Lets see... I've been raised in a christian family my whole life. There are many things I disagree with, and many things that just don't make sense to me. I'm gonna list some questions I have/flaws that I see and let you guys argue with me about them.
First off, I posted before that the Adam and Eve story doesn't make sense at all. If Adam and Eve were the first people, their children (which would be brothers and sisters) would have to have sex with each other in order to continue the human race. This would be incest, which is a "sin" in the bible.
Noah's ark doesn't make any sense either. How the hell do you fit all the species in the world in a boat. That one's just... self explainitory right there...
If God exists, he gave us a "free will." But, if God is "all-knowing" then he already knows everything we are going to do ahead of time. How can a free will exist if something already knows the choices you will make?
Why would God create millions of species of animals, and then decide that only humans should be allowed to go to heaven? Why not every other animal? Is he forsaking his own creations?
This was something someone else posted on here: Why would God create a "lake of fire" and then want to save use from it? That doesn't make any sense, God shouldn't have created any lake of fire in the first place. If I start lighting houses on fire with children inside, and then I try to save them, I wouldn't be called a "hero," I would be considered psychotic and sent to an insane asylum.
If heaven exists, it says in the Bible that it will be a world without sin. I don't know if I'd like that. A world without sin would be a world without free will, and free will if what makes us human. Wouldn't it be boring to live for "eternity" without being able to sin at all? What would you do to occupy yourselves? Basically everything we do can be considered a sin. If you lie, thats a sin. If you watch television and someone swears, thats a sin. If you have pre-marital sex, thats a sin. If you read a book about budda, thats a sin. If you miss church on sunday to watch the football game, thats a sin. It goes on and on.
Why did God create people to be homosexual, and then decide that homosexuals are evil and are full of sin? I doubt most people choose to be homosexual, thats just the way they were made.
What about babies that are born with deformities or life-threatening diseases? What about babies that die within 30 minutes of being born, or babies that have a stillbirth? Surely babies are incabable of doing any wrong when they are born. Why would this God forsake these babies and give others a chance to live?
I think the main reason people believe in christianity is because they are afraid of what will happen if they don't. Its this fear of "hell" that separates christianity from all other religions. If you sin, you're going to hell. If you don't do this and that, you're doomed to an eternity of fire and pain.
There have been millions of religious throughout our time, how do you know that this one is any different? The ancient egyptians prayed to the sun god, the god of love and war, and all these other gods that don't exist. The muslims pray to "allah" which is basically the same God the christians belive in.
How do you explain the fact that we have evidence of evolution? Mainly homo-erectus and other human-like organisms.
How do you explain the fact of dinosaurs? It never mentions dinosaurs anywhere in the bible. The dinosaur bones alone date back millions of years, when according to the bible man has only been around for 7,000 years.
The earth has been dated as 4.7 billion years old. The bible says the earth as we know it has been around for only 7,000 years.
There are many others, those are just some.
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