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By Sheryl Lynn, Christian Post Reporter

9. Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan Declares Jesus Is His Redeemer, Says Devil Can't Have Him 

Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader in Los Angeles in this 2005 file photo.
Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader in Los Angeles in this 2005 file photo. | (Photo: Reuters/Ric Francis)

Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, which consists of African-American Muslims, said in a video that "my redeemer liveth." 

"I'm not guessing that my Jesus is alive. I know that my redeemer liveth and because he lives I know that I, too, will pass through the portal of death yet death will not afflict me," the 84-year-old said in a video posted in August. 

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He added, "So I say to the devil. I know I gotta pay a price for what I've been teaching all these years. You can have the money, you can have the clothes, you can have the suit, you can have the house but me, you can't have."

The official creed of the Nation of Islam blends teachings from the Quran and "the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God." Even though the Nation of Islam also claims to believe in the "truth of the Bible" the religious group also believes the Bible has been "tampered with" and reinterprets Scripture to avoid "falsehoods."

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