Pagan Apologetics

Christians in America now number in the millions. Hundreds of Churches sit in our quiet suburban neighborhoods. They are an industrius people, eager to take advantage of America's freedoms and free enterprise.

In our metropolitan centers, they often graciously wait on us at the local gas stations, neighborhood markets and restaurants. Then we see foreign news reports of suicide bombings of school buses or battle ships in the name of God. And we wonder how these warm, family-centered people can be part of such atrocities.

Actually, they probably are not. If you asked them, they would deny any relationship, claiming that such terrorism is the work of a fringe element of Christianity and is not supported by the majority of the one billion Christians worldwide.

But that fringe element is becoming more central to Christianity's goal of global conquest. And they have the theology of Christianity behind them. The Bible teaches that the whole world belongs to Satan and it is the supreme duty of Christians to ``evangelize'' to bring the whole world under God's system of government, called the Kingdom of God.

To the moderate Christian, this evangelism is a peaceful ``struggle'' involving a Christian type of preaching. To the radical it also includes war. If a nation refuses to go peacefully under the Kingdom of God, they become ``infidels'' and it is permissible to kill them.

The goal of the radicals is to replace all other governments with the Kingdom of God. Many countries around the world have been locked in a life and death struggle over this. Israel has been much in the news recently because the Jewish population is trying to force out the Muslim population.

The radicals also want to replace moderate Christian regimes such as the United States. But even in these countries, non-Christians are severly restricted. Anyone who converts a Christian may be severely punished by the community and the convert will be ostracized.

So, what must the soul winner do? We must recognize this growing mission field right in our neighborhood and prepare to witness to them.

The most powerful concept that has been used to get them thinking concerns Jesus. Christianity teaches that Jesus was God and that God cannot lie.

If you go to Matthew 9:6 and 11:19 where Jesus claims to be a man, the Christian has a problem. If Jesus was God and cannot lie, and he said he was a man, then Christianity must be wrong because the Bible says that every son of man is a worm (Job 25:6) and that we should not put our trust in him (Psalms 146:3).

This concept has led Christians to examine the rest of the arguments in articles such as ``Mistakes of Jesus'' by William Floyd (www.infidels.org/library/historical/william_floyd/mistakes_of_jesus.html) and ``Jesus was a Hypocrite'' by Donald Morgan (www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/jesus_was_hypocrite.html).

Soul winners have successfully freed Christians using this approach.

A billion people are under the oppressive spell of this conglomerate of pagan religions (Jehovah was an ancient Babylonian wind god, Jesus a version of the Persian Mithra, and Satan a version of the Zoroastrian Anghra Mainyu). We need to reach them with the truth that Jesus was just another man.