What has come from giving christians the benefit of the doubt.. the world is not a better place. They still go around preaching they know the answers. They have murdered through war, burnings hangings inquisitions and crusades everything that might have given us the answer just so they can give the appearance of knowleged.
When will we subject them to the same scrutiny and standard of truth that they have continually subjected us to.
for example: they discredit evolution simply because we did not understand the origins of the earth. When the big bang theory was becoming acceptable or understood then they claim that evolution is not truth for humanity could not explain the origins of the universe. I tell you that evolution is easily proven through the spider familly (beginning with the taranchula and working out the species the whole cycle is evident) evidence is enough. We need to stop cowing down to the christian demands of more proof and start demanding proof of them.
2007-10-09 12:33:12 · 26 answers · asked by NO Labels 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
2 Timothy 2:23-26
23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
and the pagans tried that and were burned at the stake... and the agnostics tried that and were religified under the pressure and the scientist tried and were ridiculed and John Lennon tried it and a christian murdered him... and the atheist are trying but having to become defensive as the christians produce quarrels. Why is it the pagans, agnostics, scientist, jews, and atheist can get along but the christians can't even agree with each other... there is no kindness compassion or sense in them that's why
2007-10-09 12:45:27 · update #1
because they won't give a straight answer
they will just say "it's a matter of faith"
Others will try to prove whats in the bible, but those ones are refuted easily enough using their own reference, and contradictions and falsehoods contained within...
it's like nailing jello to the wall, they keep slipping out from under it..
2007-10-09 12:38:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋
In the end, both evolution and creation come down to faith in the unseen. Macro evolution has never EVER been observed. You are having faith in the unseen, unproven belief that from nothing, there was an explosion which untimately was responsible for everything. Where did the first something come from???? How does nothing explode???? It doens't make sense, so lets sprinkle a few billion years on, because surely in that much time, nothing could produce everything. Why does it seem more logical to you that nothing exploded and with eons of time dust, and lots of chaos it turned in to living beings, the planet and the universe than to think an intelligent being created it all in an orderly and wonderful way? Is it possibly because then you would have someone to answer to? Be accountable to?
I've said before and I will say again, just because someone does something in the name of Christianity, doesn't make them Christian. Don't blame God for what man has done. Christ is not willing that any should parish, including you. You have obviously thought quite a bit about why you are here and what it all means. What do you tell yourself? Why did we evolve a still, small voice that we call a Spirit or Soul? Do you believe you have one? How could natural selection produce this? I will pray for you and your hate becaus it will only serve to destroy you in the end.
Hey, if your right, when you close your eyes for the last time, you won't even get to say "I told you so", but if Christians are right, there will be another soul lost.
2007-10-09 13:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by homeschoolmom 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is only one way to handle doubt. Give yourself some easy answer, play on words, or unrelated zinger, that takes your mind off of the subject, and allows you to ignore it. This is called "doublethink". And it's the only thing that allows disproven religions to continue to dupe their members. You see, if you doubt, yet you still feel that your god is real, and your religion is true, then you should have NO FEAR OF EXAMINING YOUR DOUBT. Right? I mean, why worry about doubt, if you KNOW your religion is right? So... do the research. Since you doubt something, study it. See WHY you doubt it. Find out the answers. Discover why you shouldn't doubt it. And then everything will be hunky dory, and you'll be more educated in the process. (But more likely... you'll be an atheist within a week)
2016-05-20 02:01:08 · answer #3 · answered by melanie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creation is being proven more and more and evolution is being disproven more and more. Everything you find in the Bible has either come true, been discovered or will soon be discovered. What about a few kinds of dinosaurs still existing today like the plesiosaur or the new finding of a large fossilized rock having both a dinosaur's foot print and a man's foot print in it? What about the Bible speaking about dinosaurs (though not by that name but a different name) many times in the OT?
Which makes more sense? God creating everyone and everything according to divine and perfect power, wisdom, genius, and love? Or nothing creating something that later became a rock supposedly having oxygen (and rocks can't have oxygen in them) which later melted down into a primordial ooze, which later created the first cell? Doesn't that sound crazy or ludicrous to you?
If you do the math equations, there is a 1 in 100 billion chance to the 121st power that evolution happened which equals 0% according to mathematicians. But when it comes to Creation and the prophecies found in the Bible, it is impossible by chance but inspired by God.
You hurt yourself by this, more than the Christians you want to discredit. God loves you and wants you to come to Him to be saved. He made you in His image and continues to give you life, air, being able to wake up to a new day, food, water, the sun shining, the rain, and everything else you need. God is the best artist and the best author (He authored the Bible as it is inspired by Him). If you continue to fight against Him and His people, you won't find true peace or happiness or love, and you will fight a losing battle. But if you come to Him, that is when you truly win!
Besides, the so-called Christians who murdered people who believed differently than them weren't Christians in the first place. If they were, they would have refrained from such evil acts as God commands not to murder, and instead shown peace and love to their fellow man and desire for their enemies to find God and so be saved as they did.
2007-10-09 13:07:54 · answer #4 · answered by littlefirefly444 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You don't have to give us the benefit of doubt at all. Once you have rejected Jesus Christ that is where you have doubt about.Rememeber this has nothing to do with Christians, it is about God. We have nothing to do with the world being bad at all. We spread the word, because we are about our Father's business. God wants us to tell others about him. Murders can occur from anyone,the burnings, and hangings have nothing to do with us. If someone tells you that they are a Christian and goes around shooting people, you have to question if they are a believer. We don't know the answers to everything, God knows.
