Christians feeling sad.?

Question

I would like to know what you think about Christians, or other believers of God/Jesus, who feel sad when a loved one does not "have God"

Does anything give believers the right to decide what is sad and what isn't? It seems as if by saying they feel sad for others, they believe they have something better that the non-believers do not. Jesus' love.

My question:

For the non-believers- What is your opinion of the attitude that causes believers to feel "sad" for you?

And to believers- What is it that makes you think it is okay to decide what is sad?

I am neutral on this topic, and I would appreciate answers from both sides.

Thanks. =]

Answer 1

Non-believer here:

It makes me mad, because their sadness is indicative of a culturally superior attitude. They're superior therefore anyone else who doesn't beieve ilke them needs to be "saved" and shown the Ight, else they are going to burn for all eternity.

They don't seem to realize that others might think that THEY are going to burn and need to be saved; the notion that they might be wrong doesn't seem to occur to them.

They obliterated so many beautiful cultures "spreading their word" and we lost so much diversity. If they wouldn't convert, kill them. Burn them. And burning is one of the most horrific ways to go, physiologically speaking. We lost the Aztecs and their civilization, we lost so much of the native American cultures, and the Pacific Islanders, and Africans. Hel, in the "land of Freedom", native Americans weren't allowed to practice their religion unti the 1930's!

And why did the Puritains come here?

And they continue to destroy--they won't allow for homosexuals to marry, they want to outlaw a woman's right to her body (I had an abortion and I am not at all sorry about it!), etc

Plus, the whole Christian mythology is just ludicrus; it's as valid as the Greeks and the Persians and the Osage cosmologies, except less entertaining and a whole lot more insulting to my intelligence. I mean, God loves you, but you gotta accept that because you like women as you do men, you're going to burn. If you don't accept Jesus as your savior, you're gunna burn. If you take God's name in vain, you're gunna burn.

Yeah, God loves me.

(BTW I do believe in God, but not like most people here do)

Answer 2

Sadness and all other feelings are conditions from the heart. Specifically any rights we have down here on this earth are given to human beings. I do not deserve to exist because I am a sinner- at heart! However, it is by the grace of God that I still leave and breathe. Therefore, I chose to acknowledge God's existence, ask God for forgiveness for sinning and accept his forgiveness even though I do not deserve it in any way! I do not have the right to feel sad for others no more than I have the right to live and breathe. But I do live and breathe and feel sad for others, whether it is because they do not believe, or live in poverty, or are mean spirited or can not comprehend human love nor heavenly love!

Answer 3

I am a Christian and I feel sad when someone throws there life away because it hurts a lot of people. Sadness is a personal thing, we (people in general) don't feel sorry for someone because we dislike them or because we think we are better than they are, we feel it because we feel affection for them and don't like to see them hurt. No one else can tell an individual not to feel sad for someone. you say "Does anything give believers the right to decide what is sad and what isn't?" Sadness is a personal thing, not something governed by popular opinion. I do think that Jesus' love is great and wish to share it with everyone, not because of some popularity contest or winning a prize at chrurch, that stuff doesn't matter. I like to see my brothers and sisters happy so I will go to most any lengths to see them get what will make them eternaly happy. Most of all I like to see my Lord happy and I will do Anything He asks of me. Jesus already loves everyone, it is just a matter of letting people know so that they might let Him into their lives.

Answer 4

As a believer I was taught that it is better to have not known than to deny. It is sad but I personally believe that the nonbelievers are just "lost sheep". You are only sad because you are worried about their soul, which makes you a concerned person. You need to worry about yourself though not everyone else they are capable of making their own decisions. As for your question we all have Jesus' love just because someone is confused or does not believe does not mean Jesus or God does not love them. They just have to accept it and they will feel better. The only difference is eternal life in Heaven.

Answer 5

I'm not a "believer" .. I'm a "knower"

But in any case, I know that how a person feels is their individual choice. We each choose our reaction to everything in life, and there isn't much others can do about it.

The reason anyone (believer or non) would want to encourage someone not to be sad is because they love them and want the best for them. No one (who isn't a sick jerk or a vindictive a** o) truly enjoys watching someone they love being sad.

Sadness attracts more problems. If you start your day "bummed", it's a safe bet the rest of the day will be that way also.

True love does not want the object of that love to be sad.

Answer 6

As a Christian I think we don't have a choice of what is and isn;t sad...You have 2 types of feelings--Ones you can control and ones you can't.. You can decide whether or not you think a person is nice... But you can't help feeling sad when someone you know dies or in this case you know a family member is not headed in the right direstion... I am fifteen years old and it isnt my place to judge, but I speak from experience with my own family from my point if view quite a few of my family members are not Christians, but where is it my place to say? But, still I can't help the fact that my heart breaks for them every time I think about it...

Answer 7

You can't control what people feel, nor is the right of anyone to control or judge what someone feels. If Christians are sad about non-believers, that's their right. On the other side, non-believers can feel sad right back at them for their silly ways, or they can just not care at all.

Answer 8

from a Believer: Christianity aside, I have a constitutional right to have a feeling of sadness, as a non believer has the right to not like me for having that emotion.

From another perspective: A Christian may feel sadness, especially when it is for a person close to them, that they do not recognize the Christian plan of salvation. It is more that they are concerned with the afterlife of that person for their own sake, than a feeling of superiority.

Answer 9

this can cheer you up somewhat. there's a heaven yet there is not any hell? A loving God, a God whose loves justice and had justice as one among His features, a God that's popular with we are mere dirt, does no longer set up an section for we dirt balls to struggle through always. are you able to imagine the attempt it would take to save billions and billions of sinners alive and safeguard their anxious structures clean adequate to sense discomfort always? extra expedient to in person-friendly words go away 'em lifeless! and that is what Jah does.(Eccle.9: 5, Isaiah 26: 14) the Bible pronounced that devil would blind the eyes of the unbelievers contained in the merely right days (2 Corinthian4:a million-6) Come on! Get pleased with the real believers. it really is in person-friendly words as Jesus pronounced it could be earlier the pangs of misery ensuing in the destruction of the depraved international. I studied with the Jehovah's Witnesses and positioned a much better comprehend-how of The author. once you come back to an precise information of The author, you come back to have a much better comprehend-how of what a loving God will and could no longer do. How might want to all people truly love a god that would positioned them in an section like hell for eternity? heavily, would not the idea of hell sound something that devil would imagine up?! Please examine Jeremiah 7: 31 And Get satisfied!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

AS a believer, I am sad for those who do not know the Lord, even scared for them. As a believer, I believe that if you don't know him, then as the bible tells us, you will NOT have everlasting life in the Kingdom of Heaven, but you shall perish and go to hell for eternity. That is something to be scared and/or sad about for yourself or others that are not saved. The bible gives me the right to be scared and sad for the non-believers.