There’s a lot of speculation floating around the news and social media about how a certain group of people mainly from other countries come to other christian nations for sole purpose of globalizing their religion. They believe that this is the goal given by their prophet. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to share a belief with others, but when you do it in a way where your religious book tells you to kills others that don’t submit, then that becomes a problem.
Typically, people turn to religion thinking that it will make them a better person or for community, but for the sake of overtaking by violence, fear and dictatorship…that becomes an issue. This is an idea that very controversial to the teachings of the bible. In the new testament, written during and after the death of Christ, letters to the church from the apostles, encourage others to set an example for people to see the love of God through Christ, no where does it say to kill someone if they don’t submit.
The idea of forcing someone to convert out of fear, clearly, does not display the character of God written in the bible. The early beginnings of the United States and the writings of the constitution followed the ideas of God granting freedoms to all humanity, that we were born with unalienable rights. The ideas that follow the character of God in the bible granting us the freedom to choose.
Some wonder why God would allow bad fruit to be present in the garden amongst Adam and Eve. God told Adam not to eat of the fruit in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil even if God could’ve just eliminated the tree. Without the tree being in the garden, there would be no choice. It gives all of us an opportunity to obey God or not to obey. We have freewill to do what we want on this earth and we suffer bad consequences or if we choose a good path, we reap the blessings. If you love someone and that person tells you, don’t do that because it will grieve me, you have a choice whether you want to hurt that person or not. Choosing not to hurt him or her is a show of love. It’s a show that you are choosing to love and not hurt.
The freewill to choose is a freedom in itself. The need to be free to choose is embedded into us. God’s character in the bible shows that He’s patient and allows people time to repent from their wrongdoings. He is the Father of all and as a Father who disciplines His children that get out of line, only to bring back to the straight path. He allows us to choose to listen to Him or ignore what He is tells us to do or not to do.
When these principles of freedom and unalienable rights are within the governing body of a country, people from other countries where those freedoms are not given, want to escape and come to a land where they feel free. Our U.S. Constitution protects some of these unalienable rights, such as the 1st Amendment, which protects our freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition and the 2nd Amendment, which protects our right to bear arms.
To force someone into submission is not God’s ways so for a certain religious group of people that’s slaughtering Christians if they don’t convert, that’s not the ways of God. They are misled, not knowing the true God of all humanity, the God that gave Adam a choice. When Adam made a bad decision, to disobey the one who created him, Adam died on the inside by feeling separated from God, but redemption was there. Through the blood of Christ, there’s redemption for our sins. Those are acts of love, mercy and grace. God never forces anyone into submission. It’s a choice and when we choose Him, blessings come. It’s not rocket science to know that God is not a controlling God, just think about the things that are required for humanity to thrive, for fulfillment, peace, joy and happiness.
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