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Originally Posted by M21Sniper
That's in judiasm.
Muslims(and born again Xtians) both seem to have a BIG problem with "live and let live".
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Actually, the VAST majority of us BAC's
are live&let-live types. The virtually exclusive thrust of evangelization is to
persuade non-believers and to live a righteous life as an example, and to not bring shame upon our Lord Jesus. There is NO recourse in Christianity to coercive conversion, there hasn't been for centuries. Yes, there was a lot of that during the dark ages & even into the enlightenment, but look at each example and you find somebody after gold or power and just using God as a cover. Don't judge us by the televangelists; they're almost all charlatans who wouldn't recognize Jesus if he booted them in the rump. (Toned it down a bit there...)
BAC's are
specifically told in the New Testament that we
are not better than non-believers because
we did nothing to deserve salvation! It is a free gift from God out of his love and grace.
"For by GRACE are you saved, by faith-and this is not of yourselves (the faith), it is a gift of God, not of works, so that no man can boast." Ephesians 2:8