Originally posted by chappy1
Look, I'm not trying to convince you SwissGambit. I can't do it anyway. Only the Holy Spirit can convince of the truth. I apparently am not doing a good job of relaying my point. Sorry about that. I never claimed to be an all knowing theologian but I know what I believe and I know what is true and what is false. If you think I'm gullible I'm fine with ...[text shortened]... erely try it and prove me wrong. Y'all have great day, especially you Swiss. 🙂
Look, I'm not trying to convince you SwissGambit.
You were talking to josephw, who constantly tries to persuade people to follow his faith, and was doing so in the post to which you responded. You said
from your experience that he would get nowhere with 'these people', which means you have also tried to persuade others. This is consistent with many of your posts that I've read.
If you think I'm gullible I'm fine with that.
No, I didn't mean you. I meant that your audience would have to be gullible in order for them to accept things simply on your say-so. [This should have been obvious, since you accused skeptics in general of being close minded, and I responded by pointing out there was a difference between open-mindedness and gullibility; my point was a direct response to yours.]
I'm a school teacher
Hopefully not a writing teacher.
I'm not going to lose sleep over what the people in this thread think of me.
You started by calling a large group of people close-minded. Hey, as long as we're being brutally honest with each other, why should said group of people hold back in their response?
That Jesus Christ is the answer to any question that anyone could possibly ask in the history of the world.
LemonJello has already pointed out the obvious flaw in this statement. You're just not thinking very carefully about the meaning of what you write. That's why you come off as lazy.
And as to me saying "just try it"- well what do you have to lose. Why not try it? What could it hurt? Sincerely try it and prove me wrong.
I sincerely tried it for 2 decades. I discovered that there is a great deal to lose. Devotion to rigid, unnatural rules, overwhelming guilt, discontent with incoherent religious philosophy, wasted time sitting around in church, etc. etc. are all things I am now gladly rid of.
Y'all have great day, especially you Swiss. 🙂
Same to you.