Just curious. Everyone is so hell-bent on believing what they want to believe that I really am curious as to whether or not you have ever honestly agreed with or at least pondered any of our questions.
For instance, one that we have yet to get a satisfactory answer to is (you know this is yours, Donkey):
Why did God send his son (who is also God) to be killed to save the world from Hell (which was also created by God)?
2007-09-07 09:39:09 · 45 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I honestly believe that if a question ever really challenged their beliefs, they would mentally alter the question (before their conscious mind recognized it)...This is why people give far out "answers" to difficult questions.
2007-09-07 09:42:34 · answer #1 · answered by JWill 4 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Linz, this answer is mostly for you since you got a lot of responses I'm sure no one else will read this, but I did read their responses before posting this.
The truth is for christians to even consider "not believing" is an obvious sign of weakness and loss of faith. They are not to question their teachings no matter how crazy and ridiculous they are. You could have a mountain of evidence to show that their belief system is so flawed...heck the bible is a great place to start! It would not matter to them, some people just don't have the initiative to investigate the facts. I'm sure you've heard, "You can't handle the truth!" before, well that about sums it all up. They would rather believe in that warm fuzzy feeling they get from belonging to something bigger than themselves where they don't have to think about the real world.
I bet if these American jesus lovers were born and raised in the far east they all would believe in Buddha. Funny how no matter what way you slice it, us atheist would be the same everywhere.
2007-09-08 14:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by chuck b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are humans, I often question my religious beliefs.
Now for the usual question that we Christians can not really answer. We can not explain why God does anything. We can try to explain but only he knows why. Let me attempt the explantion. Remember it is just my opinion.
There is God the father think of a human God the father is the brain that knows all before the body (God the son) The brain is in charge it tells the body what it wants done.
Next one man messed up and committed sin Adam. God can not allow sin into heaven so he decided to create away we can get to heaven. This was the sacrifice of his son on the cross (one man started one man ends it) Next I believe hell is for the people who actually fight against God and fully deny him and actually believe in Satan and take his side. I feel there will be a time all will know that Jesus was the Messiah at that point I hope they still don't deny it.
2007-09-07 09:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who says hell was created by God? the THING IS MOST people haven't the SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT TO BELIEVE, they have NO IDEA, which is why we get tons of people sayin this and saying that and coming up with all these different interpretations and thoughts and beliefs and NONE of them are TRUE. I'm not surprised Atheists are around and in force now, because the general amount of people are MORONS and only take things at FACE VALUE.
Am i getting through to you??
Christians dont' even know what to believe, all they know, and ALL that is important, is that GOD LOVES US, who cares about the DETAILS?
The thing is, people need these things to make "sense" so that they can accept it, but they argue so much that they argue the sense right out of it and don't even know what they're talking about!
Hell WAS NOT CREATED BY GOD. GOD DOES NOT SEND ANYONE TO HELL. God tries to SAVE people from Hell, because it exists and there is nothing He can do about it... Hell is NOT a place, it's an eternal circumstance, ALL of our souls are eternal, and if you are NOT with God you are ALONE.... and for eternity, that would be hell.
Nothing an Atheist says is important or even relatively worth listening to, no one knows God's will so what are the chances they would? No one knows...
2007-09-07 10:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure, it's happened to me alot. I used to go to this one forum (not here) and non-believers would post questions that would make me scratch my head and go hmmmmmmm.
Kind of turned me into a very amatuer apologetic. I started digging around in all kinds of different books and so on. The answers I found satisfied my curiosity and I took it from there. And yes, I am still a Christian. : )
I think you should ask your other question in another question or you might end up with some pretty lengthy answers to two questions here. Just a thought.
Have a great day!
2007-09-07 09:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have been christian practically my entire life (my fathers a pastor). Ive been taught all these things and i believed most of it. However, when it came down to questions from athiests, none have ever asked me anything that really made me stop and think, especially since I had been taught the answers to everything.
My own choice to leave christianity was because of all the questions that I came up with.
It's not easy for someone like me to get in a religious argument and step down. No one hardly ever does, and if they do, theyve probably been taught answers to everything.
What i'm trying to say is that people who are faithful, will not be swayed by a few questions that challenge thier religion because they aren't in the right mindset to believe anything else.
2007-09-07 10:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by Red skeleton 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
definite - i'm getting on properly with many superb, smart believers who will debate the God difficulty with me in a civil way - and often times improve factors which make me re-learn my disbelief. it could be under well mannered or 'open-minded' to no longer do so. the reality i've got not got self assurance isn't any reason to brush off their factors as 'nonsense'. i substitute into 'properly briefed' interior the Christian faith (Catholic version) at school and faculty - even prevailing a spiritual doctrine prize. yet doubts from earliest situations in no way ceased and in user-friendly terms grew stronger, the extra I studied - which I nevertheless do on an virtually every day foundation. i do no longer pass as far as Dawkins's 'fantasy' declare that's a marginally extreme way of brushing off others' truthful concept (and have confidence) in a God. I in user-friendly terms verify i won't deliver myself to settle for the 'fact' of what's defined, taught, preached - and it could be disingenuous to fake otherwise. comparable applies to the Judaic and Islamic creeds. i think i'm a reluctant atheist and can have self assurance if i could. yet i do no longer.
2016-10-10 03:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the atheists have never made me question my faith. They have actually led me to look into their questions, which has enhanced my faith. A lot of their questions miss key concepts. For example, taking scripture out of context. Or not understanding a certain passage in the Bible. I investigate their claims only to prove what I believe is correct.
One thing you said which so many people here get wrong is the following. God did NOT create hell. He did not cause lucifer to fall. That was lucifer's doing. In effect, lucifer created hell because of what he did. It was not because of God. The way you presented it, along with many others, is that one day God said 'let's make a place called hell.' Sorry incorrect.
Who better to send than God incarnate in the form of Jesus? Jesus is God. It would take a person of great faith to believe that Jesus was indeed God. I could imagine if someone did that now. Most would not believe. As I am sure most did not back then. This was a real test of faith. Furthermore, what ultimate form of saving humanity than sacrificing yourself? I'm sure you've heard the expression that someone would die for someone they loved. Like a parent for their child or husband for their wife. Well, Jesus died for all of us. How can anyone disrespect that? Jesus died for our sins. I love Him dearly for saving all of us, not just myself.
2007-09-07 09:49:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God's son is not God. God's son is Jesus, the only begotten son of Jehovah God's.
God's Name = Jehovah
God's Son's Name - Jesus
Jesus always said in John 14: 28: "YOU heard that I said to YOU, I am going away and I am coming back to YOU. If YOU loved me, YOU would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am".
Many people get it twisted.
If an atheists asks me a question and I do not have the answer presently, I will set a time to get back with that one with the answer and truth. No one knows everything and without questions how can there be learning on both sides?
2007-09-07 09:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I have often paused to ponder other views and questions. C.S. Lewis has many good books which explain difficult or unusual Christian concepts. He was a man of logic, and as such put his answers into a logic-based rather than a faith-based perspective. I am not afraid to read books written by people I don't agree with. I have found more personal growth that way than any other.
2007-09-07 09:49:30 · answer #10 · answered by Query 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To answer you I would ask you to read the atheist's responses to this question. I mostly ignore their questions to be honest. I have answered a few and discovered that they weren't interested in dialog, they were interested in insulting or putting down our faith.
Whether it is closed minded Christians or closed minded atheists, there can be no dialog. So there isn't much point in it. I have given honest responses to both without any real respectful dialog. It frankly gets boring.
Pastor John
2007-09-07 09:53:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