Mulling over Daryl Stout to STEVE ASHER 14 Aug 2006

SA>Refreshing to see Lord Stevens stating the "bleedin' obvious".

 DS>   The enemies of Israel and the Lord Himself will have little
 DS> success when they scream "racial profiling and discrimination"
 DS> before Him. I've heard it said that "while it'll appear that Heaven
 DS> will seem to have an abscence of inhabitants (there will be many
 DS> there, don't get me wrong)...that hell will be bursting at the
 DS> seams".

 DS>   Jesus Himself said in Matthew that "wide is the gate and broad is
 DS> the way that leads to destruction, and many will find it. But,
 DS> straight is the gate and narrow the way that leads to eternal life,
 DS> and few will find it".

I guess that, while Heaven will be multi-racial, it won't be multicultural
in the way Earth has been shaped in the past few decades. One of Satan's
most effective strategies has been to portray various religions as being
equally effective in pleasing God ... the West's political leaders seem
to have "bought" that lie.

There is an interesting article in the print edition of Tuesday's
"Advertiser" by Irfan Yusuf, a Sydney lawyer of Indian Muslim background.

He describes the process of "conversion" to Islam ... just recite a 
two-sentence Arabic creed (which he doesn't state, but I think we have
an idea of). Further, he says that Muslim converts often prefer to be
known as "reverts", as Muslims do not believe in inherited or original
sin. "Babies are born naturally sinless," so "converts claim that they
have merely reverted to that original sinlessness".

I will search for this "reversion" concept shortly, as it is the first
I've heard of it (consciously, at least). Obviously, it is of no effect
for salvation.

Cheers, Steve..

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