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72 Virgins for Martyrs in Heaven - Myth or Truth?

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:43:50 +0100

It is believed by some radical Muslims that suicide killers will receive sexual rewards in heaven. Other Muslims disagree with them and say it is a sin to commit suicide and therefore they'll not enter paradise according to this Hadith (Prophet's sayings) :

Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 445

Narrated Jundab the Prophet said, “A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him.”

But some Muslim apologists say that while suicide is forbidden in Islam, martyrdom for an Islamic cause is praised and welcomed according to the Quran: (3:169)

“Do not consider those killed [while engaging] in God’s cause dead. Rather, they live with their Lord, who sustains them!”

So, those who have died while blowing up innocent women and children are considered martyrs or suicide killers? I believe a peace-loving Muslim will call these people murderers whereas a radical Muslim will call them "martyrs".

Anyway, where does this teaching that suicide killers will receive 72 virgins in Paradise come from? It is derived (loosely) from the following Hadith:

Sunan al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2562
"It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim, that Abu al-Haytham 'Adullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudhri, who heard Muhammad saying, 'The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy-two houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a."

Watch the interviews of these failed suicide bombers:

UFOs - Hoax,Aliens or Demons?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:47:31 +0100

UFOs- Are they for real? Are aliens really demons in disguise?
Is Israel currently a major location for sighting UFOs?

The circular object was seen descending slowly over the holy city's iconic Dome of the Rock
before flickering and shooting skyward like a rocket. Similar clips have been seen before and
debunked as hoaxes. But this latest sighting has proved more difficult to dismiss -- as it was
recorded from four different perspectives.

Some UFO enthusiasts believe the videos -- which have taken the Internet by storm -- are final
proof that aliens exist, while others say the unidentified object was the Hebrew god Elohim.

Adding to the mystery is the fact that flying over the Dome of the Rock landmark -- an ancient
Islamic shrine -- is forbidden.

Read More...

For Further Information about UFOs, please click the links below:

A Biblical perspective of UFO's

UFOs & the Bible: Genesis 6 & Nephilim

Are UFOs and ALIENS - Real? The Scientific and Biblical TRUTH

Our Father loves us so much...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:15:20 +0100

For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but so that the world might be saved through Him. - John 3:16-17

Aberrant MegaChurchers!

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:02:28 +0100

What do all these mega-churchers have in common?

City Harvest Church, Singapore

Check out these links:

A Pastor's Wife
City Harvest Church under Investigation

Church In The Now, America

Check out these links:

WORD FAITH “BISHOP” ANNOUNCES THAT HE’S GAY

'Witches' Burned Alive in Kenya

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:02:55 +0100

Burned alive
Five people suspected to be witchcrafts were bruterly murded in kisii Nyamataro Village after the accused them of possession of charms.

Joseph Ondieki, at the grave of his mother, who was burned as a witch

By Odhiambo Joseph
BBC News, Kenya

Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed with machetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a big group in Kenya's fertile Kisii district.

I can't see clearly what is going on, but heavy smoke is rising from the ground and a horrible stench fills the air.
More people are streaming up the hill, some of them with firewood and maize stalks.
Suddenly an old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or four people go after her, beat her and drag her back, pushing her onto - what I can now see - is a raging fire.

Burned Alive

I was witnessing a horrific practice which appears to be on the increase in Kenya - the lynching of people accused of being witches. Read more...

Material Blessings for Christians

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:41:37 +0100

Matt 6:33 & other verses tell us that God will meet our needs if we seek His will and follow Jesus.

There needs to be a clear distinction between true biblical prosperity and the gospel of materialism, said two African theologians who are experts in the area of prosperity gospel.

The message that God blesses those who give crosses the line from biblical into prosperity gospel when it becomes self-serving and is used to support the preacher’s extravagant lifestyle, said Kwabena Asamoah, the academic dean and associate professor of Religion and Pentecostal Theology at Trinity Theological Seminary in Legon, Ghana, at the recent Lausanne III conference.

