Christmas and the Modern Jew | Christians often seem to lack both good missionary strategies toward Jews and sensitivity to their situation in life (Dec. 8, 1958)
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Can anyone ever justify evangilization? It disregards people as ends in themselves. We as believers in the true God Jesus Christ, should have respect for those different believers. If we do not, then we are not acting in his image. Evangilization is laced with trickery and deciet. We never display the balanced story of the Catholic church. We only show the good parts, the good gospels, the good men, but not the bad. In such a propaganda-esque way of bringing people to our faith, should we not feel guilty. Would you want anyone in our faith, that has been tricked into believing only select parts of the bible. We only want rational people, who come to the faith after completely analyzing the facts. We must remove our trickery, and try not to decieve because in the end it is only hurting us. Let the Jews be God's Choosen people or let them believe that, let moslims believe in thier dogma's because we are the people of the Lord savior. And only through him can anyone reach salvation.
Matt
Posted: April 01, 2008 8:10 PM
Ok, where do I begin? To 'X': At least attach some logic to your emotional ranting. To John: Jesus is THE way. The heathens are barred from a relationship with God, because whoever rejects the Son, also rejects the Father. Christians aren't interested in learning from teachers of other faiths because their author is Satan. I say Christians have an obligation teach their religion to the Heathen world - Christian's job is to make the Heathen's aware of their sin and rebellion against the holy and just Almighty God - and to make them aware of the impending judgment that will fall upon the whole face of the world. Either your sin will be punished on Christ's Cross, or it'll be punished on your head in eternity in Hell. If you're Christian - then stop getting your spiritual advice from Oprah, and start reading your Bible. If you're a Heathen - then pray for your salvation through THE Justification.
Paul T. Anderson
Posted: March 31, 2008 3:30 PM
Haven't Christians done enough to the Jews and people of other religious traditions throughout the years? I say just leave them only. I think it is the epitome of arrogance to claim that Christianity is better than Judaism or any other religion. Every person relates to the divine in his or her own way, and as long as they are not harming anyone in the process, Christians should keep a respectful distance. Sixty to seventy percent of so-called Christians don't attend religious services at all. The church ought to be reaching out to these people and not individuals and groups who have already found strength, peace, and well being with their own religious traditions.
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