Post Your Tough Questions Regarding Christianity

Take it as a compliment. If your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend could never be Jealous, you might be insulted.

 

so there are other Gods for us to choose from, is that what your saying God is jealous of? Other Gods?

seems as though a God should be above such petty human emotions... just sayin

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Why would God need to test people if He already knows what they will do?

 

People probably thought there were other Gods, I don't if there were or not but I don't think that Jealousy is petty in context.

I just found this commentary after I posted to you but I think it puts it in the context that I favor.



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In my opinion, to show you what you would do.

 

more like a jealous husband that would rather no one have her then lose her himself... story sound familiar

or more like a absent father that punishes his child for not believing in him, loving he step father more.... to put it in proper context, that kinda love is dangerous

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You asked a question and got a reasonable answer. I didn't ask you anything.

 

You've unleashed Wolverine!....not something a loyal theist should do! -:0

 

Wolverine, Wolverine, Wolverine, you need to chill out a little and just accept Jesus Christ as your lord/master and savior, that way you won't have to THINK so much, it works well for the 2.1 billion Christians (they don't think very much, because everything will be ok when Jesus returns.)

 

Where did a man from the Middle East get the penguins, and kangaroos from, and after they supposedly landed in Turkey somewhere, how did those same animals get back to Antarctica and Australia?

 

Can he build a rock that's so big that he can't lift it?

 

Mitt, now you know what it's like to open Pandora's box.

 

Mitt, if your theistic belief system was REALLY from god, then virtually nobody would have sane questions to ask in a thread like this IN THE FIRST PLACE. The reason that you are bombarded with very very valid questions like you're seeing is not because these people just don't understand believe your religion, it's because they DO understand it, and its more full of holes than swiss cheese is.

 

JESUS COULD answer all these tough questions for us, right here and now, but he's too busy ignoring the desperate cries of children in Connecticut while of course working feverishly to help Tim Tebow win something vastly more important (the all-important football game!) because Tebow prays to him (that's not working so well as of late for Tim, however.)
"A new poll shows that 43 percent of respondents think divine intervention plays some role in the success of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow." http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Sports...ebow-win-football-games.-Does-Tim-Tebow-agree

....these people are deluded.

 

The God character portrayed in the Bible is a composite of the Babylonian and Assyrian emperors who ruled the Israelites/Hebrews/Jews. The invisible sky God that the Israelites discovered on a desert mountain in Sinai is a different character but the two characters get combined in the fairy tale.

All of the God speeches and threats are actually spoken by the Babylonian & Assyrian emperors. They do have a basis in reality. However, there is no invisible sky God who has ever had anything to do with anything that has ever happened on Earth. People who believe otherwise are like the people who believe fools that claim that the world will end on a certain date. We just experienced the latest example of that idiocy.

The Old Testament ends when the Persians defeated Babylonia. That's when the Pharisees (Jewish Persians) adopted the Persian beliefs in angels and resurrections. And we know how that turned out.

 

If we're using the Bible to define God's abilities, It is kind of pointless to turn "almighty" into a question of correcting paradoxes. The Bible says that it is Impossible for God to lie so that alone makes your line of questioning moot. To go after anything written in the Bible with an amount on honest inquiry, you should take the words used and collectively take them all in, that way you would get a better idea about how the ancients were describing God.

But I know you aren't interested in that, your ideology can never be proven as a moral basis because religion has been bred into our culture for as long as we have known.All non religious groups (everyone) take morals that have already been bred into humans and then want to unassociate them with religion. Can't be done,that ship has sailed and your quest to mock people into turning against their beliefs are fueling the fire. By all means, keep it up.

 

So he's NOT all-powerful, ok thanks.

 

Compared to us he is.

"What is impossible with man is possible with God"~ Jesus ...

You're welcome.

 

Jesus also accepted slavery, so why would you trust the rantings of an immoral person?
Jesus also thinks all, say Hindus - including Gandhi, should be burned forever, so why would you trust the rantings of an immoral person?
Jesus is also fine with the old laws, which he said he came to fulfill in Matt 5:17, and he never spoke out against the law of killing of gays, so why would you trust the rantings of an immoral person?
You need to find a MORAL teacher to look up to, not an immoral one.

 

A caterpillar can change into a butterfly. A human remains a human. So the caterpillar must be a god because it can do what a human can't do.

 

and I was commenting on your answer... tough questions are hard to answer, these are some of the questions many of us faced as believers... and is why we are no longer believers.. no one has any reasonable answers... only non-answers, that they want everyone to except without question...

I do understand now why early Christian leaders were the only ones to read the bible... reading the bible is not one of those things you do and go wow, why did I not see that before and this sounds just like what I would expect a god to say to all us humans in the only set of books he was ever said to have written... question is why does it not sound like the words of a God


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Accepted it ? What makes you say that bub ? "Love one another" "do unto others," or when he told servant/slaves how to not get their heads bashed in by their owners ? The fact is that slave owners weren't going to obey the teachings of Jesus so it was good advise to the slaves.

The fact is, Jesus never said anything immoral in any of his teachings. I guess you think that warning people that they are destroying themselves is a bad thing. I don't.

Please don't tell us what "Jesus thinks," plus you are grossly misrepresenting his sayings.

You don't understand Matt 5:17.

It seems that a few others are stuck on this as well so I will start a thread (not tonight) on this.

 

If Noah really did take two animals of each species, why aren't all the animals we know today completely stupid with odd numbers of toes? With only one sexual partner with which to repopulate a species, this is inbreeding. It's the same as the idea that we are all descended from two people named Adam and Eve. God being the designer of genetics and all, why would he he make this happen not once, but twice in the history of the world?

Why did God not present a clearer picture about the origins of the universe when he was relating the story of Genesis? Certainly people would not have understood advanced physics at the time, but he could easily have related a story with at least some factual basis to it. Since he does not seem to distinguish between time intervals during the stages he built everything, why isn't the Sabbath as long as the rest of the stages, like the part where he creates the Earth? The Earth took approx. 9.2 billion years after the Big Bang to form, yet resting on the 7th day is only a 24 hour period?

 

I accept that and I don't have all the answers either but I think to the one that you asked, I gave a reasonable answer..

Maybe you are not inspired by it and I am.