After having apparently been permanently blocked from posting to Ali's Mohammedian website guestbook, I wrote the following challenge to him. I am posting it here also so that anyone can see, and see if Ali has enough faith in his god and his "prophet" to enter into a more full dialogue. The answer to the question of whether or not Ali has any integrity will soon be answered, and the ball -- so to speak -- is in his court.
---Update--- Click here to read Ali's First Response, from 5/28/98.
I note with no small amount of interest that you have consistently deleted my entries in your guestbook. This I find exceptionally enlightening, and reveals quite a great deal.
I note here that you have entered comments blasphemous to the Lord Jesus Christ -- the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, glory be to Him alone -- at the Inner City Christian Discernment Ministries website. I note further that these good people have the integrity and courtesy to leave your comments in place, for the whole world to see -- partly because they are not in the least bit threatened by the amusing disinformation presented in either the entry you left, or on your very colorful -- and very erroneous -- website. As Christians, who possess the fulness of the Word of God, who know, love and worship the One Who declared Himself to be THE Way, THE Truth, and THE Life, they stand but to gain by having curious seekers check out your page, then compare the ramblings contained therein with the truth as contained in the Word of God.
I note further that you lack the same integrity and courtesy. You seem to be threatened by another viewpoint -- especially, obviously, a viewpoint based on the Word of God, which declares that Jesus is Eternal God, and thus you delete it.
Is my observation correct? Are you in fact frightened that someone might read something from the Word of God and reject Mohammedianism and the Qu'ran? Are you terrified that when confronted by God -- Jesus Christ -- people might be saved, freed from the tyranny of works-oriented salvation, and freed to enjoy the glorious freedom of the children of God? Could it be that you actually are aware of the awesome Truth of the Word of God, which conflicts in almost every part with the Qu'ran? Could it be that you truly are aware of the gross duplicity involved in revising hundreds of years of Mohammedian history, recasting it suddenly into a pro-woman, pro-science, intellectually sound religion?
Could it be that you are petrified with the thought of people -- perhaps even yourself -- confronting the Truth of the Word of God, and thus coming face-to-face with the God Who loves them desperately, Who went to unimaginable lengths to redeem them from hell and worse -- from themselves?
Moreso than your site's absolute (and very revealing) disregard for facts, both historical and Scriptural, I find the duplicity, cowardice, discourtesy, and utter lack of integrity inherent in your posting freely on Christian sites seeking to proclaim the Truth of the Word of God once for all revealed to the saints (as declared by the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul), and yet steadfastly refusing to allow a return post from a God-honoring Christian most distressing, revealing, and explicative. Unfortunately, I do affirm that this is the sad trend in Islamist circles -- circles threatened by inquiry and examination, which demand instead blind, slavering assent. How different from the God of the Bible -- the Word of God -- Who is secure in the fact that He is the Source of all Truth, so no finding will ever contradict Him; He declares in His Word, "Come, let us reason together..." He -- Jesus, haMashiyach Y'Shua -- is the Author of nature and Revelation, and is perfectly willing to have man test His claims -- all such testing invariably vindicates Him and His Word! Praise be His Name...
It will no doubt annoy you to no end to know that I am praying to Jesus Christ, my God, my Friend, my Saviour, and asking for your blessing, your eyes and heart to be opened, and your salvation. I am asking that He send His Holy Spirit -- Who, the Word of God declares, is also Himself the One True God -- to come alongside you and touch your heart. I am asking that His will be perfected in your life, that He illuminate His Word to you, that you actually read it for yourself to come to know of Him and know Him, instead of continually regurgitating the Mohammedian party-line in reference to it! Not only would this save you from an eternal and literal hell (the sure state of all who would stand before God on the final Day and try to justify themselves on the basis of their works -- you must be absolutely righteous and holy to be admitted into Heaven... are you? God took upon Himself Human Flesh and died in your place to pay your penalty for you, as the Word of God declares... but I digress...), but also grave embarrassment for wrenching God's Word so obviously and laughably out of context.
I will also continue to address some of the more amusing misconceptions on your page and others (thank you for providing those links... God is so good! I praise Him for the honour of being used for His glory to declare His Name to the peoples and to defend His Gospel...). If you have any courage, any integrity, any courtesy at all, I challenge you to add a link to my page so that objective seekers may contrast and compare our claims. Can your "prophet" and your god stand up under the scrutiny? Can the "truth" in the Qu'ran stand up under a side-by-side examination with the Word of God? This is the challenge I am issuing.
I will post this letter also on my website, so that all who drop by can see the challenge that has been issued, and whether or not you deemed your "prophet" and your god capable of standing up under such scrutiny next to the Prophets of God and the God of the Bible -- the holy Word of God.
Baruch haShem haMashiyach Y'Shua
michael d macon
http://home.wmis.net/~ixthys/index.htm