Here's one last attempt to post my answers to the questions.

Please remember that I am answering from what I believe is the Catholic resopnse. I understand that some of my responses will be ridiculed and some people may not think I answered the question correctly. I only answered MY interpretation of the question, and I did what I could. Please enjoy.

The Catholic Answer to Multiple Questions:

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

The Jews had a conception of the Messiah as a physical King who would subdue the nations and restore the Jewish traditions throughout the world. This was a terrible misconception, and they didn't see Jesus as the true king because he didn't meet those misconceptions. They misinterpreted the OT prophecies, and thought He didn't fulfill them. But He did.

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

Many different explanations: This could be a metaphor, but probably isn't. It may be that the "sword" was some sort of allegory to a mist over mens' hearts/eyes or whatever, so that we couldn't find it.

Maybe it got buried under sediment and in strata, and the fire got put out. It probably would have been put out in the first significant rain. This sort of undermines the divine power God has, though (Yeah, He put a sword there, but it fell over and got buried...yeah...and the Divine Fire was sort of put out by an un-divine rain...yeah...).

That's why it probably was a "spiritual" sword, which no one could have seen anyway, which is why we haven't found it.

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

This has not been proven, but if it is true (as it well may be) then it is also quite possible that the Euphrates of Syria is a different Euphrates. Remember, these stories were widely known, and there could have very probably been many things named after these popular rivers.

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.]

People in Heaven are not concerned with those people down in Hell. They are too happy to conceive anything but their present company, and the miseries of those below are not considered. The story of Lazarus should not be confused to prove otherwise, as he was in Abraham's bosom (possibly limbo?) and not Heaven. No one could yet enter Heaven, because faith in Jesus could not have existed, being as He had not been yet born when those good people died.

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.]

God's emotions are quite different from Man's emotions. For example, "jealousy" on Earth is nearly always tied to envy, a reactionary emotion. If they are separate, though, then jealousy is fine. It is NOT reactionary. Likewise anger is nearly always, on Earth, tied to negative thoughts. It is thus condemned, because negative thoughts are evil. God's anger is just anger, which is rare on Earth. It is not reactionary. I hope I have shown in small part at least that God's emotions are not reactionary, and this is why His omnipotence is preserved through his emotions.

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.]

God gave Man the choice to accept Him or deny Him. While He does not influence our choices, He knows them. He lets us discover them ourselves. This does not miss the point, and I will explain a little more clearly. God created Adam and Eve because He wanted company in Heaven in His own image, and He loved these future beings so much that He let them on Earth first so that they could choose Him or not. When He created them, He allowed for the possibility of their denial of Him, but He did not force them into it. They could have chosen Him or denied Him. God knew their actions, yes, but not in the same sense that we understand knowledge.

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.

God's mercy is infinite towards us. To snap someone out of existence is not merciful. This is denying them their choice. If someone chooses to go to Hell (as all who sin necessarily do), it would be to deny them their choice. This would not be mercy. In His infinite mercy, He therefore sends them to Hell, and gives them what they want.

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.]

I don't know anything about Muslims, but I'm sure this would be an exception.

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.]

You haven't seen God perform these extreme miracles because you are not looking hard enough. Gemma di Giorgi had her eyesight restored, though she has no pupils (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.cicap.org/emilia/pupille.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=

/search%3Fq%3DGemma%2Bdi%2BGiorgi%2BPadre%2BPio%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG). This is quite on par with limb regeneration. All four gospels recount the time when Simon cut off the High Priest's servant's ear (See Lk. 22:50, Jn. 18:10, Mt. 26:51, Mk. 14:47). But Luke 22:51 recalls that Jesus also restored his ear. Though citations for other examples currently escape me, I have heard of more.

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. ]

You ask two questions here, it seems. 1) You want to know why God entrusts the spreading of His word to sinners, and 2) you want to know why you exist if it is not the will of God that you be atheist.

1) God lets us do it because God wants men to convert other men. If God offered direct proof by His presence, there would be no place for faith. While God does not disregard the benefits of evidence (Jesus often performed miracles solely as proof of His divinity [cf. John 11:42-44]), man must have faith in God to be saved.

2) God gave you the free will to choose Him or deny Him. If he would not let you exist just because you denied Him, then He would not be loving you. But He does, and therefore He lets you exist, and He gives you the chance to accept Him again, and be forgiven.

