Where In The Hell Did Jesus And Elijah Think They Were Going!?

According to the Christian bible, both Elijah and Jesus rose up bodily into heaven, Elijah in a chariot of fire (just like Romulus the founder of Rome, similarly Mithra of Persia) and Jesus like superman. One can’t help but wonder where exactly Christians think heaven is? Clearly the writers of the bible believed that this place of gold-paved roads was literally floating above our flat earth on a VERY sturdy cloud (which makes one wonder how important the time of liftoff was considering if either man had waited 12 hours they would have been headed in a COMPLETELY different direction) so where do Christians think heaven is? In other words, where in the hell did Elijah and Jesus think they were going? How high did they get before they were no longer able to breathe and their bodies turned to ice? Also, when these two men with their human bodies arrived in heaven, a place populated by souls, angels and a God, what then? Did they have to eat? What did they eat? How did they get all their necessary vitamins and minerals? Did they wear clothes? The same clothes? Every day? Did their hair continue to grow? Did they have to sleep? Where did they urinate and defecate? Did they have gas? Did they have B.O.? Did they get involuntary erections as all men do? Did their noses produce snot? Could their bodies be injured? Could they suffer from aging? Were the angels and souls jealous of Elijah and Jesus’ human bodies or contemptuous of them? I occasionally get criticized for asking silly or frivolous questions but I truly am curious as to what Christians think about these things. I appreciate anyone who will take the time to voice their opinion on this subject.

Thank You

DoubtingThomas

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What Happened To Thou Shalt Not Kill?

 “If thy brother … or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying Let us go and serve other gods … Thou shalt surely kill him … and thou shalt stone him with stones that he die.” Deut 13:6, 9, 10. So if someone you love wants to be another religion and asks you to consider joining their religion, you should disobey the Ten Commandments, and righteously kill him, condemning their soul to eternal torment in hell? This is the command of a god you want me to worship and love and dedicate my life to? Really? I think I’ll pass.

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The Legality of Religious Indoctrination

Should religious indoctrination in children be illegal? Is it the equivalent of child abuse? Should a person not be allowed to choose what god they want to worship until they are an adult? A person most often becomes the religion of their parent for no other reason than that is the person who raised them. There was no conscious choice. There was no careful examination of the various religions and gods currently being worshiped and then whichever one they ‘connect’ with becomes their religion. Consider the following scenarios: A young child of 7 years-old is being raised by Christian parents, and during a camping trip in Utah, both parents are bitten by a poisonous snake and die. The child wonders off into the wilderness and is later found by another family who was also camping. The child is taken in by the family and raised by them. The family is Mormon. Will the child grow up to be a Christian or a Mormon like his ‘adopted’ family? How about if the Christian family is doing missionary work in Afghanistan and their vehicle hits an old landmine and everyone is killed but the child who wonders off into the desert and is found by an Afghani family. The child will grow up and be a Muslim not a Christian. How about if the Christian family is doing missionary work in the depths of the Amazon and is attacked by a Jaguar and the parents are killed. Say a local tribe finds the child and raises him amongst them. That child will grow up worshiping the river god Waesaritu. Why would God allow the innocent child to be misled this way, damning him to eternal hellfire?

Is Heaven Really Hell?

Will the saved in heaven miss their skeptical friends and family who are doomed to eternal torment in hell? The bible says there will be no sorrow. Are you the same age in heaven as you were when you died? Child, old man? Or in your ‘prime’? Who decides? You? Will they have bodily functions? The bible mentions feasts in heaven? If you eat in heaven will the resulting bodily functions occur? Is there sex? How will we recognize each other if we don’t have a recognizable form? Will we have wrinkles? Gray hair? Be bald? Fat? Male or female (if no sex then why different sexes? Why genitals at all?)? Teeth (if no eating, no teeth)? Noses (nothing smells, no need)? Will lost appendages be restored? Infirmities erased? What about birth defects? Will a born cripple still be a cripple in heaven? If you’re beautiful in life will you be beautiful in heaven? The same with ugly? In other words, will anybody stand out? Will we all look alike? Same race? If not there will be certain discrimination in heaven as there always is with those that aren’t alike. Luke 22:29, 30 – “And I appoint unto you a kingdom … that ye may eat & drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.” *** PLEASE visit my Main Page and check out my many other posts in the various categories listed on the left.

