1. Many adherents of other religions believe just as strongly as you do. They often even cite many of the same reasons for belief that you do, and cite reasons for not believing in your religion that mirror your reasons for not believing in theirs. Do these parallels concern you? Nope, not at all. 2. Religious people overwhelmingly follow the religion of their parents, their surrounding culture or both. If this applies to you, don't you find it convenient that you just happened to stumble upon the right religion without investigating the thousands of other potential options? Thats Not true, plenty of people have rebelled from their parents and believe in somthing else. 3. If faith is a reliable pathway to truth, why does it lead people to such inconsistent conclusions? Why does it result in so many thousands of religions, and even thousands of conflicting Christian sect People Beilive what they think is true. Everyone on Earth will never believe the same exact thing.
4. When meditating Zen Buddhists feel a state of transcendent bliss and oneness with the universe, their brain activity looks the same as that of Franciscan nuns communing with God. "Religious" experiences also occur in other religious adherents, in users of drugs like psilocybin mushrooms and even in temporal lobe epileptics. Why would God give us brains that are so easily fooled by false religious experiences—and how do you know yours aren't among them? Cause their both doing the samet hing. Praying.
5. One day in 1995, thousands of people across India and throughout the world allegedly witnessed statues of the Hindu god Ganesha drink milk that was fed to them from a spoon. The Hindu milk miracle has widespread, modern eyewitness testimony and even video evidence in its favor. Why do you believe in Christian miracles, but not in miracles of other religions that offer much better evidence Read The Article. One Person offered it, not many. Not strong Evidence. 6. You may expect God to have a positive impact on the world. But both good and bad things are bound to happen even if God doesn't exist. If you credit God for the good things that happen and never blame him for the bad, all without any sort of evidence, isn't your expectation self-fulfilling There are bad things in the world cause Sin entered in the garden of eden. God gave us freedom to choose, not robots who do what ever he says. 7. God is often said to answer prayer in three ways: "Yes," "No" and "Wait." But if God's responses are so vague, how could you distinguish them from the results of prayer to any other god What Vague Prayers?
8. The gospel message—the very core of Christianity—seems fundamentally unjust: In what sense is temporarily punishing one innocent man an acceptable substitute for endlessly punishing billions of guilty people? Jesus Died on the Cross for us to show us God loves us. He died so we dont have to be perfect to go to heaven and make sacrofices. We have a choice, go to Heaven or Hell. Its up to you to decide.
9. This message seems not only unjust, but patently illogical: God (the Father) has another part of God (the Son) killed to save humanity from being punished… by God. Why couldn't God just decide to forgive us without killing Jesus? He had to die to "Wash" us of our sins. 10. Salvation depends on belief in a specific event that most people who've ever lived never even knew about: people in remote parts of the world, human zygotes (half of which abort spontaneously before birth), the severely mentally disabled, etc. If these people go to hell, how is that consistent with a God of love? If they go to heaven, does that mean God doesn't value their free will to choose or reject God's gift of salvation God Says in the bible that people who never had the chance to know Jesus (Such as Aborted Babies) will go to heaven.
11. God is supposedly a single being. But in what sense can the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be considered one and the same God when they have different wills (Luke 22:41–42), different knowledge (Mark 13:32) and different levels of authority (John 14:28; 1 Cor. 11:3)? The Trinity is like a Shamrock, 3 parts, one thing. 12. We’d expect a perfectly wise, good God to have a composed, even-handed personality. Yet God brags that he'll make Israel's enemies eat their own children and grow drunk with their own blood (Isa. 49:26; Jer. 19:9), he delights in animal sacrifice (Lev. 1:1–9), he's so jealous of other gods that "Jealous" is his very name (Ex. 34:12–16), and Moses has to calm his fury to keep him from killing his own people (Ex. 32:1–14; Num. 16:41–55). Does this sound more like a transcendent deity or a vindictive tribal leader invented by a barbaric Iron Age culture? He Doesnt "Brag" he is stating the truth Before Jesus died on the cross they needed to sacrofice to rid of their sins They Directly disobeyed God's word. By worshiping idols. 13. Frontotemporal dementia can alter one's entire worldview, including one's religion, and severing connections between the two brain hemispheres reveals that they respond independently and hold different desires and beliefs. In , a brain’s right hemisphere professed theism, and the left, atheism. How do you explain the concept of the soul in light of such phenomena? Do these souls go to heaven or hell? If you beilive with all your heart in Jesus and try to follow God's Word, your going to heaven.
