders
  on camels Mohammed. Context fall of Babylon!
• Jn 1416parakletos ? periclytos (praised
  one)without any MS supp. Moreover, 1426 shows
  the helper is the Spirit. Jn 16The helper to
  abide forever. (M is dead.) 1426Helper to be
  sent in Jesus name but no Muslim would allow
  this! Besides, Acts 15helper to come in not
  many days not in the 7th century!

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• I. History of Islam
• II. The Quran
• III. Islamic evidences
• IV. Grace
• V. Jihad and terrorism

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• Islam on Sin
• Surely good deeds take away evil deeds
  (11114).
• Kabira (big sins)murder, adultery, drunkenness,
  disobeying parents, neglecting Ramadan or Friday
  prayers, gambling, dancing, shaving the beard,
  forgetting the Koran after reading it, usury
  Forgiveness with repentance.
• Saghira (little sins)deceit, anger, lust.
  Forgiveness if greater sins are avoided and good
  deeds are performed.
• Shirkassociation (of other gods with Allah). No
  forgiveness.

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• Salvation by own effort
• (409, 3961, 743)
• Charity atones for sins
• (2271,277)
• Earn grace.
• Earn favor of Allah.
• Earn salvation.
• Earn paradise.

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Predestination In Islam, Allah determines
everything, even who will choose to follow
him. Inshallah 2142, 639 6125
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Islam Salvation is earned through the efforts
of those who were pre-selected by Allah to
inhabit a very sensual paradise. Christianity
Salvation is granted by the grace of a loving God
to those who, through faith and repentance and
baptism accept that love.
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Initiative

• Human approach Truth
• God God
• Mankind Mankind

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• I. History of Islam
• II. The Quran
• III. Islamic evidences
• IV. Grace
• V. Jihad and terrorism

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Is terrrorism caused by following the
Quran? Can terrorism be justified by
reading the Quran?
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The verse of the sword

• But when the forbidden months are past, then
  fight and slay the idolaters wherever ye find
  them, and take them, and prepare them each
  ambush. But if they repent and establish worship
  and pay the poor due, then leave their way free.
  
• -- 95

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Quran and Jihad

• Wage war on them until the infidels are no more
  and Allahs religion reigns supreme.
• 812 Cut off their finger tips, stab them in
  the neck.
• 4816,17 Atone for sin by killing in war.
• 474-6 Martyrdom ? Heaven.

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Quran and punishment of enemies

• The punishment of those who wage war against
  God and his Apostle, and strive with might and
  main for mischief through the land is execution,
  or crucifixion, or cutting off of hands and feet
  from opposite sides, or exile from the land.
  (536)

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• ISLAM
• Action steps for disciples
• Read the Quran. Take notes.
• Read Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam.
• Aim to become culturally aware. Read the
  newspaper, watch the news, keep an eye on foreign
  affairs.
• Be men of conviction.
• Share your faith and study with Muslims.

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• ISLAM
• Action steps for disciples
• Read the Quran. Take notes.
• Read Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam.
• Aim to become culturally aware. Read the
  newspaper, watch the news, keep an eye on foreign
  affairs.
• Be men of conviction.
• Share your faith and study with Muslims.

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• ISLAM
• Action steps for disciples
• Read the Quran. Take notes.
• Read Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam.
• Aim to become culturally aware. Read the
  newspaper, watch the news, keep an eye on foreign
  affairs.
• Be men of conviction.
• Share your faith and study with Muslims.

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• ISLAM
• Action steps for disciples
• Read the Quran. Take notes.
• Read Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam.
• Aim to become culturally aware. Read the
  newspaper, watch the news, keep an eye on foreign
  affairs.
• Be men of conviction.
• Share your faith and study with Muslims.

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• ISLAM
• Action steps for disciples
• Read the Quran. Take notes.
• Read Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam.
• Aim to become culturally aware. Read the
  newspaper, watch the news, keep an eye on foreign
  affairs.
• Be people of conviction.
• Share your faith and study with Muslims.