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- See Accusations of Plagiarism where everything is set out.
- Does Daniel understand what that means?
- If Christianity is true the idea of people dying without Christ isn’t horrifying to God either. After all God supposedly created the world foreknowing that the majority of people would die without Christ.
- As so often happens the Bible is contradictory as to whether one needs to "be born again" in order to be saved. <a href="http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/words.html">http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/words.html</a>
As so often happens Ray Comfort tells only one side of the debate and ignores the other.
- There is no evidence that Daniel was actively fighting God, rather it appears to this author that Daniel is too simple minded to understand what he should or should not do, by Ray Comfort’s standard and too simple minded to do much except agree with the interviewer.
- Christians who are kinder and less judgemental than Ray Comfort’s team might try and establish whether Daniel has enough understanding to be capable of serious sin before telling him he is hell-bent. This author feels sorry for Daniel who does not appear to have the intellectual resources for defending himself against the manipulation or possibly emotional abuse that happens to him. At the start Daniel is cheerful.
- Ray and Kirk are frightening people and reducing their happiness, possibly even making people unhappy without any evidence that Hell is real. It is not plausible that a loving God would create the world foreknowing that mankind would fall and that the overwhelming majority of people would suffer eternal torment. It is not plausible that a loving God would create individual human beings foreknowing that they would end up in hell.
Imagine if a new religion came up with frightening and unreasonable concepts like Ray and Kirk’s version of Christianity. That would be called an irrational and harmful religious cult. Christianity arose in the Roman Empire, well before the scientific method and critical thinking were developed, so for rational people there is even less reason to be credulous about Christian claims. Instead for too many people Christianity is honoured by tradition and should not be questioned.
- Ray Comfort’s definition of hellfire preaching is as far as this author knows peculiar to him. We all know that we do wrong continually and can’t stop ourselves. Some hellfire preachers spell out to their listeners what sins the hearers have done as Ray Comfort does. Others simply talk about Hell and assume those who hear the preaching know they have done wrong. The preaching of Ray and Kirk fits most people’s definition of hellfire preaching.
- Ray Comfort plagiarised work by University of Tennessee professor Stan Guffey when Comfort partially wrote a biography of Charles Darwin and gave the impression he wrote it all.
- Did the construction worker try to share his faith the Ray Comfort way? Had he got as far as convincing the lady that she was a miserable sinner before the interruption that stopped him preaching?
If the above happened as described it is possible that the preacher helped convince the unfortunate lady that she was worthless and might as well die.
- The interviewer does not even try and find out what type of white lie Daniel told. If Daniel had not told that white lie he might be judged and condemned for upsetting someone unnecessarily with unpleasant truth. Daniel admits to one unspecified, probably small white lie, by contrast the misleading title of this video likely deceives fresh people weekly and Ray Comfort acts as though he is sure that deceit is justified.
There is one rule for Ray Comfort and another rule for a simple minded person.
- Is this simple minded man capable of making a resolution and keeping it? Does he understand clearly in any case what the interviewer wants him to do?
- Despite the title this does not deal with gospel tracts. The fear of God (Way of the Master) deals with Gospel tracts. This video says very many frightening things about God but as far as this author has been able to find out does not mention gospel tracts once. Giving a misleading title is deceitful in the same way as lying is deceitful. It does not appear that Ray Comfort has repented for this deceit since the misleading titles have not been altered.
- We have to take Kirk’s word for things and we have to take the word of the person who wrote the email about what happened.
- See also a Google search, Ray Comfort and plagiarism.
- Comfort is so good at giving moral advice to everyone else, perhaps he should answer the question, “What is hypocrisy?”
- Do we need to repeat what we’ve already written about how Ray himself isn’t frightened enough to stop doing what he condemns in other people?
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