Islam Has Roots in Christian Heresy - Dr. Michael Youssef

Dr. Michael Youssef explains the shocking connection between the departure of the church from Biblical Truth and the historical growth of Islam around the world. Watch the full message, Understanding & Responding to Islam, at http://www.LTW.org.

In the 6th century, there was a heresy

that flooded North Africa: the

Church of Augustine. That heresy was known

as monotheism. At the core of it, has many

other things, but at the core of it, that

movement said that the Canon is not

closed. That God still speaks today, with

the same authority, as He did through the

men and women who authored the Word of

God, under the guidance of the Holy

Spirit. On one stage, the Church of North

Africa, 5,000 ???, that is

tens of thousands of churches. And here's

how it happened. When the Arab
armies arrived

and invaded North Africa, a Christian

land, in the middle of the 600's,

Christians did something - what some of us

proponent of chrislam today did - and they

said: "Can God be speaking to us in a

fresh word from Arabia?" And within a

short period of time, all the churches,

vast majority of them at least,
turned into

mosques. You see what I mean by my fear

of the church departing from biblical

moorings. Fast-forward few hundred years,

when the Turks expanded Islam all the

way to Austria. It was on the corpse of a

heretical, weak non-biblical Church. And I

must tell you that, as I look around

today and I see the Church is plagued by

universalism, heterodoxy, a hyper grace,

emergent church, the insider movement,

chrislam, I grieve more and become more

concerned about this than I am about

Islamists, what they call third jihad.