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 12/10/07 10:08 AM |
| Marco | | New York City | |  |  |
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At lunch in the employee's cafeteria last week, one of my co-workers insisted that the God of all religions is the same. This person who is a confirmed atheist, with no other motive than just to make a point, and to give a Christian (myself) a hard time, said "Well, I believe in Allah."
Yet, this teacher is a Jew. What kind of tolerance would he receive in a "peaceful" Arab country, even from non-terrorists?
To come back to the lawsuit... Michael Savage is being attacked the same as the woman with the teddy bear in Sudan, the same as the danish cartoonists, the same as the documentary guy in the Netherlands, Van Gogh. Killing, pressuring advertisers, imprisoning, threatenings, riotings, etc. Islamics will use any women afforded them to silence critics of Islam and Mohammed. |
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| 6/9/07 1:58 PM |
| Marco | | New York City | | | |
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To John Yurich,
Great question. I would ask you to consider the role of repentance and of faith in salvation. If one is Catholic and saved, would not he or she repent of the many false elements of worship and belief of Roman Catholicism?
They would need to believe in salvation by grace alone, faith alone, Scripture alone, and Christ alone. Yet, these are all modified by Catholicism. He would have to repent of the images, Papal authority, the seven sacraments (there are only two), the mass, signing with the sign of the Cross, etc. etc. What is faith in God? What is repentance? Those are the questions that the "born again' Catholic needs to ask. |
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| 1/19/07 10:48 PM |
| Marco | | Brooklyn, NY | | | |
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 Two points. The promotion of a "new voice" for Baptists by these ex-Presidents may help the Baptist image, i.e., unbelievers may not feel so antagonistic towards Baptists, but it will do nothing to improve the image of Baptists in the sight of God.
Second, I live in an ocean of unsaved people in New York City. Their main gripe about Southern Protestant religion, born again and non-born again, is their association of southern Christians with anti-black,anti-immigrant,anti-Jewish activities for a long time. Thus, humanitarian activities of Christians never are properly considered. I'm not saying that those thoughts represent the Southern Baptists or any other conservative Baptists today, but there is a residual stigma because of history that Baptists in the South still need to overcome.
I don't think Pres. Carter or Clinton represent a proper spiritual direction for Baptists, but I do think they realize that Baptists in the South especially are laboring under a serious regional stereotype that is preventing the true Christ message from getting through to those who need to hear it. Theologically I am in almost total accord with Dr. Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptists. yet there is an historical problem for Baptists that cannot be overcome with good works alone |
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| 12/4/06 10:29 AM |
| Marco | | New York | | | |
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Who is killing people today because of their religious beliefs? Certainly not
Christians or Jews.
If Christians have harmed people in the past (1000 years ago!) that's over and done with. They stopped having
Crusades so that shows their intention of good will. Furthermore, Islam won the Crusades, but they still can't get over it. Further, the Muslims were the ones who attacked Europe first anyway.
Resorting to violence is a knee-jerk Muslim reaction, even though all Muslims are not violent. Why hasn't the Muslim world contributed much to the progress of humankind for the past 1000 years? Maybe the deep anger towards others has something to do with it.
Also, Christianity was born out of persecution; Islam became a major religion at the point of a sword. Doesn't that say a lot about which one really is "the religion of peace?"
Lastly, but not least, Jesus Christ is the Divine son of god, the promised Messiah of the prophets of Judaism -- 100% man and 100% God. This is our faith, and if others want to have a fight to the death over the truth of this, then so be it.
The suggestion of the theologian mentioned in this article is personally as well as intellectually repulsive to me. |
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