I believe there is one way to heaven, through the person and work of Jesus Christ. I believe that God wants me to make saving faith available to every man, woman and child I can. I think there are different ways for me to present this saving faith but I must present it or I will be guilty of their going to hell in the same way that a guard who doesn’t warn of an approaching army is guilty for not sounding an alarm.
I wish you and I did not disagree on this point, but it appears that we do.
I find it quite distasteful....especially when they go door to door....I have absolutley no patients for that.
You are 100% correct my FRiend, and need to give no apologies for your faith. We are commanded to share the Gospel message of salvation through Christ alone to a lost and dying world. That includes ALL who are immersed in cult religions, be they hindu, buddhist, muslim, etc.
Of course the “interfaith” leader in the article doesn’t see that, but that’s the natural side-effect of the ecumenical movement in the first place. It seeks to blur the very clear division lines that Christ drew. Sheep or goat, wheat or tare, hot or cold, all of us will be one or the other. “I am the way the truth and the life and NO ONE comes to the Father but THROUGH ME”.
I had to laugh at this comment:
>>”Most Buddhists would not have a problem with what is written in the gospel,” said Nakai, who does not follow the particular practices of the Dalai Lama’s sect. “It’s what evangelical Christians say — the idea that you have to be saved in a certain way or you’re doomed to eternal damnation, that’s what we have a problem with.”<<
Ummmm...being saved a certain way, or else being damned to an eternity in hell IS what is written in the Gospel. That’s the whole point.
And other religions believe that THEIR way is the only way to eternal peace, afterlife, reincarnation, paradise, whatever. To them, THEIR way is the only way. Once those who feel the need to convert others to a certain belief learn to let others have their own beliefs, and quit trying to force them to change their beilefs, the world will be a lot better off. Maybe we won’t hear about missionaries being kileed, kidnapped, etc. Going to another country to provide medical or educational help is great, wrapping it with conversion of one’s faith is wrong. Just my opinion.