A few questions for Christians?
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1 - If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once?
2 - Why won't God heal amputees?
3 - If God is so perfect, then why did he create something so imperfect allowing pain, suffering and daily atrocities?
4 - Why did the little old lady that God healed one Sunday need her walker to get around again next Sunday? Was she only temporarily worthy of a healing?
5 - How did Noah fit the millions and millions of species of animals on this planet into his ark? It doesn't take a mathematical genius to realize the physical impossibility of this.
6 - If Noah did fit all of these species on the ark for forty days and forty nights, how did the penguins make it from Mt. Ararat to the Antarctic? How did the koala bears make it to Australia with no eucalyptus to eat along the way?
7 - Why do innocent children have to suffer with terminal diseases such as cancer? What part of 'God's plan' is this exactly?
8 - How is it that the bible explains the earth to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old when we know that dinosaur bones are at least 65 million years old? This isn't the only example of our planet's age by any means, either.
9 - Why can't the all-powerful God forgive someone of their sins after they die? Example: A Christian man that is seemingly on God's good list makes a stupid decision and decides to drink a little too much at the fish fry. On his way home he crashes into a mini-van killing a mother, her two children and his self. This man led a very faithful life and made one stupid, yet grave mistake. If this man did not ask for forgiveness of his sins before the electrical activity in his brain ceased, then God will judge him and send him to hell to burn for eternity.
10 - God wants everyone to worship and follow him and, if they don't, they burn in hell for all eternity. What does this type of attitude say about his character? By definition, he would be described as a tyrant.
11 - If Jesus died on the cross and spent three days in hell to pay for the sins of the world, then why would we have to go to hell ourselves and pay for them again? God is then, in essence, being paid for our sins twice. With that said, was Jesus' sacrifice not worthy enough? If that is the case, why should we care that he died for our sins if his sacrifice means nothing at all?
12 - If God wants us all to follow and worship him, why didn't he create us as such? *Your expected answer will be addressed in the next question.
13 - What good is it for us to have free will if the intention is for us not to use it? Sure, we can use our free will, but we will burn in hell for eternity if we do. Russian roulette, anybody? It sounds like a set-up to me.
14 - In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, why would God kill Lot's wife, Sarah, by turning her into a pillar of salt for simply looking in the wrong direction? *Warning of impending sarcasm.* God is a merciful God........... right.
15 - What purpose does hell serve? If it is punishment for sinful actions, shouldn't it be used for correctional purposes? Seeing as though you burn forever, you will never get out of hell to show that you have learned your lesson. Would it make sense to live a faithful Christian life glorifying the Lord and to accidentally sin by saying a curse word the instant you smash your car into the back of a tractor-trailer, thereby being condemned to burn in hell forever?
16 - We know that we feel physical feelings through electrical impulses that send information to our brains through our nervous system. Once we die, we no longer feel pain due to the lack of a physical nervous system and, oh yeah, a brain. How could we 'feel' the excruciating flames of hell for eternity? Does God make you feel this torment for all eternity out of pure malice because you wouldn't worship him?
17 - If God is perfect and his creations perfect, why did he fail several times? He had to impose suffering upon the human race because Adam and Eve defied him by eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Failed! He had to flood the planet 1,600 years later wiping out all but eight humans. Failure! He had to confuse human language after Nimrod and the Tower of Babel incident so that they could not effectively communicate with each other. Failure! How is this a track record of a perfect being?
18 - If God is omnipotent, why does he not just show himself to all of us, all at once, thereby ending this game of free will and temptation?
19 - If, in the beginning, there was only God and he created everything, why would he create angels that had the propensity to defy him? This very fallacy led to Lucifer challenging his authority because he desired to share the same power as God. This led to the rise, or fall depending on how you look at it, of Satan, the most notorious enemy of God and his followers. Failed, again!
20 - Why would you trust 'God's plan' given his track record of many failures?
