IS THE MUSLIM gOD MORE LOVING THAN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE?

On the surface, the Muslim’s analogy seems pretty good. However, it is the old debate trick of comparing apples and oranges. If I say “an apple is red and sweet but the orange is not red and does not have the sweetness like the apple, therefore, the orange is sour”, on the surface that might sound like a good argument.   However, there are some things about this argument that do not make sense. The apple is not sweet because it is red. The orange is not sour because it is not red.  The orange is not automatically sour because it does not taste like the sweet apple.  A sweet orange does not and will never taste like a sweet apple.  The conclusion that the orange is sour is suspect.  The Muslim store owner is not like God nor is the Muslim son like Jesus the Christ.  The forgiveness of the Muslim store owner does not purchase for the offender eternal life.  The Muslim store owner, his son and the value of the forgiveness are the apples. God, the perfect Son of God and the eternal-life value of God’s forgiveness is the orange. Apples and oranges! Get it?

A human being’s forgiveness towards another human being does not require a blood sacrifice of any kind, including the blood shed on the Cross of Christ.  The forgiveness of a repentant violator who sinned against another human being is something that God expects every person to do, whether that person is saved (a Christian) or lost (not a Christian).   God destroyed the world with water during the time of Noah because the people were evil, not because people were unsaved.   The wages of sin is death.  Things die when we sin and that is a truth for all people, not just saved people.  God hates the sin in the life of the saved and in the life of the unsaved. God wants people to be good to other people whether the people are saved or lost.  No one has to die before God mandates being good to one another which includes having compassion on a repentant person and showing kindness and forgiveness.  “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is not a mandate for Christians only; it is a God’s mandate for all of humanity.  God wants the Muslim store owner to forgive the offender even though both are hell-bound without Jesus. 

So, disregard the Muslim’s argument that the God of the Bible mandates him (the Muslim) to kill his (the Muslim’s) son before he (the Muslim store) owner can forgive the man who stole from him.  It is comparing apples to oranges.  It is non-relevant because it is errant logic.

All that is left is the Muslim’s store owners claim that God is unloving because God mandates the bloody death of His Son in order to forgive sinful humanity.  This sentence has two parts. 

The second part is that God is unloving because He (God) demands the death of His Son before He will forgive humanity.  That part of the Muslim’s charge (God is unloving because…) is false.  That is another debate technique.  Create a compound sentence (a sentence with two different points) and claim that because one of those points is true, the other point has to also be true.  For example, because the sun is shining it is hot outside so on winter days when the sun is shining it is never cold.   

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