Believing

My Testimony
The Gospel
Life on a Tandem
Glacial Thoughts
God or Allah?
A Hair Cut Lesson
Invictus (poem)

about God

1.God's Greatness
2. Who Is God?   

Finding God

1. Grasshoppers
2. Connecting
3. Trusting

Stephen A. Haboush

Introduction to book
1. Hills of Galilee
2. 23rd Psalm

GOD or ALLAH?

   Since the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, I read a translation of the Koran.  I wanted to know more about Islam, and why some of them hate Americans and Jews so much.  Since I'm a Christian, I know the Bible quite well.  I don't claim to know a lot about the Koran, or Islam, but look at the comparison above.  Can there be any doubt that we worship the same deity?

God
in the Bible

Bible

1. Created the heavens and earth in 6 days
2. Created man from the dust of the earth
3. Was worshipped by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David.

Allah
in the Koran

Koran

1. Created the heavens and earth in 6 days
2. Created man from the mud of the earth
3. Was worshipped by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and David.


    If I worship the same deity, how can I be considered an infidel just because I'm a Christian?  To me, an infidel is someone who denies God or Allah, or follows and/or worships Satan or some other god.  Another definition would be someone who claims to worship God or Allah and yet deny him with their wicked deeds and lies - someone like a terrorist or an evil dictator like Saddam Hussein or Adolph Hitler.  A person's actions will show whether he is an infidel or not.  Even Satan himself can appear as an angel of light.  Do not be deceived by someone's rhetoric, watch what they do.  Those who commit acts of terror in the name of Allah, or the name of God, are surely servants of Satan.

    Not everyone who believes that there is one God, will go to heaven.  Even Satan and his demons believe that - and shudder. 

    You will only go to heaven if your sins are forgiven.  See The Gospel.