I want stories and I want them. From Christians who have studied both Islam and Christianity. What made you believe Mohammed is the true prophet? Many thanks
former Christians who became Muslim what made you turn away from Jesus ?
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I am interested as well.
I can understand people leaving Christianity or Islam for something different like paganism or atheism, but it's always struck me as a little odd how some people can jump from one religion to another. Especially in areas where conversion can be a real physical risk.
I can understand people leaving Christianity or Islam for something different like paganism or atheism, but it's always struck me as a little odd how some people can jump from one religion to another. Especially in areas where conversion can be a real physical risk.
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I was Muslim prior to a couple weeks ago. You will have to ask someone else for their going the other way story. But I will say it has a lot to do with the fact they were Christian because their parents were, and never knew the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Nothing could make me go back now.. everything has changed inside of me, because of the Holy Spirit.
However my story for leaving Islam is;
Back after 9/11 I prayed to God, because of everything that was happening in the world, the actions of people were just so bad. Nothing seemed right anymore. None of it seemed Godly.
So I prayed back then, asked God to show me HIS path, and teach me who HE was, so that I knew what was true and what wasn't. I asked HIM to teach me in a manner so that I knew it was from HIM, and not the words of men.
I didn't get any real guidance I don't think and I was searching searching in Islam for God trying to figure out the deepest meanings of all the texts and studying Islam so much. I pretty much went on the deep end of religious study, dedicating anywhere from 8-12 hours a day every day to learning.
Then in about 2008 I started having dreams and visions, in all of them I was being told that something bad was going to happen, and they all indicated there was something missing in my spirituality - and I had to get that right, and that I was running out of time.
One dream after the other I searched trying to figure it all out. But, I was okay spiritually I thought. I was religious and doing all the right things and I was kind and considerate and giving and obedient ect ect. I also felt that I was close to the Imam, so.. in all things I didn't understand why my dreams were telling me I was missing something in my own spirituality.
So, I began going to shiekhs at some point hoping they could help me. One after the other either completely dismissed me and some told me they were false dreams ect but I knew they werent. And I kept having them.
Fast forward some through time, and about 2 years ago, perhaps 2 and a half years ago, I ended up closer to some Christians, which gave me the opportunity to speak with them and occasionally ask questions. It really seemed none of them had any clue either.. no more than the shiekhs in my religion. They were just as lost as everyone else.
There were only two who seemed to know anything, and neither one was quick to talk to me about it all.
Anyway.. I ended up getting married to one of those Christians, and he made a pact when we got married, that he would do nothing to interfere with my religion. So he wouldn't even teach me and just barely would answer any questions I might have had, because he didn't want anything he did to be perceived as interference. He had given me his word.
That was 2 years ago we got married. He would occasionally answer a direct question, but not all the time.. and he never offered anything.
So fast forward some more, I had kept having the dreams and visions, and as more time went on, the more dreams and visions I began having.
I had been leaning toward Christianity the last few weeks prior to my last dream. but I was trying to be both a Christian and a Muslim, I was trying to mix the religions together... I wasn't understanding Jesus enough to let go of Islam, but I was at least understanding better.
Then I had one last dream, that was on the 9th of November 2014, and the next day, on the 10th of November, I understood the dream. I had not understood it at first, but when I did understand finally, I realized that Jesus had come to me in my dream, and explained fully exactly who HE was to me..
That morning, on the 10th, I gave my heart over to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I finally understood it all.
Exactly 1 week later, I revived the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Who has taught me so much since then, I talk to HIM all the time, and learn from HIM. It's been amazing..
I am now a Christian. But it was a lot more God, and a lot less anything anyone said to me. Most weren't able to say much if anything at all.
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I'm not a former Christian though a lot of my convert friends are formerly from Christianity. The most common reasons they (those I asked) were first attracted to Islaam were pretty much part of the reasons why I love my religion so much: Islaamic monotheism (which they say made sense to them as opposed to the trinity), prayer, Islaam providing a clear purpose in life, etc.
AbdurRaheem Greene touches on some of these in his recounting of his journey to Islaam. He was a Roman Catholic like his mother, then became Buddhist for about 3 years, and eventually became a Muslim. Here's his story (it's an hour long, but it goes by fast...the rest is Q&A and stuff):
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At the time of this lecture, his agnostic father was not a Muslim but he has since become one.
(btw, they wouldn't be turning away from Jesus...they'd actually be following his actual message by becoming Muslim)
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I think the title of this post displays a profound misunderstanding of Islam.
Muslims haven't turned away from Jesus.
Muslims haven't turned away from Jesus.
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If the new Muslims follow Jesus' teachings then no. If they follow in Mohammad's footsteps then they have.
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The problem is you are framing the question in way that no Muslim would agree to.
I was a Christian who now believes in Muhammad (although I'm a Baha'i not a Muslim.) I never turned away from Jesus. Indeed I became a Baha'i because I could see Christ in the Bab and Baha'u'llah and through them in Muhammad as well.
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Of course they have turned away from Jesus! Muslims don't follow Jesus like Christians do. The gospel is all about Jesus.
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Again, no Christian convert to Islam would ever say they turned away from Jesus, so there is no sense in asking a Muslim why they have done something they say they haven't done.
But if you want to waste your time talking past Muslims rather than trying to understand them, go right ahead.
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You do but I do not so that is why I am asking.
Not a single one would say they turned away from Jesus, except maybe Woodrow who became an atheist for awhile after having been a Christian missionary.
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Free criticism of christianity makes adherents doubt their faith.While looking for an alternative faith ,Islam may look promising since not much criticism is published regarding Islam.It also helps that Islam retains the characterestics of vengeful deity of old.I strongly think this is one of the reasons.
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There is a difference. I was Muslim.. Jesus came to me over a period of years in dreams and visions.
I thought the same thing you did, that I loved Jesus and that I was the same as any Christian with the exception of following Muhammed too.. but that thinking is incorrect.
I was saved a month ago.. a week after I was saved I was filled with the Holy Spirit.. it is something indescribable.. seriously.
I know what you think, that you follow Jesus too.. but it is very much different.. its not that you turned your back on Jesus.. It is that none of us ever knew HIM at all..
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There is a difference but not the one you have in mind. I *was* a Christian before I became a Baha'i. Granted Muslims have a different concept of Christ than Christians. Baha'is, not so much.
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I cannot say I know anything of that faith.. it was a heresy according to Islam - but I never delved into it.
I am Christian because Jesus and the Holy Spirit told me it was from God. So this is what I am.
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To before fair the whole Allah guides when he wants and mid guides whom he wants does not sound like the same God as the bible. Yes we have free will but Satan misguides and God guides if we want to but he wold not misguide us deliberately. Satan does that. So not understanding this at all from an Islamic point of view.
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