why do christian televangelists insult Christians of other denominations?

Question

People like Benny hinn, marilyn hickey, pat robertson , kenneth copeland and jerry falwell spend most of their time insulting christians of other denominations, and i find that disgusting. why do they do that? dont they know that those christians too follow jesus?

(catholics, anglicans, seventh day adventists, christadelphians and jehovah's witnessess bare the brunt of these insults)

Answer 1

Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian(s)" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 2

It relies upon in case you contain the early church, there have been fairly some Christian communities decrease back then which does no longer be seen Christian in the event that they sprang up at present (The Gnostic cosmology grew to become into a great deal distinctive on how they considered the god of Abraham). maximum would believe Jesus as "'son' of 'god'" and 'messiah', yet having mentioned that, there is a few on the sides that don't. The resurrection is likewise an exceedingly undemanding theory. Virgin start isn't that important. And what "unique sin" ability varies a great deal. that's a confusing taxonomy. that is like attempting to assert what's in undemanding between an Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, and Judaism as practiced formerly King Josiah. If I had to place it into words, i'd say that all of them have faith that Jesus, a Jewish dude who lived in first century Levant, grew to become into uniquely important, divinely so, in forgiving mankind of their improper nature. i think of that covers even the early gnostics. Oh, additionally he have been given performed by making use of the government, undesrvingly so.

Answer 3

FOR RATINGS.

Play into people's fears and they will give you money. To shock is to gain press. It worked for Howard STern, and it's the same tactic for televangelist, only at least publicly not as pornographic. Why give the preachers a hard time for the shock buck if you are going to give Jackass, Family guy, the simpsons and American dad a free reign? It's the same damned thing.

Answer 4

I thought all religions should by definition under the same God that we don't yet understand ..... that's one of my tenants .....
division of sect and peoples equals hell on earth when all the religious are united on the same page their is some chance of stopping the senseless killing but it takes much good judgment and compromise in thinking to evolve to a realistic plateau allowing for this kind of future and who has done that much homework to eliminate the bias and falsehoods permeating our understanding of things today

Answer 5

There's only so much money to go around, that's why. If you can't convince people into joining your cult, you've got to scare them into it.


"Priests-of-the-airwaves
Let the buyer beware, it's a jungle out there
So buy my advice and don't think twice
Then me and your money will go someplace sunny"
- Todd Rundgren, "Day Job" (1991)


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Answer 6

Dude, I think pretty much everyone thinks they are assclowns. Except for the poor people the have bamboozled.

Even God would be chiming in that they are the biggest douche bags in the universe.

Answer 7

I had no ideal this was happening and if so send each a letter and tell them story and see what they have to say about it. Perhaps they too may not even be aware how they are hurting your feelings.

Answer 8

Because if they're in the wrong denomination, they're not sending money to the televangelist.

Answer 9

Who give them the right to do so?
If they did, they would only fail in their purpose. If you acted like them, you would fail too.
The prupose of all religions is love and unity, not of hatred and division.

Answer 10

If people go to other churches it takes the $ out of their coffers.