Sunday, April 27, 2014

Ray Comfort Q&A


“Maybe your God can't wait to hit you over the head for not being holy enough (mind you I doubt no matter how hard you try you could measure up) -- mine loves me just as I am." - Lucia Adler-Madar

Lucia, you have just violated the First and the Second of the Ten Commandments by making up your own image of God--one to suit yourself...one with which you feel comfortable.

Your god would never punish Hitler for slaughtering six million Jews. That’s because your god doesn't exist. He's a figment of your imagination (the place where we make “images”).

There is one Creator. He is absolute moral perfection, and you have to face Him on Judgment Day no matter what you make up about Him. You desperately need the Savior, just like the rest of us. Please check out www.NeedGod.com

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Slavery in the Bible



The following is a question asked of Ray Comfort and his answer. 

“When people talk about slavery in the Bible and say the Bible advocates it, what do you say to them when they refuse to accept that slavery in the Bible is different from slavery centuries ago in America?” -Steven Gorges

You have to remember that being anti-Bible for many is a hill upon which they will die. It’s a huge deal, because if the Bible is God’s Word then they are accountable for adultery, fornication, for sinful imaginations, and for lust (which the Bible says is adultery of the heart). So their hard-nosed agenda is to prove that the God of the Bible is unjust in His judgments, and therefore any thought of Judgment Day and Hell is bogus.
So they are searching after truth about as much as a man dying of thirst searches after salt. They rather want to bolster their case for an evil Bible, so they fortify themselves with what they think are mistakes, contradictions, and atrocities, etc.

If you explain that biblical slavery was akin to being a servant to pay off debt, the skeptic will just run off to cut and paste more problems he has with the Bible.

The only effective way to convince him is to move away from his contentious intellect (his carnal mind) and appeal to his God-given society-shaped conscience and take him through the moral Law. With the help of God your aim is to make him thirst after righteousness. It was only when I saw my sins (way back in 1972) that I began to see my danger and whisper “What must I do to be made right with God?” The salt of the Law made me thirst for the righteousness that can only be found in Christ.

www.NoahTheMovie.com (not the unbiblical Russell Crowe version).

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Witnessing to a Catholic



“I was raised in a Catholic family and left Catholicism 2 years ago. How do you witness to Catholic family members and also people I used to go to the Catholic church with?” Steven Gorges

Most Catholics (like most non-Catholics) may go to church and know the gospel, but many lack something vital when it comes to their eternal salvation.

Let’s say I meet Fred. After some friendly small-talk I ask what he thinks happens after someone dies. He tells me that they go to Heaven, and then he says something I don’t hear. He says, “I’m Catholic.” I’m deaf to that because I don’t want to get into an argument about papal infallibility, Mariology, the Mass, the confessional, transubstantiation, and a number of other unbiblical doctrines. They are time-wasting rabbit trails down which I choose not to go.

I ask Fred if he’s born again. He says that he was baptized as a baby, and so I explain that the new birth is something different, that Jesus said that if someone isn’t born again he won’t enter Heaven (John 3), and that I want to make sure he makes it there. He smiles in agreement.

Although Fred is a committed Catholic he has a big problem. He thinks he can make it to Heaven by being good, by believing in God, by going to mass, and by confessing his sins to a priest. With the help of God, I want to show him that his legs are tied and the leap he’s trying to make to Heaven is wider than the widest part of the Grand Canyon. My sincere hope is that he will reconsider his beliefs, before he makes the jump.
So how do I show him that? I ask him if he thinks he’s a good person. To see how this is done go to NoahTheMovie.com and watch this principle in action, as I go through the Ten Commandments, and then into the gospel.

Watch again and again until it becomes second nature to you to do it. This isn’t something I have made up. I copied it from Jesus (see Mark 10:17-20, and Romans 2:20-22). -Ray Comfort