Christians, this is not a troll.....?

Question

This is not a troll! I really want to know the answers.
Why is it that when a child or a very loving, warm sole passes, the explanation is something like; ‘God wanted it that way.’ Or, ‘God has his reasons.’ Or “God needs them in heaven.” Why? Isn’t heaven filled with nothing but righteous people anyway? I can’t get my head around that. Why not take a wife-beater, or a child-molester, a rapist, Adolf Hitler?
From what I can understand in the Bible, it says man has been around for about 5000 years. Then how does it account for things dating way before that?
Like how does Christianity explain Dinosaurs? Things Science says are millions of years old. The only things I can find are references to ‘Demons and Foul beasts’ or something like that.
If God has always been here, why did it take Christianity so long to come about?
What is Jesus supposed to be saving me from? It seems the world is in a much sadder state than in His time, why is He waiting to come back?

And how does the church justify modifying their beliefs?
The earth was the center of the universe. Many people died believing it wasn’t. Now the church says nothing about it.
The ‘plague’ was the scourge of God. Now we know it was tiny little creatures.
The church condemns homosexuality, yet homosexuality is recorded before there was Christianity.
So how do you do that? I really do want to know.
Is it faith? Or just what you interpret from the Bible?
This is not a homework assignment. I really want to know. I find it fascinating.

Intro !if man lived with dinosaurs, how come there are no man fossils?

SE: thanks for noticing I'm not a troll. But I wasn't asking God for answers, just people here. Does it really make a diffence how many questions are asked?

Answer 1

We all live in a sinful world and death is a result of man's sin not simply one individuals sins. The rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Answer 2

If anyone made use of palentology the record of this was lost. So far as known no effort to find answers or knowlege that fossils existed was around. The scaly creatures were based on serpents or lizards in Middle Eastern deserts. were things different humans could be regarded as demons for a race of sentient dogs being beaten for eternity by men with sticks would be Hell. Same with cats bitten in half by dogs. For a snake chopped by a hoe. The book was not written then which would imply the creator only came into existance when the first people came on the scene and has been repackaged ever since untill the time the First Nations came to North America and while they had different ideas these were still valid as the contents not container was the point. So what happened then is known Christians did not value the others thought their package was better the others. Thing is God should have been tried for genocide or at least allowing it to happen if God was not abetting it God should have stopped it. God should have lost power long ago for thet reason. God is also guilty of not preventing the deaths or the molesting of little boys and girls by priests. Jesus would not have approved either a person would think but Jesus is dead so could do nothing and could not be aware of what went on thousands of years after his death. as to why instead of people going to Heaven if Jesus could redeem mankind why not Hell and if not Jesus then someone else could. If there were no Hell then there could be no Heaven to compare it to. why would anyone want to go live in a place controlled by a genocidal God . Christianity has nothing to do with God but only with Christ. People who follow Christ are Christians and those who follow God should be called Godians and call their religion Godianity not Christianity though both are similiar . Tampering with Bible radical religious types and zealotry are to be found Holy Writing in The Old Testement Masada for one and homophobia added over time. share of bigots who might have been unpopular at time had a goat Christian Bible and only their versions lived on others squelched.

Answer 3

Part of the experience of being alive is to have bad things happen. I don't think "God wanted your child" is an acceptable answer. I think we have experiences we can choose to learn from.

Ask God the questions when you die. Until them, accept them as part of your path - good, bad and indifferent. It's okay to feel pain.

As for the dinosaurs... who knows. Maybe God created the earth in 6 days, maybe 6 days is a metaphor. Worry about your life now, not what happened before you or I were here. And that is the same answer for Christianity. Seek and ye shall find. Do some more reading. Don't limit yourself to only one type of text. Read from people you disagree with. It will help you learn and appreciate.

Way too many questions. You should have split them up into more questions. LOL!

Answer 4

1. Heaven is not a place to fill up with righteous people. The purpose of heaven is to give eternal reward to those who deserved it. If God believed it was time for somebody to pass, then it's His will. Adolf Hitler, a wife-beater, all of them can get to Heaven provided that they put God first. God loves those who loves him back, regardless of their crimes. Such is the nature of his incredible, almost insane, love. He wants to be with the children he loves. He didn't create heaven as a place to put people in.
2. Nowhere in the bible does it date the time humans have been on Earth. Where'd you get that number? Christianity doesn't explain dinosaurs because it doesn't have to. I'm sure dinosaurs existed and the bible doesn't disprove any of that. It said in the bible that God created animals and various other things in the first six days. However, a day cannot be measured because a day then could've been ten thousand years then. Many things in science go along with Christianity in relevance and there are many things that people are very confident disprove Christianity. However, ALL of these things have been disproved as they are without substantial evidence or are just plain wrong.
3. Christianity is just "Christ following." Christianity was there from the start, right when people existed. You might be confused with the fact that it took a long time for Christianity to spread outside of Israel. The earth is a big place, you know.
4. Jesus saves you from your sin. According to God's principles, sin's punishment is death. However, Jesus, a man without sin, came and took that punishment, death, by means of the crucifixion, thereby relieving us of the obligation to die. He is not coming back to make the world a better place. He is coming back to end it! When he comes back, it will be the end of the world and judgment will be upon us, where he will judge the good and the bad, the rightfully deserving to be in heaven and those condemned to hell.
5. Beliefs can always be modified because when something wrong is recognized, naturally change is in order. Churches can be corrupt, sorry to say. It's sad but it's true. Homosexuality was not recorded before Christianity because Christianity was there from the beginning.

