Is nitpicking other people's faith really "spreading the good news"?
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It is not you (most times) that people are "bashing"..it's the belief or teaching. If the teaching is true...defend it; but, NEVER defend a lie or something you don't know for sure....there are MANY unbiblical teachings these days.\n\nProverbs 27:5  Open rebuke is better than secret love. \n\nLuk 17:3  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. \n\n1Ti 5:20  Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. \n\n2Ti 4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. \n\nTit 1:13  This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; \n\nRev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. \n\nAre the above verses nitpicking? or fighting the good fight of faith?   I guess it depends on whether or not you want to follow Christ in the TRUTH of the Bible or if you want to follow the spirit of error with itching ears.\n\n2Ti 4:3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; \n(2Ti 4:4)  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.\n(2Ti 4:5)  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.\n\nREAD your Bibles, and believe on Christ!!!\n\nI hope this helps, Lord willing,\nKen Sisk\nksisk35@cableone.net
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This is usually because new converts are generally more obnoxious about their new faith than life-long believers and end up driving their old friends away.  No, it's not a good thing.\n\nOne of several examples:\n\nI knew a girl, very clever, very pretty, who sadly connected with the JWs.  Her minister actually told her that her beauty was "sinful" and that she had to make herself "plain" to please God.  She's still pretty, but the way she carries herself, dresses, and behaves, one would think she was a mouse.  She started avoiding the rest of us because we "stood out too much" according to her pastor (What a joke:  We were the outcasts.).  Today she's in San Francisco standing on street corners and handing out Watchtower pamphlets.  \n\nNo.  It can be a very bad thing.
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Yes. Some people believe that when someone openly says they are a Christian, it means you are judgemental of those who aren't.
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To some point of your question, I agree. I don't like others attemping to force thier beliefs on me. But, just listen anyway.They mean well, but do not realize what they are doing. But from a standpoint of their beliefs, they are doing what they think is right. Just grin and bear it.
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You seem to be asking two questions, then hint at a third. The first, "Why do they (some people who have a solid faith), insist on pushing it onto others?"\n\nWhen I see "faith" I immediately think "religious faith," and when some of those who have a solid religious faith insist on pushing it onto others, they are likely to be evangelical, which charges them with spreading the Word. For others, their faith has so changed their lives that, evangelical or not, they cannot contain their happiness and must share with others.\n\nAs you elaborate your question you ask a second and hint at a third: "We don't judge them for their beliefs - so why do they judge others?" What you see as "judging" to them may be seen as having accepted the Truth. That Truth is so obvious it can be blinding in its clarity and all the more mystifying that others can't, don't or refuse to see it. That in turn, couples with a sense of urgency to save the rest of us.\n\nAnd then, "While I am not gay, it seems to be the gay community that recieve the most 'telling offs'." This seems to go into a different territory. The gay community receiving the most 'telling offs' may be from those who are anti-gay and/or homophobic; or simply ignorant and/or immature.
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Some poeple take evangelizing to the next level.  It is not just Christians.  Most religions, even some pagan ones, have sects that push their followers to convert others.
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Well, I'm not atheist, but I'm not very religious either.  I had two friends, one who was an atheist and one who was a firm-believing christian.  Around this time of year, the atheist would say Happy Holidays and the christian would say Merry Christmas, as a way of persuading him and it ticked me off.  My mentality is that everyone's beliefs are going to be different because everyone in this world is different.  And if what they believe makes them a better and happier person, then I'm not going to judge it and more so, I'm going to be happy that's what they believe, because it makes them happy.  And those who are super-devout in their beliefs to the point where they push it on other people really piss me off.  And a lot of times, I see it's because either A)  they are too stupid and/or lazy to come up with their own ideas that they need a book or someone else to make up ideas for them or B)  they can't forgive themselves for their past sins so they think if they lead this life it'll automatically make them a better person, when it doesn't.  To those atheists out there, believe whatever you want to believe.  It's nobody's business but your own.  And a truly good person and friend will accept and respect you, even if you don't agree with their beliefs!
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Excellent point.  I guess we all want confirmation and support even if it's wrong because we always feel better in a crowd that believes the same as we do.  That's why as good answer-ers we need to be honest in most cases.  Our honesty may hurt at first, but we may really help someone in the long run.  MY OPINION good question!
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I wanted to start by saying that I am a Christian.\n\nPeople who are non-Christians are not going to feel better after reading your post. This post comes across as the same pushiness that people don't like anyway. I understand that you believe very strongly, as do I, but please find a new way to share the love of God. This just seems pushy and it almost sounds like you think you are better than the "poor unsaved people."\n\nGod bless you though for trying!
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Because it is always more fun to pass on misinformation.  Also in the religious arena we tend to vilify people who believe different than we do.  Don't you find it odd that nearly every religion teaches that they are the only true religion and that all others are false - "run or founded, by the devil".  I am of the influence that all good things come from God.  Besides I cannot think of a heaven where Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, or Billy Graham weren't present.
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People push it on you because they believe strongly, that they have found the only path to heaven. They are just trying to bring you into the faith because they care about you and want you to go to heaven too. The unfortunate thing is most people don't know how to go about "selling" their faith to others, and sadly, end up offending more than they convert. It is not intentional, it is an unfortunate by product of their good intentions. I am sorry that this friend has made you feel like your faith is a lie, or rather that he is calling it that. Thank you however, for keeping an open mind about the whole thing. Christianity can be a bit messed up at times. Most Christian faiths think that any other Christian faith that isn't theirs is going to hell too, so don't feel too bad. The way I look at it, if you are right with God, that is all that really matters.
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Absolutely. Hell, there are people I work with who get upset if our boss doesn't apprise us of recent news every couple of weeks.\n\nThese Christians deserve to have some kind of appendage tacked onto the Bible, at least something that ratifies current Fundamentalist thinking and prevents them from being the hypocrites they've become.\n\nWhy, it's almost been 2,000 years since there was any news in the Good Book. It's about time some phrophet or the G-man himself descended from the heavens and spoke to his peeps.\n\nAnd so say all of us...
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ummm, which christians are you talking about....i'm christian and i ain't braggin bout nuttin...\n\n\nwell, basically, after centuries of oppression and slaughtering diferent societies, such as the Incas, we have been told that there must be a better method in spreading the word......so, instead of complaining, be happy we are no longer taking over countries to "spread the good word".
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I think the reason is that people are trying to show how smart they are about religion and they are also trying to convert other people any way they can.
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It seems that some people from all different faiths feel that if they belong to that faith (even loosely) it gives them the right to jump on a soapbox and tell the world that what they believe is the only way to go and if you don't believe it you'll go to an undesirable place.  \n\nI understand and appreciate what you're saying and you're free to believe as you wish.  It's the "others" that try to force their beliefs on you that drive most people crazy.  We're free to believe what we'd like to too.  You're right, you can't save anyone's soul.....wish other people would get that and worry about their own souls.
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People manipulate religion to what they want it to mean
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It's more poetic junk in the Bible that you can really interpret to whatever you want it to be.  This bit seems to be more threats of hellfire for those outside the group.  Religion likes to use the carrot and stick approach to gaining and keeping converts.  This is one example of a stick.  On the carrot side of it, they'll talk about "God's love" and such (ignoring, of course, such contradictions as this).