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.]

I can't really speak for Elisa, but I think that would be an abuse of God-granted power, and a bad sin on Elisa's part.

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

Jesus promised that Satan would never prevail against His Church (Matthew 16:18). Temptation is NOT always exclusively from the devil, though, and the lusts of the flesh can assail you even in the holiest of places. Satan didn't find his way into the Bible because God promised in Timothy (2 Timothy 3:16) that it is from Him, and not from the devil. (This is not circular reasoning because the Catholic Church has been around since the time of Christ and has continuously proclaimed that this verse is truth, and the devil cannot have perverted the Church to make a false claim such as that would be. We know he cannot have because the Catholic Church has remained a beacon of undiluted light throughout history, having only sound doctrine and good morals. Its saints and miracles have been testimony as to its validity, for those of you who want proof outside of Scripture.)

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.]

They didn't engage in incestuous fornication. The daughters did do their father, but the purpose was not to be incestuous, but to preserve the race. Its a Holy Loophole (get it?).

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.

The cited verse was in reference to Adam and Eve, not necessarily to the animals. Anyway, the verse that death comes through sin (I think its what you also referred to, though you didn't cite a reference; Romans 5:12) was obviously speaking of spiritual death, or the damnation of the soul. Since animals don't have souls, they can't spiritually die (they were never spiritually alive). So them being carnivorous is not in opposition to Scripture.

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. ]

Yes, God thinks. No, He did not know His thoughts before He thought them, because there was no "before He thought them". God exists in an eternal present (Exodus 3:14; note that "I am" is extended through the future; John 8:58; note that "I am" is extended through the past), and His thoughts are existent always, and never, at the same time.

Regarding the atemporality, I don't understand why an atemporal being couldn't create a temporal universe. I think that God can be atemporal even existing when the universe was created. I think the misunderstanding comes in somewhere along the point of time's existence, which was created while the universe was created.

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.]

All religions may require faith, but if you have faith in the wrong things then your faith is misplaced. Faith is all that is required, yes, but not faith in anything, but in a specific thing: Jesus Christ. Also, though you may have faith that a religion is true, truth is not subjective to faith, so you could simply be wrong.

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?]

God did end up killing them; they would not have died had they not eaten the fruit, but they did die because they did eat the fruit. But He didn't want to "start from scratch" because He hadn't made a mistake. Man had made a mistake, and Man needed to fix it...or at least choose to accept deliverance. God created Adam and Eve solely because He wanted them with Him in Heaven. It had nothing to do with sin entering or anything else. If He hadn't put the Tree in, then they wouldn't have been able to make that choice: My will or Thy will? It would have been denying them the love He wanted to give them.

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?]

Spirits are separate from our bodies, and do not "stay in our bodies". They are probably not in this world, but I'm not sure about that. I know that this is sort of like asking how the function of a hat stays inside the hat. It doesn't. The function, while defining what makes a hat a hat, is not contained within it.

Spirits do not store physical memories, yet they can "remember". I'm not exactly sure how this works, though.

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

God does not make future decisions. There is no "future". He makes all decisions presently, all decisions are already made, and none of them are yet made. Try to think of God as if He is a man looking down at a time-line of history. The history extends into the past, the present, and unto the end of time. It is like a long picture, with a magnifying glass moving over it. That magnifying glass points to where we are in time, and is constantly moving toward the end. God, however, is independent of this sliding glass, and only watches it pass. The decisions relative to our history have all been made, and yet have not. They are made eternally in the present, relative to our own position in time but not limited by it.

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?]

God is disappointed in Man's creation, not His. You are once again stuck on the "time" conundrum. There was no "before the creation" when He would have known about it disappointing Him. Imagine God watching an "instant replay" of all history. He does not influence it, but He knows what is going to happen. He thus knows our decisions without deciding them for us. That is why He is disappointed in our decisions, just as we might be disappointed that our favorite quarterback threw to the wrong receiver. We did not, however, influence his decision about where to throw. We just know what is going to happen.

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.]

The pyramids were not built with the intent of reaching God. The pharaohs did not believe that they were going to become gods through their pyramids. They believed they would become gods through their works and their birthright, and the pyramids were built to honor that fact. They were not trying to reach toward God/The Heavens.

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

You missed the analogy. The point is not that we can compare watches and see their design. We see their complexity and know they are designed. In the same way, the universe is (almost) infinitely complex, and is evidence for a designer. It isn't the comparison of degree of complexity, but the fact that it is complex itself.

