Is there really a widescale movement of conversions from Islam to Christianity? [Spirituality & Religion]
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It seems there is actually evidence of it: [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2j6nG59[/c] , [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2oi9FDE[/c]
Last week the [i]New York Times[/i] ran a story about an al-Nusra jihadist and his wife who have converted to Christianity :
[i]“For Mr Mohammad and Ms Rashid, perhaps it was their dreams that sealed their conversion. As the couple began to consider leaving Islam, Ms Rashid said she dreamed of a biblical figure who used heavenly powers to divide the waters of the sea, which Mr Mohammad interpreted as a sign of encouragement from Jesus. Then, Mr Mohammad himself dreamed Jesus had given him some chickpeas. The pair felt loved. ‘There’s a big gap between the god I used to worship and the one I worship now,’ Mr Mohammad said. ‘We used to worship in fear. Now everything has changed.’”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://nyti.ms/2oihp8H[/c]
They preferred a God who is love and personal -- a God who millions of Christians connect with every day by physically consuming -- to Allah – a God who is solitary and unapproachable who people worship out of awe and fear, who can only beget violence. As [b]Chesterton[/b] wrote:
[i]“There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy out of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of its own theology. It affirms, with no little sublimity, something that is not merely the singleness but rather the solitude of God. There is the same extreme simplification in the solitary figure of the Prophet; and yet this isolation perpetually reacts into its own opposite. A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it. There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be repeated and the world end again and again.”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2nwBCrk[/c]
The[b] Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen[/b] said that it was no coincidence that [b]Mary[/b], who is mentioned more times in the Koran than she is in the Bible, appeared at [b]Fatima[/b] [ [c=#BF0000]https://youtu.be/NaIp8iAccLs [/c]] -- a small Portuguese town named after Mohammad's favorite daughter: [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1oUDEQJ[/c] , [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1XtCFTo[/c]
On this the hundredth anniversary of the Marian apparitions at [b]Fatima[/b], and where before 75,000 people the [b]Mother of God[/b] [i]“spun the sun like it was a trinket on her wrist”[/i] -- I am not alone in thinking that the [b]Prophecy of Fatima[/b] has not yet totally played out – and that 2017 will be a critical year --- a momentous year for all of humanity -- an electrifying turn in the arc of history.https://similarworlds.com/269167-I-Am-Christian-roman-Catholic/650996-One-hundred-years-ago-this-year-the-Mother-of-God
Perhaps one of those thing will be a tsunami of conversions from Islam to Christianity.
[/center]It seems there is actually evidence of it: [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2j6nG59[/c] , [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2oi9FDE[/c]
Last week the [i]New York Times[/i] ran a story about an al-Nusra jihadist and his wife who have converted to Christianity :
[i]“For Mr Mohammad and Ms Rashid, perhaps it was their dreams that sealed their conversion. As the couple began to consider leaving Islam, Ms Rashid said she dreamed of a biblical figure who used heavenly powers to divide the waters of the sea, which Mr Mohammad interpreted as a sign of encouragement from Jesus. Then, Mr Mohammad himself dreamed Jesus had given him some chickpeas. The pair felt loved. ‘There’s a big gap between the god I used to worship and the one I worship now,’ Mr Mohammad said. ‘We used to worship in fear. Now everything has changed.’”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://nyti.ms/2oihp8H[/c]
They preferred a God who is love and personal -- a God who millions of Christians connect with every day by physically consuming -- to Allah – a God who is solitary and unapproachable who people worship out of awe and fear, who can only beget violence. As [b]Chesterton[/b] wrote:
[i]“There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy out of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of its own theology. It affirms, with no little sublimity, something that is not merely the singleness but rather the solitude of God. There is the same extreme simplification in the solitary figure of the Prophet; and yet this isolation perpetually reacts into its own opposite. A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it. There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be repeated and the world end again and again.”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2nwBCrk[/c]
The[b] Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen[/b] said that it was no coincidence that [b]Mary[/b], who is mentioned more times in the Koran than she is in the Bible, appeared at [b]Fatima[/b] [ [c=#BF0000]https://youtu.be/NaIp8iAccLs [/c]] -- a small Portuguese town named after Mohammad's favorite daughter: [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1oUDEQJ[/c] , [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/1XtCFTo[/c]
On this the hundredth anniversary of the Marian apparitions at [b]Fatima[/b], and where before 75,000 people the [b]Mother of God[/b] [i]“spun the sun like it was a trinket on her wrist”[/i] -- I am not alone in thinking that the [b]Prophecy of Fatima[/b] has not yet totally played out – and that 2017 will be a critical year --- a momentous year for all of humanity -- an electrifying turn in the arc of history.https://similarworlds.com/269167-I-Am-Christian-roman-Catholic/650996-One-hundred-years-ago-this-year-the-Mother-of-God
Perhaps one of those thing will be a tsunami of conversions from Islam to Christianity.
