1. Please enlighten me as to what the difference is between magic and supernatural powers.  In both, the central point is doing something that is not outside the realm of possibility.

2. And the people who 'get it' happen to be people who agree with you.

3. At central points, it argues that fantastic things happened.  I would not discard the Bible as a historical document, but I feel fairly safe in discounting the parts that claim magic.  We disclaim the supernatural parts of every other document from antiquity.  Why is the Bible special?  It has no more evidence than the others.

4. I do.  You don't because you were taught it is normal, but think about what you are actually doing...you are asking an invisible being to warp reality on your behalf.  If someone calls on mighty Nurgle to slay someone with a pox using certain ritual words how is it different?  If your parents had raised you as Nurgle worshipers, we might be having that discussion right now and your arguments would be the same.

5. It is not a 'greater' miracle, but it is one that cannot be faked well, and it cannot happen naturally.

People can recover from cancer.  People can have spine injuries heal.  People can fake being crippled/sick....they do it all the time.

That is why I would be impressed.  It would actually be far easier (I imagine) than raising a corpse.

Now, if you can show someone legitimately dead for three days and necro them, I'll be impressed too.  But since Christians today typically only claim miraculous disease/injury recovery then a missing limb will do nicely.  Plenty of people give God credit for miracles that can happen naturally, but it is always ambiguous.

Easy to prove too.  Other things would work though...a child born without a brain growing up to be a 'normal' human would be a neat trick.  Or heck, healing just about any moderate to severe birth defect.  Again though, God tends to bow out of those.  Strange how that works isn't it?

6. He never seemed shy about it before we knew better than to swallow what itinerant street preachers told us.

7. Not animosity towards you, frustration towards the same arguments we see over and over.  I actually started out on this board very patient but eventually I think I burned out a little bit.  I expected 'rational debate' and it never turned up.  If there were billions of Jello believers and they all wanted to tell you about Jello, and none of them were willing to do anything but argue about how Jello makes them feel regardless of reality...yea, frustrated.

Please don't try to assign my motives to rebellion, you really don't know me well enough to do so.

1. I'm still confused.  From what you are writing magic is what you call fake magic and supernatural is what you call 'real' magic.  Ok, I guess.

2. Ok, and if you were born in Iran you would be chanting to Allah six times a day, and it would be the 'Truth' and you would agree with millions.

3. You mean like how Jesus was supposed to come back while the disciples were still alive?  Matthew 16:28, and Luke 21:32 for example.  Like how Christians for 2,000 have been saying the exact same thing, from birth to death, that Jesus will be back any time?  Color me unconvinced, but you guys have a pretty bad track record so far.  If you have a different take on prophecy, let me know.  Perhaps something specific?  The problem with prophecy though is people just push it back every time it misses a marker all the way until they die.  You can never convince a believer that their prophecy is incorrect.  Search some of the threads with Luminon for a non-Christian prophecy believer.  It might be eye opening.

4. I keep forgetting you believe in magic, sorry.  Obviously, no-one ever died because of Nurgle pox and obviously I assume no-one ever will.  But hey, I guess it makes sense since there were other deities in the old testament, maybe one of them was a plague god and is still kicking around.  Or maybe Satan.  Or hell, God murdered people with disease so I guess that would be fine.

5. I am talking about modern reality, not the stories in the Bible.  If a modern day leper was sitting in a lab and he prayed to Jesus/Nurgle/Satan and blammo, he was healed, I would accept that.  What I am saying is people claim miracles *today* but they are always ambiguous, fake, natural healing or assisted by modern medicine.  The Bible can claim anything it wants.  Lots of old books claim all sorts of crazy stuff but it doesn't make any of it true.

7. Two goals.  One, people are shaken from theism.  It happens every day.  Two, you might not be shaken in your faith but if someone stumbles on these threads with an open mind it can make the difference.

Why do I care?  I care because I want to raise my children in a world where no-one tries to teach them magic is real and science is evil.

Where no-one tells them they are a worthless sinner damned to hell because they act according to their nature.

I want a world free of religious violence, where I can say anything I want and not worry about someone beating me to death or blowing up my house.

I want a world where traditional religions do not encourage and flat out teach misogyny and perpetuate a world where my daughter is a second class citizen because Eve is responsible for all the pain in the world.

I want a world where people donate to charity to help dig wells and give medicine to children, not a world where people spend all their effort on bibles to save souls in an imaginary future life while ignoring real human suffering.

I want to live in a world where people care about life *now* not a life after death.

I want to live in a world where you have to take real responsibility for your actions instead of relying on metaphysical forgiveness to salve your conscience.

I want a world based on reason instead of superstition and the mystic belief of ancient goat herders, where laws and morality are based on facts and ideals instead of Sharia and The Talmud and hypocritical preachers.

Jesus fucking Christ, I want that world so badly I can taste it.

I won't get that world, but I can help create it for those who come after me and that gives me some satisfaction.

8. And according to the Koran you are no better than a filthy Jew.  Does that worry you?  No?  The reason you are not scared of the supernatural threats of Muslims is the same reason I have no fear of your God...only I apply the same logic to your God that you apply to everyone else's god.

So what...they are cursed?  Did their souls do something to annoy Jesus?

And you will find an answer.  You have to, because you accept your beliefs by default without actually analyzing them.  Either it is wrong or it isn't...the verse is not cryptic or ambiguous, it is one of the more straight-forward things in the Bible.

Ok, here is a specific question, if you only answer one thing, answer this.  And spend some time reflecting on it, as a personal favor to me: Why are you willing to take miracle claims in an ancient text at face value when you have never seen an actual miracle?

I'm not after your church specifically.  However, there most certainly *are* many that teach this.  Have you ever heard, "If science and the Bible disagree, science is wrong."?

There is a difference between humility and shame.  Wanting to have sex, being gay, having thoughts in your head without acting on them...these are not things to be ashamed of, they are a natural part of the human condition.  The reason there is so much religious guilt is because the system is set up so that you *must* fail, and the only way to achieve absolution is to pander to your religion of circumstance.

I don't want any ideologies around that incite unjust violence, but this is a forum about religion so I bring that up specifically.  My point stands.

That is great, the more liberal a religion becomes the more tolerant of it I become.  However, Christianity is certainly misogynistic.  It is based on patriarchal societies where women were property and it cannot escape that history without massive revision. Ephesians 5:22–23, Revelation 14:4, Job 25:4, 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Corinthians 11:9, 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 2:11–12, Leviticus 15:17–33, Leviticus 12:2–5.  Summary: God wants women to shut up and obey men, periods are icky and girl children are icky too.

Good for you.  Every 30 dollars spent on Bible's and preaching is worth a child starving to death.  Every tax free dollar your church spends to get new pews or buy a new guitar for the church band is another person who didn't get AIDS drugs.

Because that energy could be used on what is shown to be real.

Some do, but many use the idea of supernatural grace as a shield against culpability.

These goat herders were speculating on the nature of the universe at a time when every tribe had a unique deity and magic (not supernatural events) were accepted as every day occurrences.  There is no reason to mock any truth they have stumbles upon, but there is certinaly reason to take what they say with a large dollop of critical thinking.

It is genuine.

Do some research on rates of atheism over the last 100 years.  See if you can spot a trend between wealth and stability and religion.

Your best bet for an eternity of religion is an outbreak of misery.

Enlighten me.  Why is it complicated?  Again, my point: A Mormon, a protestant, a catholic, a Jew, a Muslim a Hindu and a Scientology's could all be asked to write a latter about why they believe what they believe.  If  you removed all the proper nouns from those letters and mixed them up they would be identical.  To me, that says a great deal about the core of each mutually contradictory belief.

No it won't, you have a position that you are not willing to establish criteria for falsification.  I could shoot down every single hard belief you have and in the end you would say you still had faith, even though you have no reason to do so.

You god might not want fear.  The god in the Bible though certainly does, and the god many people follow certainly does.

Since your god is unique to you, I really can't say whether or not it wants my fear.  Part of the problem when dealing with Christians is you can read the same source material and end up with religions that cannot logically coexist.

You don't seem a bad sort, but that is not unusual.

The problem is the religion most people in America follow is not actually the religion they think it is.

I would encourage every adult Christian to read the Bible all on their own.

Honestly, for most people I think that would be enough to at least liberalize their religion.

The Bible as a whole is a terrible guidebook for living a modern life, and the parts that are good are not unique to the religion.

Heh, that happened to me earlier in this sequence.  I was trying to highlight something at the top of the page and I accidently clicked one of the shortcuts on my favorite bar.  I almost stroked out.

Usually once my posts get longer than a paragraph I highlight them and hit ctrl-c every now and then, to stave off blood pressure issues.

 

Take your time on responding, I am enjoying the discussion.

 

Edit: What do you do for a living?

The quote tree is too big, I'm going to respond free-form, hopefully it does not get too confusing.  I'll number my responses for convenience, and my responses will be top to bottom according to your post.

1. If you were pre-ordained to be born in America, and that is a blessing, what did you do to deserve that?  Why would you be picked over someone born in a less Christian nation?  What 'you' was there before you were born anyway?

2. I understand that you can rationalize study of scripture, but some things just are not doable.  The verse I quoted is point blank: They thought Jesus was coming back within 40 years (probably lifespan).  He did not.  Ever since then, people think Jesus is coming back "soon".  Isn't two *thousand* years long enough to give up that idea?  He didn't come back for the black death or the world wars, why would it be soon?  Why would you believe you are living during the real soon (this time we really mean it!) and everyone else in history was wrong?  It just seems arrogant and short sighted to me.

3. I believe in many scientific ideas because they have a theoretical model that makes sense.  A miracle claim is a bald assertion: all you have is a statement of 'truth' without any evidence,

nor any way to rationalize that claim with reality.  And you can pick on any particular bit of science you want, but here is the secret theists ignore: Science changes.  If science has something wrong, it fixes itself.  When science gets something wrong and then adapts, that is not science being broken, it is science doing what it is supposed to do!

If global warming turns out to be a scam (start a new thread with the science geeks if you want to debate that), science will move past it.  Theism claims to know Truth with a capital T.  Science claims to do the best it can to understand the reality in which humans find themselves.  Honestly when people compare theistic faith with scientific consensus it shows they don't understand what science actually *is*.

4. There was no global flood, science is in full agreement with that fact.  There, science and the Bible disagree.  So now what?  Was the flood just a story, made up?  Is science wrong and there really was a global flood that breaks the laws of reality, then vanished without leaving any traces?  Something else?

5. Ok, *you* think the Bible encourages sex.  The 2,000 year history of the church makes it clear that it does not, except in specific circumstance (to breed more Christians).

I think you are confused about what I meant about thoughts and actions.  My issue is the Bible makes thinking about something bad as bad as commiting the act.  If I see a pretty girl walk buy and I have a flash of lust, that not equal to cheating on my wife.  The Bible says it is.  To me, that encourages guilt for no reason other than encouraging guilt.

6. The beauty of Christianity is people can use it to justify violence or condemn violence.  God specifically ordered genocide in the OT.  Popes used the Bible to justify wars.  People ask Jesus Christ to bless them before they go into battle in modern war.  Right now there is probably a soldier asking God to help him kill some Arabs.  In all those situations those people believe in the same God you do, for the same reasons.  You say you are right and they are wrong, but you both have the same rule book to start with.  What happened?

7. No, I am not equal to my boss.  Or a cop.  To say I am a naive.  You mean equal in some sort of spiritual sense, I mean equal in reality.  I think the idea that I can tell my wife to shut her mouth and if she doesn't God will punish her is...disgusting.  Christians, even recently, used the Bible to justify wife beating and slavery.  Women are subordinate to men, and patriarchal societies tend to beat women.  Black people are cursed by God because of the curse of Ham, so they are beneath other humans.  Leaders are more important than followers.  George Washington was more important than a nameless trooper who froze to death without firing a shot.

You have this conceptual construct of your religion that does not match reality.  I'll come back around to this in a summary at the bottom.

8. The point stands.  The money your church uses for the social aspects should not be tax free.  I don't get credit for giving money to social clubs.

9. Death is real, but the afterlife has not been shown to be so.

10. I do care what some do.  Even if your religion specific brand of theism was perfect, I would criticize the source material that the rest use.

