HOLINESS God's vs. Allah's Islam claims that their "Allah" is the same god as the God of the Holy Bible (Scripture). Let's find out by comparing the two, particularly where HOLINESS is concerned: Keyword: "Holy" Quran = 6 Scripture = 611 Keyword: "Holiness" Quran = 3 (all in "unholiness") Scripture = 43 Keyword: "Hallowed" Quran = 0 Scripture = 22
In trying to compare God's TRUE Holiness with Allah's, one problem quickly becomes evident:
Allah DOESN'T HAVE ANY! That's right, there is not much at all in the Quran to compare with; there is no contest really - Allah seems to be bankrupt where holiness is concerned. On the other hand, God has plenty, and has clearly stated and shown HIS true HOLINESS. Since Allah can't seem to make even the smallest showing for himself, I'll go on without him, and expound on God's true Holiness. From the outset, the Quran doesn't hold much promise at all for showing Allah's "holiness".
The absolute purity of Holiness of God Almighty ("YHWH"), is a concept that stands head and shoulders above the little god Muhammad hallucinated into his own image. Allah and his little kingdom are based on HUMAN LUSTS, and bear no likeness or resemblance to God's character and Kingdom. God is far above the false god of Islam, and HIS true Holiness shows it.
What IS "Holiness"? Few "christians" ever manage (care) to learn anything about just how utterly Holy God is, much less what true holiness is. But, in order to understand salvation, one must first know something about God's holiness and what it requires to get close to God. To approach God, in all HIS holiness, must be done on HIS terms, not man's.
The first mention of how Holy God is can be seen in Exodus 3:5: And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
God first hallows the ground on which he walks. IF a man must approach his holy ground, he is always told to remove his shoes; God wants no "insulator" between his man and his holy ground. Allah has nothing like this.
Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
Notice what God wants: "... a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" (OF Israel).
Exodus 19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
Notice how God had to PROTECT his people with a "thick cloud". That is because that, being IN his direct presence WILL KILL sinful man. Even brief exposure causes rapid aging, as happened to Moses. Several times in scripture, God had to protect his people from His absolute Holiness with a cloud. Allah has none of this holiness.
Exodus 19:9 And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. 10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
God is so Holy that, once He hallows some ground ("cleans it up"), he doesn't want the slightest thing contaminating it! It must remain utterly pure and clean from sin, which is inherent in man; a "stench" to God that extends even unto man's livestock.
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
No wonder Allah has no holiness; he doesn't even know how long it took (God) to make heaven and earth! (Muhammad thinks it took 8 days). Notice that Allah did NOT Hallow HIS sabbath (8th day) as God did his:
Sura [16:124] The Sabbath was decreed only for those who ended up disputing it (Jews & Christians). Your Lord is the One who will judge them on the Day of Resurrection regarding their disputes.
Notice that God created His Holy sabbath out of compassion, that HIS people have some rest as HE did. According to Muhammad, Allah "decreed" it out of contention, NOT compassion, as is typical of Islam. Notice also how, once again, they attempt to "blame" it on Christians and Jews.
God is dead serious about his holiness; in those days, anyone who transgressed it was seriously DEAD!:
Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Allah has none of this.
Key phrase: "Mercy seat" Quran = 0 Scripture = 26
In those days, God had His tabernacle with His people. It contained a holy place and then a more holy place called, naturally, the most holy place. In that holy place, there was a Mercy Seat; God would commune with Israel and receive the blood of their sin offerings from there. For God to inhabit his tabernacle, it had to be absolutely clean and holy unto the Lord.
Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.Exodus 26:33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. 34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Exodus 22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.Exodus 28:34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not. 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Allah has none of this.
Well, let's try to give the Quran another chance to show forth Allah's "holiness", shall we? In Scripture, holiness goes hand in hand with cleanliness. An "unclean" thing is an unholy thing, and an abomination TO the Lord:
Keyword: "Unclean" Quran = 1 Scripture = 194 Well, so much for that idea! ([5:6] "...If you were unclean due to sexual orgasm, you shall bathe...") It just goes to figure, if Allah has no requirements of holiness, likewise, he would have no concept of cleanliness or what is unclean. Let's look at a small sampling of God's ideals of cleanliness, moreover, what is UNCLEAN to Him:
Leviticus 5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus 7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.... 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus 11:31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
Leviticus 10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Leviticus 11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus 12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.Leviticus 12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
Leviticus 13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
Leviticus 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.... 4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. 19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. 24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
Numbers 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
God has a strong sense of cleanliness and what is unclean.
