I do. You can’t ‘convert’ anyone to Christianity….One has to come to Christ on her/his own volition and open her/his hearts to Him on a strictly voluntarily basis. To ‘convert someone’ has the intonation of force behind it and that excludes it from Christianity by definition. Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him…” To be a Christian does NOT happen at the will of someone else…. it only can happen when one voluntarily repents of their sins and asks for Christ’s forgiveness ‘and opens the door’.
On a related matter, I attended a church event a while ago where the issue of ‘reaching out to Muslims’ was discussed. Here’s the primary obstacle….. As theists, Islam is simply not open to any level of outside criticism. There is none of the ‘let us reason through these matters’ concept that is spoken about in the New Testament. In fact, of all the ‘religions’ of the world, Islam is one that absolutely forbids their people from even talking to Christians to hear what they have to say concerning spiritual matter. It’s one thing to reject what somebody has to say…..it’s totally another thing to not even be allowed to hear the point of view.
I do. You can’t ‘convert’ anyone to Christianity….