how far would you go to preach the gospel?
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Originally posted by RoyFang:
And I was wondering how come followers of Christianity seem to became less aggressive in the world today than during the medieval period when some of them clearly still hold the same beliefs as christians and their leaders living back then...just a show for the world and misled people?
To some Christians (especially the fundies), this would be persecution but we know how they think: "It's alright to persecute non-believers but not alright when we got "persecuted."
During the medieval period, people had no concept of karma.
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Originally posted by tok_2_me:
How far would you go to preach the gospel? Pastor Rony's recent furore in the papers started me thinking about this. After all, we have been told to "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matt 28:19
And, him being called up by the ISD would be classified as a persecution.
"That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. " 2nd Cor 12:10
So, how far would you go to preach the gospel?
Some Christians believe that the more souls they save the more God will be pleased with them. Personally I don't believe in this. God is pleased with the individual when he/she accepts the Finished work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christians share the gospel because God is a good God & we want to testify His goodness. Unbelievers around you will be curious when they see the inside out transformation in you. The chance in your countenance, your attitude, your spirit. That is when we will invite interested people for church service. You can't force people to attend service if they are uninterested.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
During the medieval period, people had no concept of karma.
only the ignorant people....................who refuse to think and investigate but follow blindly........
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
only the ignorant people....................who refuse to think and investigate but follow blindly........
....and what is the result of your investigation?
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
....and what is the result of your investigation?
that god and satan lives in the figment of your imagination
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Some Christians believe that the more souls they save the more God will be pleased with them. Personally I don't believe in this. God is pleased with the individual when he/she accepts the Finished work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christians share the gospel because God is a good God & we want to testify His goodness. Unbelievers around you will be curious when they see the inside out transformation in you. The chance in your countenance, your attitude, your spirit. That is when we will invite interested people for church service. You can't force people to attend service if they are uninterested.
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Originally posted by Dreamwerkz:
Some Christians believe that the more souls they save the more God will be pleased with them. Personally I don't believe in this. God is pleased with the individual when he/she accepts the Finished work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christians share the gospel because God is a good God & we want to testify His goodness. Unbelievers around you will be curious when they see the inside out transformation in you. The chance in your countenance, your attitude, your spirit. That is when we will invite interested people for church service. You can't force people to attend service if they are uninterested.
to each his/her own lar. some people have no problems accepting this type of teachings. as long as they dun go around saying your religion is satanic and false, and that your idols are made of wood.
You know why the Rony Tan speech created so much ruckus? cos we are really cheesed of christians telling us your religion is false and satanic. what rubbish.
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Originally posted by Dreamwerkz:
Some Christians believe that the more souls they save the more God will be pleased with them. Personally I don't believe in this. God is pleased with the individual when he/she accepts the Finished work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christians share the gospel because God is a good God & we want to testify His goodness. Unbelievers around you will be curious when they see the inside out transformation in you. The chance in your countenance, your attitude, your spirit. That is when we will invite interested people for church service. You can't force people to attend service if they are uninterested.
In the past they would probably use coercive techniques to "convince", wonder what god would have thought about that
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Originally posted by Dreamwerkz:
Some Christians believe that the more souls they save the more God will be pleased with them. Personally I don't believe in this. God is pleased with the individual when he/she accepts the Finished work of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christians share the gospel because God is a good God & we want to testify His goodness. Unbelievers around you will be curious when they see the inside out transformation in you. The chance in your countenance, your attitude, your spirit. That is when we will invite interested people for church service. You can't force people to attend service if they are uninterested.
VEry well said, I support you. Testimony will speak for itself. I heard of a case a non believer was converted because he or she saw good testimony of christian.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
During the medieval period, people had no concept of karma.
Yes they do, Buddhism was founded way before xtianity, and medieval time was after ancient age
tsk, poor sense of history!
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Originally posted by laurence82:
Yes they do, Buddhism was founded way before xtianity, and medieval time was after ancient age
tsk, poor sense of history!
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
....and what is the result of your investigation?
that God was a lousy inventor and a loser..................not to mention serious mental issues..........
came up with angels as helpers and yet Lucifer bit him in the ass...............
came up with humans as pets and then when humans abandoned Him, the sore loser in Him sent the Flood.....hmmm, a most human characteristic...............
displayed a most human characteristic by showing favouritism to Jews time and time again, yet these jews repeatedly lost faith in Him...................poor old man............nothing's going right for him...........
but God's worst idea was the virgin birth of Jesus.............hmmm, where did He find an egg donor.?...............that must have been an utter humiliation for Mary and her future hubby..................a rip-off from George Lucas's virgin birth of Anakin Skywalker...................
**** tell me one thing if you can , if God is the Universe then Lucifer must be the AIDS virus ? why go to all that trouble with the Flood and killing countless of innocent animals................surely he can wipe out all humanity with a snap of his fingers ?
