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My
third comment: All the
Christians of the world cannot deny the incessant fact that tens of thousands of
them monthly abandon the belief of crucifixion and trinity to adopt Islam
instead.
please do provide details of these thousands of conversions.
I
personally know of two Muslims who were baptised into
the christian faith within the last six months. I have read of many more such
conversions. in the book I Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis
Sheik the conversion of several Muslims are powerfuly documented, as is the
persecution which they undergo at the hands of other Muslims as a result.
My
Fourth comment: we were not allowed to forward any question or inquiry to
the bishops and priests about any of such ambiguous concepts. Thus, if one of us
was insolent enough with the minister of the
church and dared to ask him some of these banned
questions... No true priest or minister of
Christianity is allowed to forbid the asking of a genuine question about the
faith. This an attidude and choice of words which are more often assosiated with
Islam. No priest or minister would see the asking of questions as "insolent"
unless it was asked in a deliberatly insolent or provocative manner. Even then
all of the ministers who I have met (these number more than twenty, including my
father) would try to! answer the question as best as they could. I can only
understand that the people who provided the quote you used had talked to the
very rare Christian minister who doesn't have a true faith and who does not
understand the doctrine of our faith. Ministers such as this are the exception,
not the majority. Christianity does not have any "banned" questions, the idea is
ludicrous.
otherwise he would lose the privilege of forgiveness offered
by the God the Father to all sinful human,” Bible
says that the only sin which cannot be forgiven is Blasphemy (unbelief) against
the Holy Spirit (see the Gospel of Mark). It also says that anyone who believes
in his heart and confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord will be saved. Men,
even people high in the Church heirarchy, do NOT have authority to say who and
who will not be saved. That is and always has been a matter to be decided
between God and the believer. There is no act, apart from the one mentioned
above, that will remove a Christian believer from the salvation which we have
through Jesus. This is what the Bible says.
I'm sorry, this has become a longer e-mail than I intended. Please understand
that I simply wished to remove some of the misconceptions that you have about my
faith. Thank you for posting your booklet on the internet, it is good to provoke
discussion between followers of different world faiths. I won't sign my name to
this e-mail because I and my family have been persecuted by Muslims in the past
and I don't want to make us vulnerable to that again. I'm sorry if this seems
rude.
God Bless you.
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