Her last words to her mom before she died were “I’m innocent, Mom!” Hena Achter, only 14 , was accused by a Bangladesh village elders of having an affair with a married man, and was subjected to 101 lashes which were to be delivered swiftly and in public. She dropped after 70, was taken to the hospital where she died one week later. An initial autopsy cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide. I wonder: does their Koran not condemn lying?Think you have bad here in the States? How would you like to live in a country like that? The man she was accused of having an affair with, and who eventually was found to have raped her, was able to escape after a few lashes and disappeared. She complained of this man harassing her several times to the village elders, but to no avail. And now she’s dead! Dead at the hands of the very same people she appealed to for protection, but who failed her just a short time prior to her rape and ‘execution’, for that’s exactly what this sham was – an execution! After all, they’ve done this before, and had to know she wasn’t gonna survive the beating! They claim they had no choice in the matter, that their Islamic law required that she be punished that way.
Contrast this please with the story of the woman caught in adultery we find in Joh.8:1-12. The Pharisees brought this adulteress to Jesus asking that she be stoned. She was indeed caught in the very act of adultery, for she never did deny it. By the way, the man she was accused of committing adultery with was nowhere to be found, he got away it seems just like the one accused of raping the 14 year old. Such is religious hypocrisy! The Pharisees wanted to stone her, and asked the Lord: “Well, should we or shouldn’t we do it?” They really didn’t care much about the woman, nor about the sin of adultery, they were just tempting the Lord, trying to get Him to incriminate Himself, knowing He was only too merciful and would not consent to the woman being stoned, and thus accuse Him of breaking the Law of Moses. They wanted to get Him on being compassionate! You think about this now! Again, such is religion! Cold, dark, empty, lifeless… He looked at the Pharisees, and told them: “You want to stone her? Go ahead! Those of you who are without sin, go ahead, you first, throw your stones at her!” But when they heard that, they were convicted by their conscience the Bible says, and one by one dropped their stones and left the scene, from the oldest to the youngest. The Lord looked at the woman… She was frightened, made herself small, knew she was guilty and was sure she was gonna die. He looked at her and asked her: “Woman, where are you accusers? Has no one condemned you?” She looked up… She’s never heard a voice that tender, she’s never seen eyes that loving, her fear was gone, she stood up and said: “No one, Lord.” She called Him ‘Lord’! Not ‘Teacher’, ‘Good Master’ or ‘Rabbi’, but ‘ Lord’, for Grace brought an instant change in her heart and she made Christ Lord and Saviour of her life. Jesus looked at her and told her: “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
Again, please contrast the two stories… See the difference? Christ sparing the guilty, Islam killing the innocent; Christ dying for others, Islam causing others to die; Christ told the guilty: “Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.” Mohammed’s bloodthirsty henchmen, bound the tiny, terrified 14 year old, with no one around to help her, sadistically whiplashing her till she dropped. Mohammed’s Islam does not understand redemption, will not extend forgiveness, cannot accept grace, for Islam is a dark, demonic, bloodthirsty religion who’s prophet is a fraud, and who’s god is the prince of darkness, Satan himself! Therefore those enslaved to Islam can never rise above what their religion expounds, they are what Islam is, anything but peaceful!
I do not cherish posting blogs like this…. I just wanted to remind those of us who love the Lord, how blessed we are to serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and not be enslaved to a false religion, a false god. Had it not been for the grace of God, every single one of us could have been born in a Muslim country, our lives plunged into the dark depths of Islam, into a night of eternal torment! Thank God you live in America, but more than that, thank God you’re saved!
Lastly, if the Mosaic Law demanded that adultery be punished by stoning, and indeed it did, then did not Jesus break the Law of Moses by sparing the woman who was caught in it? The answer is no, He didn’t! As a matter of fact, he fulfilled the Law! But how, you ask? By dying for her at Calvary, and thus paying the penalty for her sins! And what He told her that fateful day, rings true for every single one of us, in the words of an old song that says:
“Neither do I condemn thee”, oh words of wondrous grace, Thy sins were born upon the cross, believe and go in peace, “Neither do I condemn thee”, oh sing it o’er and o’er, “Neither do I condemn thee… Go and sin no more.”
Got sin? If you do, He’s got Grace! And He’s willing to trade, right here and right now: you give Him your sins, and He will give you His Grace. Now that’s what I call trading ‘up’!
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