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To: livianne
"but it doesn't sound like you are much interested in what might be good in their religion."

No because what I teach my kids, is that their religion has rejected God's plan of salvation. There is NOTHING good in that religion. It doesn't matter how many of them really believe in peace. It doesn't matter how many of them give to the poor. Without God, without obedience to God and acceptance of His plan, there is NO good. It's all in vain. Everything they do that appears from human standards to be good is in vain because it is in support of a religion whose fundamental tenets are a LIE. It leads to spiritual death, whether it ever produces a suicide bomber or not.

And that is really the important lesson that I try to teach my kids. The suicide bombers help make the case, but I didn't gloss over the fact that there are many muslims who aren't suicide bombers. In fact, I pointed it out, but also pointed out that because they have rejected Jesus, they will die hoping to be judged by their works. And sadly, they will be.

419 posted on 06/18/2004 8:48:17 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
No because what I teach my kids, is that their religion has rejected God's plan of salvation. There is NOTHING good in that religion. It doesn't matter how many of them really believe in peace. It doesn't matter how many of them give to the poor. Without God, without obedience to God and acceptance of His plan, there is NO good. It's all in vain. Everything they do that appears from human standards to be good is in vain because it is in support of a religion whose fundamental tenets are a LIE. It leads to spiritual death, whether it ever produces a suicide bomber or not. And that is really the important lesson that I try to teach my kids. The suicide bombers help make the case, but I didn't gloss over the fact that there are many muslims who aren't suicide bombers. In fact, I pointed it out, but also pointed out that because they have rejected Jesus, they will die hoping to be judged by their works. And sadly, they will be.

you really are dangerous...i'm sorry your children will learn such things from you. Jews, Muslims and Christians are all Abrahamic religions, all coming from the same source of ancient Judaism. Their God is no different than your God, or mine. These are the three major monotheistic religions, and they all come from the same place. Have you taught your children that?

I'm curious - what do you tell your children happens to Jews when they die? We have rejected Jesus as the Messiah - does that make us all doomed to your hell? Do you really think that there is a God that would condemn so many of his own children to suffering simply because they refuse to believe a certain thing, even if they live lives of goodness? If so, I want nothing to do with your idea of God - my God loves all of his children so long as they live according to his basic rules of life, those being the ten commandments. Not all Muslims do, but not all Christians or Jews or anyone else does.

you are the sort of Christian that makes other Christians look bad - the sort that would tell a young impressionable child that people they know nothing about are condemned to Hell simply because they have not chosen to believe as you do, no matter what they do with their lives. There are in fact many wonderful things about Islam - I don't pretend I know a great deal about the religion, but I do know that just as the Crusades didn't make Christianity itself evil, the suicide bombers do not make Islam evil. Those people are evil, not the religion.

422 posted on 06/18/2004 9:08:30 AM PDT by livianne
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