 Do Not Proselytize
3. You should not give what is holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, turn round and rend you. (Chap. 27:3
Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:
It is not in accordance with the eternal law of free will that you go with the words of truth from place to place, from house to house, using your skills to persuade and convince, proselytizing to every one you get hold of. For that would mean that you do not hold the truth sacred, and do as it is figuratively written, “You should not give what is holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before the swine.” This means, you should not force the word of God on your neighbor. The one who thinks his neighbor should believe and accept what he thinks he is convinced of still has doubt himself and questions his own belief.
To proselytize means to want to convince. Who ever wants to convince is himself not convinced in his own inner being of what he extols.
However, be good role models in your belief and not those who proselytize. You can offer the body of your belief and leave everyone the option, to believe in it or not, to go along with you or not.
The freedom in God is an aspect of the eternal law. If your neighbor approaches you of his own free will and asks you about your belief, he is taking the first step toward you; and the one who is firm in his belief will then go toward his neighbor and answer him.
Whoever is linked with his neighbor in a divine way will not tie him to his belief – but will share with him only as much as he himself has recognized and actualized. Only the person who has developed little selfless love will want to tie his neighbor to his belief.
For this reason, beware of the overly zealous, who want to convince you of their belief. Offer the eternal truth in the spoken and written word – and live accordingly yourselves; then, those who have recognized the life in themselves will come to you.
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