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To: Cvengr

I just meant that our goal with the Iraqi family is not to proselytize them, but to show Christianity through our actions. (Besides, since we are working with the State Department, we are specifically prohibited from proselytizing).

Explain to me how furnishing a home for them and helping them settle into a new country isn’t love; maybe you don’t understand that love can be shown by deed, not just through words. When you help someone, is it just because you have the hidden agenda of making them into Christians?


134 posted on 09/08/2010 4:49:28 AM PDT by fred4prez
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To: fred4prez

Salvation is all the work of God. Our only involvement as a natural course in the manifestation of our love for our fellow man is to communicate the Gospel.

Proselytism is not a Christian function.

No human is able to convert an unbeliever into a believer, nor in the Church Age into a Christian.

This is simply because no human being can generate a human spirit in the anthropology of a fellow human being, but that rebirth of life is only available from God Himself.

There may be nothing wrong in being a good steward of our resources to provide logistically for those whom we love, but avoiding the communication of the Gospel, or performing such good works independent of faith through Christ are simply works which are good for nothingness in the final judgment.

There is only one avenue to eternal life with God and that is through what He has provided, namely faith in Christ. God provides all the rest.


137 posted on 09/08/2010 5:40:47 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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