What irritates me most about this subject is the amount of money, time and personnel we spend on people who should know better.
This thread is a clear example.
What purpose does it serve to still ask, why all terrorists are Muslims? Those are questions you expect in a dangeon deep in suguta valley.
Why do we have most criminals in our jails coming from one part of the country? I pose that question to anyone asking about Muslims and terrorism.
JESUS is GOD.
There are no emotions manz these are all clearly complete bible verses unlike what Makena did by cutting out a Quran verse to suit her own vile agenda. Am sorry if seeing the bible from that light has caused you grief.
Only an ignorant person will proclaim such statements. Go do your research and you will see countless atrocities currently being committed by the groups you have mentioned except Rastafarians, in particular (Hindus, Buddhist, Christians). The truth is the world is just a very sick place currently with lots of atrocities ongoing. To name a few…
-Buddhist in Mnyamar are currently killing the Rohingya Muslim population by the thousands. Go research and you’ll be shocked.
-Last I heard the Indian government was maiming and blinding Kashmir protestors.
my bro converted to Islam and to be honest guy is very different…he has changed positively …he seems happy…
And who is God?
Hakuna kitu kama ignorance. Myanmar is an isolated event and even UN hasn’t called it terrorism.
Christians attacking Muslims? Wapi? Mambo ya Kashmir ni mambo ya territory dispute between India and Pakistani so again no terrorism.
Terrorism is to Islam as fish is to water
Isaiah 9:6.
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
I always find it funny ( not in a good way) when i find Africans arguing about religion…chrisitianity, Islam or otherwise.
isnt that the same thing muslims do with the bible?? (fyi i dont subscribe to any religion)
well good for him hope you have made peace that maybe soon it will be him wacha tuwache hii maneno
Thank you for TRYING VERY HARD to explain away something that is so obvious. Now below is an Aljazeera feature by John Allan Namu on persecution of moslems particularly in Eastleigh and Majengo slums. According to your explaination persecution or Fitna is worse than killing. So if you feel persecuted for your faith IT IS BETTER THAT YOU KILL TO END THAT PERSECUTION. Not so?
Compare that with what the Bible says about persecution:
[SIZE=7]Persecution[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 1,764 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
[SIZE=5]John 15:18 ESV / 1,124 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:12-14 ESV / 1,114 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:44 ESV / 1,075 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:10 ESV / 1,054 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
[SIZE=5]2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 865 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
[SIZE=5]Luke 6:22 ESV / 737 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:10-12 ESV / 678 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 3:17 ESV / 674 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 641 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
[SIZE=5]1 John 3:13 ESV / 470 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 460 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
[SIZE=5]Romans 12:14 ESV / 450 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
[SIZE=5]John 15:20 ESV / 447 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
[SIZE=5]Romans 8:35 ESV / 445 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
[SIZE=5]John 16:33 ESV / 441 helpful votes [/SIZE]
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:16 ESV / 436 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:19 ESV / 425 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
[SIZE=5]Acts 14:22 ESV / 422 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
[SIZE=5]John 15:19 ESV / 404 helpful votes [/SIZE]
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 6:9-11 ESV / 388 helpful votes [/SIZE]
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
[SIZE=5]Galatians 5:11 ESV / 385 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
[SIZE=5]Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 381 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 1:9 ESV / 357 helpful votes [/SIZE]
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
[SIZE=5]Psalm 23:4 ESV / 351 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
[SIZE=5]2 Corinthians 4:8-12 ESV / 348 helpful votes [/SIZE]
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 2:10 ESV / 346 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 10:22 ESV / 331 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
[SIZE=5]Mark 4:17 ESV / 316 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
[SIZE=5]John 16:2 ESV / 312 helpful votes [/SIZE]
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
[SIZE=5]Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 309 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[SIZE=5]Acts 8:1 ESV / 309 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 307 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:11 ESV / 307 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:12-16 ESV / 304 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
[SIZE=5]Philippians 1:29 ESV / 277 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
[SIZE=5]John 15:18-20 ESV / 274 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
[SIZE=5]Mark 10:30 ESV / 267 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
[SIZE=5]Romans 8:35-37 ESV / 258 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
[SIZE=5]1 John 3:1 ESV / 257 helpful votes [/SIZE]
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
[SIZE=5]Mark 10:29-30 ESV / 256 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
[SIZE=5]Psalm 31:15 ESV / 255 helpful votes [/SIZE]
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
[SIZE=5]Jeremiah 20:11 ESV / 253 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.
