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IN RESPONSE TO ALEX NXUMALO

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Editor,

Kindly publish my letter that is in response to an article by your columnist Alex Nxumalo, which appeared in your Times SUNDAY of 05-04-15. May I on the outset say that I find it difficult to deal with Nxumalo as pertains to our engagement in this particular type of discourse, owing to his tendency to become irrelevant to the main points of argument.

 I say this because the obsession he has for the Godly servant hood and saintly mentorship of the three denominations (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, global Living Church of God) has so overwhelmed him, such that he has dedicated all his efforts in their defence, castigating me in the process, of being unethical towards them without any scriptural exposition to prove me wrong on what I said about him and them. Pursuant to his denial of being born-again, his readership is curiously waiting to hear from him how such becomes a Christian virtue.


I am sure they would love to know more about this version of Christianity that frowns at a spiritual rebirth. They can confide in him if he unequivocally identifies the log in my own eye subsequent to my identifying of the speck in his own. What I know from a biblical perspective is that, those who received Christ were given the power to become children of God because they had been born of God, John 1:12-13. Peter blesses God for having begotten us anew into a living hope, 1Peter 1:3.

He farther exhorts believers that they’ve been born again by the Word of God, 1Peter 1:23. This is in keeping with what Christ told Nicodemus what qualifies a man to enter Heaven, John 3:3. The only way to dispute this is only through utter defiance of scripture. To the naïve rank and file, the idiom (don’t judge, so you are not....) may sound very scary. But those who are learned know that this is a ploy always employed by those who are on the wrong side of biblical truth to hide falsehood. When they shout, ‘don’t judge’, their motive is to repel criticism that exposes them. Jesus once said, “And this the condemnation, that light is come into the world, but men loved darkness, rather than light, because their deeds were evil,” John 3:19

Abednego Dlamini
Lobamba

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