Allah has none of this.
Hmmm... well, that didn't work. Let's try another word. Let's see if Allah has any Glory:
Keyword: "Glory" Quran = 14 Scripture = 402 In the Quran, in 13 of the 14 occurrences of the word "Glory", it is in the context of a man praising Allah before another man: "Glory be TO our Lord", etc. In the last instance, it is a man's praise TO Allah. NOWHERE does Allah speak of or declare his OWN glory as does God of the Scriptures. Allah seems to have NO glory to speak of, but, once again, God has plenty:
Exodus 16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Notice how, again, God protected them from His glory with a cloud.
Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office. 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.Nowhere in the Quran does Allah declare HIS glory as God does in Scripture. Nowhere.
Exodus 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
The mere sight of God's face will kill a man! Now, THAT is true Holiness.
Exodus 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Maybe this is why Allah has no glory - God won't share His with another:
Isaiah 48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Allah has none of this.
God's pure Holiness requires blood:
Keyword: "Blood" Quran = 10 Scripture = 447 Key phrase: "Sweet savour" Quran = 0 Scripture = 43 Keyword: "Remission" (of sin) Quran = 0 Scripture = 10 Keyword: "Propitiation" Quran = 0 Scripture = 3 [22:36] The animal offerings are among the rites decreed by GOD for your own good. You shall mention GOD's name on them while they are standing in line. Once they are offered for sacrifice, you shall eat therefrom and feed the poor and the needy. This is why we subdued them for you, that you may show your appreciation. [37] Neither their meat, nor their blood reaches GOD. What reaches Him is your righteousness. He has subdued them for you, that you may show
your appreciation by glorifying GOD for guiding you. Give good news to the charitableNow, compare that with these Scriptures:
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;
Exodus 29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head. 18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.Leviticus 4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:Well, it looks as if blood DOES reach God! Why does the Quran lie? Because God and Allah are two different things, and God is HOLY, whereas Allah is not (because "Allah" never really existed! He was "inspired" BY Satan, TO Muhammad, in order to take countless millions to hell, just as he has done in MOST named religions). Allah is a denunciation of GOD's true holiness in the hearts and minds of those who fear SUBMISSION: Submission to JESUS!
Although the other nine instances of "blood" in the Quran are basically mentions of various scriptures they stole, right here is the critical juncture where the Quran departs from scripture. Since Allah has no holiness, blood does NOT reach him; this is why there is no "sweet savour" to him. This is also where the Scriptures and the Quran part ways as far as salvation is concerned, as it steers people away from blood atonement, and ultimately away from Jesus. From this point on, the Quran is committed to denounce blood, even unto the blood sacrifice of Jesus.
Exodus 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Leviticus 5:9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Allah has none of this.
Keyword: "Covenant" Quran = 42 Scripture = 292 God's first covenant was with Noah, as he swore that He would never again flood the Earth and kill all flesh:
Genesis 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Notice God's "bow" (a "rainbow" as we know it) that He placed here as a token. This is a very small piece of HIS bow of sheer glory that surrounds God and his throne. Only God can and did do this; Allah does not have the holiness to even conceive of the idea, much less to do it. In all occurrences of the word "bow" in the Quran, none pertain to an actual rainBOW, as the real God almighty has set in the heavens.
God's holy covenant with Israel, not Islam:
Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.Notice that God did NOT make his covenant with Ishmael, yet the Quran violates scripture by re-inserting him, along with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, where Scripture never does. This is how the nation of Islam is attempting to STEAL Israel's promised covenant land and birthright. They have NO Godly rightful claim to it.
Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Allah has none of this.
God's pure Holiness requires atonement:
Keyword: "Atonement" Quran = 1 Scripture = 81 [5:89] GOD does not hold you responsible for the mere utterance of oaths; He holds you responsible for your actual intentions. If you violate an oath, you shall atone by feeding ten poor people from the same food you offer to your own family, or clothing them, or by freeing a slave. If you cannot afford this, then you shall fast three days. This is the
atonement for violating the oaths that you swore to keep. You shall fulfill your oaths. GOD thus explains His revelations to you, that you may be appreciative.It looks like Allah has no concept of atonement, either. That just goes to figure; no holiness means no need for atonement for sin. Since there are so many hits for "atonement" in Scripture, only the first four are listed.