11. You keep making flat assertions about the Bible.  "The goat herders were right because they were right, it says they were right in the book they wrote!".

12. You can blaspheme any belief I have and I won't be offended.  One of the problems with religion is the expectation that it is somehow sacred.  It should be as open to mockery as political affiliation or which sports team you like, because all three are just opinions.

13. I think it is education more than money, but being secure probably plays a role.  My pet theory is that the more a person knows about reality, the less they need a magic god to fill in the gaps.  That is just speculation on my part though.

And you are right, if the world economy collapses there very well might be another revival.  I'd rather keep everyone fat, rich and safe.

14. sigh.  And the one truth just *happens* to be the truth you believe.  How convenient for you.  The thing that also gets me is you are willing to accept the revelation of the above goat herders.  So what about all the other primitive societies with creation myths, miracle claims and gods remarkably similar during those times?  If you are willing to accept the 'facts' stated by primitive cultures at face value, I don't see how you can separate the wheat from the chaff.  But again, you 'know' the truth, even though ever other theist who thinks you'll burn in hell also 'knows' the truth, and their reasoning is identical.

Ok, actual question: If I were a neutral observer, say an alien from Mars, and I got to earth and I had a Muslim, a couple flavors of Protestant,  a Catholic, a Mormon, a Zeus worshiper, a Sumerian, etc. in a room with me trying to convert me, how would I tell who was lying?  They all say they know the Truth (big T) and they all say the others are wrong.  They all point to old books.  None of them have physical evidence.  All of them claim that if I choose incorrectly I am doomed.  They all claim miracles, but seem to have lost the video tapes where their god's regrow a limb or raise a corpse.

So what do I do?  That is the situation I find myself in daily.

15. Actually, I can and do change my mind about what I believe.  I am wrong all the time.

17. Actually, if you were plopped down in with some ancient Jews there is a good chance you would wind up dead.  Lord help you if you say you are gay, or pick up a stick on Sunday, because then they really would stone you to death.

18. The reason I think the Bible would change people is that they would find it so horrifying it would shake their faith.  The parts where God tells people to kill cities full of babies are the best.  Or the part where God hypnotizes an Egyptian leader and convinces him to get their first born killed.  Or how about the part where God gambles with the devil and murders an innocent mans family to score points in a ghost-pissing contest?  Or the part where God says you have to murder your gay neighbor.

I don't think it is possible to mix Biblical literalism and modern morality without massive cognitive dissonance.

19. How do *you* choose what to believe in the Bible?  Clearly it is a choice since you don't believe what Christians believes even 100 years ago.

Yahweh isn't selfish and tyrannical?  I don't even know what to say to that, clearly we have read different versions of the Bible.

The Bible is a living document that people adapt to their own beliefs.  Every generation says they know the true will of God even though generations past of future will hold contrary ideas and also say they know the true will of God.  Morality is a secular thing that theism always seems to be limping alone behind. 

In one hundred years most Christians will probably be making excuses for why homosexuality is actually OK, even though it clearly says it is not in the Bible.

You already see that in some denominations where they allow gay preachers and they can show you the verses that 'prove' it.

The same thing happened with blacks, the same thing happened with women.

Some denominations still think a woman preacher is bad and they can show why the Bible says so, and you can say it isn't bad and show why the Bible says so.  Both of you are right within the context of the specific verses you quote.  But both of you can't really be right.

Sexual morality is also changing.  My pet theory is because of birth control and abortion.

The rules about sex are no longer needed, so they are starting to fade even while theism clings to tradition.  That too shall pass.

If you really believed the Bible you would be living like a traditional Jew.  You don't because you have the luxury of adapting the Bible to the society you exist in.

This is like the puddle saying, "isn't it amazing this hole fits me perfectly?"

We've been over this already.  If that is your criteria for evidence you have to take every other claim with the same level of evidence into account.  You can't have it both ways.  If you can accept the miracles in the Bible because the Bible itself says they happened, the Bible says their were witnesses, and other people today believe the Bible is true...you are in a position where you cannot refute the claims of a Muslim.  You simply cannot.  You can't even refute the claims of a Mormon.  You are using the logical fallicy of special pleading to excuse the Bible.  Read some of the threads around here where people fight about the literal truth in the Bible, even the boring parts.

Actually, if you do some research I think you will find that historians and archeologists have spent a great deal of time on the Bible.  The results have been mixed.  Some things really happened, and some things really didn't.  No-one says the Bible is totally wrong, but it is not infallible.  Go read some of the other threads, or do some research about the Jewish exodus, for example.

Not in the way most theists seem to.  When I say "capital T Truth" I mean the idea that an individual has been granted personal knowledge about the purpose of humanity and the universe.  I do not believe there is any purpose in life beyond what we give it.  Certainly there is real truth, but it isn't capitalized

Laws of reality = laws of the physical sciences.  I should have been more concise.  And you are right, there are scientists who are flood proponents.  They are also quacks.  There are also scientists who think all sorts of crazy things, but science is about consensus.

So your argument is, "Rivers flood all the time, therefor a flood that covers the earth in a mile of water is possible."?  We can start a whole thread about exactly why a flood of that magnitude is not possible, and why we can show one never happened.  We can also explain why flood 'evidence' is usually poo.

So again, you are relying on your personal interpretation of the text, because you know the ultimate truth about reality because....you say you do.  Just like everyone else.

And even if I accept that the Bible says the act is not equal to the thought of the act (you'll have to convince me, I was always taught they were equal.), that is still ridiculous BS.  "I've raped women with my mind" indeed.  Pardon me, but I am a better person that a rapist, because *I've never raped anyone*.  Maybe we'll just have to agree to disagree about that one though.

So you think God helps Christians kill non Christians?  Alright.  I guess that is another thing we can just agree to disagree on.  I fully agree, God likes it when the swords get wet.

I'm starting to get queasy.  I hope my daughter never falls for a man who thinks he is superior because he was blessed with testicles by Jesus Christ.
I appreciate how you proved my point though, in your last sentance.  That is exactly my point, the Bible can be used to justify anything.

You can get tax benefits for donating money to your church for new stained glass windows.  Praise Jesus.

We're eaten by worms?  Not something I care to focus on.  There is no reason to think anything cool happens after we die.

You are not listening.  Why are you right?

They had the same things to work with and they came up with 'Truth' different from yours.  You all have the same egocentric view that you are right because you think you are.

So you give full credibility to scientoligists?

I will respect you, but I don't have to respect your belief in magic.

Google education rate and god belief.

Ok, here is the "See below."

If you cannot make a rational case for your belief to a neutral observer, I think that says something rather cutting about the validity of your beliefs.  You are resting your 'soul' on something that you, by admission, cannot prove, or even show a single shred of evidence for.  I just don't get it.  You admit you cannot make a more convincing case than say, a Muslim.  But you still think you are 100% right and they are 100% wrong.  Your best case for convincing me is to have me sit under a tree and *want to believe*.  I don't "want" to believe anything, I want to sort fact from fiction.  You can't cinvince someone  you are right by making the decision dependent on wanting to believe you are right!

So Jesus didn't tell people to respect the law?  He ate yummy pork?  These people disagree with you.  http://www.abcog.org/food.htm  But I forgot, you are right because you are right.

Sigh.  I guess we are just beating a dead horse at this point.

You mean why did he sacrifice himself to himself to make a loophole for a curse he laid on the humans he created because they followed the nature he gave them after he put a tree in a magic garden and told them not to touch it, but an evil snake that he also created tricked them into eating it anyway, so god damned their children to hell?

And pardon me, but commiting suicide doesn't have the same impact if you believe you will be raised from the dead in three days to live at the right hand of God.

No, but when no proof exists and no consensus exists for a document that everyone claims is set in stone...come on dude, you think you know more about the Bible than the people did who wrote it.

Because our culture is changing, and religion always adapts to the culture it lives in.

http://www.operationrebirth.com/herndon3.html

Of course, they are *totally* wrong because they disagree with you.  Now you can pull out Bible quotes to show them they are wrong!  Lol.

The curse of Eve and the curse of Ham.  Google it.  *you* don't think it is a sin, because your culture has adapted.  But again, all those other Christians didn't have the right voice of god whispering in their ear.  Poor bastards.

Yes.  You don't think she is.

Morality is a matter of personal preference, you have shown it to be so yourself when you cherry pick BIble passages to allow a woman to preach to you about god.  The apostles would be horrified.

The Bible has laws about rape?  You'll have to get me a passage.

Some rules are good, but some are no longer applicable.

Yes, I am pretty sure early Christians lived like Jews, because....they were Jews.  Jesus was a Jew!  If Jesus' life was without sin, then you should strive to live like Jesus.  Jesus lived, for the most part, like a Jew.

My effort was half hearted because this is not the first go-around I have made the exact same points and I don't think you have addressed any of them.  We are stalled.  My arguments:

1. You're reason for belief is weak and subjective.  By your own definition (which is lackluster), Islam meets every single criteria for belief.  Actually, besides age, anything that makes people happy meets your definition if you discount your fondness for things > 1,000 years old.  Your arguments for belief are nothing but a series of logical fallacies, I really don't know how else I can say it.

2. Your method of deciphering the Bible is weak and subjective.  You can offer no reason why your opinion on the book is superior to those who disagree with you, even on central points that cannot coexist.

3. You believe the Bible is infallible, but only with your own caveats and even then your belief flies in the face of what we know about the world.  You raise it up as something more than your personal interpretation of a fallible book.

4. You think people deserve to be damned for sins they cannot avoid, and that God is somehow magnanimous for deeming to help us out of the jam he created.  Your last excuse was,  "God is great because he doesn't suck as much as some other gods."

5. You think women are beneath men, and your excuses are, frankly, weak and disturbing.  If this were 50 years ago you would replace "Woman" with "Black" and we'd be having the same stupid debate.  I don't get riled up about much, but the attitude of 'loving' (and patronizing) daddy knows best misogyny promoted by a patriarchal society is flat out disgusting.  It needs to die.  Thankfully, most liberal theists have abandoned it.

6. You think Jesus, the Apostles and Moses would all approve of how you are living your life.  If any of those people actually existed, man...I don't even know what to say.  Go find a rabbi and ask him what Moses would think of you.  They would know, right?

7. And finally you think you seem to think that churches should get tax breaks because part of the money they take in goes towards charity work.  Great, part of my money goes towards charity work, so that means all of my income should be tax free.  I would be fine if non-preaching charity work donated by churches was tax free.  But it needs to be separated.  Pastors salaries, church pews, buses for trips...those are not charity related.

 

Do you have anything better to address these points?  These are the same questions I have been asking since I got into this thread.  I hope you have something better than the bald assertions and circular arguments I have seen so far.

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1. If Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies so well, why didn't the Jews recognize him as the messiah? - Francois Tremblay

 

Answer: (The Old Testament says that Jesus/Yeshua would be rejected by his own.)

 

2. If Gen 3:24 is true, why hasn't anyone found the Cherubim's and the " flaming sword which turned every way"?

 

Answer: (If the Garden of Eden was destroyed by Noah's flood, then there would be no need to guard it... hmm?)

 

3. It's been proven that modern humans originated from Africa. Yet, the Adam and Eve story claims the first Humans lived in a garden in Eden, near 4 rivers. (

Most of which no one can find). One of these rivers mentioned is the Euphrates, which runs through Iraq, Syria and a portion of Turkey. What's the truth?

Did man come out of Africa or near the Euphrates River? - The Infidel Guy

 

Answer:  (No, that is incorrect. You are making an assumption that humans started in Africa. Before the flood Africa didn't exist. The LORD God created Adam. Genesis 1:26, 27.  And Eve was created from Adam's Rib. And they were perfect in the eyes of the LORD.)

 

4. When the believer gets to Heaven, how can Heaven be utter bliss when people they love and care about are burning in Hell ? - The Infidel Guy - [Note: Some say God erases your memories of them, but if God erases your memory, you as Mr. Joe /Jane Smoe ceases to exist.]

 

Answer: (God created all and is in charge of what he has created. Therefore, He makes the rules since the Earth belongs to him. There will be no Sorrow, Pain, Sadness, Death... etc. And we shall only think of him and give him praise since he is the author of ALL LIFE!)

