The reason people see Christianity as a threat is simply the offense of the cross.
One more failed Christian psychic, claiming to be able to read my mind and then producing clear evidence of being unable to do so.
As someone who accepted the message of the Gospel, and for many years believed it and tried to live it, how was it an offence?
That I later discovered (to my judgement and satisfaction) that I had been misinformed in certain key matters, causing me to re-evaluate my belief, had nothing whatsoever to do with "the offence of the cross".
What does Christianity expect of you? or anyone else? That you have faith (see your need for a savior).
You've not noticed that faith can be vice as much as virtue? Faith can be had in anything. Objectively it says nothing about the validity of the object of faith, but subjectively it can do nothing but conform such.
But to see your need for a savior you must confront your depraved sinful condition, and most people will not choke down they are as evil as anyone else who has ever walked this earth.
Well that's a technical point of Christian theology, true.
But expressed like that, alone, a simple lack of communication skills will ensure a poor response, without the slightest need to invoke "the offence of the Gospel"
What a strange thing: to want to address and audience and then not to consider the possibility of speaking their language.
Depraved?
I did get a speeding ticket once, twenty years ago.
But I've had interviews, and police checks, to be passed suitable to work as an unpaid volunteer with vulnerable adults and children. Amazing that my depravity and evil wasn't spotted. Especially since it was in the Idi Amin or Hitler class.
Yes, I know what the bible says.
And why I no longer believe it.
But that has nothing to do with "the offence of the cross"
Unless you want to insist that you known my mind better than I do.
But if you do, two or more can play that game.
