Christians should save not condemn

I have witnessed many Christians condemn all Muslims no matter if they are radical or not. Christians who believe it is their duty to destroy Islam by the sword. We have Christians calling themselves crusaders, soldiers for Christ yet they have strayed from what a true soldier in Christ should do, and that is spread the Gospel, to show through love, as Christ himself did, that he is the only chance for eternal life.
Christ was sent first to the chosen people of God, the Jewish people. He spread his teaching to guide people back to the ways of his father, through the True teaching. After Jesus was crucified he sent out his disciples, with the power of the Spirit, to call all his children, including gentiles, to salvation. Two of Christ’s chosen, Peter the disciple and Paul the apostle, had the most impact in spreading Christianity to the World, mainly Rome and the rest of the World. The people were the gentiles, or those not of Jewish ancestry. Today we would say gentiles of that time were pagans. Now if Islam existed at the time then Muslims would be considered Gentiles, just like the people Christ sent his chosen teacher to and bring to him. Christ did not say take a sword and force these people to come to me. He did equip his followers with a sword and that sword was his word, his teaching that the Jewish leaders of the time would resist. It was his teachings that would put one against another because some would choose to hold on to the old ways that strayed from God’s word. The war would be between Christ words, his will, and those teachings of man. Somehow, over the years, various people have used Christ’s words as an excuse to take up arms against non-believers. Today, in parts of the world, people believe that taking up the sword against anyone not sharing their faith is doing the will of God. Is it? How is killing someone spreading the Gospel and giving the person a chance to accept Christ as their savior? It does not, it denies that opportunity. Who are we to deny another of Christ’s salvation?
I am not defending Islam or saying that I agree with their interpretation of the path to God. I am not saying we should let Muslim extremists kill innocent people. What I am saying that all children of God deserve the chance of true salvation. We cannot force Christ on anyone because by trying to do so we actually seal off that person’s heart blocking out truth. We will have people calling themselves Christian for fear of the sword not from accepting Christ as their savior, the one true condition for salvation.
If we try to spread Christ’s word by the sword, we do the opposite, we spread hate and our own damnation. Christ’s word is spread by love for of all things that is what opens the heart to acceptance and change.