 

5. How can a God have emotions, i.e. jealousy, anger, sadness, love, etc., if he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Emotional states are reactionary for the most part. How can God react to us if he is all-knowing and has a divine plan? - IG [Note: Indeed, many religious texts display their gods this way . Listen to the An Emotional Godshow.]

 

Answer: (There is one truth and one truth only. God feels sadness, anger, hurt, regret, rejoices, judges, he feels like we feels. We are made in his image meaning We have his personality. Genesis 1:26, I Samuel 5:6,  Exodus 20,  John 14, Acts 9, Genesis 6. These shows the many personalities and of God. Made in His image we are.)

 

6. Why would God create a place such as hell to torture sinners forever when he foreknew who would disappoint him? - IG [Note: Some say you have a choice, but this misses the point. If God hates sin so much, why create Adam and Eve when he knew they'd sin? The only conclusion I can come up with, if Yahweh exists, is that he wanted sin to enter the world.]

 

Answer: (Those who reject the Son of man [JESUS/YESHUA] so will the LORD God reject and cast  into the Lake of Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels.)

 

7. "God is all merciful," we hear quite often. Wouldn't it be more merciful of God to simply snap sinners out of existence rather than send them to hell? Or better yet, since he's all-knowing, not allow them to be born at all? - IG

ON GOD'S LOVE & HELL

1.) God's love is superlative.

2.) God's love of man exceeds man's love of self.

3.) Man's love of self prohibits torture.

4.) Considering God's greater love for us, Hell (eternal torture) is illogical.

 

Answer: (The Lord God gives man chances to repent, he Man doesn't repent, there will be a judgment.)

 

8. Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day towards Mecca. Each prayer includes a variety of ritualism and posturing. If a Muslim astronaut were to land on Mars. Prayer to Mecca would be ritualistically impossible due to the rotation of Earth and Mars. Are Muslims stuck here in Earth? IG [Note: Since this was first posted, a Muslim astronaut was faced with this very dilemma. The authoritative clergy informed him to pray as he normally would. I see this no where in the Koran. You see? Religions must change, or die out. It's interesting to note that, in the Koran, the moon is believed to be in the lowest Heaven, the level for those that barely made it to Heaven. Surah 71:15-16. One problem, no man can supposedly get to Heaven until they die. Yet, we've been to the moon. Our satellites beyond that.]

 

Answer: (Islam is a false religion. They pray to a rock! The Bible says: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." You are not to worship anything on the earth, in the heavens, under the earth or in the seas. Only the LORD God shall you serve. So, Islam is false religion and Allah and the LORD God is not the SAME God!)

 

9. Why haven't we seen God reattach severed heads, restore someone who was burned alive or regrow amputated limbs? Surely these would be miracles difficult to deny. - Adam Majors and IG [Note: The typical answer is that man doesn't dictate God's actions. The conundrum here however is that, if God wants us to "know" him, then surely feats such as those mentioned above would be happening all over the world. Until they do, I'll remain an atheist.]

 

Answer: (I'll ask your question with a question. Can you judge The LORD God? Can you condemn God? NO! Remember God created this world, you, and me. And we have to answer what he have done if WE Reject or Accept Him. No. No one can judge God. Judging God would prove fruitless and futile.)

 

10. Why does God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to sinners? Why doesn't he do it himself? - IG [Note: Surely God would have known that not everyone would be convinced by the reality[sic] of his Bible. If God loves us so much, we are all going to Heaven. If God knew that I would be an atheist, and he doesn't like atheists, he shouldn't have allowed me to come into existence. But he did. Therefore, I must be serving the will of God, for I exist. ]

 

Answer: (All have sinned and fallen short to the glory of God.)

 

11. In II Kings 2-23/24 we read about God sending 2 she-bears to attack children for calling the prophet Elisa bald, which he was, the bears killed 42 of the children. Was this a good thing to do? -- Brandon and IG[Note: I have heard some argue that the boys were a gang. So?! I didn't read anywhere in that passage where they laid a finger on the guy . Also, what kind of bears are these that can kill 42 kids? Super Bears? Surely the kids had to be running away.]

 

Answer: (Those who slander or attack the anointed of the LORD, shall receive judgment. Plus "Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God.&quot

 

12. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? After all, men did vote on which books would make the Holy Bible. - The Infidel Guy

Answer: (Satan is the father of lies since it all started with him.)

 

13. Why did God allow Lot and his daughters to escape from Sodom and Gomorrah when he destroyed it only to later have Lot and his daughters engage in incestuous fornication. (Genesis 19:30-36) - Disillusioned [Note: To have intercourse with daddy dearest of course.]

 

Answer: (They were suddenly swept away from their home and Lot's daughters thought their family line would end with them. So, they had sex with their father. NOTE: Deformities were less known to happen in those days and would be outlawed by the time of Moses. It is more known to happen today if family members inter-marry.)

14. Genesis 1:28-29 shows that man and all the animals were first created herbivorous. Most young-earth Christians (ones that believes the earth is less than 10,000 years old) say that the fall of man resulted in carnivorous animals ( hence death of animals). So, why did God punish the animal kingdom, making animals kill and devour each other because of man's mistake? Or, if you're an old-earth Christian (one that accepts that animals existed on earth for billions of years before man came on the scene) then how come fossils show carnivorous animals existed before man? - http://www.caseagainstfaith.com/contact.htm.

 

Answer: (All goes back to sin in the Garden of Eden. Man chose to sin and disobey God and all creatures that breathe air are also subject for man's poor choices. That includes the judgment of the Global Flood of Noah caused by the LORD God.)

 

15. Many Christians believe that God is a thinking being, that he solves problems and makes a way for them when troubles come. Does God Think? If God is thinking, did he know his thoughts before he thought them? If so, again, where is his freewill and how is God thinking at all if everything seems to be one uncontrollable action/thoughts. - The Infidel Guy [Note: I'd say a God cannot think at all. To do so, would strip him of omniscience. Thinking is a temporal process.] ON GOD'S ATEMPORALITY

1.) God, an atemporal being, created the Universe.

2.) Creation is a temporal processes because X cannot cause Y to come into being unless X existed temporally prior to Y.

3.) If God existed prior to the creation of the Universe he is a temporal being.

4.) Since God is atemporal, God cannot be the creator the Universe.

[Note: I guess I should also note here that a timeless being would be without the proposition of past, and future. But to be omniscient, God must know the past and future. Hence a God that is atemporal and omniscient cannot logically exist. ]

 

Answer: (Did you create the Universe? Can you speak something from nothing? You or me don't have that ability. Only Yahweh Elohim (The LORD God) can do that. he is the author and creator of all things. If man thinks about his life for good or for worse, then the LORD God also thinks. We can't question or judge Him.)

16. I have often heard that faith is all that is necessary to believe in God and accept the Bible as true. If this is true aren't all supernatural beliefs true since they also require "faith"? - IG ON FAITH

1.) A prerequisite to believe in a Faith is faith.

2.) Having faith is all that is required to accept a Faith (belief) as true.

3.) All Faiths are true.

[Note: Of course all Faiths aren`t true, but this is the only logical conclusion that can be drawn from a person that states that, "Faith" is how one knows God.]

 

Answer: (If you walk on a bridge... don't you have faith that the bridge won't collapse? If you are on a jet, don't you trust your life in the hands of the Airline pilots? If you have to have surgery don't you place your life in the hands of surgeons? If you are in a building, don't you have faith that the building won't collapse or the floor won't give in? Faith in the simple things we take for granted isn't too different from putting faith in the LORD God who created you (if you chose to believe that or not.) "Ye of little faith!&quot

17. Why didn't God just kill Adam and Eve after the Fall and start from scratch? Actually, if God is all-knowing wouldn't he know that man would need to be killed eventually anyway, (the biblical flood)? Why create Adam and Eve at all? - [email protected] and [email protected] ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN

1.) God is omniscient (all-knowing).

2.) God knew that before he created man that they would eat of the tree of knowledge.

3.) God placed the tree of knowledge in the Garden anyway.

4.) God wanted sin to enter the world.

[Note: If God didn`t want sin to enter the world, why create Adam and Eve at all? He knew what would happen. Why place the forbidden trees in the Garden in the first place?]

 

Answer: (God had a plan of salvation to save them from the evil clutches of sin and defeat Satan. If he started over, it would happen again since Satan would still exists.)

 

18. If a spirit is non-physical but the human body is physical, how does a spirit stay in our bodies? - IG ON SPIRITS

1.) Spirits are not physical entities.

2.) Brains are physical entities.

3.) Past experiences are stored in our physical brains, we call that, Memory..

4.) Injury can damage portions of the physical brain that store memory and can alter or erase memories completely.

5.) If human spirits exist... after death, spirits can have no memory.

[Note: Some will say the spirit stores physical memories as well, but if true, the spirit would have to be physical at least to a degree. How could a non-physical spirit store, physical memories?]

 

Answer: (When we die, are spirit dies. In old testament times, the souls of the old testament saints went to sleep. Today, the Christian saints believe: "To be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD.)

 

19. Does God know his own future decisions? If God is all-knowing he actually shouldn't have any decisions to make at all. Nor can he choose anything over something else. For that would mean that he is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. In fact, he can't even think if this is the case. Since he can't DO anything, he might as well not exist. - IG ON GOD'S IMMUTABILITY - Unchangingness

1. If God exists, then he is immutable.

2. If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe.

3. An immutable being cannot at one time have an intention and then at a later time not have that intention.

4. For any being to create anything, prior to the creation he must have had the intention to create it, but at a later time, after the creation, no longer have the intention to create it.

5. Thus, it is impossible for an immutable being to have created anything (from 3 and 4).

6. Therefore, it is impossible for God to exist (from 1, 2, and 5) - Theodore M. Drange

 

Answer: (Ask God and God will ask you lots of questions like he did Job. We can't judge God's actions. So, my advice ask God and I am sure he will speak to you somehow, maybe through his word the Bible.)

 

20. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation? -- [email protected] [Note: Indeed, wouldn't God know that before the creation of our Universe what creatures would disappoint him? That being the case why create those creatures at all? Also, in knowing absolutely the behavior of humans before creation, God cannot be disappointed either... for this world is exactly as he has planned it to be. If it's not, why create us at all?]

 

Answer: (God was pleased when God created everything. God was disappointed when man sinned.)

 

21. God struck down the Tower of Babel angry at the intent of the people that built them, if this is the case, many of the great pyramids ( which are bigger than any ziggurat) around the world should be rubble also, yet many still stand today. Were not the Egyptians and many other ancient pyramid builders reaching toward God /The Heavens? - IG [Note: In actuality, many of the Pharaoh's believed that, via their pyramids, they would become God's themselves.]

 

Answer: Are you God? An atheist believes no god/God. But it takes more faith to believe that there is no god, so you therefore contradict yourself saying there is no god since there is no true atheist since you become a god of your small world/universe. So this is what the LORD God has forbidden. Exodus 20. Therefore you believe there is no god, so you automatically believe in no god and setup yourself as god since you claim the LORD God does not exist when he does. One day you will have to face him. What will you tell him, when he asks you: "Why did you reject my son Jesus?" That would be interesting, God is not like a judge on earth and there is no chance for appeal!)

 

22. In the watchmaker analogy, a watch is used to show us intelligent design and compares that to the Universe as evidence of design. We know watches are designed because we have past experience with watches, as well as with other man made objects. My question is: What Universe is the Intelligent Design proponent using to compare this Universe with to draw such an analogy? What God did he see create a Universe? - IG

 

Answer: (Man is ruled by time. God isn't. God created the universe so people and all life can have a personal relationship with Him.)

23. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother? - PhineasBg [Note: A good example of how quickly sin returned, was Noah getting drunk just after they discovered land.]

 

Answer: The flood was a prime example of God's Judgment on man. I answered this previously. The other men, women, and children didn't heed the LORD God's warnings so the LORD God wiped them out. God had an ultimate plan of salvation and Noah's family had to be saved since no other man wasn't worthy of saving and God has the right to judge... DO You have a right to judge God? That would be interesting to see what happens when you try to judge God. Very futile indeed! No one can judge God!)

