A question or maybe it's a dare---when was the last time you tried to talk to someone about ?

Question

God who really didn't want to talk about him but, they needed to badly? This is truly a death defying act. It is not bungi jumping or sky diving but, it is a thrill like no other and if you do not believe it takes courage---try it. Just out of curiosity I dare you to (if your an Atheist) just pretend you are a Christian and try to bring the conversation around to Jesus. You absolutely do not want to because you know what is going to happen. They are going to ridicule you and everything else that you fine upstanding citizens on this site do--- lol.

if your in Iraq or China it just may be death defying for real

Answer 1

there's nothing wrong with sharing your faith and beliefs in a respectful manner-as long as you're willing to allow other viewpoints to be shared with you...but i'll tell you two things that we Christians need to remember:
#1-if we speak to a person with the attitude that 'you need this badly', we will have just offended them into completely closing their ears and minds to what we want to share-no one is receptive to condescension
#2-if we're talking the talk' without 'walking the walk', all people will hear is 'blah blah blah'...i've heard it said that the only bible some people ever read is the lives of Christians they encounter...that is a truly sobering thought...

Answer 2

I actually talk often to people about Jesus and have never been ridiculed or laughed at. People are generally courteous and polite. Maybe it has something to do with my approach?

But then again, I see no real value in talking to someone who isn't interested in listening. This is, in fact, a Biblical principle. Jesus told his followers that when they entered a city if the people weren't receptive to the message, they should "shake the sand off of their sandals" and move on.

You are never going to argue anyone into believing in Jesus. When people do come to believe, it is because the Spirit of God is drawing them, they see something that they need and don't yet have, and they are willing to take the first step of faith and find out if what they see is true and real.

That said there is a very small number of people who respond to the confrontational approach. They tend to be the type of person who needs a firm kick in the pants to get moving. Often these kinds of people don't respond right away, but the confrontation gets them thinking in a new direction.

But direct, forceful confrontation is statistically by far the least effective means of reaching someone. Most people who choose to follow Jesus are swayed through a loving, consistent relationship.

Blessings.

Answer 3

A Christian is to follow the leading of the Holy
Spirit when talking to someone about God. If an unbeliever is open to discussion, it may be that the Holy Spirit has spoken to his or her heart. A Christian should discern through prayer and leadership of the Holy Spirit whether the time is right for witnessing. We can't make people believe the Truth, but we can offer it.

Answer 4

Oh you poor little thing. How could I forget the Christians are always these poor little victims because other people want you to back off and leave them alone. It must be so hard to be "ridiculed" for wanting to push a stranger into your views. They have it far more easier not having to do any talking and the job of just listening to you and submitting to how you think they should live their life.





Victim card pulling control freaks...

Answer 5

As much as you itch to spread your faith, conversion works better when you set a Christlike example. Do that, and the people who need it will come around. Otherwise, they will shun you like the plague as someone who doesn't and will never understand them. This is coming from an agnostic, by the way. There is nothing exclusively Christian about emulating Christ. He is an excellent role model.

Answer 6

My definition of "God" is the natural universe. Kind of hard to deny what you are standing in.

As to Jesus, look up the "Council of Nicea, 325 A.D." where it was first declared that Jesus was a god. Prior to that he was honored as a prophet, but not a God. Christianity is based on a distortion of history. Weird, but true.

Answer 7

I kind of see where you’re coming from, what with the challenge of it and all. But it takes more courage to not believe than to believe. If you want a real “death-defying” challenge, try being an atheist for a day in a country made up 85% of believers, all who say you are going to hell for not believing what they do – even though many of their religious narratives all contradict one another.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
— Elbert Hubbard

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
— Stanislaw J. Lec, (1909-1966)

A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.
— Elbert Hubbard

I was shamed into it by my son, Bill, who came to me in 1960 -- he was 14 then -- and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him. He quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -- pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right. Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical. So we began the suit. And finally we won it. I knew it wasn't going to make me the most popular woman in Baltimore, but I sure as hell didn't anticipate the tidal wave of virulent, vindictive, murderous hatred that thundered down on top of me and my family in its wake.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair, describing why she pursued what eventually became Murray v. Curlett in 1963), in the Playboy Interview (October, 1965)

The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Here goes: "You should be shot!" ... "Why don't you go peddle your slop in Russia?" ... "YOU WICKID ANAMAL" ... "I will KILL you!" ... "Commie, Commie, Commie!" ... "Somebody is going to put a bullet through your fat a*ss, you scum, you masculine Lesbian b*tch!" ... "You will be killed before too long. Or maybe your pretty little baby boy. The queer-looking b*stard. You are a b*tch and your son is a bastard" ... "Sl*t! Sl*t! Sl*t! B*tch sl*t from the Devil!" That'll give you the general idea. Oh -- just one more; I love this one: "May Jesus, who you so vigorously deny, change you into a Paul."
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair, reading some mail from Christians

God, please save me from your followers!
— Bumper Sticker

Answer 8

the LOL joke is that you have deluded yourself into thinking you are wonderful for believing in a fabricatiion....to think that rational, sane people actually want to have anything to do with your prepackaged attempt of a representation of reality is just another example of how forlorn the catholic ego has grown over centuries of egocentric blasphemy. The truly unbelievable thing is that you people can actually stand yourselves....

Answer 9

Obviously they don't feel they need to be talked to badly. This is your opinion, and there are times when you have to know it's better to just keep quiet instead of push something on someone who is not interested in the least. Shhhh!

Answer 10

Are you serious? I'd rather give a lecture on the Joys of Paedophilia to an ante-natal group.

CD