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Encounters with Jesus Christ Cause Muslims to Convert

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Here are three testimonies of Muslims who had revelations and visions of Jesus Christ. Each is about half an hour long. The first is Afshin Javid, an Iranian who joined Hezbollah Jihad in order to please Allah. He says that there is not one verse in the Quran about Mohammed being in heaven because all are waiting for the final judgement day, but after two weeks of asking God to show him what to do, Jesus Christ came to him in prison and said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” He shocked this young man by telling him that he is forgiven, and that just for asking, not for doing expected religious deeds like killing people or praying 5 times a day. Jesus told him that he could forgive other Muslim people, but someone needs to go tell them. https://youtu.be/NXR3N2C2k0w The second is Jerry Rassamni, a Druse Muslim, born in Lebanon. He read the Bible and realized that there are many names of Allah in the Quran, but not one is about love and not one is Father. Jerry saw the

Making Sense of the Bible: the Most Important Religious Book I've Ever Read

Other than the Bible, of course. A friend recently recommended a book called Making Sense of the Bible, by Adam Hamilton. It sounded intriguing, so I ordered it, read it, and was amazed. The author is a United Methodist pastor, a founder of Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City. The jacket blurb states, “The church is well known for connecting with agnostics, skeptics, and spiritual seekers. In 2012, it was recognized as the most influential mainline church in America, and Hamilton was asked by the White House to deliver the sermon at the inaugural Obama prayer service.” His church has 18,000 members, and no wonder! The book is divided into two parts, but at the end of Part 1 there is a hermeneutic section that I intend to present here in detail. Part 1 is the stuff one learns in seminary: who wrote the Old and New Testaments? When were they written? Which books made it into the Bible, and why were other books rejected? He writes extensively about the Bible authors, Paul,