Basic Christianity-Its Simplicity without Canon-II

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Sep 20, 2011 at 11:59

Not knowing why there are times some of my responses are cut off in incomplete fashion, I'll be even briefer in trying to recoup my main point. Your assertion in the comment (What is the use of quoting Christian beliefs at someone who you know is not Christian(s) is actually quite correct by this observation. Debating canon is not the main point of Chirstian witness: expressing the love of Jesus Christ in His sacrificial death on the cross and subsequent raising from the dead is.

Debating canon with a non-believer serves no spiritual purpose – it becomes a banter of logic when by the WORD of the LORD we are instructed to do otherwise. State the Gospel in the environment of love as Jesus Christ admonished and the choice is left to the audience to make. If rejected, then it is up to the persons who rejected it to explain in the afterlife why they did.

A non-believer not only is not interested in the matters of forgiveness of sin spoken of by Jesus Christ; they will engage in the logic of Gnosticism and other disciplines to reason out why they cannot accept the gift of grace and mercy. It is a matter of the heart and its recognition of the need to reconcile the inconsistencies of what is right and what is wrong and how does being a true Christian disciple of Jesus Christ provide the peace of the heart by having that faith. That is what the simplicity of the Gospel provides.

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