In order to really respond to you, I would need to know something about the Muslim faith, which I don't. What I will say is that men and women of all nations should reject their cultural heritage and their cultural religion, including Christians. Christians who just go to church because their parents did it, believe in Jesus because their parents did it only believe in dogma. We should all, Christians included, reject the faith of our parents and search for the answers on our own. We need to ask ourselves the questions that really matter to get to the truth. There are many cultural Christians that believe in Jesus only because they grew up believing that; these types of Christians many times refuse to accept any other belief than what they were brought up believing; they think it has to be like that because it was instilled in them from a young age. Unfortunately, these type of close-minded individuals are unlikely to understand much truth in this life. The same would go for cultural Muslims or any other cultural religion. If they are not willing to reject the cultural religion of their childhood and search for their own answers, they will all be lost in delusion.

Blind faith can be a big problem. We should have blind faith in God in general, that is a good thing, but to have blind faith in any specific teaching of man, that is nothing but a stumbling block. If you have blind faith in the teachings of man, you can very easily be led astray, if you were every on the path in the first place. Faith in Christ is always a good thing, but if your faith has no substance, you are very unlikely to endure.

Hunter, I feel and understand your pain. I can't speak for Rainy, but personally, I suffered in my heart greatly when the U.S. killed millions of innocents in Iraq. I don't know if you and Rainy have debated this issue before, but there is nothing in Rainy's post that condemns Muslims in any way (unless maybe you have had other conversations where you have come to think that Rainy hates those of the Muslim religion). Of course we are supposed to love everyone and from what I have read, Rainy has never posted anything that contradicts this. I think that you are imposing experiences you have had from other self-proclaimed Christians that may have animosity toward Muslims. If any Christian hates anyone or any group of people, they are not a Christian.

I understand the anger that you feel, but more anger is only bringing more hate into the world. I hated George Bush and Dick Cheyney and others who are responsible for the genocide, and yes all those ignorant Americans who cheered them on. But how long do you want to hold onto that anger, how does it benefit yourself or humanity. People do terrible things all the time. The forces of evil are counting on hate breeding hate. Think about the chain of events:

Let's just take an example of a murderer. Say this murderer kills someone's child. The mother of the child is consumed with hate and anger (could anyone blame her for this reaction?) and the rest of her life she lives in bitterness and agony. She also ruins the lives of her other children because they are so affected by her hatred. Then those children have children and pass on the hatred to the next generation and when does it end? Now take the same example, but a different reaction, instead of living in hatred and anger, the mother chooses to forgive the murderer, is it possible for someone to do this? Yes, extremely difficult, but it happens. Then what happens? Love and forgiveness stops the force of evil in its tracks. Evil cannot defend itself when faced with pure love.

This is an extremely difficult task to love our enemy, and by enemy I don't mean the Taliban or any other terrorists. The enemy is all hatred and anger. Even that person on the road that beeps at you for no reason, will you reciprocate their anger and continue to pass it along, or instead let it be consumed by pure love.

Hunter, I am not trying to lecture at you with this post, all these words I am also writing to myself. This is my battle each and every day of my life to develop perfect love and to answer all hatred and evil with this perfect love.

Hunter posted on 12.20.19:
It is written:
Leviticus 19:18
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD."
So because people choose to be Muslims you do not see them as your neighbours and you tell me that I am playing devils advocate.
You then tell me:
"Playing the devil's advocate without identifying your posts as such can leave your readers very confused about what you actually believe."
Read my last post Rainy, it goes like this:
"The people whom I met at that time would not tell me that I was wrong in my faith as a Christian but only say how they as Muslims see it."
Are you blind as well as stupid or is it you hate Muslim
that much?
Have you actually spoke to a Muslim?
Do you condemn them for the "Twin Towers" when your country sends planes over their city to blow the population to pieces, which by the way contained women and children, happy Christmas Rainy.
You make me sick.
Now if you want a video of that what I say you can wait till hell freezes over for it's murder of the worst kind and I do not wish to post it, look into the mirror at yourSELF, DON'T PATRONIZE ME.
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rainy.5's reply 12.22.14

Hi Hunter,
Thank you for your honest reply. I have to be honest too and let you know that I was very shocked by it. I realize now that I have not been understanding you and your beliefs. What I thought you believed, it looks like you actually don't believe. I respect everybody's right to believe whatever they choose. Sometimes people cannot help what they believe because they have been brainwashed by different systems. Some people realize that their beliefs may be false and so they seek out truth wholeheartedly. I believe I am one who falls into that category called truth seekers.


