Open Letter to Christians

[Christian]

1. How do you know if god is a) teaching you a lesson b)disciplining you or c) satan is attacking you?

God says to test all things, and hold on to what is good. If you are suspicious of what the voice in your head is saying, test it with God's word.

2. Why are there so many religions? (free will not accepted)

It’s not that God is different for different people. God is eternally the same. It’s that we humans are different from one another, and we each see God in our own way. God gives every person and every culture what’s needed to know and love God, and to love and serve their fellow human beings.

3. Why is Christianity the correct religion?

Jesus said that He alone was the way to the Father (John 14:6)--that He alone revealed the Father (Matt. 11:27; Luke 10:22).

4. Why do Christians fight each other about stuff like baptism, communion or free will v predestiny?

Because different people have different opinions.

5. Will jews go to hell?

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). The “no one” He referred to includes Jews and Gentiles. There are many Messianic Jews who have accepted Yeshua as their Messiah.

6. Why did jesus never write anything down for us?

Christianity was an oral tradition back then. But John 8:3-9 proves that Jesus did write something, albeit on the ground.

7. Why did paul write the majority of the nt when he never knew jesus?

Jesus worked through him to write the NT.

8. Why did the people who assembled the bible leave out so many known letters?

Including redundant Gospels and letters, which talked about the same thing, would have been space wasting.

9. if god created EVERYTHING, why did he create sin? or better put satan?

God did not create Lucifer as evil but allowed the potential for sin. While God cannot commit sin, He doesn’t take it away from those who do. When Lucifer chose to rebel, he instantly became the author of sin. Evil is the result of a free-will choice by Lucifer. Satan and sin don’t foil God’s divine purposes.

10. The creator of the universe created everything. For millions of years, there were no humans. All of a sudden humans just appear not evolve. Does a being capable of all this really desire a relationship with me?

It wasn't because he needed us: "The God who made the world and everything in it … is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything" (Acts 17:24-25). And he didn't make us because he was lonely. Long before we were here, God already had "company" with his Son and the Holy Spirit, referred to in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our own image." And he didn't make us because he needed his ego fed. It's not like God made us to satisfy some craving to be worshiped. God is totally secure in who he is—without us.
Despite not needing us, God chose to create us anyway, out of his great love: "I have loved you with an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3). God is love (1 John 4:8), and because of that love and his wonderful creativity, he made us so we can enjoy all that he is and all that he's done.

11. If he does want a relationship with me, why does he not want one with the millions of other people who are not mainly european and american?

God gave us freewill to choose Him or another false god. God is not ignoring non-Europeans or non-Americans. It's the non-Europeans or non-Americans who choose to ignore Him.