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Submitted by Lactantius Jr. (United Kingdom), Jun 17, 2008 at 16:34

To sTs

You do me an injustice, suggesting I have been deceitful and dishonest, I have not, and my previous posts have responded to your claim that Christians in Algeria ("native people") are treated fairly, and it is this claim I have contested, demonstrating from several sources that the repressive regulations signed on 28^th.February 2006 by President Abdelaziz Boutiflika are being used to treat Algerian Christians unfairly.

The role of funding, and of Christian missionaries who go to Algeria, is not relevant to the mistreatment and unfair treatment of Algerian Christians, and thus has not been discussed.

My absolute authority in all matters of belief and conduct, are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles, recorded in the words of the New Testament, "the Injil," the Greek word from which Injil is derived being the Greek word evangel, meaning "good news, or news which brings joy," an "evangelist" being someone who shares the good news of the Gospel with those who haven't yet heard it, and in what follows, I quote extensively from the New Testament to demonstrate why the Gospel is such good, good news, and why followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are all called by Him to be ‘missionaries.'

Christianity is a missionary faith, followers of the Lord Jesus Christ being commanded by Him, in what has become known as "The Great Commission," to,

"Go and preach the good news to everyone in the world. Anyone who believes Me and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe Me will be condemned."

Mark 16:15-16

and Jesus said,

"When the good news about the kingdom has been preached all over the world and told to all nations, the end will come."

Matthew 24:14

"Go to the people of all nations and make them My disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you. I will be with you always, even until the end of the world."

Matthew 28:19-20

"But the Holy Spirit will come upon you and give you power. Then you will tell everyone about Me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world."

Acts 1:8

All followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, both His Algerian followers, and those from elsewhere, will thus seek to be obedient to His commands to tell others about Him, but apart from being commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ to tell others about Him, why do His followers believe it to be so important that others should hear the Christian Gospel?

Believing the Bible to be true, they believe what they read about Jesus and His Gospel in it, and the Bible says,

"Only Jesus has the power to save! His name is the only one in all the world that can save anyone."

Acts 4:12

"Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them."

Hebrews 7:25

"For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.^"

Romans 1:16

Given a vision of heaven, the Apostle John writes that he saw,

"A vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a mighty shout,

‘Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!'

And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living beings. And they fell before the throne with their faces to the ground and worshiped God. They sang,

‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength belong to our God forever and ever! Amen.'"

Revelation 7:9-12

Algerian followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His followers from United Arab Emirates, and from anywhere else in the world who come to Him for salvation will be there, as the Bible says,

"All who call out to the Lord will be saved. How can people have faith in the Lord and ask Him to save them, if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them? And how can anyone tell them without being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news."

Romans 10:13-15

And I would like to tell you about Him, and about what only He can give you sTs and I give you the website of a film about Him you can watch, this film is based on Luke's account of Him, Luke being one of His earliest followers, who has this to say about what he has written.

"Many people have tried to tell the story of what God has done among us. They wrote what we had been told by the ones who were there in the beginning and saw what happened. So I made a careful study of everything and then decided to write and tell you exactly what took place. Honourable Theophilus, I have done this to let you know the truth about what you have heard."

Luke 1:1-4

The film is at http://www.jesusfilm.org/languages/ and is available in over 1,000 languages, Arabic being one of them.

I hope you will want to watch the film.

With kind regards and best wishes

Lactantius Jr.

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