Can Muhammad Save You?

With you mubasher in the flesh. And we've got another program right here on the jesus or muhammad marathon. Wonderful program i know with dr james white talking about actually you'll see a title on the screen.

Muhammad as Intercessor in Islamic Theology

Can muhammad save you now. That's interesting. We're actually talking about muhammad being an intercessor. Uh is muhammad really an intercessor for muslims on the day of judgment or for anyone. Well this is a topic that seems to me dr white to be a bit confusing and there seems to be some inconsistencies within islamic theology and we need a man of your caliber to help help us to understand it.

I want to welcome you on the show so glad that you're back again. Always great to be with you brother joseph. It's a blessing and it's an honor to me. I really do appreciate it. And uh i'm not going to talk much not because i'm not loquacious but because i don't know enough about it.

Go right ahead. Dr white. Well you know it's interesting uh when uh when the call to prayer goes out. Yeah uh the the muslim people are supposed to say a prayer after they hear the call to prayer and part of that particular prayer is concerning muhammad's intercession and there's some confusion because there are some people who believe that muhammad they can pray to muhammad and things like that.

Yeah uh i think the little better sunni scholars would say that in reality this is this is about the the intercession of the final day. And there is a uh there's a hadith that i have here that i want to read and i want people to listen.

Yes this is recorded in sahih al-bukhari. It's a it's it and it's recorded a number of different times and sometimes longer forms that just seems to be a good form of it to look at here. But this is something that a lot of muslims don't know about.

And certainly i i i doubt almost any number of christians outside of those who maybe live in islamic lands. Right. They might have heard about this. It's it's fascinating. My my arabic tutor yeah uh you know can quote entire sections of islamic prayers and things like that though he's not never been muslim but he was raised uh in syria.

Yeah and so just just hearing uh you know uh the prayers the call to prayer and things like that some of the schools even make the christians right. Yeah learn those things and so it's amazing how much you pick up but they might have a familiar familiarity about this.

But this is uh in sahih al-bukhari uh book 60 i uh this is a hadith number three uh and let me read you what happens here. The prophet said on the day of resurrection the believers will assemble and say let us ask somebody to intercede for us with our lord.

Now this is on the day of resurrection. So uh i'm going to expand on this a little bit because and i'm not trying to pretend to be some type of imam or something but uh i listened just recently within the past week uh to a a what i believe very reliable muslim scholar lecture on this very passage.

Okay so i'm not just making these things up on my own i could give you references that you could listen to yourself. Um this one says on the day of resurrection the believers will assemble and say but others say all of mankind will be very nervous about the coming uh judgment.

And they will they will come together like a wave and they will seek someone to intercede between themselves and allah. Now i'm not sure how many times uh brother joseph you and i have talked about similar things to this but we have mentioned the fact that and i i know just on last night's we did this.

We mentioned the fact that in islam you have a holy god in the sense that he says he's holy and he's wrathful. And he's going to punish sinners in some way shape or form. Whether he's consistent about that is another issue that we have to get into.

But there is going to be a punishment of sin. There's going to be a lot of people in the fires of hell. The quran speaks often of the fires of hell. And there are going to be some who are in the fires of hell for a short period of time some for a long period of time and some eternally.

I i did not know this for a long long time in regards to islamic theology. But that there are going to be people who are in the fires of hell that are going to be taken out of the fires of hell after a period of time.

Yes uh. But then there are others where the the fires of hell will be their eternal abode. Uh in fact just i will get back to reading this. But it was interesting this same scholar was lecturing about um muhammad's uncle uh and how muhammad uh had a special intercession for his uncle.

Because remember his uncle came this close to converting to islam. He was on his deathbed. Muhammad was saying you know say la ilaha illallah. He was saying say the shout. And uh then he had other people in the ancestral gods and and he died as a as a mushrik.

He died. Uh he did not die on tawhid. Yeah. And so allah actually allowed muhammad to do something. You're that you're not allowed to do. You're not allowed to intercede for someone who dies in the state of shirk.

You're just not allowed to do that. Yeah uh. But for this man uh allah granted to muhammad that his uncle would receive the least punishment in hell. Uh now he can't get out of hell. Oh okay he can't get out of hell.

But it would be a light. But it would be the lightest punishment of anyone in hell. Eternal light punishment. And you know what it is. Yeah um i didn't look this one up but i trust that he was telling the truth when i listened to this lecture.

