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I’m catholic and my g/f never was really raised with a religion and she say’s she guess she believes in god. But how do i convince her that and build her faith and maybe if she would like convert to Catholicism? How should i approach this?

7 Responses to “How do you convince someone to join a religion?”

1. Architect on November 11th, 2009 5:56 pm

   The General idea is “Free choice , free choice , free choice , free choice , free choice then encouragement” . If she wants to , she will .

2. Matthew on November 13th, 2009 4:40 am

   Catholicism cannot save you. Put all of your faith into Jesus. Please pray a sincere prayer with all of your heart admitting to Jesus you are a sinner and have full faith that His blood pays off all of your sins. You will now be with Him forever in heaven. God bless.

3. JR on November 14th, 2009 2:22 am

   The best way is the Catholic way: get them very young, threaten them with eternal torture, and tell them that thinking logically about it is a sign of the devil. It works on the stupid anyway. How bright is she?

4. Jiraiya™ on November 16th, 2009 8:37 am

   Show her evidence that it’s genuine. Shouldn’t be too hard, should it?

5. bigvol662004 on November 16th, 2009 4:29 pm

   It’s not our responsibility to convince someone to join a religion/have a relationship with God. We’re commanded to be “….fishers of men (witnesses for Christ)…” but GOD is the only one who can “clean the fish (save their souls)

6. TheMadProfessor on November 19th, 2009 4:19 am

   Ask her if she’d like to accompany you to church some time…and if she declines, let it go. If she’s interested, she’ll want to learn more. If she isn’t, badgering her on the matter will only annoy her. (If only more readers of R&S would realize that!)

7. imacatholic2 on November 19th, 2009 8:29 am

   Catholics evalgelise, we do not “convince” poeple.

   Proselytism has come to mean the use of unfair and coercive methods, –that is to say, those which apply pressure–to convince a person to leave his/her religion and join another.

   Evangelization, on the other hand, is giving witness to God as revealed through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit in a simple and direct manner. It includes the renewing of humanity, witness, explicit proclamation, adherence with the heart, entry into the community, acceptance of signs, and apostolic initiative. It means to carry the good news to all areas of human life and through its influence transform from within and renew humanity itself, but without pressure.

   With love in Christ.

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