TO MY CHRISTIAN BUDDIES:, wooo! Options

[dowhead]

Hey everyone,

In this forum, there is a lot of talk about weather God is real or fake, and which religion is the right one. Some are just discussions, and I completely understand. For the record, I am a Christian myself.

I am somewhat frustrated by the fact that that some of my fellow Christians are not able to defend their faith. I am seeing many posts like, "I am a Christian, and God is real." The end.
I would like to remind you that with this answer coming up over and over again, we are not proving anything. I feel that if I were not a Christian, I would be frustrated because no one was proving to me why God is real and the only way. I would feel like "the Christian" asked for a fight, but cannot finish it.

Here is what I propose:
I feel that if you are a Christian and would like to get into a debate about religion, go right ahead. But you need to know every question, answer and reaction that will occur from both sides. It is hard to debate with a non-Christian and personally, I believe that if the non-Christian is stubborn about his beliefs, he or she will not change their ways no matter what anyone says. I would like to advise my Christian friends that we need to be prepared to finish a fight if you would like to get into one.

I am a senior in a Christian high school and we have Bible class. This year we are studying Apologetics as well as world religions and cults. I have learned so much from Apologetics class. Our textbook was a book called: "Defending Your Faith" by Dan Story. I would recommend every Christian to read this book. It helps you not be wavered from Christ by worldly views and things you hear. I learned how to defend my faith for my good. It is an amazing book.

I am sorry if I offended any of you. I am not telling you what you should do, I am advising you though my opinions. You may choose what you like.

Thank you very much. I appreciate you all.

Michelle

[dowhead]

Spirited away:

I haven't seen any actual bashing, just people provoking people to get a rise out of them for the sake of debate. You opened the door when you said Christians should be able to defend their faith. So defend your faith, woman. As much as I disagree with Tama on practically everthing, he's on topic and doing a good job at trying to make you "defend" your faith. If you think this is bashing, then you are really sensitive and may not want to linger in the debate forum; this kind of talk is rather standard here.

Anyway, I'm confused with topic. Are we actually debating something or are you just making a point that a Christian must be able to defend his/her faith?

I fully agree with your statement. You're right. I believe I did take things a bit sensitively and I'm sorry. My intent on this topic is what you asked. I was making a point. I was truly not asking for a debate.

Personally, I do believe that when someone like Tamacracker, for example, is hard on his own beliefs, there is no way in changing his mind.

The point I was trying to make by this topic was to alert my Christian friends that we do need proof if we are wanting to get into a debate. I am not wanting to, personally.


Joss-el-ine:

1. Why did you underline random words?

I felt like it. I was kinda bored haha.

2. Christians are supposed to share their faith, but not always through words. Actions in real life are more important than saying the right thing on an online forum. I am a Christian, and try to live my life how christ would want. I dont live to prove people wrong.

I definitely agree with that. My purpose in this topic was to alert others if they indeed were indenting to "prove people wrong." I am not trying to. I believe you are on the right track. Totally. Actions speak WAY louder then anything on a forum could say.

[illriginal]

Personally, I do believe that when someone like Tamacracker, for example, is hard on his own beliefs, there is no way in changing his mind.

This is true, no one could ever push their agendas on me. I could respect their agenda, but it would have to be authentic and for the better of the world in general.

The point I was trying to make by this topic was to alert my Christian friends that we do need proof if we are wanting to get into a debate.

And how would you go about in proving your religion is actually authentic and not simply forged into an agenda for evil men to abuse?

If apologetics is your only way, then there is nothin to debate then. Not even worth the discussion.

I fully agree with your starting post on this thread. All I was addin to it is simply that you should use more than just faith and scriptures (unless you can use scriptures and physical evidence hand-in-hand) if you're planning to educate/convert anyone.

In my opinion and generally speaking, the Christians didn't use words of kindness to convert people, instead they spread Christianity by the sword for generations. That or simply gave them an ultimatum, such as the Christian mercenaries in Africa.