-
Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:- Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
- Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
- Access to private conversations with other members.
We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Christian pastor arrested for faith and then freed from Turkish prison.
- Thread starter YeshuaRedeemed
- Start date
I'm glad he's home safe-
I prayed for him...when he was in jail
And Turkey would want to join the EU?
yeah....when chicken fly
I prayed for him...when he was in jail
And Turkey would want to join the EU?
yeah....when chicken fly
YeshuaRedeemed
Revelation 3:10
Me too. I was worried and prayed too.
YeshuaRedeemed
Revelation 3:10
Prove your claims.
HonestJoe
Well-Known Member
That mess was never really about his religion, certain not as a primary factor. It was a much deeper and wider political dispute that he got caught up in because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I find your attempt to claim it as a purely Christian issue and victory does a gross disservice to with wider political issues in Turkey and all of the people who continue to suffer as a consequence.
Altfish
Veteran Member
They've been wanting to join for c30-years they have been refused entry for that time.
What has he advocated?
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
He's an Evangelical Christian. More specifically, he's an elder of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. One of their tenets is that marriage is heterosexual and monogamous.
It's one thing to believe that, but another to impose it upon the unwilling.
Has he advocated that?
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
The Church is a missional church. Imposing their beliefs upon the unwilling is inherent to the missional lifestyle.
That's quite a stretch.
How do we know he doesn't seek only the willing?
Jumi
Well-Known Member
EU has been giving them money for integration purposes. Though apparently those funds haven't been used as promised.
Altfish
Veteran Member
They've been giving them money to try to slow the number of migrants coming through their country. A huge difference from being a member,
Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Religious liberty? Does Turkey guarantee such a thing?
By definition as a Presbyterian, he does. In Presbyterian/Reformed belief, the only ones who are willing to convert are those who are predestined to convert--sucks about the rest of us.
If they become a member, Aleppo becomes the eastern border of the EU..is that acceptable?
Lmao no. Their continual slow push to extinguish the last vestiges of Orthodox Christianity in the country (focusing most of their attacks against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople) are proof enough of that. And if that wasn't enough, look at Ataturk's genocides of the Greeks and the Armenians.
Turkey isn't a secular democracy. Erdogan's a determined Islamofascist hell-bent on making Turkey the next Saudi Arabia or Iran.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Thank you, President Trump.