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
that God was a lousy inventor and a loser..................not to mention serious mental issues..........
came up with angels as helpers and yet Lucifer bit him in the ass...............
came up with humans as pets and then when humans abandoned Him, the sore loser in Him sent the Flood.....hmmm, a most human characteristic...............
displayed a most human characteristic by showing favouritism to Jews time and time again, yet these jews repeatedly lost faith in Him...................poor old man............nothing's going right for him...........
but God's worst idea was the virgin birth of Jesus.............hmmm, where did He find an egg donor.?...............that must have been an utter humiliation for Mary and her future hubby..................a rip-off from George Lucas's virgin birth of Anakin Skywalker...................
**** tell me one thing if you can , if God is the Universe then Lucifer must be the AIDS virus ? why go to all that trouble with the Flood and killing countless of innocent animals................surely he can wipe out all humanity with a snap of his fingers ?
The fact that Jews continue to survive to this day must have frustrate people like you - and your beliefs - because that's God's covenent with Abraham.
As long as Jews remain on earth, Christians can still believe that God exists. You can only disprove it when Jews cease to exist.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
The fact that Jews continue to survive to this day must have frustrate people like you - and your beliefs - because that's God's covenent with Abraham.
As long as Jews remain on earth, Christians can still believe that God exists. You can only disprove it when Jews cease to exist.
They can continue to believe, as men can continue to believe in the lochness monster, but the question is whether it should be believed based on presented evidence.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
The fact that Jews continue to survive to this day must have frustrate people like you - and your beliefs - because that's God's covenent with Abraham.
As long as Jews remain on earth, Christians can still believe that God exists. You can only disprove it when Jews cease to exist.
whats the difference between Jews and other races? we do shit the same, need to have sex, eat, drink and sleep right?
I cant help laughing when you said proof of god mean Jews existence. This is so incredible and unbelievable. then proof of satan means which race existence lol.
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Originally posted by dadeadman1337:
They can continue to believe, as men can continue to believe in the lochness monster, but the question is whether it should be believed based on presented evidence.
yes so is the myth of blackfoot and mermaid and also chang er.
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see how incredible and incredulous statement they can make, for Jews existence to them means the existence of god. if this is the best they can provide as evidence of the existence of god, then save it. save the best for last, self pawned thread to the max
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Originally posted by laurence82:
Yes they do, Buddhism was founded way before xtianity, and medieval time was after ancient age
tsk, poor sense of history!
You can re-write your history book anyway you want.
Buddhism dies off in India after the Muslim incursion in the 11th century. No chance to spread westwards. It did spread to the south and then eastwards of India because there were too many bad karmas in these regions......bad karma bad karma bad karma...to this day, still many sufferings
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
You can re-write your history book anyway you want.
Buddhism dies off in India after the Muslim incursion in the 11th century. No chance to spread westwards. It did spread to the south and then eastwards of India because there were too many bad karmas in these regions......bad karma bad karma bad karma...to this day, still many sufferings
when people die, christians will say its god's will. Muslim will say it's Allah's will. when buddhist said, its karma, then you are a stupid buddhist. but then you are not buddhist, so you are a stupid person. another self pawned thread
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Originally posted by dadeadman1337:
They can continue to believe, as men can continue to believe in the lochness monster, but the question is whether it should be believed based on presented evidence.
I don't see Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam bouce back after the Indochinese wars and genocide. The tragedy was shorter and less worse then what the Jews went through over thousands of years..
OK, blame it on karma. That's a more logical expanation for you, perhaps.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
You can re-write your history book anyway you want.
Buddhism dies off in India after the Muslim incursion in the 11th century. No chance to spread westwards. It did spread to the south and then eastwards of India because there were too many bad karmas in these regions......bad karma bad karma bad karma...to this day, still many sufferings
when people die, christians will say its god's will. Muslim will say it's Allah's will. when buddhist said, its karma, then you are a stupid buddhist. but then you are not buddhist, so you are a stupid person. another self pawned thread
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
whats the difference between Jews and other races? we do shit the same, need to have sex, eat, drink and sleep right?
I cant help laughing when you said proof of god mean Jews existence. This is so incredible and unbelievable. then proof of satan means which race existence lol.
Ok, it's bad karma!
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Originally posted by dadeadman1337:
They can continue to believe, as men can continue to believe in the lochness monster, but the question is whether it should be believed based on presented evidence.
repeat post. deleted.
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would you go as far as to live a good life so good that others will be inspired to find out why you are like that and follow you?
that is the best type of evangelisation
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
Ok, it's bad karma!
even buddhists have difficulty understanding karma, much less for people like you, pseudo buddhist.
so when you blame it on karma for everything, you are a stupid pseudo buddhist. I cant blame you for this kind of thinking, cos you can use god to explain for everything and anything in this world. transferring from an ideology to another albeit a different paradigm, still the same. how to take you seriously for someone who claimed that god existence is the presence of Jews.