Why do christians compromise ?

I am still waiting to know having rewad all the posts in this thread in what way Chrisitans " compromise" Pls provide examples of what you man and I will happily exxplain them to you one by one

Blessings to all
 
PS, I suspect it is about people being "religious" i.e superstitious and humanistc
 
freethinking said:
I am still waiting to know having rewad all the posts in this thread in what way Chrisitans " compromise" Pls provide examples of what you man and I will happily exxplain them to you one by one

Blessings to all
Click to expand...

My post is not clear? You didn't find any questions or examples in it?
 
Getoffmyback said:
I always ask myself about what happened with christians that made them let go the beauty of religion or faith to the hands of hollywood directors . Why do they accept such things?
Click to expand...
I don't think it is to do with compromising.

I think Christians have a different attitude to these things because they ultimately believe in a God who came down to Earth and lived an earthly life, was mocked and ridiculed and suffered at the hands of his enemies, died a terrible death ... and still managed to forgive and say 'Forgive them, for they don't know what they do' ... and rose in glory from the dead!

This guy, Jesus, calls us to follow his example and do as he did.

I believe that's the reason why Christians tend to be more forgiving about these things ...

I don't know all the films you mention in your post, but some films (such as Evan Almighty) deal with questions people have about God. They may not be Biblically accurate, but they help people to engage with the concept of God, and therefore help them to ponder their purpose in life and to find to God in that way.
Many people don't enter their faith journey by simply subscribing to one belief and following it blindly - but many people need to engage with the idea and find their own way.
In that sense many of those filme - even if they seem blasphemous to to devout believer may help non-believers to find their own faith.
 
glo said:
I don't think it is to do with compromising.

I think Christians have a different attitude to these things because they ultimately believe in a God who came down to Earth and lived an earthly life, was mocked and ridiculed and suffered at the hands of his enemies, died a terrible death ... and still managed to forgive and say 'Forgive them, for they don't know what they do' ... and rose in glory from the dead!

This guy, Jesus, calls us to follow his example and do as he did.

I believe that's the reason why Christians tend to be more forgiving about these things ...

I don't know all the films you mention in your post, but some films (such as Evan Almighty) deal with questions people have about God. They may not be Biblically accurate, but they help people to engage with the concept of God, and therefore help them to ponder their purpose in life and to find to God in that way.
Many people don't enter their faith journey by simply subscribing to one belief and following it blindly - but many people need to engage with the idea and find their own way.
In that sense many of those filme - even if they seem blasphemous to to devout believer may help non-believers to find their own faith.
Click to expand...

I regre to say with respect you re fundamentally wrong.
Consider this and I know you pick and choose which parts of thr Bible suit you, that prior to Jesus coming to Earth the way to repent of sin was to offer a Blood sacrife through animals.

Therefore the way to attonment was throuh a Blood sacrfice. Yet people continued to sin prompted by corrupitve influences of demons.
God knew that we are not perfect since Adam disobeyed God and sent his only Son to rescuse us whio belive and have True faith in our hearts.

It is foretold in the OT book of Isiah how Jeus would set us free and willingly paid the price with Glorious Grace.
To mock this idea is to show ignorance of Gods universal laws and to deny Gods all encompassing LOVE for us.

Bless you to learn the Truth
 
freethinking said:
I regre to say with respect you re fundamentally wrong.
Consider this and I know you pick and choose which parts of thr Bible suit you, that prior to Jesus coming to Earth the way to repent of sin was to offer a Blood sacrife through animals.

Therefore the way to attonment was throuh a Blood sacrfice. Yet people continued to sin prompted by corrupitve influences of demons.
God knew that we are not perfect since Adam disobeyed God and sent his only Son to rescuse us whio belive and have True faith in our hearts.

It is foretold in the OT book of Isiah how Jeus would set us free and willingly paid the price with Glorious Grace.


Bless you to learn the Truth
Click to expand...
I agree with your post, and I am not sure which part of my post you are so fundamentally disagreeing with or why you should think that I am picking and choosing from the Bible to suit myself ... :)

Perhaps we differ not so much in how we understand the atonement for mankind through Jesus' sacrifice - but in how we feel we should respond to those who don't believe in the same thing.

To mock this idea is to show ignorance of Gods universal laws and to deny Gods all encompassing LOVE for us.
Click to expand...
I agree that people who mock Jesus, God and the Christian are probably ignorant of God's universal laws and his love for us - either that or they know God and deliberately try to turn against him. :hmm:


Still, returning to the original question, why (some) Christians seem to put up with other mocking God and their faith - what do you think our response should be to such things?

Should we
  • demonstrate against such events?
  • start discussions?
  • boycott them?
  • try to prevent them?
  • ignore them?
  • pray for those you are misguided?




I am reminded of a conversation I had with the minister in our church.
We have a small library of Christian books, which members of the congregation can borrow and read at no charge.
I had offered to tidy up the bookshelf, and I had asked the minister if he wanted to check the books to make sure that the content was in line with his/the churches theology.
His reply was that he wasn't too worried about that, and that almost any book which prompted people to think about Jesus and God was good in his view.

What do you think about that?
 
Can you protest that others don't agree with your theology?

What good is there in hammering in points that no one else accepts as natural or logical, perhaps force feed it to them as has been done through the ages?
  • boycott them?
Click to expand...

in my opinion that is the best approach, if you are unhappy in a place because people don't agree with your theology, furthermore your hosts find your advances and bulk literature erroneous and meaningless it is best to take it else where folks are ready to imbue whatever nonsense you dish out without question!

The dark ages of the church where folks who spoke against obsolete and erroneous beliefs were sentenced to death are long over..

along with boycott, I think that too is fairly reasonable


You may as well be praying to the devil. If you are not praying to the one God, and the God you pray too wants nothing to do with your theology and the people you are allegedly praying for find your prayers to border upon an annoyance then it is safe to conclude that it is a waste of everyone's time!
 
freethinking said:
It is foretold in the OT book of Isiah how Jeus would set us free and willingly paid the price with Glorious Grace.
To mock this idea is to show ignorance of Gods universal laws and to deny Gods all encompassing LOVE for us.
Click to expand...
Why don't the Jews then buy into your brand of Christianity if it were 'foretold' in their OT?
your really should think about that along with other (in my humble opinion more grave and serious aspects of your religion) like why a god who forsake himself and was helpless at best against a couple of provincial villagers could possibly save you, also given the event of his death!

all the best
 

Similar Threads

Back
Top