I asked in my last thread about Christians being superstitious and got lots of answers about some Christians being superstitious. That was not what I was needing.
I teach open minded highly interested non-Christian Chinese college students, who will most likely return to Communist China, Bible Lessons each week. They along with all their friends and family have been taught: “All religions are just superstitions”, but they are not buying into that, but how can they simply explain to their friends, the difference between a superstition and Christianity. Lots of people in China have crosses and even Bibles, but use them as good luck charms and they are not Christians.
Their friends have not been given logical support showing Christianity is a superstition, but have not heard any support to show Christianity is not a superstition.
What I am looking for is some one-minute thought provoking statement or question my students, who will become Christians, can give to their friend back in China that will open a dialog on Christianity.
First, I have taken the time to read every single post to your Thread.
The first thing that came to mind when I read your OP was Paul.
What did Paul say on this issue.
Here it is, you can read it to your students and then discuss what Paul did with your students, as he did also.
To these students it is the Gospel that they need to hear, just as those Paul was speaking to.
It opens the discussion, it gives them a BASE from which to begin.
Here you go.....Notice what Paul said to them in the first verse, I feel as though it directly applies to your situation.
Paul Addresses the Areopagus
Act 17:22-34
22) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens,
I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28) For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
30) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31) Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
32) And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
33) So Paul departed from among them.
34) Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
