Bryan will explain it all:
Many fundamentalists on this board are afraid to have an open mind because they FEAR they will go to hell. This is not an active FEAR. It is a hypothetical FEAR. When critics accuse fundies of being motivated by FEAR to convert Muslims to follow man written commandments and denounce atheism it is based on one or more of the following things:
1. Fear of themselves going to hell.
2. Fear of non-Christians going to hell.
Fundie Christianity is motivated out of FEAR.
It is obvious you do not know anything about Christianity. I act certain ways to make my wife happy, not because I fear her, but because I love her. So it is with God. I am not surprised you do not understand.
What is true Christianity? Are street preachers who have on their shirt Jesus saves you from hell, not real Christians? Are Christians who fail to convince non-believers and give them warnings about hell, not true Christians? Fundie Christianity makes it a point about bribing the unbeliever that he or she will not recieve the gift of heaven if they do not believe in Jesus Christ. If they do not love Jesus Christ, their souls will suffer forever. Loving your wife is not at all the same as loving the fundie Jesus. I do understand their are interpretations and versions of Christianity that conflict with fundie Christianity. But Sye Ten Bruggencate, Pat Robertson, (even) James White, Pastor Anderson, Pastor Manning make it abundantly clear that they serve the Lord in order to get the ticket into heaven. Of course they want to make this god happy because that is the only way they think they will get the ticket and avoid the eternal misery. They love to warn atheists about HELL because they are concerned about what God will do to them if they do not believe in JESUS. Fundie Christianity has fear on their shirts and their sermons
When someone is heading for disaster and you are showing them a way out of that disaster, is it fear or love that you are showing?
Of course they are showing love by showing a way out but the question is:
Is the disaster real?
Secondly, the so called saved are showing the lost a way out due to the FEAR Jesus will send the lost to the disaster called hell. The fundies' theme is you must LOVE the God how they preach it from a book (which its authors claim have direct connection to God) or suffer in the pit. So ultimately they FEAR the "lost" will go to the pit of torture which motivates the "saved" to show the "lost" a way out. This shows their love of people under false circumstances not that hell is real. IT certainly does not show they do not FEAR non-Christians going to HELL. Why would they show the lost a away out?
I am sorry there is very small similarity between loving your wife and loving the christian God concept. How can I ignore the following
differences:
- Your wife can be detected by at least two of your five senses. The Triune God can not be detected by any of your senses.
- Your wife does not send people to tell you that she loves you when she never told you this directly.
- Your wife does not authors to write in a book that she loves you when she never told you this directly.
- Your wife will not send you to a place that will make you wish you were never were born because you failed to love her. This place is called HELL.
- Your wife does not demand you to follow commandments because she is the eternal ruler over you.
- Your wife doesn't think your love of her is meaningless if she does not constantly test your love.
- Your wife doesn't think that if you lack the freewill to deny her existence, you can not truly love her. Apologists claim this is true for God. The Christian God wants to give you the free will to deny his existence. This is why we have deists, Muslims, Jews, Wiccans and other pagans.
The best analogy I can come up for the triune God is a person who wants you to choose to be his parent forever and assigns human beings to do his talking. Protestants believe they are the divinely appointed people to teach The Bible. Bryan Fischer thinks he is one of these people. He believes he is the true teacher of The Gospel.
This BTW does not prove that the supernatural concepts(hell, sin, salvation) in
The Bible are true. This logically concludes that he lacks proof that he is the true biblical teacher selected by God. This is based on the evidence he has brought forth which is ZERO.