Greg Koukl - Why is Christianity different?

[aboyborninjune]

Every religion is different than all the others. That's what's making them DIFFERENT religions.

They have one thing in common though. No credibility.

[doobersmanster]

John 14:6

King James Version (KJV)6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Person of God is seperate from the creation...God is Holy..Sanctified, set apart from for the nature or purpose of holiness. Both nobel and WRETCHED!!! I like Thomas Hobbes way of saying it..:) HUMANS twisted and broken,,Jesus the great healer..Healer of all our pain and suffering..Healer of our lost dreams and the Great God our dreamgiver..

[klunky]

'The solution is grace'. Thank God for the solution! All glory to Him.

[mcd2323apologist]

keep preaching it Greg you are the man,blessed by God,great defender of truth.

[Hufflewaffle]

The biblical worldview distorts and confuses reality. We literally grew out of the earth and our consciousness evolved as we did. We are manifestations of ALL life. When we use religion in arrogance saying we were 'created' as a 'special being', it separates us forcing us to see nature as a commodity killing the very ground we were born from. "Re-ligion" literally means to "re-link" - to "reconnect". True religion brings us into alignment with our origins - Not with a character from a storybook

[anewdayproductions]

@Hufflewaffle you talk about arrogance while absolutely drowning in your own. the only thing competing with it is your ignorance and mindless presumption.

[MrMvt333]

If we were created in the image of God and made Noble... then we rebelled against Him, would it then be Noble to rebel against God?

[koolwings]

What is right and wrong ranbonzy?

[wilbrook2003]

What do you mean by "how silly these people's beliefs are"?

[DeepMeditation42]

I'm really sorry, I didn't mean it in anyway. I am removing my comment.

[Klaratu]

sludgy9 you have to prove that christianity is wrong and dont just assume it to be so! your arguments are arbitrary assumptions governed by your atheistic presuppositions. If the world came about by chance then there is no right or wrong theres just "what happens" arbitrarily. You have no warrant to say christianity is wrong, in fact you have used christian presuppositions of moral absolutes to make your statements intelligible! tisk! tisk! you foolish lad!

[ranbonzy]

Right and wrong is determined by how you want to experience your life. If you like to be happy and if you think/observe other people are similar then there is no reason to do soemthing to them, whne you don't wnat somebody else to do that thing to you. If you do something there will be some outcome, which might be good ro bad the way you define. What we have seen is majority of people think similarly and have agreed on good and bad things. As a society we all benefit if everybody does 'good'

[koolwings]

@ranbonzy Is there a standard for right and wrong? Who determines right and wrong?

[ranbonzy]

@koolwings Yes there is soemthing called good and bad and it is determined by each and every person. In other words, there is no Absolute good or bad.

This guy is trying to explain why Christinity is stupid. He tries to say there is person who created other person in different forms. He does not realize that this person called 'god' needs a creator too! So a superior 'god' for that is needed. Simillarly there should be infinite number of 'gods'.

[koolwings]

@ranbonzy Please explain how good and bad is determined by each and every person.

[ranbonzy]

@koolwings it is up to each person. In general people decide based on their experience. If one does not like to lose something that is belonging to them, then he/she might understand that another person would have similar feelings. It will be emphasized by their other experiences of people who have lost something. So they determine steeling is not dedsirable to me and not to anybody so I should restrain from it... Again, it is based on personal experience.

[ranbonzy]

@koolwings this 'personal experience' can be obtained as part of their from day-to-day life. But human society has evovled as a fater pace by sharing knowledge. This is called learning or education, where one generation learns experineces gained by older generations.

[ranbonzy]

@koolwings

So the sense of good and bad is taught this way. Parents tell their childern what is good and bad the way they know. However, it is up to the listener (in this cacse children) to propaly interprete what they hear. Rational thinking help one to determine the good and bad based on what they have experienced, leanrt and heard.

[ranbonzy]

@koolwings Further he gives another good point to prove Christinity is stupid: instead of making humanity good using his power he starts playing games by coming to earth in human form!!! It is like a scientist turing himself to a ginipig as aprt of his lab test!

[koolwings]

@ranbonzy Have you ever told a lie?

[Sludgy9]

It never ceases to amaze me, how you cling to your fables, wishful thinking, in the face of reason-and the obvious fact that this is all Bullshit-And grown men and women, still beleive this rubbish entirely-human stupidity could not be better exemplified! Of course, the Genius here, lies with the businessmen who propegate this crap to extract wealth, power and obedience from mankind-they have you-Hook, line and sinker. It does make me laugh.

[TG4Family]

Cease blogging if you can't articulate yourself without cussing and name calling.

It kills your whole approach and makes you look like a fool who grew up in the gutter.

If you can't present a reasoned and articulate message, then either you don't know how to think, or don't have a good enough message to counter STR's well thought out approaches.

Remember, these are 3-4 minute sound bytes. Seek the Truth yourself if you want it. Greg is just trying to be a guide for those who want to grow.

[drcaseykerr]

It's funny how you attack someone for "name calling," yet you call him a "fool."

