Y’all are taking Warren literally when it obviously was not intended that way. In essence, he was saying, “Try Jesus. See if he’s true. You won’t have any regrets!”
Nor is that approach evil. God can do a lot with someone who is just honest with Him. If you go to God and say, “God, I’m afraid. I don’t know if you are real. But if you are, save me!”, then it will be like opening the door of a dark room. The light will flow in and fill the room, and what didn’t make sense before will begin to do so.
I’m glad a lot of Freepers weren’t around when I was a kid. You would have been so busy insisting I pass a theology test that I would have never been saved at all!
The day after my conversion, my theology was terrible. Nearly 40 years later, it is much improved...but I still don’t believe I would get a perfect score on a theology test given by God - except that the test He gives will be, “Jesus, is he yours?”
I was just messin with him.. He makes goofy statements like that often.
To me this is a very dangerous philosophy. Let me try and explain before I am filleted. Many people try drugs, alcohol, sex, homosexuality, and many other things looking for something to make their lives better, something akin to "happiness". When evangelists say "Try Jesus, he will make your life better. He'll take away your problems and make you happy." People take them at their word and go ahead and give this "Jesus-thing" a try. Some evangelists even go as far as say that he will make you wealthy. But when the promises of persecution and suffering come they fall away from the faith. When things don't change for the better or their idea of "happiness" is not met they stop doing the "Jesus-thing" and consider themselves no longer Christians. They become bitter and feel as though they have been lied to, and rightfully so. Most have had what could be seen as false-conversions. In practice, this concept is manifest when many evangelists report thousands upon thousands of conversions but upon followup, very few new believers can be found attending regular worship.
Ray Comfort has a very good exposition on this teaching and I highly recommend that any believer take time to listen to the sermon entitled "Hell's Best Kept Secret".