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The other approach you can take to show that those verses from the Quran call Muslims to commit violence is to ask a Muslim what the Quran teaches about Muhammad. They could try to sidestep the answer, but the Quran explicitly teaches that Muhammad was the most “righteous man ever to live” and that Muslims should seek to emulate him.
If this were true, the argument that these verses have a historical context and were intended only for that historical period would be partially false and irrelevant. It was Muhammad who commanded violence against Christians, Jews, and those who reject Islam. So either the Quran is correct, and Muslims should follow Muhammad’s example, or the standard of morality (and righteousness) is subjective to the cultural norms of the day, meaning the Quran is outdated and irrelevant for anyone in the modern age.
(It would also mean that “Allah” is inconsistent and changes, which has terrible implications for Islamic salvation.)
@grok can you explain when the verses were revealed and the reason for their revelation with their own context
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The world wants us Christians to affirm every religious belief except our own.
Time is running out and one day soon, EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
#fyp #relateable #Christianity #JesusChrist #trending
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This is a joke. Islam is a fundamentally violent ideology, and your holy book commands you and other Muslims to be intolerant and commit acts of violence against Christians, Jews, and others who reject Islam as the false religion that it is.
Before you try and call me “Islamophobic,” here’s multiple direct quotes from the Quran that prove my point. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Dear non-Muslims,
As Ramadan is just 92 days away,
Please avoid eating in front of Muslims who are fasting.
Please avoid drinking in their presence.
Do not deliberately tempt those observing the fast.
Muslims will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
A little consideration and respect go a long way. ❤️🌙
With all due respect, @LauraLoomer, this is highly offensive and wildly disrespectful to Christians (and likely Jews as well). In fact, I’d argue it’s dangerously close to blasphemy.
If you think Islam even remotely threatens the same God who defeated death and walked out of the grave, you are sorely mistaken. I’ll guarantee that the day those trumpets sound and every knee bows, you’ll change your mind. But I urge you to change your mind before it’s too late and time runs out.
It’s one thing to be upset or disappointed about the results of an election, but it’s a totally different thing to make an idol out of the United States, its government, the current POTUS, or the GOP. In fact, turning the government into an idol is what many on the Democrat side do by demanding that Democrat leaders provide for them and “meet their every need, a.k.a. salvation.”
No one who will ever occupy the White House, the chambers of Congress, or sit on the Supreme Court will ever save humanity from its sin and depravity. All this post (and the others that have been incredibly disrespectful to Christians) shows is that you have clearly bought into the lie that humanity can save itself and that you think you know better than God. That’s the same lie told in the garden and believed by Adam and Eve, leading them to eat the forbidden fruit and get us into this mess in the first place.
Christianity and the Word of God have survived Nero’s persecution in Rome, the invasions of the Visigoths and Vandals, the violence of the Crusades, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, the Thirty Years’ War, the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cultural Revolution in Maoist China, Nazi Germany‘s “De-Judaized” Scriptural Purge, and the numerous genocidal campaigns against Christians in Africa and the Middle East. Christianity existed long before the United States of America, and it will exist long after the United States and “Islamic communism” try to wipe out Christianity. Still, I can guarantee you it’ll fail.
Therefore, I would encourage you to reflect and repent of your own pride for thinking that God is not sovereign over the blue tsunami, and of the sin of turning an earthly government into an idol, because an unrepentant, sinful heart is far more dangerous than Islam, communism, or any other threat to America. I pray you repent and follow Jesus.
If you actually live in reality and you don’t want to use religious coping and hokey positive thinking to make yourself feel better about what happened last night, then you should seriously make a plan to protect your family and their safety by having at least 6 months to a year of supplies for prepping, ammunition, weapons, water and security at your home.
Anyone who says everything will be fine should have told that to Charlie Kirk before he was shot in the throat on live TV despite being positive and religiously faithful.
The Islamic communist takeover of America is real, they will move to normalize political violence for the sake of pushing their agenda and every single American who opposes the communist and jihadi takeover of America will likely be marked for assassination or severely beaten and or jailed.
If you think this is an exaggeration, you are doing a disservice to yourself and your children.
Prepare. Because when reality hits you, it will be too late.
Positive thinking isn’t going to save you. America is over. Start preparing for your long term survival. You’ll wish you did if you don’t and then wake up to your neighborhoods flooded with violent criminals and nobody to call for help.
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With all due respect, I’m asking sincerely. I studied world religions and am genuinely curious to hear your answer:
Which messianic prophecies do you think Jesus didn’t fulfill?
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Just to make sure I’m following this whole Phillip Anthony Mitchell/2819 “controversy”: 80,000 people pack a stadium to worship Jesus, and suddenly it’s a “cult.” But put your favorite quarterback at midfield, and it’s just another NFL Sunday or put Taylor Swift onstage, and it’s a cultural phenomenon. Apparently, mass devotion is perfectly acceptable as long as the object of your affection can sell jerseys, concert tickets, or overpriced merchandise.
