A few questions to CHRITIANS WHO CHALLENGE ATHEISTS? Please read on?

Question

I saw a few questions asked by some atheists here on Answers and usually there was at least one Christian who would challenge him/her to name one flaw in Christianity.
Now here I am, with due respect to Christianity, I have a few questions for Christian people. Will you kindly answer them if you can?

Let's start from the beginning:

"God created the Earth and rested on the 7th day."


1. If God is so powerful, why did he get exhausted?
2. What exactly did he do on the 8th day?
3. Why did He take so long to create Earth (which is like a grain of sand in a sea beach compared to the universe) and create the rest of the universe in just a 'poof'?
4. If you say he's so powerful, why didn't he just create the whole universe in that 'poof'?


I can go on forever asking questions like this, as you go through the Bible. May I have your answers now?

Thanks to you all for speaking. To be honest, I don't mean to mock anyone for what they believe in and it's true that religion can prevent people from doing what they are not supposed to do. But the way the Bible says the Earth was created is just not true, it takes common sense to understand that.

Answer 1

I appreciate your kindness in asking this so respectfully.
I have seen questions in which we (Christians) are called "stupid," "idiot," "imbecile," etc.
Thank you for not doing that.
I think of part of the Bible as being an allegory or symbolical. HIS time is different than our time. The Bible says that.


He rested on the 8th day, whenever that was.
The Bible doesn't say how long it took for Him to create the rest of the universe.

The Bible also does not say that He was exhausted.


I have never said that there were no flaws in Christianity, nor have I ever been rude to an atheist, even when I am mocked, ridiculed, and called names.


I do my best to live and let live. Atheists can believe as they wish, and I will leave them to it.

Answer 2

1. If God is so powerful, why did he get exhausted?
It doesn't say that God was exhausted.

2. What exactly did he do on the 8th day?
Do you really find it important? I mean, the Bible isn't a diary with a day to day description. I didn't read once where it began with, "Dear Diary". You spoke of the challenge. What does that challenge?

3. Why did He take so long to create Earth (which is like a grain of sand in a sea beach compared to the universe) and create the rest of the universe in just a 'poof'?
I didn't think that it was long. It seems like only yesterday. Have you really thought about this challenge?

4. If you say he's so powerful, why didn't he just create the whole universe in that 'poof'?
Part of being powerful means that you can do things your way. God merely did it His way without asking anyone what they thought about it.

"I can go on forever asking questions like this,"
Non sequitorious all the way?

Answer 3

I have read a whole lot of Christian apologetics and heard or read hundreds of formal and informal debates amongst scholars. I also know the Bible very well. I have been debating various topics with believers nearly daily for about 7 years. I am all but certain I have heard every argument there is for the existence of a god. Very seldom I hear a new slight variant of an old argument I've learned, but its never anything of significance. I'm still waiting for someone to convince me that a god exists and I'll never quit letting people try. I would be kind of offended if someone gave me a Christian apologetics book. I probably would have already read it or know the ideas put forth in it. There is nothing more boring than to read the same tired old arguments and waste your time to learn nothing new. Modern Christian apologetics is just re-tellings and very slight variants on very old stuff. The evidence that would be needed to convince any well read atheist is not going to be published in a book, rather every newspaper and scientific journal on the planet. If you want to give a great gift to an atheist, tell them that you will read some good books on religion by atheists and do so with an open mind without letting emotions cloud your judgment. Response to details: That argument straw-man's my position. I believe that matter and/or energy has always existed (1st law of thermodynamics). The Big Bang doesn't state that matter came into existence at that moment, that would violate the 1st law, which says that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Also, that argument offers exactly 0 evidence for the existence of a god. Gaps in our knowledge is not evidence of a god regardless. Response to more details: I don't know any atheists who claim they can prove there is no god. Certain god concepts maybe but not just any god. A theist is a person who believes there is a god. An atheist is a person who is not a theist.

Answer 4

1. He didn't. Like sometimes when I wake up (so i'm not exhausted) i do relaxing things :) Like some people stretch when they wake up. So you don't have to be tired to rest or relax.

2. I believe the creation story to be metaphorical, so for what he did on the 8th day, read the rest of the Bible.

3. One reason could be because he gave life time to adapt. So instead He let everything ease in.

3. Universe as in all Earth too? Well then see above. If not including Earth, if never states the creation of the Universe

Answer 5

I do not belong to a religion that reads every word of the bible and takes it literally. I am Catholic and actually our bible has more books to it than the other bibles that followed, such as the King James version. The bible was translated thousands of times by thousands of people who interpreted it a thousand different ways. Then it was tweaked by various religions to suit their agendas. Some of the books were taken out that they didn't want their congregations to read.

I don't believe that everything in the bible is literal. How could it possibly be after all that? I look at it as more of a history and guide to good living. If you have studied more than 2 languages, you would see that there is no way to translate some things form one language to another. In some languages, there just isn't a way to get your point across in translation. If you translated 6 jokes from one language to another, 5 of them probably wouldn't make much sense. If you took those and then translated them into yet another, the train of thought would be lost entirely. You can imagine what would happen after thousands of translations.

We can't question God's creation and timeline. We don't know for sure what that timeline really was. After all, the calendar was created by man. I know the word exhausted isn't included though. God rested on the 7th day, which has a significance to Sunday in the Christian religions to not work on that day and set it aside for praying and worship.

Answer 6

1) Where does it state in the bible that God's resting was due to exhaustion? The bible states that He simply completed His work.
2) The bible doesn't specifically state what He did. How would that be a "flaw"?
3) Just because He can do something doesn't mean He has to. His actions, however, seem to serve as an example for the later "six days of work followed by sabbath rest" model.
4) Same as the previous answer.

Answer 7

Exodus 31:12 says that God commanded Moses to say to the Children of Israel:

‘Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant. 17It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.’ (Ex. 31:15–17)

‘Then God gave Moses two tablets of stone upon which were written the commandments of God, written by the finger of God.’ (Ex. 31:18)

Because God is infinite in power, and wisdom, there’s no doubt He could have created the universe and its contents in no time at all, or six seconds, or six minutes, or six hours—after all, ‘with God nothing shall be impossible’ (Luke 1:37).

However, the question to ask is, ‘Why did God take so long? Why as long as six days?’ The answer is also given in Exodus 20:11, and that answer is the basis of the fourth commandment:

‘For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.’

The seven-day week has no basis outside of Scripture. In this Old Testament passage, God commands His people, Israel, to work for six days and rest for one—that is why He deliberately took as long as six days to create everything.

Because God is infinite in power, and wisdom, there’s no doubt He could have created the universe and its contents in no time at all, or six seconds, or six minutes, or six hours—after all, ‘with God nothing shall be impossible’ (Luke 1:37).

Answer 8

I'm pretty sure only fundamentalists believe that God literally took seven days to create the Earth. Many Christians do not read the Bible so literally.

Answer 9

This will cover all 4 questions.

Not all Jewish sects & Christian denominations take the book of Genesis literally. Only the conservative do.

Answer 10

ok,no. 1 God didnt get exhausted He made the sabboth for rest of humans and holy unto Him, 2 i started to answer this to only realize you were just mocking and dont truly deserve an answer....good day