10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer

Question 7. Why didn’t Jesus’ Miracles In The Bible Leave Behind Any Evidence?

A: Let's see - there's Peter, John, James, Paul, and countless millions of profoundly changed lives, and the specific prophecies of the Bible concerning Christ. What was you question again?

 

The question is not invalid. Many of those killed were guilty of only minor things, certainly not worth killing. Would you kill an unruly child or someone who worked on the sabbath? This is what he is driving at.

 

Question 8.How Do we explain the fact that Jesus Has never Appeared to you?

He has. No, not the way you're think, but he has.

 

Question 9. Why does Jesus Want you to eat his body and drink his Blood?

"The words that I speak, they are spirit, and they are life". Still don't get it? Try this: It's SYMBOLIC, STUPID! (okay, okay, you're NOT stupid - it just rolled off the tongue that way)

 

Question 10. Why Do Christians Get Divorce The Same Rate as Non-Christians?

A: Personaly, I don't think that Christians do get divorced at the same rate as the rest of society, so prove it. In disciplining churches, people professing to be christians are expelled from the church if they are willingly divorced, and are thereafter not proferred the title "Christian". And what this question got to do with whether the Bible is true or not or there is a God or not or the price of eggs in China?

 

I assume you mean besides Malchus' ear. No, I've never, in my life, seen or heard a creditable report of such a thing happening. But then, I didn't make that claim to begin with.

 

Barna says otherwise.

In December of 1999, George Barna published the results of a survey which found that 34 percent of adult members of non-denominational Christian churches have experienced divorce in their lifetime, in contrast with 21 percent for atheists, agnostics and Roman Catholics. Baptists had the highest rate for born-again denominational Christians at 29 percent. The Mormon divorce rate was 24 percent. Overall, 27 percent of born-again Christians have experienced divorce compared to 24 percent for the rest of Americans. Nearly four thousand interviews were conducted, leaving a very small margin of error.
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Biblical and OT saint answer- Yes, in a heart beat (if even that long)!

However one must actually read the scriptures to understand the extent that was needed to have gone in order that their justifiable death was fulfilled.

 

You missed his point.

He is speaking of 'so called' or 'professed' christians verses true christians.

Those polls take JW's, Mormons, and others and place them in the Catagory with Christians to, thus the term 'professed'.

 

He's equating God with man. If it were the case of a sadistic human dictator killing people for gory entertainment or passing whims, that would violate justice. But if we're talking about God, then who can claim innocence before Him? If God were to immediately annhiliate the entire universe and every human life therein, he would be just, because man is an immoral beast as he relates to the perfect holiness of God. The athiest's questions are proof of this.

 

Right, Allen and Revmitchell. MP, notice I underline the word Christian in my post?

 

You are one scary dude if you would kill your child. Personally, even if God told me to do so, I would not. If that makes me bad, I'm bad.

 

So you would kill your child?

 

Well I see I'm asking him to prove a negative, which is not possible by legal or logical argumentation - is it? But he made an assertion - "God does not heal amputees" - so I think the burden on him to prove the assertion. And I don't think he could even offer an argument to that effect without pressuposing the existence of God, which he in fact denies.

 

For one there is a difference between sickness, disease, or disfunction of a part of the body and that of dismemberment. That is not to say that God can't and hasn't (as JD stated with the servants ear Christ restored as an example).

That being said, we are not commnaded to pray so that God will do for us what we desire, thus making God my servant. But we are to pray according to Gods will in all things. We are not promised healing every time we pray for it and Paul (who had the gift of healing) was denied healing himself by God because the grace of God toward him in that matter was better than any healing he could receive.

We are His servants declaring His will in His timing according to His purpose and He is our God who works all things together for our good according to His purpose, not that God "makes or does" everything to make us happy.


Editted in - I think the real question that aught to be asked is - which healing is more necessary and benificial - Physical or spiritual? If God chooses to go beyond the spiritual and recreate the amputated part, then all the more praise be to God not for the restoration of limb but His great mercy which He bestows.

 

I get what your saying, but I guess my argument is is it 'really' a reasonable question when God has never stated He will heal everything, nor that He will do all that we ask of Him because He can heal anything.

It is much like this argument IMO:

We know He raises the dead to life at His pleasure so why does He let men and woman die when they can do so much more good staying alive? Or even why doesn't He bring certain men and woman (or children) back to life.


To be honest this guys whole problem comes from his misunderstanding of God. Listen to it again and you will notice he bases his conjectures on one main supposition - That God is Love (as if that is all He is).