"Only people who accept Christ as their savior can go to heaven"
"It's the Trust because it's written"
"God is Love"
"God made adam and eve, not adam and steve"
The list is almost endless...
Why even use these sorts of sentences in answers to non-theists? You might as well say "Recontrafalidation is probilateristic". To non-theists all the above sentences truly mean exactly the same. Nonsense.
So, why use them?
2006-07-27 14:13:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it's pointless to quote the bible to someone who doesn't believe in it. Quoting the bible to me is the same as telling me the "truth" according to Scientology, that an intergalactic ruler sent aliens to earth and they are now attached to my body. Hogwash. Blessed be.
2006-07-27 14:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand how these statements don't make sense. They are plain English.
Except the one about the "Trust".. I have no idea where you got that. That's not in any Bible I've ever read. So, if that's a real quote then whoever said that is a little screwy.
We say these things... because this is our life. We believe that people who accept Christ go to heaven... after all, would you invite someone who hated you and didn't want anything to do with you or didn't even believe you existed into your house to live with you for the rest of your life?
The one about adam and eve is simply making a point that humans were created to be joined man and woman, not man and man. It's pretty self-explanatory.
We use these phrases because it's what we know.
I do agree that a lot of Christians mindlessly use words and phrases... like "redemption", "sanctification", "Trinity", "God's Will", etc... without having any idea what they really mean and it's just become mindless lingo.
These words and phrases have real meaning. They really do. Some people, unfortunatley, throw them around too carelessly.
2006-07-27 21:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by mywifeisbetterthanyours 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you and your sects continue to bash and use empty statements?
"God doesn't exist"
"God is not love because He sends people to Hell."
"The bible is false or contradictory."
"Evolution is not a theory but a fact"
The list is endless!
Why come to a site where you and your sinner friends don't believe?
You lack morals because you don't believe in sin! You are wasting your time and ours which is nonsense and you don't deserve and is not worthy of real answers whether you think they are empty or not!
P.S. Homosexuality is unnatural and is evil!
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2006-07-27 21:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We say them because we care about you and we want to open a level of curiosity in your heart.
I agree that we sometimes get carried away with "Christian-Speak" and it sounds like gobbledygook. It sure seemed that way to me a few years ago!
But here's the bottom line.
Jesus loves you and wants a personal relationship with you. You can know Him in a real and personal way. He wants to share in your joys, in your sorrows, in your tragedies and in your successes. All you have to do is seek Him.
Rev 3:20 Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and have dinner with him, and he with Me.
2006-07-27 21:22:45 · answer #4 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people believe these things and are trying to give the best answer they know how.
If you don't want to hear it why are you posting questions in the religion section?
2006-07-27 21:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by jymsis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An integral part of much Christian teaching is that God wants you to go around "force-feeding" your views to the unbelievers. It does encourage this in the Bible, and many choose to take it seriously. They never seem to embrace some other things the Bible calls for, however, like stoning their family-members who are unbelievers. ("If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you ... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." -- Dt.13:6-10)
2006-07-27 21:20:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are obligated to in obedience to God. It is because we do that one day, when you stand before the God you don't believe in, you will not be able to say "no one ever told me"!
2006-07-27 21:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by claypigeon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand your question.
2006-07-27 21:18:33 · answer #8 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