I do agree with you as far as believing that people have a right to worship whatever god they choose in their own way as long as they are not hurting others. I do have exceptions. For example, I am not going to approve of people who sacrifice children to satan as they worship their god who is obviously satan.


I do not agree with you that Allah is the true god. Allah is a false god who cannot save. There are many false religions. None of their followers worship the true God. Even some in Christianity do not worship the true God. We have had many discussions on this and we have been warned repeatedly in the Bible of this and warned to stay away from ministers claiming to be real, but are really wolves whose purpose is to lead us astray.


I agree with you that there are many good Muslim people in the world today. I'm sure there are good people in all walks of life and in all religions whether false or not. All the videos about Muslims certainly do not reflect the character of all Muslims.


The reason I thought you may be playing the devil's advocate is because of some anti Christian posts from you. I thought you were pretending to take the opposite side of what you actually believe in order to create discussion and debate. This is what I understand a devil's advocate to be. I may not be understanding the term correctly. I know you are not trying to be an advocate for the devil.


This post of yours really seems to be an eye opener for your actual beliefs. Thirty-two days ago you posted a video titled "Real Proof that Jesus was NOT real" along with some other anti Christian videos. I only listened and replied to the one. I thought you posted them for discussion. I had no idea that you actually believe that Jesus is a myth. I apologize for being confused regarding your beliefs. Now I find out in this post that you think I am blind and stupid. I also found out that I make you sick. It was shocking for me to find out that we are not on the same page with Jesus and Christianity. I thought you gave your life to Christ. Maybe you did for a season and then fell away. I don't know what happened to you. It has been hard for me to put it together just from your posts.


You brought up a scripture about loving your neighbor as yourself. You believe that I do not love Muslims. You believe that I hate Muslims. True Christians love all people no matter if they are in a false religion or even in deep sin. God loves them too. It is because I love people that I try to share truth with them. That truth is Jesus, the real Jesus of the Bible and not another Jesus for which we have been warned of in the Bible. If I really hated Muslims I would not try to get this truth to them. I would try to keep them in deception because of my evil heart of hatred for them. This truth may hurt their feelings and their ears. If I hated them I would whisper sweet nothings in their ears to flatter them and keep them in deception as satan does. This may even give the appearance that I loved them, but in the end it shows I did not care one bit about them.


Anybody who stands in judgement who did not receive the free Gift of God for their salvation will lose their soul. It does not matter if they were a faithful Muslim who worshiped Allah or not. That free Gift of God is Jesus. He paid the price for the salvation of anyone who will accept Him. I tell people this message because I love them. Jesus said that if we do not believe that He is who He says He is that we will die in our sins. Jesus said He is God. Jesus said He is the Messiah. Do your Muslim friends believe that? Are you telling your Muslim friends the truth? On judgement day will your Muslim friends be able to continue to call you their friend? Or, sadly will they have to say you were not a friend of theirs at all because you did nothing to help them out of their deception? Will your Muslim friends say that you truly loved them and cared about them when they stand in judgement?


There are a lot of good people who will lose their souls. Salvation is not dependent upon being good. The Bible is clear that none of us are good enough. Salvation is not even dependent upon good works. The only way we are going to receive salvation is by accepting the blood sacrifice of Jesus for our sins on the cross. We receive Him and enter into fellowship with Him when we accept what He did for us. This begins a work of the Holy Spirit within us called regeneration. All things now become new.


Jesus said, "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24 King James Version


Also, Hunter, be careful telling people to listen to the Holy Spirit within them without warning them about testing spirits and discerning if the voice they are hearing even is the Holy Spirit. We grow in discernment not only by fellowship with the Holy Spirit, but by learning what the Word of God says about things. What does the Bible say about the issue?


Remember, satan likes to whisper sweet nothings in our ears to deceive us. We need to be aware of his tactics and take a stand against them instead of helping him out. Sweet nothings are only pleasant for a short time until we are hit with the truth. The sooner we can get over fighting against truth the faster we can get into enjoying truth. Truth will set us free. Now that is a great experience that cannot begin to compare with the deception of sweet nothings.