[SIZE=5]Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 250 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 17:6 ESV / 244 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
[SIZE=5]John 17:14 ESV / 244 helpful votes [/SIZE]
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 238 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
[SIZE=5]2 Corinthians 4:8-11 ESV / 238 helpful votes [/SIZE]
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 13:21 ESV / 238 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
[SIZE=5]Romans 8:7 ESV / 237 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
[SIZE=5]John 15:18-21 ESV / 237 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 20:4 ESV / 231 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
[SIZE=5]Philippians 1:12-14 ESV / 228 helpful votes [/SIZE]
I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 6:10 ESV / 226 helpful votes [/SIZE]
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
[SIZE=5]Matthew 13:20-21 ESV / 224 helpful votes [/SIZE]
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
[SIZE=5]Mark 13:13 ESV / 222 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 7:14 ESV / 209 helpful votes [/SIZE]
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 23:34 ESV / 208 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
[SIZE=5]Acts 14:21-22 ESV / 206 helpful votes [/SIZE]
When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
[SIZE=5]John 16:1-4 ESV / 205 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:1 ESV / 201 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
[SIZE=5]Acts 11:19 ESV / 200 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.
[SIZE=5]Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 200 helpful votes [/SIZE]
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …
[SIZE=5]Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 199 helpful votes [/SIZE]
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 196 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
[SIZE=5]Psalm 34:19 ESV / 196 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
[SIZE=5]Mark 13:11-13 ESV / 192 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
[SIZE=5]Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 192 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …
[SIZE=5]Acts 13:50 ESV / 189 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
[SIZE=5]Amos 5:10 ESV / 188 helpful votes [/SIZE]
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
[SIZE=5]2 Timothy 3:10-12 ESV / 186 helpful votes [/SIZE]
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
[SIZE=5]Acts 7:59-60 ESV / 184 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
[SIZE=5]Galatians 4:29 ESV / 180 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
[SIZE=5]Luke 6:23 ESV / 179 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 2:8-10 ESV / 175 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. “‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
[SIZE=5]Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 173 helpful votes [/SIZE]
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
[SIZE=5]Luke 21:19 ESV / 172 helpful votes [/SIZE]
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 4:17 ESV / 170 helpful votes [/SIZE]
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
[SIZE=5]Philippians 3:6 ESV / 169 helpful votes [/SIZE]
As to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
[SIZE=5]Romans 8:17 ESV / 169 helpful votes [/SIZE]
And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
[SIZE=5]John 15:19-21 ESV / 168 helpful votes [/SIZE]
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
[SIZE=5]Luke 21:13-15 ESV / 165 helpful votes [/SIZE]
This will be your opportunity to bear witness. Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
[SIZE=5]Luke 21:12-13 ESV / 165 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness.
[SIZE=5]Acts 7:54-60 ESV / 164 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. …
[SIZE=5]Psalm 10:2 ESV / 164 helpful votes [/SIZE]
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 155 helpful votes [/SIZE]
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …
[SIZE=5]2 Timothy 1:8 ESV / 147 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
[SIZE=5]Luke 21:12 ESV / 144 helpful votes [/SIZE]
But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:12 ESV / 144 helpful votes [/SIZE]
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
[SIZE=5]Romans 10:2 ESV / 141 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
[SIZE=5]Matthew 24:21 ESV / 137 helpful votes [/SIZE]
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 133 helpful votes [/SIZE]
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
[SIZE=5]Romans 5:3 ESV / 129 helpful votes [/SIZE]
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
[SIZE=5]Psalm 3:1-8 ESV / 129 helpful votes [/SIZE]
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, there is no salvation for him in God. Selah But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. …
[SIZE=5]Revelation 2:9 ESV / 128 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
[SIZE=5]James 5:10 ESV / 128 helpful votes [/SIZE]
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
[SIZE=5]John 15:18-25 ESV / 127 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. …
[SIZE=5]Matthew 5:11-12 ESV / 125 helpful votes [/SIZE]
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
[SIZE=5]Acts 7:52 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful[/SIZE]
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
[SIZE=5]1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 114 helpful votes [/SIZE]
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
Now look at the life of a few people who were persecuted and killed for their faith in the Bible, if it was Islam it’d have been a source of radicalization like the assasination of Aboud Rogo and Makaburi who had changed the name to “Masjid Shuhadaa” (Martyrs Mosque) both Imams at the Masjid Musa mosque in Majengo. Mahir the suicide bomber was a prodigy of Aboud Rogo whose inflammatory speeches I will put at the end of this. Ahmed Iman Ali -a Kenyan of Swahili/Banjuni origin who is now a key leader in Alshabab and a recruiter who lives in Somalia was also a leader at Masjid Musa Mosque.