Does a Soul Have Nerve Endings?

Another problem for the soul-particularly in relation to Hell-Does the soul have the ability to feel pain. Can a soul be tortured and brutalized? Pain is a particularly bodily phenomenon; it involves nerves, it involves tissue, it involves, most importantly, the brain. Please explain how a ghostly essence, separated from the body, can feel pain.

QUESTIONS FOR GOD AND HIS BELIEVERS

“What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” – Bertrand Russell

I also require proof

The Disciples were skeptics themselves, who demanded proof, only believing when tongues of fire landed on their heads. Why doesn’t God do that to everyone? Why is it now a sin to insist on proof before belief? Even Abraham asked for evidence and again God obliged. I’m pretty sure anyone who has a tongue of fire land on their head is going to be a believer. If God really wanted us all to go to heaven, it would take very little effort to make it happen.

AWKWARD!

So, say a married man dies (car crash or something) and his wife remarries. He goes to heaven and then years later so does the wife but not her new husband. What happens then? Are the original married couple reunited in bliss? And what happens when the second husband dies and arrives in heaven? In heaven is one marriage more legitimate than the other? Is the first always more legitimate than any marriage that follows? What if the first was miserable? Save your breath, there’s no need to answer. The next post reveals the depressing reality of Christian belief.

Get to heaven, get divorced

In Mark 12:25 Jesus states that there will be no marriage in heaven. Husbands and wives will be no longer. So why the requirement for marriage in the first place if it’s just going to be voided upon death? Be fruitful and multiply was the command. God didn’t mention anything about first signing some unrealistic, legally-binding contract and having a silly ceremony.

So much bloodshed over an inch of skin

God is so zealous in his obsession that man be circumcised that one wonders why he created such a flawed body that requires such an operation in all of mankind in order to be worthy of God’s acceptance. And long before these operations were safe or sanitary. God tells Abraham to circumcise boys at age 8 days but Abraham himself wasn’t circumcised until he was 99 years old. Gen 17:24 Why is this wee bit of skin so damn offensive? Could it be that it so closely resembles an ape’s (animal’s) penis and this reality frightens believers?

You sure you don’t want to rethink the whole procreate thing?

Why do so few of God’s creation (humanity) believe in him? Isn’t that a terrible failure on God’s part considering that all the non-believers are doomed to hell? Why has God allowed so many thousands of gods to be invented and worshiped by his creation? Why aren’t we all naturally inclined to know of and believe in our ‘creator’?

The Big Question

Why did God create the earth (and everything else for that matter)? Especially if this all knowing deity knew what an abysmal failure it would turn out to be? And this wasn’t even his first failure; remember the Angel rebellion? And God’s casting out of these Angels allowed Satan to be in the Garden of Eden to tempt an innocent/naive Eve, which resulted in the downfall of mankind. Oops! Fumble!

Make a decision already

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts all clash in the description of the life of Jesus, especially the ascension. They can’t all be honored as reliable sources. If you’re going to use the bible as a historical reference, you must choose one or none at all. Which do you choose?

Forgot to carry the 1?

None of the Gospels claim that more than a few besides the disciples saw Jesus after the resurrection, but in I Cor. 15:6 Paul claims there were 500. Where did this number come from? Why is Paul the only one to report a number anywhere that large? And if that number is accurate, few seemed to be impressed, for at the first meeting after Jesus’ ascension, only 120 people showed up (including the disciples and Jesus’ relatives) Acts 1:15. Why did Jesus’ time on earth, his miracles preformed, his resurrection and ascension into heaven impress so few people. The Jews were longing for the Messiah and yet few followed Jesus. Strange how only after many multitude of years have passed and the stories can no longer be proven/disproven, that so many now choose to believe. But still not the Jews!

