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In matters of faith, I never try to "convince" anybody of anything.

At most, all I do is state the facts as they are in the Bible, the truth as it is in Jesus.

In the unlikely event that the Spirit of God is moving upon their soul at the moment, perhaps God might convert them at that time (say 1% chance). If not, perhaps at some future time the Spirit might move upon their soul, and they might remember what they had read or heard from various Christians, myself or others (say a 9% chance).

The other 90% of the time, they remain unconverted for life and go on where they were going anyway, but no harm done, they are no WORSE off...

And that is what Jesus said to do, just scatter the seed of truth around, and if most of it falls on stony ground, etc... why, what else could you exPECT, most ground IS "stony," worthless at least to all appearances. Still, Jesus says, if just one grain every once in a long while grows up and comes to fruition, that is enough to have made the whole thing a plus not a minus...

> all I do is state the facts as they are in the Bible

Ahem. All you do is state the *stories* as they are in the Bible. Whether many of them are "facts" is the crux of the matter. If you can't quantify it, it's opinion, not fact.