If faith and good feelings in your heart aren't enough to establish truth, then how do you explain the FACT that 33 percent of the world's population is Christian?
2007-10-12 09:51:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How do you explain the fact that 67% AREN'T christian?
2007-10-12 09:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by Officer Uggh 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Fact 1. Faith and truth exist independently of each other.
Fact 2. The truth exists first and remains unchanged regardless of your faith or "good feelings".
Fact 3. People get "good feelings" from heroin, crack and murder.
Fact 4. 33% of the world's population are christian because those very same people believe in Christ, funnily enough.
Fact 5. Some of that 33% are responsible for some of the most evil acts including paedophilia and genocide. Most completely ignore the things they don't like in Jesus's teachings.
Fact 6. It's best to leave the fur on a cat when barbecueing. Just gut it and stuff with chopped onions, Rosemary (the herb, not Aunt Rosemary!) and garlic, wrap it in foil and leave to fester for 30 minutes. When the eyes pop, it's ready.
Some people like to leave the cat alive for that roasty caberet routine which I think is totally unnecessary and interferes with conversation what with all that screeching! Lilly round the corner swears by live cooking and the whole cat boogie thing but she's just plain cruel.
2007-10-13 16:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the best way to establish truth.
Faith is the best way to establish truth.
Fai...............
Erm... it sounds much better MY way...
Truth is the best way to establish faith.
I dont believe blindly. I was there. In church. As a kid. I listened. And prayed. I BEGGED to be saved. The preacher said ask. I asked. I pleaded. I begged. And every sunday kids and grown ups would get up when called to testify and their faces would just frickin' glow.
From an early age I tried to believe... but it never came. I never "got" the sign. I never "felt" the spirit come into me. By the time I was 13 and every kid I went to school with had been saved (except for me) I went to my pastor. He said I must be holding back!!
WTF?? I was doing it WRONG?? "Explain!!" I cried.
He couldnt explain. He could only say I would know it when it happened. It would come suddenly... it would hit me... like a lightening bolt.
That day NEVER came. And I concluded that all those other people that I watched (for years) going down the aisle to testify their saving were deluded.. or lying. Who wants to be left out??? Who wants to be different?? Of COURSE they're going say "Im SAVED! Im SAVED!" and accept the hugs and shoulder pats and head rubbings and all the good wishes and the givens that go along with it.
I dont care if 33% of the world's population is sheep.
As for me and mine, we dwell in reality.
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2007-10-12 10:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
33 percent of the world's population is Christian thanks to an extremely well funded and aggressive missionary branch...
It also means that 67% of the world is not Christian.
Faith is not enough to establish truth. No matter how much I believe 2+2 = 1,000,000, I'll still only have 4 bucks if I work for $2/hr for 2 hours.
2007-10-12 09:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by 006 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-10-12 10:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth isn't truth simply because we believe it is (even us Christians.) Truth is truth because of who Jesus Christ is. If you say you have to have faith in something for it to be true, then you're saying there isn't any absolute truth, it's just what everyone believes. The life, death, resurrection, and deity of Jesus Christ is the truth, whether 67% percent of the world's population believe it or not.
2007-10-12 10:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by auburn_eyes2005 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good feelings in your heart is completely subjective and doesnt validate anything.
Now using your statistics, how do you explain the FACT that 67% of the world's population is not Christian?
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Dang, I thought I answered this pretty fast. It seems that everyone really noticed our questioners fuzzy math. In the future when someone ever says that there are no stupid questions, I think I will give them a hyperlink to this one.
2007-10-12 09:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by WhatsYourProblem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is not a way to establish truth.
Faith also leads you to Muhhamed, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, Ahura Mazda, Quezecoattal, etc.
67% of the world ISN'T christian.
2007-10-12 09:57:06 · answer #8 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
romans let you worship Jesus but
a times new roman font LORD'S GODDESS existed well before Jesus. And the name that comes from both is TODD, and He will grow up to be a Man. So guess i should change My name from Larry to lari? since changing names is legal in this country, it is the basis of my decisions at times.
c h rist i a n
who is h? G+0+d=h
n=I4 and 4=IIII thus n translated equals I4=I IIII
so appearently My RIST scared like I IIII solve the mystery of God's name and why a new name needed? cause of a teenage transaction. sold a name because in this country you can basically pick any name you want.
2007-10-12 10:06:20 · answer #9 · answered by Lord of all Earth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the refusal to search for truth. Refusing to search for truth is not the best way to establish truth.
2007-10-12 09:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
"Loving of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has beside no meaning....Those who preach the doctrine of loving their enemies are in general the greatest prosecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches." – Thomas Paine
"The Bible was established altogether by the sword, and that in the worst use of it -- not to terrify but to extirpate." --- Thomas Paine
"What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rape, cruelty, and murder." – Thomas Paine
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
-Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794
Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of faith. -- Robert Ingersoll
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2007-10-12 09:55:49 · answer #11 · answered by wwhy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