Is the Holy Spirit lazy or ineffective?

[themonkeyman]

This was one of the first things that troubled me, back when I believed. I used to feel lucky for being born in the country that worshiped the right god.

Nothing a bit of racist stereotyping can't cure.

To quote the rather wonderful jesus-is-saviour.com:

" What percentage of people do you believe are truly saved? If you say "ALL," then you are obviously NOT a believer. 1st John 2:22 teaches that anyone who denies Jesus Christ is a LIAR. That means all Islamic Muslims are liars, because they deny that Jesus is the Son of God. Muslims deny that Jesus ever died on a cross. There are an estimated 1,300,000,000 Muslims in the world.

All followers of Judaism are liars, because they deny that Jesus is the Messiah. That's what the Bible teaches in 1st John 2:22. It's Jesus or Hell.

The question is: Do you believe that the Bible is God's Word? I do. By the way, the King James Bible is the only reliable English Bible that hasn't been corrupted by Satan. "

I love the last line

'By the way the king james bible is the only reliable English Bible that hasn't been corrupted by Satan.'

Clearly someone has no idea how that Bible came about lol, If memory serves it took 3 revisions to get it right as the Original KJV was not what the King thought it should be!

I would prefer Greek Interlinear lol

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I have come across some xtian believers who do claim that the age of miracles is long over and we are in the "age of the church" or some such nonsense. There are other excuses for why it is that we no longer have actual verifiable miraculous events, like "if god performed miracles then there would be no need for faith." Like there would be any need for faith if god DOESN'T perform miracles.

I have yet to hear even a lame excuse as to why there are so many different religions. Why doesn't the holy spirit give the same message to everyone throughout the world?

Perhaps our good friend and Critic Prophyry has a better explination.

15) "Furthermore, we know from Augustine (City of God) that Porphyry complained of the influx
of educated women into the church; in his Philosophy from Oracles, written around 263, he laments
(en masque as Apollo, the god of enlightenment) that it is almost impossible to win back anyone who
has converted to Christianity: it is easier, he says, to write words on water than try to use argument
on a Christian. They simply cannot understand the folly of worshipping as a god a man who had died
as a criminal." page 168