21 - A disciple of Christ, Thomas, was a skeptic. He walked with Jesus during his time on earth and physically witnessed with his own eyes certain miracles performed by him such as raising Lazarus from the dead and so forth. However, after the crucifixion, Jesus supposedly rose three days later and Thomas did not believe it was truly him despite being told, prior to the incident by Jesus, that he would rise again in three days. Thomas required physical proof. Jesus allowed him to touch him and feel the wounds in his body to offer that proof to Thomas. Why doesn't god extend the same proof to humans alive today? Those that doubt his existence are no different than Thomas, requiring physical proof and he was a disciple of Jesus himself. If Thomas had been born one generation later, or even living today, he would have burned in hell for all eternity because he would not believe for the lack of physical proof. Paul was born after the death and ascension of Christ. Throughout his life, he did not believe that Jesus was the son of God and even went out of his way to persecute and murder Christians thinking that their religion was a dangerous belief system to practice. Lo and behold a flash of light came out of the sky and Jesus Christ himself appeared to Paul explaining to him that he is actually the one true god. Jesus told him that he was persecuting the followers of the only true faith. From that point on, Paul was a converted Christian. Again, if God was willing to go out of his way to physically prove to Paul that he actually exists, why is this not done today? Why isn't God willing to show those that doubt today the same degree of physical proof? Why should we be any different than Thomas and Paul?
22 - Christians argue evolution by asking why there aren't any half-ape/half-men walking around today, right? Why don't we see giants, fiery talking serpents, talking donkeys and many other mythical creatures that are described in the Bible?
23 - If we are to only have sex for the purpose of pro-creation, and to do so outside of the scope of pro-creation is sinful, then why would God create us with an over abundance of nerve endings in our reproductive organs making sex extremely pleasurable? It sounds like yet another set-up.
24 - Why do Christians share the same statistical rate of divorce as everyone else? "What God hath made, let no man put asunder." How could Christian marriages fail if they are sanctified by God? Hmmmm.... interesting.
25 - In the book of Luke chapter 19 verse 27, Jesus says, "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." This seems pretty clear that Jesus would have Christians kill all non-believers. How do you explain this? Convert them or kill them, right?
26 - If God created everything, why did he create AIDS, influenza, ebola, ecoli and so on and so on? These, as viruses, are living things. You definitely can n -
OK then my answers!
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1 - If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once?
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Well why not?
What I like to think is that he created everyone in order of importance (I dont know If this is true though, it is just what I like to think) Light then the firmament then Earth and seas then plants then the sun, moon, stars then animal of the sea and birds, then the animals on the land and us.
2 - Why won't God heal amputees?
Sometimes we must look ahead in faith! Gods plan may seem hard but it always will be right!
3 - If God is so perfect, then why did he create something so imperfect allowing pain, suffering and daily atrocities?
It is called the fall of man In the garden of Eden where Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they sinned and because of their sin that was the punishment
Genesis 3: 16-19
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
4 - Why did the little old lady that God healed one Sunday need her walker to get around again next Sunday? Was she only temporarily worthy of a healing?
It is called old age.
5 - How did Noah fit the millions and millions of species of animals on this planet into his ark? It doesn't take a mathematical genius to realize the physical impossibility of this.
God created a number of different types of animals with much capacity for variation within limits.4 The descendants of each of these different kinds, apart from humans, would today mostly be represented by a larger grouping than what is called a species. In most cases, those species descended from a particular original kind would be grouped today within what modern taxonomists (biologists who classify living things) call a genus (plural genera).
One common definition of a species is a group of organisms which can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, and cannot mate with other species. However, most of the so-called species (obviously all the extinct ones) have not been tested to see what they can or cannot mate with. In fact, not only are there known crosses between so-called species, but there are many instances of trans-generic mating, so the kind may in some cases be as high as the family. Identifying the kind with the genus is also consistent with Scripture, which spoke of kinds in a way that the Israelites could easily recognize without the need for tests of reproductive isolation.
For example, horses, zebras and donkeys are probably descended from an equine (horse-like) kind, since they can interbreed, although the offspring are sterile. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals are probably from a canine (dog-like) kind. All different types of domestic cattle (which are clean animals) are descended from the Aurochs, so there were probably at most seven (or fourteen) domestic cattle aboard. The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bisons and water buffaloes. We know that tigers and lions can produce hybrids called tigons and ligers, so it is likely that they are descended from the same original kind.
e Ark measured 300x50x30 cubits (Genesis 6:15), which is about 140x23x13.5 metres or 459x75x44 feet, so its volume was 43,500 m3 (cubic metres) or 1.54 million cubic feet. To put this in perspective, this is the equivalent volume of 522 standard American railroad stock cars, each of which can hold 240 sheep.
