Directed to all christians ... myself included...

You can refuse to let them be "destroyed" by it, however, it is their belief and that will not change (if that is truly what they believe to be true). So you really have no choice in the matter. Carry on believing what you believe and we will do the same.

You have a lot of choices:
What you eat breakfast tomorrow
What you will wear the next day
Whether or not you will watch the golden girls

These are choices you make for yourself, however, you just can't choose someones religious beliefs.

You have a lot of choices:

Whether or not you will watch the golden girls

The first episode, maybe. But, after that....not so much.

LOL! I watched a quite a few episodes in my time (definitely not my choice it was my grandmothers) and I'm not overly proud of it

Ok that I can partially agree with you on. If someone comes to you and asks why do you believe what you do. Then sure tell them, after all they asked. Maybe that will help them. However, you should not tell them why not to choose a religion unless you have done careful study about it. I would never tell anyone not to practice buddhism because .... I just don't know enough about it.

You know very clearly what it says?

Please do enlighten me

This is precisely what non-Christians have been telling Christians throughout all of history.

It's just an unfortunate fact of history that Christianity is a highly proselytizing and evangelizing religion.

It is extremely unfortunate. But it's the way things are.

It's simply a property of the Christian religion to evangelize.

Unfortunately it can sometimes get so extreme to the point where it basically becomes harassment of non-Christians. They simply won't take no for an answer. They continually beat people over the head with it relentlessly. And then when the people challenge it they scream "foul".



As long as there are Christians who continue to accuse non-Christians of "not believing in God's word", as if there is something wrong with that, there will always be animosity associated with the religion.

This is the first time I have ever posted in this section.

I have been on Mingle for 4 years, and post in the "General", or "Chit Chat" forums, but today I have a wonderful testimony to share with you all, that just happened to me!

I am a Christian, got saved while I was in jail, came out saved, quit using drugs, and became a Christian, got rebabtised, and started to attend bible study, and service every Sunday. I have been free of drugs for 4 years now. Praise Jesus!

I recently moved, and I dont own a car, I ride my bike everywhere. I have not been able, so far, to locate a church in my new area, that was close enough to ride to.

Today I was writing an email to a friend of mine on Mingle, and he had asked me about my being saved, so I dedicated the entire letter to telling him about how it all came about.

While in jail, my bunkee(who was a crack addict, and prostitute) and I deceided on day, we wanted to be saved. So we took our jailhouse issued bible in our hands, layed on the cement cell floor (because, even in the little reading of the bible I had done at that point in church, I remembered reading a verse that something something to the effect of, "as low as you can get, is as humble as you can be to Jesus")held hands, and asked to be forgiven all of our sins, and to be saved. We than started to attend church, every Sunday in jail, which was held in a classroom. This story goes on and on, but I want to get to what I came here to share.

Right in the middle of writing this email to my friend,(I started to cry, because I have missed not going to church to praise the lord), and suddenly there was a knock at my door. We NEVER have visitors, ever. I am single with no children. As I opened the door, there stood 2 young girls, with bibles in their hands, and asked to share some scripture with me. This has NEVER happened to me before, EVER! I immediately raised my hands to the lord, and praised him, and told the ladies, that I was just writing an email to my friend at Mingle, about Jesus,(which is also something ive NEVER done)and was crying because I had not yet found a church in my area, and missed worship!

They both giggled, and I said,"God sent you to me, just now, this is a miracle", and we all praised the lord. They gave me the address to their church, and told me if it was too far to ride my bike, they would happily pick me up, every Sunday, and also gave me their phone numbers.

Stories like this are too glorious not to share, so I hope you welcome it, and me, to the "Religious Forums".

God bless you all!

Luv2roknroll, Roberta

That's amazing, I'm very happy for you. Have you stayed in touch with the woman you met in jail? Is she doing as well as you?