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I don’t know if you saw this post of mine showing that Jesus also was visited by Satan and was promised many carnal things - the world, etc. And He responded so much differently than mohammed, and we see that mohammed’s ‘fruits’ are very apparently Satan’s handiwork.Then that proves satans hand in Islam.
Islam, the choices it makes, the choices Mohammed makes, made me think of the Second Temptation (Luke’s account) which is the Third, in Matthew’s Gospel.
Luke 4: 5-8 - “and the devil, taking him [Jesus] up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them; for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” And Jesus answered, and said unto him, 'Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written [Deuteronomy 6: 13 - thou shalt fear the LORD thy God - NB - ‘LORD’ in the King James translation usually renders the Divine
Name, YHWH] ‘Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve’.
Matthew 4: 8-10, “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, 'Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
The Evil One offers Jesus absolute temporal power, imperium, IF he will ‘fall down and worship me [the Adversary]’. Jesus says No.
Mohammed, on the other hand, essentially says Yes! Right on! and Mohammedans have been grovelling before the Evil One, the Adversary, ever since, selling their souls as slaves of allah, in order to obtain worldly power.
**And to that devil’s bargain (which in fact is itself based on a flat-out lie, for according to Hebrew theology, it is YHWH who has the last word, raising up and casting down kings and empires, as we see in the story of Babel, and of the Exodus), other words from the Gospels apply: “what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Matt 16: 26), or Mark 8: 37 - “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”, Luke 9: 23 - “for what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away”? **
Sure, historically Mohammed and his imitators, worshipping that apotheosis of the raw brute Will to Power that is ‘allah’, have pursued - with ghastly singlemindedness and a wilful blaspheming of every ethical limit - temporal power and dominion, and have obtained it…and they have lost their own souls, as we see demonstrated by all sorts of things, including the attitudes and practices of theirs.