Thoughts on ISIS, Muhammad, Islam, and FaceBook Comments

ISIS, Muhammad, and the Difference Between Islam and Christianity

Greetings and welcome to the dividing line. It is a Tuesday morning. I understand for many of you It is not a pleasant day. Someplace in North Carolina, I think they were talking about a quarter-inch of ice.

Well, I just stay home and Hide inside and hope power doesn't go out. I guess I don't know but Here in Phoenix, Arizona the high today would be right around 80 degrees. I think it got down to a chilly 49 briefly this morning.

At my house, you know, we we have the you know, we got it. We got to put up with our difficulties too, you know, so we're doing our doing our part. We're in shorts, right? Yeah, we're in shorts. Okay.

Yeah. Huh? Yeah, white shorts white shorts. That's right. Yeah that's that's why that's why everybody moves here when they get tired of the ice in the snow, but Anyway yesterday I I posted a an article on the blog and on Facebook concerning the beheading of the 21 cops in Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya had they had been kidnapped and Before we talk about that, I'll just have to say I Really wish there was a way To turn comments off on Facebook That you could post stuff and then say keep your stupid idiotic ignorance to yourself.

You can do that on YouTube we just turn the comments off and all the silly 9 -11 truthers and everybody else that comes crawling out of the woodwork with all their inane. Well, I was just all photoshopped there.

Nobody's doing that. It's a CIA and the Illuminati and it's just like oh, please. Wow the the the Internet comment boxes, I've described them as this for a long time and This is what they are. They are Internet ignorance aggregators IIA's internet ignorance aggregators and people behind the keyboard.

Well anymore, you know what? I don't know. It makes much difference in person. Keyboard people just say the most inane things but aside from those really weirdos I Tell you I Reading the comm box. I've never deleted More comments than I have on that one article I don't know how many you've you've deleted but I've I this morning.

I I don't know how many I deleted just just complete People to just don't get it, you know, and unfortunately, there's a bunch of folks It's like I pray for those people put a hellfire missile right up there, you know, and that And Then and then the number of other people who you shouldn't have mentioned the Catholics.

You're just an anti-catholic and totally missing the point completely missing the point the historical reality that anybody who knows history knows and that is the veneration of Saints angels and images has always been an issue in regards to Islam and External Christianity, if you don't know that you just don't know history.

You're just ignorant. You don't know what you're talking about and But again when you get on the internet people don't care whether you're ignorant. It's okay. Yeah, everyone's opinions are equal. Hey, I'll tell you It it honestly, you know, I know there are a lot of folks that were very much helped by the amount of time.

And look what happened was I got up. I started reading some articles. I read an article by a fairly well-known Christian leader conservative Christian leader and I Just realized that nobody was saying anything yet.

The Role of the Hadith and the Life of Muhammad

Key stuff in the video was being ignored. The role of the Hadith, you know, I know most Christians watching this don't haven't read the Hadith and so They don't have the background and okay, so I took the time to write it.

I'm discouraged from writing stuff like that by reading the.

Stuff on Facebook. I really am. Well for what it's worth. I learned a lot from reading that article I know a lot of people did but it's depressing. It's just but at the same time I if somebody in the mainstream media Were to read that perhaps they could suddenly put things in a context because they just keep scratching their heads go.

Well, I don't understand why they hate us, but I understand. Well, maybe it's.

Religious. Well, well, I know I I was I just happened. I was I was grabbing a bite to eat for the program and I happened to have. It's either. Oh Fox News was was in commercial. So is CNN and.

I don't think that it's in my TV. Yeah. Well loud that I know I know where to find it because.

There are a lot of times that Fox News has some Stupid almost infomercial thing going for who knows how long? On a completely inappropriate subject as a commercial and I just go elsewhere and long behold CNN is normally doing news from their own unique worldview.

Anyway, they had somebody on and They were echoing that young arrogant Commie State Department spokes spokes chick what I don't know her name is but she wears the smart girl glasses and looks down on everybody and knows all things and Just makes me want to I.

