To find the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies accus­ing Mus­lims of exem­pli­fy­ing lying is total­ly amus­ing, to say the least, as the doc­trine of taqiyyah is exclu­sive­ly a Shi’ite doc­trine which is held onto by a mere 8% — 10% out of the total 1.3 bil­lion Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion around the world, the major­i­ty of whom are over­whelm­ing­ly Sunni. 

A refu­ta­tion of the doc­trine of taqiyyah from the Sun­ni per­spec­tive is to be not­ed here.

More­over, there is ample evi­dence from the hadith tra­di­tions which invari­ably negates the mis­sion­ary claims that Islam per­mits lying.The Prophet Muham­mad is quot­ed to have said : Let he who tru­ly believes in Allah and the Last Day speak good or be silent.” (Sahih al-Bukhari). More­over, he has specif­i­cal­ly cursed the per­son who lies to make peo­ple laugh, he said : Woe be on one who speaks and lies in order to make peo­ple laugh, woe be on him.” (Abu Dawud). See also the tra­di­tions in Abu Dawud (5004)/Mus­nad Ahmad and Sahih al-Bukhari (vol. 8, no 118). All the mis­sion­ar­ies can do to include ortho­dox Mus­lims in their alle­ga­tions is their ten­den­cy to quote from The Reliance of the Trav­el­er (Umdat as-Salik), an unof­fi­cial and sub-stan­dard fiqh man­u­al, specif­i­cal­ly geared towards Egypt­ian soci­ety of Sufi per­sua­sion and trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish by an extrem­ist het­ero­dox Sufi. 

Sayyid Sabiq’s Fiqh as-Sun­nah is the author­i­ta­tive ortho­dox source cov­er­ing all four Sun­ni schools of thought and this work is avail­able online.There is no ammu­ni­tion for the bank­rupt mis­sion­ar­ies in such ortho­dox sources, so it is no won­der that they resort to het­ero­dox material.

Nev­er­the­less, we have decid­ed to play their game, and would like to ask : What about lying in Chris­tian­i­ty?”

Paul of Tar­sus Jus­ti­fies Lying For Christ

The answer : it was Paul, the self-con­fessed apos­tle” from Tar­sus, who was the first per­son to ratio­nalise his actions by hold­ing that there was no link between the peri­od in which Jesus(P) had lived and the peri­od in which he him­self now lived. Times were chang­ing and con­di­tions that pre­vailed were such that the ethics of Jesus(P) was out of date and could no longer be applied. It was with such a view that Paul took stock of the sit­u­a­tion which exist­ed then and taught what the Gen­tiles seem to require him to believe :

All things are law­ful unto me, but I will not be brought under the pow­er of any.” (1 Corinthi­ans 6:12)

Dur­ing the min­istry of Jesus(P), Saul (Paul) was a ded­i­cat­ed mem­ber of a pow­er­ful, exclu­sive Jew­ish sect called Phar­isees (Acts 26:5). Their pre­ten­sions to sanc­ti­ty had labeled them as hypocrites. 

When these over­bear­ing vain-glo­ri­ous Jews con­front­ed Jesus(P), he called them :

You are of your father the dev­il, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a mur­der­er from the begin­ning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

Saul, a zeal­ous per­se­cu­tor of the devot­ed dis­ci­ples of Christ, became the first Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary and an apos­tle to the Gen­tiles after con­vert­ing him­self to Chris­tian­i­ty by a vision”, which he claims he had, while on the road to Dam­as­cus. The mis­sion­ary changed his name from Saul to Paul and became the biggest con­trib­u­tor to the Books of the New Testament. 

From the above verse, Jesus(P) like many of his pre­de­ces­sors con­demned lying, deceit and hypocrisy. Lying is con­demned sev­er­al times through­out the Bible, and deceit by its own nature is sin­ful and can only lead to haz­ardous consequences. 

What does Peter say in regards to guileThe Greek word is dolos”, which means bait” or snare”, deceit is ren­dered” (W.E. Vine, Vine’s Expos­i­to­ry Dic­tio­nary of Old & New Tes­ta­ment Words, Thomas Nel­son Pub­lish­ers (1997), under the word GUILE’, p. 515). See also Strong’s #1388 which defines dolos as craft, deceit, guile, sub­til­i­ty” (p. 34)?

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that speak no guile.” (1 Peter 3:12)

The verse speaks for itself. One of the fac­tors that hin­der man’s suc­cess in this world and eter­nal life in the here­after, is the use of guile. 

But on his own admit­tance, what does Paul say ?

But be it so, I did not bur­den you : nev­er­the­less being crafty, I caught you with guile.” (2 Corinthi­ans 12:16)

On his own admis­sion, Paul is say­ing that he uses decep­tion in his modus operan­di. In all the new ver­sions of the Bible, the more com­mon term of deceit” is replaced instead. 