Answer 5

Wow, you have a bunch of questions here. I'm glad that you are searching for answers, and want to learn about God. The best advice I can offer is for you to pray to God with an open heart and mind. Sincerely ask God to reveal Himself, and His will, to you. Then read from the Bible. Pray this type of prayer every time you sit down to read the Bible, and God will help you to discover the truth.

Now, I'll try to answer some of your specific questions:

Everyone dies, that is just part of life. Why do babies and young children die, because we live in a fallen world. This reason may not seem "satisfying", but it is the truth our sins have implications that are far-reaching. Illnesses do not discriminate between the old and the young. A drunk-driver can just as easily plow into an infant, or an eighty-year-old. It is sad for those who have lost the physical presence of a loved one, but Christians can take comfort in knowing they will be reunited in Heaven some day.

The dinosuars are lived so long ago that no one alive today can remember them. However, there is no hard evidence that humans and dinosuars did not live during the same period in history. Carbon-dating is a process that tells the relative-age of a fossil by comparing it to the age of something we can date... The falicay of carbon-dating is that scientists often work from theory that Earth is millions of years old, and as a result they come up with a dating process that assumes this as well. So there carbon-dating, process is not based on fact, but conjecture based on theory.

God has always been. He revealed Himself to the Jews, and then He sent Christ to Earth to redeem all of humanity. Some have decided to follow Christ's teachings and example for living, and others have rejected Him. Jesus is saving you from teh consequences of your sin... Eternity spent completely separated from God, a.k.a. Hell.

Jesus will return only when God the Father says it is time. No sign will be given to us, other than that it will be as in the days of Noah... People will be marrying, having children, and going about their daily lives when Jesus will appear in the clouds. We are told to not be caught unaware, and to always be ready for His return.

God never changes. Just because churches may change their stance does not mean that God has changed. Churches are made up of humans, and all humans make mistakes, and commit sins. The church is precious to Jesus, because the church is the Body of Christ. That is why it is so important to develop a personal relationship with God, but also meet with other followers of Christ. We go to church to worship God, and support each other in living lives that are pleasing to the Lord. Not all churches are the same, and it is important to find one that is Bible-based, and places love and compassion above all else.

Homosexuality is a topic that is "hot" right now. I do not claim to know what Jesus would do, but I do know it is not my place to judge another person. I would reach out to that person with love and compassion, not judgement. We all have sinned, and fall short of the Glory of God. There is very little written in the Bible about homosexuality. I mean really I think there are only 2 or 3 references. Why we are so bogged down with this when so many Christians are ignoring the beams in their own eyes is beyond me.

I hope this helps. I will pray for you. But definitely pray, and read the Bible. I would even recommend you get an audio-Bible so you can listen to the Bible. Somehow listening to the Bible is more helpful than reading it for some.

God Bless.

Answer 6

Jesus didn't talk about dinosaurs because they aren't important. Man wasn't on the correct path and he came to guide us. Listen to what he speaks because that is what is important. Love others and believe that thru him you can achieve an afterlife. Be thoughtful and kind. Let him give you comfort in times of suffering. You don't have to worry about where heaven is or how long creation took. Jesus is about you and your life.

Answer 7

Good questions. I'm sorry I have no answers. All I know is what I believe, and that would be that christianity and all other religions that make a lame attempt to explain this life fall far short. They have turned into just another big business that preys upon the vulnerable and the ignorant. They a a major factor in the suffering that occurs in this nightmare of a life. Religion poisons everything. There is no god or eternal life.

Answer 8

There's NOTHING CHRISTIAN approximately trolling. Jesus did not troll individuals who would not pay attention to Him, and neither did He teach His disciples to do the identical. Instead, He informed them to wipe the filth from their ft of individuals who could obtain their phrases. Jesus additionally did not feed the trolls, figuring out who could honestly pay attention to Him and who would not, and for this reason informed His disciples not to "supply what's holy to the puppies, nor solid their pearls earlier than swine". If individuals don't seem to be going to hear someone however themselves, simply allow them to be and transfer directly to an individual else who will pay attention.

