tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888282.post116152944877900131..comments2024-03-07T00:03:12.584-07:00Comments on John's Corner of the World: Muslims for Isa?John Holzmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849211055450293089noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6888282.post-1161553016307976442006-10-22T15:36:00.000-06:002006-10-22T15:36:00.000-06:00John,Thank you so much for posting this to your bl...John,<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for posting this to your blog. You can see what I wrote at marcysmusings.townhall.com. I took the liberty of copying also your story about Carl; I hope you don't mind. (If you do, I can edit my blog - let me know.)<BR/><BR/>It occurs to me that these issues you are describing have been under discussion for a number of years; they just haven't been discussed in relationship to Islam. Some of the books we read in Sonlight - like Torches of Joy and Eternity in Their Hearts - talk about this very thing. Islam just hasn't been in the equation. <BR/><BR/>And I think the big question in all this is the same as the one earlier Christian workers have had to ask themselves: how much of what we do is cultural, and how much is really central to the Christian message? <BR/><BR/>Eventually, it seems to me, those who are followers of Jesus/Isa/Yeshua must break away from their previous religious "identity" and assume a new one. At that point, no matter how much we try to couch Christianity in culturally acceptable terms, they are going to face persecution. (Scripture is pretty clear on that point.) The question is how serious the persecution is, and how much of a support system they will have in facing it.<BR/><BR/>By the way, a number of years ago I did hear about a Muslim tribe (can't remember exactly where it was now) that followed Isa faithfully. When Christian workers discovered this tribe, they found it to be fully as "Christian" as any of us - and they had learned of Isa from the Q'uran, and had no idea they were not "real" Muslims. In fact, they considered themselves full Muslims just as Christian Jews consider themselves "completed" Jews. (I believe I heard about this from a representative of Bibles for the World at a missions conference in Littleton perhaps 13-14 years ago.)<BR/><BR/>Thought you might find it interesting.Marcy Muserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787308098682419608noreply@blogger.com