Don't know who Jen Psaki. Okay, that sounds right and.

She was this CNN info babe was was echoing her. I'm basically saying well, we we just. We can't win this until we address the underlying cause and these people need better jobs just like Whoa, yeah, there you go.

There's that's if they had better jobs. They wouldn't be the jihadis. If they had bigger bank counts, well, they're. Never mind the fact that half of them left everything they own to go join these people.

Don't worry about that, you know.

What a mess, huh, but well there has to be a secular answer for everything. Religion actually doesn't actually exist so therefore I.

Mean, that's the way she answers everything. Well, anyway, I you know, I don't remember who the CNN info babe was but Anyway, I don't remember when I got this. I was gonna look up what it cost. I honestly if I recall correctly, I think this this thing was around 269 bucks if I recall correctly.

This is called the life of Muhammad edited by Rizwi Fizer and This is actually the first English translation of This particular work I just happened to open up halfway through 248 pages in to the raid of the Bano Kureza and Hence this is just a a huge compilation of the historic the hadith sources I'm sure I'll Kurt to bees in here someplace all these all this material in regards to And you would think the life of Muhammad it would be about the life of Muhammad this whole thick Book is nothing other than the battles of Muhammad.

This is the record of Muhammad's military campaigns battles raids on on Villages and caravans and so on and so forth. That's what this entire book is about is the military activities of Muhammad according to Islamic sources anyway.

What's about? There have been many many many books written on the life of Jesus there has never been a book written on the battles of Jesus and And there is no way to compare the two because of that now.

When you forget to silence your phone and all you hear is a whooping which is which is yeah, which is That was actually Jeff Durbin, I'll call him out here Jeff Durbin just Messaged Messaged me on Facebook in the middle of a live show which which clearly means that Jeff's not listening right now or watching which is fine.

I just catch his program. Well, I actually can't catch his live. It's recorded anyways, so I guess catching it recorded is the only way you can catch it. But anyway, I'm not hurt at all anyway. The comparison of Muhammad and Jesus when you look at What is going on in the Middle East today?

You simply cannot overemphasize The difference between the means that Jesus uses to rule over the nations and he does rule over the nations. But he doesn't rule over the nations like Muhammad and his successors Sought to rule over the nations that this is truly where you see The vast difference Between The spiritual focus of the Christian faith and the very physical human focus of Islam.

Just as in heaven you have physical Physical joys, you know virgins and so on and so forth. Here on earth the nature of of Dar al-islam the the world under the control of Islam is is very much a physical one.

Which is why submission to Islam is Very much a physical thing. Now has there been a Reaction against that in history. Sure. Sure. It's called Sufism and the Sufis The Sufis recognize that this that the normative form of Sunni Islam Allows for and it really has no way of dealing with Nominalism formalism externalism.

And so the Sufis want something deeper they want something that that goes beyond just simply external Conformity to a particular rule or ritual so When we When we look at this situation We are forced to once again think about what makes what is the kingdom of God and What is the kingdom of man?

One of the things that really really really disappointed me about some people I know In response the article is oh, you're just soft on the Muslims. But I say it was soft and Muslims if I recall correctly, I called these men cowards.

They're murderers Islam has in an a systemic Internal incapacity to change unregenerate hearts. I Presented the gospel the cross the the fact that Islam is ignorant of the meaning of the cross and the purpose of the cross if that's being soft, I Guess being hard on Islam is ignoring all the theology Ignoring the relevance of the gospel and just saying bomb them.

I guess that's That's just as far as some people who even call themselves Christians are willing to go just bomb them. If that's all if that's if you think that's gonna solve this problem. You don't understand the problem.

I Don't know how any Christian could come to that conclusion weapons of mass destruction aren't gonna do it because the issue is internal. The issue is unregenerate men being encouraged to act in unregenerate ways by very popular and Defensible Interpretations of religious system that in and of itself Does not address the fundamental need of mankind and cannot because its founding prophet denied it that only possible means of dealing with the real issues and that is Muhammad's ignorance of the cross and of who the Christ was Forever separates his followers from the way that God has provided.

