Chrislam

Chrislam is a new doctrine making inroads in Christian America. There are those who have been, for a long time, denouncing that America was founded as a Christian nation. Now one of the fastest growing doctrines is trying to impact America as it has in many areas of Europe. Islam has now been embraced by some Christian churches in the form of Chrislam.

What is Chrislam? It is a blending of Christianity and Islam, hence the term Chrislam. There are churches in America who have placed the Holy Bible and Quran side by side in their church pews. It is an attempt by some Christians to find common ground with Islam. This day has been a long time in coming. Chrislam is a new avenue by which preachers, desiring to fill their pews and their bank accounts, may merge apostate Christianity with the "religion" of Islam. Christians, make no mistake, that day has arrived in America!

The blending of Christianity and Islam has been called by some to be dangerous and still by others to be just outright wrong. God uses stronger words than that. Scripture labels it as a spirit of Antichrist. In 1 John 2:18-29, it implies that John's readers had been taught to expect an Anti-Christ in connection with the closing days of the Christian Era. However, John applies the word, not to one person, but to the whole group of Anti-Christian teachers. John 2:18 says, "Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour."

Further, 1 John 4:3 goes on to say, "and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world." This scripture reference should be scary enough for those that would either turn from the teachings of Christ or even dare imply tolerance of Islam.

The New Testament idea seems to be that the spirit of antichrist would arise in Christendom, manifesting itself in many ways, both within the Church and without, finally culminating in one person, or an institution, or both. Think for a moment, Islam teaches that Allah is God and Jehovah is not God and that Jesus was only a man, not the God man. Islam does not recognize the divine birth of Christ, the Trinity, nor the fact that Christ arose from the dead on the third day. Allah does not exist, God says in His word that there is only one God of the universe and He, Yahweh, is that God.

The word "antichrist" simply means 'against Christ' or 'opposes Christ'. Therefore, anything introduced into the Church and put before the body of believers as equal to Christ, downplaying or outright denying the finished work of Jesus on the Cross, is a spirit of antichrist. This kind of teaching distracts, corrupts, and takes away from who Jesus Christ is and what He accomplished at the Cross. In 1 Timothy 4:1, the Apostle Paul writes, "But the Spirit explicitly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons."

The acceptance of Islamic practices into the Church is giving way to seducing spirits and is teaching doctrines contrary to that taught by the Word of God. The Apostle John put it very plain as he wrote in 1 John 2:22, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." The supreme liar is the one who denies that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, i.e., that He was both man and God. Islam unequivocally denies that Jesus is the Son of God and the true Messiah.

The apostle Peter wrote in 2 Peter: 2:1, "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves." The price for the sins of all men, including these false teachers, was paid by the death of Christ, though no man can benefit from this forgiveness except through faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ. God told the apostle John to write these words to the church in Laodicea in Revelation 3:15-16, "I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth." Will God determine that those who invite Islamic practices into His Church are neither hot nor cold? Will He spit them out of His mouth? Remember, it is the way of the antichrist to oppose the word of God.

The leaders of Churches of the Christian faith who bring Islam and the Quran into the Church to pacify, appease, or be politically correct is to deny the Lord Himself. Further, they deny who He is, and it is to deny what He accomplished at Calvary's Cross some 2000 years ago, when He gave His life for the sins of the world. Just as bad, it is an open acceptance of the Spirit of Antichrist, which John said will bring swift destruction and ultimately, yet sadly, the damning of the soul.

What must the Church of believers do now? Those who are introducing this new doctrine, Chrislam, must get back to preaching the word of God. Preachers of the Word must get back to proclaiming that salvation through Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. Believers of the Word must proclaim the deity of Christ without fear or reprisal and that He is the one true God and no other exists. Further, believers must continue to declare that the Holy Scriptures are the inerrant word of God, not the Quran.

Everyone is free to worship as they desire. What is stated here is about defending who Jesus Christ is and what He accomplished at the Cross. It is defending the purity of the Church and keeping false doctrines from entering its doors to become stumbling blocks. Jesus taught us by example to be loving, forgiving and tolerant, but not at the expense of the true Word. In order to defend the Christian faith, we should strive to become more knowledgeable about our own Christian faith as compared to Islam. We should also understand the underlying mission of the spread of Islam, both religious and political. Make no mistake; Chrislam is the first step toward religious and political domination in America and the world.

The False Religion of Islam Is Idolatry, Which the One True and Living God Hates

True, the Christian is not to be hostile to individual Muslims; that’s a given concerning the Lord instructs us to love your neighbor as yourself (cf. Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 19:19). However, disciples of Jesus Christ are also to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37), which means that we must also hate what He hates.

God hates idolatry:

Despite the man-pleasing mythology of this spiritual circus big tent postmodern form of Progressive Christianity, God hates other religions; He always has, which is obvious from the very first of the Ten Commandments — “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). The capricious and unknowable god of Islam is not the loving and personal God revealed in the Bible, which means it is demonic; and therefore, an idol. There’s no way a Christian pastor-teacher can allow idolaters to share about their demonic idols during a service for the worship in Jesus Christ of the only God there is ( Isaiah 45:21-22; Mark 12:29-32).

Clearly, Islam and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Both claim to be the only true way to God, but both cannot be right. There is no atonement in Islam, no forgiveness, no savior, and no assurance of eternal life. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of hope; Islam is a religion of hopelessness.

Making these kinds of distinctions may not be politically correct, but it is critical if the purity of the gospel is to be protected. Put simply, there is no salvation outside of Christ. When this truth is compromised, the gospel is abandoned—and so is the only hope that we can offer to those who are not our enemies, but rather our mission field.