09-20-2006, 02:04 PM
Peace.....
Muslimah, I am indeed aware at the peaceful relations the early church and the Coptics had with the adhirants to Islam. It wasn't until Constantine and the advent of Roman Catholicism that things began to go wrong....I also want to point out it was not only Jews and Muslims who suffered during the Spanish Inquisition, that those who were not aligned with Rome also met persicution. Now why they converted to Islam? Well I have an opinion on that:
(2 Timothy 4:1) I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
(2 Timothy 4:2) Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
(2 Timothy 4:3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
(2 Timothy 4:4) And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Shamms