How can Christians and Muslims unite, when each believes the other to be in danger of damnation? Muslims for not recognizing Jesus’ Divinity nor hailing him as Saviour, and Christians for propogating “false” doctrines of a Triune God, not to mention rejecting Mohammed’s claim to be a Prophet. Perhaps in a secular sense, there can be peace, but the two cannot reconcile theologically.
If only Mohammed had properly understood Christianity… he might have embraced it. Imagine how different the world would be if he had! Instead, he chose to amalgamate native Arabian paganism, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism through a series of epileptic fits taken as Divine Revelation. Even on the off-chance he had experienced a private Revelation (which I won’t rule out), it is impossible that God would have aberrantly established a new religion! Pride was Mohammed’s grave error. He refused to accept the one True Faith, and disseminated his own deviation of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect Islam and believe the Koran holds much truth in it (insofar as it is copied from Scripture), but it perverts the Bible and adds too many extraneous superstitions for a Christian to accept. Not to mention that God’s public Revelation had ceased some 500 years before Mohammed. Until Islam recants (which would demand some mighty work of the Holy Spirit), hails Christ as Lord and accepts the Trinity, I don’t see how any union is possible.