Moslem Tolerance
Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Religious Leaders.
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It does exist, and it is growing:
Bahrain will donate a plot of land to build a new Catholic church in the country. The decision by King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa comes in response to a request Pope Benedict XVI made to the Gulf State when its new ambassador presented its credentials last 18 December.
“Everyone is aware today that because of the rising number of Catholics, it would be desirable for them to have more places of worship,” the Pope said during the audience with Naser Muhamed Youssef Al-Belooshi, first representative of the Arab kingdom to the Vatican.
About 80 per cent of the 800,000 people living in the country are Muslim (60 per cent Sunni and 20 per cent Shia). Catholics represent about 10 per cent, mostly foreign workers from Asian nations.
Bahrain became the first country in the Persian Gulf to build a Catholic church, the Sacred Heart Church, which will celebrate its 70th anniversary this year, since it was inaugurated with a Christmas Midnight Mass in 1939.
Relations between the Holy See and the Gulf kingdom saw significant progress in 2008. Not only did the Vatican receive the first ambassador from Bahrain, but King Hamad met Pope Benedict XVI as well. After the meeting on 9 July the sovereign issued an official communiqué inviting the Holy Father to visit the country.
Over the past year, we’ve had as our associate pastor a foreign priest who has spent time in the Gulf Region and it was he who first brought to my attention the tacit approval given to Christian worship in some of the Gulf States – the Gulf States have imported a great deal of labor and, as it turns out, a lot of it hails from Catholic areas of Asia. Meanwhile, Evangelicals have also been busy and have, indeed, gained converts in the Islamic world. Boiled down, the concept of the Arabian penninsula being entirely Moslem is rapidly collapsing in the face of the demographic facts of Christian immigration. And for these Moslem nations, its either become tolerant or lose their labor force. Most are turning towards toleration – and there is even some discussion about opening a Catholic Church in Saudi Arabia, something which would have been entirely unthinkable even just a few years ago.
A good deal of this progress is resultant upon the quiet diplomacy of the Holy See – patience and tact do go a long ways. But, additionally, there are also the winds of change blowing…including those winds brought forth by the US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The times, they are a-changing, and wise Moslems know they have to bend a bit with the wind, or break. The Islamo-fascists, of course, refuse to bend – but they are more and more being marginalized as Islam begins to develope hope for a better tomorrow, and becomes ever more familiar with the inhuman and, indeed, un-Islamic savagery of the Islamo-fascists.
There should be no turning back from this, and only the most cowardly surrender on the part of the United States can undo the good work well begun.
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60 Responses to “Moslem Tolerance”
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The promise to Abraham remains intact, but his heirs are now all who accept Christ.
I agree.
God said He would make Abraham the father of many nations … that his descendants would be as the sands of the sea … and that’s what He was talking about … was through Abraham’s faith. If we are born-again through faith in Christ’s blood shed at Calvary … We are one with Abraham, not through the man Abraham himself, but through Jesus!
The people of Israel were God’s chosen people at one time, but many have slipped away from the faith. The chosen Israel was pertaining to the people and not the land, because as Jesus has said, “My kingdom is not of this world.”
In all of this, however, I would want to preserve the birth place of our Lord … I wouldn’t want to see it destroyed by a bunch of Pagans.
Armageddon becomes a matter for biblical scholarship
And as for “Armageddon” …. we are in it. Armageddon is a spiritual battle, not withstanding the other signs that would come at the end of the ages, such as the many wars and such … but overall it is a spiritual battle.
A few facts should help you out….
