How do I convert Jewish friends to Christianity?

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  1. Daniel Light

    Daniel Light Well-Known Member

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    Your posts are claiming your religion is superior and that Jewish people will go to hell if they don't believe as you do. Smug and self-righteous.
     
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  2. Daniel Light

    Daniel Light Well-Known Member

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    But you are belittling Jewish people when you claim their religion is inferior and that they will go to hell because they don't believe as you do.
     
  3. Aquarius

    Aquarius Well-Known Member

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    I respect and love the Jewish people. I stand by Israel. Continue to twist my words and try to divide.
     
  4. Daniel Light

    Daniel Light Well-Known Member

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    You claimed that you wanted to convert Jewish people to your religion because your religion was superior. How am I "twisting" your words?
     
  5. yardmeat

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    To do so would mean I never truly had agape for her. I do.

    Agape is, by definition, selfless. It seems to me that the only Christians able to shrug this thing off are ones who are primarily motivated by selfishness

    Unless they die unsaved, then I'm supposed to spiritually lobotomize myself? The only constant here is selfishness.

    . . . God would be the Nazis in this analogy.
     
  6. mswan

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    Pressing too hard to convert friends to Christianity seldom has good results. Just plain conversation and congenial behavior works better. I like the sentiment attributed to St. Francis "Preach the Gospel at all times. ... Use words if necessary."
     
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  7. Aquarius

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    Nothing is superior, only different. You just want to use mental gymnastics to oppress Christian’s.
     
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    How is disagreement "oppression"?
     
  9. Aquarius

    Aquarius Well-Known Member

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    Obsessing over a few to not save the many is worse.

    If a ship full of people will sink if you do not push a fat person off… you take care of the problem because it saves more people. Is it sad? Yes. Does it feel good to ignore one to save many? No. It is for the greater good though.

    Also God abhors the Nazis.
     
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    If you can just turn off compassion for your own selfish reasons, then the compassion was never genuine. You said was never really, truly a Christian, but it appears you never really, truly had agape for these people.

    If hell is real, God is worse than any Nazi.
     
  11. Aquarius

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    I feel bad for the people that are sacrificed spiritually to obtain salvation. I just do the right thing and save a greater number.

    Saying God/Yahweh is worse than people torturing others is absurd. Nazis epitomized human evil.
     
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    You "feel bad," but you have no agape for them.

    And God, if hell is real, epitomizes superhuman evil. Hell is worse than the Holocaust.
     
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    Also, @Aquarius , you say you care about the greater number. Will the greater number of souls that have ever existed go to heaven or hell?
     
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    I believe when all is said and done more people will quietly accept their lord and ascend to heaven .
     
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    So you don't believe Matthew 7:13-14?
     
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    I believe things change.
     
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    Including people in hell? If angels can fall from heaven, why can't people convert and rise from hell?
     
  18. Aquarius

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    Why is water wet? It just is.

    I am not a pastor so stop interrogating me. You can use your intellect to run circles around me and make me look stupid but I always will have faith while you will be very lonely and sad unless you accept salvation.
     
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    God had no say in it? It just was and there wasn't nothing he could do about it?

    I've asked pastors. They can't answer either. Like you, they advise me that I have too much agape and should turn it off.

    You encouraged me to introspect. All I'm doing is asking that you do the same.

    I always will have compassion, empathy, love, agape. The faith you offer made me more lonely and sad than anything else ever has. And all it could offer was an eternity of this sadness and loneliness.
     
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    It’s just amazing how some people think they have all the answers about religion and life. When in reality no one really knows anything for sure, that’s why they call it “faith “. Anyone that says they know for sure are either delusional or full of sheit.
     
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    Looks like a case of psychological problems to me. Probably to the point of needing to be medicated and hospitalized.
     
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    I am a Jew, and find Christianity to be a twisted, ignorant bastardization of Judaism and Romanism. No thank you.

    Christianity believes all human beings inherit the sin of Adam, and are doomed to Hell. Judaism doesnt believe such twisted ****.

    So again, no thank you.
     
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    Reminds me of me around a decade ago and prior. Maybe he should switch to decaf :D
     
  24. mswan

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    That’s my belief as well, but we don’t have a lot of support on either side to that coin.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    many Jews chose death, rather than to give up their faith.

    They are heroes.
     

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