That would actually solve these issues if that's soft on Islam. The Muslims don't seem to think I am but anyway In my experience the people who think I'm soft in Islam are people who pretty much never talk to Muslims.

And that's that's another another issue I want to play a Portion of Did it did it did it did it. Someone says the link that link is scrambled. It's fixed. Okay Just hit refresh says guess I'll watch Jack Van Impey.

I was quoted By it was by Roxella. Is it Roxella? I think it's rocks. Is it Roxella Van Impey? I I don't know I'd never. I mean, of course, I've seen snippets on YouTube, but Is it Roxella, okay somebody Somebody in Twitter told me that I had just been quote I was they had just listened to Jack Van Impey and I was quoted positively and I Said URL Started listening lo and behold.

Oh, okay, I was I had one word quoted Repent. It was it was what I said to Rick Warren About his his capitulation to Rome and calling him our Pope and all the rest of stuff. And and I said repent and so they quoted they quote me saying repent, so If you're gonna be quoted saying almost anything That's a good word Word to be quoted sands repent, so.

So Mike I guess Is going to be watching Jack Van Impey rather than listening to the dividing line today. So but it's it's fixed Mike if you find out about that. Anyway, um, I wanted to Point something out.

I want to listen to the little speech given by the English-speaking jihadi. Slight accent, but not a lot. This guy's I think a westerner. And he's the main actor guy in this this. Isn't it amazing? That these people are using The Internet and Making HD videos and Editing and and music and and and Wow, you know, it's not the grainy Stuff that people did in the past now, they're they're really trying to impress folks by doing HD versions of the most barbaric acts known to man, but There are those who would say there are those who would say That we're just being deceived here that These men have no theological agenda.

There's no theological worldview driving this and look I recognize. You look at those men in black those cowards in black. You know if you guys are so good, how about at least Releasing their hands and giving them a fighting chance against you.

Huh? How about that? Let's see how good you are there. Yeah, I Mean face it. I mean, let me say a little something more about this cowardice thing. These guys were kidnapped. They're workers. They're not soldiers.

They were just trying to make ends meet. They had taken jobs probably doing construction work and stuff like that to try to repair. Have you noticed that wherever Isis goes wherever militant Islam goes?

They don't build they destroy. They don't build hospitals. They bomb hospitals. They don't build infrastructure. They bomb infrastructure burn destroy bring Bring the level of civilization back down to where you're drinking camel urine as they did in the 7th century in Arabia.

This this is this is supposed to be the great vision that these folks have. And kidnapping people they kidnapped and kidnapping women. Kidnapping young girls who are who go to some place to try to help people who are suffering kidnap them and Then as we saw just last week one right here from in Arizona killed.

Oh, well, it was it was Jordan that killed him. No, it wasn't you moron. It was you that killed her. You're the one that kidnapped her you kidnap someone you're responsible for that person. Hello, this is how humans think but we realized that a lot of you guys are not really quite up to that.

I Mean if you're if you're kidnapping women, I'm sorry. Don't talk to me about your religion. I'm not interested. You're you're you're you're an animal. Just I'm not interested go away. That's what that's why I wonder yeah again.

I know I even posted no one ever said a word about this I I have not had a single comment now. I think about. About the fact that I linked to an entire denunciation of Isis by an Islamic scholar Mainly because I put it basically saying well Bless the fella, but really?

Yeah. It just. Well, we're not gonna do this. You this is this is and he's you're not supposed to and the biggest thing was and and I understand.

The biggest thing his biggest criticism was that without the proper peak authority They are declaring other Muslims to be non-muslims, there's this there's this Hesitancy amongst Muslims. To Say anything that could be interpreted as that person's not a Muslim because.

There's a there's a hadith where Muhammad basically said if you say another man is not a Muslim one of you is, right? Now think about what that means. What that means is if he is a Muslim and you say he's not that means you're not.

So you come under Allah's wrath if you?

