If you, as a Christian, were employeed as an archaelogist and you unearthed evidence that Jesus never existed, or found evidence that the Bible was "made up" from fables, if you saw that it, nomatter what it was, was a very important archaelogical find, yet would really, really hurt the Christian religion, would you hide it?
I already know that you believe that no such evidence exists, but I'm talking about ethics. You know.... What if?
It's an ethical question.
If YOU KNEW that it was conclusive evidence against the claims of Christianity, and that it would definitely cause many, many to disbelieve.??
2007-03-25 16:45:17 · 33 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
this question is weird...because i believe in GOD so stongly and seek to obey HIM so completely...i try to be as honest as i can...so to answer your question from that point of view, yes, i would have to show it...at the same time, because i believe so strongly in GOD...i want to strike out at you for even thinking of the question, yet, if you are truly just asking it as an ethical question, i can understand it. kind of.
2007-03-25 16:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tammy M 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not a religionist but am a Christian. I would take a look at the facts and study them rather than just take whatever whoever says at face value. There is alot of "evidences" against Christianity out there right now - a ton. But it all depends on what your presuppositions are - those decide what you make of the "evidence." For instance, evolutionists would say that fossils are evidence of billions of years and that different strata in the fossil record indicates different time frames. That comes from the presupposition that they earth is millions of years old. I would look at that evidence and say - strata get laid down very quickly - we see that with Mount St. Helens - in fact there were trees that were fossiled in a matter of hours and - that sounds like a good explanation for how some fossils can be buried upright and a part of several millions of years of strata. See, I'd say - this makes sense. The evolutionist would say - we just haven't discovered how the fossils were laid down this way - it had to tak e millions of years because they take god out of the picture in making it more reasonable to consider that it could have happened by chance. What are the chances that a computer could put itself together without human intervention? It takes even more faith and less on evidence to believe that a human being evolved by chance - especially considering the law of thermodynamics which shows the evidence says - things are slowing down and there is more disorder as time goes on and not the other way around - evolution depends on that theory going opposite and we don't find that in nature. So I'd say - I wouldn't listen to the so called "experts" - in fact - I'm sure they will come up with something that they believe is conclusive. Well, I won't believe it any more than an evolutionist will believe in creation because of how creationists interpret the evidence. It's all faith and it's all presuppositions and worldviews.
2007-03-25 16:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly wouldn't jump on any bandwagon trying to prove Christianity flawed!
It all comes out in the wash, every time - and eventually, the biblical record is repeatedly proven true.
If you just take 'evolution', for instance, this year a Denis Towers
wrote a book reporting a 9 year scientific study he had undertaken that actually empirically proves the Adam and Eve account.
In addition, the findings he uncovered, disprove evolution.
I believe that's why he called it, "TWO BIRDS ... ONE STONE!"
Sometimes, when religion has been 'in authority' in the land, it has tended to make more mistakes in scientific matters than science, because the scientists were careful before releasing their findings [obviously, this was not the original case with evolution though]; but these days, as education is now one 'false unchallenged, god of the earth', and religion has been back-dumped, the religious have to make sure their material is clear and proveable when making their claims; whereas, secular education, being unchallenged, can turn all sorts of 'evidence' in their favor!
But as this new scientific discovery proves concerning [the rampant] evolution today, much in science is in err ... being unchecked and treated as a modern god.
2007-03-25 17:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by dr c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to make very sure of what is true or not. Was the evidence planted by someone? Anything that would defitively stop belief like that. I mean, what if what you found wasn't real. I don't know how to say what I want to say. I would just be highly skeptical of anything like that. I'm sorry I really don't know how to answer your question. I think the truth about everything should always be told. But lately,I've been trying to find the truth about different things. Israel-palestine. All sorts of things I'm trying to find out about. There are so many lies I can't find the truth. I don't know what to believe. I'm sorry. I read tammy m's answer and I agree with her. I struggled so hard to answer this question for the same reason as her. Very, very disturbing question you came up with. Please stop thinking so hard.
2007-03-25 16:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We should pursue truth above all else. Not an ideology.
I say that as a Christian. Part of honestly pursuing truth is being able to accept it when you discover that you are wrong about something. Otherwise faith is truly blind, and therefore meaningless.
I believe because I have myriad valid reasons to believe, not because I prefer to delude myself despite evidence to the contrary. That would be illogical and dishonest.
Read Francis Schaeffer's book, "The God Who is There." He answers this question much more eloquently and clearly than I ever could.
2007-03-25 16:49:51 · answer #5 · answered by Lanani 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We should never hide the Truth.
However..............
I know you said that no evidence exists since we know God exists and Jesus Christ exists....AND I know you only mean this to be "an ethics question" but here are my thoughts on that.
What is ethics? Ethics is a set of principles of right conduct.
How do we know what is right? God's law
Therefore any ethics question must be rightly answered in the context that God does exists.
Therefore your ethics question can't be asked because it hypothetically leaves God out of the picture.
God bless you.
2007-03-25 16:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you saw that, then
#1 you should stop being a Christian yourself
#2 you should publicize it
#3 You continue your search for "the truth" whether or not it includes a god in it.
The only reason you wouldn't do this would be if you thought that people did good things because of their belief in Jesus, and to take it away would do more bad than good.
I personally think that Christianity does more good than bad, but that's because I believe that Jesus did exist.
No, I'm not Christian.
2007-03-25 16:50:49 · answer #7 · answered by husam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By hiding such a truth, one would be violating the precepts of the religion he or she claimed to follow.
The proper response is to release the information and hold up one's head to show that none need fear the truth.
2007-03-25 16:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I hate to disolution you, but I spent time in different denomonations and found out that the bible was written from the first book written by a englishman in England several hundred years ago and that god is a spirit. and atheists are the people that preachers could'nt sell on getting certain people into their perishes, but these atheists believe in believeing in god is the same as believeing in themselves
2007-03-25 17:01:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is to say that it was actually "evidence"? It might have been planted there by non believers to pretend to be evidence.
No matter what man made evidence is found saying God doesn't exist....He still does.
God is above and beyond science. He created science.
God was, is and always willl be.
2007-03-25 16:55:14 · answer #10 · answered by Rena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