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Originally posted by iHateMasses
Sparked up from a previous post...
Nothing against Christians, but every time someone has tried to convert me to Christianity, it always started, and ended with the following three.
1. Do you know your lord a savior?
2. You need to learn who your god is because he loves you.
3. Don't you want to be saved?
To an extent I pretty much believe all of the books of modern day religion other than the book of mormon, and scientology... I don't take it all literally, and I see it more as an ancient description of historical events described as best as possible.
Now if I were to try to convert someone to something I believed would help them in their lives, telling them that a fiery death or else, would be the last thing to say. But that's just me
So could someone tell me why this is the mainstream method on Christian conversion?
I've actually converted a number of agnostics to athiests.
Agnosticism (Greek: α- a-, without + γνώσις gnōsis, knowledge; after Gnosticism) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of deities, spiritual beings, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove and hence unknowable. [1] It is not a religious declaration in itself and the terms are not mutually exclusive. [2]
Originally posted by one_man24
reply to post by Hazelnut
God + Man= Eternal Life and Happiness (God's original equation)
Man - God= Sin, Death, and Struggle (Man's own equation)
(God + Man) + (Man - God) x God's Grace to the millionth power= Eternal Life and Happiness
Aren't you glad that God is such a great mathematician? lol
Fear + guilt = love
Originally posted by open_eyeballs
reply to post by Hazelnut
Fear + guilt = love
do you honestly believe that?
That has to be the worst definition of love I have ever seen...
We go on after this life, we have a choice to make on this earth, about who to serve and it is God or Satan.
Who is God though? That seems to be the problem I'm having. There are just too many theories trying to anwer that simple question.