So many gods, so little thyme

The writers of the bible clearly believed there was more than one god, more than one deity who could grant powers to those who followed/worshiped him just like the Christian god. If God is the only true/real God, then who granted the Pharaoh’s sorcerers the ability to match Moses’ magic with their own special ‘rods’? Ex. 7:11, 12, 22

Does Faith = Ignorance?

Does Faith = Ignorance? The put down of intelligence and use of the mind in any way is so woven throughout the New Testament that one must finally conclude that people should strive to be stupid and unquestioning, and that those who are not are doomed. “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” I Cor 1:19 “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” I Cor 1:21

Jews for Jesus!

Why did God do so little to ensure that his chosen people (the Jews) accepted Jesus as the Messiah? Why did God bother to send Jesus down to earth, have him be born from a virgin, do all that he did, being the self proclaimed Messiah and savior King of the Jews, destined to die for them, be resurrected and rise into heaven, only to be rejected by God’s chosen people (the Jews)? What a waste. But then there is always Jews for Jesus.

How is this not child abuse?

It seems that in order for religion to really stick (last a lifetime) it must be introduced (indoctrinated) as a child. A child’s untried mind, peopled with fanciful characters as real as any (Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, etc.) represents just the level of thought processes necessary for acceptance of a religious system so rooted in superstition and mythology. An adult tells the child of Santa Claus and the child believes, whole heartedly that he exists. If that child was protected and isolated from those that would tell him otherwise and surrounded by those that would continue to encourage his belief in Santa, would said child ever stop believing in Santa? How is this different than belief in God (Jesus)?

And from out of nowhere!

Rev 17:8 – “And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.” Rev 20:15 – “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Wow! What a Revelation! Where did this ‘book of life’ come from? Why did no one ever mention such an important book before Revelations? And if the names of those that will be allowed into heaven are written in it ‘from the foundation of the world’ then why, according to the bible, aren’t those that were born before Jesus allowed to have everlasting life?

Why do all the dogs follow the Old Testament?

Why do non-Jews follow the Bible? Specifically the Old Testament? The bible is a book about the Jews, their history, customs, lifestyle, superstitions and religion. Gentiles (non Jews) should have no interest in it. Their treatment by Israelite armies at the direction of their God is so vindictive it should horrify any non Jew. Remember, Jesus called Gentiles (non Jews) “dogs”. Joseph Smith was so put off by how little the bible had to do with his people (Americans) that he actually rewrote it to suit him and started his own religion (Mormonism).

More needless bloodshed

Why all the unnecessary deaths? Did every child in Bethlehem and the surrounding cities under two really have to die (killed by King Herod) just because God needed to be born into human form. Why couldn’t he just appear so there would be no doubt he was God. Ever hear of Occam’s Razor?

Yo, dude! What’s with the ‘tude?

Animals were regularly sold at temple for sacrifice, this was part of Mosaic law, but when Jesus witnessed this he went all ape shit. Why?

Please let me die young and hot

In Heaven, will someone’s grandmother, who died at 80, look like she was when she was 80 or at a different age? In other words, should people pray for death at a young age, so they can look real young and healthy for eternity in heaven?

Sorry kid, it’s hell for you too!

At what age are children judged to be responsible for making their own decisions about religion? They are born sinners according to the bible. If an atheist if guaranteed a place in hell, then how about that atheist’s 5 year old child? Do they get a free pass? If so how about a ten year old? What about Mormons? According to Christianity, all Mormons are doomed to hell. What about their children? The children of a Mormon are being raised in their religion. They believe what their parents are teaching them (Santa!). They aren’t being given a choice. Will they be punished for innocently believing in their parents teachings by being doomed to burn in eternal hellfire? Are the kids who died in the Waco, Texas compound fire with David Koresh in hell?

God Speed!

