If a big powerful person made someone submit to an act, (let’s say nonconsensual sex), we call it rape.
If a big powerful person says, love me, my ghost, and my flesh, or I will torture you for eternity in a place called hell.
Do you call it Christian conversion?
2007-01-30 11:08:23 · 8 answers · asked by Devil in Details 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Spiritual rape, I agree.
No real god would hold a knife to our throats and say "convert or die". That's why I reject Christianity.
2007-01-30 11:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by Aeryn Whitley 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Romans 9:20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" (21) Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use? (22) What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, (23) in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory--
2007-01-30 19:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is not forced submission: You have to choose Jesus and he has to choose you. It is very consensual because if you don't agree to love him, he is not going to force you to. He is still going to love you, but you will have no place with him after you die. For example, supposed you have a kid. Would you want to take him to the store if you knew he stole something; and everytime he stole something, you paid the consequnces? You know you would not take him to the store, unless you talked to him first about stealing! That is what God is doing to people who obey him/disobey him. He wants us all with him in heaven, but he doesn't want a unrepentant thief in there with him.
2007-01-30 19:20:49 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa Svetlana Flavored Coffee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The difference is if you believed in God and who he is then you would love him without the threat of hell, and if you don't believe then the threat of hell is meaningless since you can't believe in one but not the other. So technically he isn't forcing you to do anything.
2007-01-30 19:14:18 · answer #4 · answered by tommyguard3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's called free will.
You are presented with many different options in life. And you get to choose.
God would never force His love on anyone.
2007-01-30 19:15:09 · answer #5 · answered by chargersfan 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
as usual, people do not do their research before asking a question. What if a big powerful guy named bubba made you his sex slave? would you submit to that?
2007-01-30 19:13:02 · answer #6 · answered by ConstElation 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
good comparison,
Gothic's call it love for both of them lol pretty morbid isn't it
2007-01-30 19:27:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a damn bit of difference to me.
2007-01-30 19:12:06 · answer #8 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