Falsely. Say someone else is not a Muslim. Now that puts some serious context into why so many are silent. Oh, yeah, and again the media complains. Why are they so silent? Well, I don't think they are actually looking for the answer.

Well, I don't know.

You know if these people really seriously want to understand these folks they actually maybe do some some serious reading in the Quran and the hadith, but That's that ain't happening anyway that is there that is where this hesitancy comes from.

To say well they're acting in an un-islamic way. Is that the same thing as to say they're not a Muslim and So What is happening to Isis is certainly on any meaningful Sunni or Shia basis as far as fiqh is concerned as far as jurisprudence is concerned the fact that they kill.

It's probably minimally ten to one maybe more Muslims versus anybody else Requires us to recognize that They are radical even in their Islamic theology. No question about it. I I Got that I got that but you look at that that article that I that video that I linked to and it's You know, it's only Half a scroll down here on the screen from Sheikh Haitham Al-Haddad.

And You know again, I I appreciate Him taking the time to say this is why these guys are wrong and I appreciate the the hundred and forty some odd Muslim scholars that signed a thing put themselves at risk.

It's amazing people like you shouldn't you're just being too friendly them so Muslims stand up and say it's wrong and we're supposed to Just just ignore that right? I thought we were people of truth. Hello.

It again the responses I've gotten from a lot of folks on Twitter as well. Just pure hypocrisy for people who call themselves Christians. Anyways, pure hypocrisy. It's like I don't care. Don't care this dip.

Don't care. But anyway that the point is they there you can make the arguments against Isis. They can make the arguments the other way. Because you know what? You know, this is just this is just one book of Hadith I suppose now y 'all have seen them before if you've seen any of my well, actually there is a set that's actually Not Hadith back there.

Yeah, I'm pointing right at it right there. That's that's muqattas Tafsir, which Sadly most Muslims consider unorthodox because so early he didn't follow all the later developed. The accusations against him are anachronistic they they're backwards but Muslims think backwards let's just be honest I mean if you take the Quran and read the rest of the the Old New Testament in light of that.

You're going backwards. Anyhow, and so it just sort of is part of the way of thought but anyway He's criticized. He's actually an incredibly important source of information really is because He's before some of the filtering methodologies that created Sunni orthodoxy, so there's important information in there, but You've got that you've got things like that you've got Bukhari Muslim soon Abu Dawood, you know, if you see my videos I've sort of moved out of the way once twice and there's you know there's a shelves of the these materials and that's what you get to pull from and This fellow that I posted, you know, he's pulling his particular sources and following his jurisprudence, but Isis has theirs.

And it just seems that right now The less radical perspective ain't doing so well. What we cannot afford to do what we cannot do if we're people of truth Is stop recognizing the distinctions that exist between Muslims and what I'm fearing is I'm seeing more and more Christians going.

I'm not I will not invest the effort to make those distinctions. And I said to somebody on on Twitter yesterday Well, then don't get upset when people say that you're just like Fred Phelps or the Pope's your leader.

Whatever because if you won't take the time to make the proper distinctions between Muslims. Then you can't expect anybody else to make the proper distinctions between your beliefs and anybody else's so just Roll with the punches and he's like that's fine me.

That's okay. And I'm just like Can't reason can not reason not they're not working. Anyways, let's listen to what the guy had to say I didn't see by the way. What you saw on Facebook? I don't see a lot of stuff you see on Facebook for some reason.

I'm not sure why. But someone was someone was was saying that I should not have watched the video. I would say someone was there.

Well, that's over on the Alpha Omega. Oh. Facebook page and I'll give you the. A exact quote. I must admit to being baffled by why as to why James White thinks to. That's his that is his job to watch those videos.

50 shades of gray next. I know civil servants who work on these issues professionally. But who actively avoid watching the killing videos and those who did who did seriously regretted doing so. The only professional reason for watching them as I understand it is to identify the victims extract whatever intelligence they may contain and such as locations or identities of the killers or for propaganda purposes.

It strikes me as Profoundly disturbing that a public Christian thinker like white feels the need or desire to watch them. It is completely contrary to Philippians 4 8 and the acts are so deeply fallen that the imagery will have a profound effect on the viewer.

