Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Apr 20, 2021 at 15:18
Issues of Faith Finalized in Eternity:
The sincerity of your observation is received and understood in the spirit of your kindness; it is appreciated.
To the topic at hand, and to the greater inferences of the much larger issues of how humanity appears at the crossroads of religious intolerance as is seen globally where gross populations of Judeo-Christian adherents are increasingly targeted for belief in the Hebrew Holy Writ and the fulfilments associated with belief in the Holy One of Israel, Yeshua HaMashiach. Israel is under even greater pressure for defending its sovereignty and integrity as the sole Jewish presence that even the rocks confirm is their heritage and destiny. The pressure on them never ceases.
We are witnessing now the changes that are being instigated again after a brief respite of the years America was lead by former President Trump; and the antagonisms of the renewed efforts of the former 44th American Administrative Chief Executive's successors in office are back on track to bring the world to its knees under the renewed nuclear threat of the allies of the Iranian Islamic Regime's desires to rule the world over the diminishment and decimation of Israel. How does this have reference to our immediate topic? Islam (including and specifically the Shia (the apparent moderators of translating Syriac to Arabic in the historical aspect of the Iranian Islamic Regime)) is following its directives of the Quran (and its supplemental directives in al-Hadiths) and the adamant admonitions of the adherents we have read about here.
Does this comport to the topic of inflexibility and intolerance we read about here? From this perspective, and to your observation, this reader does not believe that belief in the Savior, Yeshua, Jesus, Issa is compulsive since it is offered in love for the Savior because He took our punishment for our sins. Unbelief, then, is punishable, at the time when facing eternity. Coming to belief anytime before that brings salvation in the Name of Yeshua; what is wrong with offering that according to the Hebrew Holy Writ? The question of salvation, in and of itself, does not bring death; only the wrong answer at the time of passing from here to eternity does.
That is when it is inflexible.
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