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There's a variety of opinions that Christians have about Islam, and this shouldn't surprise

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us. Christianity is a very big religion with a lot of people holding to it, and so there

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will always be a variety of opinions, probably within the Christian faith, about Islam. I

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can only speak as an evangelical Christian who lives in the United States. The people

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that I interact with the most are Christians who are in Baptist churches or evangelical

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churches. As Christians, we are followers and believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, that

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He is both Lord and Savior. And so for that reason, I would have to be honest and say

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that every Christian desires that everyone know Jesus in this way. Having said that, I

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think that good evangelical Christians want to have good relationships with their Islamic

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friends, and that they want to have an understanding of love, of respect, of charity, of goodwill,

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and of trust. And we want to follow what Jesus said, that we are to love the Lord our God

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with all our hearts, minds, and souls, and we manifest this by loving our neighbor as ourselves.

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And so I think that evangelical Christians would say that we love our Islamic friends and neighbors,

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and want to have good, warm relationships with them.