(December 12, 2014 at 8:21 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(December 12, 2014 at 8:14 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Because, supposedly, he has the most important message for all of humanity. A message that everyone must get correct, or end up being punished for eternity.
Why would a god not want to communicate this message in the most accurate, least likely to be prone to errors, misinterpretations, mistranslations possible?
Instead he uses languages that he knew would know will die out, dictated to one of the most illiterate societies of the time, who wait for decades or centuries to record any of it.
Not very good long term thinking by a god that should know better.
No doubt, trust me, I understand what you are saying, and my theory is that he used illiterate people because he knew that despite all of the illiteracy, all of the persecution, all of the trials and tribulations, the message would still get out, and eventually become the world's largest religion by numbers of followers.
So in other words, all of those things you mentioned did nothing to stop the Christian foundation, spread, and growth. God knew what he was doing.
Oh...
So all you have is a baseless, illogical ad hoc explanations.
Just what I thought.
Which actually leads to another point. Why would a god that wants to communicate said critical message, leave it up to such poor apologists such as yourself (not to mention William Craig, Josh McDowell, Gary Habermas, et al) to do the job?
Wouldn't an omniscient god know that I will be unconvinced by such flawed and fallacious arguments, such as you offer?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
