Who is more powerful the threatener or the convincer?

If one guy puts a gun to anothers head to make him obey the gunmans rules, and the guy convinces him to put the gun away, who is most powerful of the two? Ask a cop this…and watch a short circuit, confusion set in. Make sure you ask them around alot of people, and wait for an answer.

Or “how would a used car salesman who needed a gun to rip people off look to his peers?” (one guy said “I guess how he should”)

Or to a religous person or leader “Do you think God loves us enough to send a messenger that would be capable of convincing everyone to repent and be saved.” Is He powerful enough to do that? Or does he want some people to die and go to hell for disobeying Him?

Any thoughts?

Simple: the threatener’s power exists only while he is physically present, or at least alive and in the vicinity. The convincer’s power lives on ‘forever’ via the proxy of the thoroughly ‘convinced’.

Next question please.