Can a question ruin You?

 

Straight answer: Yes, a question can ruin you. Ruin your relationship, ruin your credibility, ruin your reliability, and believability;
Especially if you handle the question in an unwise manner.

 

Below, we are going to take a closer look at one particularly hostile question.

 

Let’s look at the best way to answer it:

• without causing offense,
• without being manipulative,
• without compromising the truth.

The QUESTION That Stops Christians in their TRACKS

How should you answer it?

 

If I don’t believe what you believe, am I going to hell?

 

| Buddy Brown 

Summary

The video discusses the importance of approaching sensitive spiritual topics, such as salvation, with compassion and understanding. The speaker shares a personal anecdote about being asked if people who don’t believe in their faith are going to hell, and how they’ve learned to respond in a way that opens up opportunities for meaningful conversations.

 

KeyPoints

🤝 People often ask Christians: “If I don’t share your beliefs will go I to hell?

💡 Answer this question in a way that promotes understanding, rather than hostility.

Suggest asking two questions:

1. Should people who do morally wrong things be punished?  Yes.
2. Have you ever done wrong things?   Yes.
3. If you stand before a judge and he is about to hit his gravel in judgment,
   But stops and ask the question: Would you be interested in a pardon?
4. What would be your answer? Knowing that you’re guilty? Wouldn’t it be also. “Yes!”

 

👮 A judge is used as a metaphor for God, and the concept of punishment and pardon is explored.

📚 Jesus is presented as the ultimate pardon for humanity’s guilt.

Analogy

The analogy compares being asked about hell with being accused of a crime. Just as we’d want to know if there’s an opportunity for pardon, people who are asked about salvation should be offered hope and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

Important Keywords and Definitions

· Gospel: The core message of Christianity, emphasizing God’s love and redemption through Jesus.

· Pardon: A metaphorical concept representing forgiveness and absolution from guilt.

· Redemption: The act of being saved or forgiven from sin.

· Salvation: The process of being saved or redeemed from spiritual danger.

 

 

 

 

 

1 Peter 3:15-17 (KJV)  

1. 1. But Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and
   2. Be ready always
   3. To give an answer to every man
      • that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you
      • with meekness and fear:

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colossians 4:5-6 (KJV)  

 

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

 

Let your speech be alway[s] with grace, seasoned with salt,

 

That ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.