 

24. If the garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did Eve even want to eat the fruit? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing? - keyser soze [Note: Why were the trees there in the first place? Of course they love to throw the serpent into the equation. But ummm..who let the serpent into the Garden?... and why would God create such a creature knowing he would cause man's fall? Hmm.. God must have wanted the fall to happen.]

 

Answer: (The devil tricked her by mixing truth with his filthy lies. Plus, she or Adam wasn't to touch or eat the fruit. When they ate of the fruit they were spiritually dead in God's eyes. And later they physically died.)

 

25. Why would an all-powerful god become flesh in order to sacrifice himself to himself so that his creation might escape the wrath of himself. Couldn't god, in his infinite wisdom, come up with something a little more efficient? - [email protected] ON THE BODY OF CHRIST

1.) God?s flesh was known as Jesus.

2.) Flesh cannot enter into Heaven (according to Paul)

3.) God is no longer Jesus.

4.) Jesus doesn?t exist.

 

Answer: (I will answer your question with one of my own. Are you God? What is that... you aren't... aww... God can become man to accomplish his mission and you can't become God? There is only one true God.... LORD God/Yahweh Elohim. He only you shall serve!)

 

(Note: Many at this point will state that the spirit lives on so therefore Jesus lives. This really depends on what you believe about Jesus. Is Jesus the son of God or God in flesh? If Jesus is merely the son there is no problem. However, if Jesus is God himself, we do. You see, Jesus is called Jesus because of the attribute of Flesh. If Jesus = God (who is spirit) then the entity known as Jesus ceases to exist. The flesh/body of Jesus, no longer exists and the spirit of God is still the unchanging spirit of God. No Jesus at that point. The Flesh, called Jesus, is dead.)

 

Answer: (Are you God or Jesus? Then you have no right to judge God or his motives. Jesus is the God/man meaning after Jesus went back to heaven he retains his flesh, be he now sits at the right hand of the father and He is the heir of God's kingdom and shall rule eternally.)

 

26. After 9/11 a lot of people have been tossing around " god bless america". Why do they keep saying this? From the looks of it god hasn't blessed anything. If god had blessed america, the 9/11 event would've never happened. Theists seem to give the answer of "everything is part of gods big plan". If everything is part of gods big plan, why are we after Bin Laden? Wasn't he and other terrorists just carrying out gods desired plan? So it seems that Bin Laden/ terrorism isnt our enemy, but god . - [email protected] [Note: Unfortunately many religious nuts believe they are fulfilling their God's plan by going to war.]

 

Answer: (Jesus said: "There shall be wars and rumors of wars.)

 

27. Christians say that God is NOT the author of confusion. Can you say, Tower of Babel? - The Screaming Monkeys

Answer: (Man is evil and does what he chooses like you do in believing there is no God!)

 

28. If Noah's flood supposedly covered the earth for a year, regardless of whether or not all the animals could fit on the ark, what the heck happened to all the plants? Can you imagine a cactus surviving under 4 miles of water for a year? I can't either! - Kyle Giblet [Note: With God all things are possible. Oh wait, except in Judges 1:19.]

 

Answer:  (When the fountains of the earth broke open. Everything. I mean everything upon the earth died. However, I believe that seeds of a lot of plants survived that is why we have plants today. You must be ignorant of the bible because nothing can survive a global flood. I wonder.... can you?)

 

29. The highest rainfall ever recorded in a 24 hour period was 47inches in the Reunion Islands in 1947 (during a severe tropical storm). To cover the whole earth to a depth of 5.6 miles, and cover the mountain tops (i.e. Mount Everest), it would need to rain at a rate of 372 (three hundred and seventy two) inches per hour, over the entire surface of the earth. Can rain fall at such an astronomical rate? Where did all the water come from?? Where did it all go to??? And would not the dynamics of the earth be so out of balance (tides etc.) that the earth would become so unstable that it would wobble off into outer space???? - [email protected]

 

Answer: (Read the Hydroplate Theory. As the Bible states, there was no high mountains before the flood. Only small hills. God can do anything. I wonder... can you out do God?)

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html

 

30. What do Muslim women get in Paradise? - IG [Note: Some Muslims I have interviewed about this say that Muslim women will get the same thing men get or equal value. Oh really? So Muslim women will get 72 virgin men? lol. If Muslim men get 72 virgins, where are all these virgin women coming from? What of their freewill? Is Allah creating these women to be slaves to the men in Paradise?]

 

Answer: (Islam isn't the true way to God. Jesus is. It is a false religion started by the master of rebellion, the master of lies... SATAN.)

 

31. In the "Last Days" Jesus is supposed to appear in the clouds. How are the Christians on the opposite end of the world going to see him? Are there going to be millions of Jesus'? What about people that work underground? What about people in deep space? - [email protected]

 

Answer: God can do anything. Have questions and doubts, then ask the LORD God. Maybe he will give you the real answer you have been seeking.)

 

32. The Bible says that God is a jealous God . How is this an example of a moral absolute of which man is supposed to follow? - IG ON GOD`S JEALOUSY

1.) "God is love." 1 John 4:8.

2.) "Love is not jealous." 1 Cor 13:4

3.) "I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God." Exodus 20:5.

4.) The Christian god cannot logically exist.

(NOte: Basically love is NOT jealous, yet god is jealous, then God can`t be love. But if god IS love he cannot be jealous. Be he is.)

 

Answer: (Since God created you. You have no choice but follow his commandments and obey him only.)

 

33. A true Muslim man is not supposed to do anything that the prophet Muhammad didn't do. If one remembers there was a big debate over whether or not Muslims should eat Mangos. If this is true, why in the Hell were these Islamic Fundamentalists flying airplanes? - IG

Answer: (Satan has sifted them and has them in the palm of his hand. Islam is the false religion.)

 

34. If the earth was covered by a complete global flood, every living creature killed except those surviving on the ark, why are there many completely unique animal species in Australia that are found no where else indigenously on the earth? -

 

Answer: (All the animals after their kind was saved along with Noah and his family. The rest was saved as a reminder of what had happened. Plus what would power your car without oil hmm? Answer that one!)

 

35. If god is omniscient and " god is love," why would he allow a child to be conceived, knowing that that child would one day reject him and spend eternity burning in a lake of fire?- TiredTurkeyProd

 

Answer: (God would let people choose for themselves. Now forcing someone to love you... that wouldn't be love now would it. God didn't make robots or junk.)

 

36. Revelations is supposed to take place on Earth. What if we colonize the moon or Mars or inhabit a self-sustaining space station? Do we escape "judgement"? -- Ray Sommers [Note: No we don't Ray... and of course we all know that if there is any intelligent life out there besides us, they are all going to Hell too. ]

 

Answer: (Earth is under quarantine due to sin. I doubt the Moon or Mars would be colonize those places since man can't sort out his problems here on earth.)

 

37. Isaiah 40:28 says, "...the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is he weary?" If this is true, why did God rest on the seventh day?- IG

 

Answer: (When you need rest, don't you sleep? When you hurt or injured, don't you stop what you're doing to rest and recover? The Sabbath was made to benefit man and not man to benefit the Sabbath. We are to follow the LORD's example.)

 

38. Every time I go to a funeral the preacher and guests always say that " God " has called that person to Heaven or they say, " God said it was time to come home", or some such variation. If God is calling these people "home", why are we putting the murderers of these victims in prison? How can we punish a man or woman for doing God's will? - IG

 

 Answer: (Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not steal. Murdering is stealing a person's life. God gave the governments the right to rule over those of those countries. Only God is truly good. I doubt you are or myself included. Those who have served him (Christians), shall go to be with him.)

 

39. Does God have a gender? In most churches, God is predominately referred to as a "he"? - IG [Note: The Bible says God is male, but what does this mean? Does God have a penis? Does he have hormones that dictate his gender? ]

 

Answer: (Since we have pea sized brains and cannot understand God's ways. God chose to talk about in a way that we would understand... the masculine sense. Never is God referred as a "She." Never, he is always referred as a male, although God is genderless. But, God is our Eternal Father. And he loves you. So, why rebel against him? Hmm?)

 

40. Why can't we wait until we get to Heaven to worship God ? Why would it be too late? - IG

 

Answer: (if you are married... do you talk to your wife? If you have kids don't you talk to your kids? Praying is talking to God. Of course, He knows what your thoughts and intentions are! Hebrews 4:12)

 

41. What is the purpose of prayer? What can a finite being on Earth possibly tell an omnipotent, omniscient deity that he doesn't know already? - IG ON PRAYER

1.) Humans can?t change God?s mind for he has a divine plan and is unchangeable.

2.) Prayer can't change God's mind.

3.) Prayer doesn't change anything.

(Prayer may make you feel better emotionally, but it doesn`t change God`s mind.)

 

Answer: (We pray to God for His Will on all matters. Doesn't He knows what's best for us and what won't? Enoch and Noah walked with God, now why can't you?)

42. Some say Jesus was the all-knowing God. Jesus would have known then that when he died he'd be in heaven in less than 3 days to rule. If Jesus is alive and ruling today, what did he sacrifice? -- Cyndy Hammond

 

Answer: (Don't you read the scriptures regarding himself? He must die for our fool hardy ways. So, we can have a relationship with God.)

 

43. God knows that men are sinners, untrustworthy and evil, why does God leave it up to fallible man (clergy..etc) to teach others about his word? Why would he put our eternal souls at risk if he loves us so much? - The Infidel Guy and Danno778

 

Answer: (Just like Paul, All that preach God's Word is chosen vessels unto the LORD.

 

44. Did Adam have nipples? If so, how did he acquire them? In fact, why would God give "later man" nipples at all? They serve no purpose other than lactation. Some say pleasure. Where is that in Genesis exactly? All mammals have nipples as well, are theirs pleasureful for them too? Many men don't find their nipples pleasurable at all. - IG

 

Answer: (God made male and female to love other and reproduce, refill the earth and subdue it.)

 

45. How did Adam and Eve know it was wrong to disobey God if they hadn't eaten of the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) yet? You can't blame them if they didn't know. - IG

 

Answer: (They knew and chose to disobey God's command.)

 

46. If God has such a tremendous problem with uncircumcised penises, why did he make man with foreskin in the first place? - IG [Note: Some say, "So God can recognize his chosen people." Recognize? Is God so stupid that he has to physically look at men's penises? If not God, do other men need to? lol.]

 

Answer: (That old testament rite points to Jesus.)

 

47. Did Noah have fish onboard? Salt or Fresh? Since fresh water fish would die in salt, and salt water fish would die in fresh, only one type of fish would survive. Yet....?" - Frank Monaco

Answer: (The old testament account says only Land animals and those animals that were taken in the ark. Besides, I believe only fresh water fish existed before the flood. And there would be no need to take fish on the ark.)

 

48. Why does the omnipotent, omnipresent God need help from man or angels to spread his word or do acts? - IG [Note: Some say God doesn't need help. But apparently he does.] - IG

 

Answer: (Angels are God's Messengers most likely we can't stand to bare God's glory (Isaiah 6). Man also spreads God's message of redemption to other men.)

 

49. How did Jesus ascend to Heaven in the Flesh when Paul says that flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven? (1 Cor.15:50) - IG [Note: Some say, well Paul said that and not Jesus. Yet they quote Paul when it suits their purposes.]

 

Answer: (Jesus is the Triune God. Therefore Jesus is God and he can enter heaven and

when he entered heaven, he had his glorified body and not the one he died on the cross.)

 

50. If God wants us to live right and choose "the good," why did he create evil? (Isaiah 45:6,7) Not to mention he already knows which people are not going to choose "the good" so why create those people in the first place? It seems that many people are born to go to Hell. - IG ON HELL

1.) God is all-knowing.

2.) Before I was born God knew I wouldn?t believe in him.

3.) I was born to go to Hell.

(Sure you may say I have a choice, but I think I`ve proven already that I really don`t. I`m simply fulfilling the will of God by being an atheist aren`t I? If I`m not, I shouldn`t exist: For God would have known that before I was created that I wouldn`t believe in him.)

 

Answer: (God didn't create evil Satan did. Read Isaiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 28. Satan authored evil and is the master and ruler of it.)

 

51. I hear Christians all the time speaking of a spiritual war between Heaven and Hell, if this is true does God have limitations of power? Man only conducts wars because of our limitations of power and foresight. God has both all-power and all-knowledge, no reason for war of any kind. - IG

 

Answer: (Only God has unlimited power. Man is limited to is pea sized thinking. And cannot see what God see.)

