Rev. Graham: “Who do you want to follow, the dead or the living?”

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Rev franklin graham on IslamReverend Franklin Graham, who has often criticized the Quran and radical Islam, stating that Islam itself is a “religion of war,” said this week that Mohammed, who Muslims revere as God’s final prophet to mankind, was “dead and buried” but that Jesus Christ is alive, and asked, “Who do you want to follow, the dead or the living?”

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A Feb. 17, 2015 Facebook post by Rev. Franklin Graham.

“Mohammed is dead and buried in Medinah,” said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 18 Facebook post.

“Jesus Christ is alive and He is sitting at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven,” he said. “Who do you want to follow, the dead or the living?”

Earlier this month, after President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast equated the barbarism of the Islamic State with actions taken during the Crusades of the 11th century, Rev. Graham remarked that while some Christians did bad things in the name of Jesus Christ, He Himself never killed anyone.

“Mohammed, on the contrary, was a warrior and killed many innocent people,” said Rev. Graham, adding that, “True followers of Christ emulate Christ – true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

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21 Egyptian Christians moments before they were beheaded with knives by members of the Islamic State. (Photo: IS video)

In a December interview with Christian Today, Rev. Graham, who is the son of world-renowned pastor Billy Graham, said that Islam has not changed in 1,500 years, “It is the same. It is a religion of war.”

Look at the Islamic State, the Taliban, or Boko Haram, he said, “This is Islam. It has not been hijacked by radicals. This is the faith, this is the religion. It is what it is. It speaks for itself.”

In a Feb. 17 interview with Fox’s On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, Franklin Graham also discussed how Islamic State members who were committing atrocities – beheadings, crucifixions, burning people alive, stoning – think “they are pleasing God because the Quran teaches this.”

“Islam says you can have slaves,” said Rev. Graham. “Islam says you can cut the heads off of people, that you can kill Jews and Christians and Yazidis, and anybody else that doesn’t believe like you.”

That religious aspect of Islamic State and similar radical groups is a fact the Obama administration does not want to accept and refuses to believe it, said the reverend.

In his interview, Rev. Graham also told host Greta Van Susteren, “I want them [Islamic State] to know that what they did was evil, it was wrong, it was a sin against God. And I know they did this [beheading of Coptic Christians] thinking they were pleasing God. But it doesn’t, it’s a sin, and God loves you and God is willing to forgive you but you’ve got to be willing to confess your sin to Him and ask for His forgiveness.”

“I think it’s important that the Muslim world know that God does love them and He’s made a way for them to be with Him in Heaven, and that’s through faith in his Son Jesus Christ,” said the reverend.

Franklin Graham, 62, is the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and also runs the international relief group Samaritan’s Purse.

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11 responses to “Rev. Graham: “Who do you want to follow, the dead or the living?””

  1. Open your eyes Avatar
    Open your eyes

    “that while some Christians did bad things in the name of Jesus Christ, He Himself never killed anyone.”

    Neither have the majority of Muslims. This guy is a “dork”.

  2. Is this the storm?

  3. Open your eyes Avatar
    Open your eyes

    Sorry posted this in the wrong article before.

    “John 11:25
    Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

    According to man o war, Muslims believe in Jesus. Which would mean Muhammad believed in Jesus seeing as he was Muslim. So even ” though he die, yet shall he live”.
    Haha this rev is too funny for words.

  4. Open your eyes Avatar
    Open your eyes

    And this too

    “John 3:16

    By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”

    It appears Jesus did die according to the bible. What is this guy on about?

    Yes I know I didn’t open my eyes before posting it in the other article. 🙂

  5. may god save us from his most devoted followers..from all religions

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      There are indeed some ‘living’ who I wouldn’t be following. :-))

  6. The Muslim revere Jesus(Peace be upon him) as the Messiah i.e. A prophet. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) foretold about the return of Jesus. There is a place allocated for Jesus beside the grave of prophet Muhammad for his burial. Jesus will return and he will rule the people with justice and he will marry , will have children and then he will pass away and will be burred beside the grave of the prophet of Islam. Islam is the only faith who recognize Jesus as the messenger of Allah.

    1. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
      Maborlz Ez-Hari

      If you revere Jesus as the Messiah as you stated in your opening sentence, then pray and ask him to save your soul seeing that he is the Judge, you can do the same to the other guy you revere as well see who answers your prayers just don’t go asking for lotto numbers.

  7. Very naive missionary attempt.

  8. What an idiot! Does he also believe the earth doesn’t rotate around the sun, like the idiot in SA.

  9. I thought that Jesus died hundreds of years before Mohammad .
    Our problem on this earth is neither Jesus nor Mohammad , but their followers who pretend to represent them

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