Posted on 09/12/2010 10:44:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida, announced in July that it would host a Qur'an burning event on its church property in observance of the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks "to warn Americans about the dangers of Islam."
While the church's pastor, Terry Jones, may not burn Qur'ans after all, Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps is promising to do so if Jones is a "sissy" and doesn't.
Also, another character is promising to burn Qur'ans on the Wyoming Capitol steps. (The crazy meter is spiking!)
So, I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today's category:
Top Ten Reasons "Burn a Qur'an Day" is Anti-Biblical
10. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "let your conversation always be full of grace." (Colossians 4:6)
9. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "love your neighbor." (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39)
8. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "love your enemies." (Matthew 5:43)
7. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Matthew 22:39, Luke 6:31)
6. It goes against the Bible's teaching of "overcoming evil with good." ((Romans 12:21)
5. It goes against the Bible's teaching of "vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Romans 12:19)
4. It goes against the Bible's teaching to be "full of truth and grace." (John 1:14)
3. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "live at peace with everyone." (Romans 12:18)
2. It goes against the Bible's teaching to "be wise as a serpent, gentle as a dove" (Matthew 10:16)
1. It goes against the Bible's teaching that "whoever spreads slander is a fool" (Proverbs 10:18)
James N. Watkins is a fool and a false christian. The Koran is the Satanic bible. For that alone, it should be burned.
Thank you for a wise post.
Another reason for refraining from such attention-grabbing acts is that they serve no good purpose.
It may feel good to pitch a firey temper tantrum — hateful muslim ideology incenses me, too — but that’s self-serving rather than productive.
Much harder, and braver, to gently open dialogue with muslims in your neighborhood. And it takes greater faith, which seems to be what is lacking here.
Do they really know what the Koran teaches? Probably not. Many are merely cultural muslims who know nothing else.
But we’ll never find out until we start following the Lord’s command to “go into all the world and teach the gospel.”
The world starts at your doorstep.
The Apostles and converts burned “magic books” according to Acts.
I agree. I don't think we're supposed to make nice with the forces of the anti-christ. And that is what islam is.
Seems to me it’s arab and other sorts of Christians living among the savages who will have to pay for those having their 15 minutes in safety. I bet they would think twice if they had Christian family memebers living within reach of the Islamic mobs.
Freegards
Matthew 5:22:
“But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.”
and
Matthew 7: 1-5:
” “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Or, better yet, just read the Lord’s entire sermon and see if it improves your attitude.
9, 8, 7. If you believe following the Koran will lead your enemies to damnation, trying make that point is loving them, and presumably what a Christian would want someone to do for them.
6. How so?
5. The Reverend isn't doing it for vengeance. He is doing it to draw attention to evil.
4. Again, how so?
3. That doesn't require Christians to be at peace with those who attack them. Or do you think all Christians should be pacifists? Should we disband our military?
2. One again, how so?
1. It's not slander if it's true. Do you believe Islam is not evil?
Thou shalt have no other God but Me.
Destroy idols and the works of Satan.
You do the work of your father, Satan, who is the father of all lies.
“Stay in yours seats. We have control of the plane. We will be landing shortly.”
Sometimes the rules don’t apply and a new standard must be created.
Islam demands so in such a case and more so when it has modernized its methods of assimilation by using the very laws of a country to further its agenda.
We may have the laws and principles but those laws will require us to often look the other way when we are hampered by them, in a time of the titanic struggle between good and evil the good has to occasionally be bad to even have a chance of surviving.
This is a silly list. Most of these don’t even address the issue at hand.
It was the sorcerers in Ephesus (Acts 19) who burned their scrolls after being converted.
The repentant converts, not the Christians, did the burning.
I’d go for that. How wonderful if converted muslims started burning the Koran!
But for me to do it as a poke in their eye would not be likely to win them to Christ.
Dangerous proposition, to create a “new standard” in place of scripture.
If you choose to ignore the passages quoted, I urge you to be honest enough to clip them out of your bible.
Posted this in a discussion last week, repeating here:
I’d like to burn a Koran.
HOWEVER . . .
I’ve been pondering, as a Christian and in light of scripture, just how Jesus and his true followers would handle this situation.
Old Testament faithful were certainly commanded to search and destroy and often punished when they didn’t. It is clear from scripture, both old and new, that Jehovah will tolerate no gods before him — or his Son.
However, the approach changed dramatically during and after Christ’s ministry. The Old Covenant was designed to keep a bloodline pure and a people faithful, even against their will, until He came.
With God on earth in the form of the Son, we see different tactics in dealing with the Enemy.
Jesus was downright polite in dealing with idolatrous Samaritans. He rebuked the apostles when they suggested calling down fire from heaven upon them. He was kind to the Syro-Phonecian woman — from the Baal-worshipping culture that produced Jezebel.
When Paul was in Athens on Mars Hill, looking at idols to false gods, he chose to teach rather than to destroy. Sorcerers and worshippers of Diana in Ephesus willingly burned their scrolls after conversion. The weapon that melted their hearts was the gospel, nothing violent.
Jesus warns in the Sermon on the Mount that we will be slandered and persecuted. He says to turn the other cheek.
He prays, as recorded in John’s gospel, “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
Romans 13 argues eloquently to “leave room for God’s wrath” and not to take things into our own hands.
Perhaps the real problem is our lack of faith.
Perhaps they really would believe that God sent his Son if Christians, united, had enough faith to approach and teach rather than shrink in terror.
Perhaps we are to confront the muslim problem in America with scripture’s approach — weak in our eyes, dependent on Jehovah.
I would prefer to “pour burning coals on their heads” with Jesus’ approach rather than get in a physical firefight because we don’t believe His way will work.
They were all “converts” at the beginning Like outside of the two Marys there were n “lifelong Christians”.
Well, yes. But surely you see the point?
Burning the sorcery scrolls was an act of repentance on the part of new believers.
Had the apostles come into town and started burning without teaching, those sorcerers would more likely have been enraged than converted.
As Christians, we need to filter all actions by asking how they reflect on the One we represent. In this case, burning the Koran makes us feel good, but does nothing to further our cause.
I said from the beginning that real Christians don’t need to get involved in book burnings, unless they are following the biblical example of burning the garbage that brought sin into their lives. That would mean that a converted Muslim should indeed burn their koran, or otherwise dispose of it. I doubt Christians would get lectures like this if they proposed a porn burning day, even though burning gay porn might ignite gay riots and marching. Pedophiles might take offense at the burning of kiddie porn. Nazis might be angered over Mein kamph burnings, and some Christians might take offense at the burning of bibles by the US military. Maybe Christians should concentrate on delivering the message of Jesus Christ to sinners and victims like Muslims, giving them the enlightenment to burn their own sinful books. On this point I am in complete agreement. On the point of whether or not Americans have the right to burn korans if they want to. Of courses they do, and a weasel like Obamao should be ignored, if he decides to stop it.
Then you can do that. I prefer righteous anger on behalf of my God who is NOT allah but is compared to him. I am sick of hearing we all worship the same God. We do not. And too many think they need to be kind to everyone. I disagree. Just where in the Bible are we told to make nice with the army of Satan?
Jesus was not being mealy mouthed when he fashioned a whip and drove money lenders from His Fathers house. Christians have forgotten what Godly, righteous anger is.
Does it go against “an eye for an eye”?
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