 

52. The Bible is full of phrases beginning with, "and the lord saw". Didn't he know before hand? - IG

 

Answer: (The LORD God is all knowing and we shouldn't question his judgment.)

 

53. How can a psychologist condone belief in something not proven to exist, when people are put into mental institutions on a daily basis for the same thing? i.e. aliens, fairies, imaginary people (Multiple Personality Disorders..)? - Dan Denton [Note: I'm sure that some of the pious believe that they are improperly placed there as well Dan. ]

 

Answer: (Demons exist. Not E.T.'s. That is a delusion created by the devil.)

 

54. If Christians say they know God exists and that he will work miracles, what do they need faith for? Faith is not knowing. - IG

 

Answer: (That is what we are told to do, just like you practice.... 'There is no God!')

 

55. Brain, or shall I say, body transplants, will eventually be possible, where would the soul be then? Where is the soul? - IG

 

Answer: (I doubt brains will ever be transplanted. I don't think you get the concept of the soul. A soul is the person's essence. The soul goes back to who created it.... God.)

56. If God really wants us to know him, why doesn't he place the knowledge of him in our minds at birth? The same way many theists believe that God implants our sense of right and wrong in us a right birth. - IG

 

Answer: (He wants us to choose for ourselves. it's free will. Forcing someone to do what they want won't get no one to love you, right?)

 

57. If God was Jesus' father (not Joseph), then why is Jesus' family tree traced through Joseph? -- Cyndy Hammond

 

Answer: (Jesus has two family lines. The legal line through (Joseph) and the Royal Bloodline through Mary who bore him.)

 

58. What image of God was man made from? Couldn't have been a moral one or physical one. - IG [Note: One would suspect that an image of God would be perfect and cannot sin. Oops.]

 

Answer: The answer is in two parts. First, we are made to be like God's spirit being just and Good (Before man fell). Plus, man broke the relationship God when he chose to disobey. Secondly, for those who met my biological father and never seen me before and finally meets me. Thus, what Jesus says is true, 'If you have seen me, you have seen the father." basically we are made in God's image and I have my Biological Father's likeness.)

 

59. Why can't God appear before everyone at the same time? Everyone in the world would then "know" he exists and not have solely "believe". And please, don't say he already tried that. Surely a God knows exactly what to do to convince a measly human of his existence. - IG

 

Answer: (No one has seen God and his glory would most likely kill us. Isaiah 6)

 

60. According to the New Testament Matthew 5:17 says "Do not suppose that I have come to abolish the Law and the prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to complete. I tell you this: so long as heaven and earth endure, not a letter, not a stroke, will disappear from the Law until all that must happen has Happened." So since Jesus has not returned the "Law" is still in effect, so why aren't we still burning witches, stoning adulterers and disobedient children, killing homosexuals, ostracizing people that work on the Sabbath (nurses, doctors etc.), flinging blood onto the horns of the alter, pulling off the heads of small birds, and don't forget human sacrifice to God (Leviticus 27 P.28 )? -- Sheila L. Chambers

 

Answer: (Just because Jesus fulfilled his duties on earth, doesn't mean the Law has been abolished.)

 

61. If there is freewill in Heaven yet everyone has chosen good and is happy, isn't that proof that God could have made us with freewill, choosing good ( God ) and still being happy on Earth? - Dennis Hendrix [Note: In other words, evil didn't have to exist after all. Hey wait, even in Heaven apparently, evil can exist. At least for a short while. Satan became evil and was in heaven. Apparently he even had enough time to form an Army against God. Wow. Maybe Heaven won't be as peaceful as many believe.]

 

Answer: (It wouldn't be freewill he God forced us.)

 

62. Why does God have a plan? Man is limited in power so we make plans because we are not all-knowing nor all-powerful. If God has a plan, isn't he reduced to a mere finite being? - IG

 

Answer: (Man isn't perfect and God loves us and he was willing to send he son Jesus to die for us. Because, if we don't accept Jesus then our wages is death. That is what we earn if we reject the Son.)

 

63. How could the all-merciful/loving God watch billions of his children burn over and over again for eternity? - IG [Note: Of course this is geared to those that believe in a fiery hell. I am well aware that not all Christians believe in a fiery Hell.]

 

Answer: (God's Word is perfect and man's Word to God means nothing. Plus he won't remember sin or evildoers no more.)

 

64. Before reading and writing were invented (5000BC), on what basis did God use to judge the people who died before the Hebrew and Greek text (BIBLE) were written? -- [email protected] [Note: They are all roasting in Hell. ]

 

Answer: (God looked upon man's wicked ways and judge them. Genesis 6.)

 

65. Many Christians tell me that I will "burn in hell". If I have a soul, how can a soul burn? Aren't souls non-physical entities? - IG [Note: Some Christians groups believe that you will be given new bodies after judgment. However, if true, what's the significance of a spirit in the first place?]

 

Answer: (Every person gets eternal life. Those who choose God, dwells with God. Those who choose not God burns in hell.)

 

66. How can one hold to the barbaric belief that something has to DIE in order to appease a god for a bad deed? -- Nickolaus Wing [Note: Because an old book says so Nick.]

 

Answer: (Man is wicked and something must die for the sins of all men. So Jesus took our place. If we accept Jesus, then our debts are paid in full.)

 

67. Why does SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) occur? Why would God allow a baby to live for such a short period of time? Why not just let them not be born in the first place? -- Terry Clark [Note: This actually happened to a friend of mine. Not even God himself could console her.]

 

Answer: (All souls belong to God. before you were formed in your mother's womb, he knew you. Jeremiah 1)

 

68. If Jesus was nailed and died on Friday evening, and walked out of the tomb on Sunday morning, where's the 3rd NIGHT he predicted? Per Matthew 12:40: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. -

 

Answer: (The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel, a former atheist answers this question. The Jews use a different system then what the secular world uses. it is always "Evening and Morning" like in Genesis.)

 

69. Many Christians claim that hell is merely existence outside of God ?s presence (C.S. Lewis among others). If this is the case, then Jesus could not have descended into hell (being God Himself). As a result, are you sure your sins are forgiven? - Byron Bultsma

 

Answer: (The hell you speak of doesn't exist. You speak of Hades were the saints of the Old testament went when they died. He went to liberate the old testament saints. The fiery hell doesn't exist yet.)

 

70. Ten to twenty percent of all women who discover they are pregnant suffer a miscarriage. Also, it is estimated that anywhere from 14 to 50 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Seeing this is all part of God 's plan, does this make God the world's number one abortion provider? - Jim

 

Answer: (Thou shalt not kill (Murder). if the baby dies due to miscarriage. The dead child can't remain in the womb can it?)

 

71. What if, when you get to Heaven, you saw God causing pain and suffering out of anger or for the purpose of entertaining himself. What if he required people in heaven to praise and worship him non-stop even to the point of causing his worshipers discomfort, pain and boredom. What if, when he was bored, angry, or jealous, he would create natural disasters to make himself feel better. Would you still follow him? - Fernando [Note: Of course they would Fernando, many people followed Hitler out of fear as well.]

 

Answer: (There will be no more pain or suffering.)

 

72. In Leviticus, the bible condemns homosexuality as an "abomination", giving some Christians a reason to hate, harass, torture and kill gays and even picket their funderals with " God hates fags" signs. In the same book of the bible the eating of shellfish is equally an "abomination". Are these Christians planning to go after the patrons of Red Lobster next? - [email protected] [Note: hee-hee, that's all I can say. Jewish Law states that eating Fish without scales is an abomination and thus the Shark is one among the list. However, sharks do have scales, Placoid scales, one of the many reasons why a shark is called a Fish .]

 

Answer: (Doesn't the LORD God knows what is healthy and what is not.)

 

73. Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to go to hell. Either that or god expects unborn fetuses to accept Jesus. - [email protected]

 

Answer: (Adoption is better than abortion. All were created by God, so we return to whom created us.)

 

74. If one could prove to you incontrovertibly that Jesus and God were all human fabrications would still believe? And why? - LOGICnREASON [Note: If you say yes. Then you are not concerned with the truth, you simply WANT to believe; and if you WANT to believe, indeed, there is nothing anyone can tell you..]

 

Answer: (The LORD says: "My ways aren't your ways. Neither is God like us sinners and he hates sin but loves us and He cannot sin and is not able too!)

 

75. It is often said that God allows evil because one could not meaningfully appreciate good without experiencing its opposite. Why is it necessary to experience the opposite of something in order to appreciate it? Must I experience death in order to meaningfully appreciate life? -excidius

 

Answer: (Freewill. You don't want to serve someone who is going to force you right?)

 

76. Bible literalists want you to believe that God's Word in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. If this is the case, why was Jesus fond of explaining things in parable and metaphor? Was Jesus literally discussing the biology of mustard seeds, or was the mustard seed parable meant to be interpreted figuratively as faith? -excidius

 

Answer: (Let me answer you this. He trusted in God more in the parable of the widower? The old widow who gave 100% of all she had or the Rich people? So who loved God more? The widow who gave all she had or the rich person who only gave what he didn't need?)

 

77. Liberal Christians say some parts of the Bible are literally true, but much else is to be interpreted figuratively as allegory. How do you know which is which? What distinguishing criteria are used? How can you be certain "God" is a literal and not a figurative concept? -excidius

 

Answer: (Whould you say all the lies that Satan says to man goes for or against God's Word. Satan loves it when he can twist the truth with his lies.)

 

78. Consciousness is the result of a physical brain, how could God being metaphysical be said to be conscious or sentient without having a brain? - Mindless

 

Answer: (Like I said before. God isn't like us. We are limited in what we see and do. God knows and sees all.)

 

79. Considering how Leviticus is considered old law, and that Christians do not obey it anymore, why do they always use it to defend homosexuality being an "abomination"? -Bohorquez

 

Answer: (A man is to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. And they become one flesh. It isn't man and man or woman plus woman makes a baby. Do the math!)

 

 

80. If God is omnipotent and he has a plan ... then why did he not create the universe as it will be one second after the plan has succeeded? Who or what prevented him from doing that? - Timothy Campbell (http://www.tc123.com)

 

Answer: (God has one plan and sticks to it. We humans can't keep our promises. Are you God? You are an atheist so, therefore you believe there is no God so that contradicts your belief in being an atheist since an atheist believes there is no God and since it takes faith to believe there is no God. Your claims are false and you claim yourself God like the Egyptian Kings did.)

 

81. The large majority of people who have ever existed could not have learned of the Bible or Jesus Christ. And many people afterwards have found other religions or no religion at all to be more convincing, sometimes while being very virtuous. Do all these people really deserve eternal torment because of that? -- lpetrich

 

Answer: (All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory. If they knew about Jesus and reject him God will reject that person. The age of grace will soon pass away.)

 

82. The above arguments also apply among different sects of Christianity, many of which state that most others are not True Christianity. -- lpetrich

 

Answer: (Those Christian sects that doesn't believe Jesus is the true Son of God like Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons are cults.)

 

83. Is it reasonable for the Creator and Ruler of such a vast Universe to be preoccupied with the sexuality of a species living on a tiny little planet? -- lpetrich

 

Answer: (God said be fruitful and multiply. man and wife are posed to sexual relations to have children. All other ways is an abomination to God.)

 

84. If the Christian god was all loving and all knowing why did he let religious figures such as Mohammed or Gautama Budda be born, knowing that they would mislead people from the 'true' faith and trick the majority of the world's population into burning forever in hell (in fact, if Islam didn't start, most of the middle east would probably be Christian). It would simple to use the Holy Spirit to guide them to Jesus and spread the 'true' faith. If the Holy Spirit exits, it certainly isn't doing it's job!

 

Answer: (Forcing someone isn't the answer right? Give them a choice and let them decide for themselves. if they choose the right way, they be rewarded, if not they face the coming judgment.)

 

85. If one is obliged to follow all the teachings of the bible then why is engaging in homosexuality or adultery any worse than "suffering a witch to live", "muzzling the ox that treadeth the corn", "reaping the corners of thy field", "marring the corners of they beard", "plowing with an oxen and an ass", "hating thy brother in thy heart" or "eating frogs, shellfish and eels" ?

