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So since I've been growing and learning more about my faith, and Christ, there's been a lot of discussion at my church around the idea of preaching to others.

This conflicts me greatly, as I've said in the past, I used to be Christian in name only and used to very much live by "to each their own" "live and let live" etc etc. of course now I've come to actually follow the beliefs I once claimed, I understand we as a people want to give as many people a chance as we can to come to know Christ.

My question is this, all those who don't believe, I'm really curious, if you believed there was a chance we were in fact correct, and we by all means could be,

What would you see as worse?
1. Christians pushing more and more to try and convince and convert more and more people?

2. Or, if Christians , with all our beliefs in that
You need to follow Christ to be saved, if we just excluded ourselves as a religion, and kept to ourselves?

I ask because I by all means want to give as many people a chance to know Christ as I do,
But I also remember those feelings of just wanting to keep my beliefs to myself and not really caring what others believed or wanting to bother others(I was not the nicest person lol 😅)

Edit: sorry I think I wrote this poorly, I'm not trying to claim or imply anything religious, I'm more asking a question around being made to make a choice you don't want to make, or being in a situation where your not even aware about a choice to Begin with (basically getting a bad end without being told a bad end exists)
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FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F
Honestly, that whole "spread the word" always felt very pryamid schemey to me. It always reminds me of the meme where one person says, "If I didn't know about God and sin, I wouldn't go to hell?"

The other person says, "No, not if you didn't know."

The first person then replies, "Then why did you tell me?"

But, given this day and age, what rock has a person been living under that you would reach out to that hasn't heard about God or Jesus? I think that would be harder than finding someone who hasn't.

Another point I want to make is about free will. Supposedly, we were goven free will to choose god and be happy for eternity or not choose him and be tortured for eternity.

The thing with free will is that it is a lot like consent. You can't have free will if one of the two choices is to suffer forever, much like you can't consent if you haven't been given all the details. It is operating under false pretenses. What kind of free choice is that? Obviously, if I have the choice of drinking this delicious drink or burning in a fire, I'm going to choose the drink. That's not free will. That's akin to a serious threat. "If you don't pick the right box, you're going to be killed!"

So, god already knows we will choose pleasure over pain. Duh. That's simply not free will.

And honestly, if that is how god wants to have that concept work, well...I really don't want to have much to do with a god like that. 🤷‍♀
HoeBag · 51-55, F
@FoxyGoddess Thank you :D

Yeah it is real convenient how we are designed to choose pleasure over discipline but then punished for acting out our natural instincts. Supposedly, even wanting to sin is a sin in itself. Like you don't even have to actually do anything wrong to be accountable.