What the hell is the difference between a Muslim holding a gun to someones head with the threat of death or?

Question

torture if they don't convert and a Christian holding a Bible to someone's head telling them that if they don't convert they will burn in a fiery abyss?

Answer 1

Not much.

Answer 2

The well-intentioned but misguided Christian who is trying to warn you of the terror of hell has to go home after he holds the Bible to your head. The terrorist pulls the trigger and zoom! Off you go to whatever awaits your eternal soul.

You are protesting soooo loudly against Christianity ... if it is such a silly religion and all of that, why is it bothering you so much? Moslem terrorists would still like to kill you, by the way. Personally, I am far more worried about them. I tell the Bible bangers that I have known Christ all of my life and am very comfortable with the relationship. They say "God Bless You" and walk away. I don't think a suicide bomber would be so cordial.

Christianity teaches that God created the world and sent his son as the sacrifice for ALL people. There is no Jew, no Greek, no Roman, no whatever ... we are all his children. All Christianity really wants for the moslem world is an end to the dictatorial regimes that oppress their own people and foment terrorism across the globe. The oppressed people there deserve democracy and freedom just as much as my own children. And I am sending my kids in to those hell holes for the purpose of taking out the dictators so the people there can live the way they want. We aren't trying to conquer the world. If we were, we would be blowing up cities with B-52s before sending in ground troops. Fewer US casualities that way.

The guy at al Quaeda said last week that this is a holy war and that the moslem brothers (not the sisters, apparently) will rise together and create a holy moslem nation from Iraq to Spain. Is it ok in the Koran to do that?

By the way, the Koran says that Jesus Christ was a prophet of Allah and that he lived a perfect life.

Answer 3

The difference is that is one is done in a spirit of conquering and hatred while the other is claimed to be done out of genuine care and concern for the person that is being told they are going to hell. Motive is the main difference.

The Christian, at least a those who believe the Bible is true, believes God is loving and even though it may be uncomfortable for some, can't deny the truth that God is just. If He is just and we sin, He must in His character, punish sin. However in His patience and love God gives a concrete act of grace and mercy by dying on the cross. There He died so that we wouldn't have to out of His favor. Ultimately those who refuse God and this act of His grace are lost and choose to pay for their own sin. Furthermore in Christianity, God is the judge who exercises His justice in His own time and his own way. A Christian only declares to the best of their ability a) what God is like b) what He has already judged ie.. sin, and c) and how to be right with God through Jesus.

Not every Muslim, but the extremist Muslim most likely sees revenge, anger and acts of retribution as virtues which they feel called to exercise on unbelieving infidels in their own time and own way. There is no allowance for any disagreement whatsoever. As for their view of God, there is no concrete act of grace and mercy. There is just a hope that if they kill enough people, or follow their rituals well enough they will end up in Paradise.

Answer 4

I dont understand where u get that
no one kills non muslims if they dont convert.. u'll know if u ask the ones living in arab countries.. they wouldnt be alive if what u r saying is true
what u mean is that all muslims are extremists and that is not the truth, muslims in fact are very reasonable people.. we are said to be the nation of the middles.. we are not extreme in our religion and we are not extreme in not obeying it
if u know any statistics u'd know that the normal distribution of any set of entities would have some extreme ends.. islam is like that, as is all other religions and peoples
as are all of u refusing to learn about islam, and not wanting to open ur minds and hearts to reasonable doubt

Answer 5

Guns kill people, Bibles lead to salvation if you read them. I have never personally held a Bible to anyones head. It is NOT my place as a Christian to swing, shake or in any other way threaten anyone with my Bible.

Answer 6

Telling someone that rejecting Christ will result in the person going to hell isn't cruel, it's kind. Would u rather us not warn you about the consequence of sin so you can spend eternity in hell? Or do you want to know about the danger so you can get out of it?

Answer 7

Has it ever occurred to these people that I, Muhammad, who am their compatriot, am no lunatic? Do they not realize that I am giving a plain warning to them? Will they not ponder on the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, on all that God has created, to discern whether their doom is drawing near? And if they deny these revelations, what revelations will they believe? No one can guide those whom God leads astray. He abandons them, and they blunder about in their wickedness.

-Qur'an, Al-A'raf, Surah 7:184-186

Peace and Love

Answer 8

Islam forbids the act done by the Muslim, while Christianity allows the act done by the Christian.

Answer 9

Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills people.

One will get you to heaven a lot faster!

Answer 10

If you don't convert you don't die...That's the biggest difference. PEACE!

Answer 11

The gun can kill you. Sticks and stones, remember?