If the animals were kept in cages with an average size of 50x50x30 centimetres (20x20x12 inches), that is 75,000 cm3 (cubic centimetres) or 4800 cubic inches, the 16,000 animals would only occupy 1200 m3 (42,000 cubic feet) or 14.4 stock cars. Even if a million insect species had to be on board, it would not be a problem, because they require little space. If each pair was kept in cages of 10 cm (four inches) per side, or 1000 cm3, all the insect species would occupy a total volume of only 1000 m3, or another 12 cars. This would leave room for five trains of 99 cars each for food, Noahs family and range for the animals. However, insects are not included in the meaning of behemah or remes in Genesis 6:19-20, so Noah probably would not have taken them on board as passengers anyway.
6 - If Noah did fit all of these species on the ark for forty days and forty nights, how did the penguins make it from Mt. Ararat to the Antarctic? How did the koala bears make it to Australia with no eucalyptus to eat along the way?
When they were let out the weaker animals where pushed back until the waters had cut them off, how they did I do not know but they did.
7 - Why do innocent children have to suffer with terminal diseases such as cancer? What part of 'God's plan' is this exactly?
I do not know Gods plan but this would the result of Adam and Eves sin in the Garden of Eden!
8 - How is it that the bible explains the earth to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old when we know that dinosaur bones are at least 65 million years old? This isn't the only example of our planet's age by any means, either.
Biological evidence for a young age of the earth
1. DNA in ancient fossils. DNA extracted from bacteria that are supposed to be 425 million years old brings into question that age, because DNA could not last more than thousands of years.
2. Living fossilsjellyfish, graptolites, coelacanth, stromatolites, Wollemi pine and hundreds more. That many hundreds of species could remain so unchanged, for even up to billions of years in the case of stromatolites, speaks against the millions and billions of years being real.
3. The ages of the worlds oldest living organisms, trees, are consistent with an age of the earth of thousands of years.
Geological evidence for a young age of the earth
1. Thick, tightly bent strata without sign of melting or fracturing. E.g. the Kaibab upwarp in Grand Canyon indicates rapid folding before the sediments had time to solidify (the sand grains were not elongated under stress as would be expected if the rock had hardened). This wipes out hundreds of millions of years of time and is consistent with extremely rapid formation during the biblical Flood.
2. Polystrate fossilstree trunks in coal (Araucaria spp. king billy pines, celery top pines, in southern hemisphere coal). There are also polystrate tree trunks in the Yellowstone fossilized forests and Joggins, Nova Scotia and in many other places. Polystrate fossilized lycopod trunks occur in northern hemisphere coal, again indicating rapid burial / formation of the organic material that became coal.
3. Experiments show that with conditions mimicking natural forces, coal forms quickly; in weeks for brown coal to months for black coal. It does not need millions of years. Furthermore, long time periods could be an impediment to coal formation because of the increased likelihood of the permineralization of the wood, which would hinder coalification.
4. Experiments show that with conditions mimicking natural forces, oil forms quickly; it does not need millions of years, consistent with an age of thousands of years.
5. Experiments show that with conditions mimicking natural forces, opals form quickly, in a matter of weeks, not millions of years, as had been claimed.
6. Erosion at Niagara Falls and other such places is consistent with just a few thousand years since the biblical Flood. However, much of the Niagara Gorge l -
For question number 8; Once you ask for forgiveness for your sins and accept Jesus as your savior than you are saved for life. The man was a Christian so yes, he did go to Heaven and maybe he got a chance to ask God for forgiveness before he died but there is no way of knowing because he is dead. Yes he did make a stupid decision that led to not just his death but other's deaths as well. But he is in Heaven because he accepted Jesus. We do not have to ask for forgiveness every time we curse, or lie, or be mean to family, because we are already forgiven. Though God does ask us to come to Him when we have wronged, He gave us a conscious to poke us in that direction. "1John 1:9: Confess your sins for He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I do sins every day. I am a Christian, and tell you the truth, if I didn't have God and Jesus I. Would. Be. Dead right know. Believe me.
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3,7) So what is the point of being "saved" if we're still being punished for Adam and Eve. And in the bible your God said multiple times that a son shall not be held accountable for the sins of his father. So why are we still being held accountable for the sin of Adam and Eve?
1) Why not is not an answer. It's the dodging of a question.
2) "Because faith!" is not an answer either. It's the denial and lack of evidence.
