There was a knock on my front door...2 teenage girls were standing on my porch.
Me: "Hello?"1st Teenager: "Hello sir, we're from the Kingdom
(something or another...I stopped paying attention...Babylon is Babylon to me) Church"
Me: "Oh, I'm not interested..."1st Teenager: "Well we didn't want anything, just to drop this information brochure off"
Me: "Oh, no thank you" [I always do the 'oh, no' this and 'oh no' that...have to pretend to be surprised you know?]1st Teenager: "Well I just want to ask you one question..."
Me (thinking to myself): "And here it comes...."1st Teenager: "If you were to die today, do you think you would go to heaven?"
Me: "Well, if I were to die today, I wouldn't go anywhere...I'd be dead"2nd Teenager: **Giggles**
(she must have been new...she only smiled & giggled whenever I said anything...probably surprised one could have a 'whatever' attitude when it came to burning in hell, for all eternity)1st Teenager: "Well you'd have to go to either heaven or ..."
Me (cutting her off): "Do you have a scripture for that?"1st Teenager: "Yes"
1st Teenager begins to open her bible...
1st Teenager: "But it doesn't say it 'exactly'..."
2nd Teenager: **Giggles**
(even she found the church doctrines amusing because of their inconsistency)Me: "Well, I believe in the resurrection...you know like Jesus?"Both Teenagers: **Nodding in agreement**
Me (continuing): "...and you have to dead to be resurrected"2nd Teenager: **Giggles**
(told ya)Me (continuing): "So I wouldn't live again until Christ returned"1st Teenager: "Well you believe whatever you want to believe..."
Me (thinking to myself): 'Whatever I believe??? Paul taught that without the resurrection our faith was in vain [1 Cor 15:14 & 17]...I guess I'm like the rabbit from the Trix cereal commercial: Silly Believer, Truth is for Kids (the Few)1st Teenager (continuing): "...and we'll believe what we'll believe"
[kind of like a 'we'll see who's right at the end' sort of statement...you'd think one's life for an eternity would be more important than who's right & who's wrong, you know?]Me: Alright, thanks2nd Teenager: **Giggles** and walks away with 1st Teenager
Don't know about the 1st one, but the 2nd Teenager...if God was using me to plant a seed, it was with that one...but who can know? She did seem amused at the contradictions.
Funny stuff,
Marques