Did you see the AP article entitled, The Latest: Albright
says she’ll register as a Muslim[1]?
She claims, "I
was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was
Jewish. I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity."
Albright’s
position of faith is wrong on so many levels!
I notice
she never once says she is a Christian. To be raised a Catholic is something
that has been done to you. To become an Episcopalian is not much different from
moving from New York to New Jersey; nothing’s changed but your address. To find
out later that your family is Jewish should be of no consequence, so was
Jesus’. So was all of the first Christians. Christians, whether their families
are Jewish or Gentile, are instructed to leave those cultures behind for the
Biblical culture of a New Testament Christian church.
Now she
stands ready to register as Muslim. This statement is truly telling. Was she
merely registered Catholic or registered Episcopalian? At some point then did she
register as Jewish?
Mrs.
Albright needs to take the time to check into the Muslim system of belief.
According to their religion when one converts and becomes a Muslim, to leave
that faith is punishable by death. I don’t imagine that’s what she plans to
“register” in to.
Ok, here
is the real concern. Albright, like so many people today, assume that being
religious, or having been baptized into a certain denomination, or attending a
particular church or even believing a particular creed is what makes one a
Christian. It does not.
There was once a man who came to Jesus with much the same
misunderstanding.
John 3:1-18 (KJV)
There was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and
said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man
can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man
be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb,
and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye
must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and
thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him,
How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art
thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We
speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our
witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and
ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
And no man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Nicodemus could not wrap his head around Jesus’ teaching of
the new birth. How could he? Only those who have been born can know what it
means to be born. Only those who have been born again can know what it means to
be born again.
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