It can not be denied that the Christian faith can inspire worldly success, but it is - also an «iron law» of church history that Christians don't seem to handle success
any better than unbelievers.
Not exact matches
Wnen bad things happen to
good people they can be used as steping stones to increase their faith and characters, but I don't know how those that are
unbelievers view it, other
than a «O»
well, that's life.»
If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no
better than)
Unbelievers.
Daily believer momentum of positivism on twitter verbalism is
better than dissonant dilly dally rupturing of
unbeliever negativisms
But besides the fact that Thomas Aquinas says that bad arguments for God's existence do more harm
than good, since they give
unbelievers an occasion to laugh (ST I, q. 46, art. 2, response), I would also claim that apologetics is not that difficult.
And a true relationship between a believer and their Heavenly Father can not result in anything less
than the production of fruit, which creates a
good testimony, and in my own experience, nothing is a
better witness to the
unbeliever than the
good testimony of a believer.
You might need to show more gentleness with an
unbeliever blinded by his own depravity
than with a fellow Christian who ought to know
better.
Yet theologians themselves noted, long before Richard Dawkins, that the argument is hardly cogent, and probably
better serves as a reflection (in a double sense) of faith by believers
than as an effort to persuade
unbelievers.