How can I say that? Because to accept that you are CHOSEN-that You Are Saved-is to say that ALL others that do not believe like you do are condemned. It is accepting a Prejudiced propensity because in accepting Christ as your savior, you are stating that those who do not believe like you do ARE NOT SAVED, Are Not Chosen and are condemed. There-by accepting this condemnation you have accepted a form of Bigotry that has caused millions of deaths through war and disparity throughout the history of mankind. Why are you so afraid to Live with your fellow human beinmg that you would create Hell on Earth to try to change the world to believe like you do. I believe that You are entitled to your religious views but that to exert them upon others and say WE THE CHRISTIANS rather than WE THE PEOPLE is a considerable error in Judgement and that it lessens the bound of humanity. I believe in the Human spirit and want to see all people prosper, but the bible teaches "Gods Chosen Children" WHO?
2007-10-15 17:32:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Beautifully said! The whole idea of being divinely "chosen" was to reassure the faithful that they wouldn't be abandoned, but time and again, it gets turned into arrogance and a sense of privilege, plus a complete abdication of responsibility for others. The answers you've received here demonstrate it. "God said it," "not my fault," "you need to become saved." "Salvation" becomes a commodity to be possessed, not a world view to be demonstrated. The great majority of Christians seem much more interested in signing you up on a membership roster than in feeding, clothing or visiting a needful stranger. It makes me wonder why Jesus bothered to show an example. Christians seem far more enthusiastic about the way he died than the way he lived.
2007-10-15 18:33:08 · answer #1 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Muslims are not saved. But if they believe in Jesus Christ, they should be reading the Bible and following the path of Jesus to be saved. Muhammad was a false prophet. Jesus warned 'beware of false prophets'. All people on Earth are Gods people. The ones that are saved follow the Path of Jesus Christ to the Father, God. Muhammad got the story a bit mixed up.
2016-05-22 21:31:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely right! Those who do not believe like me are condemned. However, it is not me, nor other Christians who say this. It is God's word.
Prejudiced propensity? Hardly. It is God's desire that all be saved. I am here to plead with anyone to listen to what God says.
Here's an important point you seem to overlook. God does not "choose" who will be saved and who will be condemned. That's a personal choice made by each of us. It seems you have chosen condemnation.
I force my beliefs on no one. I merely present to you the salvation offered by Jesus and His death on the cross. Take it or leave it. Surely you have the intestinal fortitude to make your own decision.
2007-10-15 17:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nice questions you have there.....
well i will try to answer my best about your questiON......
Firstly, being christian is not about chosen or unchosen, but it's merely about how much you have faith to Christ. those who "choose to be christians are not 100% chosen, i dare to say this because, being christian is not as complicated as the human laws.
you said that "..., you are stating that those who do not believe like you do ARE NOT SAVED, Are Not Chosen and are condemed"
my opinion about your statement i think is right, but your main point is only half right, if i see from your main point you are making a sum as a whole, actually it is much better if you see from different point of view. all of the people on this earth are chosen, yet how many of those people want to hear this calling...... although I'm Christian since i was born in this world, the moment when i understand about the purpose of live, i learn all the religions in my country, i learn them with open hearted just like a new child that learn new things, but after learning, lots and lots of questions need answers, and i found it from the Christian side, specially about "THE CHOSEN".
the unwillingness to learn deeply about other religions sometimes taken us into a one perspective mind, but when you explore what you want to belief takes you into a lot of perspectives, and your analytical thought will guide you to the REAL TRUTH .
"There-by accepting this condemnation you have accepted a form of Bigotry that has caused millions of deaths through war and disparity throughout the history of mankind"
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU SAID LIKE THIS BUT, those war (the crusade) happen because they are fanatic about their religion, less understanding caused them like that... but that's history right.... if you see from this era Christian people didn't war like in the history, because they learn by the mistake that they have done in past.. nowadays they spread about the death of jesus with love and no war to spread about the good news...... beside in the history it's not only christian that caused war and disparity, many other also..... please check the history of the religion...
''Why are you so afraid to Live with your fellow human being that you would create Hell on Earth to try to change the world to believe like you do.''
ABOUT THIS i think most christian nowadays never fear to live with human beings, what's the fact you said like this? your statement seems like you wanted ti provoke others. did you realized that many christian are bound with their fellow human beings? no matter the religions, the christian are bound with them, they consider the other human beings as tehir brothers and sisters, so, i 100% disagree with your conclusion.
the spirit humanism is good but did we live just for making kindness only? human spirit drives from different kind of motivations (just go with the flow), if we only follow the flow without knowing the end of the flow, it's almost the same like a lamb...... a stupid lamb, i think.
God gave us brain to think and analyze. so be more realistic in stating your own problem. i think your just dragging it up to the surface.
2007-10-15 18:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by OLGA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world will only see what it wants to....
1 Ne. 16:
2 And it came to pass that I said unto them that I knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.
2007-10-15 18:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once I was blind, now I see.
Until I accepted Christ as savior, I was like you: aggravated by people I thought were "holier than thou".
Now, I see that all humanity must stand before God their judge. Only with the covering offered by Christ will a person stand.
You may feel free to reject it and stay in your burning house. But, I will choose to keep telling the hope to others who like me will flee the wrath to come.
Who are you to stop someone from hearing that truth? It is not I, nor people like me who bring hell on earth. I seek only to enrich and empower those who are without hope.
2007-10-15 17:42:18 · answer #6 · answered by TEK 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We the people are this God blessed nation. We the Christians are a people that God has chosen out of this world - citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
But I wouldn't want you to believe because I say so. But because Jesus sys so. He's the one who pointed to himself and said:
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. (John 3)
So when people want to blame me for believing that only Christians go, I point to him and say, "Jesus spoke the truth. It's not what I say, it's what he said. I didn't make the rules, I am only following them."
2007-10-15 17:50:07 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything is backwards, I agree, that satanism is more pieceful than the christians and their crusades..
There has most likely been more deaths over that bible than any other xenocide or war in history, more than the holocaust, more than stalin...
But they are killing each other , in the name of god...
We have created terrorists in the name of god..."good"
by forcing these crusades upon people ....
witchtrials, the knights of templar, ...exorcisms that have killed, The protestants vs. the catholics, the catholics moving to america, .the native americans slaughtered by the puritans..The IRA... Hitler used christianity, George bush used christianity...the evangelicals against everything, even themselves...The pope and his clergy going after little children...
2007-10-15 19:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To each their own. Did you take a philosophy class or something.
But if you don't believe there is a God. Then why let it bother you what any one thinks about where you will or will not go.
Most Christians want to see every body prosper also.
It is your choice to believe or not. So if you choose to not believe then to you there is no Heaven or hell, or no Gods chosen people, because to you there is no God.
So don't worry , be happy.
2007-10-15 17:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by jenx 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and your Lord, and you will see that He really is the only hope for Peace and love.
Jesus Christ is Love.
2007-10-15 17:42:08 · answer #10 · answered by HolyLamb 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