Questions for Christians

The Christian mythology raises thousands of questions for those studying it. Here are just a few of them.

    God
    Who created God?
    Why does an omnipotent God allow people to suffer?
    Why is there no eyewitness testimony for the life of the son of God?
    Why did no one bother to write down what he said or did?
    Why was it not until about 325 CE that the early church even discussed the possibility that Jesus was the son of God?
    If Jesus was the son of God, how could he be killed by mere humans?
    If Jesus arose and walked around in a fleshly body, a body that had been lying dead in the Middle Eastern heat for over two days, wouldn't he be decomposed?
    Why is Jesus called the son of Joseph in the Bible?
    Why is Jesus called the son of Pandera in the Talmud?
    Why did God require a human sacrifice of his own son to appease himself?
    What is the purpose of the cannibalistic ritual?
    How can Nod be out of the presence of an omnipresent God?
    If God is omniscient, didn't he know Adam and Eve would fail when he "made" them?
    If God is omniscient, didn't he know that he would have to drown all the humans? And why drown all the animals because the humans were defective. And if ALL the humans except 8 Jews were defective, isn't that a design flaw rather than a character flaw? (SEe Noah's Ark)
    If Jesus erased all sin, didn't he erase the "original" sin of Adam and Eve?
    Why was a human sacrifice required?
    If Jesus wiped out all sin prior to his death, what about Adam and Eve? Did he lift theirs too? Did he then wipe out original sin? Why does an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God allow babies to suffer?
    Jesus said he would return before the apostles tasted death. Why didn't he?
    If baptism is for the purpose of washing away sins why was Jesus baptised?
    Didn't God know Adam and Eve would fail when he made them?
    Did he make hell before them or Satan? Or after?
    Didn't he know Satan would mutiny when he made them?
    Why did he have to drown all those people if he made them? Were they defective? And why kill all the animals?
    Didn't he know he would have to drown them when he made them?
    Why did he have to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? More defective humans?
    If God created everything, did he create evil?
    Why is an omnipotent God unable to overcome iron chariots?
    Why do you need to pray to an omniscient God?
    Christian "faith"

    Who created God?
    Christians often argue that "something can't come from nothing" in their defense of creationism. (This is not necessarly accurate. It may indeed be possible for something to come from nothing. Quantum processes, for instance, are thought to originate without a cause - something from nothing.) However, if we continue with the argument that something can't come from nothing, where did God come from? If beings require a creator, who created God?

    How can Nod be out of the presence of an omnipresent God?

    Genesis 4:11-17

    11 "Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
    12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."
    13 Cain said to the Lord , "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
    15 But the Lord said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
    17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
    So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

    One must also ask who created Nod and it's people? The Bible alludes that Cain married a woman from Nod. Adam and Eve had two chidren, Cain and Abel. (They later had others.) Cain killed Abel so there was only Cain left. Where did this wife come from? Some say he married his sister. But it seems here that his wife was from Nod since she is not mentioned until after he goes to Nod. This would make more sense logically. But introduced another problem.

    Since Nod is out of the presence of the Lord who created Nod and its people? Who was Cain building the city for if there were no other people?

    One last question, wasn't Cain sentenced by God to wander the Earth? Settling down, having a family and building a city does not sound like someone doomed to wander the Earth.

    Jesus said he would return before the apostles tasted death. Why didn't he?

    Matthew 16:28*
    "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
    Mark 9:1*
    And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
    Luke 9:27*
    I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God."

    *The exact word for word statement in these three Gospels is a very good example of the Synoptic Problem of these three books.

    If baptism is for the purpose of washing away sins why was Jesus baptised? Why would the perfect son of God have sins to be washed away? How could they be washed away if he hadn't died on the cross yet?

    When John the Baptist was baptizing people he was not washing away sins.

    The "baptism" practiced by John was in fact a re-enactment which was intended to involve the common Israelite in his or her traditional religion- Judaism. The reason for this re-enactment was the fact that many if not most of the Jews in Palestine at the first quarter of the first century were not practicing their religion. John was thus "calling them on again" to faithful participation in the faith of Abraham (West, 2000).

    If God created everything, did he create evil?

    Isaiah 45:7 of the King James Version of the Bible says:

    "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."

    Other translations call it other things. The NIV says "disaster" instead of evil. The CEV says "sorrow". The RSV calls it "woe". How can an omnibenevolent God create such unhappiness and possibly evil itself?

    Why is an omnipotent God unable to overcome iron chariots?

    Judges 1:19
    The Lord was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots.

     

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