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To: seeker41

Only God, working through Jesus Christ, converts people. Proselytism is what the Jehovah’s Witnesses do, and we all know how convincing that is! Or what the Muslims do, converting by force.

Even when the Spanish evangelized the American Indians, the Indians did not have to convert. Those tribes that didn’t could still enter into a treaty with Spain. But the Franciscan, Jesuit and Dominican missionaries managed to convince most of them to convert by telling them about the freedom and peace found in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

And as for the knowledge of good and evil by even non-Christians, that’s essentially another way of saying “natural law,” which is because man is made in the Image and Likeness of God and has this law engraved on his heart.

Whether a person ignores it or is blinded to it by an evil ideology that exalts things contrary to it (such as Islam or Communism), this natural law exists and can be discovered by the conscience, the built-in moral sense of mankind.


16 posted on 10/09/2013 8:51:53 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Proselytism is what the Jehovah’s Witnesses do

Its also the vast majority of postings on the Religion Forum from certain sectors.

21 posted on 10/09/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: livius
Only God, working through Jesus Christ, converts people

Is there ONE YHvH ??

Are there two or three gods ??

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
35 posted on 10/09/2013 9:16:16 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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