Is it wrong to delete Christian emails?

[guitarintro]

I got an email from someone I have never met. Apparently, it is my mom's friend and my mom just gave him my email. I always get his emails, but sometimes it is in Chinese and I don't know what it is talking about. Other times it is in English. There was an email about God, but I deleted it before reading it. Is it wrong?

It is currently back in my inbox.

 

[StarCannon]

Nah.

 

[mina]

no

 

[sbvera13]

Considering how many viruses spread through bulk email messages...

no. Go ahead and delete em.

 

[squeehunter]

Emails from people you don't know delete but if you know it's not spam you should try your best to reply. I hate when people never respond to me like on Facebook or Myspace.

 

[Sketcher]

I just have a filter that automatically sends all forwarded messages to the trash.

 

[K9_Trainer]

No, do delete them.

It's a very common way to scam people....People will get your email off here or from somewhere else and send you very articulate, religious messages saying that God told them to contact you and that you can help them financially....If you give them your personal info and so much money or access to your bank account to graciously help them out with their church or w/e, you will be payed back fully and get 10% of profits or something of that manner.

They are scams and they're trying to use emotion and God to cheat you.....Just delete them.

 

[jelvenko]

I have absolutely no problem deleting them. Usually after recieving the same e-mail 20 times from 20 different people, you just want to delete it as soon as it enters your inbox. Plus, I have filters on my e-mail so that is it's sent by someone who isn't on my contact list, the e-mail goes directly to the junk folder. From there it will generally get put in the trash immediately.

If on the off chance I do read the e-mail, I usually never send them on. I feel that I don't have to prove my relationship with God through sending a forward that has already made the rounds more than once before I got it. My true friends know where I am in my walk, just by watching how I live my life each day.
Just the other day while waiting for class, someone asked me if I am a Christian. I had seen this person around campus a few times last school year, but never really ever talked to him. But apparently he had been watching me, and noticed that I didn't act like some of the other people at the college.

So yes, it is ok to delete those e-mails. Besides, if you save every single e-mail you get sent, your going to run out of room in your inbox for all of them. And it's not fun having to go through and figure out which ones you want to delete, and which ones you want to save. (Took me almost a week to do that because I was reaching my limit. Now I delete most of the forwards I get sent.)

 

[Keefu]

Spam is spam, even if it is Christian themed. If you don't know the person, and they don't know you, there is no reason to feel obliged and open and read it, no matter what you do, don't download any files that are attached!

 

[TheDarkestHour]

I delete them too. I especially dislike the ones that say "send this to 8 people and God will bless you" or "if you Love God don't delete this"

 

[Sketcher]

I delete them too. I especially dislike the ones that say "send this to 8 people and God will bless you" or "if you Love God don't delete this"

Or how about, "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, forward this to X people."

I don't just dislike games like that, which say if you don't conform to this style, then you are ashamed or you don't love Jesus. I hate that BS. Almost as much as the African scammers who decided to Christianize their multi-million dollar bank account scams.

 

[The_Dan_x]

I find it kind of funny when I get those kind of emails. Oh nose, Jesus doesn't love me now because I didn't forward that email to 37 other people!

 

[Moonstruck4U]

I do,alot.

 

[ChoirCupcake]

Definitely not wrong.

It's like this... God is not angry if you put another book on top of the Bible. He isn't worried about trivial things like that. (If anyone thinks putting another book on top of their Bible is not okay, I completely understand, but this is just my opinion) He just wants you to love Him.

Many so-called "Christian" emails are nothing more than tear-jerking guilt-ridden exaggerated stories, etc. that are passed around by people who don't know any better. They are worthy of deletion.

 

[peace in the vally]

Nope not at all,
I hate chain letters Christian or not so I just delte them. But if you feel convicted over it then maybe ask God about it, you never know who that one was ment for and so I don't know I guess if it bothers you all you can do is pass it or pray about it.