In accepting those of other faith, are you placing doubt in your own??

Question

I am a Christian. I am also accepting of those who choose to practice another faith. Some folks have told me that by doing this I am intern showing reasonble doubt in my own faith. I don't believe so, but they quote scriptures saying "thou can't serve two masters", etc.... Can this be so, It is not my choice to follow the Qu'ran, but I will not persecute one who does, nor the Torah, or any other faith. Does this make me a Hypocrite??

Answer 1

I am also a Christian and I would say that accepting a person is not a sign of weakness, for God says to love all men. You are not being a hypocrite when you relate to another person as a person. However if you started to intigrate your beleive in Christ and gel it with other religions you run the risk of doubting what you believe.

Christianity is the only religion that I am aware of that the followers are always being either judged or told how to do practice their faith. Even when others do not know everything about what we beleive in they hold us accountable for every single action we do.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and soul and mind....

Answer 2

What it makes you is a doubting Thomas, one of the 12 apostles. So if an apostle can doubt, and still be an apostle, why can't you? I was always taught that doubting makes your faith grow stronger. It makes you think about the ambiguities and double meanings and where things originated instead of taking someone's word for it on blind faith. If God wanted people to worship in only one way, it would already be that way. What He wants is for people to really believe with conviction that which is worthy of conviction. If not, anyone could claim something without proof or substantiation and would you then go along with it on blind faith? It is a good thing to doubt, and by so doing find a better way. I also believe there ain't no one best way, only the best way that you can reasonably understand at the time.

Answer 3

I believe you are the only one who knows if you are putting doubt in your faith. This is a very personal thing.Others will just be speculating or judging from the outside.
I am a Catholic Christian.I believe that accepting others IS part of our faith as a christian.Jesus dreams of us being "ONE" as he said in the gospel of John. We cannot be one if we do not accept others of a different faith.
That's why we have the word ECUMENISM, we seek what can unite us with those of other faiths and not focus on what differs us.I believe that every major religion in the world has a seed of God's teaching in them, even in the Qu'ran.
I live in a place where catholic, christians, moslems and buddhists live together.There are bursts of temperament now and then but many still live, work and go out together without letting our faiths segregate us from each other.
I believe in accepting those of other faiths, without compromising your own, is giving witness to your own faith of being a christian.It would be your actions, your way of life, your words, your "love" for them that will win them over to Jesus.

Answer 4

As a Pagan my faith teaches respect for the Gods and Ways of others, so it could hardly show doubt to follow it. If you are secure and happy with the path you have found, you are not serving another master by allowing other people the same freedom, as a Christian are you not enjoined to judge not, lest ye be judged? Hypocrisy would be claiming to be a follower of Jesus and then ignoring his teachings by doing the opposite. I've read several versions of the Bible, and the Jesus I found there wanted to be emulated, not worshiped. The followers of such a man would never judge or condemn, but would strive to lead by example. Do as I say not as I do will never work, people evaluate a viewpoint by the actions of it's adherents, not by their words.

Answer 5

Not at all. As long as you're secure in what you believe, and follow the principles of Christianity (a part of which is to love others and not judge), I think it's a great thing to accept people of other faiths. You aren't serving two masters, you're serving God, and allowing others to make their own choice, which they have a right to do.

Answer 6

No it dosen't make you a Hypocrite
Everybody has a GOD Given Right to Believe what they want to.
GOD want even Force someone to Believe in HIM (get SAVED).
Listen, a person who gets his,her Spirit Recreated (Saved) cannot have Spiritual Fellowship with Some one who has not been Saved.
You can be Nice, be Friendly, treat each other Right so on and Live a Good Life and even maybe become Friends.
But you will not have Spiritual Fellowship with an unsaved person.
Hey, those People who Believe in the Koran are O.K. with me, it is the Ones who Believe in it and go out and Kill Innocent People that I am against.

Answer 7

No it does not. Being accepting of others who practice another faith is a very unbigoted on your part. And isn't christianity all about not being bigoted, being forgiving and seeing the good in people. Of all of the faiths that are out there they all boil down to worshiping our one God. Our different faiths are just different ways of looking our God and worshiping our God. No, you are not a hypocrite. The only way you might be a hypocrite is if you were accepting of someone who was Godless and did not a least give a cursory try at converting them.

Answer 8

It's okay to accept those who believe in other things, but not to accept what they believe. It's true that you cannot serve two masters. Today I heard someone say on the radio that it is possible for all of the different beliefs on the world to be wrong, but it is not possible for all of them to be right. I agree with not persecuting anyone. Christ never persecuted anyone. In fact, the only people he truly got mad at were the pharisees who looked down on everybody else.

Answer 9

As a christian you are called not to look down on others because of their faith. You are called to fellowship with all people and not judge them. If through fellowship you show someone your point of view then you are doing exactly what you are called to as a christian, you are spreading your faith. There is nothing you can do to show people the way you believe, if you seperate yourself from everyone eles in the world or if you judge them before you know them.

Answer 10

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