Besides, it is not a sin, but rather COMMANDED by Jesus that we love our enemies.
You cannot win your enemies to Christ only your friends, so we must build bridges of friendship and love to those who believe differently so Jesus can walk across that bridge into their hearts. “As an evangelist,” continued Warren, “I spend much of my time speaking to non-Christian groups. Though Warren steadfastly denies it, what his Saddleback Church is doing is very close to efforts to blend Christianity and Islam into a universalist creed called ‘Chrislam.’” “Those are all high ideals,” writes Farah, “but the ultimate expression of love, according to the God of the Bible, is to introduce non-believers to Him and the pathway to salvation through repentance. “Worse yet, in seeking this universalist creed, Warren is agreeing not to evangelize Muslims in favor of the following: making friends building peace working on shared social service projects. In a very real sense, as Joel Richardson has propounded in his brilliant work, The Islamic Antichrist, Islam represents the polar opposite of Christianity. “It would be easier to find common theological ground between Christians and atheists than Christians and Muslims. “Into this breech, Warren seeks common theological ground,” objects Farah. It is as basic and fundamental as it gets.”
“This is not a minor theological difference. They believe the Quran accurately and faithfully represents the true personality and will of God. They believe the Jewish and Christian Bibles are misrepresentations of truth. They believe God did not create a covenant with Isaac and Jacob, but rather with Abraham’s firstborn son Ishmael. Worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as Christians and Jews do?” asks Farah. “Here is the key to illustrating his error: Do Muslims even claim to “But, with his latest effort to find common theological ground with Muslims and suggesting Christians and Muslims worship the same God, the man dubbed ‘America’s Pastor’ by the secular media is getting very close to heresy – if not crossing the line. “I’ve had a number of issues with Rick Warren over the years,” writes syndicated conservative columnist Farah, a former executive news editor at the right-of-center Los Angeles Herald Examiner and Sacramento Union newspapers. So, what’s wrong with a dinner and soccer game?
Hinch then notes that Saddleback worshippers have invited Muslims to a Christmas dinner and even played interfaith soccer at a picnic in Irvine “attended by more than 300 people.” The game was not Christians vs Muslims, but “pitted pastors and imams against teens from both faiths,” reports Hinch. Warren has broken Ramadan fasts at a Mission Viejo mosque, met Muslim leaders abroad and addressed 8,000 Muslims at a national convention in Washington D.C.” “The effort, informally dubbed King’s Way, caps years of outreach between Warren and Muslims. Rick Warren,” writes the Register’s Jim Hinch, “one of America’s most influential Christian leaders, has embarked on an effort to heal divisions between evangelical Christians and Muslims by partnering with Southern California mosques and proposing a set of theological principles that includes acknowledging that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
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