Yeah um he is wearing shoes that are so hot that his brain boils. And that's the lightest. That's the lightest punishment in hell is to wear shoes that are so hot that your brain boils. I'm not sure what your brain boiling would be like but uh that's that's that's the punishment.

So anyway uh this this is this is the belief that that of course a christian then uh who goes into hellfire is a mushrik. Uh is a person who has committed shirk as most muslims understand the quran. I think that that means that the quran doesn't understand christianity.

But we'll deal with that another time. We have dealt with in the past. Um and they'll be in hellfire eternally. But other people uh will be in hellfire for a period of time and then will then come out.

So the all of mankind on the day of resurrection is looking for an intercessor because they are fearful of this god who is going to send people into the hellfire. Right. And they have died without assurance that they have the acceptance of this god.

And so the prophet said on day of resurrection believers will assemble and say let us ask someone to intercede for us with our lord. So they will go to adam and say you're the father of all people and allah created you with his own hands and or the angels to prostrate to you and taught you the names of all things.

So please intercede for us with your lord so he may relieve us from this place of ours. Adam will say i am not fit for this. That is intercession for you. Then adam will remember his sin and feel ashamed thereof.

He will say go to noah for he was the first apostle allah sent the inhabitants of the earth. They will go to him. And noah will say i am not fit for this undertaking. He will remember his appeal to his lord to do what he had no knowledge of.

Then he will feel ashamed thereof and will say go to khalil ar-rahman that is to abraham. They will go to him. And he will say i am not fit for this undertaking. Go to moses the slave to whom allah spoke directly and gave him the torah.

So so far we've gone. Adam noah abraham. And now he said go to moses. Say we'll go to him. And he will say i am not fit for this undertaking. And he will mention his killing a person who was not a killer.

And so he will feel ashamed thereof before his lord. And he will say go to jesus allah's slave his apostle. And allah's word and a spirit coming from him. Now i stopped there just for a moment. Yeah. That's pretty much a direct chronic citation.

Yeah. And it's it's very interesting to try to figure out what that text was actually saying. A word from allah and a spirit sent from him and things like that. And uh the the standard sunni interpretation is that the word from allah was simply be and he was.

Yeah to try to explain the virgin birth without the role of the holy spirit and things like that. Yeah we could get into that another point. But that's a direct chronic citation. So i continue with the hadith.

Yeah. Jesus will say i am not fit for this undertaking. Go to muhammad the slave of allah whose past and future sins were forgiven by allah. Now let me add some sins. Let me stop. Right there. Notice there is nothing there about sins.

There is no accusation that jesus was a sinner. Yeah. But but here you have if this is an authentic hadith which which it is if this actually represents what muhammad actually said. Right. Then you have muhammad actually telling people that jesus is going to say i am not fit to be an intercessor.

Now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt what the new testament looked like in the days of muhammad. In fact it's interesting we can demonstrate what the new testament looked like 200 years before muhammad.

We have we have entire new testaments the date from that time period. And it's interesting there's basically no meaningful change between that time period and the time of muhammad as well. Um which makes you wonder why you would think there's this huge change before that.

But that's another issue we could get into if we needed to. Yeah the point is we know what the injeel what the gospel what the new testament as a body of documents. Uh what what the the gospels themselves taught at the time of muhammad.

Muhammad clearly did not. Because if i was actually going to be a religious leader um telling individuals that jesus was not fit to do something that i would be fit to do. And i knew that he was described as the intercessor between god and man the only mediator between god and man in the very books that i was telling people they needed to believe surah five.

Right. Check these things out according to the injeel go to the go to the people of the gospel look at what's in the gospel judged by those things. I would have to make some statement to explain my gross contradiction of the books that i'm telling people were nuts.

All they were sent down from god. But since he doesn't even try to do so i would suggest to you he had no earthly idea that the new testament identifies jesus as the one mediator between god and man. Right.

Which again proves to us the quran is a human document. It is not the word of allah. It is a human document representing an ignorant man who did not understand. Every time the quran tries to interact with the new testament and the beliefs the new testament it ends up failing.

Even if you reject what the new testament teaches didn't allah know what it said at the time of the writing of the quran. Certainly he would not have made that kind of error that kind of mistake. This is something to keep in mind.

