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 Messiah.  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 Yahuwah.  [Note: The Bible makes plain that Yahushua, the promised Messiah and redeemer of mankind, is a human being - not a diety.]
   
• 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)

[Note: While many Christians believe that the redeemed will inherit Heaven, Scripture teaches that immortality in the earth made new is the reward of the saints.

The Creator is now inviting all sincere children of Abraham to step free of errors and traditions and embrace the full truth of Yah.