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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
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To: Tom Tetroxide

“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.


77 posted on 09/07/2024 7:56:13 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: Tom Tetroxide; stanne

The directive by Jesus is to preach the gospel.

The conversion is done by the convicting work of the Holy Spirit.

Forcing others to join a religion is not conversion as it does not regenerate the spirit.


150 posted on 09/07/2024 9:35:13 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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