On another thread, I was told that the way Christians express themselves turns off atheists. The one writing the comment was mocking the answers of Christians as though because a fool would laugh at us this is reason to change how we say things. My answer was as follows:
1 Corinthians 2:14 "
"But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
It is foolish to determine our words to placate the one who denies Christ. Athiests know there is a God they just deny His existence. I know this because when these types of people are facing a disaster the first thing they do is find a Christain to pray for them.
We choose what we believe, someone who denies Christ is not someone to worry about in how we say or do things. We speak according to the Holy Spirit not according to what man wants to hear.
When Christians begin dumbing down their message to manipulate the unbeliever into accepting what we say we are not walking in the Holy Spirit. Whether or not someone accepts our words is not a measure of how well we did in the delivery.
All the rebellious people I know will mock whatever we say no matter how reasoned or true because their purpose is to discredit what we say or to invoke a reaction from us that they can hold against us.
Ignore those who give you formulas for delivery when speaking with others. Christ knows perfectly what each individual needs and how he/she needs to hear it. Christ was gentle with some and harsh with others when He walked this earth and He knows perfectly what is needed in each individual situation and with each person.
Man tends to like formulas and things they think will work. How is it that man always thinks they know better than the Holy Spirit what is needed based on their own ideas? This is foolishness, we must walk in the Spirit, as He speaks through us and leave the result to Him.
Christ said everything perfectly and yet they killed Him for what He said. The apostles spoke the truth and they were persecuted and some martyred.
Those who place pressure on others to follow man's formulas are foolishly placing man's ideas above Jesus Christ.
God told us to ignore the ignorant man and proceed to depend entirely on the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
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