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Christians how do you think Jesus would treat unbelievers?

because I think he would be the same as he was when he was here on earth.

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    With a stern warning.

    Exactly as He did while here on earth.

    A stern warning of peril from God in human flesh is love in action.

  • LJM
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    He loved all unbelievers and died for them. However, he did call the Pharisees rotted sepulchres. He also chased out the money changers from the temple with a whip. He forgives, even those who crucified Him. He could look into people's hearts and know who believed. We cannot actually do that in the same way, so we must try to treat each and every unbeliever as a potential believer and conduct ourselves in a way that will win them to Jesus.

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  • 1 decade ago

    He would treat them with kindness, just like He did before.

    All the [people He met were unbelievers basically, but He talked to

    them kindly, and encouraged them and offered them salvation.

    He was criticized very highly for associating with the so-called

    "trash", or "poor" or "sinners". His answer was that the sick are the

    ones that need the doctor, not the healthy. Indicating that the people

    that thought they were so good they didn't need salvation, probably

    didn't want to have a Saviour. But those poor and sinful people

    accepted Him and loved Him. We are to be kind to unbelievers,

    even if they don't want to hear what we have to say. We don't have

    to agree with the things they say, but we need to set an example

    as Jesus did of treating people decently.

    May God bless you.

  • Eos
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    according to the bible unbelievers would go to hell, and when he came back the be livers would go to heaven and the nonbelievers would stay on earth for seven years, then judgment day would come. Alot of people will go to hell, would be in eternal agony forever, what a kind loving god! well **** THAT ****, i am not going to belive some of my family will go to hell and burn forever, and for those of you who think god will end the world with peace, how about i introduce some nuclear fallout all over the world and see if your god will come back then.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Jesus was pro people. Pro love, pro peace and anti establishment. He was the original hippy.

    It was the RELIGIOUS people he was against. Maybe WE should take a hint from that... ya think?

    Jesus befriended SINNERS BECAUSE sinners know themselves.... they know they have problems.... it's the pretentious religious folks that think there is nothing wrong with themselves that are the most deluded.

    We need to get off of the side of being Jesus ....what we REALLY need to get on the side of the Pharasees and say 'Jesus? What whould you like to teach us?'

  • 1 decade ago

    I think most of us would be surprised... because, yes, he is still the same as back then. So he would treat them with the same love that he showed the outcasts, prostitutes, demonized when he was on earth.

  • 1 decade ago

    The same way he treated us when we were unbelievers. With love and compassion so that they would want to get to know him as we have.

  • 1 decade ago

    He would indeed treat them the same way now as He did then...with love, charity and kindness, just as He did the woman caught in adultery.

    But for those who want to quote that story, do not be deceived. He said, "Neither do I condemn you...go AND SIN NO MORE."

    Even in His love for us, still He warned us that "no one comes to the Father but by me..." He tries to guide us (and those before us) to the perfect Will of God, so that in our acceptance we might have strength in our adversity. True Christians do not think, nor do they claim, that they are sinless. Those who believe in the whole Word of God remember that Christ tells us that anyone who claims to be without sin, then the truth is not in them.

    The Lord's Prayer says, "Forgive us our trespasses AS WE FORGIVE those who trespass against us..." These adjurations are warning us that as we judge, so will we be judged...in the same manner and with the same lack of charity and unforgiveness of spirit . He tells us that there is no one sin greater than another, so that puts us all in the same boat.

    I am a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but I have not always been so. I have sinned great sins of pride, greed and arrogance. I try very hard to follow my Lord's example, but yet even so I am NOT without sin!

    God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of God will love us to the end...and if we still have not accepted that gift of redemption and salvation after all the chances He has given us...He will cry as He says, "I do not know you..."

    Don't be deluded. It is now, has always been and always will be a battle for souls, from the very beginning. Just as we love our children but must cause them to face consequences of their actions...wrong ones included...so does He love us, even when he chastises and warns of of the consequences WE must face in the end.

    Sorry this is so long, but it is so important to understand...to see God as the only parent we have who will always have power over our very life and death.

    All of you who think you can turn the Word of God against us, let me direct you...you presume nothing in the sight of God. Do not quote that Word to us to justify your ignorance. Unless you have read AND studied the entire Bible, OT and NT at least 5 times, you haven't enough understanding to argue about Truth with those who have embraced it.

    And yes many will indeed be surprised when they reach the Judgement Seat...many whom we thought wouldn't be in heaven will be there, and many who thought they would find eternal rest will see the Face of God turn away.

    And if you still do not at least get the urge to study and pray for the ability to discern the Truth, then I can only quote the shortest verse in the Bible. John 11: 35:

    "Jesus wept."

    ("Then said the Jews, "behold how He loves them...")

  • Savaya
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    He would treat them as He did when He was on earth, with love.

  • 1 decade ago

    he would certainly try to convince them to believe but he would do it in a nice respectful way

    Jesus loved and loves all people and we should do the same

    Soon though he will make a distinction between ones that do gods will and the ones that do not

  • 1 decade ago

    as the bible says: is it the healthy that needs a doctor or the unhealthy?

    its the unhealthy, so jesus being like the doctor will not spend time with believers being like the healthy but with the nonbelievers being like the unhealthy.

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