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To: trebb

Jesus’s message is NOT going to be preached in this mosque. the naming is merely a lie on the part of the moslems.


30 posted on 04/05/2014 6:15:05 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar
Jesus’s message is NOT going to be preached in this mosque. the naming is merely a lie on the part of the moslems.

No one believes that His name will be preached here. We all know that the name is a ruse to garner support or reduce opposition. So what? It's being done and agree or disagree, getting hung up on the meme that they're telling lies has no utility. Jesus told us to, "Resist not evil". He didn't mean we were to succumb to Satan's whispers that evil deeds are OK, He meant that evil will attack us on a personal level and even that we will be hated because we love Him. He is the final solution to the evil that flourishes and that will grow exponentially as we approach His return. Our job is not to get hung up on trying to squash evil - He made it clear that evil will prevail on the earth and we couldn't stop it. We resist on the personal level by not committing evil acts that harm us and others spiritually. When we try to take active measures against evil as it abounds around us, we get distracted from the task of loving Him and carrying His Word. Satan wins - for the nonce, but Satan has already lost the real battle and has been relegated to eternal suffering even though we suffer the Evil One's desecration of our sensibilities in this finite realm called "Time".I can hate Muslims or I can be prepared to witness to them - what is the proper venue? I remember a story about a guy called Jonah - God told him to witness/minister to a really evil place called Ninevah. He made his human decision to go in the other direction because he knew in his human heart that those people were so evil that they deserved to burn in Hell and he would take no part in the possibility that some of them might be saved. To say the least, God had other ideas. I find that it easier for us to be Jonah than it is to do what God wants because we can grasp the evil on a personal level and cannot truly fell the Love that God has and His desire that we do everything we can to let others know of His love. IOW, we let our own personal ability to hate outweigh His message of Love.

I'm no one to claim the right to preach, I only put this type information/argument out there because, when I truly settle in to try to get a handle on Who and What God is, I see my own fallibility. Just as Paul lamented that he did that which he would not do, and did not do that he would do, we are all similarly poor in spirit and need to recognize that in ourselves that we not consider ourselves as the Pharisees consider themselves.

31 posted on 04/05/2014 6:38:33 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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