I assume they're scam artists and put my hand on my wallet to make sure they don't steal it. How about you?
2007-11-16 14:50:50 · 18 answers · asked by unconcerned but not indifferent 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's usually pretty safe to assume that anyone who claims to have the ''one true path'' to anything is wrong and is more interested in your financial gullibility than in either helping or saving you.
2007-11-16 14:55:51 · answer #1 · answered by chris m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that everyone's path to God is true, no matter what you believe, no matter whether other people think it's "right" or not. If you feel that your particular path to God resonates deeply inside you as if it were the one true path - then that is it. That path may change in the future, but at the present moment, it is your truth.
However, it's another thing altogether when people try to profess their true path as being the one and only. People should decide about God for themselves, and not force their way of mind down others' throats. There are other, more effective ways of putting forth God's words - for example if your path to God involves being in a state of pure unconditional love, then you should actually *show* the act of pure unconditional love to everyone, rather than talk about it to people who may be unwilling to listen.
If I meet somebody like this I listen to what they have to say but politely refuse any offer to join them (unless their viewpoint resonates deeply within me), as I am happy with my current outlook on who God is. I don't think these people are scam artists - they are just expressing their passion - but I do agree that they would be better to show that passion in a different way.
2007-11-16 15:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I listen. What would you do if someone told you that they have the secret to a loving, life-long relationship with the opposite sex? What if you listened to them and you believed? Why if that decision changed your life and did result in what they said it would? Would you be happy you listened? What if someone told you they just discovered the secret cure for cancer...and they're just about to die and you're the first person they saw to tell before they die? You would listen and start writing franticly if you sensed any ounce of possible truth. You listen first and then think and process. Sometimes you dive in head first and you're surprised with the results. I believe there is absolute truth in the world...and I'll at least give a second or two of thought to anyone who claims to have knowledge of these truths.
2007-11-16 16:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I listen politely. I try not to laugh. I try not to argue, difficult though it may be. And when they ask if I believe, I tell them that indeed I do believe - just not in the same things they do. I grew up in the home of an evangelist. It helped me learn how to deal with people who 'know' I'm wrong, and what things most people, even trained evangelists, aren't ready to hear.
2007-11-16 14:57:05 · answer #4 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the worldwide we live in we've a initiating and an end, the ideas we make in our existence would be certain how we die its no longer God yet loose will. that's like in case you prefer to get into the vehicle and tension to paintings and ensue to get into an twist of destiny on the way its no longer god that brought about the twist of destiny yet your loose will and option to get into the vehicle and tension to paintings possibly in case you are able to have taken a motorbike issues could became out in any different case possibly no longer.
2016-12-16 11:03:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lump them with all the other people and faiths that claim to have the one true path to God.
2007-11-16 14:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I ask them "what about all the people that lived before your religion was invented"? What was there true path?
2007-11-16 14:56:34 · answer #7 · answered by MAD MEL 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no One True Path. We just don't know the answers.
I'd easily just walk away.
2007-11-16 14:54:13 · answer #8 · answered by ♫ Denii ♫ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I say, " thank you, but let me tell my plan first. " I take out my little pocket New Testament, and say, " lets turn to Romans 3:23, then I hand them my Bible and say would you read this out loud for me please." Of course I have a whole program laid out, you see I am a bond-servant of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
2007-11-16 14:58:32 · answer #9 · answered by BOC 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try to mess with their head as much as possible.
2007-11-16 14:54:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