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.]

The world was too perverted with sin, and God destroyed it as punishment for Man's wrongs. It did work; through Moses' seed the Savior was born.

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.]

Eve wanted to eat the fruit out of curiosity, being tempted by the devil. There was nothing lacking in the Paradise. It was an external intrusion by the serpent that caused temptation to enter. This intrusion brought vacancy, and exploited it through Eve to tempt her into an unnatural desire. The tree was there to give them a choice to accept God or Man. They chose man. God created the devil for the free will thing (again). God did not force the devil to deny Him. The devil chose that. God knew, but He gave the devil a choice nonetheless, and the devil could have chosen to accept God. God let the serpent into the garden because otherwise it would have been denying him his free will, and denying Adam and Eve the right to choose Good or Evil. God did not want 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.)

An all-powerful God chose the only option. He sacrificed Himself for us. That's how much He loves us, and infinitely more so. God, in His infinite wisdom, chose this option because it was the most efficient and only choice. God's Word was incarnate as Jesus. Mere Human flesh cannot enter Heaven because all Humans sin and taint the flesh. Jesus was divine, though, and did not sin. Therefore, His flesh was not tainted. Therefore, He could enter Heaven. Jesus is both the son of God and God made man, not just one or the other.

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.]

War is Man's plan, not God's. People keep tossing around "God Bless America" because God blesses everyone (anyway, He gives grace to everyone). God blessed America, and 9/11 happened as a completely separate event. It had nothing to do with our blessing. It was not a part of God's plan. We are after Bin Laden because we have a stupid president (lol). God is not our enemy.

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

Can you say, God did not authorize the Tower of Babel? The resulting confusion was a result of Man's stupidity. Not God's.

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.]

I don't know. I'll work on this one some more...

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]

Not all the water came from rains. The water under the crest of the earth also rose up, and took care of a lot of these concerns. The water came from the oceans. (If all the water in the ocean was "stacked" so to speak on the land, it would cover Mount Everest.) The water is still out there, in the oceans, which are huge. Tides would be the same as they are right now, only global instead of just 2/3 global. No, the Earth would not become unstable.

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?]

I am Catholic, and don't know about Muslim doctrine.

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]

There will be only one Jesus. Television will probably broadcast the event. Or it might be a psycological event, where we see it in our minds. The people in deep space will probably also see it on television, assuming you mean after we have colonized other planets. If you mean men on the space station, then they will probably just look down.

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.)

God's emotions are quite different from Man's emotions. "Jealousy" on Earth is nearly always tied to envy, a reactionary emotion, and love is not envious. If jealousy and envy are separate, though, then jealousy is fine.

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

I don't know about Muslim doctrine.

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]

It is quite conceivable that they evolved from the basic kinds to the currant variety of species after they got there after the flood. They are very similar, usually, excepting the kangaroo, with only minor adaptations separating them from other continental species. I don't know how they got there; maybe God created them again?

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

Please see question 10, part 2.

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. ]

No, we don't Ray. They'll get their own judgement (if we're there by that time).

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

God wasn't weary when he took rest. He did it for fun. He didn't fainteth, either.

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

Murder is not God's will. It may have been God's will that they died, though. God does not want anything unnatural. He only calls people home through natural means, but this plan is often interrupted by people who murder others.

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? ]

God has no gender, but males are generally considered as the stronger in a species. Since God is all powerful, this concept was extended toward Him. Also, because there is no personal pronoun without gender, we chose the closest thing.

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

Worship is man's display to God and to other men that he loves God. If we cannot even bring ourselves to show that we love Him, then what sort of faith is that? So, if we have faith in God, we will worship Him. Without faith, we cannot enter Paradise. So, no, we can't just wait until we get to Heaven to worship God, because if we don't worship God here, we won't get to Heaven.

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.)

Prayer isn't intended to change God's mind. Speaking to Him is a channel of grace to us. Prayer is for us, not for God.

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

He underwent torture and death on a cross. The resurrection He did because He wanted to show that He is divine. No one else in Scripture or elsewhere has raised themselves from the dead. That's why it is proof of His divinity. He sacrificed Himself by undergoing the worst pain ever. He bore the guilt of all of our sins. Since sins put one in Hell, he essentially bore Hell on Earth for all of us. That's pretty harsh.

