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New believer but husband is athiest & former Muslim, how to reach him for Christ?

I am a new Christian and my husband is unfortunately not a follower in Christ or any religion for that matter. When he grew up he was raised with Islam and got out of that when he was a teenager and met his first atheist friend who was also following the same religion when he was younger but turned away.  I tried to help him understand what we say about Christ (because Islam is known for devaluing Christ and making Him out as only a prophet). He asked me a question today that has me stumped. I thought I would ask stronger Christians since now I'm lost for words and sadly has me thinking things. Which I feel guilty for and now it makes me think that I lost my connection with Christ and my salvation for me thinking about the possibility.  His question was: If Islam and all these religions feel this "higher power" (I was referring to the Holy Spirit when I told him how I can feel Christ- he claims when he prayed to God that he also had the same feeling of comfort) how do we ...