[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[arewethereyet]

Hello arewethereyet,

How’s it going today. I hope you’ve been well. Where I am it is trying to be winter. We’ll see what El Niño does to us this year.

BTW - you don't speak for Christians.  You speak for you.

I speak for everyone!! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

But seriously, you are right. I do not speak for other individuals. Sometimes I barely speak for myself!

When I said “Christians have the mission to be evangelical. It’s called the Great Commission (Mt 28:16 – 20).” I was speaking of the tenets of Christianity, particularly of the Catholic Church. That this is a core tenet is clear. The interesting thing is how little people know of the tenets of the Church.

I agree that dragging others into your beliefs is not the way to do it. Rather the way is to explain and invite, then let the other person make the decision.

It’s also not good to not explain and invite. You say that the answers all seem self-serving to you. I’m surprised that you can’t think of non-self-serving reasons for wanting others to know and love God. I agree that you don’t think they are legit, but they are consistent in the Christian worldview.

Me? I’m just here for a good discussion about interesting stuff. Unfortunately, that’s very hard on this forum.

The only convert you might get here is the Confused one - thumbs up on that big accomplishment.

This is why it’s very hard to have a good discussion. Good discussions require us to actually hear (well, I guess “read”) what the other person is saying. Hmm, maybe you meant “you” in that sentence to be the generic you, as in “only convert one might get.” If that’s true, then my bad.

After growing up in The Church and attending Catholic schools for many years, I would love for you to tell me something I haven't heard before.

Go for it.  I grew up in an area of the country that was quite Catholic...so much so that my hometown of roughly 3,000 people has a Basilica and when I was young had no other church of any flavor in town.  

What you don't get is that most of us have either heard it before or heard some version before.  Many here were raised in religion.  We aren't ignorant when it comes to the teaching of the church leaders.

You are just one of a long line of theists who have shown up thinking they have the magic words that will convert the heathens to the one way.