Exodus 29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Exodus 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exodus 29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
Exodus 30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
Allah has none of this.
For atonement for sin, God's Holiness requires a sacrifice without spot or blemish, preferring ideally, a lamb. A lamb, without spot of blemish, represents the purity and humility that is acceptable and pleasing to God:
Keyword: "Spot" Quran = 2 Scripture = 25 Keyword: "Blemish" Quran = 4 Scripture = 64 Keyword: "Lamb" Quran = 0 Scripture = 105 In both instances of "spot" in the Quran, they refer to a place ("on the spot"). The first three mentions of "blemish" in the Quran refer to supposed miracles of a hand becoming "white" before Pharaoh. The last mention of "blemish" has to do with hitting someone they killed with part of a yellow heifer, and supposedly Allah brought them back to life. Since Allah has no holiness, and therefore no need for sacrifice, attention to purity in the context of "without spot or blemish", as God has, is non-existent in the Quran. Likewise, this is why there is NO mention of a lamb at all.
Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Exodus 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
A sacrificial lamb was a type of what would lead to God's ultimate sacrifice for sin: Jesus, God's perfect Lamb.Allah has none of this.
Man's capacity for sin exceeded God's initial sacrifice (Hebrews 9:13), which could only cover sin, not wash it away. It took the blood of a spotless sacrifice to completely wash it away. Again, since these keywords or concepts do not appear in the Quran, I'll have to continue on without "Allah"; there is nothing to show from "his word":
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Revelation 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called* might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
*People who choose Islam, or who are born into it, never have known a real relationship with God the Father; they can NOT and will NOT be called to know God the Son. Those who blindly, willingly, submit to a false god like "Allah", are not reachable, and immune to the voice of the Holy Ghost who does the calling.
Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Allah apparently does not love his people enough to make such a perfect sacrifice such as his own son for them. But, if he has NO holiness or Holy righteous indignation against sin, there is no need for sacrifice, much less a perfect sacrificial lamb such as Jesus. It's clear who His enemies are and will be, and what shame awaits them.
Allah has none of this.
Keyword: "Father" ("Heavenly Father") Quran = 63 Scripture = 979 (627 = ot; 352 = nt) Allah is NOT a "father" to his children. Throughout the 63 references to "father" in the Quran, I can find no place where Allah is thought of as a real father. The concept of the loving father-son relationship that Jesus illustrated, not only between Him and God, but that ALL men should have, is completely missing. Islam claims to accept Jesus and his message, but for the most part, it does the exact opposite. In denying that Jesus is God's own Son, they must likewise deny that God is a FATHER; indeed, THE FATHER. Therefore, Muslims can NOT know Allah as their "father" as Scriptural believers can and do.
Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness*; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. * To seek God's righteousness IS to seek Jesus.
The concept that God can be a loving FATHER, and people can be His blessed and beloved children, is lost on Islam. The concept of a person having a close, personal and loving relationship with God is equally lost on Islam. Likewise, the accountability factor that comes along with having a real relationship with God is missing. This accounts for thoughtless Muslim violence against ALL who are not like them, as called for IN the Quran. This is why Muslims lack a conscience toward God; Allah does NOT have a decent fatherly holiness and presence in their lives as God does with HIS children.
Allah has none of this.
Keyword: "Ascended" Quran = 0 Scripture = 19
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.Jesus was bearing his pure blood, shed for the sins of all mankind, to the throne of the Father. This is why he didn't want anyone touching him; it would have contaminated his pure sacrifice and his death would have been nullified.
John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Since Allah has no righteous indignation towards sin, and since therefore he needs no perfect sacrifice for sin, all of this is alien to Islam. Since Allah has no holy of holies and no mercy seat, there is no need for a perfect sin offering of sinless blood; no need for anyone to ascend up to him with such an offering.
Allah has none of this.
Key phrase: "I AM THE LORD" Quran = 0 Scripture = 163 Throughout Scripture, God authenticates His word to man with the infinitely powerful personal statement "I AM THE LORD". No other entity can rightly make such statement; only God the Almighty can:
Exodus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.Nowhere in the Quran can I find where Allah spoke with such absolute authority to Muhammad as God did to His children.
Allah has none of this.
