Rhetoric In Witnessing And Salvation
Rhetoric’s use in Witnessing and Salvation.
Rhetoric is almost essential for converting someone to Christ. This is because if they have heard the salvation story and not believed it will take sources outside of the Bible to convince them you are right. In addition, atheistic views skew many people’s morality making strictly moral arguments such as abortion is wrong almost impossible to make without comparison to something they already see as wrong. There are three main things to consider when using rhetoric in witnessing how you use rhetoric, how not to offend people too much, and the rhetorical context. Rhetoric is defined as the purposeful use of language by The Writer Harbrace Handbook. (Glenn Gray ed 5). Typically it is divided into three categories Pathos, Logos, and Ethos, which are appeals to emotion, reason, and authority respectively. It is essential for any argument for any issue since it is impossible to convince anyone that one’s standpoint is correct without these appeals. Typically multiple rhetorical arguments are used throughout a paper. …show more content…
Ray Comfort primarily uses Pathos throughout the video. Several examples such as burying the Jews alive and shooting the Jews down are how he does this. However, Logos is barely used and Ethos is nonexistent. The only noteworthy example of Logos throughout the entire video is getting people to realize that they are liars, thieves, blasphemers, and adulterers at heart. The lack of Ethos is glaringly obvious, however, due to the nature of the argument he is presenting Ethos would be awkward and detract from the argument. He is largely successful in changing the minds of people he
Rhetoric is almost essential for converting someone to Christ. This is because if they have heard the salvation story and not believed it will take sources outside of the Bible to convince them you are right. In addition, atheistic views skew many people’s morality making strictly moral arguments such as abortion is wrong almost impossible to make without comparison to something they already see as wrong. There are three main things to consider when using rhetoric in witnessing how you use rhetoric, how not to offend people too much, and the rhetorical context. Rhetoric is defined as the purposeful use of language by The Writer Harbrace Handbook. (Glenn Gray ed 5). Typically it is divided into three categories Pathos, Logos, and Ethos, which are appeals to emotion, reason, and authority respectively. It is essential for any argument for any issue since it is impossible to convince anyone that one’s standpoint is correct without these appeals. Typically multiple rhetorical arguments are used throughout a paper. …show more content…
Ray Comfort primarily uses Pathos throughout the video. Several examples such as burying the Jews alive and shooting the Jews down are how he does this. However, Logos is barely used and Ethos is nonexistent. The only noteworthy example of Logos throughout the entire video is getting people to realize that they are liars, thieves, blasphemers, and adulterers at heart. The lack of Ethos is glaringly obvious, however, due to the nature of the argument he is presenting Ethos would be awkward and detract from the argument. He is largely successful in changing the minds of people he