How to shut out a fake Christian. 100% success rate (for me).

This is something I came up with a few years ago, and I have been using it ever since and it has NEVER failed.

Okay, so we all know the type, either in person or online, the ones that are just all about how super duper Christian they are, are spewing nonsense, etc, right?

Ask them to say this:

"I, <your name here>, do solemnly vow on the blood of Christ and my hope for eternal salvation that I have read the Bible. Not had it read to me, not read it in parts, but have read the entire Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, skipping nothing in between. If I am lying or being in any way misleading with this statement, I publicly denounce Christ and willingly accept my place in everlasting Hellfire."

They will NOT say it. In the years I have done this, to all the fake Christian trolls, not ONE has ever said it. They will kick and they will scream and they will call you names, but you just ignore that and stay on target.

Say things like "Okay, but that isn't what I asked you to do." and "Surely someone who has built their entire life around the Bible has actually read it and knows what it says, right? You're not some kind of hypocrite that says one thing and does the opposite, right?" and "Why won't you say it? Are you ashamed to say you have read the Word of God?"

The more you hold their feet to that fire, the more outrageous they will get. Just the other day I had one flat out say that Jesus speaks to them (hello, schizophrenia red flag!) and that this was more important than my legalistic requirements.

"So you just said that your own personal experiences are more valid than the Word of God? That is literal blasphemy, you have publicly blasphemed against God."

Then you can really start getting under their skin!

"I can only assume that since you refuse to say you have read the Bible that you have not, in fact, read the Bible for yourself. Therefore you have no understanding of the Bible for yourself, you only know what other men have told you it says. You know the saying, even the Devil can quote scripture, so how do you propose to know when you are hearing the Devil speaking to you and not God when you don't know what the Word of God even says? How do you know you haven't been lied to this entire time? Even right now, I bet this question is making you angry and defensive, why? Shouldn't you WANT to read the Bible? Why are you getting mad at me for pointing out that the elders in your church have taught you specifically to not read the Word of God for yourself, and listen only to what they tell you?"

And every single canned, programmed response they give you, just take it right back around to "But you haven't read the Bible. You don't know what it says. You don't know if that is true or not. Why are you afraid to read your Bible? Is it because deep down you know you are being lied to, and just can't bring yourself to prove what you already know?"

You can absolutely run them in circles with this. It won't shut them up, unfortunately, but it will make everyone stop listening to them, and its just plain fun.

Use it well.