 

Answer: (Jesus said to Peter, Don't contradict God. What God has cleansed don't make unclean! God hates abominations of the earth because man's ways are evil.)

 

86. Exactly how did the alleged worldwide flood kill off all the world's sea creatures? How does one go about drowning a fish? -- Steever

 

Answer: (Most aquatic life survived the flood, however not all are spared due to man's wickedness.)

 

87. Why did this alleged god create humans as an animal form of life that gets sick and dies and experiences pain and has a limited mind when 'it' could have created humans as a form of pure energy or of some indestructible material or whatever, and was totally ?sinless? and had ?pure? thought? If a god was omnipotent 'it' could have easily have done this. --AI

 

Answer: (Man sinned and all die. Animals must suffer for man's poor choices.).

 

88. If a god is omnipotent how did 'it' fail to foresee that Satan would turn against 'it'? --AI

 

Answer: (God most likely already knew about Satan falling, and wanted him to chose for himself. Forcing someone to do something against their will isn't right. Wouldn't you agree?)

 

89. What is a god supposedly made of? --AI

 

Answer: (God isn't like us. He is immortal. He is holy, he is spirit, we can't see God because our ways are evil and we are sinners and he hates sin.)

 

List of questions about God, religion and the supernatural have been compiled by IG over the years as well as some interesting ones by readers. 1. If Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies so well, why didn't the Jews recognize him as the messiah? - Francois Tremblay 2. If Gen 3:24 is true, why hasn't anyone found the Cherubims and the " flaming sword which turned every way"? 3. It's been proven that modern humans originated from Africa. Yet, the Adam and Eve story claims the first Humans lived in a garden in Eden, near 4 rivers. ( Most of which no one can find). One of these rivers mentioned is the Euphrates, which runs through Iraq, Syria and a portion of Turkey. What's the truth? Did man come out of Africa or near the Euphrates River? - The Infidel Guy 4. When the believer gets to Heaven, how can Heaven be utter bliss when people they love and care about are burning in Hell ? - The Infidel Guy - [Note: Some say God erases your memories of them, but if God erases your memory, you as Mr. Joe /Jane Smoe ceases to exist.] 5. How can a God have emotions, i.e. jealousy, anger, sadness, love, etc., if he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Emotional states are reactionary for the most part. How can God react to us if he is all-knowing and has a divine plan? - IG [Note: Indeed, many religious texts display their gods this way . Listen to the An Emotional Godshow.] 6. Why would God create a place such as hell to torture sinners forever when he foreknew who would disappoint him? - IG [Note: Some say you have a choice, but this misses the point. If God hates sin so much, why create Adam and Eve when he knew they'd sin? The only conclusion I can come up with, if Yaweh exists, is that he wanted sin to enter the world.] 7. "God is all merciful," we hear quite often. Wouldn't it be more merciful of God to simply snap sinners out of existence rather than send them to hell? Or better yet, since he's all-knowing, not allow them to be born at all? - IG ON GOD'S LOVE & HELL 1.) God's love is superlative. 2.) God's love of man exceeds man's love of self. 3.) Man's love of self prohibits torture. 4.) Considering God's greater love for us, Hell (eternal torture) is illogical. 8. Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day towards Mecca. Each prayer includes a variety of ritualism and posturing. If a muslim astronaut were to land on Mars. Prayer to Mecca would be ritualistically impossible due to the rotation of Earth and Mars. Are Muslims stuck here in Earth? IG [Note: Since this was first posted, a Muslim astronaut was faced with this very dilemma. The authoritative clergy informed him to pray as he normally would. I see this no where in the Koran. You see? Religions must change, or die out. It's interesting to note that, in the Koran, the moon is believed to be in the lowest Heaven, the level for those that barely made it to Heaven. Surah 71:15-16. One problem, no man can supposedly get to Heaven until they die. Yet, we've been to the moon. Our satellites beyond that.] 9. Why haven't we seen God reattach severed heads, restore someone who was burned alive or regrow amputated limbs? Surely these would be miracles difficult to deny. - Adam Majors and IG [Note: The typical answer is that man doesn't dictate God's actions. The conundrum here however is that, if God wants us to "know" him, then surely feats such as those mentioned above would be happening all over the world. Until they do, I'll remain an atheist.] 10. Why does God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to sinners? Why doesn't he do it himself? - IG [Note: Surely God would have known that not everyone would be convinced by the reality[sic] of his Bible. If God loves us so much, we are all going to Heaven. If God knew that I would be an atheist, and he doesn't like atheists, he shouldn't have allowed me to come into existence. But he did. Therefore, I must be serving the will of God, for I exist. ] 11. In II Kings 2-23/24 we read about God sending 2 she-bears to attack children for calling the prophet Elisa bald, which he was, the bears killed 42 of the children. Was this a good thing to do? -- Brandon and IG[Note: I have heard some argue that the boys were a gang. So?! I didn't read anywhere in that passage where they laid a finger on the guy . Also, what kind of bears are these that can kill 42 kids? Super Bears? Surely the kids had to be running away.] 12. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? After all, men did vote on which books would make the Holy Bible. - The Infidel Guy 13. Why did God allow Lot and his daughters to escape from Sodom and Gomorra when he destroyed it only to later have Lot and his daughters engage in incestuous fornication. (Genesis 19:30-36) - Disillusioned [Note: To have intercourse with daddy dearest of course.] 14. Genesis 1:28-29 shows that man and all the animals were first created herbivorous. Most young-earth Christians (ones that believes the earth is less than 10,000 years old) say that the fall of man resulted in carnivorous animals ( hence death of animals). So, why did God punish the animal kingdom, making animals kill and devour each other because of man's mistake? Or, if you're an old-earth Christian (one that accepts that animals existed on earth for billions of years before man came on the scene) then how come fossils show carnivorous animals existed before man? - http://www.caseagainstfaith.com/contact.htm. 15. Many Christians believe that God is a thinking being, that he solves problems and makes a way for them when troubles come. Does God Think? If God is thinking, did he know his thoughts before he thought them? If so, again, where is his freewill and how is God thinking at all if everything seems to be one uncontrollable action/thoughts. - The Infidel Guy [Note: I'd say a God cannot think at all. To do so, would strip him of omniscience. Thinking is a temporal process.] ON GOD'S ATEMPORALITY 1.) God, an atemporal being, created the Universe. 2.) Creation is a temporal processes because X cannot cause Y to come into being unless X existed temporally prior to Y. 3.) If God existed prior to the creation of the Universe he is a temporal being. 4.) Since God is atemporal, God cannot be the creator the Universe. [Note: I guess I should also note here that a timeless being would be without the proposition of past, and future. But to be omniscient, God must know the past and future. Hence a God that is atemporal and omniscient cannot logically exist. ] 16. I have often heard that faith is all that is neccessary to believe in God and accept the Bible as true. If this is true aren't all supernatural beliefs true since they also require "faith"? - IG ON FAITH 1.) A prerequisite to believe in a Faith is faith. 2.) Having faith is all that is required to accept a Faith (belief) as true. 3.) All Faiths are true. [Note: Of course all Faiths aren`t true, but this is the only logical conclusion that can be drawn from a person that states that, "Faith" is how one knows God.] 17. Why didn't God just kill Adam and Eve after the Fall and start from scratch? Actually, if God is all-knowing wouldn't he know that man would need to be killed eventually anyway, (the biblical flood)? Why create Adam and Eve at all? - [email protected] and [email protected] ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN 1.) God is omniscient (all-knowing). 2.) God knew that before he created man that they would eat of the tree of knowledge. 3.) God placed the tree of knowledge in the Garden anyway. 4.) God wanted sin to enter the world. [Note: If God didn`t want sin to enter the world, why create Adam and Eve at all? He knew what would happen. Why place the forbidden trees in the Garden in the first place?] 18. If a spirit is non-physical but the human body is physical, how does a spirit stay in our bodies? - IG ON SPIRITS 1.) Spirits are not physical entities. 2.) Brains are physical entities. 3.) Past experiences are stored in our physical brains, we call that, Memory.. 4.) Injury can damage portions of the physical brain that store memory and can alter or erase memories completely. 5.) If human spirits exist... after death, spirits can have no memory. [Note: Some will say the spirit stores physical memories as well, but if true, the spirit would have to be physical at least to a degree. How could a non-physical spirit store, physical memories?] 19. Does God know his own future decisions? If God is all-knowing he actually shouldn't have any decisions to make at all. Nor can he choose anything over something else. For that would mean that he is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. In fact, he can't even think if this is the case. Since he can't DO anything, he might as well not exist. - IG ON GOD'S IMMUTABILITY - Unchangingness 1. If God exists, then he is immutable. 2. If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe. 3. An immutable being cannot at one time have an intention and then at a later time not have that intention. 4. For any being to create anything, prior to the creation he must have had the intention to create it, but at a later time, after the creation, no longer have the intention to create it. 5. Thus, it is impossible for an immutable being to have created anything (from 3 and 4). 6. Therefore, it is impossible for God to exist (from 1, 2, and 5) - Theodore M. Drange 20. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation? -- [email protected] [Note: Indeed, wouldn't God know that before the creation of our Universe what creatures would disappoint him? That being the case why create those creatures at all? Also, in knowing absolutely the behavior of humans before creation, God cannot be disappointed either... for this world is exactly as he has planned it to be. If it's not, why create us at all?] 21. God struck down the Tower of Babel angry at the intent of the people that built them, if this is the case, many of the great pyramids ( which are bigger than any ziggurat) around the world should be rubble also, yet many still stand today. Were not the Egyptians and many other ancient pyramid builders reaching toward God /The Heavens? - IG [Note: In actuality, many of the Pharaoh's believed that, via their pyramids, they would become God's themselves.] 22. In the watchmaker analogy, a watch is used to show us intelligent design and compares that to the Universe as evidence of design. We know watches are designed because we have past experience with watches, as well as with other man made objects. My question is: What Universe is the Intelligent Design proponent using to compare this Universe with to draw such an analogy? What God did he see create a Universe? - IG 23. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother? - PhineasBg [Note: A good example of how quickly sin returned, was Noah getting drunk just after they discovered land.] 24. If the garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did Eve even want to eat the fruit? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing? - keyser soze [Note: Why were the trees there in the first place? Of course they love to throw the serpent into the equation. But ummm..who let the serpent into the Garden?... and why would God create such a creature knowing he would cause man's fall? Hmm.. God must have wanted the fall to happen.] 25. Why would an all-powerful god become flesh in order to sacrifice himself to himself so that his creation might escape the wrath of himself. Couldn't god, in his infinite wisdom, come up with something a little more efficient? - [email protected] ON THE BODY OF CHRIST 1.) God?s flesh was known as Jesus. 2.) Flesh cannot enter into Heaven (according to Paul) 3.) God is no longer Jesus. 4.) Jesus doesn?t exist. (Note: Many at this point will state that the spirit lives on so therefore Jesus lives. This really depends on what you believe about Jesus. Is Jesus the son of God or God in flesh? If Jesus is merely the son there is no problem.However, if Jesus ?is? God himself, we do. You see, Jesus is called Jesus because of the attribute of Flesh. If Jesus = God (who is spirit) then the entity known as Jesus ceases to exist. The flesh/body of Jesus, no longer exists and the spirit of God is still the unchanging spirit of God. No Jesus at that point. The Flesh, called Jesus, is dead.) 26. After 9/11 a lot of people have been tossing around " god bless america". Why do they keep saying this? From the looks of it god hasn't blessed anything. If god had blessed america, the 9/11 event would've never happened. Theists seem to give the answer of "everything is part of gods big plan". If everything is part of gods big plan, why are we after Bin Laden? Wasn't he and other terrorists just carrying out gods desired plan? So it seems that Bin Laden/ terrorism isnt our enemy, but god . - [email protected] [Note: Unfortunately many religious nuts believe they are fulfilling their God's plan by going to war.] 27. Christians say that God is NOT the author of confusion. Can you say, Tower of Babel? - The Screaming Monkeys 28. If Noah's flood supposedly covered the earth for a year, regardless of whether or not all the animals could fit on the ark, what the heck happened to all the plants? Can you imagine a cactus surviving under 4 miles of water for a year? I can't either! - Kyle Giblet [Note: With God all things are possible. Oh wait, except in Judges 1:19.] 29. The highest rainfall ever recorded in a 24 hour period was 47inches in the Reunion Islands in 1947 (during a severe tropical storm). To cover the whole earth to a depth of 5.6 miles, and cover the mountain tops (i.e. Mount Everest), it would need to rain at a rate of 372 (three hundred and seventy two) inches per hour, over the entire surface of the earth. Can rain fall at such an astronomical rate? Where did all the water come from?? Where did it all go to??? And would not the dynamics of the earth be so out of balance (tides etc.) that the earth would become so unstable that it would wobble off into outer space???? - [email protected] 30. What do Muslim women get in Paradise? - IG [Note: Some Muslims I have interviewed about this say that Muslim women will get the same thing men get or equal value. Oh really? So Muslim women will get 72 virgin men? lol. If Muslim men get 72 virgins, where are all these virgin women coming from? What of their freewill? Is Allah creating these women to be slaves to the men in Paradise?] 