Christians why do you think God can't see through you insincerity!?

Question

I see so many Christians post stuff like why don't you belive in god then if youre right youll win.if youre rong then nothing is lost!
Also how can you be sincere if you don't alow youreself to question the bible, not that it can be sincerely belived anyways its been proved to be false on many isues. do I need to list them?
Creation
location of earth at centre of universe
4 corners of world
the list just goes on!

Answer 1

At last! An excellent point in my opinion. If God created humans, then he made us capable of questioning everything around us. Otherwise, we'd never have developed technology, learnt how to advance as a society and form our own opinions. So if he created us that way, why wouldn't we question the Bible and all it states?
Maybe it's right, maybe it isn't. Surely the challenge is for us to discover that for ourselves, not effectively be told "think like us or go to hell!" If there is a God, we have to hope he's proud that we think for ourselves.

Answer 2

God will see through anyone's insincerity.

I would hope that Christians have questioned the Bible, and found it to be true and from God.

Regarding the so-called "false issues" of the bible.

The creation account in the bible is not supposed to be a geographical account, it is scripture.

There is nothing in the bible that suggests that the earth is at the center of the Universe.

The 4 corners of the world are not literal corners, but figurative speech.

God does live and any person on this earth would benefit from knowing Him and that there is a plan for all of us.

Answer 3

I can only speak from personal experience as a Christian, I have a problem with organised religion as it is and have spent much time both openly and privately quastioning all sorts of things. All I can say is that God sees right into your soul, insecurities and everything else that is mean and nasty as well as good and pure, and He still loves you anyway. Problem with so many Christians is that because you're not supposed to have these feelings, (the church says) and you are supposed to love each other (Jesus says), they deny having feelings like insecurity, jealousy, envy, hate, malice etc etc.
In my opinion, the Bible is the Word of God. It is full of stories put there to illustrate things to us. The world created in seven days? who knows, things would have been written all that time ago in ways that the people of the time would have understood, given their immense superstition and limited knowledge. However, the Gospels, the actual teachings of Jesus, are in plain spoken text, and I believe them to be true. Really, they are the most important bits. Go ahead question. If you were small and curious you would go to your ~Dad and ask him how a train worked or thunder happened right? Well God as your loving Father will answer your questions, but you have to give him some inner peace to hear his answer. You'll know it when it comes

Answer 4

I think that there are so many people out there adopting the name Christian but dont live it. If you look at Christianity, the iportant things is the basics. Which is: Our relationship we have with God. If you believe that when you die you will go somewhere then I am happy for you because that means you understand that there is a purpose that lasts longer than just how old we get. But this where you then have to make the decision on what you believe in and whether that will take you to whereb you want to be. If you dont belive God then dont ask people to explain there belief system to you unless you are genuinly interested therein.
As a Christian myself I do know that what is important is that I live a life faithfull to God and talk to him regularly. If you for some reason think I might be senial or insane, I would like to challenge you to when you ar on your in your bed, to just lie there: and I dare you to say: GOD IF YOU WANT ME KNOW WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT ......THEN SHOW ME SOMEHOW. And to end I want to say that I respect evryones opinion and understanding of there belief systems and backgrounds and hope you make the best decisions for yourselves.

Answer 5

Creationists and evolutionists, Christians and non-Christians all have the same evidence—the same facts. Think about it: we all have the same earth, the same fossil layers, the same animals and plants, the same stars—the facts are all the same.

The difference is in the way we all interpret the facts. And why do we interpret facts differently? Because we start with different presuppositions. These are things that are assumed to be true, without being able to prove them. These then become the basis for other conclusions. All reasoning is based on presuppositions (also called axioms). This becomes especially relevant when dealing with past events.

We all exist in the present—and the facts all exist in the present. When one is trying to understand how the evidence came about (Where did the animals come from? How did the fossil layers form? etc.), what we are actually trying to do is to connect the past to the present.

However, if we weren’t there in the past to observe events, how can we know what happened so we can explain the present? It would be great to have a time machine so we could know for sure about past events.

