Question:
Do you think it's sad how some people become hostile to the message of the gospel, that saves so many?
❀✿☺Flowerchild☺✿❀
2013-12-22 09:32:22 UTC
Even today?

I dont get why people reject the important message it holds, the lessons on love, humbleness, peace, by being angry and negative about it?
Twelve answers:
Khalil Ullah
2013-12-22 09:46:31 UTC
It is sad that people are against the "Good News of Great Joy to all people ... world peace and goodwill toward men" (Luke 2:14).



20th century atheist China was against Christians and one of the most brutal and atrocious nation. However, not million and millions of atheists become Christians every year and there are more and more Boss Christians, peace and prosperity ensue.



All atheists want to live in a Christianized nation instead of atheist nation such as North Korea.



Look at the gifts of Christianity:

Pastor Harvard University, and also Yale, Princeton, etc.

The Father of Genetics Science monk Mendel.

Mother Teresa's

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

The Red Cross whence the Red Crescent ensued.

Habitat For Humanity.

Salvation Army.

Peace Corps was founded by Christians President and Congress in majority.

Modern science.

Modern hospital.



World peace will ensue as more and more people are born again spiritually as God's children; i.e. Christians, and thus raised/sanctified that we be holy when we leave our corruptible bodies behind.
Feivel
2013-12-22 10:51:00 UTC
I assume by "saved so many" you mean those who converted rather than be tortured, burned alive or kicked out of xian countries? I am just trying to understand your logic here. So far, xian "compassion" and "saving" has not done much for the Jewish people and given xian slaughter of muslims during the crusades, I can't think they have much to cheer either.



We are not hostile to you have your own religion. We are hostile to it being shoved down our throat.
Neshama
2013-12-22 09:54:05 UTC
And I guess you haven't noticed how many so-called good Christians couldn't care less about those who are less fortunate than they are and don't believe they need to help others and only care about their own salvation....



"The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll." Benjamin Disraeli
Mackey
2013-12-22 09:34:43 UTC
No, but I do think it is sad that people believe the Gospel has saved anyone. You should try reading the entire Bible and not cherry pick.
biggalloot2003
2013-12-22 09:37:07 UTC
If you ever listen to the news, you will see all that you need to see to know that your so called "lessons on love, humbleness, (and) peace" are lies.
military supporter
2013-12-22 09:35:55 UTC
Religion is the cause of more deaths than ALL OTHER reasons COMBINED. NO religion or fairy tale god has saved anything. Atheism is the only thing that will save the world.
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2013-12-22 09:36:46 UTC
I know. The gospels contain everything you need to know if you want to oppress women, participate in slut-shaming or hate the mentally ill. What's not to like?
Eliot K
2013-12-22 09:35:22 UTC
You are correct. It really bothers healthy people when other try to force their religion on them. If all religious people kept quiet about their religion in public, and did not expect their religion to be reflected in customs and laws, the religious would not be so hated.



Do you want to be hated, or do you want to be religious?
oldandtired
2013-12-22 09:33:12 UTC
People are saved by God not gospel.
anonymous
2013-12-22 09:41:47 UTC
religion doesn't fix problems......it gives people permission to ignore uncomfortable solutions to their problems........
anonymous
2013-12-22 10:03:51 UTC
"He who has endured to the end will be saved."
✡mama pajama✡
2013-12-22 19:25:08 UTC
While I think it may be sad that anyone would become hostile to any other person for their choice of religion to follow or choice not to follow. You've not given examples of what you call hostile. In your additional details you imply that by "rejecting" the docrine of your religion , that's hostile. I've been accused of harboring hostility to Christianity when I've spoken out against deceptive claims by some missionaries who use fallacious claims about Jews or Judaism to justify their sales pitches to entice people to convert to their religion. So, to begin with, your question isn't really clear what you consider hostility. However, its clear you harbor notions of human nature and of God that I do not, and you think that your religion teaches things that I do not see evidence of them in Christian history or doctrine overall.



