Luke 22:28-30 (ESV)
“You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
A curious saying. If authentic, it suggests that Jesus envisaged a kingdom (not a church!) where the 12 disciples would judge the 12 tribes of Israel. Of course nothing like that occurred historically. The church as it exists now, mainly preoccupies itself with promoting gay marriage and other politically correct causes.
Buzzard wrongly equates the kingdom of God with the Christian church(s).
Categories: Bible, Christianity
Blogging Theology 
The simple fact is that God allowed the pagans to govern the world until Mohammed came along rather late in the day.
Before Mohammed the only world empires that God allowed and established were all pagan ones.
This reluctance on God’s part to inflict a caliphate upon the world speaks volumes.
Render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.
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poor Pagans 😦
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I don’t know about that.
What did the Romans, for example, do differently to Muslims, apart from worship other gods?
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They enslaved people, they crucified people, they offered animal sacrifices. They look like good Muslims to me so far.
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And apparently the Jews under David didn’t? Have you read the Bible? Christian hypocrisy rears its ugly head again…
In contrast to the Christian empires, the Caliphate was a blessing to the world. It not only brought the light of Tawheed to the world, but also knowledge in science, art, and medicine.
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The “Church”, on the other hand, has largely been a plague upon the world. Whether Catholic or other, the Christian world mostly set the world back. If not for Islam, there would have been no Renaissance in Europe.
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Also, while there have been bad Caliphs, there have also been great ones. Umar, for example, showed great tolerance to the Jews and Christians, so much so that he has been honored by Jews as a “lover of Israel”. Umar effectively ended the Jewish exIle from Jerusalem after he captured Jerusalem from the Christians.
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