Wow. You two can find fault even with a plea for peace, amazing.
Here's a link to
the full article that Starman failed to provide.
Just because the Vatican wishes/desires/calls for peace doesn't mean the Vatican is rolling over playing dead when it comes to Islamicism. If you want details ask and I'll be happy to provide them to you.
C'mon Radiant1, the essence of this thread continues to be the very fact that
the Vatican is still being "Naive" in believing that Islam can be at peace with the Jewish and Christian faiths as well as all other non-Muslims.
Can a sheep offer a gesture of peace to a wolf and expect the wolf to honor the peace offering? That is the analogy of what is going on.
Even the Holy Bible warns about these "peace gestures" that will be made at the end of days, so, please my friend do not accuse me of finding fault in something that has already been prophesied and which is coming to pass:
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
(1 Thessalonians 5:1-3)
Fact: There cannot be True Peace on Earth until the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, returns to establish the Millennial Kingdom of God ruling from Jerusalem.
The only peace that mankind can establish at this time is the pseudo-peace pact that will be made just prior to the appearance of antichrist and the false prophet. This is the period when there will be the establishment of a One World Government and One World Religion upon this earth. That event needs to happen before the Second Advent of Christ and that is exactly where this world is headed right now. Please re-read the scripture cited above and listen to the news reports of political leaders and religious leaders calling for "peace and safety" in this world. Will they really be able to bring about "peace" among all mankind? No. It has already been prophesied that there will be cries for "peace and safety" but that peace will be brought about through deception and only be short lived before the world is engulfed in a major tribulation period:
Continuation of Thessalonians, Chapter 5:
(To those who are presently Children of God through faith in Jesus Christ)
4: But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5: Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6: Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7: For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8: But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9: For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10: Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11: Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
12: And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13: And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
God does not send people to Hell; People choose Not To Go To Heaven, through the only way possible and Muslims, as well as many in other religions Do Not Accept God's Plan of Salvation.
Jesus said: "I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life; No Man Can Come Unto The Father Except Through Me." (John 14:6)