Okay this should be a fairly open question. In other words, if you are a Christian, what non-Christian argument really silenced you, even if you ultimately rejected it? For myself (as a Christian), it is reading Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" which I did for a third time tonight. Somewhere on my backburner of books in progress one of them is a refutation of Age of Reason since some of his claims are incredibly foolish, other parts don't need refuted because he is right, but still he offered the reader to try to refute it if they can, and I personally like testing my faith, and the better the challenge the more effective a result it impedes upon my faith.
Anyway, nevermind all that. I'm not looking for what actually convinced (i.e. converted) you, I'm interested in what you've heard that was truthfully a good argument, though you maintained your beliefs.
2006-12-12 00:00:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For me it was the time that I had an real heart to heart talk with myself and finally had to admit that I was stubborn to the point of ignorance and had been brainwashed by my lifestyle into accepting all that I had been exposed to and feed by the world,I had no faith in God but only in myself and yet I did not have the power or ability to change my life, and so I stepped out with a good deal of uncertainty and just asked God that if He really exists to help me and He sure did.
I still have a long way to go yet in my faith and I am far from being perfect but now at least I can live with myself and accept others more readily,without having to judge.
2006-12-12 00:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The natural mind cannot understand the things of God ie they are beyond comprehension of the natural mind. When this is so there is no way natural reasoning can produce a good argument against the Christian faith.
2006-12-12 08:58:26 · answer #2 · answered by seekfind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J K made a good point. But something that made me think is I once read a book about the supposedly lost years of Jesus. Basically what it said is that Jesus isn't divine... God, but just a good teacher that learned from someone else. The book made for interesting reading, but it was speculation. But it had me questioning things for a while.
It can be dangerous for Christians (especially baby Christians) to read just anything. But thanks be to God, we have the Bible as the source of truth!
2006-12-12 08:12:24 · answer #3 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
everything about christianity turned me away. I realized that ALL religion has to be false because of everything I read that challenged it.
I guess if I had to choose a word that best describes it for me, it would be logic. the logical arguments won me over combined with life experiences.
2006-12-12 08:07:16 · answer #4 · answered by renamed 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have never heard a good argument against Chistianity, because there is none.
2006-12-12 08:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