Evangelized by a Muslim

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I was evangelized by a Muslim today (while doing karaoke!) and I can't tell you how good it felt to say "I'd rather die crucified than give into Islam. And I am aware that Muslims are violent toward unbleievers who refuse to convert. But there is no other way by which we might be saved than through Jesus Christ, the Son of God who forgives my sin and gives me assurance of salvation."

The whole of their persuasion... was that it's the fastest growing religion on the earth. And that "the Quran says "La ikraha fi deen" Which means "There is no compulsion in religion", A true Muslim would never force someone to accept islam"

I said "Many will reject the truth. All you're doing is proving the Bible to be true with what you say."

They said "Give yourself the chance to search the truth with your heart and you will know that Islam is it.

I said "You know that's what Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses say, too. May you come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ."

He said "There is no god but allah and mohammed is the messenger of allah and jesus is the messenger of allah"

I said "If Jesus was the messenger of Allah, you'd be led to the cross of Christ. Not to Islam. Muhammad and Jesus brought two different gospels. Allah needs you to sin so he has something to forgive you for. And you can commit taqiyya*** in order to preserve yourself if you feel threatened, where as Christ is all I need. I don't need to be deceitful toward outsiders to con them into a religion that doesn't give assurance of salvation.

He said "surely you don't read your book , Jesus is only a prophet of god but people made him god and believe me every christian will go to hell as he don't search for the truth." (Funny thing about this is all I did in the conversation was quote Scripture that I knew from memory in proper context. He didn't detect this because he didn't really know the Bible as well as he made himself out to know it.)

I said "But in Christianity, there is hope, eternal hope, and that hope was given to us by Christ's crucifixion, that we might repent of our sins, have our trangressions forgiven completely, and live in faith. Muslims don't have this option. They are stuck under opression. They don't have eternal hope. They hope that they might be good enough some day to appease Allah. But in my religion, God is good enough, and His grace is sufficient. Christ's sacrifice was enough. I can live freely in obedience to Him by loving Him and loving others. Jesus is Lord. He is more than a prophet. Yet you contradict yourself because if he was a prophet of Allah as you say, you wouldn't have such a problem with people worshiping Him."

He said "Please search for truth and compare and judge with your heart with honesty"

I said "There is none who is righteous. No one seeks God. God saves. People do not save themselves. They cannot."

The guy was 22, he said. Pray for him.

People tell me you have to go way out of your way to get into a conversation with Muslims or be questioned, or even to evangelize. All I had to do was sing a song from The Secret Garden on Paltalk. Granted, I may not have worded things the best I could (and I'm sure I didn't), but at least he got the basics of the differences down. Or... a couple of them. I know there are many more. I hope this encourages you to open up and talk to people more, even if you don't have all the right wording.

"but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect," 1 Peter 3:15 (ESV)


***Muslims many times will shrug it off, saying it is just a Shi'a Muslim tactic of only about 10% of Muslims overall, for those Muslims who feel threatened. But the stupid thing is that the 90% doesn't penalize those "10%" for doing that, so they contradict themselves openly. It's more than 10%, too, but that's what they say. It's obvious that they are lying and are okay with it because when you ask if the religion is peaceful, they say yes, of course. Peaceful inwardly perhaps, among there own people who submit to Sharia law, but peaceful for the rest of those who don't believe? Absolutely not. There's no harmony, nor can there be.
What kind of straight-forward person says two people with completely differing messages are prophets? One therefore testifies to the truth and the other does not, but I don't hear Muslims say that they think Jesus is a "false prophet." They try to side with me and say He was a prophet just like Muhammad. No true prophet speaks words of God that are lies. Muslims think we are complete idiots.

photo credit to www.thereligionofpeace.com