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

See question 10, part 1.

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

I don't know if Adam had nipples. It is possible that it was a dominant trait in Eve that was passed on to their male offspring, but that is unlikely. God gave later man nipples because it makes us look like women, which is feasible when you consider that people like to marry people who look like a similar species (correct me if I'm wrong).

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

I don't know this one; I'll work on it some more...

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.]

It is possible that God made men with foreskin so that others can recognize God's chosen people. God Himself doesn't need to, though. God also has no problem with uncircumcised penises. That was another command for the Old Testament that was fulfilled in the New Testament. Now, it is practiced rather as Baptism.

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

Noah did not have fish on-board. Fresh water fish would have survived, and in four thousand years it is VERY probable that they adapted (yes, evolved) into saltwater fish also.

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

God doesn't need help. He manifests Himself as angels. That's why, whenever people in Scripture encounter an Angel, they afterward refer to it as God or the Lord.

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.]

God's Word was incarnate as Jesus. Mere Human flesh cannot enter Heaven because all Humans sin and taint the flesh. Jesus was divine, though, and did not sin. Therefore, His flesh was not tainted. Therefore, He could enter Heaven. Jesus is both the son of God and God made man, not just one or the other. Also, Jesus did not "inherit" the Kingdom of Heaven. He created it. It was His in the first place.

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.)

God created the devil, and by the devil evil came to exist. So God created evil, but indirectly. Evil exists so that Man can choose to accept evil and deny God. If evil did not exist, then we would not have that choice. Then, we could only go to Heaven. That would not be loving, because it would not be giving us a choice. No one was born to go to Hell. Everyone, even the writer of this question, can accept God and go to Heaven. If God did not allow you to be born because of your future choice, then He would not have given you a choice. But He did give you a choice, and you can still accept Him. You are not fulfilling the will of God by being an atheist. You should exist, because there is still time for you to accept God. God knew you don't currently believe in Him right at this moment, but that doesn't mean you don't have the choice.

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

God has no limits to His power. It will be a very quick war. God did not start the war, and there is no reason for it. The devil started the war, because he is stupid.

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

Yes, He knew beforehand. But if you know beforehand that there is a game coming on at seven, and you go to watch the game, it is still correct to say, "...and IG saw the game."

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. ]

Psychologists know that people often need something strong and unchanging to hang on to. Fairies and imaginary people/aliens don't qualify for this, but God does.

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

If God offered direct proof by His presence, there would be no place for faith. While God does not disregard the benefits of evidence (Jesus often performed miracles solely as proof of His divinity [cf. John 11:42-44]), man must have faith in God to be saved. Miracles are evidence, yes, but people usually don't automatically accept a theory because of just one or two pieces of evidence. Most people don't even witness two miracles in their lifetime. That's why faith is needed, even though evidence exists.

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

I would assume they stay with the brain because the consciousness is there, and the consciousness defines (usually) who we are. Our spirits probably pow around with our consciousness.

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

God does place the knowledge of Him in our minds at birth. Psychologists have long known that every human being-the atheist included-intuitively seek God's help in times of great calamity, and instinctively pleads God's mercy when death is imminent. Voltaire, one of History's most profound atheists, repudiated all of his atheistic writings on his deathbed and frantically sought the ministrations of a Catholic priest. Nikolai Lenin, as he lay on his deathbed, looked around him and frantically asked pardon from the tables and chairs. As hunger for food proclaims the existence of food, man's intuitive hunger for God proclaims the existence of God.

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

Legally, His father was Joseph. They traced His legal tree because the father's tree was usually regarded by Jews as evidence of royal lineage. They wanted to show how Jesus was legally (and, also, biologically through Mary,) a member of the line of David, from whom it was written the Savior would come (Jeremiah 23:5-6).

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.]

Man was created in the spiritual image of God. God is spirit, and man's soul is spirit.

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

Most people would not accept God and His Church if He came down and smacked them in the face, telling them straight forward which Church is His. They'd find some way of saying it was an illusion or an apparition. If they already believed in God, they would say that it was the Devil as an impersonation telling them lies. Man is so stupid that he will deny God even if God gives them just one, simple, solitary choice of right or wrong (remember the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?). There is only ONE way that everyone would be convinced at once: If God came and rewired their brains so that they had no choice but to believe in Him. That would be denying us free choice, so He won't do that.

