Some of my friends (Wanda, Chris, Kevin, and maybe others) have posted a documentary video on their Facebook page. I began to ponder what this video meant. This morning, therefore, I took the time to watch it. In the first few seconds into the movie, out comes this question, “Have you heard of Adolf Hitler?” Ray Comfort, who is interviewing the people on the street, is a Jewish and was deeply concerned with this current generation because they are forgetting the greatest tragedy that has happened on the face of human history.
He initiates the conversation by asking them about Adolf Hitler and what they thought about him and if his movement (murdering the Jews) was evil. Surprisingly, some of the people he interviewed didn’t know who he was, let alone showing a photograph of him. Some gave honest opinions and answers, and some were outrageous.
He connects the event of Holocaust to the modern activist of abortion. The people saw the Jews were, indeed, human beings, but what makes it difference in murdering a child in a woman? Comfort gave them a statement and wants them to finish the sentence, “It is okay to kill the child in the womb when ________.” It shockingly challenged them to think about the mentality that they have and what they believe to be moral and true. In addition, he challenges their perspective of abortion, good, evil, sin, God, heaven, hell, judgement, salvation, Jesus, the Cross and the Gospel. As shocking as it was to watch some of the conversations and worldviews expressed in them, the conclusions at the end were equally powerful in their impact.
After watching the documentary, I was confounded by the conversation. It got me thinking more critically about how I go out sharing with my friends to a bunch of strangers. The passion that I have, along with Ray Comfort, is to engage in people’s worldview and asking right questions to get this current generation to think deeper and critically about life. I would lovingly say that a lot of the interviewees were hypocrites. The answers given by one situation contradicts with the other situation. Most of them do value human lives. Knowing that the murder of the Jewish lives is not right, what makes it right to abort a child in a mother’s womb even if the situation (e.g. rape or financial problems or not ready) is different? I would encourage you to take the time and watch the documentary below:
I thoroughly enjoy the fact that Comfort is engaging with strangers and challenging them to think critically. Even through the conversation, he pointed them to Jesus Christ. As a Christian, I desire to be fill with the Holy Spirit and see people discover Jesus. As Apostle Paul said to the church at Rome and Corinth:
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. ” (Romans 1:18-32 ESV)
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.”
(1 Corinthians 1:25-29 ESV)
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV)
Tommy Wong 