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Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: On the subject of preaching
Article-I.D.: floyd.1329
Posted: Mon Mar 21 23:01:13 1983
Received: Tue Mar 29 17:49:14 1983

Christians have been accused of preaching and evangelizing on the net.  Part
of the reason being that people equate preaching with quoting from the Bible.
I myself like to back my foolishness up with scripture and see no reason to
change.  Quoting from scripture to me is like giving relevant reverences in
an engineering journal.  The last thing I would do is to plagiarize the Bible.

The same people that accuse Christians of preaching are themselves preaching
if you want to be *technical* about it.  You are preaching against Jesus
Christ, you are preaching godlessness, you are preaching confusion (so called
open-mindness), you are preaching against freedom of speech, and you are trying to pick up followers.

So, from now on, let us not accuse each other of preaching and simply exchange
opinions on the net.  There is no reason for us to see eye to eye on every
issue.  After all, what I think or you think matters very little as we all
die like men before us.  It is God that justifies.

Though the Christian belief has no respect for other religions (One of God's
names is I AM, meaning that all others are not), my knowledge in Christ helps
me respect each person as an individual.  I once also was a non-believer.

P.S.  I admire the person that has the wisdom of being fluent in 8 languages.
I hope that you would seek the Bible on the subject of wisdom.  Here are
two starters.

	1 Corinthians 1:25
		For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom,
		and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
	1 Corinthians 8:2-3
		The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know
		as he ought to know.  But the man who loves God is known
		by God.
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