Brod Lorenzo, please enlightened me for I am confused, though I am a Catholic and I do believed Jesus. I am not a Bible reader but trying to follow his commandments (not perfectly). I do praying directly to him and seldom to attend masses in church. I guess since birth, I can count on my fingers for the time I confessing my sins to priests.
Now, that I am working in the Middle East for almost 10 years, then, how much more time that I cannot attend masses in church except when I gone for vacation. Normally, I went only to Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Cathedral where I like most because of the silent surrounding and peaceful environment while praying, praising,thanksgiving and confessing.
In here, I have Muslim friends and most of them are Mutawa (Imam). They convinced me to convert into Islam but most of the time my replies is that, religion is not the answer for salvation instead it is how you follow the commandments of God and what you did while still living in this world, either within your personal daily activities or towards other person whom you are dealing with.
Please correct me and what else I will do and answer to those who are still convincing me to Islam by not offending them. I will never exchange my God (Jesus) to another God.
Good Afternoon And Peace and Blessings of The Lord Jesus Christ be with you, brother!
I pray and beg the Lord Jesus Christ to strenthen your faith in Him, and to never forget His salvation that He has offered to you!
Thank you for sharing your story and your personal anectdote, friend. And I am touched by your plea. Fr. R is correct, you must and you have to be strong in your faith, for faith is tested, and it is then when your faith is preserved in you, you shall mount in Salvation, to which Your Lord Your God Jesus Christ has preserved for you.
My friend, I want to reiterate lang the tenents of Christian Faith.
You are Christian if you believe in mind and soul and in vocal reiteration---that The Lord Jesus Christ is the Eternal Word Made Flesh. Do you believe that Christ Jesus was sent down from Heaven for the satisfaction of Sins and that He was crucified and was burried. Do you believe that He was raised in GLORIOUS RESURRECTION on the 3rd day by HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN?
And do you believe that your sins are wiped away by His death on the cross? And that do you BELIEVE IN HIM, AND HIM ALONE? Do you accept in your heart the Lord Jesus Christ as your LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOR?
All you have to do, brother is say yes, and glorify in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Now. You will be saved.
My brother, there is no name under heaven that you will be saved besides that of Jesus Christ LORD.
ACTS 4:8-12,
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11He is
" 'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone. 12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."---
There is no other name that you will be saved, but In Jesus Christ, who is LORD!
It is explicit, my friend, that there is no other man, nor any other deity but in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Allah, or muhammad is not mentioned in the bible. Nor shall they save you. These teachings by Muhammad is false prophetry.
The HOLY BIBLE mentions these false heresies. And to beware of false prophets.
There can be no other prophet after Jesus Christ. For Jesus Christ is the LORD GOD MADE FLESH.
He is the seal of the prophets. Any other man who claims to be a prophet after Christ is the anti-christ.
My friend, Islam declares that Christ Jesus was not GOD, but say that he was 'issa' and was a prophet.
They deny Christ as the SAVIOR LORD.
Jesus Christ said," Those who Deny me before men, so shall I deny them before MY FATHER IN HEAVEN."
Matthew 10:33, "But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven."
Remember that, brother.
Additionally brother, The Apostles, explicitly warn us, the body of Christ, to beware of false prophets.
Here are following verses in the HOLY BIBLE that reiterates this same warning. Beware of False Prophets.
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Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. (16) You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? (17) Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. (18) A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. (19) Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (20) Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 7:15-20But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. (2) And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. (3) By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
2 Peter 2:1-3,Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (2) By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, (3) and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
1 John 4:1-3,-----------------
John 5:23 - that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
John 8:24 - “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM He, you will die in your sins.â€
John 8:58 - Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.â€
John 10:30-33 - Jesus answered them, “I and My Father are one.†Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?†The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.â€
John 14:6-7 - Jesus said to him, “I AM the way, the truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.â€
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