I recently have realized that many people seem to be confused between “non-believer” and “atheist”. This happens to both Americans and Vietnamese and possibly people from other countries. I believe that the unlikeness of the two should be clarified better, since the notions of “non-believer” and “atheist” are hugely different.
It would take more time, effort, and wisdom to discuss about such thing sufficiently, and I currently don’t have enough incentive to be “devoted” to this topic, so I will just give whatever I have.
I personally feel that in the eyes of many Christian, we tend to consider simply whether a person believes in God or not, and consequently, we tend to treat those who don’t the same way – whatever the way is. However, as a former non-believer myself, I see a big difference here. Non-believers, like I was, don’t usually have much clue about what God is, who Jesus really is, or what He has done. This type of people is somewhat innocent – like a blank paper (and no, I am not praising my old self or whatever). If they get their chance to know God, they tend to be able to receive Him rather easily (although, yeah, not too easily as we all know). To talk about Jesus to these people, a good attitude and an additional level of Christian knowledge should be good. He will do the rest.
Atheist people are a different story. They have knowledge about Christianity either some bit or a great due. Some of them also possess a high level skill of philosophy and rhetoric and usually form their own belief. These include those who are anti-Christians who are really scary for me. (I was really close to be beaten up by some, ask my brother, he may know the story). Regardless of whoever atheists are, discussing with them requires a really good Christian knowledge, conversational skills and also experiences. (I am still way to far from this level and have been trying to improve myself to be a better Christian).
That’s all I have for this time. I feel really sleepy and tired right now (“sleepy” and “tired” are different also, maybe I’ll write about them later), so I stop here. At a glance I know that this post is full of incompleteness, ignorance, and other errors. Please feel free to add and fix stuff, saying “You are wrong, stupid!” or whatever. I love comments and may someday I will marry one. No, I should go to bed now, okay.