This state­ment is made long after his con­ver­sion to Chris­tian­i­ty, in the phase when he sup­posed to be blessed and right­eous, and most impor­tant­ly of all, being guid­ed by Christ. 

Paul was a rejec­tor of the Mosa­ic Law and the Jesus Eth­ic, but he also assert­ed that he was a law unto him­self. Many peo­ple, obvi­ous­ly, could not accept this. 

Thus Paul respond­ed with :

For if the truth of God hath more abound­ed through my lie unto His Glo­ry ; why yet I am also judged a sin­ner ?” (Romans 3:7 – 8)

It can be ascer­tained from this state­ment that although Paul knew that he was lying, he felt that the means jus­ti­fied the end, but it is not under­stand­able how the truth would abound through a lie. Accord­ing to this rea­son­ing, if the man Jesus was equat­ed with God, then what objec­tions could a fol­low­er of Jesus have ?

Guile is cer­tain­ly decep­tion. Flat­tery is sim­ply rather shame­ful. And they lend them­selves nice­ly to each oth­er. But decep­tion — espe­cial­ly for the sake of pros­e­ly­tiz­ing — was start­ed by Paul and became the rai­son d’être of those who laid the foun­da­tion of the Euro­pean church. 

Lying In Chris­tian­i­ty : Final Notes

Thus, the mis­sion­ar­ies of today seem to have no qualms in uti­liz­ing it. Decep­tion is the name of the game, and this is obvi­ous when the mis­sion­ar­ies start sub­sti­tut­ing exclu­sive­ly Mus­lim phras­es such as insha’al­lah (God will­ing) for Lord Jesus will­ing”, sub­hana Allah (Praise God) with Praise Lord Jesus”, Wa Allahu a’lam” (God knows best) with Jesus knows best”, e.g. in their arti­cles which open­ly berate Islam. 

Anoth­er attempt at guile is the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary activ­i­ty of church-plant­i­ng” in Mus­lim nations where they open­ly state their desire to con­vert Mus­lims by hook or by crook”.

Per­haps the mis­sion­ar­ies in their pick-and-choose” reli­gion had suf­fered from amne­sia and for­got­ten the following : 

    Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniq­ui­ty, and in whose spir­it there is no guile.” (Psalms 32:2)

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  1. Mujaajid Avatar
    Mujaajid

    -http://​www​.exam​ine​thetruth​.com/​W​h​o​_​I​s​_​G​o​d​/​b​a​b​y​_​g​o​d​.​htm Christianity’s Baby God.

    -Chris­tian­i­ty’s ori­gins in ancient Pagan reli­gion : Chris­tian­i­ty also bor­rowed ele­ments of Jesus’ mythol­o­gy. Sons of God born of a mor­tal woman, and mir­a­cles (includ­ing turn­ing water into wine, walk­ing on water, and espe­cial­ly heal­ing the sick) were com­mon ele­ments of pre-Chris­t­ian Pagan reli­gions. Mithras had em. So did Diony­sus, Attis, Osiris, and Orpheus. And more.

    - Sal­va­tion !! ” But those who believe and work right­eous­ness will be admit­ted to gar­dens beneath which rivers flow,- to dwell there­in for aye with the leave of their Lord. Their greet­ing there­in will be : Peace!” — Quran 14:23

    - http://​www​.islam​world​.net/​n​e​v​e​r​w​a​s​.​h​tml The God That nev­er Was . — By Ahmed dedaat

    -” Every hon­est Jew who knows the his­to­ry of his peo­ple can­not but feel a deep sense of grat­i­tude to Islam, which has pro­tect­ed the Jews for fifty gen­er­a­tions, while the Chris­t­ian world per­se­cut­ed the Jews and tried many times by the sword” to get them to aban­don their faith “.– Uri Avn­ery (jew­ish Writter)

    - jesus said : ” ” Think not that I came to send peace on the earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword.For I came to set a man at vari­ance against his father, and the daugh­ter against her moth­er, and the daugh­ter in law against her moth­er in law:”- MATTHEW 10:34 – 35

    Chris­tian­i­ty is Copy of pagan­ism : (Attis ) Man-god of Egypy , was born of the Vir­gin Nana on Decem­ber 25th.He was both the Father and the Divine Son.Called the Good Shep­pard,” the Most High God,” the Only Begot­ten Son” and Sav­ior.”

    -Islam is the fastest grow­ing reli­gion in the U.S. -(U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, Oct. 8, 1990). It is grow­ing at a rate of 400% per year in the USA.

