When I share the love of Jesus and how he died for each and everyone of us I notice that some people respond with hatred. I am trying to share with them something that is loving, something that is great. I am a Christian and that is what I am supposed to do. If you don't believe or accept what I share why don't you just not answer the question. If I am wrong I lose nothing, I lead a good life but if the non believer is wrong they lose everything.
I know that God is real, I have my own life changing testimonials that I am willing to share with anyone interested.
2006-10-07 06:49:43 · 35 answers · asked by CLEMVIER 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I listen to other people talk about their God and we agree to disagree. I don't come back with hatred. Again I ask if you don't agree with me why even answer the question. Why do feel the need to knock christianity.
2006-10-07 06:58:57 · update #1
Hi! Hope you are having a good weekend. I can't agree with you more on everything you said so well. Don't give up when you are responded with hatred just remember that it takes allot of seeds to make a garden grow. You may not see that person being led to the Lord but you maybe planting a seed that will get them there. It is up to God to touch their hearts. I have come to understand that debating whether or not God exists doesn't win people to Christ because it is a battle of the minds and God wins hearts not minds. However, I do feel your pain! It can be frustrating because you know how much better your life is now than before.
2006-10-07 06:57:56 · answer #1 · answered by Stiletto ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Watch Jim Gaffigan's comedy special, Beyond the Pale, for a discussion of this very topic.
If you're nice and people want to hear your testimonial, that's fine. But it's rude and condescending when people try to force *any* religion down your throat--like nobody's heard of Christianity? It's not like there's no way to find out about it besides *you.* I'm glad you're fired up about Jesus, but you have to remember that many people have already tried Christianity and didn't like it, or have already been exposed to plenty of Christian thought and rejected it.
I doubt you'd react kindly to, say, Wiccan proselytizing, or Buddhist, or Hindu, or Muslim, or...any of the other religious choices out there. So you have to remember that you've found something that works for you and you wouldn't want to be actively recruited for another religion. If you encounter resistance while spreading the Gospel, just put yourself in the other person's shoes and realize that they might be offended by your overtures, just like *you* might be offended by someone trying to convert you.
And don't assume that (some, many, most, a few) non-Christians are filled with hatred. That sounds really paranoid and disrespectful toward other beliefs. Just be low-key, relaxed, do your own thing and respect God, yourself, and others.
2006-10-07 07:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are the fashioned Christians. The first church, which Christ began was once the Catholic church. For the primary thousand years, there was once only one Christian Church. In 1054, it break up into two branches, the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church. There had been most effective two Christian branches for a further 500 years. In 1518, Martin Luther began a third department, Protestantism. The third department splintered into many denominations. You are more commonly spotting that Catholics don't seem to be Protestants. The fashioned Christian Church remains to be Catholic. The Amish is among the MANY Protestant denominations. Jehovah Witnesses don't seem to be a Protestant denomination however an offshoot of Christianity given that they feel Jesus is the angel Michael and now not the Son of God.
2016-08-29 06:30:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were to share with you a love I have in a humanity without God, of how far we could technologically go without religion in the way, and of all the needless deaths due to restrictions on Science, and a belief that there is an afterlife would it bother you.. If there were 200,000,000 in the US that were also Atheists would you be okay with us?
If I were to tell you that all of the evidence points us to no God, only a non thinking nature, and I knew it to be truth, how would you feel?
I think you will find the answer if you read the above. We have incompatible lifestyles. One wishes to further the human species, and the other wishes to further their relationship with God.
Some people are capable of doing both, but it is a very rare quality. I am in support of people having a religion, but not at the expense or delay of our species.
2006-10-07 06:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Most people will mistake you sharing your love of God as you trying to push your belief system on them. In all honesty, it just might be the way that you are saying it that is causing people to take your words in such a manner. That automatically turns people off from wanting to talk to you, espeically when it comes to religion.
Personally, I'm not a big religion person because I doubt certain 'side' beliefs (as in I don't believe in hell). I was raised Catholic (the paganistic side of Christianity) and found that there are too many flaws in the religion - the number one reason being man.
2006-10-07 06:56:36 · answer #5 · answered by analystdevil 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 'hatred' you think you are detecting is simply anger and frustration at the unutterable arrogance and obliviousness that many people detect from fundamentalists. Your 'life changing testimonials' can be explained from many different points of view. One of the least tolerable attitudes that people like you seem to share is that you do not admit to the validity of ANY point of view other than your own. It is your own inability to see the way that your dogmatism comes across that inspires whatever hostility you have decided to define as 'hatred'.
2006-10-07 06:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are not reading your bible very well and whoever told you to witness that way is ignorant. Jesus never went about preaching to unbelievers that way. His testimony was always in response to others asking Him about God and heaven. Those who came out to hear Him, wanted to hear what He had to say, He did not go around like Christians do today and try to convert by pleading and babbling. The Great Commission was not given to the lay people, it was given to the Apostles. Our lives are our testimony and the Lord has already set aside your work for you.
2006-10-07 06:55:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'll tell you why it bothers me: I believe in personal responsibility. This means that I alone am responsible for all the good and bad I have done in my life, and accept full responsibility for my actions. If something I had done in life is so terrible as to warrant an eternity in hell, then so be it. I refuse to allow ANYONE to die for something bad I might have done; past, present, or future; doing so is a blatant act of cowardice, and I refuse to spend eternity as a coward. When you tell me that your Jesus died for me, you imply that I had done something to warrant his death. If I had done something so terrible, I alone will accept full responsibility. How arrogant of your Jesus and you to make such an assumption! I have never in my life done anything so terrible, and it offends me that you should assume that I have. It also offends me that you would assume I would be such a coward.
2006-10-07 07:08:30 · answer #8 · answered by digitalquirk 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because most often - the sharing is uninvited. How would you like me to share my Gods with you? My Patron saved my life, helped me to accomplish a lifelong goal, and gave me the wisdom to find purpose in my life again. Should I keep going... even though you didn't ask?
2006-10-07 06:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well... hmm... for me (and just me... not saying others)... I can take a little bit of sharing, as long as its a fair debate. You know? You might be right, I might be right. We won't know for certain till we die. LOL.
No umm anyway... I guess alot of people react that way not necessarily because of anything youve done, but because of things that Christianity has done... and what certain prominent members of the Church have done. I mean in my case... why would I want to be a part of a religion that says Im going to hell because of who I have sex with? Why shouldn't I join a religion that accepts me for me? See in a non-Christians view, they are also right... their beliefs will take them to Heaven. People like me believe that if christianity is your way, then thats fantastic. I hope it works for you. :) Its just not really my way is all. But Im usually happy to listen to people as long as they don't get insulting or angry if I disagree with them.
2006-10-07 06:56:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