Well,
we have to think about religions as a thing that nobody can dismiss. The
pagans have their own gods, the Jews believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and Christians, of course, believe in the same God. The story
is that when God wanted to reveal himself to men, he chose Abraham. And
through Abraham he had Isaac; through Isaac he had Jacob; through Jacob
he sent the people of Israel to Egypt. He brought them back by Moses, and
Judaism started at that time. God gave the Jewish people His law, revealed
Himself to them, and His revelation was magnificent, because He appeared
to them in a pillar of fire at night, a pillar of cloud in the morning,
and from there Judaism began. In that religion He gave them the offerings,
He gave them the prophets and prophetesses, and it was a preparation for
the final religion that will come, which is Christianity. Because Christianity
is based on Judaism. All the offerings in the Old Testament refer to Jesus
Christ, the only offerings, the Lamb of God. He was the burned offering,
He was the sin offering, He was the peace offering. He completed in Himself
and in His death on the cross, all the offerings of the Old Testament. Prophets
came, and they gave details about Jesus Christ, His blessed birth, His virgin
birth, His crucifixion, His burial, His resurrection, His ascension. Then
religion was completed. Judaism is the foundation, Christianity is the building
upon this foundation.
Now when we come to Islam, why for? For what reason? How could Islam say
that it is a divine religion? There was no former preparation for Islam.
God did not reveal any prophecies in the whole Bible concerning Mohammed
or concerning Islam. And why Islam at all? If the building is complete,
we have the foundation is Judaism, we have the building in Christianity,
Jesus was the final revelation of God to mankind. And we read here, in the
book of Hebrews, and I want to read it from here, in the book of Hebrews
chapter 1, the words here are very clear about Jesus Christ as the final
revelation of God to mankind. "God who at various times and in various
ways spoke in time past to the father by the prophets. Had in these last
days spoken to us by his Son." So if God had spoken to us by His Son,
why would He send a servant after that? Islam is not a divine religion.
No foundation for it, no prophecies about it, it is not a divine religion.
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