Would you think you are so clever if you understood how blind you really are?

Question

My dearest friends, if you do not believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you have been blinded by Satan.

PLEASE take a moment to ask yourself WHY? PLEASE! I beg of you. Why would Satan want to blind you so that you cannot see the Truth and be set free?

I am here ONLY because Jesus Christ is alive, and He wants you to know He IS the way, the truth and the life, and that NO ONE comes to God except through Him.

I am not here to argue or get you to agree with me. I am here only because God cares about YOU.

Answer 1

Prepare to be flamed by self-righteous self-proclaimed gods (notice the little "G") who are so convinced of their own superiority that they will say there is no God and will call you a fool for believing in Him. Remember that many who actually saw the miracles of God and His Son Jesus Christ with their own eyes didn't believe. So keep proclaiming the Gospel and remember that God does not command us to convert souls to Christ -- He simply tells us to share the good news and let everyone who hears make up their own minds.

Answer 2

Ragdefender brought up some interesting points, but i thought that they were a bit too hostile. His comment in itself demonstrated how these types of questions can intimidate others and provoke aggression. Logical decompositions aside, the reason why people respond in hostility to your question is because it is threatening, and it sparks flames of rebellion on all fronts, emotional and intellectual. A benevolant person can be made out to be untrustworthy, and Ragdefender's arguement was based upon the premise that you are an untrustworthy person.

If you want your question to "work", you must rephrase it. Your question is indeed very similar to people knocking on doors trying to "convert" others, but i think you just ask it that way because you do not know any better. Here is my advice to you:
Don't use capital letters, or try to overemphasize your statements - it makes you look too desperate and untrustworthy. Most people will be naturally sceptical of every word that you put into caps lock, or points that you try and emphasize.
Do not be too forceful, i.e. "you must", "you have", "If you do not...then". This makes people feel threatened by your comments and resentful of you.
Be careful when you make your question so dramatic, dramatizing things has the effect of making people think that you are trying to force your opinion on them, which makes them feel that you are untrustworthy.
Avoid the usage of the words "I am....(this or that)", it makes people think that you are arrogant.

There is no point in asking this question if you did not want people to believe what you are saying. It seems like your last statement was made for defensive reasons, because of the hostile way in which you expect people to react to your question.

If i were you, i would ask:
"Do you understand what God is? I beleive that an understanding of God will bring happiness to you. There are many forces at play in our everyday lives which hinder our attempts at understanding what the true nature of reality is. Jesus Christ was a person who exemplified the understanding of the true nature of reality, or God. Christianity attempts to teach people how to understand the world through the eyes of Jesus, and thus understand God."

Answer 3

Thank you for that kind sir (or is it madam?, the username is rather ambiguous so sorry if I got it wrong). I haven't giggled like that in quite a while, so such a silly question was rather refreshing.

Anyway, I thank you, and "God" for deciding that he loves me enough to have someone tell me that though they don't have much in the way of evidence, some unlikely series of events took place millenia ago and a carpenter rose from the dead, and offering to NOT force me into eternal suffering if I believe this explanation. If Satan is blinding me to something, would you be so kind as to point it out rather than alluding that something is there that I'm missing and there's some logical reason to believe that this carpenter was part of a being that created existance?... If he's still around, and is so loving, could you please explain why he doesn't make a simple 4 minute television appearance that could easily save me and billions of others from suffering forever and ever at his hand?

Answer 4

I am not your dearest friend and if you think I am then you are the one blinded by satan. Otherwise stop patronizing people. Jesus WAS the Light of the world. Jesus WAS the way, truth and life. EVERYTHING Jesus WAS He passed on to the Spirit of truth. If you were born of the Spirit you would know this. You and that evil god of the o.t. make a good team keeping people from the kingdom of GOD.

Answer 5

Why would Satan want to blind you so that you cannot see the Truth and be set free?

This part of your question is obvious as Satan has already been Judged and sentenced to perdition, hence one of his names, the Son of Perdition and he wants to take as many as possible with him when he goes.

Remember what Christ said," You have eyes and cannot see, and ears and cannot hear, if the Blind lead the Blind, would they not BOTH fall into a ditch" (Spiritually speaking of course, and paraphrased for simplicity)

Answer 6

No, Jesus blinded YOU, thats why you believe in a lie: Thessalonians 2:11-12: "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned"

Answer 7

god can kiss my homosexual ***! I will not attribute any success ive had in my life to a fallacy! Where was god when the africans were starving or the tradgedy of nine 11....good people live hard lives & peodophiles seem to have the same problems...theres no difference between the good and bad in this world concerning tradgedy & such like.....Your the one who's blind! I bet you been going church since you were a baby so the possibility of you breaking away from the spoon fed dogma you've been fed your whole life is almost impossible....I do have a little faith in you though, come into the light....

Answer 8

You are the blind one. I suggest you wake up by reading "The Origins of Satan" by Elaine Pagels. Next, research all the other "crucified savior" legends that the myth of Jesus was based on. Wake up when you can, k?

Answer 9

Just keep sharing your faith. That is what we are asked to do. Pray for those who persecute you and pray that they receive Salvation. Study your Word so that you can sure in standing and always ready to give a defense of your faith. In the end, you know the truth. The wicked(which even as Christians we were once before) shall cease but unfortunately too late. But they will never claim that they did not have a witness of the truth that they chose to not believe. Stay a living witness in word and deed. God Bless you and everyone.

Answer 10

BULL!

Let's disect this propoganda, and show its ingredients.

1. The SHOUT! to get your attention "You have been blinded by Satan."

Here he tries to grab your attention and make you feel afraid and unsure of what you believe in, without offering much by way of proof or explanation.

2,. Lure to rationalization. "Why would Satan want to blind you"

Here the conclusion comes prior to the premises. He wants you to conclude first that Satan blinded you, and then he wants you to create and invent the reasons for blinding you. This is very common in many religions because they believe first, and then they make up the evidence as they go along.

3. The lure of false hope. "He wants you to know he IS the way"

After the stick came the carrot. After making you unsure of yourself and afraid, he tells you that his God (and only his God) will take care of you.

4. The dismissal of reason. "I am not here to argue or get you to agree with me."

Because discussion bares no relevance to this person. He does not believe in his power of reason because someone has frightened him to believing that reason is Satan's tool to make you blind.

He (and he hopes you too will be) is trapped by his fear and self-doubt. He has created for himself (as he tries to create in you) a need for something greater than himself because he is weak. He dismisses reason because its use requires responsibility. He puts himself in a cage imagining that his actions are the dictates of a higher power, because without this illusion he will feel alone.

So how does one escape such imprisonment. By remembering what you've accomplished, and by not being afraid to be proud of it. It was reason that brought man out of the dark ages. It was reason that allowed man to conquer the globe. The wonders of the world that were created, and the wonders that are still to be, are all done by through the use of man's mind.