Part 17 of Post Your Tough Questions Regarding Christianity

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  1. dairyair

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    Yet, you couldn't answer yes or no.
    So if the bible books have answers so obvious, and the book is a historical book, your claim, why can't you tell us how old the earth is? How long ago the great noah flood occurred? The name of moses' uncle, the pharoah?
    Use that historical book, your claim, and give us answers.
    Even though you just recently stated, no one knows anything except God. At least you're answers are inconsistent, consistently.
     
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    which outlandish claims (miracles) from your jewish book have been proven to be true?
     
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    No....a FACT would be that as far as Human's are concerned the SUN is very HOT.

    Whether something is Hot or Cold is RELATIVE.

    For a Human Being -10 Degrees F. is very COLD....but for a Polar Bear it would be a NICE DAY!!

    AboveAlpha
     
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    So all those millions of fossilized dinosaur bones are faked by scientists in an concerted evil effort to discredit the bible? it worked. Whilke the scientists have been proving evolution, the bible has been gathering dust and brainwashing lemmings with leper messiahs like Haggee and Graham.
    Why, you're quite the example of lemming-like idiocy. If you're good Santa will leave you presents too.
     
  5. Finley99

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    Clear this up:

    When I was born in 1934 the average life expectancy of a White male in the United States was 61. If someone survived their first heart
    attack they would mope around essentially incapcitated for a couple of years then die. Cancer was a death sentence. The only treatment was surgery and over half the time the tumor metasticised and spread all through the body and usually they lasted a year after that at the most. Wednesday evening prayer meetings all over this country were crowded and prayer lists were a foot long. Every family either had a member or a close friend who was sick or dying. People prayed till their knees were bloody and the aflicted suffered and died anyway. Where was the invisible man in the sky?
    Now the average life expectency of a White male at birth is 78. Thanks to the spin offs from the moon landing in the late 60's we have sophisticated diagnostic systems, MRI, CTscans, ultrasound, echocardiogram, endoscopy, colonoscopy, heart catherization procedures, stents, bypasses, transplants, stem cell technology, chemo, radiation and limited invasive surgical procedures which produce much lower mortality statistics. What about
    the millions upon millions who died or suffered unmercifully before all this technology and research came about? Did anything the prayer group did have any effect at all?

    A short while back one of my high school mates about 78 years old actually ask all of us to pray for positive results for an
    abdominal ultrasound and colonoscopy she had scheduled. Turned out she had indigestion. The prayers must have worked on that one.
     
  6. AlphaOmega

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    The answer is none. We have better chances of finding Bigfoot than finding answers here.
     
  7. AlphaOmega

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    Ive already posted the radiocarbon dating science that factually proves the time period they existed in as well as the age of the earth. Since he doesn't like the answers he disregards science, but uses science when it suits him like when he uses a scientific instrument to make posts on a forum. I believe he trusts his scientific instruments then.
     
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    Does make you wonder what he means by tough questions. Maybe he was expecting "why does god love me?" or "if I ask jesus into my heart, will he hear my prayer?"
     
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    Far cry? ummm no, its not. If god isn't responsible for evil things then by default he cannot be responsible for good things. Which is it? Is he responsible for evil acts or not?
     
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    Ahh yes those are the questions this thread was looking for just like my Sunday School teacher was. They preach love everyone right up until you dare ask them a tough question about their faith, then they antagonize you on purpose which I find hypocritical as well as amusing as it just simply proves I was correct all along. If it were 300 yrs ago they would be piling rocks on me right now to get the devil out because they love me.
     
  11. AlphaOmega

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    Exactly correct. As far as fusion is concerned the outside of the sun is not hot at all. At the core its just the right temperature. But I don't think we will be able to discuss fusion in a thread where people think people at their babies on a global scale and dinosaurs never existed.
     
