Hey Folks,
I just read a letter from a friend in Brazil where he express his happiness about the translation to portuguese of his book "In search for christian freedom" that is coming. I would like to share some thoughts of Ray Franz about the terrorist attacks in 11/09:
> "Dear XXX,
>
> Thank you for the good news...
>
> ...
>
> The recent events in New York and Washington are truly depressing and
> remind me of Solomon´s words at Ecclesiastes 1:15: 'what is crooked
> cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.' All
> human efforts to remedy conditions are ultimately futile because they
> cannot eliminate the root cause which is sin. And any belief or faith
> that is not founded on faith in the ransom sacrifice through God´s
Son
> becomes meaningless...
> ...Some would reduce Christianity to philosophical and ethical
tenets,
> as if the Sermon on the Mount totally sums up his teaching, but this
> misses the major and crucial point. As Christ said, he came to
'give
> his life a ransom for many.' (Matthew 20:28).
>
>
> Nationalism, such as the view that God's blessing is
> particularly on some country such as the U.S., partakes of
> the same mentality as the religious exclusivistic thinking
> characterizing the WT organization and their being a
> 'special people with special divine favor'. The recent
> events have had somewhat of a wakeup effect on people in
> this land; and yet Americans have had but a small taste of
> what others have gone through. In some African lands, not
> just thousands, but millions of people have been cruelly
> slaughtered. Because it´s over there, things like that don´t
> seem to matter much to most Americans...
>
> ...
>
> Ray"
It seems that the poor Ray are in some way a little exclusivist regards christianity too. What do you think?
