2007-12-23 05:43:48 · 19 answers · asked by theantilib 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Break the spell? It's not witchcraft. You just don't get it.
2007-12-23 05:52:45 · update #1
That would be an impossibility......Jesus taught His disciples that God must grant spiritual insight. No one can come to Jesus unless God the Father "draws him" (John 6:44). God's Spirit enables us to understand and keep His Word. Jesus said, "When... the Spirit of truth, has come [it] will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13).
The apostle Paul explained, "No one knows [understands] the things of God [without] the Spirit of God... But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:11, 14). "Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit" (Romans 8:5).
2007-12-23 06:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by TIAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, Christians are easy to understand.
We even understand the methods of installing the belief system.
What we don't understand is how to bring them back to sanity.
Here is a demonstration by Derren Brown on "Instant Religious Conversion." It will seem unbelievable but the method works.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sq-YUdq1OI&feature=related
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DylNVUN_3I&feature=related
Now if Derren Brown can do this so easily to a bunch of strangers, and do it without a lot of support, think how much more effective it is with all the trappings of a full service religious experience.
The music, the stage effects, the cultural and social support etc, etc.
2007-12-23 14:00:35 · answer #2 · answered by Buke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I do understand Christians because I used to be one. I was kidnapped by the Catholic church when I was a baby( I really would like to thank them for letting me make up my own mind ) and had nonsense pounded into my head for years.
Then, what Thomas Jefferson describes as " the light of science ", began to clear up the darkness and I will never return to the mental slavery that was forced into my mind as a child.
Happy Holiday to one and all!
2007-12-23 13:53:36 · answer #3 · answered by Starstuff58 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop using the word "nonbelievers", its insulting.
And I'm not interested in understanding Christians. I know I never will. I'm interested in getting you to understand that you need to butt out of everyone elses lives and stop thinking that the universe revolves around YOU.
2007-12-23 13:57:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think many of us understand believers much better than believers understand us. Many of us either were believers for quite awhile or at least grew up in a religious family. True there are those that did not experience either, but I think that those are the minority.
2007-12-23 13:51:14 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that your term "believers" is connoted to mean "believers in Christ," but to be a bit pedantic, just because I'm not a Christian doesn't mean I don't believe in anything. I'm sick and tired of seeing the debate framed as "Christians versus atheists" when you know darned well there are religions in this world besides yours.
If you want to be understood, seek to understand others as well. You can't go around with your fingers in your ears going "La la LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" any time a non-Christian speaks to you and then complain that we make no effort to understand you. I mean, if your aim is to be "Christ-like" (which is what "Christian" means), Jesus didn't shut people out just because they weren't of his faith.
2007-12-23 13:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by Dana 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is a believer?
What is a Christian?
Do you mean understand or accept?
I embrace the Christ archetype. I do not for a moment think Christ was a real or historic figure.
What does that make me?
Do you understand or accept me?
2007-12-23 13:50:18 · answer #7 · answered by AS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that we do understand, and that's why we are trying to help break the spell. It's very hard to wake up people pretending to sleep though.
2007-12-23 13:47:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We do understand Christians, hell I used to be one. My entire family are Christians, I think I have a fair understanding of what it means to be a Christian sheep.
2007-12-23 13:49:33 · answer #9 · answered by The Return Of Sexy Thor 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2007-12-23 13:47:00 · answer #10 · answered by coolshades 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