Why are their Christian missionaries? The bible is very clear that a Christian should not associate with a non believer. II John 1:10 – “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” Similar in I Tim. 6:5

Missionaries: The Devil’s Disciples

Are all who are naïve of Jesus’ existence doomed to burn in eternal hellfire? If yes, then God is a demon and unworthy of worship by anyone who would call themselves good. HOWEVER, if God is indeed a merciful God, then those that are naïve of Jesus’ existence will not be punished for their innocent ignorance and will be granted entrance into heaven. If the later is the case, however, then wouldn’t the people of the world be better served by missionaries not coming to their lands? One minute the tribesman has a free pass to heaven from a good and merciful God, the next a missionary arrives and tells him to stop worshiping his god and worship Christ. The tribesman, not understanding, or not trusting this pale faced foreigner decides to continue worshiping as he and his people have for countless generations. The next day a jaguar attacks the tribesman and kills him. Fastpass to HELL for the tribesman. The very introduction of the missionary into their tribe dooms them. Thanks God! Thanks do-gooder Christians!

Hey God! Care to shoot the breeze?

How does God decide who he is going to have casual conversations with? In Gen. 25:23 Rebekah asks God about her pregnancy symptoms and God apparently isn’t busy so he replies, “Two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels.” Another fine example is in Acts 10 – Peter is fasting on a rooftop and God decides Peter can be done fasting and sends down a sheet full of four-footed beasts and wild beasts and creeping things and foul and speaks to Peter, saying “Rise, kill and eat.” God the Almighty has just preformed a bit of magic and spoken directly with Peter, commanded him really, but does Peter obey his Lord? No, he refuses! Is God so unimpressive? God actually repeats his command three times but still Peter refuses. Finally, God gives up! Don’t these examples strike anyone as odd? And why are such pedestrian conversations unfathomable now? Even a Christian would think someone claiming to have such informal conversations with God is mad or a liar.

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During the God mandated wandering the Jews did before being allowed to enter the Promised Land, God provided manna, which was sweet and like coriander and could be made into cakes (using no other ingredients?). Just what sort of nutritional value could manna have had? What would happen to the human body if forced to eat nothing but manna for forty years? And if you answer with the typical pat, ‘God would make it so they wouldn’t get ill’, then you are required to answer the follow up question as well. If God is going to actively interfere with the bodies of these people, why not just make it so they don’t need to eat at all?

What? You don’t sign your work?

Who wrote the books of the bible? The vast majority were written long after the events being depicted took place so they clearly weren’t written by first hand witnesses. If Moses didn’t write the books of Exodus (and Deuteronomy) and he clearly couldn’t have considering the following verse, “And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.” Deut. 34:6, then who did? Why didn’t these people proudly sign their names on these precious documents?

Malpractice suit anyone?

How many people have died as a result of a single passage in the book of James? “And the prayer of faith shall heal the sick.” James 5:15

Is it nigh already!?

Just what does nigh mean, anyway? 2,000 years? As reliable as ever, James 5:8 says, “Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

Good indeed

How can God be considered anything but a failure? God’s creation is always deemed to be ‘good’. And yet his first woman commits the sin that dooms all of mankind and her first son becomes the world’s first murderer. Good indeed.

What’s with the special ingredients?

How is it God can create everything out of nothing but to create man he needs dust and to create woman he needs to take a rib from Adam’s chest?

Hope you found heaven Tammy Faye

Why do female televangelist clearly defy God’s commands about appearance? I Tim. 2:9 – “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array…”

So many means none at all

Doesn’t the simple fact that there are thousands of religions and gods in the world prove that none of them are genuine (real)? If any were real, why wouldn’t they be the god of everyone? Why wouldn’t this god make themselves known to all instead of just a certain region (race) of people? What’s with the favoritism?

A Neglectful God

Why does God concentrate so long and so hard on such a small portion of the human population (the Jews), leaving the rest of the world to bungle along, worshiping their various gods and goddesses, all these people doomed to burn in eternal hellfire as a result of their ignorance, an ignorance that is a result of god’s neglect?

Sorry Retard, It’s Hell For You!

What happens to people who have physical and mental infirmities that prevent them from hearing, or reading, or understanding? Is God a devil who would doom them to eternal hellfire OR is he a tender and merciful God who grants them free access into heaven? And what level of retardation is required to acquire this free pass? Is a person with downs syndrome exempt because they can conceivably make decisions for themselves? What about a person who was once ‘normal’ but as a result of a brain injury became mentally retarded? What if they were an Atheist before the accident?

