The Christ in Prophecy Journal

Zeal Without Knowledge

What happens when a person is filled with great zeal for God, but worships the wrong God — not the God of the Bible, but one created by a man?

How this person expresses their zeal would be determined by whatever “holy” book he follows which tells him what the appropriate expression should be. Such expression would result in stories like this:

“A young girl in Saudi Arabia was brutally executed by her Muslim father this week after he learned his daughter had converted to Christianity. Middle East business news website Zawya.com reported that the man, who is a prominent member of a ‘virtue committee,’ first cut out his daughter’s tongue and held a one-sided religious debate with her. He then burned his daughter alive.”
(“Saudi Girl Executed for Becoming Christian” by Israel Today Staff, August 14, 2008,
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=16907. Note: The Dubai business site, Zawya.com, has since removed the article.)

“…A woman in the United Kingdom who was kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered at the order of her Muslim father.”
(“‘Fill-in-the-blank’ News Report on Honor Killing” by Jim Brown, OneNewsNow, August 18, 2008,
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=214188.)

“In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity.”
(“The Whore Lived like a German” by Jody K. Biehl, Spiegel Online International, March 2, 2005,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,344374,00.html.)

“By Sait Kina’s way of thinking, his 13-year-old daughter brought nothing but dishonor to his family: She talked to boys on the street, she ran away from home, she was the subject of neighborhood gossip. Two months ago, when she tried to run away yet again, Kina grabbed a kitchen knife and an ax and stabbed and beat the girl until she lay dead in the blood-smeared bathroom of the family’s Istanbul apartment. He then commanded one of his daughters-in-law to clean up the mess. When his two sons came home from work 14 hours later, he ordered them to dispose of the 5-foot-3 corpse, which had been wrapped in a carpet and a blanket. The girl’s head had been so mutilated, police said, it was held together by a knotted cloth.”
(“In Turkey, ‘Honor Killing’ Follows Families to Cities” by Molly Moore, Washington Post Foreign Service, August 8, 2001,
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/dilberk.htm.)

The common thread in these and many stories like them is that all these fathers murdered their own daughters in the name of Islam. In Islam, to shun the tenants taught by Islam’s god Allah through the prophet Muhammad is to commit blasphemy. Even worse, to convert to another religion would make one worthy of death. And, to not put to death an infidel (kafir) is to sin in the sight of Allah. This is what Muhammad taught:

“If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him.” (Surah 3:85)

“Sieze them and slay them wherever you find them; and in any case take no friend or helpers from their ranks.” (Surah 4:89)

“For the Unbelievers are open enemies to you.” (Surah 4:101)

“For the Unbelievers, Allah has prepared a humiliating punishment.” (Surah 4:102)

“I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, smite ye above the necks and smite all their fingertips of them. It is not you who slew them; it was Allah.” (Surah 8:13-17)

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day.” (Surah 9:29)

“Mohammed said: Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.” (Hadith 9:57)

When someone follows not the teachings of the one true God, but the teachings of man, or more to the point the doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1), then their zeal destroys the very family they should be loving and protecting and does nothing more for them in the sight of God but to condemn them. God says in Jeremiah 19:5, “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal — something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.” The Apostle Paul explains this errant behavior in Romans 10:2, “For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.”

If only such zeal was directed by not what false prophets teach, but by the knowledge of what the Son of God teaches, such as:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Matthew 5:43-44 NIV)

“If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.” (Luke 17:4 NIV)

“Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'” (Matthew 19:14 NIV)

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Dr. Nathan E. Jones

As the Internet Evangelist at Lamb & Lion Ministries, Nathan reaches out to the over 4.5 billion people accessible over the Internet with the Good News of Jesus Christ. He also co-hosts the ministry's television program Christ in Prophecy and podcast The Truth Will Set You Free.

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  • 4/157 And for claiming that they killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of GOD. In fact, they never killed him, they never crucified him-they were made to think that they did. All factions who are disputing in this matter are full of doubt concerning this issue. They possess no knowledge; they only conjecture. For certain, they never killed him.

    This is where the Koran teaches that Jesus was never crucified. So, when somebody tells you that Christianity and Islam are the same, you can look to this verse in the Koran to see that it destroys the foundation of Christianity (Jesus’s death at the cross). Without that, there is no church.

    3/54 They plotted and schemed, but so did GOD, and GOD is the best schemer.

    3/55 Thus, GOD said, “O Jesus, I am terminating your life, raising you to Me, and ridding you of the disbelievers. I will exalt those who follow you above those who disbelieve, till the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is the ultimate destiny of all of you, then I will judge among you regarding your disputes.

    Says that God took Jesus’ life.

  • This post expressing the facts about islam is a rarity in the world today. It makes one realize the most dangerous threat to America and the world. That threat is the now universal domination of political correctness by the liberals in media, education and religious institutions. We are living in the times when good shall be called evil and evil shall be called good.

    Billy W.

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