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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 8/11/2009 7:46:16 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Thank you, RJR. So, then, this verse has far less than is usually thought to do with common Israel of that day and everything to do with that time's politicized religious leaders instead.
There were and still are many Israeli and/or Hebrew and/or Jewish belief systems. Not every synagogue is a "synagogue of satan." And, on the other hand, not everyone who calls her/himself a Jew is one, but many who call themselves Jews are, instead, are liars.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 8/12/2009 2:32:43 AM
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So, then, this verse has far less than is usually thought to do with common Israel of that day and everything to do with that time's politicized religious leaders instead.
I suspect that the the corrupt, venal rulers of Israel also had their own version of today's union thug / ACORN "rent-a-mob" on hand to serve as their Greek chorus!
When a whole society spirals down the drain, the rulers bear the greater responsibility -- but all the people suffer.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 8/15/2009 6:47:06 AM
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lovelylisaaln
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How about a friends wedding?? be they christian, hindu, muslim or what ever surely you would want to see your friends big day. I was a bridemaid for my best friends (non christian cival wedding) and it was still lovely although painfully without God.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/9/2009 8:20:17 PM
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rainrain
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Yes, I think a christian should visit a mosque (make sure you are prayed up, fasted and ready to meet some really differnt and cool people). I think many Christians think muslims cannot saved. However I know they can and God has been working in my heart and drawing me to minister to this group of people. I don't even know if you would have to participate in the "service". but I think hanging out with them is the first step to telling them about Jesus.
BTW: I go to our local buddist temple and eat some of the best Thai food on the planet....now that is an experience!!!
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/9/2009 8:40:46 PM
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Lea_3
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Why stop as mosques? Why don't we go ahead and include temples and synagogues?
It's questions like this that can really get my ire  . I was invited to a Hindu wedding this past summer but couldn't make it because I was out of the country on a missions. I would have liked to go because the girl who invited me was a really good friend and we met while she was still an undergraduate. I guess I would have been devil-worshiping by going to her wedding, observing the ceremony, eating good food, and telling her congrats while sending her off with a gift?
What is so bad about observing? A pastor at school who I know tells me that he does not worship while he visits services in other faiths because he feels that we need to get out of our comfort zones and show that we can be an outreach to non-Christians. He told me he's had lots of conversations with Muslims about their faith and was even able to assist a Muslim to become Christian a couple years ago. He doesn't worship by kneeling or praying when they do. He did tell me he took his shoes off as a way to respect their cultural requests, not so much their religion. In fact, he told me many of the attendees there treated with alot of respect and even kept in contact with him afterwards because they admired the fact that he was willing to do that and be respectful.
In no way is this man idolatrous either. He's a WELS pastor.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/10/2009 6:24:13 PM
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It is not where I go, but why I go where I go, isn't it?
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/10/2009 7:25:16 PM
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AboundinginHisGrace
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I would tour through one, but would not attend a service. The bible tells us to not even have the appearance of evil. And sitting through a worship service of a false god would have the appearance of evil to me.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/11/2009 6:26:30 PM
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Why stop as mosques? Why don't we go ahead and include temples and synagogues?
Actually, I have visited cults. I went to a ceremony at the Eckankar Temple.
Certainly, it wasn't a place for a Christian weak in their faith, but I learned a lot there.
After the service, I took a tour of the Temple (quite an impressive building!), and got to talk to the tour guide. I talked to him about my past, and why I was there. I asked him a lot of questions about his faith, and I do think that it was challenged, and that I planted a seed.
How about that? I got to be a witness for Christ in an cult's temple of worship.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/11/2009 9:24:33 PM
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How about that? I got to be a witness for Christ in an cult's temple of worship.
One guy I know had an article on evangelizing Muslims published in a Muslim devotional magazine. Well, it was presented as "building cross-cultural friendships."
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/12/2009 6:13:02 PM
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Lea_3
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ORIGINAL: lea84
Why stop as mosques? Why don't we go ahead and include temples and synagogues?
Actually, I have visited cults. I went to a ceremony at the Eckankar Temple.
Certainly, it wasn't a place for a Christian weak in their faith, but I learned a lot there.
After the service, I took a tour of the Temple (quite an impressive building!), and got to talk to the tour guide. I talked to him about my past, and why I was there. I asked him a lot of questions about his faith, and I do think that it was challenged, and that I planted a seed.
How about that? I got to be a witness for Christ in an cult's temple of worship.
I think cults are definitely a place where you need to be careful and even avoid. It's one thing to visit a mosque, part of Islam, a mainstream religion that most people are aware of. I've seen some of those Eckankar commercials on tv and didn't really know what they were about till now 
I guess what I am trying to say is that people are mixing up observation with actual worship. Just because I will sometimes go to cultural festivities at the temple where my family goes does not mean I am a backslidden Christian. Yes, there are prayers said, but I don't recite them and I don't do anything else but enjoy what's there and see people I haven't seen in a long time.
That's why I mentioned along with another poster, the question about attending a wedding at a different religion's place of worship. Should we tell a friend "too bad, you're not Christian"? Since when has it been expected that you have to engage in worship and prayer? I know people who have gone to other places of worship and don't engage in their rites-- I've seen people gracefully turn down an artee platter (a prayer platter used after Hindu worship) and noone from the temple took offense. It would have actually, after the worship was done, for that person to have turned down the offer of food that was made to them.
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RE: can/should a Christian visit a mosque? - 10/28/2009 4:22:57 PM
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KaptZ
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I think as long as you are respectful all places of worship should be open to you.
Went to a mosque back in the 90's on a family trip to Istanbul. Beautiful building and interesting service. My sister and mother wore headscarves and long dresses and we removed our shoes and just sat quietly.
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