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As it should always be conducted Dave, good spirit, peaceful rhetoric and dialogue and a profound respect for each other regardless of our religious diversity...I think the sentiment, is 'agree to disagree,'
A very good morning to you Adrian!
Your opinion is perfectly acceptable as is any other opinion! “Every man has a right to decide his own destiny!”
I have a genuine profound respect for my Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters and we share certain fundamental doctrine. Yes, we do differ on other fundamental matters but that is where freedom of choice arises! So, yes, indeed, I respect and accept all people unconditionally regardless of any arbitrary or frivolous criteria! I do however assert my own Christian belief and would anyone of any other religion. The main problem and challenge today is that we have public relations statements meant to foster good relations where those public relations statements are not really true i.e. “all religions teach the same things,’ simply not true, ‘there is only one God,’ also simply not true, in certain religions there are more than one deity!
Now, here’s where it gets really compelling we can’t all be right! It’s either Zeus, the Greek God, is God or he isn’t!
My gripe is with the church in general, as it is largely because of the church in general that we have this public relations nightmare! Many unbelievers are at a point in their lives where they truly searching for answers and a religion to follow, they will accordingly approach people from all religions for answers. As an evangelist I’m at an immediate disadvantage because of what the church has done in the past i.e. Christian love, as it were, during one of the crusades, the knights marched into Jerusalem, locked many Jewish men, women and children in a synagogue and burnt that building down, as these people screamed in pain, they sang, ‘Christ we adore you,’ Biblically before Christ, the penance if you will for sin was a sacrificial lamb that was unblemished. Now if you were the cheap, scaly character that I am, as I would have chosen the cheapest lamb with foot and mouth disease just to save some bucs, my problem would arise when I presented such lamb to the priest for inspection before sacrifice, that animal had to be blemish free. My animal would not have been accepted! Now, as it were during the very passover when lambs were been selected for this very purpose, the Christ was inspected by pontious pilate and was found by pilate to be blemish free, this is the reason why we believe that the Christ was the ultimate sacrificial lamb!
A very good morning to you Adrian!
Your opinion is perfectly acceptable as is any other opinion! “Every man has a right to decide his own destiny!”
I have a genuine profound respect for my Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters and we share certain fundamental doctrine. Yes, we do differ on other fundamental matters but that is where freedom of choice arises! So, yes, indeed, I respect and accept all people unconditionally regardless of any arbitrary or frivolous criteria! I do however assert my own Christian belief and would anyone of any other religion. The main problem and challenge today is that we have public relations statements meant to foster good relations where those public relations statements are not really true i.e. “all religions teach the same things,’ simply not true, ‘there is only one God,’ also simply not true, in certain religions there are more than one deity!
Now, here’s where it gets really compelling we can’t all be right! It’s either Zeus, the Greek God, is God or he isn’t!
My gripe is with the church in general, as it is largely because of the church in general that we have this public relations nightmare! Many unbelievers are at a point in their lives where they truly searching for answers and a religion to follow, they will accordingly approach people from all religions for answers. As an evangelist I’m at an immediate disadvantage because of what the church has done in the past i.e. Christian love, as it were, during one of the crusades, the knights marched into Jerusalem, locked many Jewish men, women and children in a synagogue and burnt that building down, as these people screamed in pain, they sang, ‘Christ we adore you,’ Biblically before Christ, the penance if you will for sin was a sacrificial lamb that was unblemished. Now if you were the cheap, scaly character that I am, as I would have chosen the cheapest lamb with foot and mouth disease just to save some bucs, my problem would arise when I presented such lamb to the priest for inspection before sacrifice, that animal had to be blemish free. My animal would not have been accepted! Now, as it were during the very passover when lambs were been selected for this very purpose, the Christ was inspected by pontious pilate and was found by pilate to be blemish free, this is the reason why we believe that the Christ was the ultimate sacrificial lamb!
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