How long would christianity last if people weren’t told about until they were 21?
I'm not suggesting it would die out completely. There are always some adults who will believe anything. Look at scientology
But if you waited until people were adults, had learned about the world, and had learned how to weigh evidence and basic scientific reasoning. And then told them:
"There is this super-being who created the planets and the universe and all life in a week, and he is still around and controls everything but you can't see him. and he lives in a magical place called heaven which nobody can see or visit, but when you die even though your brain rots you still keep thinking and you go to this magical paradise where you stay for billions of years and never get old. And this magic super-being had a son that was a normal human by getting a human women pregnant. and this son lived for a short time 2000 years ago and did lots of amazing tricks in the town he lived, like healing leprosy with his mind and turning bread into fish. and he was executed but came back to life three days later, and showed no signs of putrification you would expect. And he was actually the magic super-being himself, so he was really his own son. and a lot of other stuff really happened too. Like a man lived inside a living whale, and another man put all the animals in the world in a wooden boat, and somebody lived 800 years, and someone was magically turned into salt"
Do you think many modern adults who had never heard this explanation of the world before would believe it? Or would Christianity lose 95% of it's followers within a few generations?
milksheik: So you never heard about god until you were 28? nobody mentioned it to you? How does your religion feel about lying?
August 15th, 2012 at 11:51 am
I found out at 28. Still walking with the Lord Jesus at 57.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
People should know about it, like with all cults.
Of course when christianity is sold as truth to young ones I believe it is a form of child abuse.
If it is taught for what it is, christianity would die within 100 years
August 15th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Interesting question.. I think they would be much better off. Instead of being forced/brainwashed into believing it, they would be able to use their own logic and sense to figure it out for themselves.
August 15th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Christianity would probably suffer in it's numbers. However, that would be a direct response to the condition I would call becoming jaded. As we age, we develop different criteria fr those things we can have faith in, an in the twenty one years prior to being exposed to God and all His works, our minds have been sufficiently poisoned by secular thinking, that is, an atheistic or agnostic position, which does not allow for a Creator God without some tangible "proof". Children differ in this that they allow for possibilities that do not have such "proof", like the doll who sits at tea for hours. In many ways, children are superior to adults in that they require no such "proof" to believe a thing. As we grow older, the wisdom we acquire is either of God or of the world. In the case of the world, God is pushed out of the picture due to the lack of this "proof", and our world, unlike the world of children, becomes smaller. I guess the best way to put it is trust. Children will trust until they are disappointed. Adults tend to guard their trust so it will not result in disappointment. The final "proof" however, is that Christianity is still here, having survived the Romans, the Dark Ages, the Inquisition and more, and will still be standing at the very end. Be well.
August 15th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Forever.
Romans 10:9
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