christianity? your opinions and mine?

Question

i think christianity is foolish. i respect the fact that that's what some christians live by but i don't think it is real. i used to be a christian, i studdies certain aspects so i know enough to argue about it. i opened another of the same sort of question at this link http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070901210636AAomwhZ&r=w
jesus was a man and none other, christians say he died for our sins. are christians that afraid to die? christians deny evolution and yet its pretty much been proven. alot of people tend to say i'm a christian and i believe in evolution. if you ae a christian and you do believe in evolution then you are not actually a christian. give me your opinions. spread the word about this question i want as many people as possible to respond to this question. answer as much as you want.

alot of you say that if i was a christian then i still would be. fyi the more you grow the smarter you become, my eyes have slowly been opening and now i can see what is true. obviously alot of you don't quite understand evolution. i'm not saying the big bang theory was the only possibility there is many others. evolution has been proven and i WAS a christian

christians ask yourself this question, "could christianity have just been a hoax to begin with?" most christians don't even fully understand what they're believing in. when you talk to a chrisitian about the proof of evolution and things disproving the bible they simply deny or change the subject. its inevitible that eventually somebody will prove how unreal christianity is. do you ever see those people on those christian cd commercials? they are so caught up in the illusion of living eternally in heaven that they don't relize the truth. there are countless flaws in modern christianity so much proof against it. and the only proof christians have that their religion is true is faith.

wow some of you can be very rude, none the less i'll turn the other cheek. i don't see how some of you could have eluded yourselves for so long. anyway,read what this guy wrote
"You really have to be so narrow-minded that your ears touch, to overlook the overwhelming holes in your bible, and the flood of real (KNOWLEDGE) thats there in your (PUBLIC) library, because burning books just isnt an option anymore. Do you really think that the scientific work done by great people is the work of SATAN. Religions are the biggest money making schemes of all times, and I am reminded of the saying that a sucker is born every second. Now just think about the sheep that sent money to the Christian Jim's, Jim Jones, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggert. The world is flat, the sun revolves around the earth. Folks I've witnessed christians get their arses handed to them because they have (NO) intellectual property, this is turning into a tragic comedy. "

Answer 1

it's an unprovable cult mythology which, 2000 years later, over 70% of the people on earth still reject.

that isn't an opinion, that's the facts. jack.

Answer 2

Actually, while evolution appears pretty well proven, a lot of the things used in textbooks to demonstrate evolution are outdated, such as the Miller experiment. Even Miller knows that the experiment was flawed because new data about early earth's likely composition has since been learned. There are still a lot of "ancestral links" missing in the evolutionary scheme, and the creatures claimed to be missing links were either fully-human or fully-ape, the latter of which are extinct. Life is also much too complicated to form on its own, taking into consideration that so many amino acids had to form, and then connect in the right order to even begin building life. The odds are astronomical. I'm no biologist, so I'll let the experts tell you via my sources. There are, after all, creationist scientists.
As far as Jesus being a hoax, why would the disciples die for something that they knew was fake? They were martyred for it. It doesn't make any sense. There's quite a bit to be said as to why the Resurrection is plausible, such as he was indeed dead when they put him in the tomb--it says that when the soldier pierced his side, "blood and water" flowed out. That strongly suggests that he'd gone into cardiac arrest and had fluid in his heart, which had been pierced by the spear. As for if the body had been stolen, the way the rock was rolled in front of the tombs back then was by rolling it down into a ditch to keep it in place. It was hard enough to move it into place, and virtually impossible to roll away. There's much more to be said than that by those in the science arena, so again, I'll lend you to sources. I wish you well in searching for truth, friend.

