>>822055
i get the feeling that asking direct answers of you will be like trying to pin down a sky dancer since you've already attempted to deflect my questions with the reddit-spacing meme, but assuming you see your bullet-point responses to my query of 'wat' as sufficient grounding for your claims, i would like to take a closer look at them
< First, make them see they're already Christian.
> thinks there are other gods apart from God
bearing in mind that you said the historical approach to sharing the Christian faith followed the model you laid out, can you provide examples of when the Apostles or Early Church Fathers addressed unbelievers as if they were already Christian, basing their presupposition on the fact that there are no other gods apart from God
< Show them that they already praise God.
> thinks idols are real
do you have examples of when God accepted worship given to idols as legitimate spirituality?
< If they are religious, "spiritual" or whatever, they are more than likely to be already following God in some misguided way.
> thinks there can be any kind of religiosity that's not guided by the Holy Spirit
this is an interesting one given that you seem to hold that religious sensibility in any form is prompted by the Holy Spirit, how would you characterize a false religion?
< Find out what virtues they exalt in their religion, and see how those same virtues appear in Christianity, either in Jesus or in some saints.
> thinks that the need for God is not present in every man that lives and has lived
if a religion sees it as a virtue to eat the brains of their enemies so as to gain their spiritual power, in an effort to satiate that universal need for God you speak of, where could we see that more properly modelled for us by Jesus or the saints?
< That way they can distill the values they find important and live them in a Christian way.
> thinks there can be virtues that don't emanate from God
not to labor the point, but if i held the practice of cannibalism as one of my most important religious values, how would i go about eating the brains of my enemies in a more Christian way?
is it instead possible that what man might hold as a virtue, may not in fact emanate from God, so allowing a sinful man to pick and choose his mores thence to stamp a facade of Christianity upon them, might not be the best approach if one wants to guide him into the rightful worship done in spirit and truth?
and again, i'd really like to know which branch of christianity you hail from
>>822039
>He's right though
interesting, care to have a crack at answering any of my questions?
also; which branch of christianity do you adhere to?
>>822045
you've got your 'greater thans' pointing the wrong way m8