Hello /his/.
What are some indespensable resources for those who are Christians?
When someone asks you if you believe in God, how do you normally start out? Do you dive straight into the Bible or do you ease into it? When discussing with non-believers, what arguments to you run into the most? How do you counter them?
I want to come to the light of the truth, I have come to you for guidance to help me in my journey.
>>1183806
I am going to sleep, maybe I will answer tomorrow. Whatever you do, don't become a Protestant. Choose a denomination with apostolic succession.
>>1183813
Well, I hope you will answer. Perhaps you can also give me some advice on denominations and what not.
I'm mostly concerned about being prepared to defend my beliefs.
>>1183806
Take the bread pill.
>>1183854
>>1183806
>How do you counter them?
Ignorance.
Being spiritual =/= believing in god.
>>1183868
How does this solve anything?
>>1183868
being """""""spiritual""""""" is cancerous
t. atheist
>>1183806
>hen someone asks you if you believe in God, how do you normally start out?
This has never happened to me
Who just comes out and asks if you believe in God for no reason?
>>1184013
New aquaintences? I'm sure there reason is wanting to know, otherwise they would not ask.
Do you really mean to tell me you have never been asked that question?
>>1184032
Never in my life has someone asked me if I believed in God
>>1184032
I would never ask you why you believed in God unless you came up to me trying to convert me
>>1184039
Do you believe in God?
>>1184119
Yes
>>1183806
Check out the lists >>1183854 and >>1183856 posted. First thing you should do is read the Bible if you haven't already. Also talk to someone who takes their faith very seriously; I'd suggest your local Catholic priest. And listen to >>1183813: do not become Protestant. I tell you this as someone who converted from evangelicalism to Catholicism.
>>1184175
If someone doesn't believe in or care what the Bible says, you have to ask them why that is. A lot of times it's something like "oh, it's just a bunch of ancient desert scribblings" and/or "they just took a bunch of myths already circulating in the Ancient Near East at the time and combined them together". Once you have their reason for not accepting the Bible then you can try to push back on that.
>>1184175
>Anyone who doesn't believe doesn't care what the Bible says, how am I to use it when they don't care?
but I do care what the Bible says, It's just kinda stupid when some protestant fundie tries to argue for belief by quoting the Bible saying scripture is useful or the thing in proverbs saying not believing in God is stupid. that utterly fails to affect me at all. I love to discuss the Bible even if I don't take it as a source of absolute truth