“Literally, Armageddon is the name of an ancient battlefield at the foot of Mount Megiddo in Palestine. Here the Jews fought numerous battles. On this site Saul took his life; here Deborah and Barak sang a song of victory; and it marks the place where Sisera and his great armies were defeated. The Plain of Armageddon is only twenty miles wide and about forty-give miles long. INdeed, the whole country of Palestine is very small–approximately 9,000 square miles, about one-fourth the size of the state of Indiana. It is utterly preposterous to conceive of Christians fighting a literal battle in this small area when the battle of Armageddon is to be the greatest, largest, and final battle of the church. Remembering that the Old Testament gave literal pictures which serve as shadows of spiritual fulfillment in the New Testament church, let us discover an Old Testament story which symbolizes today’s Armageddon. In the year of 164 B.C., the Grecian Empire endeavored to force the entire known world to become Hellenistic. Judas Maccabee, the Hammer, was a leader of Jewish priests who defended the Jewish religion. At Armageddon this small number of Jewish priests fought Lysias, general of Antiochus Epiphanes and his mighty army. It wqas a battle of horror and much bloodshed. Gog and Magog, referred to in Ezekiel, chapter 39, were enemies of the Jews who joined the forces of destruction against Jerusalem. But God was with his people, the Jews, and even though they were small in number they won the victory. The Grecian enemy was defeated and the Jewish kingdom was restored to a glory almost comparable to Solomon’s splendor. This was known as the Asmonean dynasty. With the understanding of this literal battle as a type, it is not difficult to comprehend the spiritual anti-type. In the Revelation, chapters 15 and 16, John tells of seven vials of wrath being poured out upon the earth. Five of these plagues have already passed as judgments of God, and today we are encountering the sixth. In John’s vision he beholds the vial of wrath being poured out upon the river, Euphrates. Literally this river flowed through the center of ancient Babylon. When Babylon, the mighty empire, was destroyed, the enemy gained entrance inside the city by diverting the course of the river and marching in on the riverbed. The vial John speaks of as being poured out on the Euphrates is indicative of God’s wrath being poured out on spiritual Babylon preceding her final destruction. John says, “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beasts, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon” (Rev. 16:13-16). It is evident that a spiritual battle is here indicated, since the foe is likened unto three unclean spirits–slippery, slimy and sly–like frogs. These evil spirits encounter the whole world; the arena encompasses the globe. It is significant that the church was born on a battlefield; her warfare has filled the pages of history in every generation, and she is seen at the end of time entrenched in her most vicious battle–Armageddon! Three great wars have been fought–and won by true Christianity. The first was a struggle with the dragon of paganism; the second was with the beast of papalism; the third was an encounter with the evils of the false prophets of Protestantism. The final conflict, the church is faced with all three as a trinity of evil. Satan has combined his forces in the final attempt to destroy the church.”
One of the main figures I believe is Scientology, that held by atheists, disbelief being our main enemy!
We are in the last gasp, I do believe!
Armageddon… you are the shame of the GOP, my friend.
Armageddon… you are the shame of the GOP, my friend.
mule,
You are winning the physical battle, that’s for a fact. But you will by no means win the spiritual battle.
Suffering and misery mark your every step.
How miserable must it be to be outside in a sandwhich board, screaming to passersby about how the end is nigh?
How miserable must it be to be outside in a sandwhich board, screaming to passersby about how the end is nigh?
Souls are perishing, friend, to be lost for eternity.
How long is eternity?
Imagine all the rock, stone and granite in the world being heaped into one colossal mountain at once. It is said that God could send a tiny sparrow from heaven once every 100 years to sharpen its beak upon these rocks. When all the mountain was worn away from visits of the tiny bird, eternity will have only begun!
You will spend it in one of two places … in heaven with Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John … Paul, St. Peter, possible loved ones who knew Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and Oh yes, millions of little baby angels :) straight from their mothers womb into the arms of Jesus! Joy unspeakable!
Or, you will spend it in hell, where sin takes you…
There. Is. No. Hell. There can not be a hell, for Jesus loves too damn much for there to be a hell. After all, only true evil deserves a punishment as terrible and as intolerable as hell, and true evil lies only in the Devil. By the way, by the standards you set, only a few pepole would ever be in heaven. And don’t give me the crap about how good we used to be, because it never was that good. In fact, we’re probably a better people now than at any other time in our history.
mule,
Yes, there is a hell. And it’s because of God’s perfect love that there is such a place.
Why would God choose to make those who strive to do His will suffer for others who dwell in sinful nature?
If there was no hell, then there would have been no reason for Jesus Christ to buy our pardon!
50. dennis Post 32: “i just believe that siljander was never really a true christian…because he could not forsake Jesus for mohammed…if he ever knew Jesus… its not even close to a fair trade…not even close…”
Js, where did you hear that Siljander forsook Christianity to be a Muslim?
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silly boy, your comprehension is dwarfed because of your bias against the truth…you dont have any idea what i said or what i mean…its a problem with being a legend in your own mind…a high mindedness that distinctly screams of selfish egotistical grandiose…
any man who would consent that the koran is scripture and that allah and YHWH are one and the same could never have known YHWH to start with…there is no consolation and no second place…the truth has always be that way…
its pretty dangerous to tell folks how God thinks and that His Covenant is bogus Dennis-stooge…the Bible teaches us that though we are grafted into the tree…we can also be removed from it…it does warn you about that…and the covenant God made with David…never ends…God guarantees that the seed of David will exist forever…”My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.” (Psalms 89:34-37)…so no matter how sinful the seed of David becomes…the covenant will never break…God, who knows what will happen to us since before time began…does not need to mislead us…”for ever” is eternity…