What is the difference between Islam and the Christian faith? You can There are many answers to this question, but one difference is in the understanding of forgiveness. According to surah 24:22 In the Quran, Allah is forgiving and merciful, which might even sound like something, that could be in the Bible. But it is a paradox within Islam that forgiveness is possible, when at the same time Allah is just. For how can it be just to forgive sin without it having any consequence for the, Who committed it?
In Christianity, however, forgiveness is expressed by, That a Savior has taken the just penalty for man's sin. That sin was wiped out when Jesus sacrificed himself.
According to Islam expert and former Secretary General of the Danish European Mission, Henrik Ertner Rasmussen, God's grace and mercy in Christianity is far more radical than in Islam, because Jesus expresses it with his death as a love, that is undeserved, because people didn't want to know about it. Jesus has erased the abysmal divide between us and God.
This is the basis of forgiveness in the Bible. I 1. John 4:10 it says: "This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."
Thank you to everyone, standing with the persecuted but bold Christians of the Middle East and Central Asia, ensuring that even more can experience God's love through faith in Jesus Christ.