It's very very important. So we we go back. So muhammad actually says that jesus will say i am not fit for this undertaking. Now i want us to remember that phrase. And when i'm done reading this one of the things we want to do in the program tonight we want to hear your phone calls as well.

But one of the things we want to emphasize this evening is how does anyone have the right to intercede before a holy god. We as christians believe that we have one intercessor and that he has the perfect grounds the perfect qualifications.

And in fact he is the only one who has ever had the qualification to stand in the presence of the father and represent anyone and bring about their salvation. But why does he have that ability. That's something that i hope our muslim watchers our muslim viewers will will listen to and will understand.

But let me let me finish this up. So muhammad feels he has this ability whereas he gets his ability. So they will come to me and i will proceed till i will ask my lord's permission and i will be given permission when i see my lord i will fall down in prostration.

He will let me remain in that state as long as he wishes. And then i will be addressed. Muhammad raise your head ask. And your request will be granted. Say. And your saying will be listened to intercede and your intercession will be accepted.

I will raise my head and praise allah with a saying or an invocation he will teach me. And then i will intercede. Now i'll stop here for a moment again. The scholar i was listening to would say that said that allah will will teach him a new form of worship that no one has ever known before and that he will worship allah and that this is important in his gaining the ability to intercede.

You're looking at me very strangely brother. Is this a new. Is this a new hadith. No. No. But i mean this idea now this theologian. Right. That that is that you're listening to. Right. He is a a sunni.

Yes. Uh. Theologian. And he's right there conservative. Well no. Yes. And he's saying that that muhammad is actually going to have this new form of worship. Okay. I mean this. Well and as it says here um uh uh i will raise my head and praise allah with a saying an invocation he will teach me.

So that's part of the hadith. Or something new something new. And then i will intercede. He will fix a limit for me to intercede. For whom i will admit to paradise. Now there is another hadith that specifically makes reference to the fact that one of the abilities or powers of muhammad is that he will go to the door of jannah.

Yeah. And he will knock upon the door. And the angel will say who is it. And it was that i am muhammad. And the angel will say i have been instructed only to open this door to muhammad. And so muhammad is the one who opens the door to paradise for everyone who will enter into paradise.

Symbolic. That's uh that's a major intercessory ability. Right there. Then i will come back again to allah. And when i see my lord the same thing will happen to me. Then i will intercede with allah and allah will fix a limit for me to intercede.

Whom i will let into paradise. Then i will come back for the third time. And then i will come back for the fourth time. And we'll say and we'll say none remains in hell. But those whom the quran has imprisoned in hell and who have been destined to an eternal stay in hell.

So evidently there's three or four times yeah where he will intercede for one group and then another group. And this there is this emptying of the islamic ummah. Yeah from the flames of hell. But that means some of them will be in there for a longer period of time than others.

And i have heard that described as being based upon the iman that you have the faith that you have. There's another famous hadith that talks about how at death you have to cross this bridge. Yes. And uh it's over the flames of hell.

Yes. And those who are filled with iman with faith with faith in allah and in and in his messenger uh that there they will have this light that will just be so bright. And they will go running across this bridge just just like that because they have so much iman.

The bridge by the way is as narrow as the edge of a sword. Right. Okay. Right. Um. But then there will be others who have a little less imans. They don't go across as fast until finally you get to those who are crawling along and a little light will come out of their toe and then it'll fade out and they'll be left in the darkness on this bridge that is as thin as the edge of a sword.

And then a little iman will come on again and they'll go a little farther and it'll take them a tremendous amount of time uh to go across this this bridge this is this is what it's likened. So here you have this kind of of thinking about this judgment that is coming and eventually those who said la ilaha illallah and wa muhammadun rasulallah those who said the shahada and said it with sincerity and they're like seven conditions for the sincerity that you need to have to say that because i just said it.

Yeah and i said it in the language you have to say it in. Right. Uh. But no one thinks i'm a muslim at least i hope no one out there thinks i'm a muslim. Um uh i'm not. Uh i just said what you're supposed to say.

But you have to have knowledge of what it means which i do. Yes. But you have to have belief in what it says. Okay. And that's what i don't have. Because while i confess there is only one true god i believe that god has revealed himself as father son holy spirit that he did so in the person of jesus christ that jesus christ was buried crucified buried and rose again.

