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To: Gengis Khan
If a person truly accepts Jesus as God, then it must be to the exclusion of all others because Jesus Himself said He is the only way to God. To include Jesus as one among many is to reject what Jesus says about Himself.

I do not agree that a missionary has the right to enter a convert's home and destroy the idols. That is private property. A true convert would destroy the idol on his own volition. I also would say that a person grows in their faith and knowledge of Jesus so that they may accept Jesus's Lordship one day but require some time before realizing they must destroy the idols they have.

I do not condone a foreign missionary breaking the idols belonging to someone else. I condemn such behavior.

Christian missionaries do not have, should not have and never have had, although some have wrongly thought they did, a divine mandate to arbitrate over a person's conscience. That is the province of God alone and He jealously holds that responsibility to Himself.

A preacher is one who intends to drag you like an overbearing nanny, over the path he "thinks" is the true path of sprituality. I disagree with this definition of a preacher. A preacher is a person who exposes the Word of God to a congregation. It is a very high calling. To be sure, a preacher is just a human and capable of error. That is why each individual must search the Scripture for himself and see if the teaching conforms to God's Holy Revelation. But a preacher is to help point the way to what the Scripture says. He has a responsibility to be correct. God holds him in strict accountability for leading others astray.

The discovery of the path is not a matter of one's own conscience. It is a work of God's Holy Spirit.

84 posted on 07/31/2006 3:28:34 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ Thanks for putting our boys in harms way, Rep. Murtha, you treasonous jack@ss!)
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To: Jemian

Well said.


93 posted on 07/31/2006 4:27:54 PM PDT by Guenevere (Israel, our friend and ally.....God bless her.)
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