No. There is no such thing. There are a couple reasons why:
1. Islam is a political ideology. Their goal is to replace current governments with the government of Islam. Therefore their attacks are political in nature. They are one political system against another. The current war on terror supported by our government is a war on political terror or people, from Islam, who kill people for political ends. The shooter in Sutherland Springs had no political agenda. He was not backed by a political machine or ideology. The driver in New York was.
2. People who believe in the teachings of Islam believe they are earning points with their god Allah by committing violent acts. The man who drove the truck down the bike path in New York was attempting, with all his might, to gain points with his god. His belief was that when he died in the middle of this act of killing, he would be ushered to the highest level of reward in heaven for his great work. Christianity has no such teaching. It is impossible to gain “points” with the God of the Bible, therefore no one kills with purely biblical motivations behind them. People can subvert and twist any teaching and many have killed in the past, in the name of God, but they would be unable to defend their actions from Scripture. While the driver in New York would have no problem defending his actions from the Q’oran.
As I have taught before, Christianity is different from any other belief or philosophical system. This is because Christianity is a relationship with the one and true living God. Anyone can write on a blog that they have become Buddhist. Most would believe that they are now believing in the four noble truths and following the eight-fold path. If after a few months they get bored, they can change to Hinduism and follow the writings of the Vedas. The world and the progressive left thinks that is all religion is. A philosophy that a person follows for a while and can change at will.
Yet if a person claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, a true believer in Christ, and a Christian, it is like no other belief system. A person cannot become a Christian unless God the Father draws them and gives them to Christ. When that happens, that person becomes a new creation, a new creature. The old has been removed. They have moved from death to life, from alienated to adopted. All their sins are forgiven and atoned for. Nothing like this, nothing close to this happens with any other belief system.
If a person is truly saved, from God’s point of view, not ours, they would never shoot up a church. Granted there is mental illness, substance abuse and other chemical issues that change the thinking of a true Christian. Yet no true believing Christian, in their right mind, would claim that Christ is the motivation for violence. Yet the world does not understand this. Many will come to Christ in the last day claiming the name Christian, and he will say he never knew them.
1. Islam is a political ideology. Their goal is to replace current governments with the government of Islam. Therefore their attacks are political in nature. They are one political system against another. The current war on terror supported by our government is a war on political terror or people, from Islam, who kill people for political ends. The shooter in Sutherland Springs had no political agenda. He was not backed by a political machine or ideology. The driver in New York was.
2. People who believe in the teachings of Islam believe they are earning points with their god Allah by committing violent acts. The man who drove the truck down the bike path in New York was attempting, with all his might, to gain points with his god. His belief was that when he died in the middle of this act of killing, he would be ushered to the highest level of reward in heaven for his great work. Christianity has no such teaching. It is impossible to gain “points” with the God of the Bible, therefore no one kills with purely biblical motivations behind them. People can subvert and twist any teaching and many have killed in the past, in the name of God, but they would be unable to defend their actions from Scripture. While the driver in New York would have no problem defending his actions from the Q’oran.As I have taught before, Christianity is different from any other belief or philosophical system. This is because Christianity is a relationship with the one and true living God. Anyone can write on a blog that they have become Buddhist. Most would believe that they are now believing in the four noble truths and following the eight-fold path. If after a few months they get bored, they can change to Hinduism and follow the writings of the Vedas. The world and the progressive left thinks that is all religion is. A philosophy that a person follows for a while and can change at will.
Yet if a person claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, a true believer in Christ, and a Christian, it is like no other belief system. A person cannot become a Christian unless God the Father draws them and gives them to Christ. When that happens, that person becomes a new creation, a new creature. The old has been removed. They have moved from death to life, from alienated to adopted. All their sins are forgiven and atoned for. Nothing like this, nothing close to this happens with any other belief system.
If a person is truly saved, from God’s point of view, not ours, they would never shoot up a church. Granted there is mental illness, substance abuse and other chemical issues that change the thinking of a true Christian. Yet no true believing Christian, in their right mind, would claim that Christ is the motivation for violence. Yet the world does not understand this. Many will come to Christ in the last day claiming the name Christian, and he will say he never knew them.
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