Answer 9

most of ur question is about death and evil. well Jesus is just giving them time to change their evil paths and come and believe in him. As for the plague thing, for example in egypt when the locust thing was going on it was sumthing to teach the Pharoh a lesson cos he would not let Moses take his ppl out of Egypt. that happened . whereas as science is developing and more knowledge is known that is a way for us to know more as well.
y dont u read Revelations, it talks about the end of times and about tsunamis and earthquakes and land being covered by water(glaciers are melting) from wat im guessing of u. u might say "uh, thats global warming" . ok fine i say it is global warming also but isnt this all mentioned in the bible. GOD is just doing things that he said he would do when the end of time was near.
At times the church also does mistakes after all they are humans who are preaching God' word they want wat is best for God's ppl. so if the church did say sumthing about earth being in the middle. so wat. wats the big deal.
Jesus is waiting to *** cos he is giving every1 a chance to change their evil paths and to walk the way GOD wants us to.
homosexuality is wrong and were did u find out it is there from ages. tell me was it there when Adam and Eve were made or was it there during Cain and Abel. it wasnt . and the church is ryte of disapproving homosexuality cos GOD made man and woman not gay and lesbian.
it is hard to deal with death, my father passed away when i was 7 yrs old and know im 20. as the yrs passed by i learnt not to depend on ppl who are no longer on the earth i prayed and GOD helped me to overcome the pain of loss. my father was a righteous man and if GOD wanted him in heaven then so be it. after all i will meet him in heaven. he is just giving us time to get our walks ryte. maybe there is sumthing for us to do and that is why we r still here.

GOD BLESS U
Best of Luck

Answer 10

The reason why children pass is because this world is embroiled in death because of the introduction of sin. We have all been born, and we shall all die. The bad, as well as the good. However, to God, it is a passage from a world of death, into His arms. We do not understand it because we are still stuck here to wonder.

Science has no hope for what occurs after life ceases. It has nothing on which to observe or test. Once a person dies, and is dead for a day or two--science, in all its knowledge, cannot bring them back for discovery for what lies beyond.

Jesus was dead for three days, and proved that He had the keys to death and the grave by raising Himself from the dead. He made clear what to expect in the afterlife. He provides free access to eternal life if you would just believe His report.

The validity of a young earth vs the validity of an old earth depends on where you look, and HOW you look. The old earth view is based totally in the physical realm of time and space and science is at peace with it since science can only accept as theory that which it can prove.

Most physical sciences are based on one presupposition. That is, that all physical evidence is a constant. That is, over the years they have never changed. There is much evidence (that many scientists will poo poo) that entropy and decay effects everything that is of matter and even energy. So what is your constant? On what can you base your math? There really is too many variants to be dogmatic in any of the sciences.

God is eternal and cannot be subject to testing and scrutiny. God designed it to be that way for the purpose of free will choice. To see which you desire to cling to for your personal doctrine of origin. The problem is, upon death you go from the physical to the eternal, and there, all that you concluded regarding science, will be of no value. Remember Esau and do not trade your destiny for a bowl of beans.
Science has no hope for what occurs after life ceases. It has nothing on which to observe or test. Once a person dies, and is dead for a day or two--science, in all its knowledge, cannot bring them back for discovery for what lies beyond.

Jesus was dead for three days, and proved that He had the keys to death and the grave by raising Himself from the dead. He made clear what to expect in the afterlife. He provides free access to eternal life if you would just believe His report.

It seems as if science today is more concerned with discrediting the given evidence in order to hold on to its own lack of knowledge. And thus, those who hold to science for their religion, choose the dangerous road of "taking ones chances that the Bible is false" regarding the afterlife. A dangerous gamble indeed seeing eternity is in the balance.

Science is limited to the physical. Your soul is eternal. The Bible deals with what is eternal where science cannot venture. The physical realm will pass away, and science will pass away with it. What you want to do is latch onto that which will last forever, and that is the Word of God.

Science deals with understanding and comprehending creation. Religion deals with the understanding and comprehension of the Creator.

1 Peter 1:23-25
...having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because

All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
But the word of the LORD endures forever.

Answer 11

it's all a lie, one massive lie

I invite you to seek the truth someplace away from this YA.

Gather all the physical and written evidence you can find.

one one side you'll fine enough to build a ladder to the moon...on the other...a 2000 year old story book written by a buncha Arabs who couldn't pass a 3ed grade standard test.

it's not hard to figure out..

why would you think words written 2000 years ago had any wisdom over words written in present day..

get Carl Sagan's Cosmos...10X better book and could save you from alot more that Sweet Evil Jesus ever could