14. In Mark 16:15–18, Jesus lists several signs that "will follow those who believe," including drinking poison with no ill effects. The few Christians who try this fail unless they take special precautions, like ingesting it only in small, harmless amounts. Why is this? (If you believe this passage is a forgery, as most scholars do, why would God allow it into the Bible Jesus was using a figure of speech
15. God already has a perfect plan for the world. If we pray for something that's already in that plan, the prayer is redundant. If we pray for something that's not in that plan, the prayer is futile. What, then, is the point of asking for things in prayer? You dont know if its futile, so go ahead and pray! It could part of his plan.
16. If God made the universe for us, we would expect it to be hospitable and human-scaled. But the universe is billions of light-years across, composed mostly of dark energy and filled with black holes, cosmic radiation and the vacuum of space. Why is the universe so full of vast, uninhabitable emptiness? Cause God made it like that. Whats up with these stupid questions?
17. The Genesis creation story directly conflicts with evolution. Endogenous retroviruses— remains of viruses embedded in the genome millions of years ago—appear at the same place in human and other primate genomes. We've found many key transitional fossils like Tiktaalik (fish to tetrapods), Archaeopteryx (dinosaurs to birds) and Homo habilis (human ancestors). Atavisms like teeth in chickens, legs in whales and tails in humans sometimes reappear as relics of evolutionary history. Can creationism offer a better explanation for such evidence? Let me ask you this, a few years ago a T Rex bone was discovered with living cells in it. Cells cant last million of years when it host is dead!
18. Biblical genealogies imply that the universe is about 6,000 years old instead of 13.75 billion. This is disproved by data from tree rings, ice layering, coral reefs, lunar craters, continental drift, distant starlight, human civilizations and more. As another example, scientists have traced back the orbits of the Baptistina asteroid family and found that they were formed by a collision that occurred 80 million years ago. Can the young earth view offer a better explanation for such evidence? http://www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for_a_young_earth.htm
19. If 2 million Israelites resided as slaves in Egypt, wandered in the desert for 40 years and conquered a host of rival nations, we would expect to find massive, widespread archaeological evidence—but we don't. Instead, excavations have revealed the Israelites as a relatively small Canaanite tribe whose "conquered" cities were often uninhabited at the purported conquest date (e.g. Jericho was already in ruins a century earlier). How can inerrantists account for this? They lived in freakin' camps. Read the bible before you ask questions.
20. Careful study of the Bible reveals many internal contradictions. For instance, Matthew 2:1–20 says Jesus was born a few years before Herod the Great died in 4 BC. Yet Luke 2:1–2 says Jesus was born during the Census of Quirinius, which occurred in 6 AD—well after Herod's death. Why do the two gospels contradict each other He lived in the DAYS, that could mean a few years after. And how do you know these Dates are 100% Acuarate?
21. The Bible contains several instances of failed prophecy. For example, Jesus repeatedly said he would return to earth before the disciples and the rest of that generation had died (Matt. 10:23, 24:34; Mark 9:1, 14:61–62). The New Testament writers said his return was imminent and would not be delayed (1 Cor. 7:29–31; Heb. 10:36–37; 1 John 2:18). So why hasn't Jesus returned after almost 2,000 years? READ THE FREAKIN' BIBLE!!!! He said he die and reseruct in their life time!!!!!
22. The Euthyphro Dilemma asks, "Is whatever God does good by definition, or does he merely follow some outside standard of goodness?" If the former, God would be good even if he did everything that we now call evil, so does it even mean anything to call God "good"? If the latter, shouldn't we judge him according to that standard? What ever God does is part of his plan 23. Why is there so much manmade evil in the world? The usual response is that God allows it because he values our capacity to freely choose between goodness and sin. But in heaven, a place supposedly free from sin, people would presumably have free will. If God is capable of somehow allowing these two conditions to coexist, why not do the same on earth and prevent tremendous suffering? *sigh* so many stupid questions....read the bible like I said before. During the Reign of heaven SIN will no longer exist.
24. Why does God allow natural evils like floods, earthquakes, wildfires, famine, hurricanes, pestilence and disease? Even if these phenomena are a punishment for human sin, it seems unjust for them to be doled out indiscriminately: For example, why must billions of animals suffer through no fault of their own, and why do about 17,000 children starve to death every day. So. Many. Clone. Questions. ITS PART OF HIS PLAN!!!!! 25. The billions of people who don't believe that Jesus died for their sins will supposedly suffer everlasting punishment in hell. Take a moment to really think about the gravity of a punishment that has no end. How is God justified in carrying out this punishment? What makes even the tiniest sin so heinous that it must be met with infinite suffering? He gives us a Choice!!!! You are chosing to go to hell forever!