Does God believe in God?

Is God an Atheist? I mean if He’s God, then he doesn’t believe in a higher power, right?

What was His intention?

Why create the entire universe just to create the Garden of Eden for two humans?

Is Allah stronger?

Whose side is God on? Christians or Muslims? The US or Osama Bin Laden? If he’s on the US side, then why let terrorists mercilessly kill innocent civilians?

Survival by accident?

The fact that there are roaches (and many, many varieties) means that God wanted Noah to put them on the Ark. Why? How about Locusts? Mosquitoes? Viruses and Bacteria?

It’s only fair

If Public Schools allow the teaching of creationism alongside evolution, would you let your private Christian school or church allow the teaching of evolution?

Ohh, my back!

Why did God rest on the seventh day? Why would a perfect supreme being need to rest at all?

Injustice for all

Why would God punish us all so severely simply because an ancestor (Eve) took an apple from the wrong tree?

Everytime you hear a bell…

Do Angels need wings to fly? If not, then why do they have wings?

Walking with Dinosaurs

Who came first, Dinosaurs or Adam and Eve?

All Knowing Asshole

Why did an all knowing God expect Cain to sacrifice his best sheep to him? And, then turn him away when he did not, which he knew would result in one brother killing another?

Everything is preordained and predestined?

How can the bible teach responsibility when everything is preordained and predestined?

More Mythology

Did they see a beanstalk as well? – In Num. 13:33 the scouts for the Israelites advise against entering Canaan because they claim to have seen giants there. Giants are creatures of Myth, just like Dragons, which are also repeatedly mentioned in the Bible as if they were real. Neither Dragons nor Giants exist. Never have.

Civil War in the Heavens

How can people be assured of a perfect eternal home in heaven if it was already the scene of a civil war?

Inexplicable behavior

In Luke 24:37 when Jesus rises from the dead and appears to the eleven apostles, they are terrified. Didn’t they know he would be returning? How little faith did they have in their own Messiah? Why so little preparation for his return? Most of Jesus’ followers just went back to life as normal or went into hiding. Lazarus’ return from the dead was met with more enthusiasm. Why do the disciples have such an insignificant reaction to Jesus’ resurrection and ascension? They seem relatively unimpressed by these incredible feats. They don’t tell anyone and aren’t tempted to tell anyone. Nobody gloats to the scribes and Pharisees. Nobody tells Jesus’ mother (!). Nobody celebrates. Nobody says, “I told you so!” They don’t assemble a crowd for the ascension. And if they really believe what Jesus said about his second coming is true and that it will happen in their lifetimes, why aren’t they hotfooting it to try and ‘save’ as many Jews from hell as they can? Don’t they have any friends, family or loved ones they would like to see get into heaven?

NO GENTILES ALLOWED!

If God intended for his religion to be (embraced) for all (not just the Jews) why did he make it so restrictive and exclusive? Invading, attacking, and slaughtering all who weren’t his chosen people hardly seems like an invitation.

Who gave them the power?

Numerous people in the bible, magicians, sorcerers, are described as performing what could only be described as miracles, and yet if they aren’t men of God. How could this be? Empowered by another god? Are they pulling off some sort of con? If so, how can anyone be sure Jesus wasn’t as well?

Pathway to terrorism

For US religionists: Do you love your God more than your country? Almost all American religionists say they love their god more than their country. Loving one’s god more than one’s country is the pathway to terrorism.

Who made you?

If, in order for the universe to exist, it had to be created by God, then who or what created God?

One is the loneliest number

How do you know there is only one God? How do you know there aren’t two?Whose religion is right? They can’t all be right.

You got the wrong guy

Why did Jesus have to pay for our sins? Why not make the Devil pay?

Motives

Why did God create the devil in the first place? Just to torment and punish his creation? And, if so, is this God then worthy of praise?