Some of this rather small text for me at my age. I also am unsure why He posts a picture of these poor men seconds before their violent deaths. I mean other than I'm quoting what's on the screen.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, nothing like not reading what I actually wrote. Yeah, it's I.

Find it horrible and disturbing to my soul. If I was the mother and father of one of the murdered I would not want my own family's faces strapped to a blog post to make the writer's words more evocative.

Lastly he would. Lastly would he post a sexual picture to make a point about the legal sex industry? All right. I got it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so this is a Don bank that Dan banks Dan stork banks. Yes. Okay. Let me um, I Don't know that I can respond to mr. Banks because clearly To do so require my removing so much sand from around his head so he could hear me.

Because he's obviously stuck his head in the sand to try to avoid first of all Philippians 4 8. That kind of interpretation would mean I would never read the Book of Mormon. I would never read the Doctrine and Covenants.

I've never read the Quran. I would never read anything like that. In fact, you can make the argument I should never read anything but the Bible itself sounds like the guy who wrote the review of my book on the Quran for for Amazon.

I Did not enjoy watching that video. But you have to know What these people are saying to understand why they're doing what they're doing. I don't think sir you want to know or that you seem to think that it's important to know.

At the very time they're doing this they have on the screen the words that I quoted at the beginning of my article. They supplicate what they worship and die upon their paganism. That was central to the entire Article and it was as far as I can tell.

I mean, I haven't done an exhaustive study. I haven't had time to. But in everything I had read up until the time I started writing this no one had even mentioned it and yet Evidently ISIS thought it was important enough to have that on the screen Right at that point in time.

I think that maybe they were trying to communicate something. You think maybe if we ignore that we won't get what they're communicating. Yeah. Mr. Banks, thank you for trying to take the role of the Holy Spirit for me, but I will leave that to the Holy Spirit Appreciate it for you.

Don't watch it. Don't watch it. Don't watch it. But I'd appreciate it if you would Leave conviction of the Holy Spirit to the Holy Spirit. That would be a way to do it. I Guess I don't have notice. It's for some reason notifications from that don't Appear for me.

I'm not sure. Maybe I have to have a different window open or something. All I get notifications of are on my My private Facebook page not on Alpha Omega's even though they're linked together somehow.

Yeah, I think you have to have page manager in there. In the mix I've got like three different Facebook apps that I control the pages. Okay. Yes. Yeah, I don't. I just have them and and that could be overwhelming.

You really don't need that. Oh.

Trust me. Yeah, everything is overwhelming. Anyways. Let's let's listen to this because there's a couple other things I want to address and then there's other topics. We can we can get to as well. I've already spent half an hour just on just on this but listen to again.

What this what this fellow has to say.

Islamic Eschatology and the Meaning of the Cross

All praise is due to Allah the strong and mighty. And may blessings and peace be upon the one sent by the sword as a mercy for all the world's people. Recently, you've seen us on the hills of a sham and on that explain.

Chopping off the heads that have been carrying the cross delusion for a long time now not.

Let's I'm gonna slow that down because I can I can speed up and I can slow down. Steven. Let me decide what I spend time on the DL on. Thank you. Hey.

Plane. Chopping off the heads that have been carrying the cross delusion for a long time.

Catch that. I hadn't even caught that till just now. Sorry it went by so fast. Do you already said? Let's let's try it. Let's try it one more time.

Explain chopping off the heads that have been carrying the cross delusion for a long time.

Chopping off the heads that have been carrying the cross delusion for a long time. The cross delusion. What did it. What what what's. Listen. Listen to the hadith that he quotes.

Here in a moment. I'm filled with spite against Islam and Muslims and today we are on the south of Rome on the land of Islam Libya sending another message all Crusaders Safety for you will be only wishes especially when you're fighting us all together.

Therefore we will fight you all together until the war lays down its burdens and Jesus peace be upon him will descend breaking the cross killing the swine and abolishing Jizya and The sea we've hidden Sheikh Osama bin Laden's body in we swear to Allah.

