At 01:40 PM 10/4/02 -0600 Marc A. Schindler favored us with: >Right, but Bill was relating how he feels. We're not as comfortable with Moslems as >we are with other Christians, even those Christians with whom we share little in >common (in some cases, there are groups, like Ismailis, with whom we might have more >in common than we would with other Christians, imo, ironically).
I am just as comfortable with Moslems and Buddhists as I am with traditional Christians, perhaps more so. Moslems and Buddhists have a much better excuse for their ignorance. Traditional Christians are sinning against a much greater light when they reject the servants of God, our missionaries. It is not a coincidence that nearly all foaming-at-mouth anti-Mormons are so-called Christians. It was primarily these other Christian denominations that the Lord had reference to when he told Joseph that their creeds were an abomination and all their professors corrupt. Of course, I am aware that this attitude is no longer politically correct in the Church. But it is the attitude that I share with such men as Smith, Young, Talmage, and McConkie. So I feel that I am in good company. I won't forget what falsehood this gospel has freed me from. My own mother wouldn't join me in the gospel because her Baptist friends persuaded her that she had lost me to a cult. She threw the missionaries out of her home half way through the first missionary discussion, a discussion the she had agreed to only because I was her son. I have more hope for the alcoholics and drug addicts in this world than I do for my mother. How many people actually get a chance to throw Mormon missionaries out of their home? The Lord will judge her, not I. But he has made clear who is saved in the Kingdom of God, and who is damned. And it all hinges on believing Christ and his missionaries. If we believe in Christ and accept his one true baptism, then we are saved in the Kingdom of God. And if we don't, we aren't. It is actually pretty cut and dried, black and white. John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************* For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. (Ephesians 6:12) ********************************************************************* "All my opinions are tentative pending further data." --JWR ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
