{"id":36665,"date":"2022-09-13T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-do-some-people-fight-over-different-religions-does-the-bible-say-dont-respect-other-religions\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:05:28","slug":"why-do-some-people-fight-over-different-religions-does-the-bible-say-dont-respect-other-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-do-some-people-fight-over-different-religions-does-the-bible-say-dont-respect-other-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do some people fight over different religions? Does the Bible say don't respect other religions?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some believe we should fight over religion. Israel<\/strong> was told to remove all idolatry<\/strong> from the land. Ezekiel 14:6, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!” Those who followed false religions were to be put to death. Leviticus 20:27, “Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their blood guiltiness is upon them.” However, this rule was only <\/strong>for the nation of Israel at that time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What do the scriptures say about how Christians should act now?<\/p>\n

Galatians 6:10 (NLT), “whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone<\/strong>.”  We should even love those who hurt us. Matthew 5:44,45, “Love your enemies<\/strong> and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father<\/strong> who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil<\/strong> and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

Christians are to copy God’s love. God loved the whole world so much that even while we were His enemies, He sent Jesus to redeem us! Romans 5:8 (NIV), “while we were God’s enemies<\/strong>, we were reconciled to him<\/strong> through the death of his Son.”<\/p>\n

Please recognize that God’s plan of salvation is only through Jesus<\/strong>. “There is no other name<\/strong> under heaven…whereby men must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Soon, all mankind will learn how much God loves us. “God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved<\/strong> and to come to the knowledge of the truth<\/strong>.” 1 Timothy 2:3-6. <\/p>\n

This will happen in the resurrection. Then all will be taught God’s true religion! Isaiah 11:9, “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD<\/strong>, as the waters cover the sea.” <\/p>\n

We are not told anywhere in the Bible to respect other religions. How can we respect a “god” who is unjust, petty and vengeful? Or a religion which teaches most will be eternally tortured? People everywhere desire to uphold justice, love, and wisdom<\/strong>. We cannot respect a religion which does not honor these principles.<\/p>\n

However, we are told over and over and over again to respect people. <\/strong>We are to love all<\/strong>…even if they are persecuting us. Our dear Lord Jesus never repaid evil for evil, but demonstrated God's love in every act.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some believe we should fight over religion. Israel was told to remove all idolatry from the land. Ezekiel 14:6, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!” Those who followed false religions were to be put to death. Leviticus 20:27, “Now a man or a … Continue reading “Why do some people fight over different religions? Does the Bible say don't respect other religions?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}