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Comment on Debate on the Resurrection of Jesus: William Lane Craig vs. Bart Ehrman by christian

christian — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:16:25 +0000

well it takes faith to believe anything and with belief can come doubts.

Comment on How Christian Apologetics Refutes Itself by Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:05:46 +0000

If God is omnipotent, and we are created in his own image; does that not make us, at least presumably intelligent creatures? And if we are presumably intelligent, isn’t natural for intelligent creatures like us to question?…even our Creator? Shouldn’t God know that this would be how we turn out? Of course He does, He’s omnipotent.

If God wanted to create beings that unquestionably believes in Him, He would have created automatons. But instead He created humans with conscience and reason —and freewill. We have the authority, endowed by God to question, to chose; to believe in Him—or not.

Is that not what makes God so powerful? By empowering us and entrusting us with choice?

Comment on How Christian Apologetics Refutes Itself by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:46:27 +0000

Hi and thanks for the comment. I didn’t set out to disprove Christianity. I set out to keep my Christianity and save it from the doubts that I was having about it. The problem was the more that I tried to defend it’s truth, the more I saw major problem in it and after many years of struggling and talking to as many pastors and teachers as i could, I just could not believe it any longer because it was unbelievable.

If you don’t mind me asking, why are you a Christian?

Jeff

Comment on How Christian Apologetics Refutes Itself by J

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:30:36 +0000

I find it very sad when someone searches so hard for a reason to “disprove” Christianity. There are so many reasons to not believe, and all of them are worldly. There is only one reason to believe, and that is your eternity.

Good luck, I hope you find what you are looking for. When you do, you will become a very strong Christian and your site will change its name.

Comment on Does Conscience Overrule Dogma? by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:56:57 +0000

Max,
Thank you for your comments.

The primary reasons that I had for leaving Christianity was the problems with the formation of the new testament canon as well as the irreconcilable contradictions in the bible. These would apply equally to Roman Catholicism as it does to Evangelical fundamentalism.

Not to mention that it is kind of hard to take a church seriously who allows child molesters to remain in positions that give them access to children and thinks that they can just move them around to different congregations without reporting them to the proper authorities. They might gain some credibility if the pope steps down and they just admit their problems.

Comment on Does Conscience Overrule Dogma? by Max

Max — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:28:57 +0000

Hi. Perhaps the problem was not Christianity, but, rather, Evangelical Fundamentalism, which lacks foundation. Have you explored the 2000 year young Catholic Church, founded on the rock of St. Peter. There really is more out there.

Comment on What Would Jesus NOT Do? by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:16:17 +0000

I think what the video is pointing out is that for all that Jesus said about being compassionate to people and taking care of their physical needs, it is odd that he left out so many things that we could have used to truly help those who are suffering. Instead of performing a few random miracles in a small town in Israel, he could have taught about how we too could actually help millions of people who are stricken with diseases. Jesus seems to make good works to those who are suffering so important that your entrance into heaven is totally dependent on it (Matt25).

Comment on To Be or Not To Be… Skeptical by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:11:03 +0000

Tom,
In answer to your questions:

- Yes it seems that Human kind is basically an animal given the mountains of evidence available.

- are we “basically good”? I think we, and animals, are “basically” ignorant and we become good as we learn about the world and the consequences of our actions. When we have properly functioning mental faculties we understand what “the good” is can discern between it and “the bad”.

- Since we see clear signs of morality in animals then yes, I think that they see a what good and evil is. The more developed the animal brain, the more they seem to know good from bad and the more they act accordingly. Primates for instance have social structures and are altruistic based on similar codes of good and evil that we have.

Comment on What Would Jesus NOT Do? by annelisefrench

annelisefrench — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:16:32 +0000

our biggest problem is sin and what is in the human heart: lies, deceit, greed, selfishness, murder, theft, gossip, backbiting…and that is what Jesus came to do: to set us free from those things that enslave us and to bring us back into a relationship with the Creator of the universe. We needed a Savior, not a scientist.

Comment on To Be or Not To Be… Skeptical by Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:15:51 +0000

I too seem to break it down to absolute truths. That is where the trouble lies. Some people call it faith. I think that FAITH is just a word, it holds no absolute truth. Or does it? Back in our earlier math classes we learned that anything divided by zero is undefined. Later I learned that as the divisor approaches zero, ex: 1/0.000000000001 becomes infinitely large as we let the divisor become infinitely small (zero). So does 1/0 = infinity absolutely? The simplest question I can break it down to is:
Do you believe human kind is basically just an animal? Next is that “animal” basically good or bad? Does an animal believe in good and evil?