Was Paul talking about Islam?

Galatians 1:18 says, “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!”

Muhammad claims that an angel (Jibreel or Gabriel) appeared to him in a cave and gave him the revelation of Islam. Is this the angel Paul was talking about, that he should be accursed for preaching something contrary to the gospel of Christ?

Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 that God will send a strong delusion to those who chose not to believe the truth of the Gospel of Jesus. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

What group of people has refused to love the truth? While this applies to anyone who mocks or rejects Jesus as the Son of God, Paul is specifically referring to the group of people who rejected the Gospel of Jesus preached by Paul, and are later deceived by the man of lawlessness when Satan revealed himself to the false prophet Muhammad in 610‐632 AD. This also likely explains why Islam dislikes Paul so much.

One of the key areas where Islamists attack the Apostle Paul is on the concept of the “Law.” Muslims believe that Paul deviated from Christ’s teaching because Jesus said that He did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, whereas Paul correctly claimed that no one is able to fulfill every letter of the law. These two arguments (Paul and Jesus) are actually in complete resonance with each other.

The unloving Allah of the Qu’ran offers no atoning sacrifice, no savior and the only path in Islam to heaven is following sharia law. However, no one can follow the Law according to God’s exacting standards because of the Original Sin; as the prophet Isaiah made clear. That is why the true loving God sent his Son.
Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 64: 5‐6
How then can we be saved? All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

The Qu’ran has entirely corrupted the most important information about Jesus. Jesus is the only path to heaven since no one can keep the law. The Sharia is inadequate to save mankind, even if they kept every letter of Sharia Law like the Pharisees and Sadducees, only the blood of Jesus is able to convert that old man of sin on the inside.
Romans 6:6-7, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.”

Religion wachana nayo

There is no wrong or truth.

Everybody was born and automatically entered the parents religion

Hmnn…I believe you previously made it categorically clear that you do not believe the revelations of the prophet of Islam? You said there were no witnesses who saw him speak to the angel? That he was making it up? Are you now accepting that he spoke to some divine being whether it was an angel or demon??

I’m covering all my bases. Whether Muhammad even existed is another point of debate. If he existed, and if he got his revelation from an angel, then this angel was THE angel/demon which Paul was referring to (because God’s angels will never contradict the Word).
Curiously, the qu’ran speaks of a pre-Islamic prophet before Muhammad that was rejected by the Thamud people of Arabia, who appeared circa 100AD (this fits the timeline of Paul). We know that Paul went to Arabia for three years but they rejected him. The name of this pre-Islamic prophet was Salih, whose spelling is not much different from Saul=Paul. Even though those Arabs rejected Paul, they obviously remembered his teachings so well that satan had to spin the message many years later in the qu’ran.

What’s also interesting is that Muslims claim the gospels were corrupted by Emperor Constantine and the council of Nicaea but that was circa 300AD. When the fragments of St John’s papyrus were discovered at the turn of the 20th century, apparently it threw them in a loop. Now the vitriol has shifted to Apostle Paul and John. In the book of John, Jesus is magnified and transformed into someone very different to the person found in Mark. Recall the tetramorphology of Christ we discussed a few days ago… John’s Jesus is a powerful being, occupying a position somewhere between God and Man. He is the Logos, the Word of God, through whom God created everything. Islam is uncomfortable with that because Jesus is clearly no longer just a Prophet and Messenger of God, but God’s only begotten Son….

Okay so how is it possible John heard Jesus say things that Mark, Matthew and Luke did not hear? When Jesus Seminar said 80% of John cannot be trusted to be genuine words from Jesus don’t you think they have a case? Earlier on I quoted Jesus (in John 8:42 I think) having said that the Jews are the children of Satan, do you believe Jesus (a Jew himself) could have said such words? IMO anything that is not found in Mark is dubious at best.

John is actually my personal favorite out of all the gospels. From chapter 1:1,14 you can tell this Eagle is a different bird altogether! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John in the first chapter just settles the whole debate about Christ’s divinity. The canonical order of the gospels is the order in which they were written, so leave aside the modern view about Mark being the oldest gospel.

What Jesus said about those Jews in particular can only be answered theologically and not historically if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s a brilliant foray into the mind of Christ and it all ties back to the fall in Eden.

[SIZE=5]Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are[/SIZE]
John 8:31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence,and you are doing what you have heard from your father.[b]”

39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would[c] do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.”

“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

Compare with 1 John 3:10- "
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." There’s no contradiction in Scripture.

Also, Isaiah 28:10 tells us how we ought to study the Bible: precept upon precept upon precept; line upon line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

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Yes indeed. Also the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares illustrates that there are two different seeds of people, with two different lineages.