2007-12-06 09:40:36 · 25 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The idea that an omnipotent God needed Jesus to die before He could let us into Heaven. It just doesn't make sense, and it's a form of nonsense unique to Christianity.
2007-12-06 09:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
There are a lot of truths people won't accept. For instance; some people believe that it was a European who first sailed around the earth. They would be astonished to find that there are many large and prominent statues in Asia and the Americas that are as distinctly ******* as any black man I've ever seen. These carvings are thousands of years old. There were coca leaves found buried with the Egyptian mummies. Vikings traded with black Africans and called them 'blue people'. There is a gold coin in a British museum with a long haired Roman emperor Justinian on opposite sides of a man sporting a big curly fro with a wide nose, carrying a scroll with a large cross behind him.
They would also be astonished to know a 3500 year old book claimed the earth was round, too. Although religious people believed it was flat. They might also get a stomach ache to learn that Christmas and much of church tradition came from paganism and had absolutely NOTHING to do with Y'shua Ha'Maschich (Jesus). Oh, and the Bush family does oil business with the bin Ladens. Most Muslims (80%) aren't even Arabic. Black, white, Latin, and Southeast Asian terrorists? We're in deep poo poo.
There are a great many things hard to accept for some people. That's life. People can't accept the truth for one simple fact: knowledge may be power but, ignorance is blissss.
Don't let school get in the way of your education.
2007-12-06 10:16:29 · answer #2 · answered by F'sho 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I jot these down in my Bible, actually (and interesting, the resurrection is the part of Christianity I have the least amount of problems believing in.)
My question marks would be things like the Nephilim of Genesis, the "unpardonable sin" mentioned in Mark, and random passages like Paul talking about women covering their heads "on account of the angels".
Little stuff like this.
It makes for good research in discussion, though.
2007-12-06 11:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Rob 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I notice that some of these answers say that there are contradictions in the Bible, yet not one person has included a contradiction. I think a lot of the contradictions that people think are in the Bible are just misunderstandings; or the fact that some people like to pick and choose verses from the Bible and fail to read it as a whole.
As for me I have a problem understanding how God can love a messed up person like me, but then again my mother loves a messed up person like me (me). So I just have to trust God.
2007-12-06 09:54:41 · answer #4 · answered by shadowfaxngc 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That an organisation can claim to have The Truth about moral, social and scientific reality, based on nothing more substantial than a claimed familiarity with the will of a supernatural being.
I find that deeply irrational, and pretty scary.
2007-12-06 11:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would say the concept of the "elect" ...that God predestines some people for hell and some for heaven. I mean, I see how it works, although I'm not entirely sure what the Bible says on the matter. But if it's true... it's really not something that I want to accept. Then again, what can I do about it?
Anyways, hope you know what I'm talking about...
2007-12-06 09:45:44 · answer #6 · answered by ATWolf 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That God Himself suffers for our sins (even as Jesus suffered on the cross)....I am a Christian and believe everything in God's Word, but this one is hard to swallow. There is a part of me that wants to think God can make Himself immune to suffering - but that is not what His Word says.
2007-12-06 09:43:59 · answer #7 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
the fact that there is a Heaven... a place where everything is okay and that there is a selection process of who gets to hang out there for all eternity and who doesn't.
it would be awfully boring after a while if all you did was pray and enjoy the splendors of this everlasting Heaven.
2007-12-07 04:26:42 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Christopher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't accept any of it, but in order, the most absurd part is their loving father in the sky who watches his children slaughter each other and stands idly by. Then there's the bit about how he impregnates a virgin without asking permission from either her or her fiance, in other words he rapes her, then he demands that his own illegitimate son be tortured to death as a human sacrifice. Then there are all the contradictions in the bible; you can use it to support any prejudice you've got.
2007-12-06 09:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
That God gets all the credit for our salvation and good deeds, but we get all the blame for sin and suffering.
2007-12-06 18:22:36 · answer #10 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