Thank God for State Farm

Television’s faith healers promise that God can be depended on to intervene miraculously on behalf of the sincere soul. The Bible says in Matthew 21:22: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” So, why do these practitioners of faith still buy insurance for their multimillion-dollar production facilities? Why do any religious organizations need insurance?

The Bible is not a History book

Assuming the Bible did not exist, what evidence is there that the world was created as described in Genesis?

Praise to Poseidon

What proof do you have that Poseidon, Neptune, Zeus, Osiris, and thousands of other gods are not the correct god?

RUN! An atheist!

Does the LORD prefer to keep critical thinkers out of Heaven, by letting them become atheists, rather than eternally suffer their incessant, impudent questioning of his judgment and authority?

Clarify please

It is said that Jesus was born in a stable, yet in Matthew 2:11, the wise men from the east go to Bethlehem and find Mary and her baby in a house. So which is it?

Skeptical examination always reveals truth

Why are religionists so quick to turn a skeptical eye on all other religions and their gods but refuse to turn that same eye on their own religion? All things that are true and real will have no trouble standing up to a little skeptical examination.

Another of God’s failures

Is it God’s desire for every soul to be saved and enter heaven? If it is then God is clearly not all powerful as the vast majority of humanity is going straight to hell. If it isn’t God’s desire for every soul to go to heaven then this God is a loathsome being. A god that would allow this to happen is offensive to me, why not to you?

Simple Question

Can God make a rock so heavy he can’t lift it?

Are You Experienced?

Every religion–Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, Scientology, Buddhism, etc. claims to have religious experiences. If EVERY supernatural belief system boasts religious experiences, then doesn’t that pretty well devalue religious experiences as an indicator of actual truth?

Can good create evil?

A creator is responsible for his creation, correct? Sin cannot coexist with omnipotence, unless the omnipotent power wants it to coexist. If your omnipotent god wants sin to exist, wouldn’t this define him as evil?

Pray For The Impossible

Why won’t any religious person pray that an amputee’s limb grows back? Is it because you know that it is impossible and praying for the impossible is foolish? Why can’t an all powerful god heal an amputee? Why don’t parents who wanted a baby boy but got a baby girl pray for the baby to change genders? Why do Christians so rarely pray for anything that is completely impossible?

A Wing and a Prayer

A simple scientific test for the validity of prayer. Gather up the religeous leaders of your particular religion and put them and 200 of their most loyal and feverent followers on an airplane. At 35,000 feet, the pilot and co-pilot will exit the plane via parachute. Autopilot can not be used. At this point every person remaining on board will begin to pray for the plane’s safe landing and every passenger’s survival. If God’s hands guide the aircraft to a safe and smooth landing, prayer’s efficacy will be proven. If the plane crashes, the power of prayer will have been disproven. Would even one of these believers step foot on that plane to participate in this test?

Just Like Me

Aren’t you an Atheist almost exactly like me? Do you believe in Baal? Do you believe in Ammon Ra? How about Zeus? Or Wotan? Or Poseidon? Or Apollo? Guess what? Me neither! If I made a list of every god ever worshiped by man I bet you would check them all off as being false just like me. The only difference between you and I seems to be the one god you would leave unchecked that I would include with the others. Not much of a difference between us after all is there? You exclude your god from your atheistic beliefs whereas I include him. That’s all.

Why the great delay, big guy?

If God intended for all of his creation to worship him why did he wait so long to make himself known? Humanity was ignorant of the Christian gods existance for many thousands of years and created and worshiped many false gods during that time. Did this upset God? Why did he choose to ignore so many generations of humanity?

Cannibal Christians

Roman Catholic doctrine claims the ‘whole substance’ of the eucharistic wine is converted into the blood of Christ upon cunsumption and the cracker actually becomes the flesh of Christ. Do you believe this? If not, why? Isn’t this supported by the biblical text?

