Are Christianity and Islam
about to merge in to a
worldwide mega-religion
called Chrislam?
Popular TV preacher Jack
Van Impe recently ended
his decades-long run on
Trinity Broadcasting
Network after he publicly
accused California
megachurch founder Rick
Warren of mixing Christian
and Muslim beliefs. TBN
pulled the episode before a
repeat broadcast could air
— prompting Impe to
announce he could no
longer work with TBN.
Van Impe and his co-host
wife, Rexella, cited
Warren’s speech to an
Islamic conference in
Washington in 2009
and Warren’s invocation at
President Obama’s
inaguration that invoked
the name of Jesus in several
languages. They claimed
Warren said churches can
attract new believers by
taking crosses down from
inside and outside their
buildings.
Warren, however, has
said exactly the opposite:
“If you remove the cross
from the church, it’s no
longer the church. Just a
social club.”
Is Chrislam the religion
of the future? Science-
fiction author Arthur C.
Clarke, who wrote 2001: A
Space Odyssey, may have
been the first to coin the
term — as a futuristic
religion he imagined.

The concept is likely to be
embraced by a few non-
fundamentalists on either
side of the divide, such
as Universalists, Unitarians
and maybe some Buddhists.
There are Hindus and
Shinto faithful who are
willing to add Christianity
and Islam to their belief
spectrum — rejecting that
there is any single path to
God.
However, Christianity has
at its very core that Jesus is
the only way to heaven —
and that eternal salvation is
a gift of grace, earned for
mankind by Christ’s
crucifixion. Islam holds the
firm view that eternal
damnation awaits those
who do not earn salvation
by submiting to the
requirements of the Koran,
which describes Jesus as a
noteworthy prophet who
didn’t really die on the
cross.

In Nigeria, Shamsuddin
Saka seeks to bridge the
religious divide. However,
notes Fred de Sam Lazaro
for “The World” radio
program on Public Radio
International :
It doesn’t take much to
spark religious violence in
the West African nation of
Nigeria. Just this past
weekend, rioting erupted in
the town of Bauchi after
Muslims parked their cars
in front of a church. Bauchi
lies along a line between
Nigeria’s mainly Muslim
north and the Christian
south. Tensions in the
region often spill over into
violence, but one man is
trying to bridge the gap. He
preaches a liturgy that
blends Christianity and
Islam.
Of hundreds of small
churches in Lagos, this
likely is the only one that
has both a Bible and a
Qur’an on the lectern. The
invocations come loudly
from both. Practitioners of
what the preacher calls
‘Chrislam,’ fifteen 1,500 on
some Sundays, see no
religious fault line.
Saka preaches that
Christians and Muslims are
both children of Abraham
— which is historically
accurate, according to both
the Bible, the Koran and
DNA studies.
Saka was born Muslim, and,
the PRI report notes: ” it
was after returning from a
Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca
that he was inspired – he
says instructed by God – to
launch his new ministry:
“That was about 19 years
ago. I was praying and I
[laid] down and the Lord
told me, make peace
between Christian and
Muslim.”

Ishak Akintola, a religion
scholar at nearby Lagos
State University, told
PRI the spiritual basis for
the merger is sound:
“The Bible concentrates on
teachings of love; that’s
what Jesus says in Matthew:
Chapter Five, that you love
your neighbor and you
even love your enemy. Now
you find the Qur’an saying
exactly the same thing.”
And there are those
academics who predictably
think Chrislam is
wonderful. Anthropologist
Mara Leichtman at
Michigan State University
notes:
“According to Islam, the
prophet Muhammad was
the final prophet, but
certainly not the only
prophet; and they believe
in Jesus and all of the other
prophets of Judaism and
Christianity that came
before the prophet
Muhammad,” “So it’s
nothing foreign to a Muslim
to believe in Jesus, to pray
in Jesus, to light a candle
for the Virgin Mary, for
example, as I’ve
experienced Muslims do in
churches in Senegal.”
However, Alan Wisdom,
director of the Presbyterian
Action committee and vice
president for research and
programs at the Institute on
Religion & Democracy
contends that Islam should
never be viewed as an
equal to the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Moreover, Qurans
should never be placed next
to God’s Holy Word, he
says. He told writer Chad
Groening at the news site
OneNewsNow:
“The Bible is God’s unique
revelation to us. The pulpit
of a church is for preaching
the Word of God, and we
believe that that is the
scriptures of the Old and
New Testament. When we
go to worship God, we
worship Jesus Christ, and
we can’t mix that worship
with any other allegiance.”
Wisdom said that while he
believes it is important for
Christians to study and
understand religions like
Islam, he does not think
believers should ever cross
the line and blend
Christianity together with a
religion that is “antithetical
to Christian teachings.”

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/10/what-is-chrislam-and-does-anybody-really-preach-it.php

These people know that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven....there is no other way(s)

Why won't they build the bridge!

Even Mohammed told them to believe in Prophet Isa and everything he said.

And Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can see the father except through me"

So, anyone not believeing these words of Jesus Christ is not obeying the words of Mohammed!

If every Muslim believes in Him, then I still don't know the reasons why they argue some cases like Trinity....Jesus Christ was clear about it.

Well, if there is going to be any Chrislam, then its solely for the benefit of the Muslims!

^^
U are going to hell for not accepting Allah as one god mohammed as his prophet

Stop the slander.
Here is an interview with Rick over what you said.
http://saddleback.com/blogs/newsandviews/news--views-030212/

Can you mix good with bad?

Remove Jesus from xtianity n it becomes as every other religion. Jesus is the defining factor which is the reason they are trying all they could to remove Him from the picture, once that is done then there is no stopping ONE WORLD RELIGION.

9jadelta: ^^
U are going to hell for not accepting Allah as one god mohammed as his prophet

duh dont get your point?

I seen a church by the name Chrislam before...wonder if they have the same thing in mind.

Am against this bullshit

Pastor Olu T: Remove Jesus from xtianity n it becomes as every other religion. Jesus is the defining factor which is the reason they are trying all they could to remove Him from the picture, once that is done then there is no stopping ONE WORLD RELIGION.

Don't forget about the atheists so quickly....we are there to oppose any such one world religion.

onetrack:

Don't forget about the atheists so quickly....we are there to oppose any such one world religion.

onetrack:

Don't forget about the atheists so quickly....we are there to oppose any such one world religion.

ayobase: These people know that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven....there is no other way(s)

Why won't they build the bridge!

Even Mohammed told them to believe in Prophet Isa and everything he said.

And Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can see the father except through me"

So, anyone not believeing these words of Jesus Christ is not obeying the words of Mohammed!

If every Muslim believes in Him, then I still don't know the reasons why they argue some cases like Trinity....Jesus Christ was clear about it.

Well, if there is going to be any Chrislam, then its solely for the benefit of the Muslims!

And Jesus asked christians to condemned Moses .....!!!


There is nothing like Chrislam ........Islam has already encapsulated Christianity(Jesus) and Jew/Judahism(Torah) !!!


Islam is the bridge-builder of Abrahamaic Religion !!!


Quran 5 ; 3 !!!!