Good question. Here is a verbal explanation that will suffice until I do some research and get back to you.
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Good question. Here is a verbal explanation that will suffice until I do some research and get back to you.
Phillip, in Acts 8:25-40 is likely the very image of the man who took Christianity down into Ethiopia after traveling through what is today Egypt and Sudan. We are not told that the Lord used that eunuch mightily to as the man who started the Church in Ethiopia, but one of the oldest church facilities was recently discovered and written up in a Smithsonian periodical, which predates Christianity in America by centuries.
I would venture to say that the likelihood is pretty good that the Lord greatly used that eunuch.
Smithsonian Article
I would venture to say that the likelihood is pretty good that the Lord greatly used that eunuch.
Smithsonian Article
Here is another interesting video on the subject of the Ethiopian Church.
Here is a longer version of the short above for those who would like to hear more of what that young man had to say.
Here is a longer version of the short above for those who would like to hear more of what that young man had to say.
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Amen, brother;
I was going to throw in Ethiopia during the early beginnings referencing the Eunuch who met Philip and was baptized in Acts 8.
God bless you, MM.
Agreed!
Having in the past spoken to many Muslim believers, they all told me or tried to convince me that ............
"We're pretty much the same thing, we believe in the same God, I love Jesus just like you, the only difference is that I don't see Jesus as God but everything else is the same".
From what I have read and seen, It seems to me that Islam is based on ignorance and the Quran says it affirms the prior scriptures even though it plainly contradicts them (which leads Muslims to say that the Bible is corrupted). Muhammad called himself a prophet with zero relation to or understanding of the biblical prophets. The Quran and Hadith proclaim a paradise that is tailored completely for the sexual desires of men, no knowledge of the biblical themes of a New Heaven and New Earth, or God dwelling with his people. Allah is completely impersonal, the Quran denies that Allah has a Son, and denies our right to be called children of God.
Through the years, I too have been told that the God of Abraham is the same as the god they call allah.
What differentiates the two is easily surmised by anyone who dares to study the character differences between the God described in the Bible and the one believed in my islamics. They are further apart than the east is from the west. The character differences alone leads only to two conclusions:
1) They are NOT one and the same, or
2) They ARE one and the same, but that creature being a total schizophrenic, having two opposing personalities manifesting at times and intervals that are unpredictable to mankind, and utterly unreliable given that muslims can't even tell us that they are saved and will be in their concept of paradise.
The first choice is the one I personally say is the truth.
MM
Agreed.
Is Allah and the God of the Bible the same??????
Interestingly.....The Qur’an says yes, and Pope Francis says yes, but some of the controversy is a matter of semantics.
In the Arabic language, “Allah” simply means god. So, Arabic-speaking Christians use “Allah” when referring to the God of the Bible.
The Qur’an doesn’t teach that Allah is the “Father.” They say Allah is their lord, sustainer, caretaker, and provider. But they don’t use the term walid Allah (father god) or ‘ab (Dad). They believe that calling themselves the “children of god” presumes too much. They don’t believe Allah is knowable in an intimate, relational sense. They believe Allah reveals his will, but not himself.
That being the literal and factual truth as stated by the Quran, Muslims can never have a personal relationship with God!
True enough. The god they worship allows them to idolize objects, where the God of the Bible does not, especially given that the word of God says that we are not to even possess images of ANY thing in the earth, under the earth, nor in Heaven, and bowing down before them...no. Walking circles around something...no. Bowing toward some thing...no.
MM
So basically, there is no saviour in the Quran just instructions that we can all do perfectly in order to enter paradise.
Sounds like a works based entrance to a brothel to me
Sounds like a works based entrance to a brothel to me
Bob the trans Atlantic slave trade was a drop in the ocean compared to the universal Islamic slave trade which had pretty well continued on from its conception all the way up mid 19th century unhindered . It is estimated that over 140 million Africans alone were enslaved over that time period
the Africans weren’t the only ones enslaved by the Muslims. Over a million Europeans were abducted from their homelands or at sea namely by the Islamic Barbary slavers. As Bible Believer noted in his post 12 slavery still goes on today also that slavery doesn’t discriminate by creed, it be universal pastime for some . 
Officially Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery in 1981. Unofficially it still continues in many places 
Hello Prim90;
Thank you, sister, for sharing additional information. There is so much to absorb and that's what makes this part of the topic saddening.
God bless you, Prim90.
Bob