12 May '12 20:29>
Originally posted by Rajk999And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”
[b]To RJH - While Im in agreement with anyone who condemns extremism in Islam or any religion for that matter, Im not sure that condemning the entire Muslim faith is the right thing for a Christian to do.
Muslims are the descendants of Abraham and God blessed them as well as Israel. You cannot know for sure in what way God blessed them but God has a pla ...[text shortened]... need to condemn a religion which God probably blessed, for your Christian faith to be stronger.
Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.”
(Genesis 17:18-21 NKJV)
And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.
(Genesis 25:5-6 NKJV)
They have already received all they are going to get from God.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
(Hebrews 1:1-4 NKJV)
The heir of all things is through the Son of God, the Christ - Messiah (MessYAH), not to Muhammed.