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To: rebekah7gray
what if the christians in the plane started praying out loud,

Excuse me, but you are hopelessly naive and hopelessly ignorant of Scripture. God's response to such a plan would have to be "I gave you two good hands and two good feet, brains and cell phones, and you sit praying???? Get off your asses and take the plane back over!"

You might mean well (that remains to be seen), but you're wrong and your type of naivete gets people killed.

Do you think the residents of the Warsaw ghetto were wrong to fight?

Would you simply pray if someone was killing or raping your child?

27 posted on 04/15/2007 6:24:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Hunter-Thompson '08)
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To: Larry Lucido

We should try to follow Jesus.

Many times in the bible, the Holy Spirit did help Christians avoid danger, but at other times, the Holy Spirit allowed christians to face danger and to endure the torture.

Jesus was a witness to the cruel Romans who tortured and crucified dissident Jews and yet Jesus kept on doing His work of trying to save the souls of people instead of killing the evil Romans and trying to save the Jews from being crucified.

It is easier to take a gun and defend oneself than it is to turn the other cheek and when the enemy sees us not taking the gun but rather praying in the midst of danger, its a better witness to God’s power in a christian’s life.

As the Word of God states : Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse...... Do not repay anyone evil for evil........Do not take revenge..... but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12 : 14-21).

“For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 35-39).

When the Romans saw that the christians did not try to defend themselves but willingly went to their deaths praising God, the Romans saw something different in Christianity that they never saw in their own religion.

In God’s wisdom, the blood of martyrs made way for christianity to flourish and eventually overwhelm the Roman Empire, not with the sword, but by the love of God in Christ Jesus.


46 posted on 04/16/2007 9:58:22 AM PDT by rebekah7gray
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