Muhammad

Do we check out what we are taught? Some years ago in a Baptist church, I was a member of, a Deacon said in a Sunday School class that Muhammad was briefly mentioned in the Bible. I didn't believe it when I heard it and searched to see if it was true. It is not true. This was before at least my days of knowing about Bible Hub on the internet where you can type in a word and find out where it is found in the Bible. I did have a concordance and checked it out. A concordance is a book 11 x 8 x 2.5 in small print. Muhammad was not found in the Bible. You can go to Bible Hub and type in "if" and or "to" and Bible Hub will give you many instances of scripture references where this word is found. You can type in any name listed in the Bible and you can find it. I tried to think of a name that is only once in the Bible and I can't think of it. I searched for a few and found several instances of them but I found Traconitis in Luke 3:1 and that is the only place it is found in the Bible.  There may be other names also but I just wanted to find one that is only called out one time.  If you type "Traconitis" into the search field of Bible Hub you will find it.  Anyway, I brought this Deacon my concordance the next Sunday to point out to him what he said wasn't true. It was just an offhand remark but it wasn't true. The Bible is true and that is where we get our basis of truth. It is not your truth or my truth that is important. The truth of the scripture, Jesus Christ, the truth and the way to God is the only way to God. You can defame, make fun of Jesus, criticize Christians and we will not seek to kill you.  But as we found out a few years back if you make a cartoon of Muhammad, you could end up dead. The Koran tells the followers of that religion to kill the people of the book. meaning Jews and Christians, the book being the Bible. That is why this killing of Christians has been going on for many years. The followers of the Koran are children/ancestors of Ishamael. The people of the book are children of Isaac, either descendants or grafted in as descendants by believing in Jesus. This idea came from a sermon I listen to by Bill Wolfson and I thought of the name Mohammad as he was preaching and that incident so many years ago. The thought today is that we check out what we are being taught and challenged it. I really don't mind being challenged and have been. One of my blogs I mentioned the Senate and Congress and a person corrected me and pointed out that the Senate and the House of Representatives are both parts of congress.  I do make mistakes, and that is why we need to check out what we read hear and say. It is important and I guess I objected to being challenged because of all I ever read on this person's blog was critical of something I wrote. But it wasn't wrong to challenge me it was just irritating because everything was about something I wrote in my blog. I don't necessarily appreciate being criticized for something I wrote but anyone should check it out for themselves. If everything you say is critical, I will not appreciate it. Actually, I do like to hear a word of encouragement now and then. The only point I want to make today is to check out what we read and hear. I listen to Dennis Prager a lot and I don't agree with every single thing he says but I do agree with a majority of it. I did on his website list at least one thing I disagreed with. I believe it had to do with respect and love having to be earned. I disagreed and told him my disagreement and why. At the time I was reading a book called Love and Respect. Actually, I am still reading it as I read some pages yesterday.  Anyway, it is good to check it out for yourself. I don't have a Koran so if I ever get one, I will try to check out those words for myself, but for now, I trust Bill. I am sure there must be an English version of the Koran. But it is not something I want to read or study and it has not been a priority to get one. Now I will probably get a different story from a believer of the Koran that I will get from a non-believer of the Koran. I think the same is in politics if all you read are liberal or conservative thought you will believe it as truth even if it is not. Such as this global warming narrative we hear so much about today from liberals. I believe the weather changes. Sometimes a trend up and sometimes a trend down in temperature. Socialism is easy to check out if you really want to.  It has failed every place it has been tried. And don't tell me about social security, without capitalism there would be no money for social security. You can't read a newspaper or listen to a major news service without hearing liberal thought. In fact, many commercials bombard us with liberal ideology.  Like Joe Namath and get all you deserve, and many more like it.  How I wish John Kennedy were still alive and his asking not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.  It is good to check out what we read and listen to.  God bless, LVZ.