WHY DO PEOPLE WASTE THEIR LIFE TRYING TO ARGUE AND FIGHT AGAINST GOD? GOD LOVES YOU,GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY PERISH, WHY NOT JUST BELIEVE,CONFESS AND REPENT, ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND BECOME A son OF ALMIGHTY GOD? THERE IS NO DOWNSIDE TO LIVING YOUR LIFE AS A son OF ALMIGHTY GOD!!!!
Because they don't understand when people like you preach.
To those who do not understand, it sounds condemning and ugly.
Most atheists I know are NOT against God but against Theists and Christians
preaching in a way that sounds condemning, exclusive, and ugly
where it does not sound inviting like God's love but just focuses on judgment and punishment.
[MENTION=42952]GISMYS[/MENTION] if you had a teacher that just preached at the kids to
get the math right or they're all going to fail. The school wants you to pass,
but if you keep messing up, you're going to flunk out and get in trouble.
If that's all they heard, can you understand why kids would want to
run away from school?
It sounds fear-based, threatening, negative, dividing and rejecting them.
It does not sound like they want to go there, but they are going to fail going to that school!
They are going to go enroll in some other school that can teach them to pass
without threatening, insulting them, yelling or screaming threats and judgments.
Some kids are so hard headed they NEED a drill camp sergeant in their face to get to them.
But for sensitive kids, this is disastrous.
You can almost permanently scar people this way.
I have a friend who, to this day, cannot interact freely with Christians
because of traumatic memories of an Uncle coming to his father's funeral
and preaching ugly things about going to hell instead of helping uplift
people in grief to focus on heaven.
Some people need to focus on heaven and how to correct things and make peace.
Some people do NOT respond to all the preaching about judgment or punishment.
This may work for some people, but it fuels fear, division and resentment;
so THAT is why people FIGHT religion because of this longterm image
that works for some but has severely damaged, abused and traumatized other people,
so much that they left churches they were in and either joined others or dropped out.
People want God's love truth wisdom and understanding.
But the way you come across as preaching, this speaks the opposite to many people
who don't respond to that.
GISMYS I never understood Jesus and God this way.
I was blessed to reach an understanding at all, that came from resolving life relationships,
and that was enough to understand that was the meaning of Jesus and the Bible.
So it is possible to teach people by using their relationships,
to understand why we need God's divine forgiveness.
So my job is to help those people who need to learn that way by experience.
If your job is to preach at the Pharisees and hardhearted, go ahead.
But please be careful not to turn sensitive caring people into hard-hearted rebels,
angry at the abuse associated with the type of judgmental preaching and condemnation
directed at the wrong people.
Shooting guns at criminals to stop their chaos may be effective;
but pulling guns on frightening kids is abusive, traumatizing and wrong.
We have to be careful to address our audience, and not give the wrong impression
that soldiers are just violent people shooting at everyone and everything in sight,
thinking God gives them license to do so.
We are supposed to obey and live by God's laws; whereby we forgive and correct
one another as neighbors in Christ, one on one, to resolve all grievances and errors.
In Jesus name I pray for full agreement, understanding and establishing of God' truth
to uplift and liberate all people, all relations, all nations and tribes otherwise suffering
from fear, ignorance, unforgiveness, division, and rejection. May all barriers and blocks be removed blocking God's will from perfect realization; and may the love of Christ or perfect conscience cover protect and include all people from any harm in the process of resolution.
May all wounds be healed and conflicts be resolved as Restorative Justice as fulfilled in Christ Jesus, that all may be saved from further strife and suffering and be made whole. Amen.