Well, I mean, you won't get an argument from me!
We're talking about convincing non-believers here...
I'm a believer. I believe God created everything and without Him
was nothing created, all that is seen and unseen.
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Why Do You Believe?
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We're talking about convincing non-believers here...
I'm a believer. I believe God created everything and without Him
was nothing created, all that is seen and unseen.
I don't know.
Great post.
Free will proves we're like God.
Also, the good in us, our being a social creature, the fact that we have morals, as you've stated - God IS morality - the fact that we need a family, as WE are God's family. We're like God in many ways. He even gave us the gift of procreation. We can "create" as He created. (in quotations marks because truly only God can create. We use materials already existent to create...)
I like your point of a church having been able to survive all these years and in such adversity. Yes, and that empty hole in us that only God can fill.
Exactly what I mean. Who wouldn't believe that thing about the thumbprint? I think that it really puts things into perspective and not to mention all of the artifacts that they found about Jesus' existence . Ah well, I personally don't worry about what others believe. They will find out sooner or later the truth and hopefully it's before it isn't too late to change their mind.
I've mentioned the Apostles.
Do THEY help you any?
What happened that week Jesus died on the cross?
Were they frightened? Did they hide?
And then what?
LOL
An atheist would not believe it.
They attribute mostly everything to evolution.
Here is another interesting article.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/killing-jesus/articles/the-relics-of-jesus/
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/killing-jesus/articles/the-relics-of-jesus/
Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. A great belch in the universe caused all of us to have different thumbprints, looks, personality, and DNA. Good grief!
I can't believe that anybody would believe that nonsense. That's what I tell myself whenever I start to doubt my faith which thankfully isn't very often anymore. 
Praise God for that!Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. A great belch in the universe caused all of us to have different thumbprints, looks, personality, and DNA. Good grief!
And you shouldn't.
There are reasons why you could believe...
This is good Michael.
But then the atheist asks why God didn't reveal Jesus to them.
So Jesus dies on the cross.
The Apostles are afraid and they hide. Some of them at the house of Martha and Mary and Lazarus at Bethany, just over the hill of the Garden, walkable on foot, and where the apostles and Jesus slept the week of Holy Week.
What happens shortly after the death of Christ?
And why?
Do the Apostles continue in fear? or not?
I believe because he did just as he said he would do.
He rose from the dead.
He rose from the dead.
Tessa
Member
Why do I believe?
Because God found me when I wasn't looking for Him, I was 7 years old and I danced all the way home, I knew He loves me.
Because God gave me the faith to believe that Jesus Christ, The Son of God,the Messiah died even for me, so that I could live. I would show scripture that He died for all mankind, including them. I would tell them God loves them more than any human being is capable of.
I would tell them of things the Father and Jesus did for me to strengthen my faith.
When I was witnessing one day I asked a lady if she believed in God. She said that she didn't but also that she wouldn't harm anyone, just in case she was wrong.
You can't make someone believe you can only plant the seed, pray for them and pray that the Holy Spirit will water that seed.
The Holy Spirit will guide Christians on how to witness for Jesus. You have to pray for guidance and follow that. We will not all witness the same way, and it will depend on the non-believer's answers as to how you go on. But the message of salvation and love is a must.
Because God found me when I wasn't looking for Him, I was 7 years old and I danced all the way home, I knew He loves me.
Because God gave me the faith to believe that Jesus Christ, The Son of God,the Messiah died even for me, so that I could live. I would show scripture that He died for all mankind, including them. I would tell them God loves them more than any human being is capable of.
I would tell them of things the Father and Jesus did for me to strengthen my faith.
When I was witnessing one day I asked a lady if she believed in God. She said that she didn't but also that she wouldn't harm anyone, just in case she was wrong.
You can't make someone believe you can only plant the seed, pray for them and pray that the Holy Spirit will water that seed.
The Holy Spirit will guide Christians on how to witness for Jesus. You have to pray for guidance and follow that. We will not all witness the same way, and it will depend on the non-believer's answers as to how you go on. But the message of salvation and love is a must.
OK!
And how could we be so sure of this?
Everything hinges on the resurrection.
We must be sure that it really happened.
I know what I count on...and who I trust. (people)
What do YOU count on?
Agreed.
Did you tell her that not harming anyone was not enough?
Most humans on this earth do not harm anyone. They try to be good and nice persons.
There's a philosophical word for what this girl was doing, but I can't think of it right now! It's important. I wish Prof. Google could help...
As I said, I have my reasons why. To be quite honest with you I just don't have enough faith to be an atheist. As for being a good person, yes I believe that there good people that aren't Christians, but are they good enough in the eyes of God is the real queson.
stovebolts
Member
Just to throw it out there, but if we look at how Jesus made disciples, you see this pattern.
1. Belong
2. Believe
3. Behave
We often try to get people to believe first. But that's not what Jesus did. He got them to belong, and through that experience, they believed. As a result, their behavior changed.
If we want to make disciples, we have to make them feel as though they belong, because they do.
1. Belong
2. Believe
3. Behave
We often try to get people to believe first. But that's not what Jesus did. He got them to belong, and through that experience, they believed. As a result, their behavior changed.
If we want to make disciples, we have to make them feel as though they belong, because they do.
Oh. Professor Google is so nice.
It's called Paschal's Wager and it came right up.
I love it. Here it is:
"Why not believe in God? If you believe and you turn out to be wrong, you haven't lost anything. But if you don't believe and you turn out to be wrong, you lose everything. Isn't believing the safer bet?"
In debates about religion, this argument keeps coming up. Over, and over, and over again. In almost any debate about religion, if the debate lasts long enough, someone is almost guaranteed to bring it up. The argument even has a name: Pascal's Wager, after Blaise Pascal, the philosopher who most famously formulated it.
And it makes atheists want to tear our hair out.
Not because it's a great argument... but because it's such a manifestly lousy one. It doesn't make logical sense. It doesn't make practical sense. It trivializes the whole idea of both belief and non-belief. It trivializes reality. In fact, it concedes
etc.....
Source: https://www.alternet.org/story/149920/why_it's_not_a_'safe_bet'_to_believe_in_god/
It's called Paschal's Wager and it came right up.
I love it. Here it is:
"Why not believe in God? If you believe and you turn out to be wrong, you haven't lost anything. But if you don't believe and you turn out to be wrong, you lose everything. Isn't believing the safer bet?"
In debates about religion, this argument keeps coming up. Over, and over, and over again. In almost any debate about religion, if the debate lasts long enough, someone is almost guaranteed to bring it up. The argument even has a name: Pascal's Wager, after Blaise Pascal, the philosopher who most famously formulated it.
And it makes atheists want to tear our hair out.
Not because it's a great argument... but because it's such a manifestly lousy one. It doesn't make logical sense. It doesn't make practical sense. It trivializes the whole idea of both belief and non-belief. It trivializes reality. In fact, it concedes
etc.....
Source: https://www.alternet.org/story/149920/why_it's_not_a_'safe_bet'_to_believe_in_god/