[SIZE=7]Matthew 14 New Living Translation (NLT)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]The Death of John the Baptist[/SIZE]
14 When Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee,[a] heard about Jesus, 2 he said to his advisers, “This must be John the Baptist raised from the dead! That is why he can do such miracles.”
3 For Herod had arrested and imprisoned John as a favor to his wife Herodias (the former wife of Herod’s brother Philip). 4 John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry her.” 5 Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of a riot, because all the people believed John was a prophet.
6 But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him, 7 so he promised with a vow to give her anything she wanted. 8 At her mother’s urging, the girl said, “I want the head of John the Baptist on a tray!” 9 Then the king regretted what he had said; but because of the vow he had made in front of his guests, he issued the necessary orders. 10 So John was beheaded in the prison,11 and his head was brought on a tray and given to the girl, who took it to her mother. 12 Later, John’s disciples came for his body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus what had happened.
[SIZE=7]Acts 7:54-8:2 Contemporary English Version (CEV)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]Stephen Is Stoned to Death[/SIZE]
54 When the council members heard Stephen’s speech, they were angry and furious. 55 But Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit. He looked toward heaven, where he saw our glorious God and Jesus standing at his right side.[a] 56 Then Stephen said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!”
57 The council members shouted and covered their ears. At once they all attacked Stephen 58 and dragged him out of the city. Then they started throwing stones at him. The men who had brought charges against him put their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.[b]
59 As Stephen was being stoned to death, he called out, “Lord Jesus, please welcome me!” 60 He knelt down and shouted, “Lord, don’t blame them for what they have done.” Then he died.
8 1-2 Saul approved the stoning of Stephen. Some faithful followers of the Lord buried Stephen and mourned very much for him.
[SIZE=5]Saul Makes Trouble for the Church[/SIZE]
At that time the church in Jerusalem suffered terribly. All of the Lord’s followers, except the apostles, were scattered everywhere in Judea and Samaria.
This are teachings that went on in mosques filled to the brim and were sold in street kwa wingi, I heard it enough times when walking in Mombasa CBD. Swali langu ni, when all this was happening where were the moderate muslims who are closing shops now manake watoto wao,vijana wao , wameuliwa as collateral damage. These radicalisers get their message from the Koran , they quote it extensively in their radicalisation preachings. Aboud Rogo alitaka Shahada or matrydom , the government of Kenya helped him attain it, so wakina Mahir kujilipua should have thanked gover for helping his hero and mentor afike Jenna mapema mapema kabla hajazeeka. Where were all the ‘good’ moslems for the years this man was preaching such messages. Shame on all of you who kept quiet as this man spread hate and radicalised poor impressionable youths like Mahir whose kids now will grow up without a father because of Aboud Rogo Shetani mkubwa.
But then came the New Testament and Jesus the promised Messiah. And his teachings on forgiveness and salvation, something that is missing in Islam.
This is the old testament when the world was under the law ,after the death and resurrection of Jesus , we live under grace now as all this deaths caused by sin was taken up by Jesus.
Hebrews 10
11 Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins,He sat down at the right hand of God. 13 Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet
B.S.The Quran and the bible are just pieces of shit.
(1) “Fight against those who do not obey Allah and do not believe in Allah or the Last Day and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and His messenger even if they are of the People of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” 9:29
(2) “When the sacred months have passed, then kill the Mushrikin wherever you find them. Capture them. Besiege them. Lie in wait for them in each and every ambush but if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give zacat then leave their way free.” 9:5
Our God is a mystery ,a Trinity - Three in One - Can not be understood by a finite human mind. He is not simple like yours who has only one messenger and prophet. A god who created billions of people but has only one prophet? Makes no sense to me. Anyhow the God of Israel has MANY,MANY prophets. Wengi tena sana. Now that is my kind of God.
