Why Are Bible Teachers and Preachers Avoiding Certain Topics?
Why are they avoiding topics like hell, the lake of fire, the great white throne judgement and so many others that churchgoers should know very well?
Are they trying not to offend people?
Maybe they say: "If we offend our congregation, they will leave our church and thus reduce the offering."
What's the real story?
Anyone?
2007-12-22 02:28:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Paul told us this would happen.
"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (II Timothy 4:3)
2007-12-22 02:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
What I have found is that the Bible is so complex, deep and convoluted that it's almost impossible to be a professional in all areas of Scripture. This is why many pastors and priests only cover certain things. They really don't know what the other stuff is saying.
Also, understand that the deeper you go into Scripture the further the bottom gets. This is why so many people never, ever get into Scripture. It's confusing due to it's multiple literary genres filled with metaphor, simile and other language patterns that most people cannot understand.
Preachers/teachers are no different. We are all on the path to God. Some are just a little further along.
2007-12-22 10:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by craig b 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is a compilation of writing from many ages. There isn't agreement between Christians over what books belong in it (the Catholic Bible is different from the Protestant Bible for example). There were times when assassination and political strife broke out over what would be put into the Bible, and schism within the church itself (when Rome broke with Eastern Orthodoxy).
So it isn't as if all topics are considered worthwhile by all teachings. Revelations, for example, has been analyzed by religious scholars, and found to contain large amounts of text from an earlier Jewish book, written long before Christ, and intended to respond to a period when Jewish priests felt Jews were consorting too closely in language and custom with Greeks and Greek culture. Essentially it's a book to scare the hell out of Jews so that they would return to the Jewish religion. Likewise Revelations was written in a period of lagging Christian influence, copied from an earlier Old Testament source, and written with the same intent: to scare the hell out of Christians to return to Christianity. Many don't consider it germane to Jesus' teaching.
2007-12-22 13:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by Wave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some have become very PC/ Politically Correct, they avoid topics like sin and anything negative in order not to offend certain groups who only want to hear happy, cheerful.
Not that eternity isn't wonderful, it should be talked about too, but we also need to learn there are times we do offend God and we need to be sorry for those times. There our a few rules that God gave us out of Love, for our well being, and for some reason some would prefer not to talk about that in large groups.
You can see the consequences of things not being talked about like sin, it increases the depression, the stress, the sadness, the suicides, people don't know about God's Love and forgiveness...its so hush hush nowadays.
2007-12-22 10:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, very few ever mention the final book of the bible, The Book of Revelations. You would think that as Christians people would want to know how Christ has prophesied the world as we know it to end.
After all, Jesus has said that no man will know the hour of his return. Could be tomorrow or in 1,000 years. But in the unlikely event it is tomorrow, it would be nice to have a guide as to events which surely must come to pass.
2007-12-22 10:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by Son of David 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The offering must not go down as money is the true god of the world
2007-12-22 10:32:12 · answer #6 · answered by Biker4Life 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Two reasons. First, when you tell a fairy tale, you try to have a happy ending. Second, it's all about money. If you scare people away, they tend not to give you money.
2007-12-22 10:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by happybiled 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cause they do not want to force you to join God just because you do not want to go to hell and it is a scared thing I am a little scared but I have heard the other stories told
2007-12-22 10:39:39 · answer #8 · answered by Lynne B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My pastor certainly doesn't avoid those topics. He tells it like it is, and I admire that.
2007-12-22 10:31:20 · answer #9 · answered by Sydney 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Bible says basically that people with itchy ears will listen to false teachers that will tell them what they want to hear.
That's why they're afraid to bring up eternal hell.
But the true servants of Jesus Christ make it clear that eternal hell exists.
2007-12-22 10:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by Chris 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