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Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:31 pm
From my favourite christian site. Young lad asks the reasonable question...
" The Bible says that people will only believe the Gospel if God opens up their heart to it. If God has not opened up their heart to the Gospel, how can they be punished for unbelief? It's not a choice. Someone told me that God has opened up everyone's heart, but if that were the case, then more than half of the world, in fact, almost the entire world, would be Christians, because almost the entire world has heard the Gospel. If unbelievers don't believe because their heart is hardened, and their heart is hardened because God didn't open up their heart, how can they be blamed for unbelief? Something doesn't add up."
The pick of the replies...
" Juk, you're falling into the devils trap of always questioning the word of God about "seeming" contradictions. You need to stop otherwise you're just going to reject it all at some point. Have faith in God and ask Him to reveal. If you keep coming to men, you're going to get men's answers. God wrote the word of God on our hearts and everyone knows what's right and wrong - we have the DNA from the that tree. Even 60 Minutes did an episode about babies knowing right and wrong!"
It's the devil my boy, don't question just believe.
Scary shit to see it played out in real time.
http://www.christianforumsite.com/thread...-up.43119/
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Hmm our heart is a device that pumps blood.
Hmm how God has not reveal himself to me yet? Well, I have never ask for him/her to do so. I rather worship a female hottie god tho!
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:34 pm
They sez: don't question
I be like: why not?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Hmm I can understand not questioning bowl movement, but this needs better answers!
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:37 pm
(July 5, 2015 at 12:34 pm)Alex K Wrote: They sez: don't question
I be like: why not?
Because it says so, right there, in a bronze age comic book that took over 1,000 years and 40 authors with books left out. What possibly in the world would be suspect about that? Geeze, you'd be the idiot who would poo poo the idea of boys flying around on brooms despite Harry Potter books and movies existing.
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Well 60 minutes said babies know right from wrong, so obviously the logical conclusion is that a supreme supernatural being has etched a moral code directly into your heart. Believe this people, do not fall into the devils trap, if the bible seems like its contradicting itself just have faith that it's not.
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Supposedly the most important decision in your life, and this guy say don't question. Just believe. That doesn't really work, unless you think that all christians regardless of denomination are going to heaven. Which I can tell you now isn't the opinion of all christians. people have been killed over different interpretations of that book.
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Guess we start recycling babies if they make the wrong choice?
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 12:44 pm
(July 5, 2015 at 12:31 pm)TubbyTubby Wrote: From my favourite christian site. Young lad asks the reasonable question...
" The Bible says that people will only believe the Gospel if God opens up their heart to it. If God has not opened up their heart to the Gospel, how can they be punished for unbelief? It's not a choice. Someone told me that God has opened up everyone's heart, but if that were the case, then more than half of the world, in fact, almost the entire world, would be Christians, because almost the entire world has heard the Gospel. If unbelievers don't believe because their heart is hardened, and their heart is hardened because God didn't open up their heart, how can they be blamed for unbelief? Something doesn't add up."
The pick of the replies...
" Juk, you're falling into the devils trap of always questioning the word of God about "seeming" contradictions. You need to stop otherwise you're just going to reject it all at some point. Have faith in God and ask Him to reveal. If you keep coming to men, you're going to get men's answers. God wrote the word of God on our hearts and everyone knows what's right and wrong - we have the DNA from the that tree. Even 60 Minutes did an episode about babies knowing right and wrong!"
It's the devil my boy, don't question just believe.
Scary shit to see it played out in real time.
http://www.christianforumsite.com/thread...-up.43119/
Sadly, there will always be Christians who give bad answers to good questions, but that does not mean that there are no good answers. A better answer to the question would be the following:
Quote:Consider this saying from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount:
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened (Matthew 7.7-8).
By “seeking,” Jesus obviously didn’t mean a merely intellectual inquiry but a genuine search of the soul, a spiritual quest in humility and with a contrite heart. This teaching comports well with the universal salvific will of God (I Timothy 2.3-4; II Peter 3.9).
Of course, God’s providence in each person’s life plays itself out over time. God’s existence may not be evident to someone at certain stages of his life but may become evident when and through what means God chooses. If a person is truly seeking God, he will persist in his search and will eventually find God.
Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-gods-e...z3f2IXMpik
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RE: Don't ever question. Just believe.
July 5, 2015 at 1:04 pm
(July 5, 2015 at 12:44 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Sadly, there will always be Christians who give bad answers to good questions..
I didn't notice anyone on that forum saying this was bad advice. Must be incredibly uplifting to be the one with the 'good answers' eh Randy?
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