Asamoah, who also served as senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., in 2004, defines prosperity gospel as “preaching, interpreting, teaching the word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord in a self-serving manner that places its emphasis on consumerism to suggest that the possession of material things, of those wealth are necessary indicators of general Christianity and God’s approval.”

“Prosperity is not alien to Scripture,” explained Asamoah last Saturday at the multiplex session titled, “Poverty, Prosperity and the Gospel.”

“God does promise to bless His people. But prosperity gospel distorts the blessing to mean only material blessing.”

Read more...

Real prosperity Gospel...

Raising The Dead - A Doctor's Testimony!

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:03:26 +0100

On October 20, 2006, a middle-aged auto mechanic, Jeff Markin, walked into the emergency room at the Palm Beach Gardens Hospital and collapsed from a massive heart attack. Forty minutes later he was declared dead. After filling out his final report, the supervising cardiologist, Dr. Chauncey Crandall, started out of the room. "Before I crossed its threshold, however, I sensed God was telling me to turn around and pray for the patient," Crandall explained.

With that prayer and Dr. Crandall's instruction to give the man what seemed one more useless shock from the defibrillator, Jeff Markin came back to life--and remains alive and well today.

But how did a Yale-educated cardiologist whose Palm Beach practice includes some of the most powerful people in American society, including several billionaires, come to believe in supernatural healing?

Gaza Flotilla - Truth & Propaganda

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:52:58 +0100

The Pallywood propaganda machine is a lot like Hollywood. The basic story is the “brutal” Israelis versus “innocent” Palestinians, who suffer all because of the “brutal” Israeli “occupiers”. In this story, the storyline is always suffering Palestinians. And this story needs cameras and props. This article will talk about one of the props; the “Free Gaza” flotillas. Read more...

Are There Modern Day Apostles and Christian Prophets Today?

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:20:35 +0100

Is God restoring the five-fold ministry?

The sole proof text used to support this concept is Ephesians 4:11-13, which states that Christ gave "some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,...until we all attain to the unity of the faith and the full knowledge of the Son of God." The word "until," it is argued, proves that the church today needs apostles and prophets as much as evangelists, pastors, and teachers. However, it is the "building up" of the church (v.12) which must continue until the church is mature, not all five of the offices listed in verse 11. This is clear when the whole text is read as follows: "And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers; [these offices were given] to equip the saints for the work of service, [which work has as its goal] to build up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith..." The offices of apostle and prophet would naturally cease in the church once their role in "equipping the saints" was completed; that is, once the New Testament canon was completed.

Some have objected that there is no reason to bracket off the apostles and prophets from the other three offices listed in verse 11. However, in the very same epistle, Paul states that the church has "been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets" (Eph. 2:20 ) and that Christ's mystery concerning the church was "revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit" (3:5 ). These statements indicate that the role of apostles and prophets was fulfilled in the first century.

(THE FAULTY FOUNDATION OF THE FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY - by Robert Bowman)

Important Note : The Assemblies of God, the world's largest Pentecostal church, has officially rejected these modern-day apostles and prophets in their 1949 and subsequent resolutions.

Here is the link:
AOG rejects modern-day Prophets & Apostles

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A response paper to Resolution 16 (Statement Adopted by AOG on Aug 11,2000
- Pdf file

Click this image to enter our FALSE TEACHERS video page

# Below are videos of some of the main modern-day
"Prophets"& "apostles" who are involved in
homosexuality, adultery, false prophecies,
deception,etc (2 Corinthians 11:13;Matthew 7:15)

[Please pray for these people]

Christian Persecution

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:04:25 +0100

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.

- John 15:19,20

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http://www.persecution.com
http://www.christianpersecution.info
http://www.persecutionblog.com
http://www.opendoorsusa.org
http://www.persecutedchurch.org
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