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To: kosta50

How many countries are Christian? Not many.


4,125 posted on 03/16/2008 4:10:55 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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Mary: "Are you speaking against missionaries, Kosta?"

Kosta: "They have no business in Christian countries."

Kolo: "None whatsoever."

Mary: "How many countries are Christian? Not many."

I have had this discussion pretty recently and I think they would say any country in which most of its citizens were baptized as infants into either the Roman Catholic or Orthodox Churches. (In several countries/cultures, "everyone" is baptized into an Apostolic Church as a matter of course.) At that point they believe that their respective Churches own the infants, regardless.

Now, of course many of these infants grow up to have no discernible (or real) faith in God at all. They would say: "That's my clergy's problem to fix". That is, even though there is no where near the manpower or resources to do so. To them that is irrelevant and I have been told, in essence, that they believe it would be better for the person to rot in hell having never believed, than to be led to the Lord by a Protestant missionary.

And even though I have been told this, the way I interpret it is that they think that a solidly converted Protestant is still less likely to get into Heaven than a total non-believer (who was baptized in an Apostolic Church) and who has one breath of life left in him, because he still might be reached by an Apostolic clergy. IOW, THEY are willing to take the chance ON BEHALF of the lost person. They believe that is THEIR right. If that sounds incredible to you, and extraordinarily unbiblical, it does to me also, but unfortunately, they are very serious about this.

4,453 posted on 03/25/2008 2:45:54 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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