Anonymous ID: 14687c Jan. 3, 2020, 12:49 a.m. No.7700661   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0681 >>0687

>>7700652

 

Quoting the verse about not casting pearls before swine, you are calling pigs anyone who doesn't (or can't) see things your way.

 

Then you turn around and wish the pigs well and tell them how much you and God love them and that you hope to see them in Paradise.

 

If your goal is to win people to Christ, good luck with that.

Anonymous ID: 14687c Jan. 3, 2020, 1:01 a.m. No.7700698   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0706 >>0755 >>0834

>>7700681

 

>No frenly fire, anon.

It's not "friendly fire", but a valid point.

 

>>7700687

 

>It means don't waste your time with foolish people, wipe the dust from your shoes and move on to someone who is receptive to the gospel.

 

Fine, but going out of your way to insult them by throwing the scripture in their faces doesn't help to bring them any closer. It just a form of egoic gratification.

Anonymous ID: 14687c Jan. 3, 2020, 1:13 a.m. No.7700731   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0739 >>0772 >>0834

>>7700706

 

And some people can't take a simple point.

 

So many times I have watched Christians preach at people by superficially hurling scriptures at them instead to talking to them like real people and actually listening to their reservations / questions.

 

I'm not talking about Christians confronted by people mocking and jeering them. Just people who are not "it-getters" and have questions.

 

When the scripture-hurling fails to stick after a short time, these Christians finish by vainly and needlessly insulting a well-meaning person with the verse about not throwing pearls before swine, and they stride away, nose in the air, seemingly very pleased with themselves.

 

It's using a Bible verse as a barb, as a weapon, and it is bad for you spiritually, and it makes you look like a mean-spirited moron, and it reflects poorly on Christians and Christianity as a whole.

 

If you can't get what I'm saying by now, then enough pearls for you.

Anonymous ID: 14687c Jan. 3, 2020, 1:30 a.m. No.7700784   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0794

>>7700755

 

I'm talking about hurling a Bible verse like a dart, not at the proud, not at the mocking, but at the interested-but-still-questioning.

 

>It's not MY job to win people to Christ.

 

Fine. What is the job of a Christian, if any? I see a lot of them going well out of their way to "win people to Christ" and just using the mission to puff themselves up with vanity while making Christians look like assholes.

 

>He fucked with the proud, and called them out on their shit.

 

Great! I'm not talking about Christians doing that. I'm talking about Christians being pompous assholes to other people who are being anything BUT assholes.