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    Where and when did Zeus reveal himself? Zeus was reveal and represented by Plato and by the high priest of Greece no one has ever seen any of the Greek gods and God did spoke about those false gods and extraordinary human individuals:
    Genesis 6: 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

    Heaven is everlasting peace and the final destination for all who seek everlasting harmony. Hell is for those who hate everlasting peace and harmony this is why we desire to be in Heaven when we die not in Hell.
     
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    With God there is no tough question only honest answers. For the anti God it is about hate God that is why they can not accept honest answers and yes God loves everyone including you and yes if you receive and ask Jesus to come into your heart and soul He will come and hear your prayers :pray:
     
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    Nice example but the reality is the other way around that is why the crusades were successful in defending western civilization in spite of the fact that Christian west during that time were outnumbered and technologically inferior against their enemies they succeed because they were on God's side.
     
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    The Book of Revelation is NOT futuristic..

    BTW.. the Jewish God doesn't believe Jesus was the Messiah either.

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    The Nephilim first appear in the myths of Sumer. They predate Genesis.
     
  16. Mitt Ryan

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    I have but sorry your view is wrong. There are other plausible reasonable explanations as to what our Lord Savior Jesus Christ meant in Matt. 24.

    But as we all know skeptics of the Bible are not open to other reasonable explanations.

    What else is new...eh?

    And so needless to say the Christian faith has not been tarnished by claims made from skeptics to discredit the faith.

    Look around the world, it's a fact that the religion continues to grow with more and more followers every day entering the faith.

    There are currently approx. close to 3 billion Christians world-wide...wow!
     
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    And approx. 42 that follow the teachings of the man who began the faith.
     
  18. Mitt Ryan

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    My Holy Bible clearly tells me the first five books were authored by Moses, who by the way was inspired by God to write them.
     
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    The first five books of the OT were written 800 years after Moses.. by many authors.. Leviticus and Deuteronomy were written before Genesis and Exodus.
     
  20. Mitt Ryan

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    Asking a question that you know full well is impossible to answer, like that is the proof you need to verify that Jesus didn't exist...which is ridiculous!

    However, even though I could not produce what you asked for I have something else to present.

    CORNELIUS TACITUS (55 - 120 A.D.) Tacitus was a 1st and 2nd century Roman historian who lived through the reigns of over half a dozen Roman emperors. Considered one of the greatest historians of ancient Rome, Tacitus verifies the Biblical account of Jesus' execution at the hands of Pontius Pilate who governed Judea from 26-36 A.D. during the reign of Tiberius.

    Nobody knows when our Lord Savior is to return, only the Father knows. And so regardless if Jesus doesn't show up in the next 2,000 yrs. that doesn't mean He will never show up...are we understanding this?

    Jesus said, "However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36 NLT

    Meantime we believers are just going about our lives, living it to the fullest, feeling blessed, all the while accepting and praising our Lord Savior Jesus Christ.

    While guys like you are going through your lives not knowing what to believe, staying confused and frustrated, not knowing who to put your faith in.

    Going through life confused and frustrated must be some tough thing to cope with...eh? Well what can I say to guys like you to ease your burden?...absolutely nothing, for yall are too stubborn to put your faith in Almighty God, the Creator of the universe and everything else that exists.
     
  21. Mitt Ryan

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    You forgot choice number 4 which is more than likely the culprit given what most readers of the bible are guilty of.

    4) The passage was misinterpreted as to what Jesus really meant.
     
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    Throughout the Bible a generation is counted as 40 years.
     
  23. Mitt Ryan

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    But I have answered numerous questions, I don't know if they were necessarily tough though...lol

    I know with absolute certainty I have never posted a message such as, "just have faith= don't question and just believe."
     
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    The quote he made below pretty much gives us a hint that he didn't believe in the existence of God and so your statement can be classified as being invalid.

    "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." ----Quote by Charles Darwin
     
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    Oh I've always wondered why every one of those books were written in third person. Who was that observing god and Moses when the ten commandments were delivered? Who was that who told about the burning bush. To me that alone proves two things....the ignorance of mankind at that juncture that the whole thing is "made up!"
     
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