How much you have been paid bro?
The least of these. The whole movie runs with a words of How much you have been paid for conversion by Benerji to Graham stains in order to get any evidences to catch the stains of his mission, thinking he is doing a business of getting people into Christanity. The same position of presupostions exist yet today in many minds of people and there lifestyle of condemning Christianity for invalid reasons done by nominal Christians, who are yet not right with the scriptures and of living the godly lives.
Christian critics asked these questions :
1. How much you have been paid?
2. Why you are a Christian while you are in an Hindu country?
3. Only poor and intellectual fools had accepted Christianity in India.
In order to answer those ones, i have to get close to talk about the word conversion and Gospel from its ethymology:
A. Conversion
Middle English (in the sense ‘turning of sinners to God’): via Old French from Latin conversio(n- ), from convers- ‘turned about’, from the verb convertere (see convert).
One may think , how do I got here, the word has been developed over years and been challenged and changed to get into the point of FORCED BELIEF. The word, tells it's not true of FORCED, rather change of life that is dead to life in and through Jesus.
So, biased thoughts makes them invalid of what they really know of it and live of it.
B. Gospel means goodnews ( Luke 2: 10) which is the message to all people in the world not limited to middle eastern countries of Asia continent alone but the whole universe why? Because gospel is that Christ died for our sins and , buried was raised again. (1 Corin 15 : 3- 4). This alone is life transforming message of God.
Now, let see, do people was forced to accept CHRISTIANITY? Yes, lot have done by toppling them by paying money , goods, and material too, which is logically and intellectually should be dealt with Bible. Which says, no one can force rather share, each of there own willingness to have change and even our constitution accepts that right to freedom of religion as forth major. ( Matthew 28: 18- 20). I don't agree with people those who force and allegedly make them of afraid AND say ACCEPT JESUS NOW, IF NOT YOU WILL DIE OR GO TO HELL AND PLAYING WITH THERE EMOTIONS WITH THE HELP OF MUSIC OR ANY MECHANISMS. I support Biblical perspective which says, But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with GENTLENESS AND RESPECT. ( 1 Peter 3: 15). Let's see Biblical way of conversion as connected to the word from its beginning. What does it really mean?
CHRISTIAN CONVERSION AND INTELLECTUAL CONFIDENCE :
Biblically understood, conversion is a radical turn away from sin, selfishness and Satan, and a turn toward God and his kingdom .This incorporates the whole person, not merely the intellect However, there is no reason to follow and obey the God of the Bible unless Christianity is true and worth obeying If it were false, it would not matter how attractive it might be If it were true but unimportant, why should anyone even care?Therefore, conversion is necessarily intellectual and involves cognitive assent to propositions taken to be objectively true.For this to occur, we must understand what the gospel REQUIRES of a person and on what BASIS it requires it.This understanding is classically known as NOTITIA. One cannot be a Christian without knowing what Christianity actually is.
Here the Christian worldview and doctrine are primary any candidate for conversion should believe that
(1) God exists as a holy being before whom all humans are held morally accountable for their transgressions (sins);
(2) the malady of sin is so deep and pervasive that any rectification of the problem must come from outside of our wounded and rebellious beings;
(3) God, the loving and just author of salvation, sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to live the perfect life we cannot live and to make atonement for our sin in order to provide the way of reconciliation between us and God;
(4) the reality of this work was vindicated by Christ’s unflinch-ing obedience to the Father, his death on the cross and his death-defeating, life-affirming resurrection from the dead The path of forgiveness and res-toration is open to all, but only by faith alone and only through the finished work of Jesus Christ alone. This is the message for anyone. Who want to be saved from sins to live the life in Christ in freedom He offers through Spirit of God ( Galatians 5: 16, 17). Graham answers to Benerji, people conversion from Hopeless , meaningless, and wicked state into acceptance into Jesus. My dalits and tribal people are found accepted....found Jesus , not the cash. Cash paid are nominal voters not the followers nor the disciples of crucified Christ. Liars make poor martys.
Footnotes:
1. Christian apologetics by Doug Groothuis. Pg : 39- 40.
2. Credits to the least of these movie, director Aneesh Daniel.
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