We Christians feel the privilege to be able to talk to God in such intimate terms,

and we believe that through faith in Christ, we can become adopted children of God.

And so when Christians talk to Muslims, they think that they are sharing some good news,

but they don't understand that to Muslim ears, that sounds horrible news.

That sounds blasphemous to think of God as our father and us as

children of God.

You can't turn on the TV or scroll social media these days without reading something about Islam.

Most of the news centers on conflict,

that we don't usually hear or read anything about what Muslims believe or what motivates them

theologically.

I'm Nathan W. Bingham and welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Today, R.C. Sprole continues his discussion with former Muslim Abdul-Salim. They're talking frankly about the differences and

similarities between Islam and Christianity. And today our focus is on the fatherhood of God,

a notion that is comforting to us as Christians,

but it's a concept that many Muslims find disturbing.

Why? Here's Dr. Sprole.

We continue now with our series on the crescent and the cross as we examine the conflict and theological ideas between historic Christianity and the Muslim religion. In our first segment, our guest, Abdul-Salib, gave us a brief overview of the principal points of conflict

and indicated that the conflict comes not only from Islam, but Islam has found allies in the Western world

in attacking the four major points of historic Christianity, our doctrine of God, our doctrine of

Christ, our doctrine of man, and our understanding of the Scripture. And so we're going to begin

to look at each one of these issues together in the sessions to come. Abdul, it's good to have

you again today. Thank you.

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