Islam without islam (Continued)

If you already know him and enjoy the freedom and joy of submitting to his loving leadership, if you already have the certainty you will spend eternity in heaven, you need read no further. But if you want this true islam, there is great good news for you, to which the prophets of God have testified throughout the ages. God himself has provided the way, and it is recorded in the holy Taurat, Zabur and Injil.

1. God's Will

God wants us to enjoy all the blessings of true islam.

It is self-evident that God wants us to enjoy a right relationship with himself. When we do not know him or rebel against him, it grieves him. God created man in his very image and likeness (Genesis [the first book of Moses in the Taurat] 1:26) He made us so that we might enjoy the privilege of fellowship with himself:

Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture (Psalms [the Zabur of the Prophet David] 100:3).

Unfortunately, there is a deep spiritual problem in the human heart which keeps us from enjoying a right relationship with God. This universal problem makes true islam impossible except through God's merciful provision for overcoming it by Isa, the Messiah. This problem is so deep, pervasive and offensive to the holy God that without resolving it, merely practicing any religious tradition is not sufficient to make our lives pleasing to our Creator.