Christians do you really and truly understand why you cannot accept the beliefs of other Religions?

Question

If you do, then maybe you can appreciate why many others don't accept yours. They are just as strong in their beliefs as you are. Including the Atheists and Agnostics. No one appreciates your beliefs that all must be converted.

Caesar - You should have read the question before you replied. No one said that your beliefs were wrong. I said no one appreciates your attempts at trying to convert everyone else.

Answer 1

As a Christian, I do not try to convert others. If they ask me, then I will tell them what I believe and why. If they understand, and still don't believe - that is their choice - and I don't get upset about it. I respect others, and their right to their own beliefs. Why? Because that is the humane way to act, and also because the bible tells me not to judge others. Therefore, I won't.

Answer 2

" No one appreciates your beliefs that all must be converted."

It's not a matter of whether or not people appreciate my beliefs. It is a matter of whether or not Jesus knew what He was talking about when He said that He was the way, the truth and the life and that no one could come to the Father apart from Him.

I understand why people from other religions don't appreciate being told that they don't serve God the way that He wants them to. But just because people hold different beliefs doesn't make them all equal unless they are all equally wrong. That's the law of non-contradiction.

But it goes way back to the book of Genesis. Abel brought God a lamb as a sacrifice which was symbolic of the sacrifice that God himself would provide for our sins. Cain brought a beautiful offering of fruit that he had worked very hard to get together and give to God. God didn't want the imperfect works of our own hands for a sacrifice. He wanted the sacrifice that He had ordained and all of Cain's good intentions didn't matter.

That's the way it is with non-Christian religions. They all have their own teachings about what a person has to do and not do in order to be accepted by God. God says that on our own we can never be accepted in his sight because all have sinned and fallen short of his perfect standard of righteousness. If we want to be accepted we have to offer the sacrifice that He gave for our sins and not try to bring our own imperfect works of self righteousness before Him like Cain did in a figurative sense.

Answer 3

I respect the fact that others may choose not to believe the way I do. I may even think that they are wrong. But if you think you are right then why should it bother you what any one else thinks about your way of thinking? I am not trying to be rude, I am just asking, that if you are secure in your thinking, then don't let what some Christians say bother you so much. i know I don't let an atheists views upset me. Because I am steadfast in My belief that there is a God.

Answer 4

It is perfectly fine with me that people don't accept my beliefs. I completely understand that everyone is strong in their beliefs. The problem comes when people start to label each other based only on their misconceptions of another's beliefs.

Should I need the appreciation of those that don't agree with me? Do agnostics and atheists appreciate my theology? Not, likely.

Answer 5

I'm a Christian, and I accept the fact that not everyone in the world is a Christian. Just because I personally chose Christianity doesn't mean that I go around cutting down other people for practicing their religion, or lack of it. People are free to believe, or disbelieve, whatever they like.

Answer 6

Actually, some do appreciate my efforts to explain why I believe as I do. Here is one of the reasons why I believe that others may not have heard before.

The Christian God was very careful to prove Himself when He had the Bible written. He wanted to make sure you would recognize him as a God when he acted. What he did is predict the future. No person on earth, no medium or psychic, can claim the one hundred percent prediction rate of God. God gave names, dates, and places so we can check out history and verify his work. He even gave us the very words someone would say centuries before the fact!

By taking this route, God would not have to appear and prove himself over and over again to new groups of people.

Now if you wanted everyone to know that you, as God, were going to come as a human being, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.

God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in written form four hundred years before Jesus came. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.

Let me give you an amazing example of prophecy.

“Daniel 11, written in the 6th century B.C., gives an amazingly thorough account of Alexander’s Grecian kingdom, divided first into four competing factions after his death. It predicts details of the struggle between the Ptolemy and Seleucid empires for a period of 160 years, right down to the advent of the Roman Empire. That is why the skeptics used to claim that the book of Daniel could not have been written before 164 B.C., but now we have proof of a much earlier writing text.

“The prophet Isaiah (44:28) gave the name of a king not yet born and of a kingdom not yet instituted and of an event that would not take place for another 150 years. He predicted that a king named Cyrus would commission the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus did come to the throne in Persia, and in the first year of his reign in 538, he issued a decree that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. (See 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3. This prophecy described in the Bible is confirmed by the discovery of a Babylonian inscription.)

“Daniel actually gave the time when Christ would come into the world and die. Daniel (9:24) predicted that Messiah would be cut off (die) 483 Hebrew years after the issuing of the Persian decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes Longimanus issued that decree on March 5, 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8), granting the Jews permission to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. This, too, is confirmed by archeological discoveries. Four hundred eighty-three prophetic years (360 days to a year) and seven days later, Jesus was crucified as predicted. How could a prophet accurately predict the date of Messiah’s death hundreds of years before it took place, unless he was the ‘voice’ of God as he claimed?”

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, we know with certainty the above prophecies date before the occurrence of actual prophesied events.

He has proven His existence perfectly and wonderfully. The Christian God is the true God.

Answer 7

I like that you are stirring up a little controversy. So I'm in. By definition, everything in life has a certain truth value. Everything that is true to you, you believe. Perception. Just because every single time previously that you have dropped a pencil and it falls to the floor doesn't mean that the next pencil you drop will fall to the floor. It may fall to the floor, but then again it may float to the ceiling, you never know. In people's minds, belief is truth. So, to believe something is for it to be true, to that person. So, if one believes that to convert is a good, that is, it is something you should do and it brings the greatest happiness/Godness/love, whatever, then that person will be obliged to do it, as that is the truth, to them. There is an ultimate truth, obviously. Unknown as it may be. But ultimate tolerance must tolerate intolerance. And for there to be no ultimate truths, there must be no ultimate truth of no ultimate truths, and so there must be ultimate truths. God doesn't exist so much as truth. By definition, God is ununderstandable, because he exists outside of time and therefore outside of logic. As time = logic (that is, one thing precedes a another, cause and effect). God is illogical, and therefore can exist by definition. Because only something illogical could exist from nothing, if that is indeed what he exists from, as in reality he doesn't come or exist from anything. Exactly the definition of illogical. Christian, and more pointedly Catholicism has the most evidence behind it for truth. That is, the partial truth value of things are defined by evidence. You read about gravity in a book, your teacher tells you about it, you see and feel it working. Evidence. Result. You firmly believe in gravity. I don't deny the existence of subconcious/hypnosis shortcut to belief systems in people, and I think that the church does employ, (if unknowingly) some of these tactics. But do your research, the most logical religion is Roman Catholicism. And as we do live in time, a logical choice is most likely the best choice. And by logic, we understand God's illogicallness. But then, can logic be applied to illogicalness?

Answer 8

Not all of us are like that. I understand a lot of different religions and their beliefs. I have a minor in philosophy and had to take some religion classes for it. I have always respected other religions. I also don't have a problem with atheists and agnostics. Please don't lump us all together.

Answer 9

I understand why folks don't accept Christianity for the reasons you mentioned. And it isn't my belief, or the Bible's contention that all will or must be converted. We are commanded to go make disciples. When we present the Gospel message, it's up to you what you do with that information.

If I believe that Jesus is who he claimed to be, then I need to let folks know that. I'm neither surprised or hurt when I am rejected on that basis.

Jesus said that no man could come to the Father except through him. That is my message to you. Accepting or rejecting is up to you.

Answer 10

No. Atheists and Agnostics don't tolerate Christianity because Christianity tries to shove their religion down other people's throats. It has nothing to do with how strong a person is with his or her faith. I know Christians that get mad when Jehovah's Witnesses come a-knocking at their door.