Expert: Mrs. Priscilla Lyons - 10/7/2010

Question
QUESTION: As I'm a Muslim, can I marry a Christian woman without enforcing her to change her religion? We Muslims consider Christians and Jews are a group having Holy Book. by Islamic law, the child will belong to Father. Islam allows this Interfaith marriage.

ANSWER: Thank you for writing.  Marriage is difficult enough when things are in common.  With such a difference in the life and death issue of where you will spend eternity, a successful marriage would be most difficult.

I pray that you carefully consider the salvation that our Creator has provided for us at great cost, and entrust yourself to His forgiveness and let Him be in charge of your life.  God loves you and wants you to be with Him in a wonderful eternity.  He has provided the only way, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord.  Would you trust Him as your Lord?

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QUESTION: This is not a Question, but the ans. to ur final question of ur previous ans. I can't trust Jesus as our Lord...but as messenger of God... B'coz Jesus never told a world like "SON OF GOD" or "TRINITY" in the Bible.... instead Jesus called himself as "SON MAN"... Can we find any word/words of Jesus that He says the above? Plz be Frank... We consider him as the One of best messenger of GOD,with the unimaginable help of God...

ANSWER: Thank you for writing back.

Exodus 3:14  I AM physically rescued Israel out of Egypt with great miracles, ending with the lamb's blood as a cross, protecting from death. Exodus 12:7,13.
John 8:58  I AM spiritually rescued us from Satan's rule with great miracles, ending with His blood on the cross protecting us from eternal death.
"Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.'  Then took they up stones to cast at Him."

Romans 4:19 Abraham's life-bearing was gone when he was 100 years old, and Sarah's womb was dead, so Isaac was supernaturally given to them as a foreshadowing of the supernatural virgin birth of Jesus.  The angel of the Lord told Joseph in Matthew 1:23, "Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."

Jesus said in John 3:16 and 18 "For God so loved the world (that includes Salman P) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." "He that believes on Him is not condemned; but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."  
   As John 1:1 and 14 explain, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."  God the Son took on a human form to take our place of punishment for our sins (as was foreshadowed by animal sacrifices).  So He was Son of Man as well as Son of God.  God provided the only Way to His perfect home.  There's nothing we can earn--we can only receive His gift with gratitude and follow Him trustingly as we learn His will He has written and preserved for us in the Bible.
   Trinity is just a human word to try to describe the miraculous, supernatural, unexplainable Godhead that Jesus says in Matthew 28:19 to baptize in the name, not names, of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
   I pray that I have been a good messenger of Jesus in me.  I would like you to enjoy heaven by surrendering your efforts of religion and trusting God's salvation, Jesus, to live in you also.

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QUESTION: You are not agreeing to what I said. I wish, the hesitation towards me, may not lead you away from the truth. (I think I'm elder than you, with that respect, I request you to study Islam, just to know what it says, or just to counter it, as far as possible.)
When I asked you to show me any word/words of Jesus, that he calls himself as the ‘SON OF GOD’, you couldn’t.  Also tou replied that ‘TRINITY’ is a man made word. What I have to say is that the Bible is completely men’s words, because each chapter in New Testament begins as “The Gospel According to…” which means that along with the reported wordsof Jesus, they added their own words. But the final revelation, ie. Holy Qur’an is not so.
Why are you ignoring the verses like this: In Matthew 01:01, “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham”, (and more), we can see that Jesus is a MAN… If not, how can we write his ancestors?? -which is written in two Gospels… No words are there in the Bible, which says he is the SON OF GOD…although it’s the basic of Chrystianity…then where is Chrystianity and Bible? How did Jesus taught us to pray? “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for
they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you” Matthew 06:07-14. Here Jesus says us to Pray to the father in heaven...not to Him.. Moreover in many situations, Jesus Prayed to the father in Heaven… Also look at this: “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”  Matthew 07:21-23
Then why we have to pray to Jesus…who is a blessed man…??  Where is Chrystianity and Bible?
(Plz open ur mind to accept what actually Jesus Said… Qur’an says it… Read the Bible afer eliminating self explanations of the writers… then you can see, Jesus words Only…which will completely matches with the verses reported as the words of Jesus, in Holy Qur’an… For this I studied the Bible… Each person says, his/her religion/faith is correct… I studied Hinduism also… and found that many verses in Hindu scripture matches with the verses in Qur’an… To choose Islam, the facts revealed by Almighty God in Qura’n is going on prooving by modern science…)
“ Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and a clear Qur'an. Soon will the time come when the unbelievers will wish they were Muslims. Leave them to eat and enjoy life and let false hopes amuse them. They will soon come to know. Whenever We destroyed a town, a definite term had previously been decreed for it. No people can anticipate the term for its destruction nor can it delay it.” Holy Qura’n (15:01-05)

Answer
Dear Salman,
   I'm sorry you don't want to accept the Bible's purpose for us to trust Jesus as Creator, Savior, and Lord, as I've shown you through key verses that are supported by the entire Bible.
  I can only pray that you continue to study God's truth and accept HIS salvation, not your own "salvation" through any religion, including Muslim.
   Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."  May you come to trust God/Man, Jesus, as your Lord, through His perfect sacrifice for your sins and mine.