If you think that STR has well thought out approaches, then listen to the episode posted on ITunes on 01/14/08 entitled "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist." I call in about 1 hour and 17 minutes into it.

Listen to what Brett Kunkle actually said to me, and I quote, "Well, wikipedia is not the best resource for these kinds of things." What is, if not the ENCYCLOPEDIA??? The bible? HA!!!!

[morrlafm]

He didn't call them a fool, he said his behavior makes him look like one; there is a difference.

[drcaseykerr]

It's funny how you attack someone for "name calling," yet you call him a "fool."

If you think that STR has well thought out approaches, then listen to the episode posted on ITunes on 01/14/08 entitled "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist." I call in about 1 hour and 17 minutes into it.

Listen to what Brett Kunkle actually said to me, and I quote, "Well, wikipedia is not the best resource for these kinds of things." What is, if not the ENCYCLOPEDIA??? The bible? HA!!!!

[drcaseykerr]

It's funny how you attack someone for "name calling," yet you call him a "fool."

If you think that STR has well thought out approaches, then listen to the episode posted on ITunes on 01/14/08 entitled "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist." I call in about 1 hour and 17 minutes into it.

Listen to what Brett Kunkle actually said to me, and I quote, "Well, wikipedia is not the best resource for these kinds of things." What is, if not the ENCYCLOPEDIA??? The bible? HA!!!!

[ranbonzy]

A person (god) takes penalty for things done against him. Does it make any sense? Who needs to penalize? god or men or something superior to both? It somebody want's to grant apology, he/she will do that.. Instead would that somebody say, 'hey I want to penalize you, so I penalize myself instead"?

I have read better fairy tales..

[ikimasu1]

Respectfully, you speak out of ignorance. You have left far too much out of your analysis. Specifically here, you are ignoring the idea of justice. If some person goes on a murdering/raping spree, and everyone forgives them, that's great, but they still have not received justice. God's justice is what calls for penalty, and he took it upon himself because we couldn't do it. It's like someone paying a traffic ticket for you when you don't have the money to pay.

[ranbonzy]

Somebody pays traffic ticket for another becuase of the requirement is imposed by a third party. So god takes the penalty because there is a superior third party to entertain.. A superior god... You can call it nature if you like..

Don't get confused with justice.. If the world was meant to have justice you won't see peoplep suffer. In the wild you see animal kill others for survival. If they don't kill, they will starve and die..

[ranbonzy]

One can by a ticket for another because the requirement is imposed by a third party. So there is a superior third party imposing penalty for god to take the penalty instead man..! You can call it nature.. There is no god...

Don't make confusions with justice. This world is not meant to have justice from its origin. For instance a crazy man Hitler cuased thousands to die.. Hitler was not stopped by any miracle from killing many innocent.

[ranbonzy]

In the wild tigers have to kill deers or starve to death..

If world was meant to have justice every man would be born with equal wealth, health etc.... Now don't try to say some toerh nonsense to say no it that for diversity or something...

Your claim fo Justice is false...

[ranbonzy]

One can by a ticket for another because the requirement is imposed by a third party. So there is a superior third party imposing penalty for god to take the penalty instead man..! You can call it nature.. There is no god...

Don't make confusions with justice. This world is not meant to have justice from its origin. For instance a crazy man Hitler cuased thousands to die.. Hitler was not stopped by any miracle from killing many innocent.

[ranbonzy]

In the wild tigers have to kill deers or starve to death..

If world was meant to have justice every man would be born with equal wealth, health etc.... Now don't try to say some toerh nonsense to say no it that for diversity or something...

Your claim fo Justice is false...

[morrlafm]

Equal wealth would only be justice if all men worked equally which is not the case.

[ranbonzy]

You talk being blind because things you were tought by the church. You don't realize how ignorant when you say people are of different wealth becuase they work differently: People are born with different brains, different abiliites and different health conditions and different family backgrounds!!! Some kids are born blind or with deceases. Some are normal but family cannot afford or do not support their education. Sometimes people work similarly in similar jobs but get paid differently!

[ranbonzy]

Where is that mythical god's justice???

In fact there is no such thoughtful god. We are part of a natural random process with certain patterns randomly developed. All those are uncertain and will terminate. There are random events and counteracting events to keep the equilibrium. If you do something there will be a results/reaction. That may or may not be apperant. There is no any powerful god to keep notes of what we do and do not do.

[AmericanApostate]

Technically, we're not personal beings. We're a collection of cells which work together. The idea of the self might be considered something of an illusion, because our thought is something of a hive mentality of the brain, similar to the coordination of a beehive. Many organisms work in symbiosis and become one entity.

[grandconjunct]

Greg never said God was completley absent from

hell , in fact he never brought the topic up.

Gods Judgmental presence is in hell Rev 14:10 , psalm 139:8 ,(omniprsent ) and God is aware of all events in hell (omniscience) but there is no fellowship , communication or blessings there only wrath. atheists are so dishonest.

[Teddy649]

So Greg, if God is everywhere, omnipresent, how can hell be the absence of God's presence?