Why open antichrists become the best disciple like St. Paul.

[stephen goswami]

Why open antichrists become the best disciple like St. Paul.

Even now I see several such cases. I was puzzled at first. But latter I understood.
We, the Heaven fallen humanity, all are antichrist at heart. But among us there are various degrees of integrity. People of less integrity neither know their heart nor have the capacity to follow. So their antichristian nature is not revealed to them. So they hardly repent. But those who have greater integrity can follow the intentions of their heart whether good or bad. Their revealed bad actions then help them to repentance. So Paul knew that Christ was imposter and punished his followers wholeheartedly. But when he came to know that Christ was genuine, he served him with the same integrity with true repentance.
So I was no longer puzzled when I confronted the amazing conversion of some antichrist fanatic Hindus of India’s Kandhamal district. Previously they injured and murdered Christians there. But seeing the goodness and power of Christ they believed in him. In turn they are now being murderously beaten and crippled. But miraculously still now their lives are saved by the doctors.

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When I was in Iraq, the TV always showed scenes of the Iran-Iraq battlefield. The Iranian child-soldiers marched over the crest in waves, only to be mowed down by machine gun, mortar and artillery fire. They were armed with Hoeckler & Koch assault rifles, no match for the advanced Soviet weaponry the Iraqis posessed, having exhausted all the sophisticated weaponry the Shah had stockpiled (rows of broken down F14s lay rusting in the hangars, aircraft that reached Iran before the USAF had even tested them ). Foreign magazines were in short supply in Baghdad, but an issue of TIME finally arrived and it explained the phenomena of the "human waves". The Iranians were able to import the most powerful weapon of all, skirting the arms sanction imposed on them by the world. Plastic keys imported cheaply from Taiwan. They were the guarantee that the Iranian soldier would enter instantaneously into Paradise, on dying a martyr's death.

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To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as twelve years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child’s neck. It was supposed to open the gates to paradise for them.

http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/...to-the-angels/

The Jews could be reconciled to God through the revelation they possessed, but their leaders led them astray:

Mark 7

9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. 10 “For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER’; and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH’; 11 but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’ 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; 13 thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”

Corban=Qurban (Urdu for sacrifice )

Paul had been led astray similarly by his teachers, giving Traditions ascendancy instead of Scripture. But the word of God acted like a goad, unsettling him when he tried to kick against it.

Many Muslim believers are struck by the consistency of the Christian teaching about peace:

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Smith says that Bush and Blair can't say the things he is saying because it would be politically incorrect.

He believes Islamic ideology can only be defeated by another ideology and he believes the Christian Gospel is the best idea. He mentioned that Jesus confronted opponents directly. He cited that St. Paul confronted opponents directly.

He mentioned that before St. Paul became a missionary for Christianity he was Saul who was a devout persecutor of Christians. He asked us to pray that there would be an Islamic Paul.

http://a4theroad.blogspot.com/2005/0...ity-clash.html

Nominal Muslims never think for themselves: they are fed on their teachers' views. Sincere Muslims who believe Islam is a religion of peace soon find on studying Koran it is otherwise. Testimonies abound about Muslim believers turning to Christ after studying Koran.