Answer 3

I understand that there is a lot of proof on evolution's side, but the most believable lies and falsehoods are the ones that are partially true. It's true that natural selection does occur and I believe that species can change over time. But, here's the problem:

Evolution claims that all living things evolved from simple organisms similar to bacteria. Can a bacterium really evolve into a human being gradually over millions of years? I mean, natural selection can only account for changes within a speicies. The only was a species can acutally change into another is by mutations. So, in order to eventually get human beings to descend from bacteria, there would have had to have been mutations that cause the bacterium to develop more complex DNA and a cardiovascular system and a nervous system and so on. Do you see what I'm sayng? Only 1 out of 1000 mutations are positive, most mutations hurt organisms and they certainly don't make them more complex. Moreover, bacteria today survive and reproduce quite well, so why do they need to become such complex organisms such as plants and animals?

I believe that God created the earth and its inhabitants. Most likely, He gave them the ability to change slightly according to survival needs but not enough to evolve into a totally different speicies. The fact that many organisms have certain things in common could simply be that they were designed by the same Creator rather than that they have a common ancestry.

Answer 4

If you were a Christian, it is difficult to get yourself into an agnostic or atheist state of mind, because your religious training will constantly cause the primitive, religion-believing part of your mind to cycle back into Christian modes of thought. Christianity, like all religions, has evolved clever mental traps in order to win converts and retain those born into the religion.

But you can start fresh. The real question is: Why do we believe what we believe? What separates fact from fiction? How can we know things to be true?

One thing that really helps is a study of the other religions of the world, and a genuine, historical study of the origins of Christianity and of the bible. There are people who have made such studies and returned, in the end, to Christianity. Not a narrow-minded, literal-bible-believing Christianity but a more knowledgeable, consciously-chosen version, perhaps closer to the original religion.

By the way, there is very little doubt that the Big Bang theory is true. All current theories of cosmology are essentially variants of the Big Bang. It seems to me that the Big Bang theory is about as close to the Biblical story of genesis as is possible in our gigantic and ancient Universe, and you've really got to be a biblical literalist of the most narrow sort to be "against" it.

Answer 5

I, too, am an ex-born-again-christian. Before the age of 19, I would have died for my religion.... now I choose to LIVE, despite my ex-religion.

It wasn't until I left christianity that I learned to : love myself, really love the people around me, understand 'god/whatever', learned what being 'non-judgemental' truly was. Ironic. Christianity taught me the exact opposite.

Like you, x-tians can't accept that I'm 'ex'... they quote once saved... blah blah blah or they tell me that I was never saved to begin with. WOW... on the one hand they say don't judge and on ther other, they FREELY and TOTALLY judge me!! LOL.

X-tians are TERRIFIED of dying.... because their religion is based completely on 'faith': "belief that is not based on truth" - dictionary.com

Christians also fear you and I.... ex-christians. We know the bible and we can debate them... and we know their secret desires and fears that 'non-believers' don't know.

It's not that I think x-tians or other 'religious' people are stupid, I just think that they're so desperate for others to think as they do because they're AFRAID. They believe that the more people who believe, the greater the chance that what they believe is real.

Ask yourself this, people: ever wonder why christianity has the most branches/sects deviating from the original religion than all the other religions??

And the sad part is, each sect thinks it's right or think part of the beliefs of the other sects, is wrong. Therein lies the truth about christianity.... it's so confusing and so 'out-there' that people will make/take what they want out of it (in the name of god) and actually JUDGE other's of their religion at the same time.

Answer 6

Man you can get allot of response on you Q's, the crickets get allot of my Q's and I hardly get any response. Your computer skills are vastly superior to mine to be able to take my words and apply them to your Q. I don't mind I wish I was more computer literate, I'm trying. I hold religion's (ALL) responsible for many of the ills today, I think it is the largest frontier for mankind to improve on, when I say improve I mean kick the bad habit of religion's and maybe mankind will start operating on a real beneficial compass that insures long term occupancy on earth. I'm glad I live and breathe this life is precious to me I know there's nothing after this life, well not something explained well. You go man, I'm with you, I'll tell you that Q's like ours DO shake peoples beliefs, and their answers help to shake others who knew nothing of the subject before the Q & A's. Theres a storm comming, and it's not religeuos, it's the educated much more than me, I don't have a degree and I barely passed H.S. but I feel I have a grasp on common sence.

