Why Witness Rejected
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The document discusses reasons why people may reject witnessing about Christianity. It says that people resist yielding their destiny to an unseen God because it threatens their sense of sovereignty. It also says that people are cautious about witnessing because Jesus claims to be the exclusive way to salvation, which divides people. Additionally, the document says people do not want to come to the light of Christianity because it would expose the evil in their deeds.
Why Witness Rejected
- 1. Why Our Witness is Rejected • We claim to see the supernatural. • The skeptical mind perceives only the natural world. • “Are you smarter than me?” • You See Something I Don’t? So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. What is seen is temporary, but the unseen is eternal. 2Cor 4:18
- 2. Why Our Witness is Rejected It threatens our sense of sovereignty. We are individuals with a conscious. We resist yielding our destiny to an unseen unknown Person. We wish to retain power and control not yield it If you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” Romans 10:9
- 3. Why Our Witness is Rejected Jesus makes claim to be exclusive. This unsettles us. It divides. Why not be inclusive? People are cautious to suspicious I am the way, the truth, and the life John 14:6 Yet truth is exclusive. If 1 + 1 = 2 it is exclusive It excludes all other possible answers!
- 4. Why Our Witness is Rejected Conviction of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment Light (Christ) has come into the world., but men loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed Jn 3:19
- 5. • How did Life come from non-Life? • How did Consciousness come from Non-Conscientiousness • How did Sexuality come from Non-Sexuality? • How did Moral Reasoning come from a Non-moral beings. • How does Life explain or define evil, death, and or suffering? •
- 6. There is no objective truth. There is only subjective truth • Absolutely there are no absolutes. All is relative • No reason exists for existence. We makes up our own reality • Deconstruction of words make interpretations endless • No Beginning - No Eternal Destiny AHaller Post Moderns Dogmas