65) when Christian tested him. While Faithful tries to argue with Talkative, Christian gives up and says to Faithful, "your words and his lusts could not agree.he would have been but a blot in our Company that makes religion to stink in the nostrils of many, as it doth: for they are these Talkative Fools, whose Religion is only in word" (P.67). Ironically, from what Christian says, he could be considered as one of them "whose Religion is only in word" as long as he does not act as what his belief, the Bible, says. .
Moreover, according to the Bible, God asks his believers to hold on His preaching by saying, "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you -unless you believed in vain." (1 Corinthians 15:1) As a Christian believer, Christian ought to demonstrate the teaching and words of God to unbelievers as one of his main purposes of the journey. Even though he does discuss his belief and his faith, obviously he is trying to find people who have the same belief as he does to accompany him and abandons the "ignorant" ones. For example, By-ends, a stranger whom Christian meets, looks at religion as a path that leads him ahead from the world and desires to accompany with Christian. In return, Christian replies, "If you will go with us, you must go against Wind and Tide, the which, I perceive, is against your opinion" (P.79) after the author sees in his dream that "Christian and Hopeful forsook him, and kept their distance from him"(P.79). .
God does not only ask us to preach for him but He also commands us, " And the Lords servant may not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being capture by him to do his will.
