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I didn’t say for the media to discard secularism. I asked for the media that reports or goes into depth on so many topics to treat Christ and Christians the sam
by nickpsecurity 3y ago
I didn’t say for the media to discard secularism. I asked for the media that reports or goes into depth on so many topics to treat Christ and Christians the same way. Instead, they systematically suppress the Gospel, mock it, misrepresent Christians’ claims, and do negative stories every chance they get. Doing this to any group liberals favor would create an outcry about discrimination but it’s tolerated for Christians. It’s both inaccurate for media reporting and unjust toward people.
Re treating other groups the same
I think the group should carry the weight it’s earned in terms of evidence and outcomes. Here’s some evidence of the Gospel that far outweighs the vast majority of what U.S. media reports as facts:
https://www.gethisword.com/evidence.html https://www.gethisword.com/evidence.html
Now, compare the Muslim faith. They recognize the Bible as Scripture, the authtor’s writings heavily contradict it, and therefore he is a false prophet. He worked no miracles per earliest writings and didn’t come back from the dead. His influence largely spread by money and the sword whereas Christ told us to peacefully share His message. The Christian-like nations had much better outcomes for most individuals than Muslim nations, too.
So, evidence-based reporting would favor Christianity over Islam. It would also report any good or bad things people in those faiths were doing. They’d just report the news.
Re my background, “ego,” and “illusion”
I was a hardcore, liberal, scientific atheist who destroyed religious people for ego and fun. Most of the world around me were arrogant, selfish people chasing ego, money, knowledge, and pleasure. We opposed Christian values to push the opposite. My country got worse and worse the more we did stuff like that, too, but we blamed everyone else. Especially right-wingers and Bible thumpers.
One day, I was forced to believe after witnessing an actual miracle on top of highly-improbable events. The God who works miracles deserves more belief than my prior icons who had no such power. After believing in Him, the Spirit of God dwells in us and delivers on His promises. We saw the results in our family, workplace, etc. He gradually humbled me into a different person, too, who acts for His name and others’ future. In fact, God requires each act be done in love or He won’t reward it at all. No showmanship.
Now, I was in a community that shared all the history, news, and analyses that was hidden from me as a liberal. It was like leaving Plato’s Cave. After a while, I had seen everything from lives changing in the hood (eg Memphis TN) to studies showing positive outcomes on a national level to doctors confirming miracles granted in Jesus’ name. What I had before were my personal beliefs with no such evidence or power.
One of the other lessons from God’s Word is how He blesses or disciplines nations. The nations that followed Christ or kept laws similar to God’s design were very prosperous in many ways. In the Bible, they’d turn to idolatry (or atheism), sexual immorality, oppression of workers, and kill their children for financial success. Each time, God’s wrath eventually came down on them with economic problems, random violence going up, chronic illness going up, birth rates going down, bad weather, and so on. They were destroyed. As predicted, America started doing all those things after turning away from God with all the same responses beginning to happen.
So, we’re not taking out of ego or speculation or hatred of people. We’ve seen objective, personal, and historical proof that the Bible is true with positive outcomes for individuals and nations. We see our nation turning to huge sin and paying the same price in the Bible. That’s sad.
We want all of you to live eternally, purposefully, and with deep peace in hard times. The media systematically suppresses or makes negative reports about Christ and His positive results while promoting tons of unproven or sinful practices even when they do damage. If they do the opposite, or even just more righteousness, it will help many people.
- talldayo 3y agoPerhaps God will make his next miracle something more generally observable. The context of your lived experience is useless to me. Unfortunately, I have seen schizophrenic people maim their bodies over perceived threats that a security camera proves isn't real. I'm not very good at the whole "trust me" thing anymore, at least without seeing the boogeyman myself. Maybe both of us will be proven wrong, someday. It's the nature of unknowing.
- nickpsecurity 3y agoYou don’t need a miracle. God’s Word says the Father draws us to Him, that faith is a gift, and He opens our heart to receive it. The God who created and sustains your brain has the ability to let you know His message is true. All He requires is we humbly seek Him and the truth. Read John and Romans 1-3 asking who Jesus is, what our problem is, and what He does about it. You will know the truth. Then, choose life. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=... https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1-3&version=ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1-3&vers...
- talldayo 3y agoSpeak for yourself, I grew up in churches and feel stronger in my life than ever now that Christianity is a yoke of mental slavery. My ignorance of God has brought no ill tidings upon myself, and freed my soul to seek righteousness through my own person. Maybe you don't need a miracle, having received whatever visions you claim to have seen. The rest of us remain mentally-sound skeptics that need better evidence than circular reasoning around the Bible.
- tsegratis 3y ago> In fact, God requires each act be done in love or He won’t reward it at all. No showmanship I think that is key. Too often we try to appear loving, to earn God's favor. We grabbed hold of the pulpit, to prove our ministry value, and in so doing, we quenched the Holy Spirit; to attempt to say it was us who did the work, not He -- since we worked to be loved, rather than accepted the free offer of salvation, and accepted that God loves us not based on our works. Only then will it be no showmanship, and enacted from love If we don't get that key, (and sometimes we dont), then @talldayo's perspective would be right in saying religion is an empty shell of ideology, grasping to appear loveable, rather than knowning it is loved, and living from that perfect security I think this was the key to the revival you talked about in Wales, where crime stopped, and on duty police would form choirs to sing carols -- they sang "Here is love, vast as an ocean"