26. In the Bible, God directly sanctions permanent slavery (Lev. 25:44–46), as well as the beating of slaves to within an inch of their life (Ex. 21:20–21). There’s even a loophole allowing Israelites to use emotional blackmail to permanently enslave entire families (Ex. 21:2–6). Is this consistent with a God who claims to be the personification of love? Finaly a good question. I actually dont know the answer to this, I am not a Theolgist.
27. In the Bible, God bemoans the idea of female leadership (Isa. 3:12), says through his servant Paul that women are to be silent and submissive in church (1 Cor. 14:34–35; 1 Tim. 2:11–14), and sanctions the forced marriage and rape of female captives by the very men who had just slaughtered their families (Deut. 21:10–14). Is this compatible with a perfectly just and loving God? Men are ment to be leaders. Thats that.
28. In the Bible, God kills approximately 25 million people. He kills millions of innocent animals and children in Noah's Flood (Gen. 7:21–23), the firstborn of the Egyptians (Ex. 12:29–30) and countless others. Do you believe that in every last case, killing was the best possible course of action? Flood- The world became wicked place and rejected God, so he to "Reset" First born son- He warned the egyptians. The Rejected. 29. In Deuteronomy 13:6–10, God says that if an Israelite's loved one came to them suggesting serving other gods, the Israelite was to help stone that loved one to death—a slow, gruesome, agonizing fate. Imagine that you and your dearest loved one were Israelites, and they suggested worshipping some other god. Would you aid in killing them as God commanded? Thats the OT laws. Dont apply today.
30. If you see the passages above as perfectly good and just, would you still see them that way if you had read them in the Quran? Bible and Quaran are different.
I have another question for certain Christians: What gives you the right to deny the rights (no gay marriage or abortion) of people (that are not even part of your religion) for no reason other then some words in a book written 2000 or so years ago about an entity that has never be proven to exist?
At leats you bring good arguements.
For gays, thats just my personal belief.
Abortian (I should call murder) Is killing a Baby that has a Head, body, arms, and legs! The Purpose of sex is to have kids. Dont want kids? Dont have sex.
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2. Religious people overwhelmingly follow the religion of their parents, their surrounding culture or both. If this applies to you, don't you find it convenient that you just happened to stumble upon the right religion without investigating the thousands of other potential options?
Thats Not true, plenty of people have rebelled from their parents and believe in somthing else.
3. If faith is a reliable pathway to truth, why does it lead people to such inconsistent conclusions? Why does it result in so many thousands of religions, and even thousands of conflicting Christian sect
People Beilive what they think is true. Everyone on Earth will never believe the same exact thing.
4. When meditating Zen Buddhists feel a state of transcendent bliss and oneness with the universe, their brain activity looks the same as that of Franciscan nuns communing with God. "Religious" experiences also occur in other religious adherents, in users of drugs like psilocybin mushrooms and even in temporal lobe epileptics. Why would God give us brains that are so easily fooled by false religious experiences—and how do you know yours aren't among them?
Cause their both doing the samet hing. Praying.
5. One day in 1995, thousands of people across India and throughout the world allegedly witnessed statues of the Hindu god Ganesha drink milk that was fed to them from a spoon. The Hindu milk miracle has widespread, modern eyewitness testimony and even video evidence in its favor. Why do you believe in Christian miracles, but not in miracles of other religions that offer much better evidence
Read The Article. One Person offered it, not many. Not strong Evidence.
6. You may expect God to have a positive impact on the world. But both good and bad things are bound to happen even if God doesn't exist. If you credit God for the good things that happen and never blame him for the bad, all without any sort of evidence, isn't your expectation self-fulfilling
There are bad things in the world cause Sin entered in the garden of eden. God gave us freedom to choose, not robots who do what ever he says.
7. God is often said to answer prayer in three ways: "Yes," "No" and "Wait." But if God's responses are so vague, how could you distinguish them from the results of prayer to any other god
What Vague Prayers?
8. The gospel message—the very core of Christianity—seems fundamentally unjust: In what sense is temporarily punishing one innocent man an acceptable substitute for endlessly punishing billions of guilty people?
