Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Perky Muslim and Lackadaisical Atheist (video)

In reference to Video (link): Perky Muslim and Lackadaisical Atheist (video)  From TheReformedapologist, featuring this blog's writer.
     The muslim lady in this video was very upset afterwards and approached me off camera to talk for a long time. She simply wanted compassion in my presentation and didn't understand the form of compassion I was exhibiting (preaching the gospel out of love), and so the whole video is interesting on an emotional level. That said, she was being hypocritical for not following the basic commands of her own religion  (Quran 24:30-31, 33:59, not to mention that which is said in the hadiths).  She seemed ignorant that the documents of her own religion say that "the only valid religion to Allah is Islam" (Tafsir Ibn Kathir on Surah 3), and that the Quran itself, in Surah 3:85, says, "If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, (submission to Allah, never will it be accepted of him, and in the hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good). That also made her somewhat hypocritical for espousing a religion which teaches that, and then criticizing me for staying true to the Bible which say that Jesus is the only way to God (see yesterday's post). However, she might not have been apprised that the more tolerant verses in the Qur'an (such as 29:46) have been "abrogated" by more intolerant verses (such as 9:5).
     In regards to judging, I agree it is better to not judge. The whole point, though, should have been that I wasn't judging to begin with. Just previous to when she came up I had probably been talking about the exclusivity claims of Christianity, and she probably "felt" judged. By her behavior and words, she didn't seem to be holding to a true form of Islam. She is probably what could be called a "nominal muslim"- muslim in name only, and seemed to be espousing some interesting relativistic and universalist tendencies. She was espousing the idea that our faiths, Islam and Christianity, should be somehow the same and just different in title, and that mine doesn't teach judging. No. In actuality her expressed universalist cool-club vagueness is not the same as the "faith, once and for all delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). Now from all this, she's caused me to judge her on certain things.
   We can't live life without judging either, so when do judge we would do well to follow the command of judging righteously (John 7:47). Also, we are definitely allowed to judge worldviews as leading to hell or not, and that was her concern. I used Matthew 7:16-20 to rebut, and the "false prophets" the commentaries talk about could be applied to world religions, indeed, even Islam to be specific. She believes in Muhammad as a real prophet and I am judging him as a false prophet.
     After the atheist came up, the video became quite funny, and I think most people there were actually having fun with it. The atheist had an interesting argument dealing with astronomy, and I think she would do well to look at some of Hugh Ross's material- in particular the fine-tuning arguments (cosmological constant) and the argument from the size of the universe. The universe has to be the size and mass that it is in order to actually have the current diversity of chemical elements, and in order to support life as it is on Earth. My answer at the time, in this video, sufficed.  The atheist was not really willing to converse back and forth with me. She wanted to stand and accuse me of the very thing she was doing, which was standing and going off on people in disregard of the fact that many of them were there to just "go shopping" as she said.

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