Be a light upon the world, blameless, but be ready to defend yourself when the need arises.

God is such a respecter of free will that even the angels have the freedom to rebel against Him as 1/3 of the angels did. If we are to be people of God we must respect free will as He does.

The children of Abraham have a special place in God's eye because Abraham, at a time when many others bowed to pagan gods, kept God's commandments. God made a covenant with Abraham and kept it. Abraham's descendants had the unique privilege of direct instruction from God during the Exodus. This instruction was illustrative of many truths. "The wages of sin is death" was a literal reality to foreshadow the second death that comes from not having accepted God (pre-Christ). The provision for food six days of the week with a double portion on the sixth day was instructive of the Sabbath and that they were to dwell with family and with God on the Seventh day (that's Saturday, btw.) The temple sacrifices at the Ark of the Covenant were illustrative of the truth that only death can remit sin. These sacrifices of doves, cows, goats, and lambs all point to the final sacrifice of the Lamb of God who remits the sin of the entire world for all time.

That sacrifice is one we, individually, must accept. It is our choice to be saved or not. God does not force it on us. We choose, by our actions, our thoughts, whether to submit ourselves to Christ as a bride submits herself to the bridegroom, we choose whether we are the adopted children of God by treating Him with love, respect and obeisance as a child does his Father.

If we go forcing our faith onto others we act contrary to God's nature and actions. We are in fact acting sinfully. Further, forced faith destroys the possibility of real faith. Real faith is a choice. God desires real, true, faithful, voluntary worship by those who recognize He is worthy of worship and is the only one worthy of it. Everyone we force faith upon is someone we make less likely to practice real faith.