Jesus Died on the Cross for us to show us God loves us. He died so we dont have to be perfect to go to heaven and make sacrofices.
We have a choice, go to Heaven or Hell. Its up to you to decide.
9. This message seems not only unjust, but patently illogical: God (the Father) has another part of God (the Son) killed to save humanity from being punished… by God. Why couldn't God just decide to forgive us without killing Jesus?
He had to die to "Wash" us of our sins.
10. Salvation depends on belief in a specific event that most people who've ever lived never even knew about: people in remote parts of the world, human zygotes (half of which abort spontaneously before birth), the severely mentally disabled, etc. If these people go to hell, how is that consistent with a God of love? If they go to heaven, does that mean God doesn't value their free will to choose or reject God's gift of salvation
God Says in the bible that people who never had the chance to know Jesus (Such as Aborted Babies) will go to heaven.
11. God is supposedly a single being. But in what sense can the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be considered one and the same God when they have different wills (Luke 22:41–42), different knowledge (Mark 13:32) and different levels of authority (John 14:28; 1 Cor. 11:3)?
The Trinity is like a Shamrock, 3 parts, one thing.
12. We’d expect a perfectly wise, good God to have a composed, even-handed personality. Yet God brags that he'll make Israel's enemies eat their own children and grow drunk with their own blood (Isa. 49:26; Jer. 19:9), he delights in animal sacrifice (Lev. 1:1–9), he's so jealous of other gods that "Jealous" is his very name (Ex. 34:12–16), and Moses has to calm his fury to keep him from killing his own people (Ex. 32:1–14; Num. 16:41–55). Does this sound more like a transcendent deity or a vindictive tribal leader invented by a barbaric Iron Age culture?
He Doesnt "Brag" he is stating the truth
Before Jesus died on the cross they needed to sacrofice to rid of their sins
They Directly disobeyed God's word. By worshiping idols.
13. Frontotemporal dementia can alter one's entire worldview, including one's religion, and severing connections between the two brain hemispheres reveals that they respond independently and hold different desires and beliefs. In , a brain’s right hemisphere professed theism, and the left, atheism. How do you explain the concept of the soul in light of such phenomena? Do these souls go to heaven or hell?
If you beilive with all your heart in Jesus and try to follow God's Word, your going to heaven.
14. In Mark 16:15–18, Jesus lists several signs that "will follow those who believe," including drinking poison with no ill effects. The few Christians who try this fail unless they take special precautions, like ingesting it only in small, harmless amounts. Why is this? (If you believe this passage is a forgery, as most scholars do, why would God allow it into the Bible
Jesus was using a figure of speech
15. God already has a perfect plan for the world. If we pray for something that's already in that plan, the prayer is redundant. If we pray for something that's not in that plan, the prayer is futile. What, then, is the point of asking for things in prayer?
You dont know if its futile, so go ahead and pray! It could part of his plan.
16. If God made the universe for us, we would expect it to be hospitable and human-scaled. But the universe is billions of light-years across, composed mostly of dark energy and filled with black holes, cosmic radiation and the vacuum of space. Why is the universe so full of vast, uninhabitable emptiness?
Cause God made it like that. Whats up with these stupid questions?
17. The Genesis creation story directly conflicts with evolution. Endogenous retroviruses— remains of viruses embedded in the genome millions of years ago—appear at the same place in human and other primate genomes. We've found many key transitional fossils like Tiktaalik (fish to tetrapods), Archaeopteryx (dinosaurs to birds) and Homo habilis (human ancestors). Atavisms like teeth in chickens, legs in whales and tails in humans sometimes reappear as relics of evolutionary history. Can creationism offer a better explanation for such evidence?
Let me ask you this, a few years ago a T Rex bone was discovered with living cells in it. Cells cant last million of years when it host is dead!
18. Biblical genealogies imply that the universe is about 6,000 years old instead of 13.75 billion. This is disproved by data from tree rings, ice layering, coral reefs, lunar craters, continental drift, distant starlight, human civilizations and more. As another example, scientists have traced back the orbits of the Baptistina asteroid family and found that they were formed by a collision that occurred 80 million years ago. Can the young earth view offer a better explanation for such evidence?
http://www.earthage.org/youngearthev/evidence_for_a_young_earth.htm
19. If 2 million Israelites resided as slaves in Egypt, wandered in the desert for 40 years and conquered a host of rival nations, we would expect to find massive, widespread archaeological evidence—but we don't. Instead, excavations have revealed the Israelites as a relatively small Canaanite tribe whose "conquered" cities were often uninhabited at the purported conquest date (e.g. Jericho was already in ruins a century earlier). How can inerrantists account for this?
