saintmichaeldefendthem
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It's a good point. The Bible says God is not mocked, the real God, that is, my God. The fake allah god of the Muslims gets deeply offended and commands his followers to kill anyone who mocks him or his pedophile prophet. A weak god indeed, I agree.If a god actually existed, nothing a creation of its could say will offend it any more than a star he also made goes supernova vaporizing the solar system he also made would. If your deities are so petty and petulant something I say offends them, they're not deserving of being called a god in the first place.
I suppose that if ANY god in human history had ample opportunity to smite Monkeys defending Himself against intentional Monkey mockery it would be The God of Abraham, as defined in The Torah, The New Testament and The Koran.
The fact is that the competing interpretations of The Koran, and the many sects vying for followers who worship The New Testament, are essentially two competing pathways for mere gentiles to get right with The God of The Ancient Jews in preparation for the "after-life".
Somehow makes all the bloodshed worth it, eh?
There's no comparison. Islam and the Koran are atavistic, they represent a giant step backward in God's relationship to mankind, a reversion to the rule of religious law, when God was aloof an not incarnate, and in which the high standard of righteousness is forever out of reach. After the New Covenant, humanity was ushered into an era of grace whereby people freely come to God through Jesus Christ and are saved not by vain attempts to follow religious law, but by grace. Jesus has become for us our great High Priest:
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. (Hebrews 4:14)
And because of this, we boldly come to the throne of God once made inaccessible except by one person once a year, the high priest representing the people. Yet in the era of grace, verse 16:
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Islam made God inaccessible again, reverted people to the tyranny of religious law, and made salvation a matter of works, not grace, slavishly trying to merit what the gospel tells us we never can. Grace bridges the gap between man and God that religion alone never could.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of your own; it is a gift of God. Not of works, that nobody should boast." (Ephesians 2:8,9)
The difference couldn't be greater.