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To: wideawake
Fourth: the State of Israel was not established by God. It was established by Israeli political activists

Is this actually your testimony to those who may be seeking Jesus who are reading this thread?

24 posted on 04/01/2002 9:32:43 AM PST by berned
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To: berned
My testimony to those who seek Jesus is simply this:

Christ was crucified and died of His own free will so that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

As Christ himself has taught us, it is a vain generation that seeks for a sign. The belief that the establishment of the secular and socialist republic of Israel is actually a God-ordained fulfillment of prophecy is a similarly vain "seeking" which the Risen Lord warned us against.

God will fulfill the words of His prophets in His own due time - no one who accepts that Christ is Lord needs to accept the dubious thesis that Ariel Sharon is a messenger of God's will.

If a fellow Christian's faith is so weak that he needs to believe that the modern State of Israel is a necessary condition of God's Kingdom, I will not begrudge him the crutch that he requires. But he has no reason to require it of me.

"For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope" Romans 8:24.

27 posted on 04/01/2002 9:52:28 AM PST by wideawake
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