Christians of course claim they do, in a sense, have a ‘time machine’. They have a book called the Bible which claims to be the Word of God who has always been there, and has revealed to us the major events of the past about which we need to know.

On the basis of these events (Creation, Fall, Flood, Babel, etc.), we have a set of presuppositions to build a way of thinking which enables us to interpret the evidence of the present.

Evolutionists have certain beliefs about the past/present that they presuppose, e.g. no God (or at least none who performed acts of special creation), so they build a different way of thinking to interpret the evidence of the present.

Thus, when Christians and non-Christians argue about the evidence, in reality they are arguing about their interpretations based on their presuppositions.

That’s why the argument often turns into something like:

‘Can’t you see what I’m talking about?’

‘No, I can’t. Don’t you see how wrong you are?’

‘No, I’m not wrong. It’s obvious that I’m right.’

‘No, it’s not obvious.’ And so on.

These two people are arguing about the same evidence, but they are looking at the evidence through different glasses.

It’s not until these two people recognize the argument is really about the presuppositions they have to start with, that they will begin to deal with the foundational reasons for their different beliefs. A person will not interpret the evidence differently until they put on a different set of glasses—which means to change one’s presuppositions.

I’ve found that a Christian who understands these things can actually put on the evolutionist’s glasses (without accepting the presuppositions as true) and understand how they look at evidence. However, for a number of reasons, including spiritual ones, a non-Christian usually can’t put on the Christian’s glasses—unless they recognize the presuppositional nature of the battle and are thus beginning to question their own presuppositions.

It is of course sometimes possible that just by presenting ‘evidence’, you can convince a person that a particular scientific argument for creation makes sense ‘on the facts’. But usually, if that person then hears a different interpretation of the same evidence that seems better than yours, that person will swing away from your argument, thinking they have found ‘stronger facts’.

However, if you had helped the person to understand this issue of presuppositions, then they will be better able to recognize this for what it is—a different interpretation based on differing presuppositions—i.e. starting beliefs.

As a teacher, I found that whenever I taught the students what I thought were the ‘facts’ for creation, then their other teacher would just re-interpret the facts. The students would then come back to me saying, ‘Well sir, you need to try again.’

However, when I learned to teach my students how we interpret facts, and how interpretations are based on our presuppositions, then when the other teacher tried to reinterpret the facts, the students would challenge the teacher’s basic assumptions. Then it wasn’t the students who came back to me, but the other teacher! This teacher was upset with me because the students wouldn’t accept her interpretation of the evidence and challenged the very basis of her thinking.

What was happening was that I had learned to teach the students how to think rather than just what to think. What a difference that made to my class! I have been overjoyed to find, sometimes decades later, some of those students telling me how they became active, solid Christians as a result.

Answer 6

I am a Christian. I believe that God can, of course, see through insincerity. I think that the "right/wrong" debate is simply saying, if you believe (truly believe, not insincerely) that you are saved, and if you truly believe, even if it does all turn out to be false, no harm done.

I really don't care what anyone can "prove" about anything. I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe, and I can respect that. The world would be boring if we were all the same.

Answer 7

Ask questions, use the mind God gave you. When I questioned the bible I came away with an even stronger faith than I had before.
God can see through any wrong motive. He is our judge because He knows our hearts and minds. I cannot believe that you know whats in the heart of every christian so please dont generalize by saying that all christians are insincere.

Answer 8

Many Christians "question" the bible, there's a thing called theology. There are holes in creationism, paganism, communism, etc. It doesn't change their sincerity though does it?

Answer 9

I know what's in my heart and so does God. If I am insincere about anything it is not affecting anyone but me, since God knows. And you don't know what is in people's hearts. A lot of people preach " don't judge" on here. So, going along with the crowd, I am going to say " don't judge"

Answer 10

My answer the first part of your question : The same as anybody else - by trying to bluff ourselfs when it suits us.
People who understand the bible to be a spititual book, have no problem with the interpretation thereof.
Regards.