Posted on 05/13/2007 6:15:45 PM PDT by Clemenza
Edited on 05/13/2007 6:29:30 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Wednesday night on ABC-TV, two televangelists took on nonbelievers from the Rational Response Squad in a bid to prove the existence of God (see "Nightline Face Off" on ABCNews.com).
The TV polemics come in the wake of a rash of bestselling books by atheists challenging religion.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
What's next, an Israeli chamber of commerce at Auschwitz?
“When good negotiates with evil, evil always wins.”
“When good negotiates with evil, evil always wins.”
Exactly.
This was an utter waste of time.
You can’t compromise truth.
Either you believe or you don’t.
The evidence of God is there for ALL to see.
What it would take to convert him (or anyone) is the prompting of the Holy Spirit. No one can convert you, and many will never be converted. I know for me, I hated to have people come up and ask me if I knew about Jesus, or if I was saved, or even want to engage me in a conversation about religion. That is, until He started tugging at my heart, quietly and subtly at first, and then more and more insistantly, until I could not resist Him. I’m sure that makes no sense to the non-believer, but I can describe it in no other way.
susie
Guess what? Church is not meant for non-believers...church is meant for believers. Evangelism should take place somewhere else...work, home, school, parks...but not in the church.
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The complete Christian Science Monitor article you posted via Yahoo has now been excerpted.
I'm even more amazed by how astronomers,physicians,biologists and botanists can declare with such certainty that there is no God.
Thanks!
I’m fairly certain that most of the above named don’t. The freaks on the fringe seem to seek the most attention though.
Okay, so you can't prove that he does or does not exist, but what do you believe? That's a different question.
What evidence is that? Enquiring atheists want to know. And don't tell me it's in the bible. That's just a collection of old folk tales passed down through the centuries.
Perhaps their chosen discipline demands both logic and rationality.
Church is for the sinners.
I am a sinner.
Church is where the non-believers come to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of the living God.
Repent and be baptized is the simple commandmant.
(sp) commandment.
Inquring atheists is a misnomer.
If you adopt a monotheistic view that there is no God, you, simply, are not inquisitive, rather you cling to a belief that is founded in no belief.
The church has always gathered as believers.
Altar calls and inviting sinners to salvation began with Charles Finney in the early 1800's during the Second Great Awakening.
You may quote Charles Finney.
Is Charles Finney the author of the scripture?
No.
Salvation did not begin with Charls Finney, or his missive,which you quote.
Salvation eminates, and is codified by the death, burial and resurrection of the Son of God
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