"You're like Koresh, Hitler and Manson!"

(Harsh accusations from an angry reader)

by Tracy at Jesus-is-Lord.com

 

[Reminder: this list is for Christians.  If you're dead in trespasses and
sins, then...
"Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall
give thee light." Ephesians 5:14]

Dear Christian Friends:

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.

The internet has proven a most compelling place for ministry for me. When
I first loaded those 3 or 4 little articles I had no idea anyone would
ever read them.  Then I remember the day that five people visited the
website in one day.  My heart was beating so hard, I could not believe it.
Then I remember wondering if 100 people would ever visit in one day.  Then
I remember wondering if anybody could get saved via an internet witness.
As I look back at it, it seems those were ridiculous questions.  God
answered them all in the affirmative and gave me much more than I
bargained for.  His ways are past finding out. His ways.  Fabulous.
Miraculous.  Incredible. Perfect. Holy. Righteous. Merciful. Gracious.
Incomparable.

The following is a short interchange which does not normally occur for me.
I rarely ever answer wicked people always keeping in mind Proverbs 26:4-5
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto
him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit."  In this case, I felt the need to answer a fool lest he be wise
in his own conceit.

I'm sending this out because it may help someone. I hear from Christian
folks who are easily shaken by what unregenerates have to say. "They hurt
my fee-lings!"  This ought not to be.  The key for the Christian is to
know the scriptures AND call on them when answering.  Sometimes your
answer will be no answer.  When a person derides your God, the ONLY true
God, you know that they are obviously wrong.  Think about what the
scriptures say about their comments.  When I write something, I think to
myself, "What scripture will support this statement?"  If I can't think of
one, then that comment has to be deleted.  Forget about the "I think"
syndrome.  That's what'll get you in trouble every time. Stick with the
scriptures and NO ONE will be able to overcome what you say.  The
scriptures are powerful and they will cut to the chase of any discussion.

Here's the interchange.

**THE WRITER**

First of all, I must commend someone on this website.  It definitely is
one of the most well done sites I've visited.  Some help is needed on
grammar throughout the text.  I have a tendency to go ballistic on sites
such as this one, but I seek only to make a few comments.  My wife is a
Wiccan (formerly Catholic) and I am a militant Atheist.  She had performed
a search for witchcraft and from the results selected your link out of
curiosity and mentioned it to me.  I nor my wife can condemn anyone for
their beliefs (religious or otherwise).  Therefore, I could not be less
interested about your cause(s), except that you have forced your opinions
and beliefs into an area where you do not belong.  Therefore, I must
express my distaste in the way you have gone about "sending your message".
I would never express or force my beliefs upon you and would appreciate
that you extend to me and everyone else the same courtesy.  I am unable to
imagine how so many people can be brainwashed about your beliefs, but then
I think back to men like Adolf Hitler, David Koresh, Charles Manson.  They
definitely convinced large numbers of unsuspecting people into believing
their every word.  In my opinion, your message? can only be considered in
the same manner as the afore mentioned people.  Continue as you have and
I'm certain that some government agent will show up at your doorstep early
one morning with a message of his own.  According to your beliefs, my wife
and myself will definitely be going to hell and you (most likely) will be
taken to heaven.  Assuming this actually happens, I am elated in the fact
that I won't be
around you or any of your followers.  Good day to you.
 

**MY RESPONSE**

Dear Friend:
 
Greetings and thanks for writing.  Sorry if the grammar offends you.  It
is how I express myself sometimes.  It is an irritation to some while it
speaks to others.  
 
I am not forcing my beliefs on you.  What you do with your life in no way
affects me or my walk with the Lord.  I am not begging [you] and I am 
not asking any one...to read anything...on the...website.  
 
I worship the God of the Bible.  He has certain requirements of man and
those requirements are [found in the Bible].  Biblically illiterate people
are quite taken aback when confronted with the truth.  They've conjured 
up in their own feeble brains what constitutes right and wrong. [Then]
when God's requirements are set forth, they are called intolerant.  The 
truth is indeed intolerant.  2+2 is always 4.  That is unbending.  Your 
argument is not with me--it is with the God of the Bible.  Concerning a 
government agency on my doorstep, what is that to me?  Jesus said the 
world would hate me, and perhaps even kill me.  So what?  Like Abel,
my blood will still cry from the ground.  I won't be the first or the last to
die or be imprisoned.   
 
In your rebellion, you compare worship of the God of the Bible to Koresh,
Hitler, and Manson--all unregenerate reprobates.  All sickos that kill,
plunder and destroy.  I'm sorry to hear your blasphemy and hope that your
conscience has not been seared [past feeling]. You've come to the site...
the same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay.
 
Most folks take the Thomas Jefferson approach to Jesus.  Jefferson was a
deist that even compiled his own "Bible".  He took the gospels and deleted
all references to the supernatural leaving him with the moral sayings of
Jesus.  Like Jefferson, most conjure up a soft, effeminate Jesus that
bears no likeness to the Son of God.
 
They can do what they want, I'm only here as a voice in the midst of a
lawless, disobedient, rebellious, crooked and perverse generation.  Why
would a law abiding Christian make you so mad?  'Cause the words of the
Bible describe your very thoughts and intents, that's why.  You kick
against the pricks and I STINK to you whereas to truth seekers I smell
lovely.
 
2 Corinthians 2:16,  "To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the
other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?"

I smell like death and hell to you and that is rightful.  Your email only
confirms that you are a child of hell.  Not that it is too late for you,
it isn't.  You'll either continue in rebellion or you'll be broken and
give God the glory.  If you do the latter, I'd love to hear from you.  If
not, I have no reason to ever hear from you again.
 
My only responsibility is to tell the truth.  What you do with it has no
bearing on me or my soul. 
 
for Jesus' sake,
Tracy
--
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com
 
"...I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD.   And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid
of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell
among scorpions:  be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their
looks, though they be a rebellious house." -Ezekiel 2:4, 6