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To: Olog-hai

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.


188 posted on 09/07/2024 10:46:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; stanne

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.


196 posted on 09/07/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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