Personal Questions Flashcards
My parents object to the faith.
As the giver of lives for both us and our parents, God is someone greater we should be more concerned about.
Also, each one of us has to personally make the decision to receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. On the Day of Judgment, all of us have to give a personal account to God. We can’t account for our parents and our parents can’t account for us. Our parents must also make this decision for themselves. They also need Jesus and need to know the good news. Your acceptance of the gospel is the first step for God to use you to share the good news with your parents.
If you truly believe in God, you can trust Him to take care of you and to overcome whatever difficulties you may face.
The bible does talk about obeying our parents. However it places a greater importance on obeying God in the sense that we are instructed to obey our parents because it pleases God. - Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (Colossians 3:20 NIV).
I don’t care for heaven or hell.
Assuming you know that your time is up tomorrow, if I were to ask you heaven or hell what would your response be?
It is natural for us to gravitate towards extreme pleasure and avoid extreme torture. As human beings, we all care about heaven and hell. We just suffer from a cognitive bias that causes us to downplay the importance of things in the future. (e.g. retirement)
The more important thing is that we can’t be certain about the future or what will happen tomorrow. We all hear about freak cases of people dying from unexpected natural disasters or sudden failings of the body - none of them could have foreseen these coming. How can we be so sure that we’ll be around tomorrow or have time to think adequately about our salvation before we pass on?
(if you think insurance is important for those 20 years of being out of a job, what more eternity?)
I will find it hard to live the Christian life.
As already mentioned, in Christianity, we do not work for our salvation. Salvation is a gift from God through Christ dying on the cross to take the punishment for our sins.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
If you truly believe and accept Christ as your Lord and saviour, your sins are forgiven and you now enter into a relationship with God. The christian life is about a relationship with Jesus. Going to church, reading our bible and praying are ways for us to know God. As we know God more, we’ll grow in our desire to serve and obey Him.
Just like how if you love your girlfriend, you’ll want to do things for her, it’s the same when we truly know God. It’s about a relationship, not about fulfilling a set of rules and regulations or good works. In other words, we don’t obey to be saved. We’re saved, then we obey.
Most Christians are hypocrites
In their very own nature, Christians are not better than non-Christians morally. In fact, the bible says that Christ came to save the poor and the sick, not those who are well.
For every Christian, the process of transformation is different. Each attain closeness and likeness to Christ in his own way and own timing. And Christians don’t start out better than anybody else. They just have an attitude of repentance and admit their need for God at the point of conversion.
