>While I do not share her faith, I do not feel the need to denigrate her for it,
>nor does she feel the need to proselytize.


I ask you a question:

Assume the following:
(1) There is a God.
(2) He created man, and woman.
(3) He gave them one command: Do not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil, lest you die.
(4) The woman and man violated God's command, ate from the tree, and died.
(5) God had one punishment for sin: Death (commit one sin: death, commit a billion sins: death).
(6) God commanded that the prescribed "death" is eternal death, as the being committing the sin was an eternal being, and demonstrated by their choices the nature of their being.
(7) God was not content to let His creation die, even though they violated His Law.
(8) He came to Earth as a man, and paid the price of sin. He had no sin, so He could take on a billion sins, or a trillion sins, or a gazillion sins (all of the sins of all the people in the world), and die one death for it/them all.
(9) And because He was God, on the third day He raised Himself back to life, and that life eternal (because He was God).

Now ... given those assumptions, (which are asserted by Biblical teaching, God has prescribed the manner of death for sinners, as well as providing a way out for sinners, that they might not be consumed in their sin by death, but rather be forgiven and prosper into life) ... given this, here is the question:

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Is it wrong to warn people about this (knowing that if you do not warn them, they are already part of and subject to the eternal death sentence component)? And even further, on that final day, how angry would you be with those around you who knew, yet did not speak up to warn you about this final day? You would be furious that they did not "love you enough" to show you the true path.

I love you enough, Marcia, to show you the true path. On that final day you will not have any ability to stand before God, or me, and say, "Rick! Why didn't you tell me?" because I am telling you.

We all have an eternal death sentence hanging over our head. All of us have sinned, and God has one punishment: Eternal death. Those who will receive His offering and come out will be saved, and that offering is His Son's sacrifice at the cross. All one has to do to be saved is say in their heart, "I am a sinner. I deserve the punishment You have prescribed. And I recognize that you, Jesus, died to save me from my sins. I ask you to come into my heart, and to save me, that I too might live on forever. I am in need of forgiveness, and I ask you to come and save me."

All who do that truly will live. And that is all that is required (you must believe in the One whom God sent). And after that acceptance, His Holy Spirit will come and guide you into many changes in your life. A new heart, a new way of thinking, for the old will have passed away, and the new will be born (of the spirit, not of the flesh). It is like having new eyes to see things as they really are, rather than as we see them otherwise with only our natural man senses.

I love you, Marcia. And I write this to you because I want you also to be saved, and be with God forever in eternity, rather than to be wasted in Hell. The choice is yours: humbleness, or hardness. One of those leads to eternal life, the other to eternal damnation.