When Christ spoke to crowds of people, there is no record of Him listening to people say “No, you’re wrong, here’s how it is.”
There is no record of Him doing that even when speaking with an individual person.
There is no record of the Apostles doing that either. Not with a crowd, nor with an individual person.
They simply spoke God’s word, and let it go at that.
Christ said He set an example for us to follow. I’m following it.
Are you Thomas Jefferson and cut out parts of the bible you don’t like?
If you’re not going to address my points, please don’t ping me.
Interesting perspective of Christ. Of course, if He is the God or Son of God as He claimed to be, His knowledge and perspective would be perfect. Therefore, one would not expect Him to be “talked out” of a position. As to the apostles, we do’t have much information of what they were or were not talked out of but I do believe there is record of them debating amongst themselves about the gospel (e.g., the issue of circumcizing converts, or eating kosher). If, however, you are looking to examples of whether God is “reasonable” or able to have His mind changed and not just a “my way or the highway” kind of guy, check out the stories of Abraham who was able to bargain about how many righteous people could save Sodom and Gomorrah, or the story of Jonah who was angry that God didn’t fulfil His prophecy of destroying Ninevah.
I don’t know whether your response here was snarky or really seeking. Since I have resolved not to judge motives, I have responded as if you were really seeking. And if you seek the scriptures and ponder and pray about them, you will find proof of a loving, righteous God in all He does. The rest is up to you but I would not push the limits on posting inflammatory threads and then running away. That defeats the purpose of a forum such as this. Either you care enough about your fellow Freepers to convince them you are right, or you don’t care at all and just enjoy tossing theological bombs. Which is it?