How To Deal With A Person Filled With Excessive Zeal
Copyright © 2008 by Dr.J.AMcBean Library of Congress Washington.D.C.20559
R eligious organization; refuses to believe that the people that they sent out to represent them are causing damage, to the same organizations. People are assessing an organization; base on the conduct, of the people who represent it. We must make sure that the people that we sent out are neither novice nor fanatic. They must have some training in people skills, must be sensitive, and know when somebody wants them to back off and do so. It is best to back off and remain friends than to keep provoking it and cause bad blood.
Even with proper training. Dealing with a religious fanatic can be very trying. If you are not careful, things can escalate out of hand and end in tragedy. Who is a religious fanatic? (A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.) A religious fanatic is a person who refuses to allocate the same religious rights to others that he or she craved for themselves.
I was having my lunch under a tree, when a brother from the Mormon faith comes along to proselytize. I told him I was hungry. Having my lunch at this time, and would prefer talking to him another time. He still refuses to go away. I try to make myself more understandable. I told him I already accept Jesus as my lord. He continues to say if I did not accept Jesus in the Mormon organization, I really did not have Jesus. That is not a good way to insult a man who is hungry.
The first thing you need to know about religion. Religions are base on faith and beliefs.
John 1:18 (KJV) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1 John 4:12 (KJV) No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
If you told me that you saw God and he spoke to you, I still have to accept it by faith. Because; I never saw him, and even if I did saw him how do I know for sure whom I saw? How do I know that the Bible is inspired? I accept the Bible account of itself that it is inspirited, and because my bias minded, church fathers told that to me. How do I know that the Muslim holy book the “The Koran” Is not inspirited? My church fathers told that to me. However, I am not convincing.
HOW TO DEAL WITH SUCH.
Do not start out nasty, because the next time you saw that person, the person could be your doctor in the emergency room, or somebody working at the hospital. It could be a person interviewing you for a job. Therefore, start out clean. Do not slam the door in the person’s face or throw insults.
(1) Tell the fanatic that you already have religion.
“I appreciated you coming to talk to me; however, I already had religion. Alternatively, I already accept Jesus as my lord.” In addition, the religion is working, you are happy. If the person refuses to move away. You move away. If you cannot move away, get a piece of paper, make a plug, and plugged up you’re both ears.
(2) LET THE ZEALOT DO ALL THE TALKING.
Another way to deal with the fanatic is to let them do all the talking. That is if you have the time. However, ask certain question. For example, if you are dealing with a Jehovah witness. You could ask. “How do you explain these verses?” Following verses. Base on the r doctrines that a man does not have any thing in them name soul; the man himself is the soul.
Job 14:22 (KJV) But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
1 Thes. 5:23 (KJV) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do not defend the verse nor say how you believe it to be, just asks he or she what is their interpretation of it. What you are doing know is (jabbing) the person, you are opening the person eyes to the reality of certain verses that are hidden from them by their churches. You are making a lot of damage now without actually saying it. You are fighting like mad, but remaining calm. You are causing the fanatic to think, he is going to return and ask his leaders about such verses. This is like poisoning ants and sending them back to the nest with the poison. Do not get caught up into an argument, only ask certain questions. Thanks the person for a whatsoever answer given.
DEALING WITH A SABBATH KEEPER.
John 7:19-23 (KJV) Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? [20] The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? [21] Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. [22] Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. [23] If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
Acts 7:53 (KJV) Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Since the people never keep the law how did they get save? They get save by grace. Just look-in the Bible concordance for the word “Found Grace” All the faithful under the law found a righteousness that was not in the law.
Romans 14:5 (KJV) One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Romans 14:5 (Living Bible) Some think that Christians should observe the Jewish holidays as special days to worship God, but others say it is wrong and foolish to go to all that trouble, for every day alike belongs to God. On questions of this kind everyone must decide for himself.
Acts 20:7 (KJV) And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
1 Tim. 1:9 (NASB-U) realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
Romans 3:19 (KJV) Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Galatians 4:10-11 (KJV) Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. [11] I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
THOSE WHO BAPTIZE IN JESUS NAME.
Baptizing in a name is not necessary pronouncing a name over the person. Pronouncing a name over the person at baptism is not what baptizing in a name means. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father, of the son, and of the Holy Spirit, is not pronouncing these names and titles over the person.
FANATICS WILL TELL YOU, THESE VERSE WERE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT.
1 John 5:7-8 (KJV) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. [8] And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Ask THEM gentle. Do you ever see the original? Do you read Greek? What you are telling them none verbally now. You are putting your faith in somebody else’s interpretations. The whole thing is by faith. How do we know that the way the translators translate the scriptures was not to their own liking with some political agenda. Remember it was King that gives the command to translate the Bible.
SOMETIME ONLY JESUS CAN HELP US
Matthew 6:33-AV But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Isaiah 55:6-AV Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:7-AV Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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