Answer 7

'You were once a Christian.' No, you may have thought you were a Christian (or not). If you truly were, you could not have changed your mind. You may have had conflict in the details of what you believed, but you would not have turned away from being a Christian.

I have read hundreds of questions and answers by atheists. Not one has put forth a new idea. They have pointed out the very things that many, if not most, Christians believed or, at least, pondered before they became a Christian.

-evolution
-how can He be loving and allow suffering
-it is just ignorance
-it's a crutch for non-thinkers
-folklore
-ridiculous to believe
-brainwashed
-can't think for themselves
-too lazy to think for themselves
-Christianity is foolish
-men wrote the bible to suit themselves
and on, and on, and on. It is getting boring.

I thought these things myself, as most others did at one time or another, and we are now Christians. Recon how that could have happened? Because He "is".

Sorry kid. You insist that you WERE a Christian. As one who has already followed your path, you could not have been. If you are trying to sort evolution vs creation and are having a problem doing it, that would be different. You said you have decided that evolution proves that creation is not and never was. With that statement, you prove that you were not a Christian.

Every doubt one can name has crossed my mind and, yes, I don't understand many, many things. There is one thing that overshadows everything I have questioned and that one thing is that Jesus/God is. If you were a Christian, you could never get away from that fact. Ponder? yes. Try to figure how both can be true? yes. But if one has to be tossed out, it would never have been Jesus.

This is not a slam against you. We all come to Him in our own way or we don't come to Him. Pretty simple.

***Your getting too upset over these answers. This earth will survive you and me. It will survive all things, but it will not always be as it is today just as it is not as it was in the past. Change does not disprove creation nor disprove evolution. In the beginning, something was created. What happened to after that is pure guess reguardless of our intellegence level.
If there were no Bible to explain anything about God, I still would be a Christian. It has nothing to do with intellegence or the lack of. It is a knowledge, that in human words, I cannot explain except to say that the Bible did not convienve me of anything. Neither did a person. I believed much of what you believed and thought nothing more about it. He found me and that is an absolute. No Christian came to me and saved my soul or even tried. The Bible came into play AFTER He found me, not before.

You say we are being 'mean' to you. I have read all the answers and some are hateful. Those are the ones from athiests. We are simply trying to state our position. They are doing the name calling and being hateful toward Christians. Why is that? Do you and they expect we would change our beliefs?

I am secure in my knowledge. I hope you are comfortable with yours. May your days on earth be good ones. I mean that sencerly. Have a nice life.

Answer 8

I have 2 dogs, 5 goats, 7 chickens, 4 hogs, 14 house cats, and an ape. A trip to disneyland, 2 hot dogs, 1 funnel cake.

God had a sheep and he gave it away.

Answer 9

okay u r a loser and god the father of jesus is real i kno it im a roman catholic and faith is important u just hav to beleieve y should u hav to see the facts when the facts r right in ur brain but its not unlocked yet cause humans only use like 10 - 20 percent of their brain.

Answer 10

Ppl belive in wat they want to believe. No need to piss any1 off, altho ur free too. Jus like u, my family believes in Jesus, altho i was only catholic becuz my mother wanted me to b. I was nv really 1. Anyways, ur opinions r urs, but u shouldn't really get ppl mad bcuz of that. U also shouldn't make fun of things u dun really no. It's not a religious statement or w/e. It's jus a statement 2 keep u out of trouble in society

BTW, didn't we "evolve" from homosapiens?

Answer 11

Went here from the Is it the end of the world question.
A nuclear holocost is way to close.
Pakistan has a nuclear weapon. Read National Geographinc sept issue That is one disfunctional country.
India, china and Russia countries who need money have nuclear weapons.