So I'm sittin in the crib eating bing cherries and relaxing waiting for RAW to come on and chillin. All of a sudden I hear a knock at the door and I thought it was my cohort who had got locked out. Unfortunately I opened the door and I was greeted by two black girls who were "spreading the gospel."
Now I knew as soon as I opened the door that I was in for something, but I didn't know it would be a stand off, and I didn't know they would walk away with feelings of animosity. So after they introduce themselves, they start bombarding me with a gangload of questions. They asked me if I go to church, and I tell them no. They ask me if I have a religious affiliation to which I basically tell them the same thing I've told you guys. Then one of the girls switched the convo up a bit and started asking me about sin, babies going to hell and sinful nature. I tell her I understand what sin is, that babies going to hell is something I don't believe personally, BUT that an argument CAN be made when you go into certain aspects of predestination. She went on into children sinning, and accountability, and I had to inform her that in many jewish customs/teachings 12 and 13 are usually "ages of accountability" and I tell her she should look into it.
Afterwards, I told her that we are all predisposed to "sinning" and she goes on about how she drove to work, got cut off by a driver and how she cussed at him and that was a sin. She went on about how when she got to work the boss asked why she was late to which she replied, "there was a traffic jam". She said that was another sin because she lied. She also said living with someone while you aren't married is fornication, and I tell her fornication is premarital sex or any sex outside of marriage and that living together does not mean you're having sex.
So now she switches it up more and goes into Jesus and sin. She says Jesus did away with the old testament laws and that none of those apply to us. She said her church doesn't follow the old testament but they read it from time to time. She starts telling me jesus "modified" the commandments to where if you even think or look you are guilty of sin. So to make a long story short, I told her there were differences in the types of laws in the old testament and explained to her that there was the law written by god (ten commandments/royal law/whatever you want to call it) and levitical/ceremonial/mosaic law (sacrificing bullocks, wearing this type of clothing, not eating this or that, etc.) So I tell her that God said he would write his laws in a persons heart/mind, and that Yeshi said all of the law and prophets hang on two rules (love thy neighbor as thyself and love God with all your heart.) So she goes on and on about nothing, so I told her lets just agree to disagree.
After I tell them this the convo takes a nose dive like a jet that has been shot down. The main girl that was speaking starts going ranting about how I don't know what I'm talking about, so I sit silent until she is finished. Afterwards I asked her if she followed any old testament laws, and she said no. I asked about tithing and she says her church doesn't tith and explains why, so I give her a thumbs up (literally) and tell her they are at least doing something right. So she goes back into the bible talks about bible study and tries to get me to come, and she does it in a DEMANDING way. I run off a bunch of topics to see if thats what they discuss in their bible class and she says no.
She then talks about islam and her friend says "whats that book the muslins have?", to which the other girl doesn't even have a reply, and I say it's the quran. She says, "Yeah that book, thats not inspired by God." At this time, I am cursing myself for answering the door. I tell them they should probably brush up on their studies if they are gonna go door to door, and I tell them they need to study other religions before they do so because they are going to get destroyed if they go up against the wrong person. I asked if her church bible study actually goes into the HISTORY of the bible, how it was compiled, what books didn't make it, political climate certain books were written in etc? After I asked this, the main girl said NO and said they didn't need to do so. Afterwards, I told them muslims have a belief about the qurans history and I tell them most muslims are taught to learn/memorize the quran and recite it. I tell them the Hindus understand the Vedas, have a belief about the origins of their scriptures and know what mantras to chant etc. But I tell them they have no understanding of the bible and will get destroyed when they run into one of these people. They completely lost it when I said that. The more quiet of the two said "Do you think you know everything about the bible?" Now instead of me dropping a 20 nukes on her dome, I drop one nuke and I tell her, "No I don't know everything about the bible because everything in the bible has not been revealed to him. Also, I wasn't present when the bible was written or compiled but that I'm also not going door to door talking about the bible." :dead:
I tell them the importance of learning the scriptures in the original text in case they run into people who have specific questions or present them with "contradictions." I then mention the J.W.'s and the more quiet of the two says, "I already know what you're going to say", and I reply by telling her not ONCE did I cut them off when they spoke and that she was no mind reader. So I put her on the spot and I ask her to tell me what I was going to say (lol.) She responds by telling me I was going to say they teach false things about God. I tell her no, I was going to go into how they translate certain verses in scripture and how/why some people take some things literal. She then bashes all these bible translations and I ask her if she has a lexicon or concordance. No answer. If she has heard of the vulagte or textus major. Both replied in similar fashion and told me they "didn't need to understand or know any of that stuff." :dead:
So by this time they are both getting heated, and the other one starts babbling on about how we aren't going to see eye to eye, so I tell her she is right so lets just agree to disagree. She keeps babbling on and I tell her the convo is over and that she just said we won't see eye to eye so there is no use talking about it. So they start to walk away and they are still babbling on, and I just tell em to have a nice one and to close the gate behind them.
