If Christianity is true

[Aunty Jane]

Target audience: atheists, agnostics, non-Christians. In general, people who don’t care. (The subtitle of the video clip in post #14.) Experience tells me that, in addition to not caring, they probably don’t know - or know little about - what God has spoken.

I believe it was Paul who gave us the answer to the question as to those who don’t know, or who don’t care….

2 Thess 1:6-10….
”This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for you. 7  But you who suffer tribulation will be given relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8  in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. 9 These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 10  at the time when he comes to be glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be regarded in that day with wonder among all those who exercised faith, because the witness we gave met with faith among you.”

There are two groups who undergo “the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction” on the day of Christ’s judgment….those who “do not know God”, because they don’t want to, for their own reasons……and those who know a little about God and his son, but who do not obey Christ’s teachings. There is no excuse for either.

God’s creation testifies to his existence…..his masterful and intelligent design is all around us….and we have God’s word to tell us how to live in this world ruled by the devil…..how to be “no part” of it, whilst still living in it. (1 John 5:19; John 18:36)

Not caring comes from self absorption…..being so focused on self, they see nothing beyond it. Everything is all about them…and what belongs to them.
I think that agnostics and non-Christians have more of a chance at becoming believers because a spiritual part of them is already activated.…..spirituality is like a muscle, unless it is exercised, it atrophies…..but even as your video demonstrates, there is something even in the atheist’s mind that is still seeking logical answers.

I think a lot of agnostics would like to believe, but are confused about what is truth.….and who to believe.

 

[Pierac]

The topic of this thread is a question for non-Christian members to respond to. (See again post #1). If you’re a non-Christian member than I invite you to respond to it.

I’ve addressed what you’re wanting to talk about in threads where that is the topic. Please stop derailing my thread.

That's your problem.... You have no idea what it means to be a Christian...

Joh 17:3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Webster dictionary... And
AND, conj.
And is a conjunction, connective or conjoining word. It signifies that a word or part of a sentence is to be added to what precedes. Thus, give me an apple and an orange; that is, give me an apple, add or give in addition to that, an orange. John and Peter and James rode to New York, that is, John rode to New York; add or further, Peter rode to New York; add James rode to New York.

Mat 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' 23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

You have no clue about the second Adam of God's creation...

1Co 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Adam was the Son of God Too.... Luk 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

How do you not know these things... I'm about to pull my belt off my waist... and give you a Spiritual Spanking in the likes Jesus gave the money exchangers in the temple!

 

[Matthias]

 

[Brakelite]

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I made this wallpaper not too long ago and I still value it. Just so you know what you're dealing with. Do you understand what I'm saying? The person who made this wallpaper is fully expecting to be rejected here.

Yep. Let it be done according to your will. Those aspects of character and righteousness are the Father's will for us, but they aren't obtained by our own effort, but by faith. They are a gift.

 

[Losing My Religion]

Yep. Let it be done according to your will. Those aspects of character and righteousness are the Father's will for us, but they aren't obtained by our own effort, but by faith. They are a gift.

Please go back and look at the image again and tell me which virtue you displayed in your comment.

 

[Losing My Religion]

BINGO

How does one receive the Holy Spirit?

Are you talking about the point at which turning back becomes unthinkable, maybe impossible?

 

[Brakelite]

Please go back and look at the image again and tell me which virtue you displayed in your comment.

Mmm. Hope?

 

[Pierac]

Are you kidding me? Stupid is.... Is what stupid does... OMG... how freaking stupid...can you get with your post! Really... forget any real post on scripture... just post any bs that the AI suggest! Dig deep and you will see... I prefer SPIRITUAL

 

[Matthias]

“Evidence mattered to the earliest believers.”

(J. Wallace Warner, Forensic Faith, 52)

The same evidence that mattered to the earliest believers should matter to the latest believers and to potential believers.