Mainline Christian organizations are changing their holy scripture to avoid offending Muslims. Not only does this violate their scripture, but it also defeats the purpose of their mission–to share the Gospel. If mainline Christian organizations fear Muslims so much that they have to edit what they believe to be the Word of God, how far can they be from submission? Where are the righteous, the outraged, the proud?
It is Islamic authorities who should be excising the quran and hadith of the ideology that calls for jihad, genocide, subjugation and oppression of women, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and all non-Muslims. It is the ummah who should be calling for sharia bans. Instead, the Christians are bastardizing their scripture? The Muslims refer to Christians in their daily prayers as “those who are led astray” (Muslims curse Christians and Jews multiple times in daily prayers). This madness validates their contempt and supremacism:
Concerned Christian missionaries, Bible translators, pastors, and national church leaders have come together with a public petition to stop these organizations. They claim a public petition is their last recourse because meetings with these organizations’ leaders, staff resignations over this issue and criticism and appeals from native national Christians concerned about the translations “have failed to persuade these agencies to retain “Father” and “Son” in the text of all their translations.”
Biblical Missiology, a ministry of Boulder, Colorado-based Horizon International, is sponsoring the petition. The main issues of this controversy surround new Arabic and Turkish translations. Here are three examples native speakers give:
First, Wycliffe and SIL have produced Stories of the Prophets, an Arabic Bible that uses an Arabic equivalent of “Lord” instead of “Father” and “Messiah” instead of “Son.”
Second, Frontiers and SIL have produced Meaning of the Gospel of Christ , an Arabic translation which removes “Father” in reference to God and replaces it with “Allah,” and removes or redefines “Son.”
For example, the verse which Christians use to justify going all over the world to make disciples, thus fulfilling the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) reads, “Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit” instead of “baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Rev. Bassam Madany, an Arab American who runs Middle East Resources, terms these organization’s efforts as “a western imperialistic attempt that’s inspired by cultural anthropology, and not by biblical theology.”
I am a convert To Christ The Lord from Islam and I want to say that I never read something as ridiculous as this. America is Corrupt to its neck and in fact drowned in its corruption. It would die and perish than not blame its corruption on no one else but itself. Islam and Muslims don’t give rat’s ass about what’s written in the bible. They think their Islam is It, but that’s about it. When I read the coran, all it says about Jesus is “May peace be upon Him”, each and every time His Name is mentioned. Respect that oftentimes Christians fail to show this Christ that took so much for their sake. It is so corrupt that it killed 3000+ of it’s citizens and blamed it on some Arabs, half of which, turned out to be still ALIVE after 9/11. As 2nd Chronicles 7:14 says “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”. Now I challenge you to go ask the bush, who claims to be “Christian” to do just that and repent and ask Jesus to forgive him his crimes against his country as well as other nations. Good luck with that. They let the Muslims build mosques across America, but the criminal who is aaaaaall about Christ! Right my eye. Didn’t make the slightest twitch when he was in office to at least get the fat foul Saudi king to legalize Christianity in Saudia!!!!!!!!!Just what kind of gangster chriminal is this?!?!?!I am a convert and that is the first thing I would have done if I were to be in the White House. The first thing. And Now it’s the Arabs fault again. The dems, the republicans and the masons are the ones that Marionette this Country and not the Arabs. We need to take responsibility about our own screw ups and stop blaming them on others. That is not what Christ wants.
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