"Chrislam," you can see the word in giant letters on billboards as you drive on the Interstates or city streets. What's going on with that word? Absolutely nothing good.
Chrislam" refers to a movement that's attempting to blend elements of biblical Christianity and Islam into a single religious practice. It's what God warned Israel about; syncretism with the pagans around them.
Those pushing Chrislam want a gullible public to believe that Christians and Muslims worship the same God and that certain theological differences may be minimized to promote unity. Biblical Christianity and Islam can be blended together into one if you can blend oil and water.
HOW SO?
1. The Bible teaches that there is only one path to God the Father, and that path is found in Jesus Christ. As Scripture states: “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” (John 14:6).
Christianity affirms the deity of Christ (John 1:1,14) and proclaims His death and bodily resurrection as central to salvation (I Cor. 15:3-4). Islam, by contrast, sees Jesus merely as a prophet and denies His crucifixion and resurrection.
2.the Bible teaches salvation is by grace alone, through faith in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8-9). This contrasts sharply with Islamic teachings, which emphasize obedience to certain practices to earn favor with God.
3. Biblical Christianity holds the Bible is the inspired Word of God. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
Chrislam, however, typically accepts both the Bible and the Qur’an as holy texts. This approach raises significant conflicts because the Qur’an and the Bible differ fundamentally in describing God, Christ, salvation, and humanity’s fall into sin. (From The Bible Hub)
OBAMA'S INAUGRURATION: DID YOU CATCH IT?
One of the most inF\fluential pastors in the whole wide world is Rick Warren. not only that, he's author of "The Purpose Driven Life" and "The Purpose Driven Church" which sold copies in bazillions, purchansed by evangelical churches and Christians all over the globe and translated into language after language.
Pastors jam his conferences by the thousands to learn how they can have a mega church just as he does. He draws them like a super magnet from all over the world; they hang on his every word; they buy enough of his books to propel him into the NT Times best-seller lists week after week. The secular world has designated Warre as "America's Pastor."
But did you catch what Warren said when he prayed at the 2009 ingugration of President Obama? His closing sentence was, "I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life, Yeshua, Isa, Jesus [Spanish pronunciation], Jesus, who taught us to pray: then he quotes Matthew 6:9-13.
"Yeshua" is the Hebrew name for Jesus, next came "Jesus" i. e. Spanish pronunciation. but who is Isa? That's the Muslim name for Jesus.(!) As stated above, Isa is that "Jesus" who, accorfing to Islam, is merely a prophet who Islam teaches was not crucified and there was no resurrection.
Billboards aren't the only problem as we see in Warren's public statements at a World Economic Forum panel discussion:
"To my Islamic brotherher from Italy, I would say I'm not really interested in interfaith dialogue; I'm inereted in interfaith projects. We've got enough talk. So . . a few weeks ago, at Georgetown University, we brought in three imams, we brought three Catholic priests, we brought in three evangelical pastors and we bught in three Rabbis and we said, 'What can we do about AIDS?' And we started on some comon ground on those issues; what can we do that we all care about?"
Red flags go up after reading that speech. First, no believer is a brother of an Islamist. Second, the mission of the church is not to "do something about AIDS:" Christ gave the church its marching orders--the Great Commission to evagelize and make disiciples. Warren expands the Great Commission to include social work, which distracts the church.
Eric Barger, a world religions expert, writes, "Warren's use of the name of Isa, the false Jesus of Islam, was a slap in the face to all he that he had alrady prayed. . . In fact, in Islam, the prophet Isa ("eee-sa) is actually the destroyer of Christianity, not its Savior."
BEWARE THEBILLBOARDS
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