Hell and the Play Nice Christian

[Chad32]

If this were true, judaism/christianity would have sprung up all over the world, in cultures that had never encountered each other. Instead, these religiouns started in one place, and branched out from there. So no, knowledge of your god is no written into our hearts, and the bible is a very poor map that leaves its followers running around in circles while killing each other over misunderstandings and interpretations.

GodsChild, justice is not about reward and punishment. Even the most evil Humans know how to reward those who please them, and punish those who don't, if they have any sense. Justice is about intent, and equality. Any reward or punishment is proportional to the crime, and good and evil should be determined by objective means. Not because the strongest person says what he likes is good, and what he doesn't like is evil.

No, the morality which God implanted into our hearts would have sprung up everywhere, and it has, and this is why Christianity has been accepted atleast to some degree neigh on everywhere it has been taught, because it resonates with what people instinctually feel. This is why the latest international studies from Oxford Uni have concluded that children left alone to develop on a desert island with no outside interference, would come to believe in God, while they would have to be taught atheism.

So if this morality could spring up before Jesus was even born, what's the point of christianity? What's the point of starting a religion, and spreading the word that everyone already knows, to the point of killing people who don't cnvert to a sometimes narrow version of christianity?

I would like to see this study. Given how many gods people have believed in, not to mention lesser spirits, I doubt that very many children growing up without learning about Jesus would believe in the same god you believe in.