Don't worry people can kill the body, but not the soul. We all reap what we sow. Well we don't have to believe in evolution, just like you don't have to believe in God. You or no one else will ever stop me from telling someone about God. You can't take all the Christians out. I don't have to prove anything at all, Jesus Chrsit is still real no matter what. May the Lord Bless You and Keep You. God Bless You
2007-10-09 12:51:04 · answer #5 · answered by mizzpretti 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I wouldnt trust them to speak to my dog let alone rule a country... the world is a worse off place because of christianity no doubt...
2007-10-09 18:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
2 Timothy 2:23-26
23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
2007-10-09 12:38:16 · answer #7 · answered by Tim M 2 · 4⤊ 7⤋
I say let 'em be. I wish we could keep them from voting, because a firm belief in any religious fantasy is somewhere out beyond ignorance. But we can't, so let 'em be.
The only time to go to war with these folks is when their more-radical members try to port their beliefs into our system of government and essentially force them on us. Like the Taliban did to the muslim masses in Afghanistan.
2007-10-09 13:24:37 · answer #8 · answered by Makakio 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Oh what a wicked web we weave, when we practice to deceive. Thy true motive - get rid of God and Christians. The original intent of evolution.
2007-10-09 12:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Christianity is a very simple thing- believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved & live forever in heaven. Reject him and live forever in a place called hell - where one lives in torment 24 hrs a day - for anyone to even get angry at this statement, why ..because within the heart of everyone's being is the knowledge of the existence of God, our creator.
2007-10-09 12:44:47 · answer #10 · answered by faceeternity 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
You NEED to read the Community Guidelines and Rules for this forum, because your entire post sounds like ‘ranting’. Yes, I agree there was a Big Bang; but it was preceded by the words "Let there Be..." The world is not a better place for lack of the Christians trying; it is that way because of evil minded individuals. Who is doing the murdering right now? Yes, the “past” is riddled with murder from some calling themselves Christians; but “right now” it is being done by radical Islamic people. These individuals are doing to Islam what those in the past did in the ‘name’ of Christ. When in history were we (Christians) “NOT” been subject to scrutiny?
No, I do not believe in the Theory of Evolution (as put forth by Darwin), because it has yet to answer the question: Where did the chimps DNA go, after it changed/morphed into a human being? Once a person has studied Human Anatomy and Physiology, there are more questions about the validity of the Theory of Evolution than there is reliance on that so-called history of humans. Unless it is possible for DNA of one kind of being to totally disappear from the genetic coding of the species it becomes. IF we (humans) were at one time a chimp, which means the ancestors DNA is still in our genetic make-up. In order for Darwin’s Theory to be reliable, the chimps must have already stored in their DNA the DNA for human beings. Then that DNA would have coded into it the precise steps the body systems changes would undergo so that they could become human. Look at it this way: our body system (more preciously our Reproductive) already has the information in each cell necessary for a female to start menses or start menopause. Each and every cell in our body has information coded into it which tell that particular cell when to start functioning, how long to function, and when to ‘shut off’. Now, considering this information, is it still possible for a knuckle-walker to become a bipedal being? And IF you still believe that you came from a chimp – when in your family history did one of your ancestors give birth to a chimp/human? No one in my family has ever had that kind of offspring.
I understand that some in this world would rather believe that we came from a chimp, than to believe we were created uniquely human; from the very beginning of time. But, due to the fact that there is no way our DNA has ever coded into it the DNA of chimps or any other being; this is why I will always believe I am human – my family has always been human – my ancestors going back to the beginning of our planet were humans.
As for the Big Bang, yes, I do believe in that; but it was preceded by the words “Let There Be…” Now, can you tell me where energy and matter came from? Why haven’t there been any complete or full skeletons of ‘human/chimp’ missing links found – but we have found complete skeletons of dinosaurs and mammoths – aren’t they supposed to be ‘millions’ of years older than humans/chimps? So, shouldn’t we have found the complete skeletons of humans/chimps before those of any dinosaur or mammoth?
You want to “demand proof from Christians”, that is a bold statement considering every time proof IS given IT IS DISMISSED as lunacy or non-sense. There is so much evidence to point to the fact that humans did not come from any other being, all you have to do is open your eyes and your mind. Face it, according to the use of language in your post, all you want to do is rant and accuse Christians and Jews (don’t forget that our roots are in the Judaic traditions), of things we have been dealing with for thousands of years. It is nothing new to us and it will never end. After you, there will be someone else who raises these same questions and accusations. But mark my words, those of the Torah, Bible, and Dead Sea Scrolls; one day all will learn the truth. When they are standing face-to-face with the LORD God and He requires an account of their life.
Oh, that brings up another interesting fact about the Torah and Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in early 1940’s and late 1950’s. The over 900 manuscripts have been translated and carbon dated. They are not only 1000 years older than those used when the King James Version of the Bible was printed in 1611, but also match the text. These manuscripts date to the third century BC and 68 AD; they consist of Non-Biblical and Biblical manuscripts. So, this is proof that the Torah and Bible are reliable. I might add that this is more proof for the accuracy of the Word of the LORD God, than for Darwin’s Theory. Especially considering, as mentioned before, you still do not have a complete skeleton of any “missing link”. The Dead Sea Scrolls were only missing the books of Esther and Nehemiah, outside of that every other book from the Old Testament was found.
Not to mention, we also have the science of Archaeological evidence.
http://holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,2,6,19,97
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/13/world/main3055214.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_3055214
http://www.everystudent.com/features/bible.html
2007-10-09 14:13:58 · answer #11 · answered by yahweh_is_the_lord 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