We will mix it with your blood so.

Most Christians as I explained in the article are surprised to discover How central Jesus is to Islamic eschatology and Given how confusing eschatology can be to Christians man Islamic eschatology is a royal mess but I Quoted the hadith where and It's it's interesting to me.

The only thing that struck me and looking at this was you had These hadith multiple times in Sahih al-Bukhari and you had it in Sunan Abu Dawood, but you didn't have it in Muslim. It would have been interested.

I'd be interested in knowing why Muslim did not include any of these Particular statements, but you do have a number of repetitions of it and it's this idea that when Jesus returns He will break the cross kill the pigs or the swine and abolish jizya.

Now jizya is the Tax the levy placed upon the people the book who live in Islamic lands. It's a it's a protection tax. Obviously, it's used by Isis and others to destroy Christians and Jews to drive them out or just to have them killed.

But initially it was Basically, well if you're not gonna go to war then you have to pay an extra tax to Support those of us that do etc, etc to abolish jizya means that there is not going to be any more Jews or Christians living in Islamic lands and in one of the versions of the hadith that's exactly what's said is He abolishes all religions other than Islam so Jesus actually becomes The the the weapon the means by which Islam destroys Christianity and that's The phraseology breaks the cross destroys the cross now one of the things that was I think completely Unremarkable and yet so offended so many people as I pointed out the reality that Islam Detests the cross.

Well, why? Well surah 4 1 to 7 certainly is the beginning of that and It's obvious that the author of the Quran had no earthly conception of What the cross is about which makes you wonder? Why didn't the Christians that he had contact with?

Why weren't they cross? Centered. Why weren't they redemption centered? But we don't know we can't answer questions like that. History just doesn't give us enough information along those lines, but there is no question that by the time of Muhammad You have major elements of unbiblical Antibiblical idolatry Existing in formal Christendom Including statues images already the veneration issue dulya hyper dulya Latria was beginning to develop and There is no question.

No honest person looking at history can question the reality that This has been a major issue between Christianity formal external Christianity not biblical Christianity and Islam and As a result what has developed over time?

Has been this animosity and of course, it doesn't help that The Crusaders put crosses on their shields and they died in battle they were given indulgences and all this other Anti-christian heretical stuff, which is what it is.

Ah, there's no such thing as an indulgence in Scripture there's no such thing as purgatory and all the rest of that Roman silliness and to ignore the role that has had is To be dishonest. It does not excuse the ignorance of Muhammad.

It does not excuse the ignorance of Islamic leaders but again simple truthfulness requires the Recognition of the various factors that have gone into the development of these things and so you have this hadith being quoted as a part of the Not apologetic, but what do you call this?

The reason well Historically, it would be an apologetic. You're not apologizing. You're giving the reason we're doing what you're doing. This is sending a message and These are Crusaders simply because they are coffers they are coffers because they're Christians and They venerate the cross now.

Did any one of these? men who committed these abominable deeds have any meaningful understanding of What the cross means in biblical Christianity? That's why I try to take the time to explain that you know to try to Explain what the cross is about why we glory in the cross, but we do not worship the cross.

It's because of what God did there. It's the center point of history. That's what makes it special. I Mean if someone dug up the cross today, there'd be no reason to worship it. That's what's to me so wrong about crucifixes.

Jesus isn't there anymore. It's empty. It's done. I Mean if you're gonna if you're gonna have something like that have an empty tomb or something, you know. When when you when you focus upon a crucifix You're looking at a point in The process but you're freezing it there.

And especially when you then add that when you do that within the context, especially of Rome's never finished sacrifice never perfecting mass. The result is is a mess. And so I tried in the article to actually present the gospel Hoping that you know, who knows maybe there's some Muslims out there that are just as disgusted by what they see Happening by the images of that Jordanian pilot on fire or whatever else it might be that the spirits working upon them and They're looking for something more than this.

