Posted on 10/17/2002 4:20:26 PM PDT by jstone78
Evangelical Group Says Jews Need Conversion
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — The World Evangelical Alliance is taking issue with an August report from U.S. Roman Catholic bishops that opposes efforts to target Jews for conversion.
The evangelical organization, an alliance of 120 national and regional church fellowships and 75 non-denominational ministries, has reaffirmed and reissued a declaration defending Jewish evangelism that was written in 1989 by 16 theologians from nine nations.
One of those theologians, the Rev. J.I. Packer, an Anglican teaching at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, endorsed the reaffirmation. "Sharing Jesus Christ with our Jewish friends is as important a task as ever it was," he said.
The 27-point statement decries anti-Semitism and confesses that Christian churches have "been much to blame for tolerating and encouraging it," but says this history doesn't remove the right to share Christianity with Jews.
The Catholic bishops said deepened appreciation of God's unbroken covenant with the Jewish people means "campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer acceptable in the Catholic Church."
But the evangelical paper defends such targeted evangelism and denies that Israel's covenant relationship by itself brings salvation or that "any person can enjoy God's favor apart from the mediation of Jesus Christ."
"Faith in Jesus Christ is humanity's only way to come to know the Creator," the paper asserts.
Well, I am a Christian, and I disagree. God never revoked His Covenenat with Israel, even after He sent His Son.
Your one sentence defines your beliefs I think. There is something that should be more motivating Betty. Don't you know what it is?
It's getting in to Heaven. Don't be too quick to damn people like Moses and every non-Christian out there to hell, you may just be opening the path for yourself with all that judging (let he without sin cast the first stone ring a bell?).
Sure, there is lots of stuff available, but IMHO the best single source that gets right down to brass tacks is found at my LostTribe screen name below. Just click on LostTribe and see the reference to the Assyrian Tablets in The British Museum.
That inexpensive book lays out the case, based on the 23,000 clay tablets in the British Museum in London. While they have been there for some time, it is only in recent times that they have been translated and more fully evaluated.
You are correct; we don't.
You're attempting to tell me that my job is being an 'athiest'. -- And that yours is to set me straight. I'm not your athiest, and if you persist in that lie, you aren't a Christian, - nor much of an american, -- in any sense of those words.
I think you're putting too much weight on my use of the word "job". I'll rephrase it-- My choice is to share the Message, you're free to respond to it or not.
We all make choices. I've made mine; you've made yours. I think you truly want to believe that Christians want to control other's lives. How boring. My task isn't to set you straight. My task is to set me straight. What you do is up to you.
And I truly see that you're nobody's atheist but your own....
Pretty scary theology you've got there....
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharoah's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward....
I have some news that may shock you, Betty --- Moses lived long, long before Jesus was born. How could he have accepted Jesus if he wasn't born yet? Do you actually believe that every human that died before Jesus preached his gospel is in Hell? ....or are my questions too difficult for your infantile mind to comprehend?
No, I don't ~want~ to believe that of you, I've just responded to what you said, and continue to say.
And I truly see that you're nobody's atheist but your own....
And, as I said earlier, you, -- in calling me an athiest, -- are making an unchristian ass of yourself. Thanks.
I thought you proclaimed yourself an atheist on a previous thread. I apologize. I would not call someone an atheist if they hadn't already called themselves one. Sorry if I was in error....
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