You have surely read the rebuke of Jesus "'Many shall come claiming LORD Lord we did this and we did that in your name". How did the rebuttle go? So your claim that such died in the cause of Jesus is moot. How do you know they died for Jesus? You don't and you can''t for as scripture notes that all men are liars without exception. What organization sent Jimmy there? Tell me do you recruit for Jesus or does someone else have to ordain you to the field of endeavor? How was Paul ordained? Do todays religious have the same power or motive as those early christians? Do the Mormons recruit for Jesus? Do the Witness's recruit for Jesus? Does the Pope or Mr Moon? How about them baptists and the many others? Or is more likely they are selfishly recruiting for their own use? Seems to me that they are all recruiting for their own selfish end, that chink that tinkles well in the collection plates. Have you not read where Paul wanted to go and missionary in a certain place and GOD told him no? So how can you be sure that Jimmy your idol christian was sent there to die and be turned into a martry by folks who think that is what makes a martry? Do you even know what it means to be a MARTYR? I read this report of a man who literally took the scriptures and climbed into a tigers cage to SHARE THE GOSPEL as the words say to all CREATURES. Do you know what happened to that zealous soul? He was mauled and eaten. So you tell me, did GOD make a bad tiger or send that fool to convert that tiger? Was he a martyr? If you say he was then we have a big gulf in the understanding of what a martyr is. Maybe then the suicide nuts of Islam really are martyrs, and the blown up, just collateral damage-nothingness. pax
archaeologist Wrote: i see why no one responds to pasha's posts. they make no sense whatsoever. but to address the title of this thread: it depends upon how you measure success and failure for one may be a 'failure' in the eyes of a human but in God's eyes He is still a success simply because they obeyed. I cite the lost lives of the 5 missionaries to an inhospitable tribe in south america, jim elliot was one of the ones killed as soon as they got out of their plane. to the world their actions were a failure and a waste but to God, they were but a seed placed into the ground taking root which led to later successes.