Could there be something more than this and maybe reading that will give them Wow. There are some Christians that have a very High view of the cross, but they don't worship the cross. They don't believe in bowing down before images and statues and things like that, that's why we that's why we address that and So then after the deed is done You have this Islamic music and then this same man Standing there with blood on his hands because he was one of the executioners with his knife aimed toward Rome there was a reason they did this here.

I Forgot to bring it in with me. It's our all hawk. It's it's still in the plastic on my desk, but I'm just about done with it's our all hawk. Don't worry about This huge work 800 some odd pages Karawani I think was the name of the Indian scholar put together.

I think first publishing in 1864. I've mentioned to you a number of times before. It's the most important book in the formation of modern Islamic Tawa. It's the reason that ninety nine point nine percent of Muslims around the world believe the Bible is corrupted.

Rather than the way it was before 1864 where you had more of a split. Reading in there one of the the arguments that is used. You know, he has a whole section against Roman Catholic beliefs. But from there his perspective since there's more Roman Catholics than there are Protestants the Pope represents Christianity and you can just tell that biblical argumentation is Seen as secondary in comparison to papal argumentation and the fact is Faults religion like Rome will have much to answer for.

When it comes to these issues and You see it right here and so here's this guy and here in modern-day he's pointing with his his bloody knife toward Rome and he says Well, what what does he say? We will conquer Rome and.

And it's not all that far the Mediterranean is not really wide at that point. But there they are just you know south of Rome. Saying we will conquer Rome from their perspective again, remember in the Islamic mind you have Dar al-islam the world under Islam and that I'll hob the the world of warfare and From their perspective Until everyone submits to their particular understanding of Islam.

Then there is no innocent person and that's why they can excuse Kidnapping workers who are just shoveling dirt for a living trying to make ends meet kidnapping young ladies. Right before I came on I saw something somewhere.

Where was that The There had been sort of a breaking news type thing about How many people had been had been kidnapped. Yeah, here it is. According to Libya Herald At least 35 Egyptians have been kidnapped at various locations by Isis just today.

Yeah, well because Egypt was bombing Isis positions so it's gonna happen again. This is the mindset this is the mindset to us it is grossly immoral to kidnap people. To them if you're in the Dar al-hab, if you are not in subjection to Islam and Muhammad specifically in the way they say you should be then you're a crusader.

You're an opposition to Islam and This again is when where it comes back to the vast difference between Christianity and Islam. They are seeking to bring about submission by severing heads Rather than changing hearts.

Because they can't change hearts. There's nothing in their message that can change hearts. There's nothing in their theology that can change hearts. In fact, the theology says the hearts don't have to be changed in the first place we say The kingdom of Christ is extended.

Not by the severing of heads or the blowing up of militants but by the changing of hearts through the ministration of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's the difference and A vast difference it is at least it's supposed to be.

Like I said, I'm feeling pretty down today. By how many people who call themselves Christians that evidently don't believe that it don't don't get me wrong a Nation has the right to say that this group Cannot exist on our borders.

To make them illegal and to fight against them. I understand that and If every one of those men dies In a Hellfire missile strike and that missile came from the United States, that's justice, but here's the problem what people don't seem to get is that there was a young Jewish man that stood holding the coats of those who are stoning Stephen and That wasn't folks.

Some nice kind. Gentle execution. Yeah, believe it or not I've seen stoning too and it's slow and It's bloody and there was a guy named Saul of Tarsus and he may not have been chucking the rocks. But he was helping those that were and He was in perfect agreement.

I guess he'd be one of the cameramen on this thing. How's that? And it seems there's a lot of folks. Every cameraman every Muslim in this wipe him out. I guess. Guess you wouldn't mind missing 13 14 books of the New Testament depending on how we count that one.

Maybe you maybe you understand why Barnabas had to bring Paul along. Had to say no. No, really guys. He has been converted. It's it's been it's been bothersome really has to see the. The attitude as Christians we should at least want to understand.

Want to think based upon truth rather upon mere emotion, but unfortunately, there are some who just can't get past the emotional part evidently and So they they go that direction. Ah. Not sure if I want to switch gears here, but I think I will anyways.