The Christian notion of salvation depends upon believing their notion of the nature of humanity as being inherently evil and with a burden of sin. After being indoctrinated to believe that you are worthless and evil and deserve eternal torture unless you've appeased an incarnate mangod with a symbolc gesture of a human sacrifice and atonement with being 'washed in his blood", and in some groups, symbolically consuming the blood and flesh of said incarnate deity..you must accept that you do not deserve blessing, cannot know God ( though your god is a notioin of deity many humans can't accept) unless you believe in said deity and sacrifice to reconcile and appease said deity for your sinful nature and any sins, past present and future..you're worthless and deserve hell.



That notion is irrational and dependent upon belief in a deity that is unjust. I do not need the Christian notion of "saving"/salvation since there is no inherent evil nature/burden of sin that I am born with, no demon deity Devil/Lucifer/no fallen angel/ and no eternal torture chamber hell.

The Christian concept of salvation is inherently unjust and I do not see in either the fruits of the world's adherents ( so many millions surrounding me) that it teaches humbleness and peace.



The Christians I know who are humble and peaceful are so DESPITE the dogma they've been indoctrinated to believe and it reveals the inherent capacity of the human soul to choose good over evil and to choose to strive to justice and righteousness despite a dogma that teaches them to separate themselves from the world and that human actions mean nothing.



There is nothing positive that Christian dogma offers me that I do not possess without it. There is no logical or ethical or just reason why I sould abandon my faith in the incorporeal Creator who gave all Israel the Torah and whose purpose as a covenant nation remains to strive tolive as a light unto the world in focusing on bringing justice, mercy, compassion and brotherhood and a state of holiness in living ethically to all life and honor God's gift of life ....to adopt beliefs and practices directly forbidden by the covenant's precepts and God's commandments in Torah.



http://mamaspajamaparty.blogspot.com/2013/01/do-christians-know-that-jewish-people.html < The Christian notions are not anything relevant to my religion.

There is absolutely NOTHING positive that Christianity offers that I do not already possess without it..and without violating God's commandments for the Jewish people

Christianity rejects what God told Moses when he offered to take on the sins of Israel. In the Torah God was explicit that no man can take on the sin of another and he refused to permit Moses to do so. God doesn't become a man and no man becomes a God. God also considers human sacrifice an abomination. From the lesson of Abraham and Isaac whose contextual meaning is clearly against human sacrifice ( yet Christianity morphs it somehow into "foreshadowing" an acceptable one!) unto today, the ETERNAL covenant..of Israel shall never permit a Jew to rely upon a human sacrifice to atone for sin.



I'll suggest to you a good website and book by Rabbi Stuart Federow

first the website

http://www.whatjewsbelieve.org/ this site will help you navigate through the Hebrew Bible to learn why what Christians offer is not appealing to the believing Jew who trusts in God.



his book Judaism and Christianity; a Contrast will help you overcome the common misconception of Christians that Judaism is like Christianity without Jesus.

There is no burden of sin that I was born into, God in the Torah has outlined the steps of repentance and atonement possible for all human beings who are all equal before our Creator....and there is no human whose sacrifice could atone for something that does not exist ( the inherently sinful state of humanity) and the imaginary demon deity devil and the Christian hell are not things that hold any fear over me



When I make mistakes and sin, I've got the path of teshuvah, repentance and return, that are possible to reconcile me to those I've wronged first and then to God.

Read the links I've given to help you understand more.

http://mamaspajamaparty.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-hebrew-bible-analysis-of-christian.html



edit: While my answer is very long ( it also depends on reading my links) I think an adaptation of Buddy's short answer is a good summary



Christianity invented an imaginary problem and has often justified perpetrating evil upon those who refused to accept its offensive cure for their invented problem



Human sacrifice, even symbolically, is offensive to me and is a very negative thing to suggest I adopt to "save" me from their imaginary Devil and hell.


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