on Apr 3rd, 2008Arguing with the Unreasonable
I was watching some videos on YouTube by TruthTank.com - and while I dont’ completely agree with some of their beliefs they have a strong heart for God. Some very interesting things on there.
But then I saw a link for a video questioning the very existence of God, and some links to their websites that very much encourage atheists to insult and beat down on any Christian of anyone who believes in God in general, whether its Christian, Mormon, Islamic or any other religion that believes in a god.
There was a forum where they encourage ‘discussion’ on your beliefs, and after reading through (and seeing 90% of the Christians [or even religious people] on there had no clue how to properly debate) I thought I would throw in my hat and see if I could be a reasonable voice. I’m pretty decent at forum debating.
But then my buddy Henrik sent me this verse:
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult. Whoever rebukes a wicked person incurs abuse. Do not rebuke a mocker or they will hate you. Rebuke a wise person and they will love you.
Proverbs 9:7-8 [NIV]
And I stopped in my tracks. I look at the verse (he just happened to have it in his clipboard from an earlier response to someone) and I decided: no point. These people are mocking God and the Word. They’re hopeless and have no real point. They’re squashing truly free thought by calling anyone who thinks other than themselves are delusional (yes, they literally said that).
I closed the browser, my heart no longer pounding in what I felt as ‘righteous anger’ and decided to ‘walk away’.
I mentioned how anytime you bring a verse to them from the Bible in response to their insults they would say (hypothetically) “you have no answers to our questions except for another lame answer from an archaic book” and Henrik sagely responded “They have no real answer, they just dig into their hat of unoriginal sarcasm ”
Henrik is smart.
