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Why Should We Treat Everyone Respectfully?

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Why Should We Treat Everyone Respectfully?

November 21, 2024
#STRask
#STRaskStand to Reason

Questions about why we should treat everyone respectfully, how to reconcile Jesus calling the Pharisees a brood of vipers with the instructions in 1 Peter 3:15 to treat people with gentleness and respect, and the charge that Christians have no evidence for God.  

* How would you explain to a believer why we should treat everyone respectfully when Hitler shouldn’t have been treated respectfully?

* How do we reconcile Jesus calling the Pharisees a brood of vipers with 1 Peter 3:15, which says we should show gentleness and respect when defending the faith?

* Religion is synonymous with pretending to know things you do not know. No man has ever seen God. No Christian has any evidence for God. Yet you claim authority based on a book and an invisible God. Talk about ego. Wow!

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