Friday, June 26, 2009

10 questions every intelligent Christian must answer (from youtube)

#1 Why won't God heal amputees?
He does...

"We all know that amputated legs do not regenerate in response to prayer"
No, we actually don't know that because they do...

#2 Why are there so many starving people in the world?
The old question of suffering. This assumes that suffering has no meaning, or that it is undeserved.

#3 Why does God demand the death of so many innocent people in the Bible?
Key word "innocent". It's a loaded question that makes an assumption of the Bible.

#4 Why does the Bible contain so much unscientific nonsense?
I could probably point out a bunch of unscientific things that people believe in for person's life. Besides, this question assumes the non-existence of miracles and the supernatural.

#5 Why is God such a huge proponent of slavery in the Bible?
He's not really... try reading the Bible...

#6 Why do bad things happen to good people?
Again, there's an assumption in the question that "bad" things happen to "good" people.

#7 Why didn't any of Jesus' miracles leave behind any evidence?
The guy didn't elaborate on this question, but I mean evidence can be lots of leftover bread to radically changed lives of people.

#8 How do we explain the fact that Jesus never appeared to you?
"if you pray for Jesus to appear, nothing happens"
Err... He might not at that moment, but that doesn't mean He won't.

#9 Why would Jesus want you to eat his body and drink his blood?
Hmmmm... probably the most challenging of the questions. Perhaps, I'll address this in another blog post. My thoughts, right now... maybe it's a metaphor? Maybe there's some significance in eating flesh...? Gotta think it through some more.

#10 Why do Christians get divorced at the same rate as non-Christians?
Hmm, maybe not everyone who says "I'm a Christian" is really a Christian.

So yeah, I didn't actually answer a lot of these questions, rather I'm pointing out flaws in the actual questions themselves or just post my first thoughts as I read them. I probably sound like some kind of super cold hearted conservative, but I don't mean to. Yeah, just thought I'd take the trouble to think about this.

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