{"id":707,"date":"2008-02-01T19:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=707"},"modified":"2008-02-01T19:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:07:44","slug":"can-non-believers-serve-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Can Non-Believers Serve God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are welcome to hear the message of God. But non-believers cannot be counted as fellow brothers or sisters who partake the grace and salvation of our Lord. This is not up to us, but up to them.&nbsp; If they dare to testify their disbelief, then how couldn&#39;t we dare to forbid them?<\/p>\n<p>By agreeing non-believers to serve, one might as well testify: One might still be saved by not believing in Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>How about the testimony of those who actually believed after serving as non-believers? I do not deny, for the grace of God works in miraculous ways. However, it is not to say that his salvation depended on him serving. For such is not God&#39;s grace nor are we his savior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How can we be a witness of Christ&#39;s mercy, if we ourselves don&#39;t even understand we are serving this ministry because we have received mercy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if a church is so impotent in preaching God&#39;s word, deprived of sermons and teachings of Christ and even stripped of true Christians, that the only way for someone to hear a tiny drop of God&#39;s word is by trapping him in servitude...then by all means... <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Deu 12:3&nbsp; And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. <br \/>Deu 12:4&nbsp; Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Deu 22:10&nbsp; Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2Co 6:14&nbsp; Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are welcome to hear the message of God. But non-believers cannot be counted as fellow brothers or sisters who partake the grace and salvation of our Lord. This is not up to us, but up to them.&nbsp; If they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}