    - http://​thetruere​li​gion​.org/​m​o​d​u​l​e​s​/​x​f​s​e​c​t​i​o​n​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​p​h​p​?​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​i​d​=​250 Gary Miller :For­mer Chris­t­ian Priests and Mis­sion­ar­ies who have Embraced Islam

    -The Church made a sacred day of Sun­day … large­ly because it was the week­ly fes­ti­val of the sun ; for it was a def­i­nite Chris­t­ian pol­i­cy to take over the pagan fes­ti­vals endeared to the peo­ple by tra­di­tion, and to give them a Chris­t­ian sig­nif­i­cance.” (The Pagan­ism in Our Chris­tian­i­ty, Arthur Weigall, quot­ed by Sev­enth-day Adven­tists to prove that Sun­day is pagan)

    -Pagan­ism Turned to chris­tia­ni­an­i­ty : first-begot­ten, androg­y­nous son. His male name is called First-Beget­tress Sophia, Moth­er of the Uni­verse.’ Some call her Love.’ Now the first-begot­ten is called Christ.’ — Text from the sophia Jesus christ

    -“My choice of Muham­mad to lead the list of the world’s most influ­en­tial per­sons may sur­prise some read­ers and may be ques­tioned by oth­ers, but he was the only man in his­to­ry who was supreme­ly suc­cess­ful on both the reli­gious and sec­u­lar lev­el.” ‑Michael H. Hart THE 100 : A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY , NEW YORK, Hart Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny , INC

    - http://​islam​to​mor​row​.com/​b​i​b​l​e​/​A​r​i​a​n​i​s​m​_​v​s​_​c​o​u​n​c​i​l​_​n​i​c​a​e​a​.​htm How Did 1 God Become 3 ? :Excerpts and Quotes From The Catholic Church His­to­ry . Ari­an­ism Ver­sus the Coun­cil of Nicaea — By Broth­er John Raymond

    bible says : Kill Non­be­liev­ers : ” They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul ; and every­one who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. “- (2 Chron­i­cles 15:12 – 13 NAB)

    http://​www​.timeson​line​.co​.uk/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e/013509 – 1811332,00.html THE hier­ar­chy of the Roman Catholic Church has pub­lished a teach­ing doc­u­ment instruct­ing the faith­ful that some parts of the Bible are not actu­al­ly true.

    - http://​www​.timeson​line​.co​.uk/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e/013509 – 2434625.html A retired priest com­mit­ted sui­cide by set­ting him­self on fire in a Ger­man monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protes­tant Church’s inabil­i­ty to con­tain it.

  2. Mujaajid Avatar
    Mujaajid

    - ” A curse on him who keeps his sword from blood­shed!” — (Jere­mi­ah 48:10)

    -(Deuteronomy:20:13)-(And when the LORD thy God hath deliv­ered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male there­of with the edge of the sword

    -(Psalms:137:9)-(Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy lit­tle ones against the stones.)

    - Jesus said : ” And he said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and like­wise a wal­let ; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.”- LUKE 22:36
     — Jesus said : ”
    But these mine ene­mies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hith­er, and slay THEM BEFORE ME. “- Luke 19:27

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World’s_Sixteen_Crucified_Saviors World’s Six­teen Cru­ci­fied Saviors(GODS), or Chris­tian­i­ty Before Christ was an 1875 book writ­ten by 19th cen­tu­ry lec­tur­er and scep­tic Kersey Graves.

    Chris­tin­i­ty from Pagans orr­gion : http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/PaganChrists.html#mithras PAGANISM :Pagans’ Man-Gods (Ori­gin chris­tian­i­ty) Q : Where did the dying-reborn God myth start ?

    http://​www​.mys​tae​.com/​r​e​s​t​r​i​c​t​e​d​/​r​e​f​l​e​c​t​i​o​n​s​/​m​e​s​s​i​a​h​/​p​a​g​a​n​.​h​tml Egypt­ian and Pagan Themes in Chris­t­ian Tra­di­tion : — Be of good cheer, sacred band of Ini­ti­ates, your God has risen from the dead. His pains and suf­fer­ings shall be your sal­va­tion.” — Words uttered by Mithra­ic priest

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  3. Mujaajid Avatar
    Mujaajid

    Jesus said ” ” Think not that I came to send peace on the earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword.For I came to set a man at vari­ance against his father, and the daugh­ter against her moth­er, and the daugh­ter in law against her moth­er in law:”- MATTHEW 10:34 – 35 > http://islamplanet.jeeran.com/mercy%20and%20peace.html Is bible the book of mer­cy and peace ??

    Tomas ( Tomas said on 11 Feb­ru­ary 2006 : )

  4. AK47_Mujahideen (socceristhebest) Avatar
    AK47_Mujahideen (socceristhebest)

    Nice refu­ta­tion to Thomas broth­er, that was an enjoy­able read of refutations.

    As for the arti­cle by MENJ, great job on that. It’s all good :-D