What more can I say....?

Question

What more can I say when witnessing to people? They constantly ask me what proof do you have to prove God truly exists? And my answer will be "You need proof? It's called faith! And you need to find some. You're the one who gets to decide whether or not you go to heaven. I can only help you learn about God but it is you who decides to believe in Him or not." But the problem is I feel like I need more to say. And what else can I say when they ask, "What makes you think you're right and I am wrong?" I am young and pretty new at this so I could use any help at all. Thanks so much. God Bless you.

Answer 1

This is what people find so maddening about Christians. This is exactly why good loving people sometimes get angry with Christians. You actually need to listen to what they are saying. You need to try to understand how what you are doing is making them feel.

It hurts your feelings when someone pokes fun or makes disparaging comments about what you believe in. You know it does. People’s beliefs are precious to them, just as yours are precious to you. Simply thinking or saying but my beliefs are right and theirs are wrong does not help. In fact it is always seen as arrogant and often comes off making the one saying it sound like a fool.

People believe in what makes sense to them from their perspective, even if it makes no sense logically when it is looked at from any other perspective. Look around you at the great diversity the creator has given us to experience in this life. See the colorful and ever changing panorama that we have here to experience within. If this shows us any one thing about our creator, it makes it apparent that He/She loves this idea of diversity. If you look at any aspect of life, trees, birds, languages, or even sunsets you see an almost dizzying array of possibilities. This life we have been given by our Father/Mother God is a veritable feast of diversity from which we may chose what pleases us.

Such is the gift this life we have been given. Why is it so hard to imagine that our creator’s obvious love for diversity would not extend to the way his children expressed their love for him? If it seemed appropriate to have thousands of types of insects, birds, trees and sunsets etc. how likely is it that She would have suddenly become so narrow minded when it came to ways to express ones faith. Think about it. Just for a moment forget what you have been told over and over about their being only one correct way to approach God. Would this God who so obviously thrives on diversity even want that? When viewed from this perspective it makes one wonder about the source of the my-way or the highway idea of god. Sounds a lot more like ego bound narrow-minded human control issues than the work of our God who seems to have made diversity his trademark.

There is only one God; He/She has had many names. After all should we expect people who speak different languages to all call God by the same name? This would hardly seem to be a logical expectation. Jesus told us to love our neighbor, not to judge our neighbor or try to fix our neighbor, Only to love them. We are hardly being loving when we are insulting the way they express their love for our creator by telling them we have a better way. This can only make us seen like an arrogant know it all. The obvious consequence being our comments will hurt their feelings and they will say or do something to return the insult.

If we want our faith to grow we need to stop going around singing “MY Gods better than your God “. We need to shut up about their beliefs and start teaching by example. If we have learned anything about loving our neighbors like Jesus asked us to, it will show. People will be drawn to this loving belief system and want to know more about it. This is what being a Christian means. Anything else is just being an arrogant know it all.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

Let me ask you this: How do you react to telemarketers?

Isn't it irritating when someone calls you out of the blue and asks you repeatedly if you want to buy something? Have you ever gotten a call like that where you're trying to be polite, but the person continues to tell you about the product, are very insistent, and won't let you say goodbye because they keep adding more information to try and convince you to buy?

Usually people hang up on telemarketers. That's because if they wanted to buy the product, they would go to the source themselves.

If people want to be Christian, it isn't as if there's a lack of access or information about Christianity. Many people who have not chosen Christianity have done so with the same amount of reflection and consideration that I'm sure you gave before you chose it. It may be hard to believe that two people could give equal thought and contemplation on the same subject and come to opposite conclusions, but it happens every day. You have no right to believe that your conclusion is any more valid than theirs.

You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it. So focus on your own faith and leave eveyone else to theirs.

Answer 3

As a Christian; I am not going to tell you 'Such and such' for now. I will offer you this test though, and let you decide things for yourself presently.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us that 'all scripture is given by God...'.
Question; According to the index, the old testament is Genesis-Malachi. If one applies Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1, the old testament is law of Moses;
witnesses;
Joshua (Joshua 8:31), Nehemiah (Nehimiah 8:1), David (2 Kings 2:3), Solomon (1 Kings 8:9), Malachi (Malachi 4:4), Jesus (Matt. 19:7-9), God the Father (Matt. 17, secondinmg whatever Jesus says) , Paul (2 Cor. 3:13-14), and others too.
So is the scriptural old testament Genesis-Malachi, or the law of Moses?
Could you ask them how they define 'old testament'?
May you receive a large pleasant surprise today!!!!!!

Answer 4

As an Atheist, I can tell you something helpful... and I'm going to be nice because you stated you are young.

When you use "faith" to explain your beliefs when "witnessing"... it's just like if a little kid asks you why you don't believe in the tooth fairy any more. Faith does not aid you when discussing religion in a forum such as this. It is only for your private use. In here... many people will just chuckle.

It is more helpful to express your own thoughts and opinions, rather than bible verses or faith statements. We will all find you more interesting if you talk from your heart and your mind, rather than just repeat what you've been told.

Answer 5

Best to leave witnessing to the professionals.
My advice is to study history, get some books that present an overview of logic and the history of philosophy, and make sure that you have answers for the difficult theological question. Finally, only witness to those who express an interest.

If you want to put together an argument for the existence of God, read up on modal logic and study Godel's Ontological Proof.

Links:
http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/~cgsmall/ontology.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_ontological_proof
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/Logic/Modal.html
http://www.eastlandscreenprints.com/jh/slm/

Answer 6

I know ur feeling because i felt it many times for the same reasons.
Well, i try to make the people think by themselves, this world did not create itself, this incredible balance of life can't be done by (COINCIDENCE) as most of atheist say.GOD created us, and we will return to GOD after we pass.I hope i helped.

Answer 7

Gosh, I wonder why they don't respond to that...Just leave it alone, Sweetie. Everyone with access to technology has heard the "good news".

Answer 8

Can't you just leave people alone. I get fed up of people trying to force some outdated religious dogma on me.

Answer 9

About 5.5 years ago, faith flew planes ito buildings. It's just not good enough.

Answer 10

you could say "oh, now i see, there is no god!!" with absolute sincerity. i mean it, you should it. stop believing in a fake deity, you just bring down the world's collective iq.