I support 100% a person's right to make choices that in my view are inconsistent with my faith, my Christian worldview, and what I see as a detriment to an individual. This means their religion, their life choices, even their sexual identity or lifestyle. Because my faith allows choices because God allows men and women to choose in their life the choices they might make, good or bad.
However, that by no means suggests that I agree, nor approve, or even respect that belief system.
I work with Muslims, some of them are close friends of mine, and while I respect their choice to follow a religion that I deem hostile to anyone seeking to embrace it, I also understand the principles of allowing people the freedom of choice. This by no means suggests that I respect Islam, any more than I respect the ideology of someone choosing a gay lifestyle. It's all the same - a choice.
God has given men the greatest gift (besides salvation) and that is a freewill. It is that same free will that determines our fate because God holds no man chained to where he wishes not to be. This includes following Christ.
God loves us, cares for us, and desires only a relationship with us thru his son. But he will no way force his will upon us, just the consequences of rejecting him. That's the difference.
I respect my Muslim friends, and I support their universal right of following another path, even if that path will lead them to destruction. But I don't embrace it, nor approve of the spirit behind it, but reject it as a lie from hell itself. That's the problem, we've forgotten who our enemy is.
[Christopher Gregory]
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1 Peter 5:8 ... Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Joshua 24:15 ... And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.❤