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

You must not have read the verse you quoted. Jesus completed the law. The Law has not disappeared, has it? The letters and strokes and jots and tittles are still written down, in plain sight. But the law has been completed, so they are no longer necessary. A mother says to her son, "You have to clean your room. Until it is completed, you are grounded. Until it is completed, this law is still in effect." The son then cleans his room. Is the law then completed? Yes. He is no longer grounded. But did the mother's law disappear before it was completed? No. The law has been completed, and those things are fulfilled. That's why we no longer do them.

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.]

Every person who is in Heaven chose good on Earth. That's why they have received such a great reward in Heaven. On Earth, no one (except two; Mary and Jesus) has always chosen good, no matter what. That's why there is misery on Earth. God made us with freewill, and gave us the choice to accept Him. We didn't. If we had, the world would be much different; we would be happy. But we didn't, so we're not.

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

No, He isn't limited by having a plan. God didn't "choose" the plan like we choose our plans. The plan always was, just as He always was. It wasn't "chosen", so it wasn't reactionary, and wasn't limited.

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.]

He can't stand it. But He gives us what we ask for, and many many people ask to burn over and over again in Hell for eternity. They ask for it by sinning.

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. ]

God doesn't use Hebrew texts to judge who goes to Heaven or Hell. He judged them based them off of His words, which were spoken.

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?]

"Burning" is just one of the harshest conceivable forms of torture on Earth. It is a metaphor to our torture in Hell. It will be the worst torture, and is not conceivable.

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.]

That's not a barbaric belief; it is still believed today in every culture. Something has to suffer to appease for a bad deed. If you steal your siblings' toy, you get grounded as punishment. It is suffering, though on a very small scale. Multiply that times infinity for all the bad deeds we've done to God, and the only option is that He delivers us by sacrificing Himself.

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.]

SIDS happen(s?) because of the Fall. If we hadn't fallen away, the word "syndrome" wouldn't even exist. God allows a baby to live for such a short period because Man chose to allow it to happen in this world, and if God limited that, it would be denying man that choice.

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]

There were different methods of measuring time at that time. There was a Roman way and a Jewish way. The different gospels record different times, which is why some say "the third hour" and some "the sixth hour" for the same occurance (Mark 15:25 and John 18:14, for example). The Ressurrection was recorded using different methods of time, but He did actually remain dead for three nights and three days.

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

All true Christians understand that if you are in Hell, you are outside of God. Whether that is in a different place, or just a ceasing of existence, is a matter of debate. Other than that short explanation of a subject related to the question, I don't know the answer, and I'll work on this one some more.

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

No, God does not provide abortions. Miscarriages aren't part of His plan. If the fall hadn't happened, we wouldn't have miscarriages. But because Man chose to let sin and death enter the world, miscarriages, which are the deaths of babies in the womb, happen.

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.]

There is a problem with this question. It presents a hypothetical situation which couldn't happen. If we saw a person causing pain and suffering in Heaven, then it would not be the God we have followed, because our God doesn't do that. If we hadn't been following that God, there would be no reason to start. The closest answer I can then possibly give is, "No."

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 .]

The bible condemns homosexual acts, not homosexuality. There are some people who are naturally homosexual because of genetic mistakes, which all ends up being because of the Fall of Adam and Eve. Anyway, some people are homosexual through no fault of their own, and have a very difficult cross: They must refrain from committing the sin of homosexual action. The whole shellfish thing was a command that was fulfilled, and now no longer applies, though it hasn't disappeared (See question 60)

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]

The babies are deprived of life, which is God's greatest gift. No one knows if aborted babies go to Heaven; there might be a place like limbo where they go. Anyway, granting that they do go to Heaven, it is still wrong to kill them because killing is also condemned. Committing a mortal sin, meriting death of the soul, is not a noble deed even if you are sending someone else to Heaven in the action. I hope you can see my point; I am finding it hard to explain this.

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..]

If someone could prove that God does not exist, then I would not believe. I can't speak for other people, though. I would not believe because belief without any evidence is beyond my comprehension.

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

God allows evil because otherwise we would have no choice but goodness, and our free will would be compromised. It has nothing to do with appreciating opposites or anything like that. No, you must not experience death in order to meaningfully appreciate life.

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

The word of God is to be taken literally, meaning it is to be taken as it was intended. Because Jesus was intending to speak metaphorically, his words are to be taken metaphorically as well.

