You cant come to God unless He first draw you. The Bible says how can one hear unless someone is sent... You cannot just speak the word and it do any good.. If so look at how many people still go to hell and don't believe even tho they have heard the word.. Prerequisites must be in place... What Dude said is correct.. Everyone wants to argue just bc its the Bible mentioned but they leave out common sense
Well yeah, some people will not believe right upon hearing, or ever. We might have been the one God sent; in fact, we are sent as disciples to spread the Good News to the nations. That's being sent. Some will deny the message until the day they die, but that doesn't mean we know who those people are up front; we just share the Word and have hope. But chances are they won't come to faith
without ever hearing the message.
So before we speak God's Word, are we supposed to ask the person if God is drawing them first? Who is God not drawing? I don't get this "speaking the Word is useless because somebody might go to hell anyway" mentality. We know someone might go to hell, and we introduce them to the way to Heaven anyway. I'm glad somebody did that for me and didn't keep it to themselves because I might not have believed (or they didn't know if God was drawing me, or if they were sent, yada yada).
What Dude said is still not correct, because while to that person who doesn't believe, there may be no differentiation between the Bible and any other books in their
carnal mind, there still is a
spiritual difference in reality, and a huge one at that. Anyone who has ever denied God's Word at any point, came to their lowest point in life, and got on their knees and cried out to the God that someone had the heart to tell them about by sharing God's Word even to an unbeliever actively in denial, knows that. The battle is spiritual. So no, it's not true that you might as well be quoting Harry Potter (or anything else, for that matter), in the spirit realm, which we are supposed to be operating in.
I don't understand why this is even a debate.