In reply to:Moslem countries generally do not encourage Christianity . I believe Christianity is 'forbidden' in some of them ?
So? Is it not true that if Christ died for every person born from this moment on, the Middle East will come to Christ in mass rather soon?
In reply to:Islam breeds Islam and the more stronghold it has the less stronghold the gospel has amongst them.
What in your estimation is an ideal backdrop for irresistible grace and the effectual call of dead men who are elect? Dead in sin is dead in sin.
In reply to:Of course , I know Gods will is being done on earth as it is in heaven , but from where I am stood , Islam will overtake Christianity in sheer numbers for the next few hundred years or so IMHO.
Again, you have simply ignored the fact that the unconverted are equally dead, whether they're Islamic or Roman Catholic or liberal Protestant. Accordingly, you should be arguing that unbelief will overtake the truth in sheer numbers, etc. However, the issue is not numbers per se, but percentages. Isn't Christianity (i.e. numbers of professing evangelicals) growing at a faster rate than unbelief?
In reply to:Roman Catholicism was Christianities biggest enemy for an entire age and Islam is our threat today and will be for quite some time perhaps.
Perhaps, but so what? Roman Catholicism and Islam are just more specific appellations for unbelief. For some reason you will not address this issue.
In reply to:Are there more saved people than unsaved alive today ?
Yes, but, again, so what? Again, we are supposed to be talking about saved people divided by total people vs. unsaved people divided by total people as a trend over time. I’ll grant you that the percentage of Christians can grow even substantially year over year as the delta between unbelievers and believers widens significantly since there are more unbelievers in the world than believers. However, eventually won’t the sheer number of Christians overcome the number of unbelievers? Let’s say that both the unbelieving and believing population doubles every year, yet the believing population also in addition to doubling realizes just a slight increase in percentage over the previous year. Although the delta between believers and unbelievers will widen significantly at first, won’t the spread between the two groups become closer together in time and the believing population even overcome the unbelieving population in sheer numbers eventually?
In reply to: What about a 1000 years ago , or 3000 , or a thousand years from now ?
The trend favors an optimistic view, but as I said, we should not base our eschatological outlook upon such things as trends. I only labor the point because your initial remark, and all subsequent remarks, suggests that the trend is contrary to an optimistic view of the kingdom.
In reply to:Each passing day , I believe that more people reject Christ than accept Him .
I wonder whether you are trying to say that Christians are breeding non-Christians at a faster rate than new converts are being made. Whatever you are saying, the gospel was only rediscovered in all its glory just 450 years ago. Look what has happened since time!
