«I hardly ever see a Christian post where the writer mocks and throws demeaning words at atheists and
other unbelievers.»
It's amazing to me that these simple billboards which are just there to let
other unbelievers know that they are not alone in these very religious communities, are causing such a ruckus.
Yes I am sad that one day you WILL learn the truth... That there is indeed a GOD... and for you and
all other unbelievers will be a sad day of reckoning.
Not just by those who «misinterpret» the Quran but by Islam's prophet Mohammed PERSONALLT making war on Jews, Christians and
other unbelievers.
Nowhere in the Bible (unlike the Quran) does it teach that Jews (or
any other unbelievers) should be killed for their unbelief toward Christianity.
@ Cedar Rapids — Who is threatening you or
any other unbeliever?
Not exact matches
Tom, Tom, the
Other One «Perhaps it is right and good for this God to make unrighteous, morally weak, ignorant
unbelievers slaves under the control of the people who do believe and obey its Word.
BUT, unlike you, I don't think that limits you in any meaningful way, and yet, you obviously feel it limits us
unbelievers in some
other important way than the story we have in our heads.
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.»
All you «
other»
unbelievers (you know who you are) only have shallow meaningless comments.
Naming / defining is an exercise of power over
others, so perhaps naming
other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «
unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.
The problem with most
unbelievers, particularly Generation X, is they google for information and
other peoples opinions rather than doing their own primary, open - minded research.
Three
other references in the New Testament (in Timothy, Jude and 2 Peter) appear to be limited to condemnation of male sex slaves in the first instance, and to showing examples (Sodom and Gomorrah) of God's destruction of
unbelievers and heretics (in Jude and 2 Peter respectively).
It tends to serve no purpose except making a bunch of Christians mad at each
other, which in turn turns off
unbelievers from Christianity.
10:28 above... then the Fundamentalists should change their view on «hell» to be a «destruction» of the body and soul in hell for those who are
unbelievers... in
other words, annihilation... not eternal torment.
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and
other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an
unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?
On the
other hand, the «supra - rational» faiths often do not commend themselves to people of liberal intelligence nor lend themselves to ready communication to
unbelievers.
Now gay
unbelievers will always speak with a voice that defend
other gays whether believers or not.
NOT, you MUST kill
unbelievers in Mecca, but you can, you are allowed to, BUT only after a grace period is over and only if there's no
other pact in place and only if they try to stop you getting to the Kaaba, and only if they attack you first.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each
other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (
Unbelievers, among
others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Clive, you point out how
others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the
unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.
Some people find the belief in a higher power to assist in drawing the focus away from the substance;
others,
unbelievers, may find it more helpful to learn
other tools to break that focus.
If
unbelievers start wars and kill each
other, then let them.
It was underpinned by the view that all
others were
unbelievers and pagans, who were not destined for salvation.
LOL You name is perfect, a zombie is a
unbeliever who goes around eating the flesh of
other people causing them to become zombies.
The
other is either passed over in silence or without distinction looked upon as the stranger, the foreigner, the pagan, the one who is different, the outsider and the threat, the
unbeliever, the one to be ministered to, the object for mission.
GregB: You mean
other than the Quran's EXPLICIT instructions that Muslims make WAR on
unbelievers?
I praise Jesus Christ that He has allowed me to know who God really is regardless of what
other religions, Atheists, Agnostics and
unbelievers think, say or do!
I can see smirks spreading across the faces of
unbelievers and confess to having invoked the
other principle process philosophers so often use: the «god» principle.
In
other words, Romans is not primarily directed toward
unbelievers.
Furthermore, if we tell
unbelievers that they need to change their behavior in order to come to church or fit in with
other believers, they may get the wrong idea that becoming a Christian requires changing behavior, which it does not.
Sometimes, we overlook the sins of
other believers because we recognize they are «sinners saved by grace» but then condemn and correct certain behaviors of
unbelievers because we want to show our separation from the world.
In Village Atheists: How America's
Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the story of these unbelievers (who also went by «infidels,» «atheists,» «secularists,» «freethinkers,» and other names) through extended portraits of four «public atheists,» who «built infidel personas of far - flung notoriety upon their religious ruptu
Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the story of these
unbelievers (who also went by «infidels,» «atheists,» «secularists,» «freethinkers,» and other names) through extended portraits of four «public atheists,» who «built infidel personas of far - flung notoriety upon their religious ruptu
unbelievers (who also went by «infidels,» «atheists,» «secularists,» «freethinkers,» and
other names) through extended portraits of four «public atheists,» who «built infidel personas of far - flung notoriety upon their religious ruptures.»
I have no delusions about the levels of meanness, self - centeredness, and blatant opportunism that people can sink to, believers and
unbelievers alike, and how much it can hurt
others.
As scholars like Christian Smith and many
others have shown, there's really no such thing as an «
unbeliever.»
Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while
other active
unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.
It is every Muslim's duty to fight against
unbelievers, idol worshipers, and pagans; to defend Islam; to extend the borders of Islamic countries; and to scatter Islam to
other places.
Are there any
other blogs you are aware of which helps us understand the way
unbelievers think?
The death of the Prophet [may God grant him Peace] hailed a new era in which Muslims would have to develop an open - ended system of interpretation for issues and precedents for which the Qur «an and Sunnah did not have explicit experience with!The
other aspect of your argument is that you compact all
unbelievers [kafiruwn] into the same box.
«while
other active
unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.»
Justification in the sight of man by way of sanctification or becoming ever more like Christ is a process which has the potential of saving
others.; this by exemplifying through faith in action that faith alone in the blood of Christ alone saves you, this on the hope of attracting believers from faith to faith in action and
unbelievers first to faith and salvation and then to faith in action, paying it forward, growing His Kingdom.
allah on the
other hand commands all muslims to destroy
unbelievers.
Other models can be found in the approaches used by chaplains in hospitals, universities and prisons, where contact with
unbelievers is part of the normal day's work, and where a real response can be made based on knowledge of the state of people's religious views and needs.
And Joel, try to have more grace to deal with
unbelievers like captain nemo and
others on here who are wasting their time reading about something they don't even believe in.
There are rules which must not be seen less important than they are, because of more flexible islam for
other believers or
unbelievers..
In
other words, the instruction in 2 Timothy 4:2 is not a command to teach believers, but is a command to proclaim the Gospel and evangelize
unbelievers.
In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul bluntly says Christians shouldn't be, «yoked together with
unbelievers,» a passage generally understood to refer to marriage among
other things.
The reporter says that while «legal experts said the First Amendment grants Supreme Court justices, just like any
other U.S. citizen, the right to speak their mind,»
other experts insist that «Scalia's comments were difficult to reconcile with his judicial obligation to regard citizens of all religious persuasions — whether believer or
unbeliever, Christian or non-Christian — as equals under the law.»
Atheists / evolutionists / satanists etc. etc. = Self imposed labels for what the Bible clearly calls Fools,
Unbelievers and idolaters among
other things.
So again, when we talk about discipleship and the
unbeliever, we can see that no matter what a person believes or doesn't believe about God, Jesus, sin, Scripture, and a whole host of
other Christian teachings, there is always room for us to talk with a person about what they believe (or don't believe) and hopefully bring them to a place that is somewhat closer to the truth revealed through Jesus Christ and in the Scriptures.