Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: garyh@crash.cts.com (Gary Hipp) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christians abetting Satan? (Was: gulf crisis, spiritual help...) Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 00:58:38 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [In the context of a discussion about praying with non-Christians, David Hatcher indicated a concern about divisions created by Christianity: > What I am pointing towards is the separation with in and between > families and friends that is created because of the "Enemy of Christ" > feeling that certain Christians hold towards folks who follow > spiritual traditions that are other than Christian.... > Now I do not feel that Christ likes the type of thinking that > has a way of creating separation. I've seen a number of family > ties broken up because of this over riding feeling. --clh] "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sistes, yes, and even his own life, he cannot by my disciple." -Luke 14:26 The idea behind the verse is not hating one's family members, but the priority Jesus expect in the life of the Christian. Nothing is to be held in higher regard than one's relationship to Him as Lord. Sometimes this creates separation, even among family members, when one follows Christ and another follows self. A house divided against itself will not stand. --Gary Hipp