#349 | What can the biblical attribution of righteousness to Lot ever mean given his actions? Can we not then also call Trump as righteous given he has only molested women and not offered his daughters to be raped nor impregnated his daughters while drunk as did Lot?
#333 | Is the prophesied scorn of the Rapture (2 Peter 3:4) strong evidence Jesus actually will return, or is it merely the clever rhetorical device of a psychology-savvy con-man, easily dropped into any “holy book” making fantastical promises to the credulous.
#326 | If you eternally tormented puppies for following a bark nature they neither asked for nor can avoid, could you escape accusations of illogic & cruelty if 1) you had created the puppies yourself or if 2) you killed one puppy to redeem those that worshiped you?
#318 | Matthew 2:15 explicitly cites Hosea 11:1 as a messianic prophecy. But Hosea 11:2 says the messianic “Israel” committed adultery, something no messiah would do. Does this not reflect the dishonestly of Jews desperately wanting to fabricate a messianic Jesus?
#315 | Where are all the testimonies of those who, prior to any conversion, saw the biblical God’s invisible qualities such as his eternal power and divine traits from observing nature if this is actually a universal recognition that allows God to torment unbelievers?
#301 | Isn’t it silly to withhold forgiveness until someone has suffered extreme pain? Wouldn’t it be even more immature were a God to require torment and anguish before he can forgive those he claims to love? Can you forgive only if someone Is tortured and killed?
#297 | Greg claims, so long as something is defined as a human being, it is immoral to kill it. Were the slain Amalekite infants human beings? Or do divine orders = what is moral, making the reasoning behind moral rules (e.g., Don’t kill humans) opaque/meaningless?
#292 | If people don’t die for a lie as is commonly claimed by Christians, how can those who “know” deep down the Christian God is real (Romans 1) choose to eternally perish for the lie He does not exist? Isn’t this scientifically testable given tools of cog sci?
#285 | You love a girl. You have been hiding behind the curtains in her room for years. Do you 1) have your friends deliver a note you wrote her 2,000 years ago 2) expect her to stare hard at the curtains to see your shadow 3) simply step out and introduce yourself?
#271 | Is it more sensible that the hermeneutically fraught NT was written to us 1) by a “personal” God less than a whisper away or 2) by desperate Jews, weary of unfulfilled messianic prophecies, creatively redefining those prophecies as more spiritual than earthly?
#259 | Is it not just a bit absurd to claim it is just to have someone “pay” for someone else’s offense? Why do we not allow mothers of killers to die by lethal injection in the stead of their child? Are we to turn a blind eye to this in the case of Jesus’ “payment”?
#232 | Greg in response to John 15:7: “If one takes this not as a cast-iron promise, and you and I know it can’t be, because it’s if it’s a cast-iron promise, then it is one God hasn’t kept…there must be some flexibility in that” Why ignore the option that the Bible is bunk?
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
#231 | Christianity — not a science stopper, but a clear science retarder. Newton sidelined science to write unread theology. If your hermeneutics promotes sloppy epistemology, you’ll likely apply this to science. Examine scientific progress during Christian dominance. Right?
#214 | Why would Jehovah have the petty disposition of other false gods in threatening to turn away from those who do not cover up their excrement? Is not this and Jehovah’s abhorrence of menstruation more indicative of an invented God than a God of the Universe? -Deut 23:13-14
#213 | Why would any actual omnipotent God truly standing next to us intentionally choose to communicate His will to us through a method so sloppy and vulnerable it has allowed for the insertion of false claims such as that He will heal poisonous snake bites? (Mark 16:17–18)
#206 | Are we wrong to assume that any actual book of truth communicated to us by a real God (allegedly standing next to us) who intends to make himself clear will not have any need for explanatory commentary? How many pages of Christian exegetical commentary have been written?
#199 | Why would God say he’s jealous of other gods if those gods don’t exist? (Exodus 34:14) Were humans then that much less intelligent than now, making it necessary to let them believe that other gods were simply off-limits rather than imaginary? Is this not condescending?
#196 | Why would any omnipresent God who genuinely wants to speak to humans use the very modus operandi of false religions and write a book book so vague it has lead to thousands of denominations instead of simply speaking clearly to each human?
#186 | The claim is clear: There is a God in the room with you right now who want’s a personal relationship with you…and instead of introducing himself personally, he wrote a book for us to read. Are we to be this credulous?
#185 | Greg responds “The Bible is 66 books long. Does the questioner expect God to convey all that information?” What is the problem here? Why would this be the least bit problematic for God? If God is in the room with me, why not simply talk to me?
#184 | Would it be in violation of an actual personal and omnipresent God’s nature to simply step out of the shadows and speak instead of writing a book through humans, the modus operandi of “false” religions? Is not God in the room with me now? Explanation?
#181 | Grasp the implications of Christian beliefs. 1) God wants a personal relationship with humans. 2) He is in the room with each of us. 3) Instead of simply introducing himself, he would have us believe he wrote a book penned by humans. Credible?
#179 | If Matt 6:28+ is not a promise of food and clothing for Christians today as Greg claimed, why did Jesus offer the universal argument about birds and flowers being divinely cared for as a reason humans would also be?
#178 | Why doesn’t the Bible simply systematically list sins to avoid the countless hours Christians spend debating what is right/wrong? Why has Biblical morality evolved over the centuries as demonstrated by the beliefs of Christian leaders of each age?
#168 | Is it too much to ask an alleged God here in the room with me who wants a relationship with me to simply visibly and audibly introduce himself rather than employing the very same “holy book” modus operandi of nearly every other “false” religion?
#165 | Can a God-believer legitimately insulate their God’s method of communication to humans (holy book, chicken bones, crystal ball) from criticism by claiming God’s ways are above our ways? Or can we safely ask why God would ever need a book when he’s in the room?
#120 | According to the Bible, 1) at what time in history (if any) did it cease become immoral for the Jews not to kill gays and rebellious children, and 2) at what time in history (if any) did it become immoral for Jews to kill gays and rebellious children?
#109 | Evangelicals rightly consider absolution through a priest absurd since God is in the room with us. Is it not equally silly to claim this same God reveals himself indirectly and dubiously through a book when he is in the room with us? Or is he?
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