I have a friend who is so technical and always is questioning if God is real i try to tell him that he is but he always comes up with all these stupid excuses saying he evolved from an ape.
2007-01-18 15:15:46 · 30 answers · asked by I can answer it 4 U 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why dont you let your friend be who he is and accept that. If you cant you arent a very good friend.
2007-01-18 15:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by Derek 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
One of the best ways is to lead by example. If you walk the walk and talk the talk, sooner or later your friend may, and that is may, get the idea. Some find it hard to believe that there is a chance for them to be accepted just the way that they are and that there is a God that loves them that much. You can also pray for your friend that Jesus will show them the way. Satan likes to play tricks and blind people. That is why it is so important for you to pray for your friend and so them how much Christ has done for you by being the example. Just keep in mind that your friend may not get it real quick. God does things in his time.
2007-01-18 23:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by is4031_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well number 1 pray for him. Be patient with him. Deal with his questions in a compassionate and logical manner. Never tell him that his objections or questions are stupid or inaccurate.
If you would like me to speak to him. I would be willing. You can IM me. Also if there is a specific question/objection he has asked you do not know how to answer it...perhaps I can help IM me.
Plus, focus on the fact that Jesus is the Son of God. Because that is all that matters. Ask him if he believes that Jesus exsisted...and then take him through the book of Mark. The book of Mark is consistently asking "Who is Jesus"
2007-01-18 23:20:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just live the way Jesus told us to live,be an example of who Jesus is, I know that we are not perfect but we must still be the example.And pray for him that his spiritual eyes may open.I don't believe in evolution. Can a cold evolutionize No, a cold can adapt to its evironment and get stronger then the medicine so can a flu every year the flu get more dangeres because it learns to adapt to the medications but that is not evolution, I think evolution falls as the same.
2007-01-18 23:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Smiley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God or Jesus couldn't even convince people they where real.The only why I found to prove Gods word to people was to live it ,and as long as they may learn from your examples then you've made them truly go by Gods word the right way.That's all that matters is that people do good according to scriptures.
Actually God did say that he made us in his image.That doesn't mean we weren't ape looking back then.Christians take this all out of wack in this seance.
God says he made you in his image meaning he made you the way he pictured you to look like in his minds image.
It doesn't mean that when a child is born deformed that ...that's what God looks like.
There is black people.does this mean that God looks black or Chinese or white?No I would think not because he is the Creator of all.I used to think like you do.
But I've come to realize that Image in Gods words could mean anything from ape to lion to tiger.
I do believe in beings from other planets but also believe that God created them.Jesus did say that he is not from this Earth..he is from the heavens above that God created for all of us.I'm not saying that God or Jesus is a Green martian Alain.
Alain merely means stranger.We all know and heard of Jesus so he's no stranger.
2007-01-18 23:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Matty G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pray that God will show him that he is a sinner, that he is blind, and to show him that he, God, is real. He is able to save his people, no matter what they have been lead to believe. People are converted when they see other people living by the standard that they say they believe in also. Ultimately it's God who will open his eyes and save him, we are only witnesses to the truth.
2007-01-18 23:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be quite difficult, I think, to get any person who has any capacity for critical thinking to believe that the fairy tales of the bible are true. For most Christians, to believe in Jesus as the Son of God requires that one also believe that all the primitive fairy tales of bible are literally true. This is too bad, really. There probably are some people---perhaps like your friend---who might be persuaded toward a belief in Jesus Christ, but could never believe that the primitive fairy tales of the bible are literally true.
2007-01-18 23:24:18 · answer #7 · answered by tychobrahe 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Prayer and Action speak louder than anything you could say to Him directly.
Remember God got Paul who once Violently Persecuted Christians. You think your friends intellect can compete with that?
2007-01-18 23:21:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the more you look at science the more it's easier to believe in a Creator. Science is discovering more and more that life is far too complex to have just "Happened" for no reason. It had to be designed.
2007-01-18 23:20:47 · answer #9 · answered by Darktania 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot get anyone to believe but you can be a good example to the friend and plant seeds. Ask God's guidance. He can change people's hearts.
2007-01-18 23:19:34 · answer #10 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell him that you will believe what you want to believe and that he can believe what he wants to believe. Nobody knows the real answer. The beauty of not knowing the answer is so that you can use your mind and heart and with the help of your god (or whatever you believe in) you can come up with your own answer.
2007-01-18 23:23:40 · answer #11 · answered by m-to-the-p 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