Joshua 24:15

Promise!! I do not search these out – the articles are available to everyone. I was reading a current story about Christians praying for Muslims during Ramadan. Amid that story was a link:

“A Seattle priest has become a Muslim while also retaining her clergy status …” The story continued, stating that the Lutheran priest would be teaching graduate courses in theology at Seattle University. She was quoted as wanting to concentrate on the "Abrahamic faiths" since dysfunction led to intolerance and war. In a Christian Post article June 30, 2007, the local bishop “… told the Seattle Times that [her] embrace of Islam has not been controversial in his diocese.”

Apparently that changed as soon as the word got out. A week later, another Christian Post article tells of reactions. “As a number of highly-respected theologians have pointed out following last month’s coverage …, the Christian belief in the divine being and savior Jesus Christ is incompatible with Islamic teaching of Jesus as a prophet.”

Not until this year was the person in question told she could no longer be a Lutheran priest.

As many others have expressed, she just wanted all of us to get along. She would like for the world to get past differences. Unfortunately, she does not believe the Bible she reads.

But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. (Matthew 10:33-35 KJV)

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. (Luke 12:51-53 KJV)

Doesn’t matter where we look for peace, communion, fellowship or the ability to get along with our fellow man, the true question is eternity -- and there is one answer:

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:39-40 KJV)

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10b KJV)

Included in the Bible, not to be tossed aside for convenience sake, are Christ’s words: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 KJV)

Peter knew this, and this is what he preached: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12 KJV)

John knew it, too: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. (John 20:31 KJV)