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]

I'm sorry, Gabriel.

If none of this is your problem,
If you don't give a damn,
If you chose to bash others instead of being polite,
If you do not chose to support your evidence and opinions,
If you don't think faith holds weight in a debate or anywhere else for that matter,

I come to wonder why you are posting on this topic.
I feel as if you want to change our minds, yet you are saying that it's not your problem and it learn ourselves. I find your use of words very contradicting.

I do feel like you are "bashing" our beliefs as well. I will ask you not to. The rules for this area of the forum are stated.

I hope that no one else will bash any further on this topic also. Please be polite, everyone.

[Spirited Away]

I hope that no one else will bash any further on this topic also. Please be polite, everyone.

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?

"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride."

- C. S. Lewis

A beautiful response, though I don't think it's just by Christians' standards. I feel the same. Humility is a virtue hard earned and deserves infinite praise.

[NoSex]

Humility is a virtue hard earned and deserves infinite praise.

Isn't that sort of contrary? Or, in the very least, ironic?
This is why I love Friedrich Nietzsche.