If you are outraged over this article and you claim Christianity, then you’d better re-open your bible and head to your local confessor because you don’t get it.
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
These are the rules, they are not easy. Major Malik Nadal Hasan is an Islamic killer, praying for him is counter-intuitive, but that’s how the game is played. As long as he is alive his soul is winnable and EVERY soul is worth winning. Let repeat an important fact:
there is nothing more pleasing to God and more frustrating to Satan than to pull a soul ANY SOUL that is “so going to hell” out of the fire.
And lets have a reminder concerning of the text of an important prayer:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one. Matt 6:9-13
That and the two verses that follow are the bottom line. Direct words of Christ, non-optional.
Listen Christianity isn’t easy, it is counter intuitive to man in so many ways, if it wasn’t we wouldn’t struggle sin but as is usually true in life that the best things require the most effort.
And believe me praying for this guy requires effort.
