Posted on 09/24/2001 9:07:47 AM PDT by LoneGreenEyeshade
It is not even true that the word 'Islam' means 'peace.' In fact it means 'submission...Islam is a complex faith, and cannot be pigeon-holed as peaceful or violent or under any simple heading. "
But unless we go to them now in love and influence them in a Christian direction, the ongoing cycle of violence and revenge will force them to ... come to us - the Christian West - in judgment."
God help us to understand and do His will.
AMOS
Scripture scholars tell us that the mission of the prophet Amos lasted perhaps only one year. His message to Israel was so unrelenting and so forceful that a paucity of words sufficed:
"Fallen, no more to rise, maiden Israel; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up."
Yet Israel was not lacking in money or in power during Amos' time (around 760 B.C.) The Chosen People were at the height of wealth and influence. Nevertheless, Amos' message was that "they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept His statutes." Israel was a kingdom full of injustice.
Amos spoke boldly to the rich and mighty: "Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!"
They would often "display their wheat on the Sabbath. ...Diminish the ephah, add to the shekel. .. fix their scales for cheating!" Amos uncovered the darkness of their injustices -"buying the lowly for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals." In their hearts, and in their actions, they plotted: "Even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"
Amos confronted the corporate greed of his time:
"The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done!"
Was Amos a prophet or just unpatriotic?
Leave it to Ravi to find the crystal-clear truth.
But, I cannot judge the hearts of individual men and women and children, and God commands that I do not:
"You are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges, for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judges does the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things." Romans 2:1-2
LOL,LGE
Yes...submission to the will of God. How you can find fault with that is beyond me.
"Leave it to Ravi to find the crystal-clear truth"
AMEN
"You are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges, for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judges does the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things." Romans 2:1-2
Yes...submission to the will of God. How you can find fault with that is beyond me.
I have a BIG problem with it if one of the Islamic mass-murderers is defining the will of God.
Yes...submission to the will of God. How you can find fault with that is beyond me.
Guess the fault could be how one interprets "submission" and to which "God." True submission to Jehovah could be nothing else but peace and love for one another.
Funny how people, of all religions, pick and choose specific religious guidance, take it out of the context of "the big picture" of the message, to justify their selfish actions.
Religion, rather than love of God, could kill us all!!!!!!!!!!!
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