heaven and hell - God is a loving God. We, Christians, portray God not to be so loving. We scare people into heaven. For example: "If you don't become a christian you will burn in hell for all of eternity." Does not sound to loving to me.
Next, Does the Bible say that you have to say a prayer and then you are in? I don't recall that anywhere, but I sure did think that oh my whole entire life up until about a year and a half ago. Where does that come from. Tradition. Maybe we should take a look at tradition and throw out all the made up stuff, and just get back to .... um get back to...... what is it we need to get back to?
Maybe loving people where they are at. Maybe a lot less talk and whole lot more love. I have never argued anyone to Jesus, have you? Now on the other hand just loving people to Jesus has actually happened. She wanted to know how I could love her unconditionally and with out judgment. Maybe if we love and wait for them to ask what it is about us that makes us different.
I don't know. Please feed into this. Theresa you are right, I need to learn how to use the Bible. I have been reading a great book, that has brought some questions, some answers, some releif and some frustration. I think you would like it. A New Kind of Christian. Let me know if you want to borrow it. Sometimes I act like this blog is a personal email. oops.
Next, Does the Bible say that you have to say a prayer and then you are in? I don't recall that anywhere, but I sure did think that oh my whole entire life up until about a year and a half ago. Where does that come from. Tradition. Maybe we should take a look at tradition and throw out all the made up stuff, and just get back to .... um get back to...... what is it we need to get back to?
Maybe loving people where they are at. Maybe a lot less talk and whole lot more love. I have never argued anyone to Jesus, have you? Now on the other hand just loving people to Jesus has actually happened. She wanted to know how I could love her unconditionally and with out judgment. Maybe if we love and wait for them to ask what it is about us that makes us different.
I don't know. Please feed into this. Theresa you are right, I need to learn how to use the Bible. I have been reading a great book, that has brought some questions, some answers, some releif and some frustration. I think you would like it. A New Kind of Christian. Let me know if you want to borrow it. Sometimes I act like this blog is a personal email. oops.
posted by Joy | 12:17 AM
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Hey Joy! I saw your comments on my blog and decided to return the favor. Anyway, having been through the philosophy major at Bethel and learning all the classical arguments for and against God, I learned one thing for sure. A very famous philosopher named Alvin Plantinga worked years and years on the Ontological Argument for the existence of God (it doesn't matter what it actually is). Yet, when he taught his classes, he always told his students that no one had ever in his experience come to know God by believing the Ontological Argument. People believe because of life experiences. They believe because there is just as much evidence as for God as against God. They believe because they see God in the subtle peculiarities of life.
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