RE: Ten Reasons I'm Not a Christian
January 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2012 at 4:39 pm by JudgeDracoAmunRa.)
(December 27, 2011 at 6:04 pm)Thor Wrote: 9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
Some English translations of the bible say it was from dirt Adam came. Some other translations use the word dust. The language that Genesis was written in uses a word to describe the source of Adam's creation which has no equivalent in English. It may even be the case that the word used in the original language is itself not even close to describing what God actually used to form Adam. What if God actually used raw elements that he drew atom-by-atom from the ground? Try describing that in a language that has no scientific vocabulary or concepts.
(December 27, 2011 at 6:04 pm)Thor Wrote: 6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
A spaceman came travelling...
What if, yes what if, God was an ET with mega-advanced technology. This ET-God abducts Mary one night while she's asleep. He uses IVF technology to grab one of her eggs. He fertilizes it with one of his ET-Godlike super-sperm (dont ask me how he got his hands on that). And then implants the whole thing back in Mary's womb.
Sometime later, while Mary's out shopping or something, ET-God shows up posing as an angel and tells Mary she is with child. Hey presto! Virgin birth! End to the mistranslation dispute.
Next thing you know, Chris de Burgh has a number 1 Christmas hit.
(December 27, 2011 at 6:04 pm)Thor Wrote: 1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
I'm off to Nitpickers Anonymous in a minute (I've been going for years), but all you need to know to be a Christian is that Jesus died to redeem you and all you have to do to accept his ransom sacrifice is to say: "Yes please I'll have some of that. Thanks very much." You dont even have to read the bible for that, cos pretty much everybody knows that anyway. Even atheists, right? And you dont even have to say "please" and "thanks", but being well-mannered will take you far.
People who know tons and tons of stuff about the bible are, technically, theologians.
The interesting thing about Truth is that Truth is still Truth even if the devil speaks it. The interesting thing about Lies is that Lies are still Lies even if God speaks them.
