@Daze - you have actually done a great deal to help me understand the perhaps the prevailing Muslim mindset…
A couple of days you highlighted the Islamic position on music. Certainly the majority of music played on the radio or Spotify is either simply fleshly or expresses various facets of evil. I know you didn’t agree with me when I pointed out that not all does, and that some music and instruments express beauty, truth and glory.
Women in the west can sometimes use their freedom to dress in a way that is demeaning and provocative and modisty in dress is to be preferred. On the other hand there are significant numbers of women in the west who dress in a tasteful yet unrestricted way and are in no way trying to gain attention for immoral reasons.
I have a dog that is as tough and dangerous as a Guinea pig but occasionally in the pet store a well-meaning Muslim lady might seize her child as we approach and whisper words of caution to her child about dogs. Of course, many dangerous / dirty dogs do exist but the one we own is not one!
To your observations about certain Jews…
At the moment I am listening through “Return of the Gods” again and contemplating the time of Elijah, Ahab and Jezebel. The rulership had led the nation into the worship of the “dark trinity” of Baal, Ashteroth and Moloch, being the expressions of all kinds of evil. At one point Elijah despaired of the nation and cried out to God saying “I and only I am left!”. God reminded Elijah that he had 7000 others in the nation who had not bowed their knee to Baal.
Why am I telling you this?
God would have certainly have been justified in wiping the idolatrous and unfaithful nation from the face of the earth in 1 Kings 18 and 19. If YouTube or Twitter had been available in that day, there would be graphic and incriminating videos available displaying veneration of wealth and power, depraved orgies on the high places and the horrors of screaming, frightened children being sacrificed on the burning metal hands of Moloch as flutes played and drums beat to drown out the screaming.
As far as I can see, the only reason why God has not wiped this “stiff necked” people from the face of the earth is because of the covenant cut in the blood of a substituted ram that He made with Abraham. On the other hand, the only reason why I can stand before God, accepted and forgiven is because of the New Covenant made with me by the shed blood of the perfect Passover Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Fast forward to the present day. Study of history reveals that 1/3 or the Jewish nation perished in the Holocaust. Study of the prophetic passages suggest that perhaps 2/3 or them will perish in the coming Tribulation, the remaining third escaping to be protected by God until the return of Jesus who they will then recognise as in Zechariah 12:10
Mourning the One they Pierced
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John 19:31-37)
10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for
his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
I have mentioned the phrase “including but not limited to” before. Does the above help you understand what I mean by that?