Giving a Piece of My Mind on Comparing Radical Christians with Radical Muslims

These days, Christians are said to be "fanatics", "extremists" and worse "terrorists" when they preach that man is wicked, that man is hopeless and that Jesus Christ is the only way. It's annoying to hear the accusation that I'm just one step to becoming an Osama bin Ladin or an ISIS terrorist with my insistence that Jesus is the only Way to the Father. Some people mock me saying that when I wasn't around I must have had "suicide bombing classes" when that's not the case. But I have to remember Matthew 5:11-12 to consider that being falsely accused by the unsaved is certainly to be blessed in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I remembered reading "The Jesus You Can't Ignore" and some words by Dr. John F. MacArthur pulled out the words from my mouth and mind in the introduction part. Dr. MacArthur wrote these words:

• Of course no credible Christian who is committed to Scripture as our supreme authority has ever proposed a literal, earthly 'holy' war. That's not what spiritualwarfare is about, and Scripture is unequivocal on that, "We do not wrestle against flesh and blood" (Ephesians 6:12). And "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal" (2 Corinthians 10:4). Nevertheless the postmodern mind sometimes seems unable ato make any meaningful distinction between armed physical combat with weapons intended to kill people and spiritual combat with truth intended to save them from spiritual death."- Page xxvi
• "Whether we like it or not, as Christians we are in a life-and-death conflict against the forces of evil and their lies. It is spiritual war. It's not a literal, physical conflict with mortal weaponry. It's not a campaign to increase anyone's wealth or confiscate anyone's treasure. It is not a war over territory or geopolitical dominion. It most assuredly is not an angry jihad for the expansion of Christendom's earthly influence. It's not any kind of magical warfare with unseen beings from the nether realms. It's not a battle for ascendancy between individuals or religious sects and it most certainly is not a campaign on the part of the church to take over the state. But it is nonetheless a serious war with eternal consequences."- Page xxxi

Do you know how a Christian "extremist" is that extreme about Christianity? The Christian "extremist" doesn't murder in the name of God. Instead, such a person will risk his or her own life even if it means dying just to get the message across that Jesus saves. This is the very act of not only dying for one's faith but dying so that others may also know about Jesus. That's very opposite with what Muslim extremists do when they murder and do heinous acts just to spread Islam. Muslims are told to hate their enemies. Christians are told to love their enemies. That's the difference that the world either can't see or refuses to see because Satan has blinded their minds.