Ten simple requests

Ten simple requests for the Christian faithful:

1. Present extraordinary evidence for Jesus’ bodily resurrection.

2. Present extraordinary evidence that Jesus was born asexually (of a virgin).

3. Present extraordinary evidence that some Biblical characters, such as Adam and Noah, lived in excess of 900 years.

4. Present extraordinary evidence that immaterial “souls” haunt our carcasses.

5. Present extraordinary evidence that human consciousness survives bodily death, passing to another realm of existence.

6. Present extraordinary evidence that Yahweh exists, to the exclusion of other god characters.

7. Present extraordinary evidence that the cataclysmic flood described by the Bible actually occurred.

8. Present extraordinary evidence that evolution-the cornerstone of modern biology-is incorrect.

9. Present extraordinary evidence that “miracles” are possible, let alone actually have occurred.

10. Present extraordinary evidence that serpents and donkeys can speak in human language, whether with Yahweh’s aid or by their own linguistic genius.

Another Broken Promise

According to Genesis, God promised Abraham that his descendants would be a mighty and powerful people who would be in permanent possession of the land he (God) gave them. Neither happened. The Israelites have never ruled all of the territory that God promised them, except for a short time under David and Solomon (this is assuming either existed outside the pages of the bible). So which is it; the God of the bible is incapable (powerless) of keeping his promise OR the promise itself never occurred because the bible is a work of fiction? Either way, isn’t it clear that the Israelites were not God’s chosen people?

My god’s stronger than your god!

Are the Christian god, God, and the Muslim god, Allah, the same? If not, Allah is clearly the more powerful of the two. Consider that pre 7^th century, the Byzantines and the Persians had been in a never ending battle for a good twenty years. Their forces were so exhausted and depleted that when the Arabs made their move, they couldn’t put up much of a fight and the Arabs ended up taking Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and North Africa from the Byzantines and overran all of Persia. Clearly the Almighty Allah made the infidels weaken each other to make it easier for his chosen people to conquer their lands. Does this prove that the Islamic religion is the true religion? How do you prove otherwise?

Abort the tumor

Should the church be able to prevent someone from donating a kidney to their dying sister? Does the kidney belong to the person whoes body it resides in? Is it theirs to do with as they please? How about a tumor? A tumor is a living, growing mass of cells. A tumor doesn’t necessarily cause any harm to the human whoes body it is growing in. Does a person have the right to have it removed, even if it’s not currently causing them harm? What about if it might kill them to do so? Does the tumor belong to them? How is a fetus (a living, growing mass of cells) any different?

Mythology

If an ancient Aztec text was discovered and in this text it was reported that their leader commanded an offensive tree to uproot itself and march away into the jungle, would you believe that this actually occurred? If not, why not? There is no evidence that the events depicted in the Bible actually occurred, in fact quite the contrary, so why would you blindly believe those stories but not the one depicted in the Aztec text? Remember, Faith is not an acceptable answer to this question as it isn’t an actual answer.

Educate Yourself

It is a statistical fact that the more inteligent, highly educated a person, the less likely they are to belive in a god. In other words, the less educated, or more ignorant a person is, the more likely they are to believe in a god. If it was proven that the less educated, or more ignorant a person was the more likely they were to drive a Ford or wear Addidas sneakers, and you realized you drove a Ford or wore Addidas, wouldn’t you reconsider the car you drove or the sneaker you wore?

Lazy Christians

If a Christian does not spend every waking moment of their lives trying to ‘save’ people in order for them to go to heaven when they die, can they truly call themselves a real Christian? How can a real Christian just sit idley by knowing that, according to the Bible, of the thousands of people who die every day, the majority of them are going straight to hell?

Why are we born doomed to hell?

Why isn’t knowledge of God a natural part of our existence? Why aren’t we born knowing him? In other words, why if a man is born and left alone, and he never encounters a Christian or reads a bible, he would live his whole life never knowing or believing in God? If God is real and deserving of our love, why has he stacked the deck so highly in favor of mankind eventually finding themselves in hell rather than heaven?

Sex ED.

Did Adam and Eve have sex in the Garden of Eden? If so, did they do it purely for procreation purposes? Who taught them how to have intercourse? God?

Could women feel pain before God’s curse?

Did pain exist before Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge? If so, why? If part of the punishment for eating the fruit was pain during childbirth, does this mean pain receptors didn’t exist in the female body before this? How else would childbirth have been free from pain?