Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Tom Tetroxide

“ But so is every other Christian who wants to kill Jews physically or kill them spiritually by converting them away from Judaism.”

No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people. No where


22 posted on 09/07/2024 6:38:53 AM PDT by stanne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]


To: stanne

So you are saying that all of those Christians who have converted over the last 2000 years were not influenced by other Christians to convert?

Are you saying that Christians today in Israel and around the world aren’t trying to convert Jews to Christianity?

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.

Did evangelism (outreach to the non-Christians for the purpose of converting others) suddenly get canceled?


28 posted on 09/07/2024 6:46:16 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: stanne
No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people. No where.

Depends on how you understand the word 'convert'. Christian conversion should not be compared to Muslim conversion, i.e., "convert or die". Any Church leader forcing or coercing people to convert is evil and has never been God's will.

God and not man converts (reveals Messiah Jesus) to people (Jews and Gentiles) when they hear (receive) the gospel of Jesus the Messiah. The Lord respects free will. A person has a choice to receive or reject Jesus the Messiah. Jesus commanded that He be preached to ALL people, to the Jew 1st.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." - Rom 1:16

"So faith comes to a person from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ." - Romans 10:17

"Then Jesus came to them (His disciples) and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of ALL NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them (the Jew 1st) to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” - Matt 28: 16-20

44 posted on 09/07/2024 7:08:22 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: stanne
No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people. No where

19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 NASB 95

50 posted on 09/07/2024 7:23:03 AM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: stanne; .45 Long Colt; Apple Pan Dowdy; BDParrish; Big Red Badger; BlueDragon; boatbums; bonfire; ..
No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people. No where

Surely you jest, or are grossly ignorant. Believing in any faith versus another one is a matter of conversion, and the New Testament abounds with commands and exhortations to do so as meaning effectual faith in God, in the risen Lord Jesus, and commendations for doing so. Want a list?

51 posted on 09/07/2024 7:24:34 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: stanne
No where in Christianity is there a directive to convert people. No where?

The Scripture is full of it. Go and make disciples. Where have you been?

65 posted on 09/07/2024 7:42:03 AM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson