#12334 Are Muslims Forgiven by God? Forgiveness, Heresy, and Conversion - William Albrecht

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Are Muslims Forgiven by God?” This episode explores the complexities of salvation in relation to Islam, addressing questions such as the impact of education levels on conversion and whether the Catholic Church played a role in the creation of Islam. Tune in as we also discuss the adoption of Jesus in Islamic belief and the challenges faced by Muslims considering conversion.

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Questions Covered:

12:45 – Is it realistic to convert Muslims since most Muslim countries tend to have a lower education level?
17:18 – Did the Catholic Church create Islam in order to take control of the trade routes in Arabia?
20:37 – Why did Islam adopt Jesus into their religion?
24:41 – Did Muhammed call himself a false prophet as he was dying?
30:18 – How do they justify killing infidels?
35:26 – Aren’t the ramifications for Muslims to convert radically more complicated than any other convert?
41:42 – Vatican 2 declared they are a Christian heresy. Is there any previous info that backed this declaration?
44:55 – Do Muslims have a mechanism for forgiveness?

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0:32.0	We're talking Islam with our good friend, and I hope I don't flatter myself by saying that, William Albrecht.
0:38.1	We're going to take a quick break from that for a minute because we've been, for the last, oh, six months, maybe we've
0:43.0	been, maybe even more than that. It might be a whole year we've been doing this now, introducing
0:46.7	you to influencers, young influencers in general, although if you're an old influencer, if you're,
0:53.4	you probably don't want to be called old,
0:55.5	but you probably are old. So just deal with it. If you're an old influencer, get in touch with us.
1:00.0	We like old influencers too, but just turns out that most of the people that know how to use
1:03.3	TikTok and Instagram and, uh, Twitter and X and whatever the next thing Twitter will be called
1:10.2	is, uh, they're young.
1:12.6	And so we've got one from Franco, the Franco TV on Instagram.
1:18.6	Franco, thank you very much for coming in here with us.
1:20.6	Thank you for having me on. I really appreciate this.
1:23.6	Just general ballpark. You don't have to give me an exact number.
1:26.6	General Ballpark, how old are you
1:28.2	i'm 23 that's very specific i was trying to let okay so 23 years old i'm about i turned 24 and you've
1:34.0	been invited to the vatican well yes and you accepted the invitation and you went to the vatican yes
1:41.2	yes i am 61 years old nobody nobody has ever picked up the phone and said,
1:47.5	you know where we'd like you to be is in the Vatican. So tell me about how that happened.
1:50.9	Okay, well, this wasn't a simple thing of just like, it's like, they targeted me specifically.
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