If we refrain from witnessing, doesn't it obviously promote christian amnesia
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Not so plain. Amnesia means loss of memory. So loss of memory about what? Their name? Their home address?
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Perhaps you are correct. For instance............
Isaiah 43
10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me".
10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me".
If you don't mind me asking though, why did you ask this question on this particular board?
Thanks!
--David
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In order to estimate collectively how moral or not it is not to perform christian witness, about the Gospel, from a christian point of view
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I only ask because your question seems most appropriate for the Christian's only ethics board Christian Philosophy & Ethics, but this one is open to all.
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IMMHO, the only 'witnessing' that has any value is whether one lives life as Jesus instructed or not. And if you quit living that life there is nothing an atheist can learn from you anyway.
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I Don't know the meaning of this abbreviation
32 Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
My question becomes then: If they refrain from confessing Christ before men, is it worthy for Christ to refrain from confessing them before His Father who is in Heaven? Independently from any Following of His instructions in their lives
What's more, Always in Mt 10,
27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.
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IMMHO = In My Most Humble Opinion.
Living one's life in conformance with Jesus' Commandments does not 'confess' Him before men?????
What more dedication to Jesus is there beyond doing as He instructs?
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Pleasant abbreviation
Discuss Truth to make clearer some ambiguous Words
This instruction Indeed makes the doing and the speaking or proclaiming get together, whereas they aren't Always simultaneously valued on an equal and positive level ( Mt 23 3 all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, [these] do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not. ) It follows from those two pieces of scripture that one both have, IMMHO, to observe and speak Words. The second quotation does not make of the speaking Something to avoid
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Hi Zephcom, there is everything right about a Christian living his/her life in conformity to Lord's commands, but how can such Christians, obedient as they may be, help anyone come to know who Jesus is (and what the Gospel is) if they don't use words to do so
As the Apostle Paul tells us plainly, "faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ" .. Romans 10:17.
Of course, the Lord has commandments like this one which obedient Christians would also choose to obey:
Mark 16
15 Jesus said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature".
15 Jesus said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature".
Yours and His,
David
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