IMI - Bringing Christ to Muslims

This article is updated if we find errors in our book Sharing the Gospel with Muslims.  As you can imagine, a book with more than 1300 references will contain some errors, we hope that they are very few.  We apologise for any errors and confusion.

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Sura 8:67 reads "Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'"  This is incorrect.  Ibn Ishaq in his work Life of Muhammad made this statement on page 326-327.  Sura 8:67 reads, "It is not for any prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land. Ye desire the lure of this world and Allah desireth (for you) the Hereafter, and Allah is Mighty, Wise."

Many muslims say that Islam is not violent. Dr. Zakir Naik in his short work Islam and Terrorism gives "proof" that because 14 million coptic Christians exist and not all Spain was converted to Islam, that therefore Islam is not violent.  To be sure, he gives other examples, which have the same force of logic.  Of course by this reasoning, Hitler wasn't violent becuase he didn't kill all the Jews (he even kept some alive because it suited his purposes).  But using his logic, Dr. Naik cannot argue that Christianity wants to annihilate Islam.  Christians ruled Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, etc, and Muslims are still there. "Christians" rule England, the USA etc and Muslims are there; therefore Christianity wants peace with Islam.

Question:  If Islam is peaceful, why are thousands (if not millions) of Christians being persecuted in Islamic countries, being tortured and killed?  Where are Muslims being tortured and killed in Christian countries?

It's easy to be forgiven of your sin - just say 'amen'

Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 75, Hadith Number 411:

Nice.  Sin is completely dealt with, just say 'amen', Amen?

Muslims do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God but they do believe that he is a prophet of God.  They may ask you to show where Jesus himself claimed to be the Son of God, confident that he claimed no such thing.  But there are numerous passages in Scripture where Jesus either directly or indirectly claims to be the Son of God.

Matthew 16:13-17  "Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”  ¹⁴And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” ¹⁵He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” ¹⁶ Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” ¹⁷And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven."

Luke 10:16 talking to his disciples, Jesus said, "The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me."