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so satan wanted to start a religion and decieve people and change thier beliefs from worshipping idols to worship one God !!!
Yes. Consider the following analysis:
If Islam Is True
… the Islamic view [of Christianity] is extremely problematic. It requires us to believe that God deceived billions of people. God even led Jesus’ followers astray by tricking so many people into believing that Jesus died. This could have been avoided if God hadn’t been so intent on deceiving people. But this leads to more questions: Why would Allah want people to believe that Jesus was dead when he really wasn’t? Muslims can’t argue that Allah did it to protect Jesus from the Jews or Romans, since Allah was taking Jesus away safely anyway. So, why would Allah want to give Jesus’ enemies the satisfaction of seeing Jesus killed? Why not raise Jesus up without deceiving everyone about it? There seems to be no reason at all for Allah to deceive these people, especially since such a deception would soon lead to the formation of Christianity.
This is a difficult pill to swallow, yet Islam forces us to view the origin of Christianity in this way. If Islam is true, Allah deceives people who believe the prophets he sends. If Islam is true, Allah spreads false teachings until they become dominant in the world. If Islam is true, Jesus, the Messiah, was completely incompetent and should never have been sent by Allah, since Jesus’ life ended up leading more people astray than any other life in history. Because the Muslim view is at odds with any traditional understanding of God’s nature (including the Islamic understanding),
Islam is an incoherent religious system, which should be rejected by all rational people. Islam has a poor and contemptible explanation for the origin of Christianity. If Islam is true, the existence of Christianity makes no sense at all.
If Christianity Is True
Christianity, on the other hand, easily accounts for the rise of Islam. “… false prophets will arise and will mislead many.”] Indeed, if Christianity is true, the rise of Islam makes perfect sense. If it isn’t immediately clear why Christianity entails the rise of religions such as Islam, consider the following line of thought.
If Christianity is true, then the following statements are also true:
INDENT People can come to God only through Jesus Christ.
(2) Satan is a real spirit being who wants to keep people from God.
… if Satan wants to keep people from God [and he does], and if the way to God is through Jesus Christ, what would Satan’s highest priority be? … to incite people to reject Christ, for this rejection is what keeps them separated from God.
But how would Satan convince people to reject Christ? … Since his goal is to keep as many people from God as possible, we would expect Satan to be focused on people who are to some extent concerned with religious matters [as opposed to those who are not; they are already lost]. There are two ways to keep such people from God. Satan would either have to convince them that all “religious talk” is nonsense (i.e., by spreading secularism) or he would have to offer them a substitute for the truth (i.e., a religion that rejects what is necessary for salvation).
Thus, if Christianity is true, we would expect Satan to inspire [among other things] religions that reject Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection, even though these religions may be similar to Christianity in other (non-essential) respects.
The message of Islam is something like this: “Believe in God. Do good deeds. If you do enough of them, you’ll get to heaven. Respect Jesus, for he was a mighty prophet, who delivered God’s message to the children of Israel. Also believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he performed many miracles, and that he was the Messiah. But whatever you do, don’t believe that he died on the cross for your sins. And don’t believe that he rose from the dead. In fact, the worst possible sin you can commit is to believe that Jesus is the Son of God.”
Credit: David Wood, “Deceptive God, Incompetent Messiah: What Islam Really Teaches About Allah and Jesus”[/INDENT]
did you forgot that mohammed preach his religion to pagans !!! , did satan wanted to decieve the pagans from the truth
You forget that paganism was not the only religion in the area at the time. There were also Jews and Christians that Mohammed had to compete with. We see this from the Qur’an’s [laughable] incorporation of some of the OT and NT prophets and stories. Not even Mohammed’s idea of there being only one God was original.
And so …
“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
