Posted on 12/24/2008 11:23:55 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
For later.
The interview was actually very trouching. Didn’t create a convert, but certainly planted a seed.
I know that Penn’s an atheist, and I can’t get YouTube, so what does he say?
see post 6
I’ve always believed that to be the case. If you think you’re right on what really is the most important question posed to all of mankind, how could you not share that, no matter whose toes you step on.
| "It is now my task, assigned to me by my Savior, to beseech all men everywhere to be reconciled to God. It is now my task as a simple believer to witness as a simple believer by word of mouth and by my life to simple unbelievers. I must tell men plainly and simply that things are much worse with them than they themselves assume them to be. To my simple unbelieving neighbor I must be like the doctor. When the doctor comes, I tell my neighbor, he does not ask you, as the patient, to diagnose the nature of your disease. The doctor may ask you, I say to my neighbor, where it hurts. But for all that, the doctor himself makes the diagnosis of your distress. The diagnosis is that you have a disease that will lead to death. You are on the staircase that leads downward to eternal separation from the love of God. You are on this staircase, not because the world, reality, just happened to be built that way but because you, with all other men, hate the triune God, the creator-redeemer of men. God calls you to repentance (Rom 2). You have spurned and continue to spurn his call. You deserve to go to hell." - excerpt from A Letter from Cornelius Van Til to Francis Schaeffer. |
Maybe Penn will come around.
I’ve never been offended when someone proselytized me. Annoyed, perhaps (it can be awkward, depending on the circumstances)...but not offended.
Great video, very honest.
“Then Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You almost persuade me to become a Christian.’” Acts 26:28
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