The Violent Rise of Islam Despite the incredible number of heresies that Satan threw at the early church, by the beginning of the seventh century Catholicism had spread throughout most of Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, and was promising to convert the whole world to Christ. Unable to stop the spread of Catholicism with heretical doctrines and ten imperial persecutions by pagan Roman emperors. Satan decided the time had come for a brand new religion to challenge Christianity. This new religion, founded by him, a fallen archangel, would subtly mix the truth with lies, and would be given to the descendants of Abrahams illegitimate son Ishmael, whom the Bible called a wild ass of a man. Masquerading as an angel of light, Satan appeared to the Arab Muhammed and announced that both Judaism and Christianity were in error, that Jesus was not divine, that there was no Trinity, and that Allah wanted to give him, Muhammed, the true gospel (which was later assembled from Muhammeds oral teachings and called the Koran, or the reading,). The name of this heretical new religion is, of course, Islam, which means submission to the will of Allah, and its followers are called Muslims, which means those who submit. With incredible foresight, St.Paul had warned the Christians at Corinth in the first century to be on guard against such false prophets preaching a different gospel or another Jesus, because the devil can disguise himself as an angel of light: For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough ... For such people are false prophets, deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. So it is not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. (2 Cor 11:4-15) Muhammeds religion of the angel spread like a plague throughout the Middle East and North Africa, gaining its new converts not by love, but by the point of a sword. Vowing to overthrow Judeo-Christianity and convert the world to Islam, as many still do today, fanatical Arab hordes declared a jihad (holy war) on the historic centers on Christian civilization such as Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Carthage. Christianity on the European continent was on the verge of annihilation, too, as Muslim invaders captured Spain in 714, and then besieged France in 732. But one thing the invading Arabs hadnt taken into account was Christs promise that his church would never be conquered. Christian forces in Europe defeated the invading Muslims at Poitiers, France in 732; in Spain in 1212; at Vienna, Auatria, in 1529; in the Mediterranean Sea at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571; at Vienna again in 1683; at Belgrade in 1717; and finally in the Balkans in 1912. Notwithstanding their repeated attempts, the Muslims failed to conquer Christianity. Islam failed to conquer the Roman Catholic Church but had much better success against the Eastern Orthodox Church, capturing most of its lands and greatly reducing its power and influence. The Eastern Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Roman Emperor, headquartered in what is now Turkey, had split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054 over disagreements with papal authority. ... The Greek Schism from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054, and again in 1281, proved disastrous for the Eastern Orthodox Church: the Byzantine capitol of Constantinople, the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, fell to the Turks in 1453, and has remained in the hands of the Muslims ever since, while the Vatican in Rome, the capitol of Western Christendom, remains to this day in the hands of Christians. History has proved time and time again that God protects his One True Church.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:40:52 +0000
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