Fifty Questions That Christians Can't Answer

[Alex]

1 - If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once?

I'm not a Biblical literalist, so this doesn't really apply

If it doesn't apply, why did you bother? It's addressed to Christians.

I'm not a biblical literalist, neither are most Christians.

The author did not suggest that such a world would make him happy, though I am sure it would be fun. The author was pointing out the fact that if god were perfect than he wouldn't have created such things as childhood leukemia, pedophilia, genocide, etc.

Ah, okay. That's not quite what he said, but whatever.

You've never heard of people being "healed" temporarily?

No, actually, I haven't. Is this a "faith-healing" thing?

I must have missed the passage that says the earth is 6000 years old...

Come on. Like you don't know about Creationist claims that the bible alludes to a "young Earth."

My point still stands. The Bible itself never says "Oh by the way, this is how old the earth is."

*snip*

In Judaism there is no Hell. Once again I'll just skip the rest that don't apply to me for this reason.

*sigh*

Oh gee, sorry for giving a different point of view. I'll make a point of never doing that again.

I'm not Christian either, but I don't think that Christians believe in Hades, at least by that name.

Actually, they do.

(Crap, apparently I can't post links until I reach ten posts. That's kind of lame. Anyway, search "Hades" on Wikipedia, and there's a section called "Hades in Christianity".)

However, I'm not sure of the specifics. Not really a big deal since it doesn't concern me.

Or why don't we take it down a notch and say "What good is free will if we don't get to have premarital sex?"

Funnily enough, the Hebrew Bible never actually says "no premarital sex". Maybe the NT does, I'm not sure.

And god is an evil entity that will turn you into seasoning, if you dare look over your shoulder. I'd make a Hitler reference here, but it would be overkill.

Again, trying to over-simplify it. She directly disobeyed God, knowing full well she shouldn't.

While you're at it, point me to a Christian that doesn't argue against evolution. I haven't seen one of them in a while.

Damn, do you live in the Bible belt or something? I've never met a Christian who's been seriously anti-evolution (though I know a Muslim who is). For example, Catholicism is accepting of evolution.

So, you can have sex whenever you want in Judaism?

Pretty much. Therefore, Judaism = best religion

28 - If God's word is supposed to be the accurate word of God himself, how are we supposed to trust it enough to model our lives after it 100% when hundreds of books were excluded from the original text throughout so many translations and revisions in history?

The Tanakh has existed in more or less in the same form for a very long time.

I'm sorry, what was your point?

That was probably another I should have skipped. The Tanakh hasn't been revised in a damn long time, but the NT probably has.

29 - Why is there no evidence of any of the miracles performed by God? None whatsoever.

Free will. Also most miracles described in the Bible could have come about by natural means.

I laughed at the first part and agreed with the second.

What's funny about free-will? Jew-God goes out of His way to make sure we keep it.

31 - If you believe that your eternal life is more important than your physical life and you believe that all children are innocent in the eyes of God, why not kill your children so they are guaranteed to go to heaven? You can't tell me that it is because killing is a sin. First of all, you could repent thereafter and be forgiven. Secondly, if you would sacrifice your life for your child who is about to be hit by a train, and you believe your eternal life is more important than this life, then it would stand to reason that you should kill your children to ensure their entrance into heaven before they are old enough to be held accountable for being a creature of sin, right?

This is stupid. We're supposed to live this life as well as we can, why would we throw that away?

Why wouldn't we?

Because we're supposed to live this life as well as we can, I already addressed that.

I'll give you that. But, if you start denying that a shitload of wars have been perpetrated by believers in the name of god, I'm just going to have to bow out of this discussion.

True as that may be, I'm of the opinion most of those wars would have happened anyway. Religion just serves as the justification - even if it didn't exist, assholes would find reasons to kill each other.

38 - Building upon the previous question, if it is almost impossible for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven, then why would God create heaven as having pearly gates, streets of gold and many mansions? It sounds like he wants us to be poor in life so that we will want to be rich in the afterlife, maybe? Is God using the sinful value of greed to attract humans to believe in him? Does that make any sense whatsoever?

What? This guy's making shit up and he knows it. No where in the Tanakh or "New Testament" is heaven ever described as such.

Tell me where he mentioned the Tanakh (sounds like a sneeze) or the New Testament.

This is addressed to Christians. The Tanakh ("old testament") and NT are their only holy books, and nowhere is heaven so described, meaning that such descriptions are unbiblical and are no more Christian doctrine than Dante's description of Hell.