Posted on 01/26/2018 1:04:07 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims,” Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. “God is doing a mighty work among them.”
Pacwa said that mass conversions are happening even in very fundamentalist countries. There is rapidly growing number of conversions especially on the edges of the Muslim world in the western and southern parts of Africa, he said. “Africa is now growing predominantly Christian despite crackdowns,” Pacwa said.
Some of the noteworthy countries he mentioned include Iran, reported to have 3 million Christians, and Indonesia with reports of 2 million a year converting.
“In Mongolia, the president opened the country to Christians and there’s even an archbishop,” Pacwa said. “They built a Catholic school there too. If I was younger, I would have gone.” He said that the desire for a Western education was the impetus to open up the country to the Catholic Church.
There are even conversions happening in many strict Muslim countries, according to Pacwa. He did not want to go on record with particulars for fear of increased retribution. Mass conversions are also being reported among refugees that are filling up the Christian churches left empty by Europeans. Many wonder if those are authentic conversions or just a response to improving their chances for amnesty, but time will tell.
Signs of this conversion are showing up in the U.S. too, Pacwa said. “I was about to celebrate Mass at a Maronite church in San Diego and I said hi to a man who introduced himself as Achmad. I asked if he was a Christian. He said: ‘Yes, I was recently baptized.’ He said he from Morocco. Christians do not have the name Ahmad—that’s a form of Mohammad.”
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Right there; tery; is your problem.
It appears that you think an ORGANIZATION is what saves you: (the CORRECT one; of course.)
No; it is CHRIST that saves us.
HIS promises (that Rome has so dutifully collected in the Bible) make it abundantly clear.
Do not listen to a thing I or Mark or Eagle or AMPU tell you.
You have the book: read it for yourself.
There you go: permission to listen to the Holy Spirit - unfiltered.
Everything a Christian needs to be complete and mature as a believer in Christ is found in Scripture.
2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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Genesis 9 is centuries after Yehova established his laws with Adam and Eve.
Did you honestly imagine that Yehova left generations without his loving commandments? Foolish!
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You have no proof.
And you just can’t go around saying, *Well, He MUST have.....*
That argument does not hold any water.
I envy you!
Have a cool drink for me if you don’t mind.
God Bless!
God Bless!
I did indeed sir. 🍷 In the early afternoon, the breeze started coming in off the ocean. It was so refreshing, cuz it was about 85 degrees. I thought, life is grand. I was suffering for Jesus on the beach. 😆😁
I think that may be your best post to date.
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And when we’re face-to-face with our Savior, just imagine the oceans, breezes, and views we will see?
1 Corinthians 2:9
I can indeed imagine, RWC. Too bad, only about 1 to 3% of the workd’s population will experience it. The other 97 to 99% will experience Hell Fire and brimstone. I hope more than 1 to 3% make it to Heaven, but I am not real confident they will. Just think of the people you run into, day in and day out, and it seems like 99% of them are utterly clueless about spiritual issues. If they don’t know if they are saved or not, then most probably, they are NOT.
While I “feel bad for them” (well sort of), they had the same chance as you and I to allow the King to give us the Lottery. We were lost at one point. We sought and searched and confirmed - probably over & over again for years.
It’s a long journey for some and we’re told to “seek and you will find” (Matt 7:7-8; Psalm 34:4; Jeremiah 29:13; Luke 11:9). I’m convinced the Lord will never hide Himself from somebody earnestly searching for His Truth and Him. The endless miracles of this happening points to that fact.
Pride, arrogance, hatred, and just plain old ignorance are some of the devil’s best tools in his shed for the lost. It’s why this world has little hope. It’s also why that we who place our Hope in Him are eternally Hopeful, Thankful, and Yearning for His Appearance.
Amen bro. Good post. 👍
“Did you honestly imagine
Nope. Never did.
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Describe how you “honor” the flag.
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Many false traditions are in the Bible, and Yeshua declared them all to be the blind leading the blind into the ditch.
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Well I stand and place my hand over my heart when the national anthem is played....I have four of them on display on my property, ....what more do you want?
OUR first Pope....you didn't have a choice!
Oh good grief!!!!
Answer the question, how did the fresh and salt water get separated???
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