They lived in freakin' camps. Read the bible before you ask questions.
20. Careful study of the Bible reveals many internal contradictions. For instance, Matthew 2:1–20 says Jesus was born a few years before Herod the Great died in 4 BC. Yet Luke 2:1–2 says Jesus was born during the Census of Quirinius, which occurred in 6 AD—well after Herod's death. Why do the two gospels contradict each other
He lived in the DAYS, that could mean a few years after. And how do you know these Dates are 100% Acuarate?
21. The Bible contains several instances of failed prophecy. For example, Jesus repeatedly said he would return to earth before the disciples and the rest of that generation had died (Matt. 10:23, 24:34; Mark 9:1, 14:61–62). The New Testament writers said his return was imminent and would not be delayed (1 Cor. 7:29–31; Heb. 10:36–37; 1 John 2:18). So why hasn't Jesus returned after almost 2,000 years?
READ THE FREAKIN' BIBLE!!!! He said he die and reseruct in their life time!!!!!
22. The Euthyphro Dilemma asks, "Is whatever God does good by definition, or does he merely follow some outside standard of goodness?" If the former, God would be good even if he did everything that we now call evil, so does it even mean anything to call God "good"? If the latter, shouldn't we judge him according to that standard?
What ever God does is part of his plan
23. Why is there so much manmade evil in the world? The usual response is that God allows it because he values our capacity to freely choose between goodness and sin. But in heaven, a place supposedly free from sin, people would presumably have free will. If God is capable of somehow allowing these two conditions to coexist, why not do the same on earth and prevent tremendous suffering?
*sigh* so many stupid questions....read the bible like I said before. During the Reign of heaven SIN will no longer exist.
24. Why does God allow natural evils like floods, earthquakes, wildfires, famine, hurricanes, pestilence and disease? Even if these phenomena are a punishment for human sin, it seems unjust for them to be doled out indiscriminately: For example, why must billions of animals suffer through no fault of their own, and why do about 17,000 children starve to death every day.
So. Many. Clone. Questions. ITS PART OF HIS PLAN!!!!!
25. The billions of people who don't believe that Jesus died for their sins will supposedly suffer everlasting punishment in hell. Take a moment to really think about the gravity of a punishment that has no end. How is God justified in carrying out this punishment? What makes even the tiniest sin so heinous that it must be met with infinite suffering?
He gives us a Choice!!!! You are chosing to go to hell forever!
26. In the Bible, God directly sanctions permanent slavery (Lev. 25:44–46), as well as the beating of slaves to within an inch of their life (Ex. 21:20–21). There’s even a loophole allowing Israelites to use emotional blackmail to permanently enslave entire families (Ex. 21:2–6). Is this consistent with a God who claims to be the personification of love?
Finaly a good question. I actually dont know the answer to this, I am not a Theolgist.
27. In the Bible, God bemoans the idea of female leadership (Isa. 3:12), says through his servant Paul that women are to be silent and submissive in church (1 Cor. 14:34–35; 1 Tim. 2:11–14), and sanctions the forced marriage and rape of female captives by the very men who had just slaughtered their families (Deut. 21:10–14). Is this compatible with a perfectly just and loving God?
Men are ment to be leaders. Thats that.
28. In the Bible, God kills approximately 25 million people. He kills millions of innocent animals and children in Noah's Flood (Gen. 7:21–23), the firstborn of the Egyptians (Ex. 12:29–30) and countless others. Do you believe that in every last case, killing was the best possible course of action?
Flood-
The world became wicked place and rejected God, so he to "Reset"
First born son- He warned the egyptians. The Rejected.
29. In Deuteronomy 13:6–10, God says that if an Israelite's loved one came to them suggesting serving other gods, the Israelite was to help stone that loved one to death—a slow, gruesome, agonizing fate. Imagine that you and your dearest loved one were Israelites, and they suggested worshipping some other god. Would you aid in killing them as God commanded?
Thats the OT laws. Dont apply today.
30. If you see the passages above as perfectly good and just, would you still see them that way if you had read them in the Quran?
Bible and Quaran are different.
At leats you bring good arguements.
For gays, thats just my personal belief.
Abortian (I should call murder) Is killing a Baby that has a Head, body, arms, and legs! The Purpose of sex is to have kids. Dont want kids? Dont have sex.