Christain vs. Non believer

If anyone sees this, note that Jesus truly is The Way, The Truth, and The Life.


1. There are thousands of different religions in the world, and in the vast majority of cases people follow the dominant faith of the culture they were born into. Is it not arrogant and self-centered to think that your faith is the "true" one and all the others are false?

Answer: No it isn???t because others also do it but ours is the true way, we also have proof of many of the things believed.

2. What is the point of prayer? Surely your god knows what you are going to pray for beforehand - and has already decided on his course of action. Is it not absurd to think that you can persuade god to change his mind?

Answer: Yes God knows what is going to happen but he wants us to pray to him to show him our love and devotion

3. Why does god insist that you worship him? Is he insecure - or an egomaniac?

Answer: God does not insist that we worship him but he is very happy when we do, he isn???t insecure or an egomaniac

4. Matthew 1:16 "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus."
Luke 3:23 "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli."
The bible is full of contradictions (for a large list see here) - explain how, even with just the small and fairly insignificant contradiction above, the bible can be the infallible word of god.

Answer: The two are different genealogies one from Mary???s side and the other is from Josephs side, the other thing is there are not contradictories it is from different peoples point of views, not everyone is going to remember and describe one event the same way now that would be ridiculous

5. Thomas Paine: "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
Please explain why the bible is referred to as the "good book".

Answer: Yes it has horrible and brutal parts in it but at least it is showing how real evil is it isn???t going to cover that up and make it some happy fairy tale. It is The Good Book because it shows us how we have made mistakes but it shows that God will still love us even if we make mistakes.

6. Thomas Paine was referring to the Old Testament in the above quote. Please explain why the god of the Old Testament (an angry, vengeful god, worthy of scorn not worship) - is so different from the god talked about in the New Testament.

Answer: In the Old Testament God is not a God worthy of scorning or a vengeful God, God does get angry with us sometimes but even then he is mostly sad not angry. It is the same God in both TESTAMENTS. He does not change there are parts in both New and Old Testament where God gets angry look at when he overthrows the vendors stations in the Temple it is not because he is completely mad though he is also filled with sadness, because they chose to turn it into like a shopping center.

7. (regarding creation)

a. "In the beginning God created the heaven and earth" ... what was god doing before "the beginning", and where did he reside?

Answer: The ???heavens??? is referring to outer space in that verse. There was a heaven in the sense where God was.

b. Explain how god made light, then separated light from darkness, BEFORE he had created the sun, moon and stars.

Answer: God is omnipotent (which means all powerful) I can not explain it, it???s God who did it, and it???s too great for us to understand.

c. Explain why "he made the stars also" - countless billions of them - at the end of the forth day, when it had taken him all of the previous time to work on just one small planet.

Answer: He made them so that we would have more light then just the moon. It didn???t take Him the other days just to work on our planet he created other planets the whole atmosphere. He took more time on earth because that is where He would place us, He made it perfect because He loves us.

d. "And God set them [the stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth". We know that the stars are not set in anything, and they are rather more than just light-givers (particularly as most cannot even been seen from earth). Why is god so ignorant about his own creation?

Answer: They are set in the atmosphere it the literal sense and stars are nothing compared to the sun and the moon which is why they are not given as much description also he is not ignorant he is humble.

8. Thomas Paine: "When I am told that a woman called Mary said that she was with child without any co-habitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband Joseph said that an angel told him so [in a dream!] I have a right to believe them or not; such a circumstance requires a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it; but we have not even this - for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves; it is only reported by others they said so - it is hearsay upon hearsay, and I do not choose to rest my belief upon such evidence."
Please explain why you believe that Mary was a virgin mother.

Answer: God had given her a child that was conceived by the Holy Spirit isn???t that more believable then someone saying that we came from pond scum. If people can believe that with no solid evidence then how can you not believe this, this has more evidence then other things.

9. Please also explain why you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and why the accounts in the bible of this event conflict.

Answer: I believe this because I put my faith in God who said it happened they don???t conflict they are different perspectives.

10. Jesus apparently died for us, facing god's wrath in our place. Why did he have to do this? Why couldn't god forgive us anyway? Why does god - a perfect being - have negative, human-based emotions like anger and wrath? Is not the whole concept absurd?

Answer: He didn???t Jesus decided to he made the decision for us so that we could live in eternity, He could forgive us but we just keep sinning so in order for us to be able to go to heaven someone perfect and blameless (Jesus) had to die in our place. He has some anger but that is due to us being so sinful, his wraith is out of love to us because he punishes us so that we don???t do the same thing over and over again, so that concept is absurd cause he doesn???t have the same negative feelings that we have they have different meanings then what we gave them.

11. Please attempt to justify eternal damnation. Surely even the most evil people who ever lived (Hitler, Stalin etc.) don't deserve to be horrifically punished for eternity (and I don't think many Christians have really thought about what eternity really is).

Answer: We all deserve to! The difference is that some of them like Hitler and other non-believers didn't chose to accept the offer Christ gave them so it is there fault.