4) So God isn't strong enough to heal someone because they're old?
5) You're naming species like Dogs or large cats, and then your using the basis for your box at less than 2 ft ^ 3. Please at least read over your post before you copy/paste it.
6) The fact is those species couldn't have done that. They would die out. "I don't know, God did it" is a cop out.
8) Once again please look over your post before you copy/paste
-1 The calcium deposits that form a rock hard mold of the cells proves otherwise. Not to mention the fact that we're not using the DNA to estimate it. We're using the atomic decomposition of carbon 14 to estimate it. Something that DOES last billions of years.
-2 How does a species not changing disprove the age of the earth? Do you even understand evolution?
-3 "The earth can't be billions of years old because the oldest living tree is only a few thousand" Do you hear how retarded this sounds?
(And here's the part where you copied a different link. You can tell because the numbers reset)
-1 The warpage of the grand canyon is caused by the erosion of millions of years from the river flowing at the bottom. This is why we can see the different layers. Also, it takes a very high temperature for rock to melt. While the crust does get hot, it doesn't even peek 100F until you're around a mile down.
-2 The same type of coal appearing in two different hemisphere's means young earth? How does that make any sense? If anything, it would just prove the movement of the continents. Pangaea.
-3 On the contrary, after just a few weeks even in PERFECT conditions, all you would have is rotten wood. Coal is formed by the carbon being left over as the rest of the organic material decomposes. It's the sediment left over.
4- Please provide viable sources. I have yet to find any. And the closest thing I could find was synthetic oil being formed. FAKE oil.
5- Once again, these are under perfect extreme conditions with the perfect materials. For opal to form anywhere and everywhere like it does, it takes much longer periods of time.
6- Tectonic plates shift and move. Your mind set is still determined that the world was created and isn't constantly changing. -
(Question #9 sorry)
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A. We are born with a sinful nature, when a baby is born what is one of the first things it does? It cries crying is a sin :-/ (Yeah, I know) But we are born with a sinful nature...I was and so were you!
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Look for this answer I really dont know! That is what I like to think..
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God did heal amputees/crippled/withered limbs it is in the bible
God has three answers to our prayers No, Yes, and not yet
He has power because he has done it before! But still we must believe that God has a plan and that it is good.
4) Look like I said God has three answers to our prayers No, Yes, and not yet
He has power because he has done it before! But still we must believe that God has a plan and that it is good.
5)I did read it though :)
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Look I dont know everything please understand!
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-1 OK then so a small river carved the grand canyon out?? Wow
3- When you put it that way yes LOL but still why is there not any tree that are billions or millions of year old?
2- The continents did not move! Look how could they? they are all joined!
3- that wood is being crushed down with many tons of stuff
6- my mind set still is determined that the world was created but yes the world does move. You saw that huge tsunami in Japan a few year ago. that was because of the plates moving yes -
Love- Okay... wait..wait. BTCH, HOW THE HE'LL IS CRYING A SIN!? ARE YOU CRAZY!? ITS HUMAN NATURE, ITS PART OF HUMANITY, NOT A SIN, YOUR SO GODDAMN ANNOYING AND STUPID! WHAT THE f--- IS WROMG WITH YOU?
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Anime, don't blow your top please
I know that one is a bit wired -
Crying came into the world by reason of sin. Sin is the cause of all the weeping, and tears, and sorrow, and pain, which are upon earth. All the crying began when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruitand became sinners. It was sin which brought into the world pain and sickness and death. It was sin which brought into the world selfishness, and lying, and unkindness, and quarreling, and stealing, and fighting. If there had been no wickedness, there would have been no weeping. If there had been no sin, there would have been no "crying."
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But the act of crying shouldn't actually be sinful, just the cause of the act. Babies haven't actually done anything to be sinful, so they aren't born sinners.
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Studies have shown that crying helps rid the body of excess levels or stress toxins through tears.
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@bananabread but they are born with a sinful nature.....
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How? What makes us sinful is how we are raised. Yes, humans are flawed but God seems pretty human himself. Do you know how begrudging he sounds when he damns the rest of Adam and Eves descendants for their stupid mistakes. It doesn't seem like God is as merciful as you make him out to be.
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It is the result of the fall of man,
God is merciful, we ALL deserve to die but Jesus gave his life for ours that is merciful!
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