2006年4月19日 12:30 (21 個評論)
- rich
- 28, 英國
Recently i have been dragged into various posts on the religion and ethics forum.
there have been many posts (Mainly by Muslims) trying to play down the validity of the Bible. many of these posts totally take scripture out of context.
I began to get annoyed and i think i made a mistake by doing exactly as they were doing - by posting the errors contained within the Quran (Or do you think this was a mistake?)
it ultimately became a kind of tit for tat argument that kinda goes like this "I'm right" "No! youre wrong i'm right" etc etc.
I think to those not involved in either Christianity or Islam it probably looks like the same old age problem of religions fighting one another. I began to wonder if this is glorifying to God.
Maybe we should forget about the debate and just push the Christian virtues of love, forgiveness, grace, humility instead of arguing?
Or perhaps we should convey these attributes through our responses directly about the posts that have been made?
The thing is, most of those posts are of a cut and paste nature and VERY lengthy. they tend to have much information in them with many scripture references, most of them either mis-quoted or totally out of context.
it takes a lot of time and energy to fully answer these posts.
The thing that comes to mind is this:
If we dont answer them, they will think they are right and more importantly perhaps the general public will too. Perhaps Zorpia will become totally dominated by posts from Muslims?
So i put it to you: do we ignore their posts and just make ones promoting faith, hope and love, Jesus Christ and Him crucified, the resurrection, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, grace and power over personal sin (amongst the other pro points about Christianity)?
or do we all start reading up on these posts and intelligently trying to answer them, conveying the latter in our responses while rebuffing lies that have been preached?
the second response is hard work when only 2 or 3 of us are doing it. We all need to get more into our Bibles and have an answer for these people who totally mis-understand God and the work of the Christ.
WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?
there have been many posts (Mainly by Muslims) trying to play down the validity of the Bible. many of these posts totally take scripture out of context.
I began to get annoyed and i think i made a mistake by doing exactly as they were doing - by posting the errors contained within the Quran (Or do you think this was a mistake?)
it ultimately became a kind of tit for tat argument that kinda goes like this "I'm right" "No! youre wrong i'm right" etc etc.
I think to those not involved in either Christianity or Islam it probably looks like the same old age problem of religions fighting one another. I began to wonder if this is glorifying to God.
Maybe we should forget about the debate and just push the Christian virtues of love, forgiveness, grace, humility instead of arguing?
Or perhaps we should convey these attributes through our responses directly about the posts that have been made?
The thing is, most of those posts are of a cut and paste nature and VERY lengthy. they tend to have much information in them with many scripture references, most of them either mis-quoted or totally out of context.
it takes a lot of time and energy to fully answer these posts.
The thing that comes to mind is this:
If we dont answer them, they will think they are right and more importantly perhaps the general public will too. Perhaps Zorpia will become totally dominated by posts from Muslims?
So i put it to you: do we ignore their posts and just make ones promoting faith, hope and love, Jesus Christ and Him crucified, the resurrection, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, grace and power over personal sin (amongst the other pro points about Christianity)?
or do we all start reading up on these posts and intelligently trying to answer them, conveying the latter in our responses while rebuffing lies that have been preached?
the second response is hard work when only 2 or 3 of us are doing it. We all need to get more into our Bibles and have an answer for these people who totally mis-understand God and the work of the Christ.
WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?
2009年7月1日 21:3Re: A call for all believers. what do you think?
Also, they never question their denominational beliefs, but cling blindly to their teachings, as if fearing they might somehow lose their Christianity if they do so.
"Why do you believe that?"
"The preacher/elder/priest says so."
This mentality causes division and a spirit of exclusion... to the point that some folks believe only their particular group is saved. In short, modern day Christianity is its own worst enemy and most professing Christians don't have a clue as to what real Christianity is about.