Islam
Like all religions that have their roots in Abraham, Islam has been blessed with a wealth of truth. Unlike most other religions, Muslims are strictly monotheistic, believing that the Creator alone should be worshipped. Unlike most Christians, they have never fallen prey to the pagan trinity heresy. Like the Jews, the errors of Islamic doctrine generally fall under a failure to accept full truth rather than a clinging to pagan-based errors. Following is a generalized list of the doctrines that most Muslims believe erroneously or, in turn, refuse to believe:
- Muslims reject Yahushua as the divine Son of
Yahuwah. They do acknowledge that He was born of a
virgin, but their acceptance of Him is as simply a great prophet, nothing
more. This belief in itself is
contradictory, for no truly great man, sent of Yah, would lie and make false
claims as they believe Yahushua did in claiming to be the Son of Yah.
- Muslims do not believe that Yahushua died on
the cross. (See Matthew
27:33, 35 and 50.) By such a
belief, they deny His
sacrifice
for the salvation of sinners.
- Muslims do not worship on the seventh day
lunar Sabbath
as did the patriarchs Adam, Abraham, Ishmael, and Jacob. The fact that Muslims go to mosque for
prayers on Friday is a testimony to the truths they still have, for Friday was
actually the seventh day of the original
planetary week when it was adopted into the Julian calendar! However, Friday is still a pagan demarcation
on a calendar named after a Roman Catholic pope. It has no place in the worship of the
Creator.
- A growing number of sincere Muslims are
agitating for a return to the ancient and original form of luni-solar
calendation. However, most Muslims still
use a lunar calendar, rather than the luni-solar calendar established at
Creation and handed down through Abraham and his sons. Therefore, any religious observance based on
that method of time-calculation would be incorrect.
- Muslims do not observe the feasts of Yahuwah
as delineated in Leviticus 23. Muslims correctly accept Scripture as
inspired literature, but do not accept that these feasts were given for all
peoples as a perpetual covenant although the Bible clearly states that they are
to be so.
- Certain dearly held Islamic traditions, such
as the annual pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca) or the fast during Ramadan, have
devolved into a form of salvation by works. Muslims accept the writings of the
Old Testament prophets as being inspired.
They also allow for certain limitations that can keep a person from
fasting during Ramadan or the inability to go on pilgrimage. However, any “work” – such as fasting or
pilgrimage – that is done for salvation denies the truth of Scripture which
clearly states: “The just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4, KJV)
- Muslims believe that after a soul has died,
angels question him about his life. If
he is a believer, he will experience joy; if he is an infidel, he will
experience punishment for his sins.
Despite their claim to believe the Holy Bible, this is in direct
contradiction of Scripture that clearly denies consciousness
after death:
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6)
The Creator is now inviting all sincere children of Abraham to step free of errors and traditions and embrace the full truth of Yah.
