Why would someone who is unsaved and not a Christian, think they are being "open minded", when they clearly outnumber the number of saved Christians? To be open minded is to go against what the majority insists. We know that the majority does NOT believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Is the majority always right?
Indeed it is those like me who know that Jesus is the only way to heaven, that are open minded enough to understand that this present world is based upon a lie from Satan.
Damning yourself to eternal hell isn't open mindedness. It is sheer stupidity.
2007-02-09 08:13:09 · 27 answers · asked by CJ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laura --
Don't be foolish. 80% may say they believe in "God" or that they are "christians", but 80% would NEVER say that Jesus is the ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN.
Get it?
2007-02-09 08:17:54 · update #1
You can't say, "I'm open minded to all the options out there". There's only TWO options in existence. You are either for Jesus, or you are for Satan. There is no third option. You're not "open minded" at all.
2007-02-09 08:28:17 · update #2
Jesus is the only way to heaven and in order to get to God one must go through him. Jesus wants all of us to be aved and he wants whats in our best need for us.
2007-02-09 08:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by precious 2 · 7⤊ 6⤋
Show me in the bible that this world is based upon a lie from Satan.
For those who believe in the bible - God orginally created the world as a paradise. But even after the fall the world was still in God's control. Humans still had stewardship and favor from God. (See the covenant with Noah). No where does it say that Satan has that kind of control, nor does he control this world or any other. Satan does not rule hell, does not rule earth and has no power. All from a bibical point of view.
As a non-believer I do not think that I am open minded. If I was, I would at least consider Christianity as a viable option. I don't in the slightest. It has nothing to do with being open minded really. What it has to do with is reading the bible, studying what the proclaimed prophecies are and realizing that they are not fulfilled the way Christians say they are. At least for me.
Also show me in the bible where it says that believers are capable of knowing the destination of a soul in the afterlife. I was not aware that humans can know the mind of God and what is in a human heart.
2007-02-09 08:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
"Open minded" indicates a willingness to consider more than the conventional point of view or the current explanation for things as they are. It has nothing to do with the uniqueness of one's beliefs. A person who lives in a bunker and wears a tinfoil hat to keep the aliens from controlling his mind is rare but hardly open minded.
Before the Renaissance, Western Europe was known as "Christendom", the literal Kingdom of God on Earth. With the exception of the occasional, furtive Jew or Muslim, the Roman Christian system was the ONLY system. It was hardly open minded. It took the likes of Wycliff, Hus, Erasmus, Tyndale and Luther to break out of the mindset of their time. Now many of their followers have recast their own mental molds to prevent the contamination of new ideas.
Nearly everyone has conventions and prejudices by which they operate. But open minded people are willing to expose themselves to other cultures and occasionally reconsider their beliefs in light of new evidence and hypotheses. Those who assume they understand everything and close themselves off to the possibility of learning (simply because there is nothing to "learn"), are close minded, whether they are the majority or a tiny cult.
Some information is erroneous, some new ideas are false, but if all are rejected automatically, the good ones are lost as well. Certitude is the antithesis of open-mindedness.
2007-02-09 09:05:46 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jesus could not have been HaMosiach. His parents were ineligable to sire/mother HaMosiach.
Mary's Geneology passes through David, as required, but NOT through Solomon. David and Solomon must both appear in HaMosiach's geneology as they are the most prominant Mosiachs and prefigure HaMosiach. ( II Sam. 7:14; I Chron. 17:11-14, 22:9-10, 28:4-6).
Joseph's geneology passes through Jeconiah, who was cursed by The LORD that his descendants would never sit on the throne as Mosiach. (Jeremiah 22:30; 36:30)
Worse yet, Mary has Shealtiel and Zerubbabel in her geneology, and these are reported to be descendants of Jeconiah. (Luke 3:27, Matthew 1:12)
Jesus has no legitimate claim to the title of HaMosiach, and thus is a false prophet, and thus of Satan. This means all his followers have chosen Satan, the Adversary, over Adonai.
2007-02-09 08:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Maybe you don't understand exactly what open minded means. It's not about siding with the majority or the minority. It's about taking in all of the available information and making your own decision based on what you discover.
To say that someone who faithfully follows an ancient book (despite modern evidence to the contrary) is open minded is pretty absurd.
2007-02-09 08:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Um, you have a rather odd notion of what "open-minded" means.
I'd also be really concerned about my mental health if I believed "this present world is based upon a lie from Satan".
You also seem to be thoroughly deluded about the popularity of Christianity: in the US, anyway, being a Christian amounts to jumping on the bandwagon. It takes independence to not be a Christian. We're the ones bucking the tide, not you.
2007-02-09 08:20:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Chippy is right in that open mindedness means you can see things from different perspectives and you aren't afraid to think or question what you think. What people don't seem to realize that being Christian begins with open mindedness. Looking at who we are in relation to what is going on around us. Asking questions about what we think, what we believe. We are considered "closed minded" when we take all that we have perceived and questions we have asked and made a decision that isn't popular with the world. I am a Christian and consider myself open minded. Just not so open minded that my brains fall out.
2007-02-09 08:23:54 · answer #7 · answered by Deus Luminarium 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
For you are simply wrong and so are the teachings that say the only way to heaven is through Jesus christ.I believe inGod but the bible is not proof of Jesus being the son Of God and no one is going to hell just for believing like me,no matter what you say.God is within a person and not in a book written by fallible men.He guides you with his love and compassion and he answers my prayers and i do good works and please leave the judging of man to him,not christian dogma.
2007-02-09 08:25:17 · answer #8 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
If irony was a food, I'd be having a feast right now...
You seem to have a skewed view of "open mindedness"
Definition of open-minded- receptive to arguments or ideas
That sounds like nothing you just said!
2007-02-09 09:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by supersuddendeath 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Basically because to them obviously you seem closed minded by believing that a person who rose from the dead and floated into the sky even though you have no proof. I dont know, to Me it just seems a little bit Shady to not to only teach others to believe this to other broken gullible soles and to children. I wouldn't call it so much closed minded though. All though To Each His Own.
I don't see any one else flying into the sky or walking on water now a days like it says in the bible unless there a magician.
2007-02-09 08:16:55 · answer #10 · answered by mary jane l 1 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Well.... sorry to burst your bubble but not everyone in this world thinks alike. And a lot of "saved" people look down upon others who are "unsaved." That is stupidity and ignorance. There are too many people in this world for us all to have the same beliefs.
It is obvious that you are narrow minded. I personally would rather be "damning myself to hell" than think like you.
2007-02-09 08:21:20 · answer #11 · answered by maybe 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