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

Liberal Christians apparently don't understand the definition of an "allegorical" interpretation. Webster defines it as,

"2 : having hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text"

In other words, if a verse is to be taken allegorically, it has a metaphor in it, but it is ALSO to be taken literally. An example is of the Passover Lamb of Exod.12:5: "Your lamb shall be without blemish..." While this was literally the commandment of what the Passover lamb was to be, it was also a metaphor to Jesus' death; He would be the Paschal Lamb without blemish whose blood would keep us safe from the Just Hand of God.

So we don't need to know "which is which"; all Scripture is to be taken literally (meaning as it was intended), and some parts are ALSO to be taken figuratively. The criteria used are what the Catholic Church tells us. They are guided by the Holy Spirit to declare the truth without error (John 16:13).

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

Earthly consciousness is from the brain, and possibly partially from the Spirit (that's debatable). God is spiritual, and is not limited by natural laws such as this. He works on a completely different level, and His Consciousness is of a completely different nature than ours.

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

Christians are supposed to obey it still. Some of it is fulfilled by Jesus, but its words are still Holy and True. Also, Christians usually use the New Testament to defend the position that homosexual acts are abominable (Rom. 1:27).

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)

No one prevented Him. He just didn't want to do it that way. Imagine that the biggest, most beautiful, most efficient, best sattelite receiver was built. (That's a metaphor for Humans, God's best creation.) Now imagine that an architect built a huge, tall skyscraper to put it on (That's a metaphor for the universe/His plan). Say that the dish said, "Why did my creator build this big tall building? Couldn't he just have built me? What was stopping him?" You see, the building was built for the greater glory of the dish. And the universe was built for the greater glory of Man (and other sentient beings, if they exist). God wanted to have this big plan and big universe also. That's why He included it in His plan.

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

No, they don't. The Catholic Church is one of the few churches that believes that you don't have to be a registered member of "X" church your whole life to go to Heaven. If you try to follow God's will and do what is morally, ethically right, then you have followed Christ's example, even if you did not know of Him. The Church calls this a "baptism by desire", because without knowing Him you desired to do His will. Then, when you die, even if you have never known of Christ, you will still go to Heaven. It's beautiful, no?

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

I don't understand the question. I don't see a question mark.     ?

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

I'm not quite sure of the question, but I think you want to know why we have two sexes. It is because Adam wanted a partner.

It may also be that you want to know why God is sexist. He isn't, so that question doesn't apply.

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!

It certainly is doing a good job. 1/3 of the world population is Christian. God allowed Mohammed/Guatama to be born because to do otherwise would be to limit their choice. I'll explain: The reason you give that they shouldn't have been born is because they chose to deny Christ and to lead others to deny Him. If God didn't allow them to exist solely for this purpose, then He would be denying them the right to make that choice. He would also be denying others the right to choose to follow those people. God won't do that, so He didn't.

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" ?

Many of those were fulfilled by Jesus, and some were intended to mean something greater than their text seems at first glance to imply. For example, the "muzzling [of] the ox that treadeth the corn" was shown in Corinthians to be a metaphor, its meaning intended toward something else (1 Corinthians 9:9-10).

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

It didn't kill the fish. The fish survived. There were no fish on the ark.

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

Man was created perfect without sickness or death or pain. But we chose to allow these things when we denied God in the Fall. God could have created us as just spirits, but that would be redundant because He had already done that when He'd created Angels. Our Creator wanted to be creative (get it?), so He created us physically as well.

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

He foresaw that. But Satan had the choice to deny Him, and Satan chose wrongly. God did not influence Satan's choice, though He knew what it would be. To deny him his existence based on this would be to limit his choice.

