Timothy Keller Quotes About Belief
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Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people
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To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.
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A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?
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If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.
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Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
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Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
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Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
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In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.
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Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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