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In Contentious Religious Freedom Debate, Congressman Insists It’s ‘Too Far’ For Christians To Call Jesus ‘The Only Way’
Harbingers Daily ^ | 8/18/23 | David Closson

Posted on 08/20/2023 5:07:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Tuesday night, a contentious debate over religious freedom broke out on Twitter between a Republican congressman and a former Trump campaign staffer. To make matters even more interesting, a Democratic congresswoman joined the fray, offering a strong defense of America’s First Freedom. Although the congressman eventually apologized for his comments, the debate shed light on how the nature of religious freedom can be misunderstood.

It all started when Lizzie Marbach, the director of Communications for Ohio Right to Life and a former Trump campaign official, tweeted the following via her personal Twitter account: “There’s no hope for any of us outside of having faith in Jesus Christ alone.” Thirty minutes later, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) responded to Marbach, writing, “God says the Jewish people are the chosen ones, but yet you say we have no hope. Thanks for your pearl of wisdom today.” Miller went on to retweet Marbach’s original post, adding, “This is one of the most bigoted tweets I have ever seen. Delete it, Lizzie. Religious freedom in the United States applies to every religion. You have gone too far.”

Marbach responded to Miller, explaining, “Sorry, Congressman, but these are the words of Jesus himself.” After quoting John 14:6, Marbach paraphrased Philippians 2:10-11 stating, “No one has hope outside of Jesus Christ and every knee will bow one day declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord.” Marbach then wrote, “Even when a sitting Congressman tries to get us to deny the truth of the gospel, we can’t. We must obey God rather than man.” She quoted Romans 1:16, in which Paul says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: beliefs; christianity; jesus; marbach; miller; omardefense; onlyway; rinopoliticians
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Actually, He is the Only Way...

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

and...

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

and...

John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

and...

All of Matthew 21

and...

Isaiah 8:14 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

1 posted on 08/20/2023 5:07:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Sorry, Congressman, YESHUA is the King of America, that is the way it is.


2 posted on 08/20/2023 5:10:03 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: cowboyusa

And that is very true!


3 posted on 08/20/2023 5:11:49 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Amen 🙏🏻!


4 posted on 08/20/2023 5:11:58 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

MANY Jews are coming to YESHUA Everyday. PTL! Romans 11: 15!


5 posted on 08/20/2023 5:13:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Wonder if Miller has a problem with the Muslims and their only way.


6 posted on 08/20/2023 5:13:33 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I had to stop and read it again - Ilhan Omar stood up for Christian freedom religion and expression?

Just damn!


7 posted on 08/20/2023 5:17:08 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: cowboyusa

I know brother and that is wonderful news to hear.

To know that His Children, His Nation are waking up and realizing their Messiah has come!

Amazing times we’re living in - Praise Yeshua!


8 posted on 08/20/2023 5:17:21 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Chainmail

That is a very good point and thank you for pointing that out.

Omar might be an “enemy” so to speak politically, but we are to love and pray for our enemies. Not many Christians do this.

Can you imagine what might happen if 100,000 Christians prayed for Ilhan Omar and God intervened in her life because of this?


9 posted on 08/20/2023 5:19:45 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Chainmail
I had to stop and read it again - Ilhan Omar stood up for Christian freedom religion and expression? Just damn!

Only because she saw it as an opportunity to engage in a little Jew-bashing. Not that he didn't deserve the bashing. So it's all good, by my lights.

10 posted on 08/20/2023 5:20:51 PM PDT by DSH
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To: Chainmail
Omar only came to Marbach’s defense because Miller helped get Omar kicked off the Foreign Affairs Committee. That's the only reason Omar got involved here.
11 posted on 08/20/2023 5:22:30 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: cowboyusa
MANY Jews are coming to YESHUA Everyday. PTL! Romans 11: 15!

Another messyonic LIE. That's all your patter is, a bunch of lies, misquotes, and deliberate omissions. Put it out by the curb, tomorrow is trash day.

12 posted on 08/20/2023 5:24:56 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

God does not break his promises, which makes his promises in the Old Testament to the Jewish people valid for all time. Jesus is the way of salvation in the New testament, valid for both Jews and Gentiles.


13 posted on 08/20/2023 5:26:26 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: EinNYC

They are. Just because YOU do not care to believe Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah is another issue.


14 posted on 08/20/2023 5:27:13 PM PDT by madison10
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To: EinNYC
I knew you would be here. If you hate Messianic Judaism, then you hate John, Paul, Peter and the rest of the Apostles. Don't hide behind us, we practice the same faith that they did. Just come out with it.
15 posted on 08/20/2023 5:27:49 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: All

Jesus Christ is the only way.


16 posted on 08/20/2023 5:28:15 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Rockingham

Jesus is the promise of the Old Testament.


17 posted on 08/20/2023 5:33:41 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: MurphsLaw
Congressman Insists It’s ‘Too Far’ For Christians To Call Jesus ‘The Only Way’

This guy sounds like Frankenbishop Robert Barron.

18 posted on 08/20/2023 5:34:17 PM PDT by ebb tide (The pope ... said the church's “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.”)
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To: Rockingham

Amen!


19 posted on 08/20/2023 5:40:24 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: EinNYC

Hardly a lie.
I keep reading and hearing about more and more Jews finding their Messiah. This was always the plan.

Isaiah 53 (forbidden by you own conniving Rabbi’s)

Zechariah 12:10
“And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Hosea 5:15
I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will search for Me.

Psalm 2:12
Kiss the Son, that He not be angry and you perish on the way, For His wrath may be kindled quickly. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

Actually, just read all of Psalm 2. It’s about your Messiah. :)
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It is Jesus - Praise Him!
I am praying that you find Truth only in Him.


20 posted on 08/20/2023 5:46:27 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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