Posted on 10/17/2002 4:20:26 PM PDT by jstone78
Evangelical Group Says Jews Need Conversion
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — The World Evangelical Alliance is taking issue with an August report from U.S. Roman Catholic bishops that opposes efforts to target Jews for conversion.
The evangelical organization, an alliance of 120 national and regional church fellowships and 75 non-denominational ministries, has reaffirmed and reissued a declaration defending Jewish evangelism that was written in 1989 by 16 theologians from nine nations.
One of those theologians, the Rev. J.I. Packer, an Anglican teaching at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, endorsed the reaffirmation. "Sharing Jesus Christ with our Jewish friends is as important a task as ever it was," he said.
The 27-point statement decries anti-Semitism and confesses that Christian churches have "been much to blame for tolerating and encouraging it," but says this history doesn't remove the right to share Christianity with Jews.
The Catholic bishops said deepened appreciation of God's unbroken covenant with the Jewish people means "campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer acceptable in the Catholic Church."
But the evangelical paper defends such targeted evangelism and denies that Israel's covenant relationship by itself brings salvation or that "any person can enjoy God's favor apart from the mediation of Jesus Christ."
"Faith in Jesus Christ is humanity's only way to come to know the Creator," the paper asserts.
SAY HALELUJAH!
The Jews will always be the Chosen People.
And this is the compassionate God?
Do not use comments on this thread as a gauge of the compassionate God.
"My ways are not your ways." It would be wise for us to stop making God in our own image.
1 Peter 3:18-20
18. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
20. who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
These are the some of the scriptures that explain that when Jesus descended into hell, He preached the Gospel to the captives in "Abraham's bosom" (all those that died before Him) and when He ascended, He led those captives to Heaven.
According to Jesus, before He finished his sacrifice and resurrection on earth, Heaven was not a fit place for the Patriarchs or anyone.
But it is for all that belong to Him now.
Jesus Christ (meaning the Anointed One) or Yeshuah Messiah (also meaning the Anointed One in Hebrew) is THE way, THE truth and THE life. no one comes to the Father but by Him...to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
I'm sure that just about all of them that truly believe in what they're doing are probably the nicest people you could hope to meet.
I can't say that from personal experience though, since I kick the door shut on them.
Jews are accountable, just as I'm accountable.
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You are not taking into account the Almighty. He in His power can do whatever He wishes. He's doesn't answer to you or I. Thank God!
No, the main reasons anyone votes Democrat are guilt and stupidity....
Being jewish I love it, we don't proselytize. When asked about jesus, I always ask why don't you go try to get the millions of christians who never go to church? Hey take care your own people then try to save others. If your own people aren't buying it, and I am happy with what I am doing, then don't bother me.
Sorry, I flame away.
Takes a big man to threaten an Evangelical Christian. I bet you are even more menacing to the Girl Scouts who come to your door selling cookies....
Takes a big man who's an Evangelical Christian to threaten a Jewish Girl Scout with visions of Hell-fire and Brimstone.
The true Christian is obliged to share his faith. It's not a question of taking care of one group of people over another. It is our duty and privilege to share the message, to all, of salvation through Christ crucified.
That's our job, everyone's else's job is to choose to believe or not.
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