Boko Hiram has committed atrocities that were not published in main stream media reports
I've read many reports about that nasty set and what they get up to.
However, now I come to check, most of the reports come from local news outlets, much less in the western press.
Would you agree that attacks against Muslims gets little attention in the western media?
Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims - BBC News
I think I would have to because I never heard that Buddhist monks were attacking Muslims, Indo. I will tell you where I heard about Hindus attacking Muslims and Christians though. I heard about it in a newsletter I received from Jack Chick recently. Had it not been for him sending me that newsletter I would not have had any idea. In fact, it is so bad in India now that they have a Hindu president who is encouraging these attacks on Hindus and Muslims! Can you imagine that? A Hindu president that is encouraging attacks on Muslims and Christians. Anti-conversion laws are being passed in many areas of India at this writing and so the window is closing for Jack Chick tracts to be distributed in that region of the world. The door is being closed in India to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and therein we are seeing the possible end to widespread evangelism in the largest population nation in the world. I believe India's population is greater than China's is. Right? I know Indonesia has a huge population to - over 200 million. I do not watch television news these days but I've not heard anyone I know mention these stories and I have not read anything about it on the Online News media sources which pretty much report the same stories Fox, CNN and the others report.
Jeri------Christian missionaries should leave INDIA alone------they disrupt the
culture there. You need not bother to ask indo about Christian missionaries
in INDONESIA-----they don't live long---but he will deny that fact. Muslims in India are very very very ardent proselytizers too. India is not a place for that
sort of thing------they got enough problems. I get my information from hindu
friends----LONG AGO-----during my college years-------the proselytizing thing messes up families------besides---lots of what are supposed to be Christians
end up in crime ridden slums---or as immigrants to the USA---where they tend to
give up Christianity-----at least some I have encountered hanging around hindus. Then they got a little social stigma------it is all a mess for that culture-------
Rosie, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is what brings liberty to those who are bound by demons ( India is a demonically possessed culture due to their many false gods), by poverty (the curse of poverty is on them because of the sin of idolatry - see Deuteronomy Chapter 27) to give sight to the blind (literally many have been prayed for and received their sight - both physically and spiritually) and to proclaim the Good news that God came in the flesh to offer them redemption - the free gift of salvation which no man can earn. It is a proven fact that where the bible has free liberty the nation flourishes and where the bible is banned misery abounds - look at North Korea or Iran for an example.
Now the Gospel of Jesus Christ which offers salvation to the world would not have been possible had it not been for the Jewish people and their rejection of the offer of salvation through Christ. It was God's plan that the Jews would not see Jesus was the Messiah (most Jews) at that specific time because through their blindness God was able to open the door to the entire world offering all who received Jesus Christ as Messiah to become God's children. Before Christ - God had only one people that he called his children - the Jews. After Jesus Christ went to the cross the door was swung wide open to offer all who would come to God through faith in Jesus Christ and that offer is open to the people of India too!
As the holy Scriptures declare:
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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So this is the Gospel Message and how all must enter into the kingdom of heaven. It is not by keeping laws, rituals, eating off of separate plates, keeping of holy days, but rather by allowing Jesus Christ to purify our hearts through our faith in Him and what He did at the cross we can keep the commandments of God and keep ourselves. Without the Jesus Christ and faith in him (but rather in ourselves by own works and efforts) we will never have a faith that is pleasing unto God and certainly not one that will give us salvation. Salvation is to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ and no other way. When Jesus Christ took the keys to hell and the grave he preached the Good news to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets who had eagerly awaited the promise of the Messiah and they believed upon him - Paradise was emptied when Christ ascended unto heaven - because heaven was opened and therein those who had awaited the promise (as it is written in Hebrews Chapter 11) then finally obtained it - they could not obtain it without us - meaning that first the Messiah had to come to earth and preach the Gospel and open heaven's gates to all who believed. Clearly the rich man in Hell could see Abraham and Lazarus who lay in the bosom of Abraham and begged for a drop of water - but today Paradise is no longer because heaven has been opened and all those who believed including the thief on the cross who asked Jesus to remember him (Jesus said, verily, verily you will be in Paradise with me today - because that was precisely where Jesus Christ was headed first!) and so we see that all who call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved and when Israel says - Blessed is he would comes in the name of the LORD - all Israel shall be saved. Although we know by Scripture that many who had the offer of redemption shall refuse it and therefore those ones (even as the religious Pharisees rejected Jesus Christ) shall not enter in. It is a picture of the promised land, Rosie. Because of their unbelief they could not enter in.
Whosoever calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved includes the people of India. They have a right to hear the Gospel as does the entire world. It must be preached - even if it is against the law - even if the threat of death hangs over head. It must be preached throughout the earth.
