Posted on 07/10/2015 5:01:15 PM PDT by markomalley
Muslims in Nigeria — all members of Boko Haram — kidnapped a young Christian girl and demanded that she deny Christ. She refused. They buried her up to her neck and crushed her to death with rocks. Her father, a local pastor named Nkeki Mutah, took pride in his daughter’s resilience, and said:
I was told that my daughter refused to change her religion. I was told that they dug a hole and buried her from the neck and stoned her to death… To die for the sake of Christ, that’s the happiest thing for me. I’m grateful that she didn’t change her religion. She trust[ed] in God.
Her mother, Marta, said:
I believe she died with dignity. Monica is now in heaven because she refused to convert.
The perspective of these Christians, which is filled with spiritual fortitude, is actually the correct mindset to have. To see death as not the ceasing of life, but as a mere transition from the transient to the eternal, from the bondage of sin to the absolute bliss of the Beatific Vision and the absolute union with the Divine Trinity, is the correct view. Even God finds happiness when His children are martyred, for in the words of David: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Psalm 116:15)
The purpose of life, is not to live. Whoever says that the purpose of life is to live is preaching the devil’s lie, that we should “live for the moment.” The purpose of life is to die unto the self, and to liberate the self from the cares of this earth, to prepare the self for the Beatific Vision. “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matthew 16:25)
Life is not an end unto itself, it is a means to an end, and that end is eternity. The farmer sows the seeds, but the beauties of their fruit do not appear until the seeds themselves die. And so it is with us: the glory of eternity is not experienced until the self is denied, the cross is carried, the Master is followed, and the fruits of holy labor grow from the vines in the spring of repentance, and a worthy martyrdom brings us to Paradise. As the Apostle tells us, “what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.” (1 Corinthians 15:31) Martyrdom is the most sublime form of worship; it is a declaration of gratefulness to the sacrifice of Christ. As St. Paulinus said: “the death of holy men can rightly be called their praise; for it is a precious repayment to the Lord God.” (Paulinus of Nola, Poem 21)
God doesn’t ask his followers to do anything that he hasn’t already done.
And she is in paradise with our King while her murderers will surely burn in hell forever.
God doesnt make bad things happen. Satan/Allah do.
The wrath of evil men is bad, but what God has the power to unleash is hell on earth. Be in the wedding party leaving soon. You don't want to be around when God starts pouring out HIS Wrath.
Gods ways are not our ways.
There are 7,000 cats in Boko Haram and 130,000 members of the Nigerian military. What’s the problem?
This stuff comes with free will my friend. If they aren’t free to hate, then you aren’t free to love.
And tell Epictetus that God permits such evil for one reason and one reason alone—to draw a greater good from it. Good Friday leads to Easter Sunday. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Don’t focus only on the horror, but on the glorious victory that girl won over it.
She’s wearing a Martyr’s Crown now, for eternity.
...”Someone explain to me how a ‘God’ could allow this to happen ?”.....
One could say why did God allow Obama to be President...his decisions have cost people their life...or what causes a child’s own mother to take his life...or why did Hitler murder the Jews...and why has this nation murdered more unborn babies in numbers that surpass the Holocaust?
Better said is what will God bring out of these atrocities...which he is faithful to do.
We do live in a fallen world, a world that is under the influence of evil...but with the freedom to choose between being evil or striving for good. Some will choose evil or fall under it’s control as Islam has done and teaches.
“Man has a free will...”
Your kid has free will. Does that mean you’d let him slaughter a neighbor if you could stop it?
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It’s just the same old JV Team stuff that Obama dismisses.
After all, Boys will be Boys.
We have more important things to worry about like those Evil Christian Bakers for instance.
“Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Satan truly does have a hand in Islam.
There is far more evil in the world than can be policed.
Your utopia where this isn’t allowed to happen is in Heaven. Here on earth, in this hell on earth, evil runs rampant, and Satan runs the show.
You can stop some evil. You can’t stop it all. Not by a long shot.
Free will. Nasty evil people have free will to harm others in unspeakable ways. When the Lord God gave us free will, he knew that many people would abuse that and perform acts of evil. God doesn’t cause it. God could prevent it, but then what good is free will if God takes it away from you at every turn?
This is earth. This is the lousy, messy, painful, sorrowful, torturous place called earth. Your Utopia awaits in Heaven. It isn’t here.
Amen.
Amen! May we live and die for Jesus Christ’s Glory!
Hell is going to be mighty hot for these demons in human bodies.
Was she a Roman Catholic or just a Christian?
There is only one God and the killers are worshiping a demonic spirit they call allah.
God will take care of these devils in one way and he’ll take care of the His martyrs in another way. Life - each human’s spirit - is eternal and will live on after our flesh dies. Life on earth is like a blink of the eye. When we die, some will live on in the glory of God and others will be living in hell.
He gave man free will so we would not be like His farm animals. He made us as higher beings. Some human beings live to be good and some live to be evil. Our choice.
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