31. In the "Last Days" Jesus is supposed to appear in the clouds. How are the Christians on the opposite end of the world going to see him? Are there going to be millions of Jesus'? What about people that work underground? What about people in deep space? - [email protected] 32. The Bible says that God is a jealous God . How is this an example of a moral absolute of which man is supposed to follow? - IG ON GOD`S JEALOUSY 1.) "God is love." 1 John 4:8. 2.) "Love is not jealous." 1 Cor 13:4 3.) "I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God." Exodus 20:5. 4.) The Christian god cannot logically exist. (NOte: Basically love is NOT jealous, yet god is jealous, then God can`t be love. But if god IS love he cannot be jealous. Be he is.) 33. A true Muslim man is not supposed to do anything that the prophet Muhammad didn't do. If one remembers there was a big debate over whether or not Muslims should eat Mangos. If this is true, why in the Hell were these Islamic Fundamentalists flying airplanes? - IG 34. If the earth was covered by a complete global flood, every living creature killed except those surviving on the ark, why are there many completely unique animal species in Australia that are found no where else indigenously on the earth? - [email protected] 35. If god is omniscient and " god is love," why would he allow a child to be conceived, knowing that that child would one day reject him and spend eternity burning in a lake of fire?- TiredTurkeyProd 36. Revelations is supposed to take place on Earth. What if we colonize the moon or Mars or inhabit a self-sustaining space station? Do we escape "judgement"? -- Ray Sommers [Note: No we don't Ray... and of course we all know that if there is any intelligent life out there besides us, they are all going to Hell too. ] 37. Isaiah 40:28 says, "...the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is he weary?" If this is true, why did God rest on the seventh day?- IG 38. Everytime I go to a funeral the preacher and guests always say that " God " has called that person to Heaven or they say, " God said it was time to come home", or some such variation. If God is calling these people "home", why are we putting the murderers of these victims in prison? How can we punish a man or woman for doing God's will? - IG 39. Does God have a gender? In most churches, God is predominately referred to as a "he"? - IG [Note: The Bible says God is male, but what does this mean? Does God have a penis? Does he have hormones that dictate his gender? ] 40. Why can't we wait until we get to Heaven to worship God ? Why would it be too late? - IG 41. What is the purpose of prayer? What can a finite being on Earth possibly tell an omnipotent, omniscient deity that he doesn't know already? - IG ON PRAYER 1.) Humans can?t change God?s mind for he has a divine plan and is unchangeable. 2.) Prayer can't change God's mind. 3.) Prayer doesn't change anything. (Prayer may make you feel better emotionally, but it doesn`t change God`s mind.) 42. Some say Jesus was the all-knowing God. Jesus would have known then that when he died he'd be in heaven in less than 3 days to rule. If Jesus is alive and ruling today, what did he sacrifice? -- Cyndy Hammond 43. God knows that men are sinners, untrustworthy and evil, why does God leave it up to fallible man (clergy..etc) to teach others about his word? Why would he put our eternal souls at risk if he loves us so much? - The Infidel Guy and Danno778 44. Did Adam have nipples? If so, how did he acquire them? In fact, why would God give "later man" nipples at all? They serve no purpose other than lactation. Some say pleasure. Where is that in Genesis exactly? All mammals have nipples as well, are theirs pleasureful for them too? Many men don't find their nipples pleasurable at all. - IG 45. How did Adam and Eve know it was wrong to disobey God if they hadn't eaten of the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) yet? You can't blame them if they didn't know. - IG 46. If God has such a tremendous problem with uncircumcised penises, why did he make man with foreskin in the first place? - IG [Note: Some say, "So God can recognize his chosen people." Recognize? Is God so stupid that he has to physically look at men's penises? If not God, do other men need to? lol.] 47. Did Noah have fish onboard? Salt or Fresh? Since fresh water fish would die in salt, and salt water fish would die in fresh, only one type of fish would survive. Yet....?" - Frank Monaco 48. Why does the omnipotent, omnipresent God need help from man or angels to spread his word or do acts? - IG [Note: Some say God doesn't need help. But apparently he does.] - IG 49. How did Jesus ascend to Heaven in the Flesh when Paul says that flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven? (1 Cor.15:50) - IG [Note: Some say, well Paul said that and not Jesus. Yet they quote Paul when it suits there purposes.] 50. If God wants us to live right and choose "the good," why did he create evil? (Isaiah 45:6,7) Not to mention he already knows which people are not going to choose "the good" so why create those people in the first place? It seems that many people are born to go to Hell. - IG ON HELL 1.) God is all-knowing. 2.) Before I was born God knew I wouldn?t believe in him. 3.) I was born to go to Hell. (Sure you may say I have a choice, but I think I`ve proven already that I really don`t. I`m simply fulfilling the will of God by being an atheist aren`t I? If I`m not, I shouldn`t exist: For God would have known that before I was created that I wouldn`t believe in him.) 51. I hear Christians all the time speaking of a spiritual war between Heaven and Hell, if this is true does God have limitations of power? Man only conducts wars because of our limitations of power and foresight. God has both all-power and all-knowledge, no reason for war of any kind. - IG 52. The Bible is full of phrases beginning with, "and the lord saw". Didn't he know before hand? - IG 53. How can a psychologist condone belief in something not proven to exist, when people are put into mental institutions on a daily basis for the same thing? i.e. aliens, fairies, imaginary people (Multiple Personality Disorders..)? - Dan Denton [Note: I'm sure that some of the pious believe that they are improperly placed there as well Dan. ] 54. If Christians say they know God exists and that he will work miracles, what do they need faith for? Faith is not knowing. - IG 55. Brain, or shall I say, body transplants, will eventually be possible, where would the soul be then? Where is the soul? - IG 56. If God really wants us to know him, why doesn't he place the knowledge of him in our minds at birth? The same way many theists believe that God implants our sense of right and wrong in us a right birth. - IG 57. If God was Jesus' father (not Joseph), then why is Jesus' family tree traced through Joseph? -- Cyndy Hammond 58. What image of God was man made from? Couldn't have been a moral one or physical one. - IG [Note: One would suspect that an image of God would be perfect and cannot sin. Oops.] 59. Why can't God appear before everyone at the same time? Everyone in the world would then "know" he exists and not have solely "believe". And please, don't say he already tried that. Surely a God knows exactly what to do to convince a measly human of his existence. - IG 60. According to the New Testament Matthew 5:17 says "Do not suppose that I have come to abolish the Law and the prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to complete. I tell you this: so long as heaven and earth endure, not a letter, not a stroke, will disappear from the Law until all that must happen has Happened." So since Jesus has not returned the "Law" is still in effect, so why aren't we still burning witches, stoning adulterers and disobedient children, killing homosexuals, ostracizing people that work on the Sabbath (nurses, doctors etc.), flinging blood onto the horns of the alter, pulling off the heads of small birds, and don't forget human sacrifice to God (Leviticus 27 P.28 )? -- Sheila L. Chambers 61. If there is freewill in Heaven yet everyone has chosen good and is happy, isn't that proof that God could have made us with freewill, choosing good ( God ) and still being happy on Earth? - Dennis Hendrix [Note: In other words, evil didn't have to exist after all. Hey wait, even in Heaven apparently, evil can exist. At least for a short while. Satan became evil and was in heaven. Apparently he even had enough time to form an Army against God. Wow. Maybe Heaven won't be as peaceful as many believe.] 62. Why does God have a plan? Man is limited in power so we make plans because we are not all-knowing nor all-powerful. If God has a plan, isn't he reduced to a mere finite being? - IG 63. How could the all-merciful/loving God watch billions of his children burn over and over again for eternity? - IG [Note: Of course this is geared to those that believe in a fiery hell. I am well aware that not all Christians believe in a fiery Hell.] 64. Before reading and writing were invented (5000BC), on what basis did God use to judge the people who died before the Hebrew and Greek text (BIBLE) were written? -- [email protected] [Note: They are all roasting in Hell. ] 65. Many Christians tell me that I will "burn in hell". If I have a soul, how can a soul burn? Aren't souls non-physical entities? - IG [Note: Some Christians groups believe that you will be given new bodies after judgement. However, if true, what's the significance of a spirit in the first place?] 66. How can one hold to the barbaric belief that something has to DIE in order to appease a god for a bad deed? -- Nickolaus Wing [Note: Because an old book says so Nick.] 67. Why does SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) occur? Why would God allow a baby to live for such a short period of time? Why not just let them not be born in the first place? -- Terry Clark [Note: This actually happened to a friend of mine. Not even God himself could console her.] 68. If Jesus was nailed and died on Friday evening, and walked out of the tomb on Sunday morning, where's the 3rd NIGHT he predicted? Per Matthew 12:40: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. - [email protected] 69. Many Christians claim that hell is merely existence outside of God ?s presence (C.S. Lewis among others). If this is the case, then Jesus could not have descended into hell (being God Himself). As a result, are you sure your sins are forgiven? - Byron Bultsma 70. Ten to twenty percent of all women who discover they are pregnant suffer a miscarriage. Also, it is estimated that anywhere from 14 to 50 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Seeing this is all part of God 's plan, does this make God the world's number one abortion provider? - Jim 71. What if, when you get to Heaven, you saw God causing pain and suffering out of anger or for the purpose of entertaining himself. What if he required people in heaven to praise and worship him non-stop even to the point of causing his worshipers discomfort, pain and boredom. What if, when he was bored, angry, or jealous, he would create natural disasters to make himself feel better. Would you still follow him? - Fernando [Note: Of course they would Fernando, many people followed Hitler out of fear as well.] 72. In Leviticus, the bible condemns homosexuality as an "abomination", giving some Christians a reason to hate, harass, torture and kill gays and even picket their funderals with " God hates fags" signs. In the same book of the bible the eating of shellfish is equally an "abomination". Are these Christians planning to go after the patrons of Red Lobster next? - [email protected] [Note: hee-hee, that's all I can say. Jewish Law states that eating Fish without scales is an abomination and thus the Shark is one among the list. However, sharks do have scales, Placoid scales, one of the many reasons why a shark is called a Fish .] 73. Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to go to hell. Either that or god expects unborn fetuses to accept Jesus. - [email protected] 74. If one could prove to you incontrovertibly that Jesus and God were all human fabrications would still believe? And why? - LOGICnREASON [Note: If you say yes. Then you are not concerned with the truth, you simply WANT to believe; and if you WANT to believe, indeed, there is nothing anyone can tell you..] 75. It is often said that God allows evil because one could not meaningfully appreciate good without experiencing its opposite. Why is it necessary to experience the opposite of something in order to appreciate it? Must I experience death in order to meaningfully appreciate life? -excidius 76. Bible literalists want you to believe that God's Word in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. If this is the case, why was Jesus fond of explaining things in parable and metaphor? Was Jesus literally discussing the biology of mustard seeds, or was the mustard seed parable meant to be interpreted figuratively as faith? -excidius 77. Liberal Christians say some parts of the Bible are literally true, but much else is to be interpreted figuratively as allegory. How do you know which is which? What distinguishing criteria are used? How can you be certain "God" is a literal and not a figurative concept? -excidius 78. Consciousness is the result of a physical brain, how could God being metaphysical be said to be conscious or sentient without having a brain? - Mindless 79. Considering how Leviticus is considered old law, and that Christians do not obey it anymore, why do they always use it to defend homosexuality being an "abomination"? -Bohorquez 80. If God is omnipotent and he has a plan ... then why did he not create the universe as it will be one second after the plan has succeeded? Who or what prevented him from doing that? - Timothy Campbell (http://www.tc123.com) 81. The large majority of people who have ever existed could not have learned of the Bible or Jesus Christ. And many people afterwards have found other religions or no religion at all to be more convincing, sometimes while being very virtuous. Do all these people really deserve eternal torment because of that? -- lpetrich 82. The above arguments also apply among different sects of Christianity, many of which state that most others are not True Christianity. -- lpetrich 83. Is it reasonable for the Creator and Ruler of such a vast Universe to be preoccupied with the sexuality of a species living on a tiny little planet? -- lpetrich 84. If the Christian god was all loving and all knowing why did he let religious figures such as Mohammed or Gautama Budda be born, knowing that they would mislead people from the 'true' faith and trick the majority of the world's population into burning forever in hell (in fact, if Islam didn't start, most of the middle east would probably be Christian). It would simple to use the Holy Spirit to guide them to Jesus and spread the 'true' faith. If the Holy Spirit exits, it certainly isn't doing it's job! 85. If one is obliged to follow all the teachings of the bible then why is engaging in homosexuality or adultery any worse than "suffering a witch to live", "muzzling the ox that treadeth the corn", "reaping the corners of thy field", "marring the corners of they beard", "plowing with an oxen and an ass", "hating thy brother in thy heart" or "eating frogs, shellfish and eels" ? 86. Exactly how did the alleged worldwide flood kill off all the world's sea creatures? How does one go about drowning a fish? -- Steever 87. Why did this alleged god create humans as an animal form of life that gets sick and dies and experiences pain and has a limited mind when 'it' could have created humans as a form of pure energy or of some indestructible material or whatever, and was totally ?sinless? and had ?pure? thought? If a god was omnipotent 'it' could have easily have done this. --AI 88. If a god is omnipotent how did 'it' fail to foresee that Satan would turn against 'it'? --AI 89. What is a god supposedly made of? --AI This list was compiled by the Infidel Guy with submissions from many members of the atheist community. PICK THE QUESTION YOU WANT TO ANSWER, AND POST IT HERE...

