5 Questions for Christians

1. Were you raised a Christian?
- Parents? Society? Culture?

2. How much time do you spend researching/studying other religions?
- do you read other holy books? Have you applied apologetics to them?
3. Why do you think the God of the bible uses violence so much to prove his points?
- ex. Killing every single person on earth with flood. Having Jesus killed to take away sin?

4. How does another persons belief or disbelief in what you believe, affect your entrance into your heaven?
- Meaning if others don't believe what you believe, does spending all your time trying to change their mind have any affect on you getting into your heaven?

5. If you die and there is an afterlife but it's not the one you expected and you are sent to an eternal damnation, What will be the first thought going through your mind before your sent to your punishment?

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[GunneLPercher]

3a Your point is self defeating. People chose to ignore the message after God wiped out all but a few. Why would they pay attention to an account of God speaking from the clouds told by their great grandparents?

[PathofReason]

Why would a god who had the foresight to have to send himself(Jesus) to die have to flood the earth in the first place. Why would we pay attention to the accounts of a God told by random prophets thousands of years ago? It's the same thing

[GunneLPercher]

2a The Quran, book of Mormon or any other holy book have nothing to compare in quantity, quality, or consistency to the prophecies in the bible. Much has been written by lifelong scholars on the unworthiness of these books. The prophecies are validation that the bible has divine input and the God it reveals is truly God.

[PathofReason]

The new testament was written to fulfill the old. The problem is, Any Jew will tell you that Christians are WAY off the mark on the Messiah.

[GunneLPercher]

1 I was raised with a Christian background but did not actually commit until about 20. If I had been raised in another religion and I examined it as closely as I have Christianity, I would still have ended up Christian because of the objectively verifiable differences.

[PathofReason]

Then why are thier more Muslims in the world than Christians? Why do thy miss the mark?

[aWinkler2010]

@PazanIzRussii Are you trolling...?

"the fear of God is what makes [you] stop [sinning]" - So, if God didn't ask you to fear him, you would be a sinner since there's apparently no other reason to abstain from immoral behavior? Are you so devoid of natural human morality and basic reasoning that you can't follow the Golden Rule? Speak for yourself in these matters, since I don't fear God nor do I believe in the idea of one, yet I'm determined to live a moral life without being a thought-slave. :)

[PazanIzRussii]

@aWinkler2010 well the bible says the fear of god is begining of wisdom, the reason one should fear god is bc everyone is a sinner n shud turn away from their sins while he can, the fear of god is what makes u stop sinnin, if u don fear n don humble yoself before god then u don love him, n could care less, therfore u b condemned.

[aWinkler2010]

@PazanIzRussii Why is the fear of God a desirable outcome? God, that which we cannot understand yet are forced to love on the threat of eternal damnation, expects us to fear him yet his overall message claims to be Love? Your life is aimed at such a murky, and misguided proposal.

[aWinkler2010]

@1GodOnlyOne - wow... #3.. "God never uses violence"

Why does he prescribe eternal suffering for those who don't accept Christ?

[PazanIzRussii]

Fact is that truth is out there, and lot of us just don't see it, but if u ask and seek the truth as it was the most precious thing it will be revealed to you. You should then be able to find knowledge and the fear of God. 

[1GodOnlyOne]

1. No.

2. I have made this study my life's work. The vast hours I've put into it are incalculable.

3. God is not of the Bible, the Bible is of God, and God never uses violence.

4. Heaven is not mine, it is God's, and I have no need to change anyone's mind -- the world is already on my side (more than 98%).

5. I'd think, "Oh no!" What a dumb question.

[quickandcool]

@PathofReason It's going to sound really confusing, but we as humans really can't explain why God does all of the things he does. That's where faith comes in. You either trust in him, or you don't. God doesn't explain, and its too big of a concept for us as humans to grasp. God really isn't as strict or mean as people say. You don't have to go to church or be perfect. Just be the best person you can be and do right anyway. Hope that didn't sound weird :P

[bottomline8786]

1. My parents are christian and I went to church growing up, but I wasn't a christian until I was old enough to make the choice to live for God which wasn't til I was about 14 or 15.

2. It's kinda funny but the first time I even heard of such a thing as another religion was when I was 12 lol. so no I wouldn't say I have spent alot of time studying other religions.

3. First of all, during the time of the flood was before Jesus's time. (Old Testiment) continued...