Ray Comfort's Blog, page 11

Words of Comfort: Does God hate the wicked?

"Does God hate the wicked? Or does he just hate the wicked things they do?"
Scripture makes it clear that God has a judicial hatred for wicked men (Psalm 11:5). This is different than the sinful hatred you and I may have, because God is without sin.
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Words of Comfort: 20 million killed in the Bible.

“Does God love all the 20,000,000 people he killed in the Bible?”
The Bible says that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. In the end it will be far more than a mere 20 million that God puts to death. All of us will die, because all of us have sinned.
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Words of Comfort: Love or hate?

“God loves everyone, but I read in Romans 9, ‘Jacob I loved and Esau I hated.’ What do you make of that?”
Most interpret that as “hyperbole” (a justified exaggeration for contrast). However, when God “hates,” it is judicial and not sinful.
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Words of Comfort: “No one is confident there is no God..."

“No one is confident there is no God. There is just no evidence that proves there is a God."
You should have said that you haven't yet found proof that God exists. Otherwise you are claiming omniscience (having all knowledge) when you say that “no one is confident there is a God,” and only God has that.
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Words of Comfort: God fails in science.

"Science is about observation and testability. God fails terrible every time it comes to those standards.
Darwinian evolution is unobservable and untestable. That's why it is so faith-based. We know God exists because of Nature/creation (observation), and He is testable because He reveals Himself to all who obey Him (see John 14:21).
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Words of Comfort: No yelling or screaming.

“I went to church four days ago. I liked the preacher because he didn't yell and scream and tell me I was going to hell. He smiled the whole time he talked. Why can't more of them be like that?" 
We won't yell and scream at you, but we will warn you that if you die in your sins, you will end up in Hell. You ending up in Hell doesn't seem to worry your smiley preacher though.
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Words of Comfort: I have not faith.

“I have no faith. Please do not try and bring me down to that level."
So you have no one you trust. I guess you are insecure. You even sound paranoid. Paranoid people refuse to trust people or things. They live in fear. They have no faith in banks, the police, planes or elevators. Paranoid: "Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others."
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Words of Comfort: Virgin or young woman?

"Isaiah 7:14: ‘Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’  Christians say that this verse is a prophecy of Jesus' birth to a virgin.  Virgin in this verse is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word almah, which actually means ‘young woman.’"  
You say that miraculous sign was that "a young woman" would give birth. How could that be a "sign" from God?  Billions of young women hav...

Words of Comfort: Think.

“Pray for us and we will think for you!"
That's all we are trying to get you to do. Think. Think about your eternal salvation. Think about the genius of God’s creative hand. Think about your sins. Think about the Savior and what He did on the cross.
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Words of Comfort: I follow Buddhism.

“My conscience is clear because I follow some practices of Buddhism.”
A rapist can tell the judge that his conscience is clear because, in his mind, the woman he raped asked for it by her provocative dress. A clear conscience isn't the issue. On Judgment Day forgiveness of sins is the only thing that will matter. It will be the difference between innocent or guilty, life or death, Heaven or Hell. Forgiveness of sins can only come through the cross.
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