We Are Not the Same!

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has a sanctuary of God with idols?

2 Corinthians 6:14-16

Recently, Tucker Carlson stated, “The people in charge don’t want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.” Then he added that “Islam reveres Christ as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord.” He continues, “Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist.”

Muslims do not love Jesus, God incarnate, the Son of the living God. Their holy book declares, “He neither begets nor is born (Qur'an 112:3)”, and “How could He have a son when He has no consort? He created all things...(Qur'an 6:101).” That is why they call Christians infidels (disbelievers).

The sad reality is that the Roman Catholic Church has gone as far as to say that Christians worship the same God as Muslims. Pope Leo visited a Mosque in Algeria on April 13 and walked side by side with the rector of the third largest temple of Satan that Islam calls a mosque said this, “I thank you for these reflections and for these important words during this visit, from a place that represents the space that belongs to God, a divine and sacred space, where many people come to pray and to seek the presence of the Most High in their lives.”

This is no recent position of the Roman Church:

• The Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 16, November 21, 1964 “But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place among whom are the Muslims: these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”

• John Paul II, address to representatives of Muslims of the Philippines, February 20, 1981“I deliberately address you as brothers: that is certainly what we are, because we are members of the same human family, whose efforts, whether people realize it or not, tend toward God and the truth that comes from him. But we are especially brothers in God, who created us and whom we are trying to reach, in our own ways, through faith, prayer and worship, through the keeping of his law and through submission to his designs.”

• Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. Muslims, like Christians and Jews, “worship the one, merciful God.”

• Pope Francis Statement (2013) Muslims “worship the one living and merciful God."

As Paul declared, we are not the same, and we are to have nothing to do with them regarding the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All those blinded by the lies of Satan need to hear the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, not some coexist rubbish that declares we all worship the same god.

Heed the warning of Paul to the Galatians: “I marvel that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel, which is really not another, only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to the gospel we have proclaimed to you, let him be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is proclaiming to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be accursed! For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a slave of Christ (Galatians 1:6-10).”

Your shepherd,

Pastor Mark