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This may be my last post here because certain people object to telling the truth about false religions, but I think this needs to be said.
A certain farmer was sitting at the edge of a cliff watching his flock of sheep. One of them wandered to the edge of the cliff and fell of, plunging to its death. A man passing through the area saw it and went to the farmer. "That was sad," the man said.
"Yep," the farmer answered. "Third one this week."
"But couldn't you do something to stop them; build a fence or something?"
"No," the farmer replied. "They got the right to go where they want. If'n they want to wander off a cliff, why should I stop them?"
Today billions of people are wandering off a cliff. It is our job as Christians to stand for our faith, to tell them they are on the wrong path, and to spread the word of salvation through Jesus Christ. That isn't very popular these days. From the presidency down Islam is held up as a religion of peace, even as its practitioners commit terrorism throughout the world. We are told that we can't speak out about Islam; the peaceful Islamists might kill us, the media will try to destroy us and certain people will block or truncate our speech. Do we go along to get along; sacrificing what we've been taught; watching as others wander off to their own destruction without trying to save them, or de we follow the teachings off our Lord to spread the Gospel and tell the truth?
In John 4 we read:
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
2nd Peter, 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Bible warns EXTENSIVELY about false prophets and false teaching because God knew full well what the future held. He knew there would come a day like today, where Christianity is under attack but you can't say a word about Islam; even to warn those who might be seduced by its poetry and overlook its inherent evil. Islam is not alone in its false teaching, but it is unparalleled in its murderous history.
Buddhism is no less destructive to the human soul, but Buddhists don't strap bombs to themselves and commit mass murder because Buddhism doesn't teach that killing for God is an immediate passage to Heaven. Buddhism teaches that all life is holy but it doesn't teach that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the only forgiveness for the sins of man.
In the teachings of man with his many religions we are offered many ways to address that part of our nature which hungers for a relationship with our Creator. However, the only true way to eternity with the Creator is in the teachings of the Creator Himself; the Holy Bible. We know that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son; that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."
Christ said "I am the way, the truth and the life. Nobody comes to the Father but by me." The greatest love we can show to those who are lost and doomed by false religions is to show them the truth of Jesus Christ. To withhold that truth; to pretend that the false religion will get them the Heaven; That makes us partially responsible for their destruction. We may as well be tossing anchors to the drowning.
This is my opinion. What say you?
A certain farmer was sitting at the edge of a cliff watching his flock of sheep. One of them wandered to the edge of the cliff and fell of, plunging to its death. A man passing through the area saw it and went to the farmer. "That was sad," the man said.
"Yep," the farmer answered. "Third one this week."
"But couldn't you do something to stop them; build a fence or something?"
"No," the farmer replied. "They got the right to go where they want. If'n they want to wander off a cliff, why should I stop them?"
Today billions of people are wandering off a cliff. It is our job as Christians to stand for our faith, to tell them they are on the wrong path, and to spread the word of salvation through Jesus Christ. That isn't very popular these days. From the presidency down Islam is held up as a religion of peace, even as its practitioners commit terrorism throughout the world. We are told that we can't speak out about Islam; the peaceful Islamists might kill us, the media will try to destroy us and certain people will block or truncate our speech. Do we go along to get along; sacrificing what we've been taught; watching as others wander off to their own destruction without trying to save them, or de we follow the teachings off our Lord to spread the Gospel and tell the truth?
In John 4 we read:
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
2nd Peter, 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The Bible warns EXTENSIVELY about false prophets and false teaching because God knew full well what the future held. He knew there would come a day like today, where Christianity is under attack but you can't say a word about Islam; even to warn those who might be seduced by its poetry and overlook its inherent evil. Islam is not alone in its false teaching, but it is unparalleled in its murderous history.
Buddhism is no less destructive to the human soul, but Buddhists don't strap bombs to themselves and commit mass murder because Buddhism doesn't teach that killing for God is an immediate passage to Heaven. Buddhism teaches that all life is holy but it doesn't teach that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the only forgiveness for the sins of man.
In the teachings of man with his many religions we are offered many ways to address that part of our nature which hungers for a relationship with our Creator. However, the only true way to eternity with the Creator is in the teachings of the Creator Himself; the Holy Bible. We know that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son; that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."
Christ said "I am the way, the truth and the life. Nobody comes to the Father but by me." The greatest love we can show to those who are lost and doomed by false religions is to show them the truth of Jesus Christ. To withhold that truth; to pretend that the false religion will get them the Heaven; That makes us partially responsible for their destruction. We may as well be tossing anchors to the drowning.
This is my opinion. What say you?