They said he's Insane? That's the pot calling the kettle black.
After a really busy couple of days, I've finally been able to sit and read more about the situation regarding the Christian convert from Islam being released in Afghanistan. On the one hand, it's great that such an action like the murder of an innocent man was not carried out. That someone would want to kill another person because of their beliefs is foreign to me. I am a Christian (yes, an "infadel") and, though there were similar injustices carried out in the name of Christ in the past (as during the Crusades), we recognize that to have been completely contrary to Christ's teaching, carried out by men who had no real concept of what the Christian faith was all about. It was, and is, antithetical to Christianity. It is wrong. However, when Muslim clerics call for the death of this convert, they are actually being obedient to their religion's teaching. The "infadel" (non-Muslim) is supposed to be destroyed.
That someone would be called on to die for their faith (not as a mass-murderer, but as a martyr) is not foreign to me. Christ said that "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 16:25) He warned His followers that to follow Him very well might lead to their own deaths. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been called on to lay down their lives for the sake of Christ and they have willingly done so. There are accounts of Christians fearlessly dying in Roman arenas full of lions, actually defying the killer beasts, calling attention to themselves. This was not because they had a death-wish, but because they counted it an honor to lay down their lives for their Lord who had lain down His life for them.
The fact that Abdul Rahman was put in the position of possibly dying for his faith is historically not uncommon. He would never, however, be called on to lay down his life in order to kill as many people as possible. He would more likely be called on to lay down his life for the very ones that were out for his blood. That is what I don't understand about this: On the one hand, you have men flying planes into buildings killing thousands. You have people blowing themselves up on buses and in large crowds, and you have others calling for the murder of all people who do no believe as they do. On the other hand, you have one man who quietly turns from Islam and begins to believe in and worship Jesus the Christ, bothering no one for sixteen years, and they have the nerve to call him insane.
There's just something not right about this picture.
Related: Rahman must now seek asylum to stay alive.
That someone would be called on to die for their faith (not as a mass-murderer, but as a martyr) is not foreign to me. Christ said that "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 16:25) He warned His followers that to follow Him very well might lead to their own deaths. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been called on to lay down their lives for the sake of Christ and they have willingly done so. There are accounts of Christians fearlessly dying in Roman arenas full of lions, actually defying the killer beasts, calling attention to themselves. This was not because they had a death-wish, but because they counted it an honor to lay down their lives for their Lord who had lain down His life for them.
The fact that Abdul Rahman was put in the position of possibly dying for his faith is historically not uncommon. He would never, however, be called on to lay down his life in order to kill as many people as possible. He would more likely be called on to lay down his life for the very ones that were out for his blood. That is what I don't understand about this: On the one hand, you have men flying planes into buildings killing thousands. You have people blowing themselves up on buses and in large crowds, and you have others calling for the murder of all people who do no believe as they do. On the other hand, you have one man who quietly turns from Islam and begins to believe in and worship Jesus the Christ, bothering no one for sixteen years, and they have the nerve to call him insane.
There's just something not right about this picture.
Related: Rahman must now seek asylum to stay alive.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 3/27/2006 09:55:00 PM
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