Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Someone sent me this article, you will have to look it up yourself. It compares Christians to the Jihadists as a result of the final installation of the Left Behind Series.
Jesus And Jihad
By Nicholas D. Kristof
19 July, 2004
New York Times
The following is my response:
This is another example of the media entirely missing the point. Wherever you are on eschatological beliefs continuum, The basic point of the whole thing is that Jesus gives every possible chance for people to come to Him. He is both ultimately fair and ultimately loving. He has an unchanging standard. The tribulation should be seen as nothing more than Jesus turning up the heat and giving people every possible opportunity to turn to him. By the time it gets to this point, all other options have been exhausted. People such as this writer have such a tough time with a God who has an absolute standard. I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. Think about that standard for a moment. Jesus says I am the only way, pluralists hate that, but frankly, it doesn't matter what pluralists hate. God is God. He gets to set the standard. By hating this standard, they miss one thing that they really need to know. When all things are said and done, Jesus made the requirement for salvation easy enough that anyone can do it, because He paid the price. Compare this to the Jihadists. Their god would ask that you give your son for him, our God gave His Son for you. Their "faith" requires suicide bombers, our God asks for living sacrifices. When it gets right down to it, that is the key. Our society is all about me and the idea of sacrificing self is a foreign concept.
Am I a Jihadist? absolutely not. Jihadists take it into their own hands to kill the "infidels," Christians pray for the "infidels," reachout to the "infidels," love the "infidels" and try to share the truth that will set the "infidels" free. (or at least that's what we're supposed to do).
Jesus told us men would hate us and this piece is the type of propoganda that we will see more and more of in the last days. Remember how Hitler started. Propoganda dehumanizing the Jews until many Germans thought nothing of killing them. Now the New York Times is comparing Christians to the people who flew the planes into the twin towers. Yes I know he says he's not saying we would do that, and yet these are the very people that He compares us to. The body of Christ has got to unite and get to work. I fear it gets tougher from here.
Jesus And Jihad
By Nicholas D. Kristof
19 July, 2004
New York Times
The following is my response:
This is another example of the media entirely missing the point. Wherever you are on eschatological beliefs continuum, The basic point of the whole thing is that Jesus gives every possible chance for people to come to Him. He is both ultimately fair and ultimately loving. He has an unchanging standard. The tribulation should be seen as nothing more than Jesus turning up the heat and giving people every possible opportunity to turn to him. By the time it gets to this point, all other options have been exhausted. People such as this writer have such a tough time with a God who has an absolute standard. I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. Think about that standard for a moment. Jesus says I am the only way, pluralists hate that, but frankly, it doesn't matter what pluralists hate. God is God. He gets to set the standard. By hating this standard, they miss one thing that they really need to know. When all things are said and done, Jesus made the requirement for salvation easy enough that anyone can do it, because He paid the price. Compare this to the Jihadists. Their god would ask that you give your son for him, our God gave His Son for you. Their "faith" requires suicide bombers, our God asks for living sacrifices. When it gets right down to it, that is the key. Our society is all about me and the idea of sacrificing self is a foreign concept.
Am I a Jihadist? absolutely not. Jihadists take it into their own hands to kill the "infidels," Christians pray for the "infidels," reachout to the "infidels," love the "infidels" and try to share the truth that will set the "infidels" free. (or at least that's what we're supposed to do).
Jesus told us men would hate us and this piece is the type of propoganda that we will see more and more of in the last days. Remember how Hitler started. Propoganda dehumanizing the Jews until many Germans thought nothing of killing them. Now the New York Times is comparing Christians to the people who flew the planes into the twin towers. Yes I know he says he's not saying we would do that, and yet these are the very people that He compares us to. The body of Christ has got to unite and get to work. I fear it gets tougher from here.
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