John says: Would God's tolerance of other religions , alla Ninevah
God did not TOLERATE Nineveh he laid it waste details in the Bible; Read it. Nahum 2:8,3:7
I think the interesting thing is God sends a preacher to one of Israels greatest enemies Asyria.
No wonder Jonah was not keen on the idea. Also interesting is that Nineveh is located in part of Mosul.
God commands all men EVERYWHERE to REPENT Acts 17:30
Here is the command Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Here is the response Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God
MT 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas
God rewards BELIEF Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Looks like the men of Nineveh pleased God by Believing
This belief produced outward fruit when they proclaimed a fast Jonah 3:5 &repenting in sackloth & ashes Jonah 3:6
Look at that, your answer was in the bible all along.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/13/2005 2:54:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I read you correctly, you're asking "Does God allow people to worship him differently than the Jewish?" And the answer ifs Yes. One of my professors sees the Jerusalem Council in Acts as permission to denominationalize.
There are other factors involved. Can one still be a believer and believe the Book of Mormon? I have read portions of the book of Mormon and from my Judaic background, it cannot be true. Does that mean why one who believes in the book is not saved? I dismiss the question. Otherwise, people who believe in UFOs, Evolution, or any other false thing cannot be saved either.
The problem arises in this way: As it is written, "How you mete out judgment is how you will be judged." The Mormon boys who came to visit my house on a Shabbat morning were greeted by a house full of Jewish men who were preparing for a study. During the course of our conversation, it became apparent that the Mormon Doctrine states that unless one takes on the yoke of the Book of Mormon and believes it to be the Third Testament, one cannot be saved. They [the Mormon boys] just put themselves into a precarious situation, because they will be judged by God in the way they meted judgment out to these particular Jewish men; [i.e., if they're wrong, they might not be saved]. As additional support, refer to the parable of the man who owe his King the equivalent to the National Debt, yet forced a companion into debtor's prison for a C-note.
I will say this, however. I appreciate the love Dave H has. His love far exceeds ANY one else. If there is one thing you can learn from this man, it is love. I have no desire whatsoever to join the Mormon Church and I know Dave H has no desire to become Messianic. Since we two are dogmatic, there are, then, other avenues to explore and discuss together.
-- slade
Same page on this one. If I were to preach that inwardness -- however defined --- has always been the primary concern of God when it comes to the "judgment" of man. We have K David telling us that sacrifice is one thing, a broken and contrite heart is quite another. Jere 31:31-34 tells us much about prophetic nature of the first covenant (if I have that right). We have God through Paul giving the Gentile in Romans 2 a chance at salvation (I understand an instinctive doing to have something to do with what society knows as benefitial and the Gentile, no doubt picking up on that "sinstinctively" acts.)
So, that is the sermon outline. Right or wrong. Would God's tolerance of other religions , alla Ninevah, in view of an instinctive doing be a viable conclusion drawn from Jonah's prophecy to those pagans?
John
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