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

Well, there's a lot of interesting discussion going on here... I've noticed that some people have decided to try to answer each of the questions above... I'm not going to do that (at least not now), rather, I'm going to pick a few and do those. 
1. If Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies so well, why didn't the Jews recognize him as the messiah? - Francois Tremblay
It needs to be noted that some Jews did recognise Jesus as the messiah - his disciples were Jews and after his death and resurrection a large number of Jews became believers (see for instance Acts 2). A prime example of a Jew becoming a Christian is the apostle Paul (Acts 22:1-21).
Why the majority still could not recognise Jesus as the messiah remains a difficult question, though. I think that (at least in part) this is due to Jesus' death ("... Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews" - 1 Cor. 1:23). They failed to recognise him not because he didn't fulfil the prophecies, but because he didn't fulfil their expectations. 
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.]
I think we need to make an important distinction between someone believing that something is true, and it actually being true. All beliefs are considered true by those that hold them, but they are not all true.
"And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins." (1 Cor. 15:17) Faith by itself isn't worth very much - it's faith in the right thing that counts. And we determine what we think 'the right thing' is by looking at the evidence around us, not by faith itself.
Directly related to this: 74. If one could prove to you incontrovertibly that Jesus and God were all human fabrications would still believe? And why? - LOGICnREASON 
So, no. If one could prove incontrovertibly that Jesus and God were all human fabrications, I would not still believe.  I want to put my trust in something that is trustworthy.
I'd like to do a few more, but unfortunately this is all I have time for right now. I look forward to seeing how this discussion develops further. 

What does ones inability to find a non-contradictory explanation for 'something' have to do with that 'something's existence? If something is real, it does not matter if no one can explain its realness with non-contradictory assumptions.

Hmm..

Here's another statement that doesn't click with me.. 'contradictions' only exist within the realm of logic and understanding. There is no absolute rule that says everything must be rational, or everything must be understood rationally.

Concepts of contradictions and non-contradictions only exist in your head. If you saw God, you would assume that he is a non-contradicting concept. This does not mean that he IS a non-contradicting concept.

This idea does not work the other way around...

You see a circle, you assume it is a circle, because you have a concept of what a circle is; not because, in actuality, apart from mind, it IS a circle-- it is nothing.

You see something, you assume it to be non-contradictory, not because it IS non-contradictory, but merely because you assume that everything you see to have a non-contradictory explanation. This is the essence of Science, and basis for all reasoning to begin with.

And granted.. this is a good assumption to keep.. since, if things could be contradictory-- then we would have a hard time doing anything since the powers of reasoning, themself, would be worthless.

But once again, I point only to the beginning: Ones ability to explain something in a non-contradictory manner does not speak to the existence or non-existence of an entity.

It may however, speak to the character of the person holding the belief in said entity, and, at that time, the person might accurately be called irrational. 

I'm not saying that God exists.. merely that your statement is misleading, in my opinion.

I don't need you to agree with me. I'm stating an axiom. One 'realness' does not DEPEND on anyones ability to describe it in any terms.

If real => real

It is not:

If real => can be explained rationally

So agree or not.. it still remains a perfect bit of self-evident, circular logic.

Heh. Just a bit of clarification.. I did not say real means real. I said "If real, then real".

Would it be more clear if I said "If real, then existant"?

I cannot.

It might 'indicate' something, I can agree with that. I was merely pointing out that something's existence is not dependent on the ability to describe in some certain way.

You stated that it was. So, I contended.

Just because I cannot, now, give you an example of something does not discount the possibility that someone, someday, might.

..I'm not trying to make a point other than your statement was misleading in its assertion that some entity (not idea) can be disproved by inherent contradiction.

You're right.. I probably did get caught up in the moment and may have been looking for any point of contention. Apologies-- I was just trying to show a route that my fellow theist could take.. that of nihilism.

Question everything. At the end of it all, we will realize that we know nothing at all-- just act in accordance with things we take for granted but are not necessarily true.

Ahem. Sorry. Again. Don't mean to get in a debate. Beh.

Awesome work dominick_777 how can Sapient say that he needs proof but he then says one sufficient proof isn't enough. When doesn't one proof not equal proof?

Here's the big questions that boil out of that list:

1 - Why does the bible, which is supposed to be all true, contain accounts of things that are logically or physically impossible? 

2 - Why does an omnipotent god, who we are told is good, allow bad things to happen?

3 - Why does the bible, which is supposed to be the ultimate manual for good living, depict christian heros doing morally reprehensible things?  

4 - How can the supernatural and immaterial interact with the material world?

Here's the theist answers, as posted by St Michael and others.  The modern christian view appears first, followed by the fundy answer.

