Posted on 09/07/2024 5:16:23 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
So you are looking for the EXACT word instructions saying “Convert People?”
Much like other religions claiming there are no exact word instructions for(fill in blank).
Yet we see it all through the New testament. From Mark 16, Acts instructions “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the utter most parts of the world!”
Then St Paul’s words to the jailer who asks “What must I do to be saved>” and Paul says “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved, and all thine house!
Then Peter to Cornelius.
And you (As Woody Woodpecker said) “I can’t see a thing!”
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The very words of Jesus. John 14:6 NIV
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
No; he’s correct. The only directive is to preach, and Jesus emphasizes over and over that it’s the Father that initiates the conversion process. Acts 2:47 is very clear on that point.
Particularly ponder the circumstances of Paul’s conversion.
Is a rose really a cat?
That advice does not in and of itself convert anyone. Acts 2:47 makes it clear that it’s God who converts people, not any man.
Sounds very similar to, “The Forgotten Soldier.” I didn’t read it until about two years ago, but everything in the East was a mess. Its remoteness made problems for both the Russians and Nazis, and the civilians who survived out there got it the worst when soldiers came to confiscate their food and animals. God forbid any of the civvies were female.
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.That is kind of a precursor to that quote, from John 6:44.
Precisely what I said in post 77.
“I thought the Christians were supposed to go out into the world and preach the Good News to the unbelievers. I think it is called evangelism.”
True. No where is there FORCED conversion, as St Paul said, “God gave the increase.”
1 Corinthians 1:
6I have planted, Apollos watered; but GOD gave the increase. 7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but GOD that giveth the increase.
“ So you are looking for the EXACT word ”
Yes. That’s correct. Exact word or any synonym. Try it
Yes, I know ....
Yes, thanks!
A very fine book, I just ordered a copy this minute, to reread it.
Stupid question. If Hitler were a Christian, he would have to accept a Jew as his lord and savior, and he would have to believe in the Bible, every word of which was written by a Jew.
It is believed by some Luke was a Gentile.
That hasn’t stopped Christian antisemitism for nearly 2,000 years. The Jews killed Jesus is still an oft repeated thing.
Jesus forced no one to follow Him or the Law.
Nor has anyone been commanded by Jesus to make others join your *church*.
Constantine *forced* his armies to convert by marching through a river and declaring them baptized Christians.
It didn’t make them one.
Sadly, Satan gets his best mileage out of what people who call themselves Christians do in the name of Christ.
The problem these days is that people can be labeled Christians without a true new birth, but just based on religious affiliation or holding to *Christian principles*.
Cheers
"At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas. So when the crowd had assembled, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.…
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