trapQ:
Christianity is a relationship with GOD.

You're not in the position to tell me what my christian faith is all about.

trapQ:
Christianity is a relationship with GOD, its not a religion. When you accept Christ, stay faithful, flee from sin, pray and read your bible devotedly, you'll see all the evidence yourself. If true believers tell you what they see, you'll debunk them, saying they are lies.

Jeremiah 29:13 says," you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart".

ALSO

Jeremiah 33:3 "call unto me and I will answer you, and show you GREAT AND MIGHTY things which thou knowest not".

now do you know what those great and mighty things are??

sisqonite:


If you want to base your argument on logic brother, you've already committed a fallacy.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
Just like an atheist was told, if God exists and you were wrong, you won't like the outcome; if he doesn't and, of course, means you're right, like those extra 50 mins per day you've "wasted" will do anything harmful to u.

olawaleqaasim:


If you can tell me when time came into existence, then I'd tell you when the creator of it did.

You are seemingly hiding under "I've got nothing to prove", you have, brother.

I say there's a God (who created everything in the universe), with proofs that the universe has got a maker and monitor of its seemingly perfect orderliness, you say there isn't then you have to bring forth your proofs too, even if you have to tell me that this God can't be seen, that's y He doesn't exist, you still have to attempt, if you'd make me agree that your position is tenable. If not, then it's apparent that you haven't been able to convince yourself on why you see no picture where I see it at.

olawaleqaasim:


I really admire your courage for accepting that you don't have proofs

Proving that a God exists is simple:

If you can present to me the first house without a builder and even a maintainer, then I'd agree with you that the universe as a whole came into existence by chance and without a creator.

If you can prove that the sequence of the day and night can happen by chance from when you've been non existent, without a particular force monitoring such orderliness, then I'd agree with your terms

If you can prove that you actually did evolve from a monkey like Darwin said, then I'd agree with you that the perfection and regularity in the process of human creation, which you know how it happens, doesn't have a controller.

Even in the communities of human beings, interactions have proven to us that chaos and insanity thrives where there isn't a structure according leadership to some, followership to some and abiding by rules and regulations.

So, I await your claims, for i understand your state of mind and that of any atheist, it's mere confusion.

olawaleqaasim:


Just like I'd be eager to see the proofs you'd sell for saying there isn't god.

Of course, those things need faith to be believed in, except you can provide proofs that say otherwise.

olawaleqaasim:


I truly laughed when I saw 'Arabian' religion. The moment it is Arabian it isn't Islam. Islam is worldwide, there is nothing Arabian about it. It is applicable everywhere except where isn't created by Allah.

olawaleqaasim:



If you don't date or court, the number 1 thing that would spur your interest towards marrying her would be because of her religion and thereafter, the genuineness that you REALLY want to marry her and not just use and dump (no offence meant, just explaining).

Marrying someone without the kind of courtship that we know today goes a long way to tell that this person I'm getting married to has a 60% chance of marrying me for who I am and not possibly an angelic figure.

It isn't a matter of meeting someone in a day and marrying such person that day all in the name of no courtship, no; only that Islam has procedures WHEN YOU ARE READY TO GET MARRIED. A lot of us want to enjoy the companionship of the opposite sex WITHOUT accepting the responsibilities of legal spouses, that is what Islam detests.

The danger in having a longterm companionship is the risk of committing fornication, which is a capital sin as far as Islam is concerned.

To think of it, if courtship is the solution to getting married to the wrong person, why then do we have breakups here and there?

I'm married and i am happily married, nothing brought myself and my wife together other than knowing that she is a muslim and a human being. She has her deficiencies and I have mine. We cope with each other like brother and sister and know how to manage our communication. We got married in August of a year and I met her the December preceding that August. What else could have made us marry like that if not the INTEREST to marry.

HCpaul:


Don't worry, by the time you spend up to a year on Nairaland you will understand.


Mind you, i don't know how to argue.

SaintHephzibah:
for EVERYBODY have sinned and have come short of the glory of God (romans 3 vs 23) then
blessed is the man whom the Lord imputes not sin/iniquity. Blessed is the man in whom spirit the Lord has found no guile. (psalm 32 v 1)
youre right everybody deserves hell but there is what God calls Justification whereby you will not be punished for your sins, you will stand before God as One who has never sinned before. How come? Jesus did it for you at the Cross. Just believe In Him and receive Him. That's all

DoubleDeeX:
These are Jesus' words...

Matthew 12:30

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

John 8:47

He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

^^^

All the children of disobedience are not of God. So without Jesus in your life, you belong to Satan. That's why you see unbelievers, atheists, Pagans etc don't seem to have problems with any other religion but Christianity; it's because they are being controlled by the same spirit (The spirit of rebellion).

angieberry:
"Giving your life to Christ" is just a metaphorical statement which means that you're surrendering to him, you're letting him take charge over your life, and that you're going to follow him and have a relationship with him. It means you're not going to live according to the dictate of the flesh, you're simply acknowledging him as your Lord and King. So, to answer your question, not giving your life to Christ means that you do not accept him as your saviour, and that you live according to the desires of the flesh.