What is are the top 3 questions you would like answered by Christians? Please be specific. Thank You again for your intelligent thoughts.
2007-09-19 06:58:42 · 13 answers · asked by heismanu 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1) Christianity has had 2000 years to win everyone over to its way of thinking. What makes Christians think that they'll suddenly come up with a new argument that will convince everyone--especially Jews--that theirs is the right way?
2) Doesn't the same argument that Christians use to support Christianity ("new covenant" that replaced the old) also work to support Islam?
3) There are so many competing Christianities. How do you know you've picked the right one?
2007-09-19 07:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by Cathy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. There are historically religions older than Judaism and Christianity. Since people who do not believe in God go to Hell, then why did He let so many people automatically go to Hell? If Judaism did not exist yet, how were they supposed to know about God? How is this fair at all?
2. We all agree that the Christian God is supposed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. So, He knows everything and always has and will. It is said that God has a plan for everything. It is not said that there are multiple possibilities that could happen which God knows about, and He's sitting around seeing where it will go. Therefore he knew that Adam and Eve would fail him. It is said that He gave them free will, but how free is that will when He knew exactly what would happen? It seems that He set them up to fail. Can you explain this?
3. There are 2 creation stories in the Book of Genesis. I've read them both. Isn't everything in the Bible supposed to be true? Since there was only one creation, they can't both be true. So how do Christians resolve this?
2007-09-19 14:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Why do you consider faith a valid reason for believing something? Isn't that anathema to all science and reasoning, a belief in the absence of evidence, or even in the face of evidence to the contrary?
2. Can you accept the idea that in your religion, you have separated yourself from many other people and what they believe, and not try to change them?
3. Are you using brainwashing and propaganda, not unlike Nazis and Communists, to try to enlist your children in the Holy War, and do you recognize how similar your methods are to the Hitler Youth Program and the Muslim training of their children for Jihad? Have you looked at the movie "Jesus Camp" with an analytic eye, and can you justify the techniques employed in a one-week (or is it longer) total immersion brainwashing which differs in no significant way from what you call dangerous cults?
2007-09-19 14:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. What would you do if someone asked you why you don't believe in Allah? Zeus? You have to form a concrete answer, without citing the Bible.
2. No offense, but what's it to you if someone else doesn't believe? If you believe, why worry about someone else?
3. Don't you ever feel trapped and have questions that aren't being answered with evidence other than one book from 2,000 years ago?
2007-09-19 14:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by gopher646 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. Why does evil have to exist in order to have free will (currently an open question of mine, been asked many times, no reasonable answers).
2. What proof/evidence do you have for your god/holy book? (note: referring to scripture as a proof is a circular argument, you may site a scripture to provide evidence for, but not as evidence for another scripture.)
3. Without resorting to religious hand waving i.e. "god is not understandable, his ways are not ours", explain the theological contradictions, atrocities, and apparently sadistic nature of your god displayed in the bible.
4. Why is every supernatural event in the bible (flood, sun stopping, temple curtain ripped, exodus) so hard to find evidence for?
Four questions, sorry.
2007-09-19 14:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would an omniscient god feel the need to create humans?
If he is perfect then he desires nothing. To desire means he is not satisfied and therefore not perfect.
Why is it hard for a believer to grasp the concept of someone not believing in their god when they don't believe in a number of gods?
How does a christian prove that THEIR god is the right one when there is just as much evidence for their god as there is for zeus or krishna etc?
2007-09-19 14:06:28 · answer #6 · answered by Clint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
# 1 : So where the bleedin'ell has this jesus guy been all this time?? jus been chillin out i bet.
# 2 : And if he was here, why do bad things happen to peaple? like my little sister was raped (real) now where was he then?
# 3 : Do you really believe in forgiveness , i dont (dont reply with forgiveness rubbish because it doesnt work)
2007-09-19 18:45:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Tell me why you believe in god (without saying the bible says so.
2. Do you ever listen to others without judging?
3. Are you or have you been a hypocrite?
2007-09-19 14:04:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can you really believe all the stuff in the bible? Have you actually read it? Do you really believe that a donkey talked? Or that it never rained prior to the flood?
2007-09-19 14:05:34 · answer #9 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
#1: Why do you believe in fairy tales?
#2: Why do you refuse to evolve and grow past this nonsense?
#3: Why is your music so boring?
2007-09-19 14:10:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