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If you had a very important message for all people, how would you deliver it?

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For this exercise, lets assume you will not be able to answer questions. You will have only one shot, as brother Eminem says.

Assuming money, technology (currently existing or future) are not an obstacle. Meaning you have all of the resources in the world that you need. How would you deliver your message? Since this is a Christian forum, I'd like to also find out why you think God hasn't used that same technology or means of delivering his message.
 

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What are you talking about? Is "God didn't use the internet/the International Space Station/something else that we might use because we have it" a serious objection to anything?

Well, let me explain my question a bit. We are talking here about a very important message, that can change the lives and destinies of billions of people. You are only going to speak once. So, what method of communication would you chose?

Would you chose to send the message yourself, directly, or would you rely on people who will require faith to communicate with you and then rely on faith of others to accept your message?
 
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For this exercise, lets assume you will not be able to answer questions. You will have only one shot, as brother Eminem says.

Assuming money, technology (currently existing or future) are not an obstacle. Meaning you have all of the resources in the world that you need. How would you deliver your message? Since this is a Christian forum, I'd like to also find out why you think God hasn't used that same technology or means of delivering his message.

The "Principle of the Seed"...of course...just like He has been communicating from the beginning.


*Genesis 1:11-12
"11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. 12The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good."
 
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Well, let me explain my question a bit. We are talking here about a very important message, that can change the lives and destinies of billions of people. You are only going to speak once. So, what method of communication would you chose?

Would you chose to send the message yourself, directly, or would you rely on people who will require faith to communicate with you and then rely on faith of others to accept your message?

You wait until the known world at the time had one universal trade language, (Coptic Greek) and the language was developed to the point of carrying the concepts of the message, then you send the Man and the Message. Then, the Good News explodes across every civilised Nation at a rate unprecedented.

The Word got through and was heard...
 
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Well, let me explain my question a bit. We are talking here about a very important message, that can change the lives and destinies of billions of people. You are only going to speak once. So, what method of communication would you chose?

Would you chose to send the message yourself, directly, or would you rely on people who will require faith to communicate with you and then rely on faith of others to accept your message?

I'm sorry, but still not sure I get it. If you gave the message to someone to pass on to someone else, that's not necessarily a matter of faith but of competence. I mean, I guess it is a kind of 'faith' that the person won't mess it up along the way, but it is better to know you are trusting your message to competent people (if that's how you choose to disseminate it) then to just hope it gets to wherever you want it go.

I suppose I would put it out on the internet, via social media, probably directed towards some major corporation, since that's how most news spreads around the world these days. I'd probably write it myself and then have someone else look it over to make sure it says what I'm intending it to say, as I'm not a good judge of my own ability.

If it is meant to be an analog to the spread of the Christian faith or the composition and transmission of the scriptures or whatever (just a guess on my part), I would say that it is very malformed, as globally societies have changed a lot in the last 2,000-odd years in terms of their access to technology and ability to spread news. Today even the most closed off societies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, etc.) have some way to access the outside world, even if it must be done somewhat surreptitiously, as via an illegal satellite hookup, bootleg DVDs smuggled in from the nearest free(r) foreign country's markets, etc. There's always a way, and it very rarely comes down to people on foot, or camel/horseback, or by sea. That still does sometimes happen, but it's rare. I met a monk of my own church who did that, under the direction of his bishop who had received the blessing of our then-Pope (HH Pope Shenouda III). So it's a thing that might be found in some particular traditions, but even then, most Coptic people can at least access the internet (most the church globally is poor farmers in Egypt, but I mean the country itself has internet, satellite TV, and so on).

So...I would use the internet, but I'm not sure what this means or proves relative to what you're asking.
 
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if that's how you choose to disseminate it

Key word there...

"c. 1600, "to scatter or sow for propagation," from Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare "to spread abroad, disseminate," from dis- "in every direction" (see dis-) + seminare "to plant, propagate," from sperm (genitive seminis) "seed" (from PIE root *sē- "to sow"). Figurative sense of "to spread by diffusion (teaching, opinion, error, etc.) with reference to some intended result" is by 1640s. Related: Disseminated; disseminates; disseminating. Middle English had dissemen "to scatter" (early 15c.)."

disseminate | Origin and meaning of disseminate by Online Etymology Dictionary
 
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With hand puppets, a cell phone camera, and a Youtube account.

Is it weird that I can envision this actually working?

I mean, if a Swedish guy playing video games and yelling mostly incoherently can enslave...er...entrance...capture the attention of millions of people, then I could see hand-puppets really taking off.
 
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Is it weird that I can envision this actually working?

I mean, if a Swedish guy playing video games and yelling mostly incoherently can enslave...er...entrance...capture the attention of millions of people, then I could see hand-puppets really taking off.

Haha, no, it could definitely work! And failing that, wandering around New York City, dancing like an idiot in public while singing the message at the top of your lungs might be an option.
 
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Haha, no, it could definitely work! And failing that, wandering around New York City, dancing like an idiot in public while singing the message at the top of your lungs might be an option.

Yeah, but in a place like New York what would make you stand out by doing that to the degree that people would listen to you? Remember: they've got that naked cowboy guy. And all those buskers in the subway and the parks, and probably a ridiculous number of homeless people with their various signs and predictions. That's a tough market to break in to, I'd think.
 
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Haha, no, it could definitely work! And failing that, wandering around New York City, dancing like an idiot in public while singing the message at the top of your lungs might be an option.

These things would work for a message of flippancy...but, not for the message that I believe the OP has in mind.
 
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Yeah, but in a place like New York what would make you stand out by doing that to the degree that people would listen to you? Remember: they've got that naked cowboy guy. And all those buskers in the subway and the parks, and probably a ridiculous number of homeless people with their various signs and predictions. That's a tough market to break in to, I'd think.

Nah, as long as you stay away from Times Square, I think wandering around doing crazy things would still be noticed. In San Francisco it would probably be different, but New York isn't wild to quite the same degree! Getting yourself something like a Torero costume certainly wouldn't hurt, though.
 
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It seems we are talking about the Great Commission and "the gospel". So what was "the gospel"? As I recall, "the gospel" was a specific word used for news of new leaders ascending to the throne and so forth (correct me if I'm wrong).

So "the gospel" is very simple. It isn't the content of the 4 gospels; it is one sentence "God has declared Jesus of Nazareth the Jewish Messiah".

The target audience is going to be Jews, because nobody else would care.

So in the first century I would send messengers to visit every synagogue throughout the world with the news about the promised Messiah. I probably wouldn't put anything in writing, because I wouldn't want the Romans to crucify me.

That is about what happened with Paul and others I think.
 
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@BigV , I realized this morning that there was an area where God could have done a better job in delivering the gospel (assuming God was involved of course).

The Jews successfully received the gospel message that "God had declared Jesus of Nazareth to be the Jewish Messiah", but they had no particular reason to believe it. According to the Bible, Jesus performed some miracles and walked from his tomb and appeared to a total of about 500 disciples. If God had REALLY wanted every receptive Jew to believe the gospel then he could have done more. For example, imagine if Jesus himself had appeared simultaneously in every synagogue throughout the world to deliver the gospel, answer questions, allow the skeptical to examine the fatal wound in his side, etc.

So a believer must wonder why God apparently didn't want to make it more obvious.
 
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So a believer must wonder why God apparently didn't want to make it more obvious.

He already said why:

Matthew 13
"31Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. 32Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

*"…11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’"
 
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