Maybe one cannot test for the existance of God---but one maybe able to measure the depths of another belief in Jesus.
According to Mark 16
..And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
If we are to take Jesus words as true and literal, there should exist a method to distinguish believers of the Christ from people that pretend to be believers. All we have to do is poison them!!
Of course, we will not poison them so much as to kill them, just enough to see if an adverse effect takes place. Thus I have come up with an idea for an empirical test for proclaimed holders of the christian faith! The idea is to create a toxin that, when taken in small doses, will not kill a man, but will produce some kind of physical attribute in humans if they are susceptible to the poison. Using my hypothesis and the claim of Jesus in Mark 16, the toxin will have no effects on True believers, and gradually the effects will become noticable in people of weaker faith until we reach a level of non-belief.
Considering that we can use Jesus's words to distinguish true believers and lovers of the word from charlatan and misled sheep, think of all the people we can help free from madmen and Jim Jones type if we were able to market such a test. Think about all those people that can escape purgatory if such an idicator of weak faith in the believer exist!
In fact, if it could be made into a simple test on the blood itself, we could sell devices as small as a One-Touch meter. We could call it the empirical Faith check.
What do you think about such an idea? All comments welcomed.
(By the way--NFSTD stands for "Not for the Seriously Devout" Since it is those that are most devouted to an idea that will take offense to my suggestions and ideas posted in this thread)
According to Mark 16
..And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
If we are to take Jesus words as true and literal, there should exist a method to distinguish believers of the Christ from people that pretend to be believers. All we have to do is poison them!!
Of course, we will not poison them so much as to kill them, just enough to see if an adverse effect takes place. Thus I have come up with an idea for an empirical test for proclaimed holders of the christian faith! The idea is to create a toxin that, when taken in small doses, will not kill a man, but will produce some kind of physical attribute in humans if they are susceptible to the poison. Using my hypothesis and the claim of Jesus in Mark 16, the toxin will have no effects on True believers, and gradually the effects will become noticable in people of weaker faith until we reach a level of non-belief.
Considering that we can use Jesus's words to distinguish true believers and lovers of the word from charlatan and misled sheep, think of all the people we can help free from madmen and Jim Jones type if we were able to market such a test. Think about all those people that can escape purgatory if such an idicator of weak faith in the believer exist!
In fact, if it could be made into a simple test on the blood itself, we could sell devices as small as a One-Touch meter. We could call it the empirical Faith check.
What do you think about such an idea? All comments welcomed.
(By the way--NFSTD stands for "Not for the Seriously Devout" Since it is those that are most devouted to an idea that will take offense to my suggestions and ideas posted in this thread)
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