I have just received this blog which highlights the needs for biblical teaching regarding Islam and knowledge instead of hatred and ignorance.
Jack Van Imp was an evangelist in Detroit Michigan and refused to work with people that appeared in a photo that had a young man with long hair in it. The other commentators evidence deep ignorance of the issues and the deep seated inability to be both biblical and intelligently informed.
None of them seem to understand that the loss of identity is a major drawback in Muslims coming to Christ and making them "Christlam" people does not solve the problem Biblically or socially. Again it brings out the problem that often interpreters of the Bible do so within a rarified atmosphere that limits their ability to constructively see the principles behind the Biblical stories or statements thus the hermaneutic is skewed in favour of their own culture and not God's intentions.
This raises the question of whether God intended the Bible to be used as a yard stick or as a pointer to the Kingdom of God, certainly Paul spent his time teaching the Kingdom to gentiles that did not have a Kingdom framework Acts 28 v 31, Peter expounds the Kingdom 1 Pet 1 v 3,4 and in 2Pet 1 v 3 how to be unified with the King of the Kingdom and Jesus shows forth the Kingdom and his role in that Kingdom.
Ron
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