And therefore i cannot say wa muhammadun rasulallah because he was not a rasul of allah because a rasul of allah will not contradict what allah himself has revealed in the person of jesus christ. So that's why i'm not a muslim but anyone who has said that with sincerity will eventually be removed from the fires of hell.

Let me just make a point and a clarification. Uh what i've understood and the hadith that you're coming you're bringing um based on the quran surah mariam surah 19 verse 71. Not one of you not one of you will not actually in yusuf ali says pass over it.

There's a lot of question about the arabic there pass through it passed down into it. Right. Yeah uh and so this idea then that that muslim theology there's this theologian that was speaking essentially and and the hadith that we're listening to is all coming.

Is it not from the uh assumption that all muslims will be in hell at least at some point the intercession is to bring muslims. It's not like uh in the in this in the case of christianity we come before there's a day of judgment.

We're not necessarily uh you know those who are still alive right on the earth they're not thrown into hell and everybody's in hell. And then who we're going to pull out. Right. It's more like you come before the throne and you go here or there.

Well the hell hell is definitely a final location as far as that is concerned. In fact it is said that the uh uh death and hell are death and hades are cast into hell. Right. Which is which is the final location.

So there is there is evidence that right now there are people who are under punishment who have died outside of jesus christ. But that is not their final location. The final location will be right. So that's a good uh yeah.

But this is a this is a definitely a different concept now there there are those who argue that every muslim will taste of the fires of hell. Right. There are muslims that argue against that um and even almost introduce the the same kind of uh concept you have in roman catholicism of saints who get to bypass purgatory like a purgatory because they have they don't need to be cleansed or something like that right.

Um indulgences. Yeah. Oh boy don't get me into that. I could tell you a lot i could tell you a lot about that. I've debated that one love baby it's up a bit lots very very interesting. Yes but the point is getting back to this this.

The point is that mankind will seek an intercessor. Yes and the only intercessor who will say he's worthy of of doing this is muhammad. And that muhammad has is given the ability by allah to intercede for his people and to bring them out of the fires of hell and in fact to bring them into jannah.

There is another lengthy hadith where muhammad goes to all the levels of heaven and jesus isn't even close the highest level of heaven by the way lots of folks above him. But every time they go to the this this different level of heaven uh the angel says who is it.

And uh and and the angel who is guiding muhammad says uh i am in company with muhammad and is the name of muhammad that opens this next level uh right up because the angel's been instructed so the the levels it's it seems odd to me uh that so many muslims have to fight so hard to try to keep their fellow muslims from exalting muhammad when the point of fact is it's the hadith and the quran that exalts muhammad in this way.

I mean it's it's just there and they're trying to say well we need to be balanced in it. Well at least when we talk about exalting jesus we believe he's god. Amen. Yeah we believe he is the incarnate son of god he's eternally existed he's my creator and therefore i'm exalting him.

Everything in islam about uh how for example um the angels were supposed to bow down uh and and give worship to to adam uh and that iblis would would not do so. And this is why he becomes satan and is cast out all the stuff very very strange stuff that that people have struggled for a long time to try to make some type of coherent statement out of it.

But the point is yeah that muhammad is exalted in his status in his relationship with allah muhammad is not only allowed to have more wives than anybody else has things like that. But uh baraka have you ever listened to a a a muslim uh teacher lecture joseph about baraka.

Not. Really. No. Go ahead. Uh baraka blessing. Yeah you know what it what it is. Um baraka is this idea that only one person in allah's will uh was given to be able to exude baraka from his very body and that was muhammad.

Nobody else the virgin born jesus who raised people from the dead did not have baraka in his body. But muhammad did. And so the uh the uh the sahabi the the companions. Yeah would when when muhammad would wash himself they would collect the water because there's baraka in that water.

Yeah uh they they would collect his hair when he cut his hair. Because there's i mean it's it's the relic trade all over again. Yeah i mean it's it's really what it is. Right. But there was there was baraka in the actual body of muhammad.

And this again was a special privilege given only uh to the prophet. You see. And so you have all of this in regards to these original teachings of you know the first few centuries of of islam and so he's given this special position before allah whereby he intercedes.

But he only intercedes for certain people who've done certain things who've said the shahada. They are the ones for whom he intercedes. He cannot intercede for a mushrik. He cannot help anyone in that in that type of a situation.

