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Millions of people are advocates and practice Yoruba.
Other than usual story about salvation, what would tell them to convince them to convert?
Actually, the religion is called Ifa, and it is practiced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin. It is the precursor to Voodoo and Santeria and incorporates pantheistic principals.
I would say that there is really no reason for them to convert if they are happy with their religion. Other than the salvation thingy.
A former professor of mine was/is a Voodoo priest. Actually, he converted from Catholicism to this. He's a good man though.
I didn't agree with much of his views and comments about Christianity, but that's okay, he had many other qualities I admired and liked. Some things I learned in his class I still use to this day.
I wouldn't try to convert someone into Santeria or Voodoo or other variations found in the Americas and Caribbean.
One thing that really irks me about Catholicism today--and mind you I get that volunteering and looking outside yourself help to dilute your self-centeredness and inwardness--but you can't become a Green Bay Packer just by showing up at the stadium for a prep rally. It takes conditioning.
What I'm saying is I have too many problems and faults to be a part of some Christian or Catholic prep rally trying to act like a guru of spiritual fitness. The spiritual athlete it's either St. Paul or John speaks about in the New Testament.
I don't fast, I don't go to Mass, I have vices, and I depend on Christ. The last part is the only for sure good thing. The only "conversion" thing I have to tell anyone be they in Voodoo or some Hindu sect, is to be careful in what you do because you can end up being damned to hell.
Millions of people are advocates and practice Yoruba.
Other than usual story about salvation, what would tell them to convince them to convert?
I have no idea what Yoruba is. But without Christ, no one can get to heaven. If a person dies without trusting Christ, they will go to hell. That's reason enough. It's not about having your best life now, or a fulfilled life....it's about where a person will spend eternity.
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I have no idea what Yoruba is. But without Christ, no one can get to heaven. If a person dies without trusting Christ, they will go to hell. That's reason enough. It's not about having your best life now, or a fulfilled life....it's about where a person will spend eternity.
I suspect most would not worry about salvation, as it is not the central part of their belief system as it is in Christianity. As such I would suspect most would not be listening to the New Testament story. Certainly they would have a repulsion as most people do to the Old Testament stories. There's just too much killing raping and pillaging in there for anybody's morals.
I suspect most would not worry about salvation, as it is not the central part of their belief system as it is in Christianity. As such I would suspect most would not be listening to the New Testament story. Certainly they would have a repulsion as most people do to the Old Testament stories. There's just too much killing raping and pillaging in there for anybody's morals.
As I've repeatedly mentioned, if you don't understand the context, it would look that way, wouldn't it?
That word context is something use regularly. Interesting enough nobody ever says what the context should be.
You seem to suggest that the violence in the OT was wrong. Why? If you understand the context you'd realize it was justified.
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