{"id":349,"date":"2018-12-05T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=349"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:39:41","slug":"dangerous-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/dangerous-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dangerous Faith<\/span><\/div>\n

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“What’s dangerous about the world today is not belief in God or unbelief but ruthless certainty.“<\/span><\/p>\n

–Lisa Miller, Newsweek Magazine<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The\u00a0only thing we should be ruthless about\u00a0is our passion to love God and\u00a0the people He calls us\u00a0to serve. Unfortunately, some see themselves as\u00a0chosen<\/i>\u00a0by God to eradicate all evil (which often means imposing their beliefs and opinions upon others against their will). History is replete with examples of monarchs, dictators and leaders who have tried to force faith. It has always resulted in some form of persecution.<\/p>\n

We have only to remember what happened in the Dark Ages when the Church tried to impose their definition of truth upon the people of Europe. You can read about the devastating results in J.A. Wylie’s\u00a0History of Protestantism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Excerpt from Newsweek,\u00a0Moderates Storm the Religious Battlefield,\u00a0<\/em>p. 89, January 7, 2007<\/span>
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