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Me: \u00a0How is it out there?<\/p>\n

Prodigal: \u00a0It’s hotter than a burnin’ stump.<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0Try to stay in the shade then!<\/p>\n

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This is from the book Beyound Opinion Living the Faith We Defend by Ravi Zacharias<\/p>\n

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Unlike the Bible, the Qur’an has no historical authentic document that can witness to its literary reliability or to its historical authenticity. \u00a0Its followers claim divine origin from the eternal table. \u00a0They also claim that the Qur’an has come to perfect the Bible by adding to it. \u00a0Yet the Qur’an’s teachings contradict the very biblical teaching it claims to have come to complete. \u00a0It does not teach anywhere the Ten Commandments, remains inconsistent with its own teaching, and at best portrays a totally different nature.<\/p>\n

And there is the character of its author: \u00a0Allah. \u00a0As described in the Qur’an, Allah is not a covenant-making god, for if he were to do that it would diminish his absolute authority and might find him subject to his creatures due to such a covenant. \u00a0As portrayed, he is master of deception. \u00a0He contradicts himself and justifies that by calling it abrogation, meaning the replacement of earlier revelations with latter ones as they were out of date and no longer applicable–all within a period of twenty-three years.<\/p>\n

All non-Muslims are Allah’s enemies, with specific emphasis on Jews and Christians. \u00a0He commands the followers of his prophet, whom he calls Muslims, to kill them and regard all non-Muslims as profane.<\/p>\n

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Romans 1:16-17<\/p>\n

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. \u00a0For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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