Religion of Peace?

So, Islam is the “religion of peace,” is it? Not!

• “Source: Slayings resembled Islamist executions”
• A Hate Crime In Jersey City Heights—Horrid New Details
• “Christians stalked on Islamic website
• Islamists Tracking Christians Online

Jihad Watch is tracking these stories as well as many others related to Islam’s efforts to take over the world.

And in case you’ve forgotten, now is a good time to review some of Jesus’s instructions from the last supper:

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this in order that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me, and you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

“These things I have spoken to you, that you may be kept from stumbling. They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. And these things they will do, because they have not known the Father, or Me.”

(John 15:18-16:3, NASB)

And He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” And they said, “No, nothing.” And He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it along, likewise also a bag, and let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. For I tell you, that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ‘And He was numbered with transgressors’;for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.”

(Luke 22:35-37, NASB)

Update: Kim du Toit points to an article about Islamic literature being distributed and adds his two cents in his own inimitable style. That article by Daniel Pipes can be found here. He provides a link to the actual study (a PDF file).

On Love And Knowledge

Bob at Mr. Standfast has written two very interesting and thoughtful posts examining what Paul meant when he wrote:

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

(Phil. 1:9, NASB)

• “Love & Knowledge”
• “More on Love & Knowledge”