3. If you had a critical message and wanted to make sure as many people would get it and understand it, how would you go about presenting it?
A. I would send it in a time when there was no mass communications or printing presses
B. I would have my messenger not write anything down regarding my message, trusting others to listen and pass it on accurately and unchanged.
C. I would make sure what is written about my message was contradictory, and very confusing, so people would have a hard time understanding my message.
D. I would write down a clear, non-contradictory, simple book and send it with my messenger in a time of mass communication and the printing press.
2006-12-06 14:06:05 · 7 answers · asked by skeptic 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wouldn't it be a wonderful miracle if you did it through choice A, and your word survived?
Wouldn't it be a wonderful miracle if you did it through choice B, and your word survived?
It's a good thing that C didn't happen, as there are no contradictions in the book that you are so hopelessly trying to discredit.
It would take NO faith to believe in a book delivered through choice D.
2006-12-06 14:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by I'll Try 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A and D I'd choose. JW's have been sending messages for decades. We use every means possible to get out this important message, directed by God and his angels. The recent message was the worldwide tract being distributed all over the world from Oct. 16-Nov. 12/ 2006. We knock on doors, speak to people personally, use the bible, send out publications, use the phone, use the internet, use whatever means possible to warn as many people as possible. This kind of work has been done throughout the world, with over 6 million JW's volunteering their time to help others because of Godly devotion and great love for mankind.
2006-12-06 14:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, but I am not God there for by asking your answering your question it's like you are trying to disprove the bible. The other two questions become quite clear to me as to what they actually mean from their hidden meaning.
I am a pretty open person to some degree and I don't think that my faith has brain washed me as many of those who don't believe in a God per say or even the trinity. My faith isn't determined by when a message was delievered.
It is determined by God who loves me to even come to me and save me from the deepest pit of hell that I have dug my self in. I have been through a lot and I know he is my source of strength. I can only speak through my heart about what I believe because that's is who I am.
2006-12-07 02:19:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, you're saying that if you have an important message to send, you'd just wait a couple thousand years?
I'm not a Christian, but I believe that Deity has revealed itself throughout time, to many different peoples. Christianity has many wonderful lessons, and, personally, I'm glad that the Bible exists; I don't agree with it all, but there are many gems of wisdom. Don't toss the whole thing because you don't believe it all, or that you disagree with the way that some people use it.
2006-12-06 14:11:23 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you have bought into the lie that the lack of agreement among men is because God was not clear when presenting His word. The problem is that men come to the message with preset belief systems that cloud their perception of the word. It is my belief that if we could break down contraversial scriptures and read them simply to a 4 year old they would be able to accurately interpret them because they have no preset position they attempt to justify. If God came to earth today and as you said wrote down His word clearly, without contradiction in a simple book and mass produced it, it would take about 24 hours for major disagreements to surface between men with preset ideas. The problem isn't God. The problem is you and me.
2006-12-06 14:25:04 · answer #5 · answered by yagman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would do what I am doing now. I would share my message with as many people as I could, and trust God to take care of the rest. It is not our job to convert people. We are only required to share the message. I know it is not the answer that you are looking for, but it is my answer. God Bless.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
2006-12-07 01:19:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems like a loaded question to me. If your talking about what God would do, I'd do as He did, use men, filled with the Holy Spirit, to put down my Word.
Man is going to have conflicts over a message like God sent us no matter haw it was given.
That's man for you.
2006-12-06 14:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