I would like to put forward a question to you. If it is so obvious that God does not exist, and there is no evidence or rational reason for believing in a God, why do people still believe?

Also, just briefly, some of your questions seem incomplete, like #52.
"Didn't God know beforehand?"  If I said "yes, therefor he also saw beforehand" I am not quite sure where the question was leading. What did I miss?  No need to answer that, I don't think it is going to make any difference.

I am curious though, do you feel that any of your questions have been answered in this forum?

4. My guess is that he takes our sadness away , so we cannot ever be sad in heaven.

1. If Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies so well, why didn't the Jews recognize him as the messiah? - Francois Tremblay

2. If Gen 3:24 is true, why hasn't anyone found the Cherubims and the " flaming sword which turned every way"?

3. It's been proven that modern humans originated from Africa. Yet, the Adam and Eve story claims the first Humans lived in a garden in Eden, near 4 rivers. ( Most of which no one can find). One of these rivers mentioned is the Euphrates, which runs through Iraq, Syria and a portion of Turkey. What's the truth? Did man come out of Africa or near the Euphrates River? - The Infidel Guy

4. When the believer gets to Heaven, how can Heaven be utter bliss when people they love and care about are burning in Hell ? - The Infidel Guy - [Note: Some say God erases your memories of them, but if God erases your memory, you as Mr. Joe /Jane Smoe ceases to exist.]

5. How can a God have emotions, i.e. jealousy, anger, sadness, love, etc., if he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Emotional states are reactionary for the most part. How can God react to us if he is all-knowing and has a divine plan? - IG [Note: Indeed, many religious texts display their gods this way . Listen to the An Emotional Godshow.]

6. Why would God create a place such as hell to torture sinners forever when he foreknew who would disappoint him? - IG [Note: Some say you have a choice, but this misses the point. If God hates sin so much, why create Adam and Eve when he knew they'd sin? The only conclusion I can come up with, if Yaweh exists, is that he wanted sin to enter the world.]

7. "God is all merciful," we hear quite often. Wouldn't it be more merciful of God to simply snap sinners out of existence rather than send them to hell? Or better yet, since he's all-knowing, not allow them to be born at all? - IG

 

ON GOD'S LOVE & HELL

1.) God's love is superlative.

2.) God's love of man exceeds man's love of self.

3.) Man's love of self prohibits torture.

4.) Considering God's greater love for us, Hell (eternal torture) is illogical.

8. Muslims are supposed to pray 5 times a day towards Mecca. Each prayer includes a variety of ritualism and posturing. If a muslim astronaut were to land on Mars. Prayer to Mecca would be ritualistically impossible due to the rotation of Earth and Mars. Are Muslims stuck here in Earth? IG [Note: Since this was first posted, a Muslim astronaut was faced with this very dilemma. The authoritative clergy informed him to pray as he normally would. I see this no where in the Koran. You see? Religions must change, or die out. It's interesting to note that, in the Koran, the moon is believed to be in the lowest Heaven, the level for those that barely made it to Heaven. Surah 71:15-16. One problem, no man can supposedly get to Heaven until they die. Yet, we've been to the moon. Our satellites beyond that.]

9. Why haven't we seen God reattach severed heads, restore someone who was burned alive or regrow amputated limbs? Surely these would be miracles difficult to deny. - Adam Majors and IG [Note: The typical answer is that man doesn't dictate God's actions. The conundrum here however is that, if God wants us to "know" him, then surely feats such as those mentioned above would be happening all over the world. Until they do, I'll remain an atheist.]

10. Why does God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to sinners? Why doesn't he do it himself? - IG [Note: Surely God would have known that not everyone would be convinced by the reality[sic] of his Bible. If God loves us so much, we are all going to Heaven. If God knew that I would be an atheist, and he doesn't like atheists, he shouldn't have allowed me to come into existence. But he did. Therefore, I must be serving the will of God, for I exist. ]

11. In II Kings 2-23/24 we read about God sending 2 she-bears to attack children for calling the prophet Elisa bald, which he was, the bears killed 42 of the children. Was this a good thing to do? -- Brandon and IG[Note: I have heard some argue that the boys were a gang. So?! I didn't read anywhere in that passage where they laid a finger on the guy . Also, what kind of bears are these that can kill 42 kids? Super Bears? Surely the kids had to be running away.]

12. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? After all, men did vote on which books would make the Holy Bible. - The Infidel Guy

13. Why did God allow Lot and his daughters to escape from Sodom and Gomorra when he destroyed it only to later have Lot and his daughters engage in incestuous fornication. (Genesis 19:30-36) - Disillusioned [Note: To have intercourse with daddy dearest of course.]

14. Genesis 1:28-29 shows that man and all the animals were first created herbivorous. Most young-earth Christians (ones that believes the earth is less than 10,000 years old) say that the fall of man resulted in carnivorous animals ( hence death of animals). So, why did God punish the animal kingdom, making animals kill and devour each other because of man's mistake? Or, if you're an old-earth Christian (one that accepts that animals existed on earth for billions of years before man came on the scene) then how come fossils show carnivorous animals existed before man? -http://www.caseagainstfaith.com/contact.htm.

15. Many Christians believe that God is a thinking being, that he solves problems and makes a way for them when troubles come. Does God Think? If God is thinking, did he know his thoughts before he thought them? If so, again, where is his freewill and how is God thinking at all if everything seems to be one uncontrollable action/thoughts. - The Infidel Guy [Note: I'd say a God cannot think at all. To do so, would strip him of omniscience. Thinking is a temporal process.]

 

ON GOD'S ATEMPORALITY

1.) God, an atemporal being, created the Universe.

2.) Creation is a temporal processes because X cannot cause Y to come into being unless X existed temporally prior to Y.

3.) If God existed prior to the creation of the Universe he is a temporal being.

4.) Since God is atemporal, God cannot be the creator the Universe.

[Note: I guess I should also note here that a timeless being would be without the proposition of past, and future. But to be omniscient, God must know the past and future. Hence a God that is atemporal and omniscient cannot logically exist. ]

16. I have often heard that faith is all that is neccessary to believe in God and accept the Bible as true. If this is true aren't all supernatural beliefs true since they also require "faith"? -

 

IG ON FAITH

1.) A prerequisite to believe in a Faith is faith.

2.) Having faith is all that is required to accept a Faith (belief) as true.

3.) All Faiths are true.

[Note: Of course all Faiths aren`t true, but this is the only logical conclusion that can be drawn from a person that states that, "Faith" is how one knows God.]

17. Why didn't God just kill Adam and Eve after the Fall and start from scratch? Actually, if God is all-knowing wouldn't he know that man would need to be killed eventually anyway, (the biblical flood)? Why create Adam and Eve at all?  and [email protected] 

 

ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN

1.) God is omniscient (all-knowing).

2.) God knew that before he created man that they would eat of the tree of knowledge.

3.) God placed the tree of knowledge in the Garden anyway.

4.) God wanted sin to enter the world.

[Note: If God didn`t want sin to enter the world, why create Adam and Eve at all? He knew what would happen. Why place the forbidden trees in the Garden in the first place?]

18. If a spirit is non-physical but the human body is physical, how does a spirit stay in our bodies? -

 

IG ON SPIRITS

 

1.) Spirits are not physical entities.

2.) Brains are physical entities.

3.) Past experiences are stored in our physical brains, we call that, Memory..

4.) Injury can damage portions of the physical brain that store memory and can alter or erase memories completely.

5.) If human spirits exist... after death, spirits can have no memory.

[Note: Some will say the spirit stores physical memories as well, but if true, the spirit would have to be physical at least to a degree. How could a non-physical spirit store, physical memories?]

19. Does God know his own future decisions? If God is all-knowing he actually shouldn't have any decisions to make at all. Nor can he choose anything over something else. For that would mean that he is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. In fact, he can't even think if this is the case. Since he can't DO anything, he might as well not exist. -

 

IG ON GOD'S IMMUTABILITY - Unchangingness

 

1. If God exists, then he is immutable.

2. If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe.

3. An immutable being cannot at one time have an intention and then at a later time not have that intention.

4. For any being to create anything, prior to the creation he must have had the intention to create it, but at a later time, after the creation, no longer have the intention to create it.

5. Thus, it is impossible for an immutable being to have created anything (from 3 and 4).

6. Therefore, it is impossible for God to exist (from 1, 2, and 5) - Theodore M. Drange

20. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation?  [Note: Indeed, wouldn't God know that before the creation of our Universe what creatures would disappoint him? That being the case why create those creatures at all? Also, in knowing absolutely the behavior of humans before creation, God cannot be disappointed either... for this world is exactly as he has planned it to be. If it's not, why create us at all?]

21. God struck down the Tower of Babel angry at the intent of the people that built them, if this is the case, many of the great pyramids ( which are bigger than any ziggurat) around the world should be rubble also, yet many still stand today. Were not the Egyptians and many other ancient pyramid builders reaching toward God /The Heavens? - IG [Note: In actuality, many of the Pharaoh's believed that, via their pyramids, they would become God's themselves.]

22. In the watchmaker analogy, a watch is used to show us intelligent design and compares that to the Universe as evidence of design. We know watches are designed because we have past experience with watches, as well as with other man made objects. My question is: What Universe is the Intelligent Design proponent using to compare this Universe with to draw such an analogy? What God did he see create a Universe? - IG

23. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother? - PhineasBg [Note: A good example of how quickly sin returned, was Noah getting drunk just after they discovered land.]

24. If the garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did Eve even want to eat the fruit? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing? - keyser soze [Note: Why were the trees there in the first place? Of course they love to throw the serpent into the equation. But ummm..who let the serpent into the Garden?... and why would God create such a creature knowing he would cause man's fall? Hmm.. God must have wanted the fall to happen.]

Hey founder!

Questions about God...?!?!?!? These are not questions about God... for God sake!!! These are questions about literal Biblical interpretation!!! and I thought this was a challenge!!!

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