Islam’s View of Salvation | Rapp Report Daily 0099 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. When it comes to sin and salvation within Islam, we're going to see some differences again between that and biblical
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- Christianity. They're not going to believe that human beings have a sin nature, that they don't believe in the doctrine of original sin.
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- Therefore, salvation within Islam is by obedience to God. It is through works.
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- And there are five pillars that must be done for someone to be a faithful Muslim and earn salvation.
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- First is confession of sins. This is something, how someone becomes a Muslim, is to recite in Arabic the confession, quote, there is no true
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- God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger, prophet of Allah, unquote. They do that in front of three witnesses, they become
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- Muslim. They have to have prayers five times a day. Third is to give alms to the poor.
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- Fourth is fasting. You'll know this as Ramadan if you've heard of that. And then fifth is a trip to Mecca.
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- Now if they cannot go to Mecca themselves or cannot afford it, they can pay someone else to go on their behalf.
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- But those are the five pillars they must do to earn salvation. Now one of the things you see in Islam, it is that there is no forgiveness provided.
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- No one knows if they are going to be forgiven of sin until the day they stand before Allah and just see whether his mercy is weighted upon them.
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- And yet the reality is that God is not just because he just gives mercy based on works.
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- He doesn't punish. And therefore, they cannot have a God that is truly merciful and just.
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