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To: Piranha
"What if my faith depended on my bringing you into my faith?"

Poor choice of words but I see what your are trying to say.

What bothers me, is why aren't you? You are commanded to rebuke you neighbor. If Jesus isn't the Son of God, we Christians are committing big time blasphemy. Why aren't you warning us.

Leviticus 19:17 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

Ezekiel 33:8 - When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Love demands that we say something. If the choice is between bringing up uncomfortable subjects or letting you die in disobedience to God, I'm going to irritate the crap out of you every time. And I just pray that you will see through to my motive and forgive me for it. And still count me as a friend, even if we dissagree.

360 posted on 08/03/2004 5:39:04 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Jews have a doctrinal belief in not reprimanding someone if the one in a position to reprimand doesn't believe that it will do any good. The Jewish belief is that this would be a degradation of G-d's name, rather than a sanctification.

Moreover, if someone is ignorant of the commandment to act in a certain way, he should not be corrected if the one in a position to correct doesn't believe that it will do any good. A correction in that situation would only make an unintentional sin into an intentional one.

I think that this thread illustrates quite well the degradation of one's religion that results from trying to force one's views on others.


395 posted on 08/03/2004 8:50:03 PM PDT by Piranha
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