Adventists and Muslims Share Fellowship Meal to Create Understanding

[phkrause]

Event seeks to promote faith and friendship between both faiths, leaders say.

In a spirit of friendship and mutual respect, members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church near the Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) headquarters recently hosted a fellowship meal with local Muslims on the day following the end of Ramadan, Islam’s sacred month of fasting.

https://adventistreview.org/news/adventists-and-muslims-share-fellowship-meal-to-create-understanding/

[Asia Joe]

In some larger Muslim communities, they send their children to our schools, because they know they will never teach Catholic Doctrine. 

 

[Gustave]

On 8/29/2025 at 10:53 AM, Joe Knapp said:

In some larger Muslim communities, they send their children to our schools, because they know they will never teach Catholic Doctrine. 

 

 This article from the Sabbath Herald speaks to your point Joe. I agree with you on your point. 

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Sabbath Herald, Volume 86 No. 43 October 28, 1909 said:   "IN the previous article the chivalrous and romantic story of the birth of the Ottoman empire was traced. In this paper will be shown the rapid and remarkable rise of that people to opulence and power, and also the motive force back of this and all Mohammedan movements. Perhaps it will be best to take the last feature first. The Turks hold that they are descended from Japheth, the son of Noah. He was the father of three sons. The Turks teach that to his firstborn, Aboul-Turk, he gave the sovereignty of Turkestan. Again: the Turks profess the religion of Mohammed. The creed of that faith is generally compressed into the well known formula: " There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." But there is another and longer form, which reads as follows : — " I believe in God, and his angels, and his books, and his prophets, and the last day, and the predestination of good and evil by God, and the resurrection after death. I bear witness that there is no God but God, and I bear witness that Mohammed is his slave and his prophet." (Cited by Sir Charles Eliot, "Turkey and the Turks," chap. 6, par. 3.) From the above it must be perfectly clear that Mohammedanism is very far from being a heathen religion, as some are wont to believe. It teaches belief in God, angels, the prophets, the last day, and the resurrection of the dead. More than this, " about one half of the Koran is a polemic against polytheism and Trinitarianism." In fact, the word Allah is an abbreviation of Al-iah, which means the one, true, only God. There is something in the nature of a challenge in the word itself to the dominant Christian church of the period when Mohammedanism arose........"

That article goes on to develop the point of Islam and the Seventh-day Adventism of that time nurturing a mutual hatred of the Trinity Doctrine which they believe has rotted Christianity from the inside out.

"From its most glorious seats Christianity was forever expelled; from Palestine, the scene of its most sacred recollections; from Asia Minor, that of its first churches; from Egypt, whence issued the great doctrine of Trinitarian orthodoxy; from Carthage, who imposed her belief on Europe. " It is altogether a misconception that the Arabian progress was due to the sword alone. The sword may change an acknowledged national creed, but it can not affect the consciences of men". 

The Koran is very blunt that Jesus is not Almighty God and that Mary is in no way shape or form the Mother of God.  Also, pork is forbidden and I'm fairly certain that pork products would not be found at an SDA picknick.