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Who supports religious evangelism?

Faithofchristian

Well-Known Member
I'm sorry....what???
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You can't be serious....The Bible is full of preachers.....Noah preached to the people of his day. (2 Peter 2:5)

Jonah preached to the people of Nineveh.

John the Baptist was a preacher, sent ahead of Jesus to prepare the way for him to preach.

"In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Ju·deʹa, 2 saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” 3 This, in fact, is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet in these words: “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of Jehovah! Make his roads straight.’" (Matthew 3:1-2; 1:1-3; Mark 1:1-4)

Jesus carried on his preaching publicly, in cities and villages, in the temple area, synagogues, marketplaces and streets, as well as in the countryside. (Mark 1:39; 6:56; Luke 8:1; 13:26; John 18:20) Like John, he did more than preach....he taught people how to worship God correctly. After he left the earthly scene his disciples continued to preach his message.

His concluding command to his disciples before he left the earthly scene was...."Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

Matthew 11:1...."When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his 12 disciples, he set out from there to teach and preach in their cities."

Romans 10:13-15...."For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”14 However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? 15 How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out? Just as it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who declare good news of good things!”



What utter nonsense! Many of the ones who are mentioned specifically in the Bible were Jewish converts. The Ethiopian Eunuch was one such. After having the scriptures explained concerning Jesus by Philip the Evangelizer, he then converted to Christianity. (Acts 8:26-38; Acts 21:8; Acts 8:4-6)

"Foreign residents" were Jewish converts and had protection under the law. (Leviticus 19:33-34)

Jesus' castigating of the Pharisees was a lament that their efforts were wasted because of not teaching foreigners God's word, but rather imparting the erroneous teachings and traditions of the Pharisees. You have things muddled up again.



Again you dismiss all of the preaching (evangelism) done by Jesus' disciples.

2 Timothy 4:5..."You, though, keep your senses in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry."

The first Gentile convert was Cornelius. It was the preaching work done by Jesus and his disciples that drew people to the truth. This was a work that Jesus commanded. (Matthew 10:11-15)

I am sure I do not know where you are getting your ideas....:shrug:


Maybe you didn't read the rest of what I said.
If a person are going to evangelize people, teach them according to God's word and not according to man's teachings.

There's a big difference.

Look this is what the scribes and Pharisees were doing this very thing in teaching man's teachings and doctrines, and not teaching according to God's word.
Thereby making people twofold more the child of hell than themselves.

Therefore if a person is going to teach other people they are required to teach according to God's word and not according to what they haved been taught by man's teachings.

This is what people were doing back at the time of Jesus, teaching other people to what they were taught by the scribes and Pharisees.

Matthew 23:15--"Wow unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! For you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves"
Note that proselyte being translated in Greek means = Convert
In the Strong's Concordance ( G 4339

When Noah and all those that you brought up, They did not go out preaching some other form of teachings and doctrines.

Noah and all those others preached according to what was given them by God and nothing more.

Unlike people of to day goes about teaching what they have been taught by man's teachings.
No more than what people were doing back teaching to what they were taught by the scribes and Pharisees.
 
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Faithofchristian

Well-Known Member
I'm sorry....what???
4fvgdaq_th.gif
You can't be serious....The Bible is full of preachers.....Noah preached to the people of his day. (2 Peter 2:5)

Jonah preached to the people of Nineveh.

John the Baptist was a preacher, sent ahead of Jesus to prepare the way for him to preach.

"In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Ju·deʹa, 2 saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” 3 This, in fact, is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet in these words: “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of Jehovah! Make his roads straight.’" (Matthew 3:1-2; 1:1-3; Mark 1:1-4)

Jesus carried on his preaching publicly, in cities and villages, in the temple area, synagogues, marketplaces and streets, as well as in the countryside. (Mark 1:39; 6:56; Luke 8:1; 13:26; John 18:20) Like John, he did more than preach....he taught people how to worship God correctly. After he left the earthly scene his disciples continued to preach his message.

His concluding command to his disciples before he left the earthly scene was...."Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

Matthew 11:1...."When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his 12 disciples, he set out from there to teach and preach in their cities."

Romans 10:13-15...."For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”14 However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? 15 How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out? Just as it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who declare good news of good things!”



What utter nonsense! Many of the ones who are mentioned specifically in the Bible were Jewish converts. The Ethiopian Eunuch was one such. After having the scriptures explained concerning Jesus by Philip the Evangelizer, he then converted to Christianity. (Acts 8:26-38; Acts 21:8; Acts 8:4-6)

"Foreign residents" were Jewish converts and had protection under the law. (Leviticus 19:33-34)

Jesus' castigating of the Pharisees was a lament that their efforts were wasted because of not teaching foreigners God's word, but rather imparting the erroneous teachings and traditions of the Pharisees. You have things muddled up again.



Again you dismiss all of the preaching (evangelism) done by Jesus' disciples.

2 Timothy 4:5..."You, though, keep your senses in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry."

The first Gentile convert was Cornelius. It was the preaching work done by Jesus and his disciples that drew people to the truth. This was a work that Jesus commanded. (Matthew 10:11-15)

I am sure I do not know where you are getting your ideas....:shrug:
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Look if a person is to go out to teach they are called to teach according to God's word
And not according to what they were taught by man's teachings.

This is what people were doing back at the time Christ Jesus was going out teaching people what they were taught by the scribes and Pharisees and not according to God's word.

Just like to day, people are going out teaching to what they were taught by man's teachings and not what God's word teaches.

There's the difference.
Teaching according to God's word
Or teaching according to man's teachings

If people to day are not teaching people according to God's word. Then they make people twofold the child of hell than themselves.
 

Faithofchristian

Well-Known Member
I can't really support evangelism. I don't care what Jesus told people to do: the people need to know what they're talking about, and most of the time it's a bunch of ignorant nonsense.

If I may say, your right about what you said that people need to know what they're talking about.
This is all because people are taught by what their Pastor's will say and not according to what Jesus has taught.

You see when people are taught by what their Pastor's Preachers will say, People do not check it out in God's word to make sure, is this really what Jesus has taught. But instead they just run with what their Pastor's Preachers haved said, Not realizing it's not at all what Jesus taught.

When people teach to what they were taught by their pastors,preachers, then it comes down to no more than a bunch of ignorant nonsense.just like you said.

All Jesus was pointing out was. If a person is going out to teach other people at lease teach them according to God's word and not by what they were taught by Pastor's, Preachers. This being man's teachings.

But however these people pick up what they were taught by their Pastor's, Preachers, Not knowing whether what they are being taught is it actually in Accordance to God's word or not.

No they just run with it and go out teaching other people what they were taught. Not realizing to what they are being taught has no foundation in God's word to back it up.

So people like yourself looks at these people to criticize them and looks at God's word thinking this has to be where these people get what they say from.

But not realizing it's not from God's word, where they get it from, but from their Pastor's, Preachers that teach them this nonsense.
Which comes down Pastor's Preachers are teaching their own philosophy and not what God's word actually does teach.

Which in turn makes people like yourself look down on God's word, When in fact it's those who follow their Pastor's Preachers teachings.which comes down to no more than nonsense teachings.
 
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