Because clearly, it’s not the size of the crowd that’s so offensive. It’s the name they’re glorifying.
Got it.
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Oh, I am SOLD. So in. Sat, as the cool kids say. #VisionQuest
I’ve missed James Spader’s brilliance.
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Watch the bait-and-switch:
A) When the Bible is used to advance a “conservative” cause, it’s “evil Christian Nationalism” (that he’s spent his entire campaign decrying) or it’s “forcing your religion on other people” and must be FORECEFULLY DENOUNCED.
But when the Bible is used to advance a progressive cause, aw shucks it’s just me being Christlike, “speaking truth to power”, and seeking “justice” or “compassion.”
His whole campaign is, ”Christian Nationalism for ME, but not for THEE” and hoping you won’t notice.
B) What progressives do is take the commands Jesus gave to INDIVIDUALS and apply them to the GOVERNMENT.
When Christians use words like “caring” or “generous” they mean caring for people and being generous with their own resources.
When progressives use the words “caring” and “generous”, they mean “vote for the government to forcibly take OTHER PEOPLE’S RESOURCES at gunpoint and redistribute it against their will.”
Of course, this *always* backfires because governments do not work like people and churches, so with governments you tends to get more of what you INCENTIVIZE and less of what you PENALIZE.
This is why cities and states that throw billions of $ at “solving homelessness” end up with MORE HOMELESSNESS, they do not “solve homelessness.”
This is a theology-nerd thing, but in general progressives want the government to do the roles of the church and individual (charity, compassion, care), and they want NOBODY to do the role of the State (administer justice and be a “terror to the wrongdoer”).
^^^this always results in societal chaos and darkness.
Further…
What Talarico (and other progressives) always do is selevtively edit Jesus, so that he becomes a mascot for their cause.
I can do a “when Jesus…” list too, but James won’t like mine…
- When Jesus defined marriage, he defined it as only between a man and a woman
- When Jesus talked about gender, he rooted it in biology, saying “he made them male and female”
- When Jesus talked about harming children (abortion), he said it would be better for you to have millstone tied around your neck and be cast into the ocean
- … that time when Jesus encouraged his followers to buy weapons for self-defense (Luke 22:36)
- Jesus’ family strictly obeyed the government’s border / migration / census laws.
- When Jesus talked about salvation, he said belief in him was the ONLY WAY
- When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t need a deductible… there were no insurance companies in AD 30, and Jesus was using miraculous power, not paying doctors. This would be like an anti-vaxxer saying “JESUS WASNT VACCINATED!” as justification for their position)
- When Jesus fed the hungry, he FED THE HUNGRY. He did not vote for the government to forcibly take other people’s stuff at gunpoint and redistribute it against their will.
I could go on and on and on and on…
The point is, Jesus is a LORD of the universe, not a MASCOT for your cause.
As a person with a physical disability myself, I’ll never understand people like the woman with the “mobility aid,” who defend abortion while demanding the world accommodate their “disabilities.” Almost always, when a baby in the womb is suspected of having a disability or severe medical condition, abortion is the first option presented to parents like mine. A disability becomes a valid reason to murder a child while simultaneously reducing the value and identity of a child to just their disability/medical issue.
If people with disabilities (like the woman in the video), want to be treated with the same dignity & equality as those who aren’t disabled, they’d join the fight to abolish abortion.
Thank you @TRussHunter & the @AbolitionRising team for all the incredible work you all do, including defending & protecting disabled people like myself.
I Got Punched in the Face... youtu.be/zcqFgS_MbHA?is=_kG1… via @YouTube
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I do need to know though, am I the only one who thinks “Pink Clouding” is about how @taylorswift13 sees the entire #Lover album now? Like I think its the “you’re losing me” of Lover & flipping the album into something sad rather than how she originally describe it?
#TSTLOASTheEncore
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For anyone else listening to #TSTLOASTheEncore & confused by Babylon..
This is my initial interpretation of it! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
From the few times I’ve listened to it, she’s essentially warning the listener to not fall victim to nostalgia because it’s a “weapon of self harm” because romanticizing the things of the past will cause you to miss the beauty of things right in front of you like a melody you didn’t appreciate until you couldn’t listen to it (because you lost your headphones).
I’m guessing this is something she learned on the #ErasTour because of how @taylorswift13 talked about how much it meant to her during the first half of the tour & then she got to “practice” it at the start of her relationship with Travis.
I’m 90% sure of the first part & the second part is just my initial thoughts knowing how she’s talked about the way she sees this album. 🤷🏼♂️
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I think we’ve become more obsessed with healing than we have with becoming holy because modern “therapy language” has given us an alibi of the flesh. We’ve learned enough healing language to make disobedience sound like recovery.
Meanwhile, we ask Jesus to soothe what hurts while shielding what He told us to crucify. Don’t mishear me, healing matters because wounds are real and Grace is patient.
