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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 10:43 am
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So, nothing will happen. I doubt I'll even notice a difference, personally. By the time that 50% of human beings are christian, if that ever happens, then there will be a solid ground for hope? That strongly suggests you don't believe there's a solid ground for hope right now.
Sounds downright faithless, wishing for humans fucking to do what you think your god has thusfar failed to do.
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 10:45 am
Yeah and only 50 percent that's pretty bad for the supposed undeniable truth 
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 10:47 am
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It's 50/50 god exists, and if god exists, he might manage to save half of us. The more he talks the more bleak his worldview gets.
Next we'll hear that maybe only half of the people he saved weren't sex offenders.
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 10:56 am
(July 27, 2023 at 2:41 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: "There will be over 2.6 billion Christians worldwide by the middle of 2023 and around 3.3 billion by 2050, according to a report published in early January by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.
The 2,604,381,000 estimate for mid-year 2023 Christian population total is a 44,506,000-person increase from the mid-year 2022 total."
From: https://goodfaithmedia.org/global-christ...n-by-2050/
What's the argument here exactly?
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:00 am
Solid Hope in such a way as even Atheists and Non-Christians can recognize it when it happens. As of right now, it more of what I would say is a Daring Hope, a Hope in the Power of an Almighty God and in Prayer to bring about what may yet be deemed humanly impossible by some. In light of the stats, though, perhaps I should say it's already a Reasonable Hope - for some of the Reasons I explained in the OP - as Dr. Craig rightly says Christianity in general is a Reasonable Faith.
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Napoleon said: I know men and I can tell you Jesus Christ was no Mere Men ... at this very hour Millions would die for Him .... there is between Christianity and other religions the distance of infinity.
He said this I think to one of his army members or something who were falsely professing respect for some kind of "Supreme Being", yet refusing to believe the Truth and repeating the Arian Heresy that denied Jesus Christ was that Supreme Being, which Napoleon nobly controverted as above. Truth must always be proclaimed. Whoever wants to be saved will be. Whoever doesn't won't.
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:01 am
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There isn't any argument Grand. He's uncomfortable with his god when he thinks about how many people its damned. The solution, obviously, is to print more christians.
Moneyball with a murderous super powered psycho.
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:11 am
The numbers man seeks solace in his absurd numerology, yet I remain unconvinced of any sort of realistic functionality.
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:21 am
Idiots worry about how many people agree with them
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:25 am
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(July 27, 2023 at 10:31 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As I showed in the Opening Posts, Christianity will quote likely reach 40% of Humanity by 2050. It should reach 50% of humanity shortly after that, at which time that will be a solidly ground hope, because there is Salvation in Christ Alone.
You are very naive because there is no (one) Christianity. Even if everyone became a Christian, even more people would be cursed (unsaved) in the eyes of Christians because Christians see other Christian denominations as wicked as you see Marxists. It is not hard to see that many popular denominations in the US don't see Catholics as real Christians and even call Catholicism to be the Whore of Babylon.
Needless to say, it was always like this and Christians spent centuries slaughtering themselves in wars over who had the "right" Christianity.
So fewer the Christians the more peaceful the world will be.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Good Faith Media: Global Christian Population to reach 3.3 BN by 2050.
July 27, 2023 at 11:39 am
It's only a matter of time before the hateful, barmy screeds of Nishant Xavier overpower his corporate presence on search engines and come to the attention of his bank's executive, torpedoing any hope for advancement. Popcorn, anyone? 🍿
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