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[chess]

I think that I might have given some people here some wrong impressions in the past. So, I'd just like to clear a few things up.
1. I am a Christian.
2. This means that I believe in one God, who expresses Himself as a Trinity of people - God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. This also means that I believe all other gods/godesses/deities-of-any-description are fakes, invented by humans or by Satan to trap people and keep them away from God.
4. In addition, I believe that everyone who isn't a Christian is going to Hell.
5. Understandably, I would really rather all you people didn't go to Hell. Hence, I'm praying for you. And I'm going to keep praying for you. Even if you ask me not to.

So, there we go.

Comments

[b-weg.livejournal.com]

Methinks quoting from the Bible will win you no ground with non-Christian non-Jewish people, since it has no more significance to them than other books.

Oh, and three non-overlapped, non-consecutive sets of brackets rarely lose anyone.

[Oh, and of course this question comes up a lot - it's a discussion-provoking and important one]

[chess]

Surely quoting from the Bible is precisely the correct thing to do, when the question is 'what do Christians believe about X' (where X in this case happens to be what happens to ppl who have no chance to know about God).

[originalauthor.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right Chess. I asked what Christians felt about it, and I expected Bible verses. That was the point of the question.

Re:

[b-weg.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... but non-Christians don't consider The Bible to be a significant book. Besides, in a post with 60-odd replies, I for one would be likely to skip dense textual analyses.

[chess]

So, you think curt, flippant, 'because I do' replies are a better way of going about a rational, informed discussion?

Never mind, the actual target audience of those posts has said that the approach was right.

Re:

[b-weg.livejournal.com]

I never implied that at all, and there are few answers worse than 'because I do'. Worry not - I shall not reply again to this conversation.

Fair points

[passage.livejournal.com]

All fair points, sorry about the brackets. And I think you're right about the nature of the question (sorry about my rant).

You're right in that the bible quotes aren't going to convinced Non-Christians that what I'm saying is true. In part my reason was this:
To provided a basis for debate with other Christians and as a disipline for myself: I'm trying to get to know my bible better and I ought to be checking that what I argue is supported by the bible (and it would be fair to accuse me of failing in this regard in that some of what I said was speculation, and I don't think I highlighted this as much as I should have).

And what Chess said too.

Neil