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Excerpt from an excellent editorial:
**Message of the Pope’s Baptism of Prominent Muslim: Be Not Afraid to Acknowledge Christianity as The Truth - **Wouldn’t it be obvious that true Christians would want all people to know the truth? Not to the relativist Christians
(An editorial by John-Henry Westen at LifeSiteNews.com)
…The most important part of Allam’s Easter Sunday message, however, was the portion where he pointed out that the Pope made a “historical gesture” in personally baptizing him in a public event that would be televised worldwide. “His Holiness has sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too prudent in the conversion of Muslims, abstaining from proselytizing in majority Muslim countries and keeping quiet about the reality of converts in Christian countries,” he said.
Allam surmised that the Church was acting thus, “out of fear. The fear of not being able to protect converts in the face of their being condemned to death for apostasy and fear of reprisals against Christians living in Islamic countries.”
While true in many cases, that fear is used as an impetus for a relativistic attitude which has been creeping into Christianity for decades. The approach sees Christianity not as the one and only truth, but one truth among many. The phenomenon also expresses itself in dealing with the various denominations within Christianity. Thus invitations to convert to Christianity - or from one denomination to another - are quietly tolerated at best, and at times openly criticized, even by those who call themselves Christian…
Full article can be read here: lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032509.html
Peace in Christ,
DustinsDad
**Message of the Pope’s Baptism of Prominent Muslim: Be Not Afraid to Acknowledge Christianity as The Truth - **Wouldn’t it be obvious that true Christians would want all people to know the truth? Not to the relativist Christians
(An editorial by John-Henry Westen at LifeSiteNews.com)
…The most important part of Allam’s Easter Sunday message, however, was the portion where he pointed out that the Pope made a “historical gesture” in personally baptizing him in a public event that would be televised worldwide. “His Holiness has sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too prudent in the conversion of Muslims, abstaining from proselytizing in majority Muslim countries and keeping quiet about the reality of converts in Christian countries,” he said.
Allam surmised that the Church was acting thus, “out of fear. The fear of not being able to protect converts in the face of their being condemned to death for apostasy and fear of reprisals against Christians living in Islamic countries.”
While true in many cases, that fear is used as an impetus for a relativistic attitude which has been creeping into Christianity for decades. The approach sees Christianity not as the one and only truth, but one truth among many. The phenomenon also expresses itself in dealing with the various denominations within Christianity. Thus invitations to convert to Christianity - or from one denomination to another - are quietly tolerated at best, and at times openly criticized, even by those who call themselves Christian…
Full article can be read here: lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032509.html
Peace in Christ,
DustinsDad