1 - MODERATE: Anything too implausible in the bible can be be taken as allegory.  It's the truth of the spiritual message that's important, not the factual truth of the story. FUNDY: Everything that the bible says happened, happened, through the magical power of god (see question 4)

2 - MODERATE: God is limited by natural laws, and can therefore only acheive his ultimate good purpose by making a trade-off between lesser evils for greater goods.  One of these lesser evils is allowing humans to have the free will to act according to his commands or not.  This human free will is where evil comes from.  Humans are able to have free will in the face of god's omniscience because god sez so, and god isn't limited by logic. This argument isn't contradictory because god inhabits an extradimensional space known as "eternity" from which he can affect the world, but remain blissfully unaffected by any earthly restraints (see question 4) FUNDY: We are utterly unable to evaluate any action of god's from a moral standpoint.  What god says is good, is good, and what god says is bad, is bad.  Anything that god does is therefore good, even if we don't like it.  Therefore everything that we characterize as bad is really good, and we are just mistaken.  Therefore all evil really comes from our failures of faith when we interpret events.

3 - MODERATE:  These stories are also allegories depicting a certain moral point.  The bad actions are included only for narrative value and do not reflect the actual actions of any christian, living or dead.  FUNDY: See the second answer to question 2.

4 - MODERATE:  It's a mistake to try to reconcile christian belief with the real world.  Christianity addresses spiritual things, not worldly matters.  FUNDY: What we call magic and the supernatural are actually natural forces in the world.  Science is a satanic conspiracy.

My rebuttals:

1 - MODERATE:  If parts of the bible are fictitious allegory, then how do we know which is what?  Wouldn't a smarter approach be to treat the whole bible as simply a human treatise on spirituality and drop the pretense that it contains real revelations from a supreme being?  FUNDY:  Magic doesn't exist.  Even if it does, we can have no knowledge of it.

2 - MODERATE:  Unless we can show how god is limited by logic and physics and at the same time unlimited by logic and physics, we are forced to conclude that god wants evil to exist.  Which makes god less than perfectly good, and therefore not god as described by christianity.  If the answer is "magic" (also known as "eternity&quot then we again abrogate any authority to make any statement about god.  FUNDY:  So there is no free will or absolute morality and we might as well burn churches and kill our neighbours because it's all ultimately part of god's plan.  God can't punish us for any of this, because he preordained all things when he created the world with perfect knowledge of the future.  Even if god chooses to punish us, there's still nothing we can do to avoid it, since we are incapable of doing other than god's will.

3 - MODERATE:  Even as allegory, the moral point being made in the bible is often revolting.  Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son because an invisible voice from the sky told him to is just wrong.  What these bible stories actually illustrate is how far modern, secular ethics has gone beyond the primitive master/slave relationships in the bible.  Our instinct should be to reject the teachings of such a flawed and outdated document.  FUNDY: "If it's god, it's good" is a terrifying philosophy that implies license to do almost anything.  We see its effects today in religious terrorism.  Thanks to secular advances in ethics, we see little of this idea among Western christians.  It would be nice to see moderate religious people of all stripes doing more to stamp out this notion in their extremist brethern, instead of sheltering them from any criticism of their beliefs.  Oh and, by the way, atheists are not granted the same license, since they can point to no moral authority higher than themselves and their communities.  An atheist is always accountable for his actions because he lacks the out of "god made me do it".

4 - MODERATE:  I agree wholeheartedly.  Now kindly keep your spiritual beliefs in the church where they belong and quit trying to spin the agendas of people making decisions on real-world matters.  FUNDY: Many, many people these days are saying this, but how many are really putting their money where their mouths are?  If you really think faith and the power of god are moving the world, why not pray yourself a lotto win?  Why not sacrifice your life in an attack on god's enemies and go straight to heaven?  Why not lay on hands and heal your cancer?  Why not spend your savings - they won't be any use past judgement day anyhow.  I have to question the intellectual honesty of the supernaturalist crowd, who are all about god's power when they are trying to get their agenda preached in a classroom, but seem remarkably hard headed and scientific when they walk out the door to buy a car.

It seems todangst is having me banned because he disagrees with me, and calls everything I say a "lie." As such, I cannot continue this post and post it as is. I'll be praying for all of you and wish you the best.

Yours In Christ, Eternal Wisdom,
StMichael

I guess you missed the part where I said "St Michael AND OTHERS."

1 - Why does the bible, which is supposed to be all true, contain accounts of things that are logically or physically impossible? It does not contain accounts of things that are logically or physically impossible. Certain things which seem contrary to natural science, such as the creation of the world in six days, are allegorically interpreted to indicate some truth about creation according to Tradition.