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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (24459)	8/23/2001 9:19:18 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

While I couldn't agree with you more on the point of proselytizing being mutually exclusive of helping people, millions of Christians, evangelical and otherwise, would see it differently, and they make up a great deal of the personnel in relief efforts.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (24459)	8/24/2001 1:44:40 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"It pays to remember that when missionaries preach, they are not helping anything but their own egos. Most Afghans already have a religion; they find it quite adequate and they do not need another one. Adequate, for what? The reason Christians share their faith in the first place is because they see all attempts to reach God from Man's perspective, by religious duty, or observance, as inadequate before a holy God. If today is all there is then any system might be seen as adequate, but If God exists, then he sets the rules by which He can be approached. Our supposed good deeds are as puny as the tower of Babel in God's eyes. He has reached down and provided one way for us to be reconciled to Him, that is through the mediation of the God/Man Jesus Christ. Christians have an eternal perspective that does not register with you because you are spiritually blind. God is the initiator of spiritual sight, we are simply told to Let our light shine (in word as well as deed) and leave the rest up to Him. That is what real missionary work is about. I don't see any room to compromise on that. If you truly believed that someone you knew was in danger of eternal damnation would you compromise? I didn't think so. You strike me as far too principled to do that.