And it is not muhammad that changes the hearts of anyone so that they would say the shahada so that they would repent of their sins and and flee to allah. Muhammad doesn't do any of that. Yeah he has simply given this privileged status as the head of the islamic umma as the head of mankind literally at the day of resurrection where he gives this kind special kind of intercession and saves people in a process way uh out of the flames of hell itself.

Now again the vast majority of muslims are probably not familiar with this. Most muslims are not sitting around reading sahih al-bukhari but uh it is certainly something known by the better read muslims.

They understand this kind of intercession. Right. But very few muslims understand what had been written about intercession long before muhammad ever came along. And that was what is found in the christian scriptures.

And i know you have been told that the christian scriptures have been corrupted and they have been changed. But once again i can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that every text that we are going to look at in the christian scriptures existed in the days of muhammad.

Muhammad said judge by what you find contained therein. He said to the people of the angel allah angel the people of the gospel that we are to judge by what is contained there in surah 547. Now i have asked i think when i was here in august i asked you to look at it.

I've asked my arabic tutor about these things and i've verified that the only way to understand that the therein is the gospel judged by what is in the gospel. Right. And so every text we are going to look at was contained in the gospel in the days of muhammad and before muhammad.

And in fact there isn't a shred of evidence that any of these texts have ever been changed from the very writing of the apostles of the lord jesus christ himself. Okay i need to address that we all know that i need to address that because of the fact that there are so many people who are confused about these very things confused about the history of the bible.

Even even last night we had a caller who just you know dismissed what we had to say. Sure uh because of that very thing. But i want to start off with uh the words of the apostle paul. And then i want to go to uh another text and that is uh to the book of hebrews.

It's a tremendous tremendous text. But we'll start please go ahead. Could you uh perhaps give the first one from the apostle paul. And then we could take a quick we'll take a quick break. I'm preaching and and it's you gotta you gotta stop me.

Would you like to take the break now. Would you like sure. Yeah. Well let's let's go ahead and read this. Yes. We'll we'll take our break and then we'll we'll come back from uh from that great uh as paul wrote a letter to timothy uh his his child and the faith in essence.

[1 Timothy 2:5-6](#bible?book=1Tim&chapter=2&verse=5&endVerse=6) and the One Mediator Between God and Men

And in first timothy chapter two he said these words for there is one god. Did you catch that he's a monotheist. All christians are there is one god and one messages mediator also between god and men the man christ jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony given at the proper time.

Now there you have the teaching of the earliest christians that there is one god and that there is one mediator between god and all of mankind in total. Mankind cannot go looking for anybody else and does not need to go looking for anyone else.

There is one mediator. God has already established him and he has given him a unique nature and a unique mission and he fulfills that nature and that mission perfectly. I want our muslim viewers and our christian viewers to understand what this text is saying and to be able to rejoice that we have a mediator.

We don't have to go to one and to another and they'll say i'm not worthy. I'm not worthy when we go to this mediator. He is worthy to be the one who intercedes before the holy god for us. Thank you dr white.

And you know very interesting. Uh in the in the quran there are verses many verses that say no intercessor will be allowed except allah himself. Well we as christians would agree with that assuming allah is the one true god yahweh father son and holy spirit because jesus is our intercessor as you said.

And he is god himself. Praise god. Dr white you were just going to. You're bringing some information about the true intercessor jesus christ. You just did first timothy chapter two. Now uh go right ahead and continue.

Dear brother the point that we really want to try to communicate to all of our viewers this evening is that this text tells us that we do need a mediator. There is no question we need that intercessor that one who stands in the gap that one who represents us before a holy god.

We do need that and we have that there is one god and one mediator also between god and men the man christ jesus. We believe that christ jesus was a man. He was truly man. The word became flesh. He truly was flesh.

I think you were saying uh uh what was it in the flesh. In the flesh. And that is exactly what jesus was. He truly was man. Yeah. If he had not truly been man if he had simply been like a divine being that pretended to be a man he could not be our intercessor.

He could not be the one who takes that position because he would not share our nature. As we're going to see the book of hebrews expands upon this greatly. But i want to start here because of the the assertion is made here he is the man messiah jesus christ jesus.

He is the mediator between god and man. And he is the one that god has placed there. Mankind has no right to look at god and say well i want a different kind of mediator. I want a different mediator. I want a mediator that i like god was not under no obligation to provide the one that he did but his grace and mercy has provided it.

