As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
Regular readers of this blog will remember a conversation that I had with with a Christian in the post, Why I’m Not Donating Any Money to Haiti. This person objected to my use of the word bastard as a description for Christian missionaries. Instead of apologizing, I defended my use of the term citing missionary deception in the quest for converts. Before that I made this post, Contradiction or Contrast, highlighting a deception of John Gilchrist in one of his debates with Shabir Ally. In the comments of that post I promised a post on deception in Christian evangelism. This post both a fulfilment of my promise and examples for anyone who wishes to deny deception among the callers to Christianity. I hope that this will also serve as a warning to Muslims not to be duped when you come into contact with these silver tongue devils.
And say: “Truth has come and Batil has vanished. Surely! Batil is ever bound to vanish.” [Quran 17:81]
A special duaa for our brother and sheikh, Ahmed Deedat, who spent a very large portion of his life working to uncover the ugly face of Christianity and giving the fruits of his labours away freely. Ya ar-Rahman have mercy on Ahmed Deedat, forgive his sins, overlook his shortcomings and reward him handsomely for his faith and righteous deeds. Deedat is a hero of ours and we love him. Surely a man loved by the ummah of Muhammad is loved more by You. All praise belongs to You. There is no God except You.
To proceed:
I would like to clear something up from the beginning. I often use the words missionary, apologetic and evangelic interchangeably and often they are synonymous with the meaning of, ‘someone calling to Christianity’. However, they have slightly different meanings. I don’t really care about the different meanings, just remember that I use these words to mean someone calling to Christianity and that I will try to stick to the use of ‘missionary’ for this purpose. If you object to my definition or usage of any of these terms please keep it to yourself.
The Bible Endorses Missionary Deception:
“Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.”
(1st Corinthians 9:19-22)
“But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.”
(2nd Corinthians 12:16)
“But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?”
(Romans 3:7)
And most devilish,
“But what does it matter? Nothing matters except that, in one way or another, people are told the message about Christ, whether with honest or dishonest motives, and I’m happy about that. Yes, I will continue to be happy.”
(Philippians 1:18)
Could these verses be any clearer in their endorsement of lying for the case of Christ? Watch the videos and look at the pictures with these verses in your mind.
Using Political Turmoil to Convert Muslims:
Talk by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat on Christian Missionary Deception:
If Christianity were true then it would not need to resort to trickery and lies to convert, because there is no way that falsehood can stand up to truth.
And say: “Truth has come and Batil has vanished. Surely! Batil is ever bound to vanish.” [Quran 17:81]
