Are RHP atheists preventing "salvation"?

@pb1022 said
You chose that word for your OP. That was your choice and your OP, not mine.

I was quoting you. The "another Christian" in the OP is you. "Preventing" is the word you chose.

@fmf said
I was quoting you. The "another Christian" in the OP is you. "Preventing" is the word you chose.

Maybe you should have used the word “hinder” in your OP. That’s what I would have done.

@pb1022 said
Not if the agnostic doesn’t investigate the evidence for Christianity but instead relies on false statements from atheists.

What's the atheist got to do with what the "agnostic doesn’t [or doesn't] investigate"? Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?

@pb1022 said
Maybe you should have used the word “hinder” in your OP. That’s what I would have done.

The word "preventing" was the word you chose to express your thought. Hence this thread's OP and title.

@fmf said
What's the atheist got to do with what the "agnostic doesn’t [or doesn't] investigate"? Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?

Christians are not feeble minded at all.

Do you consider yourself feeble minded? Because I believe you have said you were a Christian for many years.

@fmf said
What's the atheist got to do with what the "agnostic doesn’t [or doesn't] investigate"? Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?

Are these men “feeble minded?”

Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853) was one of the founders of Harvard Law School. He authored the authoritative three-volume text, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (1842), which is still considered "the greatest single authority on evidence in the entire literature of legal procedure."

Greenleaf literally wrote the rules of evidence for the U.S. legal system. He was certainly a man who knew how to weigh the facts. He was an atheist until he accepted a challenge by his students to investigate the case for Christ's resurrection.

After personally collecting and examining the evidence based on rules of evidence that he helped establish, Greenleaf became a Christian and wrote the classic, Testimony of the Evangelists.

“Let [the Gospel's] testimony be sifted, as it were given in a court of justice on the side of the adverse party, the witness being subjected to a rigorous cross-examination. The result, it is confidently believed, will be an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability, and truth.”

Sir Lionel Luckhoo (1914-1997) is considered one of the greatest lawyers in British history. He's recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "World's Most Successful Advocate," with 245 consecutive murder acquittals. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II -- twice.

Luckhoo declared:

“I humbly add I have spent more than 42 years as a defense trial lawyer appearing in many parts of the world and am still in active practice. I have been fortunate to secure a number of successes in jury trials and I say unequivocally the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.”

Lee Strobel was a Yale-educated, award-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune. As an atheist, he decided to compile a legal case against Jesus Christ and prove him to be a fraud by the weight of the evidence. As Legal Editor of the Tribune, Strobel's area of expertise was courtroom analysis.

To make his case against Christ, Strobel cross-examined a number of Christian authorities, recognized experts in their own fields of study (including PhD's from such prestigious academic centers as Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis). He conducted his examination with no religious bias, other than his predisposition to atheism.

Remarkably, after compiling and critically examining the evidence for himself, Strobel became a Christian.

Stunned by his findings, he organized the evidence into a book entitled, The Case for Christ, which won the Gold Medallion Book Award for excellence. Strobel asks one thing of each reader - remain unbiased in your examination of the evidence. In the end, judge the evidence for yourself, acting as the lone juror in the case for Christ...>>

https://www.allaboutthejourney.org/the-case-for-christ.htm

@pb1022 said
Christians are not feeble minded at all.

This is a non-sequitur. Read the post you were replying to.

@pb1022 said
Do you consider yourself feeble minded? Because I believe you have said you were a Christian for many years.

No. I don't.

@fmf said
No. I don't.

So you weren’t feeble minded when you became a Christian and remained a Christian for all those years, but agnostics who become Christians are feeble minded?

@fmf said
This is a non-sequitur. Read the post you were replying to.

You mean this?

<<Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?>>

@pb1022 said
So you weren’t feeble minded when you became a Christian and remained a Christian for all those years, but agnostics who become Christians are feeble minded?

No one has said that agnostics who become Christians are feeble minded.

@pb1022 said
You mean this?

<<Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?>>

No, I mean this:

What's the atheist got to do with what the "agnostic doesn’t [or doesn't] investigate"? Are you hoping to recruit helpless feeble-minded people to your religion?

@fmf said
If we acted differently if we were kind instead of belittling or judgmental would another make a different choice? That is a scary thought, I am glad God is in control.

Do you think God is in control of how and what I post?

I think God gave you the ability to make choices and you will be answering for all of them, including all of the intended and unintentional consequences.

@fmf said
If our choices are all up to us and we are persuaded to turn to life or death in the end we will be held accountable.

Do you imagine this has ever happened here at RHP?

We make choices every day here and elsewhere we choose to remain on the path we are on, or turn, those are choices.

@kellyjay said
I think God gave you the ability to make choices and you will be answering for all of them, including all of the intended and unintentional consequences.

KellyJay, is my lack of belief evil?