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Existanz
1. Why won’t god heal amputees? There are cases where people claim to have been healed by miracles. One can’t help but to notice that these are in almost every case thing’s that might just have got better anyway.
- Perhaps it is because nobody had yet acquired or posses a faith that is comparable to what Christ had that could bend the laws of nature, multiply loaves of bread and turn water to wine. If some people claim that they were healed by miracle it is because they believe they are going to be healed anyway. The body naturally heals itself and that medicine only accelerates that healing process by acting as trigger to nudge the brain into action. The miracle is not that people were healed from certain ailment; it is the people who came to believe that they are going to be healed despite medical findings that told them the contrary. A leap of faith is a miracle- it is a divine grace.
2. Why are there so many starving people in our world? If you propound that God listens to you and answers your prayers, how can you believe that he answered your prayers for a raise and yet allows millions to die from starvation and disease?
- I admit without shame that honestly I do not know how to answer question number two. I asked the same question myself and tried to find ways to justify the apparent absurdities of God’s ways in this world. I realized I could not seem to find some semblance of justice to what is happening to other people and surprisingly 1 Corinthian 1:25 said it so bluntly. I guess there is nothing left to say but accepts Proverbs 3:5 “Trust the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding”.
3. Why does God demand the death of so many innocent people in the bible? There are probably more than you realize - the demands listed in the post (to kill anyone who works on the sabbath day, homosexuals, girls that are not virgins when they marry etc.) just scratch the surface. And ‘the bible corrects itself elsewhere’ isn’t a defence; how can you full heartedly trust something that contradicts itself?
- Well the Bible tells us why people were condemn by God to death and need not to be explained further. I think certain contradictions do exists in the Bible and perhaps can be attributed to certain factors and many may hate to admit it, that to some extent God’s actions sometimes do appears contradictory to human understanding (1 Cor. 1:25). Even in Science contradictory theories do exists and sometimes can not be satisfactorily reconcile. For instance the celebrated head on collision between two theories that defines reality, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, if I’m not mistaken is still on a knot. Still this does not diminished the validity of both ideas, which had given us the nuclear energy, silicon chips and other technological wonders.
4. Why does the bible contain so much anti-scientific nonsense? Such as the idea that the universe is only a couple of thousand years old, that Jonah lived inside a whale for 3 days etc.
- Not anti-scientific nonsense but rather stories of human weakness, love, despair, hope and faith told without scientific reflection. Perhaps the point of the Bible is all about God’s love and man’s salvation, if only people tries stick to that there would had been no problems at all with science. But I guess some people will always (naturally by human nature) try to find some foothold of reason to a belief and sometimes find it hard to admit to themselves that faith in a God is a flight from human reasons in the first place.
5. Why is God such a huge proponent of slavery in the bible? The post includes examples of how ’slaves should obey their masters as they would obey Christ’, amongst others. Personally I would substitute this one for something else. Perhaps ‘why is God so jealous and unforgiving in the old testament?’
-Through sin we became slave.
6. Why do bad things happen to good people? Such as their deaths in painful ways. If they are going to meet God anyway, why deprive them of their lives?
- Bad things happen to both good and evil people. I think death and sufferings are just but God’s way of letting people think there is a god without God encroaching on human freewil. If one believes in God all sufferings would be simply temporary discomforts in a journey we called life. The seemingly inequality in life plus the sufferings of people around the world give sense as to why one believe in a God. No philosophy could satisfactorily give justice to a person born in the worst place and at the worst time, to live a lifetime of sufferings and then cease to exists. This is perhaps the same reason why God made the universe so big for a minute and seemingly fragile creature as we are, so that when we look at it’s magnificence we may realized our insignificant and passing existence and force us to ask the meaning of our being.
7. Why didn’t any of Jesus’ miracles in the bible leave behind any evidence? It’s quite strange. All we really have is a book compiled 200 years after his death, written mostly by people who never met him.
- I leave it to conspiracy theories to come up with an answer as to why there are no traces of a historical Jesus. Frankly I don’t know the answer to the problem but I know how to answer the underlying question, whether there is still sense in believing Jesus’ teachings since his historical significance has been eroded. Just read what Jesus’ tries to tells us and ask yourself whether the message he was imparting to us has been affected.
8. How do we explain the fact that Jesus has never appeared to you? If he’s all-powerful and timeless, why wait for a second-coming?
-The easiest way to know why Jesus’ has never made an appearance is by reading the New Testament. Regarding his second coming I guess The Father have not yet deemed the world worthy to be cast away, that there are still good things left for this world.
9. Why would Jesus want you to eat his body and drink his blood? If you actually consider this for a second, it sounds more Satanic than Christian. And no, if you are Catholic as opposed to a derivative such as an Anglican, you believe that you are really consuming Jesus’ flesh and blood.
- Jesus blood means his sacrifice on the cross and his body, the bread, is his teachings. We commemorate this by the act of communion. The whole thing may sound like cannibalism to a mind filled with malice reflection.
10. Why do Christians get divorced at the same rate as non-Christians? “What God has put together, let no man put asunder”? But it happens regardless.
- This not surprising actually if you read the Bible and realized that all people therein mention to be men of God were also men of weakness and shortcomings. Nevertheless, God loves them just the same.
I don't believe in the Anthropomorphic GOD of the Literalist Christians but I know there is a GOD which is UNKNOWABLE that is beyond belief in the BIBLE.
- Everything that had been claimed what God is and not remains to be seen.
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