Key phrase: "Holy Spirit" Quran = 4 Scripture = 7 Key phrase: "Holy Ghost" Quran = 0 Scripture = 90 Three of the four mentions of the Holy Ghost in the Quran apply to "them" pretending that "they" gave Jesus the Holy Ghost; the fourth is yet another blasphemous and invented lie about Jesus. One major point that the Quran fails to take into consideration is that Jesus was CREATED into a fleshly body BY the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Although Muslims and the Quran pretend to own and control the Holy Ghost, they do not. The Holy Ghost today is ONLY for believers in Jesus:
John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Be not mistaken; the Quran flatly rejects Jesus as the Son of God, and tries to reason that God can't have a son:
[5:75] The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers before him, and his mother was a saint.
Both of them used to eat the food. Note how we explain the revelations for them, and note how they still deviate![9:30] The Jews said, "Ezra is the son of GOD," while the Christians said, "Jesus is the son of GOD!" These are blasphemies
uttered by their mouths. They thus match the blasphemies of those who have disbelieved in the past. GOD condemns them.
They have surely deviated.[10:68] They said, "GOD has begotten a son!" Be He glorified. He is the Most Rich. To Him belongs everything in the heavens
and everything on earth. You have no proof to support such a blasphemy. Are you saying about GOD what you do not know?[17:111] And proclaim: "Praise be to GOD, who has never begotten a son, nor does He have a partner in His kingship, nor
does He need any ally out of weakness," and magnify Him constantly.[6:101] The Initiator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have a son, when He never had a mate? He created all things,
and He is fully aware of all things.Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
It's pretty clear that the Quran has no concept of WHO the Holy Ghost is and WHAT he is capable of.
Allah has none of this.
The bottom line:
When Satan went around creating and inspiring the various false religions, he had one thing in mind: diverting people from the REAL God and his only acceptable sacrifice - Jesus. He didn't care how he did it, just so that that was the end result. This can be seen in the vast diversity and highly contradictory nature each has with the others AND with Scripture. People often ask, "How can such a large religion be wrong?", but if you compare Islam with, for example, Catholicism, which is clearly diametrically opposed, you can be sure that at least one of them is WRONG. So, it IS possible for at least one HUGE religion to be wrong, right? Do you think it's possible for more than one to be wrong? (If you compare both to Scripture, you will see that BOTH are clearly not of God). The same goes for virtually all other named religions.
When the Devil, having no holiness of HIS own, inspired Muhammad with the Quran, in spite of the fact that they stole so many scripture fragments and concept fragments, they neglected to steal anything to do with God's PURE HOLINESS. The Quran, in the Powerful Light of God's Inspired Word, pales in comparison. The false god it portrays, "Allah", is a weak and feeble attempt to imitate the REAL and Living God Almighty, who's Son is seated at His right hand, in either Judgment or Advocacy. False religions such as this always manage to diminish God the Father and God the Son (and they haven't got a clue about God the Holy Ghost) into a pitifully impotent "god" like Allah.
Although Muslims and the Quran think themselves "believers", and everyone else "unbelievers" by comparison, it is they who can't manage to believe Jesus and his message. It is Islam who can't understand the simple concept of a triune being. The very existence of human flesh testifies otherwise: WE are created in God's image; He IS a spirit being; he HAS a soul; he LIVES in a body. Likewise, being created in His image, WE are also triune beings: WE are spirit beings; WE have a soul; WE live in a body. Though Islam understands the concept that man has a body, soul and spirit, they have such a pathetic little image of God that they can't manage to give HIM credit for the same.The unholy image of God that the Quran paints, is a dim reflection in a broken mirror of the REAL God Almighty, whom we must all soon face. It is clear from comparing the two, that God and Allah are two far and away different beings. And, since there are no other gods beside God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, the godhead, Allah is no god at all. Allah is yet another lying attempt to belittle God, invented BY Satan, THROUGH Muhammad, believed BY Muslims, just as Satan intended.
Allah and God are not the same. Allah has NO Holiness and is about as UNholy as it gets. Allah is a lie and the Quran an invented blasphemy against the HOLY Lord God Almighty. Muslim depravity is a reflection of Allah's lack of Holiness. Just as with so many other false religions, Islam and the Quran serve to effectively lead people AWAY from God's plan of salvation.
Remember, the last word in Muhammad is *MAD!*Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
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