Questions Muslims Ask Part 2

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For those of you who would think of coming to North Africa on an internship or long term, you will need to be prepared with a list of questions that a sincere and not-so-sincere seeking Muslims will ask you as a Christian.

What is this whole thing about the trinity?

This is the question that Augustine and many others since so struggled to answer. The advice for how to answer it is not simple. I would say above all be highly knowledgeable fo the scriptures and it’s teachings of the Trinity and don’t worry about your ignorance of the Koran on this subject.

Basically the popular idea among Muslims is that we believe in three gods sometimes meaning God the Father, God the Son, and Mary. The best explanation I have found is to help the Muslim look at himself who God created in His own image. Is he not body, soul, and spirit? A Muslim will heartily agree. So, we are different than animals and reflect God’s glory. So is he the Word (body), Spirit, and the Father, three in one.

The best place I have found to go is Genesis chapter 1. God is present in the first verse. His Spirit is on the face of the deep. His Word speaks and by it he created the world. From there John 1:14, the baptism of Jesus, and Colossians 1 can help the Muslim understand Jesus’ part in the Trinity.

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Cities in Morocco With No Church

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Below is a list of cities in Morocco with a population of 100,000 or more that I am fairly sure have no church. This is not to say there are no believers in these cities. In fact, in most of these cities we are in touch with people through our website who have said that they have believed on Christ as their Savior (mostly from internet and television).

Aside from this list there are five cities of 1 million or more with only one or two small congregations numbering less than 20 believers.

To complete the great commission these cities must be called out in prayer by believers everywhere.

Asfi

   288900
Huribgah   164600
Beni Mellal   155600
El Jadida   131200
Ksar el Kabir   127300
Nador   109600
Khamissat   106400
Sattat   104100
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Questions Muslims Ask Part 1

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For those of you who would think of coming to North Africa on an internship or long term, you will need to be prepared with a list of questions that a sincere and not-so-sincere seeking Muslims will ask you as a Christian.

Why do you Christians say that Aisa (Jesus) was the Son of God?

This usually comes in the form of an accusation: “You Christians say that Jesus is the Son of God!” That is an end-all accusation against your faith and the validity of the Bible in the mind of the Muslim. What they are thinking is: “You think God had a sexual relationship with Mary and produced some sort of half God half man offspring.”

The greatest unforgivable sin in the Koran is the sin of “Sharak” which means “sharing”. It means to share the deity of God with someone else, like Jesus. So you can be gay and Muslim or a dunkard, pig eating Muslim but not a Christian Muslim.In the mind of the uneducated Muslim (which the great majority are uneducated concerning the teachings of Christianity) Christians believe in three Gods: God the Father, God the Son, and Mary.

So here’s a quick idea for how to respond to their question:

1. Assure him that you don’t believe that God had a sexual relationship with a woman or that God has produced new gods. We believe that there is one God, not three.

2. Explain to him that you believe that the Spirit of God placed Aisa (Jesus) in the womb of Mary and thus Jesus was born of a virgin. (This is the same idea that the Koran teaches.)

3. Illustrate the language of “Son of God” this way: “My friend, where are you from? Marrakesh? So you are a “son of Marrakesh”. (This is a common phrase to explain to someone where you are originally from in Arabic) This doesn’t mean that Marrakesh got together with Casablanca and produced you, right? In the same way Jesus is FROM God in his origins and in his nature. Since he was born of the Holy Spirit, we call him the Son of God to explain where he came from and what he is like.

It’s hard for a Muslim to argue with that logic and it will help you move on to the Gospel. It is important to deal with this question but also important to move past it.

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