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To: Miztiki

Yep. They have "chosen the path of peace" and "converted to Islam".
"I really hate to say this. I've been worried sick about Steve and Olaf, but they just sold their souls to the devil. I couldn't do it. Saw my head of with a butter knife but I'll never forsake my God. I'm glad they are safe though. I'm sure their families are relieved."

Do you really believe that their statement of conversion to Islam which was made with a gun to their heads means they have forsaken God? I know that my God would have wanted them to do whatever they needed to do to lead to their freedom. I also believe that if they had been killed regardless of what they were forced to do, that they would have immediately gone to heaven.



652 posted on 08/27/2006 6:00:04 AM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: seekthetruth
Centanni said himself the "conversion" was at gunpoint. I have no doubts if they had refused it would been the end of their lives, suicide in fact.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 is pretty clear about suicide...

16Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
17If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

I can not condemn either of these men for their obvious coerced conversion in such a situation.
691 posted on 08/27/2006 6:31:33 AM PDT by Brytani (Keeper of the FR Loofah, Bath-cap and Rubber Duckie)
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