XxSabrinaxX: If everyone actually believes in the Christian god, why would highly religious non-Christians purposefully following the wrong religion, especially when that religion is more strict or just as strict as any sect of Christianity?

Earthbound:
My sister, the fastest way to sanity is to recognize the existence of a creator of the universe but elude religion. Let your apt knowledge of good and evil guide you. That's all.

XxSabrinaxX:
I posted these questions to one of the threads under the religious forum. But I found these questions interesting and I decided to dedicate a thread to answering these questions. Some of these questions are questions that have haunted me way back when I was still a christian:

* Why does geography seem to have far more to do with one's religious choice than actual free will?
* How can you say God loves and cares about everyone if some people suffer while others prosper?
* Even if we assume that one particular religion is true, doesn't the existence of many religions at least prove that mankind likes to make up religious stories, and that people have a tendency to believe them? How do you know yours isn't one of those?
* If everyone actually believes in the Christian god, why would highly religious non-Christians purposefully following the wrong religion, especially when that religion is more strict or just as strict as any sect of Christianity?
* If Adam and Eve only knew good and evil after eating the fruit, then why did God assume when he told them not to eat it that they knew it was "wrong"?
* Why do we inherit sin from our ancestors, but salvation has to be an individual choice?
* If god is omniscient, (all knowing), why do you need to pray to him?
* If god is omniscient, (all knowing), why does he need to test us?
* If god is omnibenevolent, (All Loving) why did he create evil? In Isaiah 45:7 the scripture reads as follows: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
* Please explain the difference between a "Claim" and "Evidence" and after doing so, please show me the evidence for your god.

P.S I want to appeal now before its too late. If you're a christian and the only thing you're going to do in this thread is hurl insults, I'd advise you to reconsider and stay away from this thread. Lets try our best to keep a civil argument

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Shelumiel, you're free to come and discuss too

hahn:
Sin from Monday to Saturday and ask for forgiveness on Sunday then start again immediately after service.

YOU NUT IN HER MOUTH ON SUNDAY MORNING, SHE GOES TO CHURCH AND EATS COMMUNION WITH THAT SAME MOUTH, YOU NUT IN HER ASŚ AFTER SUNDAY SERVICE.

-THE LIFE OF A CONFUSED CHRISTIAN GIRLFRIEND.

CAPSLOCKED:

YOU NUT IN HER MOUTH ON SUNDAY MORNING, SHE GOES TO CHURCH AND EATS COMMUNION WITH THAT SAME MOUTH, YOU NUT IN HER ASŚ AFTER SUNDAY SERVICE.

-THE LIFE OF A CONFUSED CHRISTIAN GIRLFRIEND.

CAPSLOCKED:


THE SECOND REASON IS FEAR.... FEAR AND THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE TIME AFTER HE DIES.
WHICH WON'T BE THERE IF THE CHILD WASN'T BRAINWASHED INTO BELIEVING IN NONSENSE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

hahn:


What is the point of acknowledging something without any tangible proof?

Earthbound:

It's called having faith and it's not tied to Christians and Muslims alone. My perception is that there's a creator who put everything in place. I'm don't agree with the school of thought that everything happened and happens by chance. This is a lie. If Dinosaurs still existed, what would be the fate of the human race? Nothing happens by chance. One of the reasons why religions still sell is because there hasn't been a global extraterrestrial contact.

CreepyBlackpool:


Are you a christian?

Earthbound:

By birth and association, yes. I'm not exactly very op3n minded to airing out my beliefs in public for avoidance of scrutiny and non-ending arguments

Earthbound:

By birth and association, yes. I'm not exactly very op3n minded to airing out my beliefs in public for avoidance of scrutiny and non-ending arguments

Earthbound:

It's called having faith and it's not tied to Christians and Muslims alone. My perception is that there's a creator who put everything in place. I'm don't agree with the school of thought that everything happened and happens by chance. This is a lie. If Dinosaurs still existed, what would be the fate of the human race? Nothing happens by chance. One of the reasons why religions still sell is because there hasn't been a global extraterrestrial contact.

XxSabrinaxX:

It seems your worldview is more in line with deism rather than theism. Which isn't bad to be honest. I personally find deism more logical than theism.

hahn:


Faith is actually a bad thing and only seems to work inside the confines of religion.

You cannot pay for a car or house without seeing it first but somehow religion expects us to accept there is a man in the sky who expects servitude all without proof

BUT.....
BUT WE HAVE BIBLES, PASTORS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WE FEEL THE INVISIBLE MAN IN OUR HEARTS WHENEVER WE PRAY.

CreepyBlackpool:

ok so you mentioned dinosaurs earlier, does your religion really suppport their existence?

I've heard christians say they never existed and God just planted their bones there to test man's faith.

Whats your take on this?

Earthbound:

Dinosaurs existed and this is fact. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Religion has existed only humans did.

CreepyBlackpool:


does this not contradict your religion which seems to believe the earth was created in six 24hr days less than 10,000yrs ago even though they lack evidence and proof

CreepyBlackpool:


does this not contradict your religion which seems to believe the earth was created in six 24hr days less than 10,000yrs ago even though they lack evidence and proof

XxSabrinaxX:

Earthbound is not defending Christianity. He believes a God must exist but he doesn't accept any religion.

Earthbound:

You keep saying 'your religion'. I'm only that by birth and geographical accident. If I was born and raised in India, I'd probably be Hindu.
Look man, I really don't want to drag this matter. Your understanding of the Christian Bible is a result of multiple translations whereby words have been simplified and in other ways corrupted. I even regard African Traditional Religion higher than Christianity because I cannot respect another person's father more than mine, you feel me?