“Why is it that many Protestants struggle with the basic understanding of words? Proselytism is different from evangelism.”
Why does the Pope reply to a question on Evangelism with a condemnation of proselytism if the two are completely different? And why does the Pope not then evangelize this particular Rabbi, or the atheist, but respects their beliefs as utterly equal?
“It was produced by the World Council of Churches”
The same one infiltrated by the KGB, the same folks who helped bring about Liberation theology? I think I’ll pass on it.
The Catholics say that proselytize or evangelize, they certainly aren't the same. The Jews are arrogantly claiming they hold all the truth. What none of them can seem to see is the truth found in Scripture. When Jesus came here, lived his life, was crucified dead and buried, was then resurrected and ascended to heaven, everything old passed away.
Jesus fulfilled the law and the prophets. When he left this place, he sent his Holy Spirit to fill his people. The Holy Spirit has the keys to the kingdom, which is the word of God. Humans may have penned the words onto skins or paper, but it was by the inspiration from God through his Holy Spirit.
In John 1:1, we read "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."...
And then we come to John 3: 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.