Word: jesus
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BEFORE I EXPLAINmy gripes, I should offer a cursory description of Islam for non-experts. Muslims, including myself, unambiguously recognize Muhammad (May peace be upon him) as the final and principal messenger of God. He delivered fundamentally the same message as the prophets Jesus and Abraham before his: the unity of God and the need for Man to bow before his creator as decreed in the Holy Koran. The word "Islam" itself means submission, and Muslims have historically found their strength in this common purpose of sub-servience to God, or Allah...
...what undergraduates don't know is that while they cram into lecture halls to snooze through "Heroes for Zeros" and cruise through "Jesus and the Easy Life," their prospective teaching assistants are running in the opposite direction...
...Well, I think many -- not all -- religions do point to God. Whether all religions lead to God is a different matter altogether, and, again, one has got to say within the Christian tradition that they don't all lead to God, that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. I stand with that. The kind of people, however, who say that all religions lead to God are generally the ones who want to avoid any way of getting to God. In other words, they want to sit on the fence themselves...
...think there is a great difference between proselytizing and evangelizing. Evangelizing is a portrayal of the person of Jesus Christ while sensitively listening to the views of other people, taking into account where other people are at, affirming where they are. Proselytizing is the arrogant assumption that the other person has nothing to offer to a debate. There is no dialogue in proselytizing. It is a kind of cowboys-and-Indians approach to another person that robs him of his dignity. Responsible evangelism always listens to the culture of a person...
...that if you look at Romans, chapters 9 to 11, you will see that we could not be Christians today were it not for the Jews, and we owe so much to them, to the Old Testament, the life of the Torah, the Prophets. They gave us the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The difference between us, when we're agreed about so much, is Christology. I'd want to say, well, I have been captivated by this person, Jesus Christ, the onus is upon me to share him with all people, Jews and other people. But in the eyes of Christians...