And we must simply bow down and accept what he has given to us. Notice then how it is that the man christ jesus can be a mediator. What is necessary for intercession. Who gave himself as a ransom for all.

Hmm. The mediator functions as a mediator because he is the one who has offered the sacrifice that deals with. What separates us from god. Why is it even in the hadith to be read. Why is mankind coming to adam.

Why is mankind coming to moses. Because of fear. And why did each of the individuals except for jesus decline. Because they remembered some sin they had committed and so they knew. Well allah might be angry with me.

So i'm i'm fearful too. So how can i be your intercessor if i'm fearful because of my sins. So you see there is something that separates mankind from a holy god. And that hadith recognizes that truth that is true.

All of mankind's religions in one way or another have an echo of that recognition. It's called our conscience. We recognize that god is god we are not and that we have not kept his law. There is something called sin.

But this text tells us that the intercessor can be the intercessor. First of all because he gave himself. My muslim friend hear me jesus's life was not taken from him. He gave himself. So many muslims miss out on the glory of the atonement.

Because you say allah would never ever allow such an exalted prophet to be killed in such a degrading way. But you see jesus gave himself. He said in the gospel of john no man takes my life from me. I lay it down of my own accord.

This commandment i've received from the father. I lay it down and i can receive it back up again. Amen. This is voluntary. But what kind of a person has the power to give himself. But the god man. The one who is fully god and fully man he has the authority.

He has the power he gave himself voluntarily. Here is the greatest demonstration of the love of god. The the only power that can ever melt the heart of the god hater is the love of god. And the love of god has been proven for all time in the incarnation ministry self-giving death burial and resurrection of jesus christ.

No one can ever say that they can question god's love. When you look at the cross of jesus christ god's love has been demonstrated. Who gave himself as a ransom. A ransom. Yes you see his death had to do with sin not his own sin.

If he had died simply because of his own sin. Well then he could never have given a ransom for anybody but himself because he would have been under the penalty of the law. But even did you notice the hadith did not accuse jesus of sin.

But they did muhammad. That hadith did say they did say muhammad was guilty of sin. Future. That's exactly right. So muhammad could never be an intercessor. He could not give anything to redeem anyone else.

But jesus even the hadith admits was not a sinner. Amen. That's right. He was not under the penalty of sin. And so he is able to give himself a ransom not ransom. We think of ransom normally in a negative way because someone has kidnapped our son or our daughter and and they want ransom from us.

It's a horrible thing right. But it is a payment given for the freedom of someone else. And you see we are the slaves. We are the ones that need to be ransomed. We are the ones who are justly under the wrath of allah.

We need to have a payment given. And jesus has the ability to give that payment because he's not under the curse of sin. Amen. Now is this a ransom that only tries to ransom. Or a ransom that actually succeeds.

Obviously it is one that succeeds. He gave himself as a ransom. That means there was a transaction that took place elsewhere. The apostle expressed it this way. He who knew no sin became sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of god in him.

Amen. The great transaction where the sins of god's people are laid upon jesus. He is made sin in their behalf. He is treated as the criminal so that we might be set free. He who knew no sin is made to be sin in our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of god in him.

I haven't fulfilled the righteousness of god. I have sinned in thought and deed. I am unclean before a holy god. And he who was clean before the father voluntarily gives himself his perfect righteousness.

The fact that he lived his entire life faultlessly he had a perfect righteousness. He obeyed every commandment. He loved the father perfectly. I've never loved god perfectly. And neither have you. He had a positive full righteousness which is imputed to me.

It is given to me. I can't earn it. I can't purchase it. I can't walk up with some pittance some filthy good works which are marked with my own failure. And say here's something for you. No it only is the empty hand of faith that receives the hand of grace that is full of mercy and love and redemption and forgiveness and justification.

It is that empty hand of faith that receives all of this at the hand of the merciful triune god. And how can god be just because he who knew no sin gave himself in our behalf so that we might be made the righteousness of god in him.

You see i already have my intercessor. I am in him in him. I have a relationship with him. I have been united with him so that i have his life and his righteousness. You will not be saved by standing in front of jesus or behind jesus or next to jesus.

When the wrath of god comes the only place will be safe will be in him. And i say this not just to my muslim friends but to those who claim to be christians. Simply knowing about jesus is not enough. Being raised in a church is not enough.