But grace was never meant to become hospice care for the old self. Sometimes nursing the wound becomes life support for what Christ called us to bury. And that’s the terrifying tension: we keep bringing Jesus what we want healed but He keeps pointing us to a cross. We’ve spent so much time asking Him to make it hurt less while He’s been asking why we keep resuscitating what He told us to crucify.
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“I am God’s downstairs neighbor, banging on the ceiling with a broomstick. I show up at His door every day. Sometimes with songs, sometimes with curses. Sometimes apologies, gifts, questions, demands. Sometimes I use my key under the mat to let myself in. Other times, I sulk outside until He opens the door to me Himself.
I have called Him a cheat and a liar, and I meant it. I have told Him I wanted to die, and I meant it. Tears have become the only prayer I know. Prayers roll over my nostrils and drip down my forearms. They fall to the ground as I reach for Him. These are the prayers I repeat night and day; sunrise, sunset.
Call me bitter if you want to—that’s fair. Count me among the angry, the cynical, the offended, the hardened. But count me also among the friends of God. For I have seen Him in rare form. I have felt His exhale, laid in His shadow, squinted to read the message He wrote for me in the grout: “I’m sad too.”
If an explanation would help, He would write me one—I know it. But maybe an explanation would only start an argument between us—and I don’t want to argue with God. I want to lay in a hammock with Him and trace the veins in His arms.
I remind myself that I’m praying to the God who let the Israelites stay lost for decades. They begged to arrive in the Promised Land, but instead He let them wander, answering prayers they didn’t pray. For forty years, their shoes didn’t wear out. Fire lit their path each night. Every morning, He sent them mercy-bread from heaven.
I look hard for the answers to the prayers that I didn’t pray. I look for the mercy-bread that He promised to bake fresh for me each morning. The Israelites called it manna, which means “what is it?”
I see mercy in the dusty sunlight that outlines the trees, in my mother’s crooked hands, in the blanket my friend left for me, in the harmony of the wind chimes. It’s not the mercy that I asked for, but it is mercy nonetheless. And I learn a new prayer: thank you. It’s a prayer I don’t mean yet, but will repeat until I do.
Call me cursed, call me lost, call me scorned. But that’s not all. Call me chosen, blessed, sought-after. Call me the one who God whispers his secrets to. I am the one whose belly is filled with loaves of mercy that were hidden for me.
Even on days when I’m not so sick, sometimes I go lay on the mat in the afternoon light to listen for Him. I know it sounds crazy, and I can’t really explain it, but God is in there—even now. I have heard it said that some people can’t see God because they won’t look low enough, and it’s true.
If you can’t see him, look lower. God is on the bathroom floor.”
—Jane Marczewski, better known as Nightbirde
nightbirde.co/blog/2021/9/27…
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David Wickward retweeted
It's been put this way, that in Islam, your son dies for Allah. In Christianity, God's son dies for you.
David Wickward retweeted
“Jesus defeated death so you can live.” – Charlie Kirk
October 14th, 1993 – September 10th, 2025
David Wickward retweeted
One year ago today.
This was a reminder that this can happen to any of us. When you can't be defeated, people will do anything they can to silence you. But this is just another reason to be louder, bolder, and more unapologetic that Christ is Lord of all. As long as Christ gives us breath, we'll continue glorifying him as we refute falsehood.
While I am partial to the New Testament (it is what I studied, after all), I love something about the prophet Isaiah's writings. I read this verse earlier this week and found it to be encouraging, so I thought I'd share some thoughts over on @TheArmlessTheo.
(If you aren't following my page, @TheArmlessTheo, I'd be honored if you did. The page is slowly taking shape, and my hope is not only to share encouraging things, but also to explore what Scripture says about issues in our modern culture, help answer the hard questions we all wrestle with, and share practical tools for sharing the gospel with people of other religions and defending the teachings of Scripture in a world that seems hellbent on either warping or discarding them altogether.)
In this verse, the prophet Isaiah encourages the people of God with a reminder, but he doesn’t start with our feelings; rather, he starts with a command: Behold. In our modern age, it’s easy to overlook such a simple directive. Yet we often forget that it is indeed a command, one to pause and take another look. Even so, despite its obviousness, we often breeze right past it.
The Lord’s hand has not grown short. He has not lost the ability to save you. His ear has not grown dull. He has not grown tired of the prayer you were too exhausted to finish, or the groan that never even made it into words. Even when we reach our limits, He will never reach His.
If God feels far right now, it’s not because He can’t save or because He can’t hear you. His power is unmatched, and His attention is undivided. The limitation was never in His ability to reach us, nor was the silence we perceived because He couldn’t hear us.
So Isaiah's reminder isn’t that we have to strain harder because we feel God is distant. We just have to remember that He never stopped reaching for us. God hasn’t forgotten you or failed you. And He certainly won’t start now.
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