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[li]Aaron (Exodus 7:1)[/li][li]Abraham (Genesis 20:7)[/li][li]Agabus (Acts 21:10)[/li][li]Agur (Book of Proverbs 30:1)[/li][li]Ahijah (1 Kings 11:29)[/li][li]Amos (Amos 7:14-15)[/li][li]Anna (Luke 2:36)[/li][li]Asaph (2 Chronicles 29:30)[/li][li]Azariah (2 Chronicles 15:8)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Daniel (Matthew 24:15)[/li][li]David (Hebrews 11:32)[/li][li]Deborah (Judges 4:4)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Elijah (1 Kings 18:36)[/li][li]Elisha (2 Kings 9:1)[/li][li]Enoch (Jude 1:14)[/li][li]Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:3)[/li][li]Ezra (Book of Ezra)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Gad (1 Samuel 22:5)[/li][li]Gideon (Judges 6 through 8)[/li][/ul]
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The Vision of Isaiah is depicted in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld
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[li]Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22)[/li][li]Isaac (Genesis 26:2-7)[/li][li]Isaiah (2 Kings 19:2)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Jacob (Genesis 28:11-16)[/li][li]Jehu (1 Kings 16:7)[/li][li]Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:2)[/li][li]Joel (Acts 2:16)[/li][li]John the Baptist (Luke 7:28)[/li][li]John of Patmos (Revelation 1:1)[/li][li]Jonah (2 Kings 14:25)[/li][li]Joshua (Joshua 1:1)[/li][li]Judas Barsabbas (Acts 3:15)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Lamech (Genesis 5:28-29)[/li][li]Lucius of Cyrene (Acts 13:1)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Malachi (Malachi 1:1)[/li][li]Manahen (Acts 13:1)[/li][li]Micah (Micah 1:1)[/li][li]Micaiah (1 Kings 22:9)[/li][li]Miriam (Exodus 15:20)[/li][li]Moses (Deuteronomy 34:10)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Nahum (Nahum 1:1)[/li][li]Nathan (2 Samuel 7:2)[/li][li]Noah (Genesis 7:1)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Obadiah (Obadiah 1:1)[/li][li]Oded (2 Chronicles 15:8 and 28:9)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Philip the Evangelist (Acts 8:26) Note: His four daughters also prophesied (Acts 21:8, 9)[/li][li]Paul the Apostle (Acts of the Apostles 9:20)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Samuel (1 Samuel 3:20)[/li][li]Shemaiah (1 Kings 12:22)[/li][li]Silas (Acts 15:32)[/li][li]Simeon Niger (Acts 13:1)[/li][/ul]
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[li]Eldad (Numbers 11:26)[/li][li]Eliezer (2 Chronicles 20:37)[/li][li]Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:41)[/li][li]Elihu (Job 32-35)[/li][li]Jahaziel (2 Chronicles 20:14)[/li][li]Joseph (Genesis 37:5 - 11)[/li][li]Joseph, fosterfather of Jesus (Matthew 1:20)[/li][li]Mary, mother of Jesus (Luke 1:26-28)[/li][li]Medad (Numbers 11:26)[/li][li]King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Daniel 2:1)[/li][li]Saul (1Samuel 10:10)[/li][li]Simeon of Jerusalem (Luke 2:25, 26)[/li][li]Solomon (1Kings 3:5)[/li][li]The seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:25)[/li][li]Zechariah, father of John the Baptist (Luke 1:67)[/li][/ul]
We worship God the Father -Jehovah Jireh,Jehovah Nissa, Jehovah Elshaddai , Jehovah ROI (there are over 300 names) and we worship Jesus Christ - the Son - the Messiah,the perfect Lamb of God and Lion of Judah and we worship the Holy Spirit -the Helper, the Counselor, the Comforter that Jesus left for believers. In Him are found the 7 Spirits of God.
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I asked for an explanation on this verse which is what every extremist quotes. Let the moderate moslems explain to us what it means so that we can also help them see why it can be used and is always used to radicalize moslems all over the world. This texts in the Quran are the reason for terrorists all being moslems. If you want to be an extremist Christian you will have a hard time getting verses in the New Testament to support your extremism meanwhile there are many such verses in Quran for extremists to quote. Maybe Moslems should consider removing those verses because it is also quoted in the war between Islamic sects like Shiite and Sunnis.
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