if i were born in the middle east and wanted to know God, isnt it natural to turn to Islam? if i live in Ohio.

Question

and i want to know God isnt it natural to turn to Christ?

so how then is someone from the middle east supposed to turn to Christ if their version of God is Islam?

Answer 1

I have many non muslim friends who live and were born in the middle east and they follow their religion and no one goes around asking them to convert. Just that they have been living with Muslims and find them to be normal nice people unlike what the media potrays.
By the way, I don't know of any middle eastern country where learning about other religions is forbidden. And with the internet, how can you not learn about whichever religion you want? The only problem nowadays is the authenticity of the sites.

Answer 2

Sadly, some traditional versions of Christianity will say it's because God chose to save the Ohioan and chose to damn the Middle Eastern person.

Others, such as Catholics, soften this stance by saying that someone in the Middle East can still be saved by making an honest effort.

Me, I think it's silly for a supposely all-powerful God to let most of the world flail about in ignorance. You'd think someone supposedly omniscient could come up with more convincing proofs of her existence.

Answer 3

That's a really great question. the best way I can respond is this.....before I decided to follow Jesus, I explored and studied other religions. I was raised in a Christian home, and I believed in Jesus but wanted to find out and make sure that he was the real thing. So the first thing I did was to read the Bible cover to cover twice. Then I studied a variety of religions: Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, etc......After much study, I concluded that I did in fact believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and died for my sins. Then I became baptized as a Christian.

The nice thing is that in America, we have the freedom to study and explore other faiths. In some places in the middle east, studying anything but Islam is forbidden. I believe that when Christ returns, those who have died not getting a chance to know Christ will then get that chance to know Him and accept Him as their savior.

Answer 4

No.

Most of the middle east was christian until the Islamics came in and murdered everyone. They then enslaved the women and children and indoctrinated them into Islam. That was not so long ago.

Today, people are forced into Islam. People who refuse are killed.

Further, Allah is quite obviously not God. Islam is diametrically opposed to Christianity and Judaism. Everything good, they disdain. Almost any imagineable evil, they not only condone but demand of their followers. People who disobey are at least beaten, usually killed.

That is what type of religion Islam is.

You should know that part of Islam is deception as part of Jihad. Specifically, the idea that Allah is God is a deception with no other purpose than to promote Jihad. The muslims do not in any way think that Allah is God but lie and say it is so that we will identify with them and let our guard down. They have repeatedly done things like this nonstop throughout the entire history of Islam:

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch16_understanding_dishonesty.htm

Allah is evil. And there is good reason to believe he is actually satan. This comes from the religion itself:

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Responses/Saifullah/sverses.htm

Understand that all people throughout history with authority to speak on behalf of Islam are united in saying that this event happened. They believe it is the literal truth that Muhammad was possessed by satan. This reveals many things about Islam that they don't want us to know about. How could Muhammad be a prophet if he was possessed by satan? Prophets are protected by God. This would make Muhammad a minion of satan and the words he spoke on behalf of Islam, satanic. His behavior during his life was fully congruent with this....one heinously evil act after another, almost without pause. The entire history of Islam after his death is congruent with this....nothing but slaughter, torture and the toppling of peaceful peoples. Muslim behavior today is completely congruent with this.

The conclusion is unavoidable to anyone who takes a cold hard look at the facts. Islam is a satanic religion and Allah is actually satan.

Answer 5

IMHO

If you grew up in an Islamic culture Islam would make more sense, yes. "If I live in Ohio" I guess would be a yes. "wanted to know God ..." (from OHIO?) would seem reasonable.

The idea of an Islamic version if God is interesting. The "Islamic God" and the "Christian God" are the same... The split was with Abraham/Isaac/Ishmael thing. God didn't split...

Are you familiar with the story (from the Bible)?

Answer 6

Many people in the middle east are Christians. I met many Christian Palestinians, Lebannese, every Iraqis. I've also met people who have converted to Islam. The point is there are choices. We can stay where we are, or we can seek God and let him direct our lives.

Answer 7

If you lived in Rome in 25 A.D. It would be natural to worship Cesar as God! It would be the LAW of Rome! You could be put to death for not worshiping Cesar!

How could someone in Rome at that time worship the Christ?

but they did!

Answer 8

There is no different God for Muslims, they beleive in the same God that all prophet like Abraham,Moses, Jesus etc. believed. Difference is that Muslims do not consider any one equal to God.

Answer 9

yeah it would b easier 4 u 2 convert 2 islam bcoz u'll ull c how da real muslims live not da ones u watch on tv

Answer 10

the way we seek god is individually, yet certain people seek in similar ways and all religions seem to have root beliefs at their foundations that all the religions share. these are the most humane of things.
this insinuates that even though we all seek god individually we all have the same things in common and are one.