Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Controversy?

This morning a Muslim group sent a response to a video from Tanzania I'd posted several years ago on youtube.   In Swahili the title to their video means "Worship the truth."

I watched a quick excerpt from another of their videos, during which a cleric-scholar explained that Christ's resurrection never happened ... and he magniloquently quoted Scripture as his source.

In other words, according to Muslims, the eyewitness accounts of Christ resurrected are lies.

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Never mind boycotting Disney World, protesting gay marriage or battling local school boards to include "Creationist" alternatives to Darwinism.  Stop worrying for a minute whether a new liquor store will open across the street, whether teenage girls will be allowed unrestricted access to abortion without parental consent or even whether retail stores will be allowed to open on Sundays.  

Something really controversial is coming up in a minute.

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One of our society's most cherished precepts is Tolerance, yet the same culture hates us for being believers and is intolerant of those who follow Christ.

The 21st century world proclaims "There is no universal truth" and "What's true for you isn't true for me" ... without seeing the inherent contradictions: If "There is no universal truth" then "There is no universal truth" can't universally, ultimately and timelessly be true either.  And if "What's true for you isn't true for me" is true then what you just said isn't true for me.

Because any ultimate truth must be rejected, trendy neologisms ... fashionable buzzwords like "Enlightenment" and "Postchristian" ... must be constantly invented and added to the vernacular as countersigns and alternatives to seeking God's living word. 

The world's position is that our faith is built on lies: The Old Testament is man-made fiction, the Gospel accounts of Christ's resurrection are total fabrication and as believers, we're fools to believe in the existence of an invisible, all-powerful and eternal Creator.

Scripture doesn't suit the culture's purpose or intentions so, as a result, the world's denial of any ultimate truth dictates that believers must be ridiculed and scripture dismissed as fiction.

If you believe the Bible is a lie and that the gospels are man-made fiction, wouldn't you just totally hate it if in the nanosecond after drawing your last breath you found out the eyewitnesses to the resurrected King were accurate, truthful and factual after all?

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How can I say every other religion is wrong and that every other other faith is a lie?  Because God didn't claim any of their leaders as his son, and God didn't raise any of their prophets from the dead to prove it.

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The world thinks it's controversial to declare the truth:

There is no salvation apart from Christ, and every faith outside of and apart from him is a lie. If you deny Christ, preach lies and worship any idol or god but God, you are following your father ... the devil. Satan is the father of all lies, and to embrace any belief or to proclaim any religion without Christ is the same as embracing Satan and proclaiming evil.  

Scripture says so ... no matter what the world and its man-made religions believe.



The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

- John 10:10


The idols speak deceit, 
       diviners see visions that lie; 
       they tell dreams that are false, 
       they give comfort in vain. 
       Therefore the people wander like sheep 
       oppressed for lack of a shepherd.


- Zechariah 10:2


They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

- Revelation 20:9