1. People don't pray hard enough
2. They lack spiritual principles
3. Everyone is a sinner
4. It's not a freakin' textbook, jeez
5. Jesus says 'love your neighbour', not 'love everyone'
6. See #3
7. That would make faith too easy
8. He has other things to do
9. He's a cannibal but also a masochist
10. Because Christian women are just as hard to live with as normal women

I'm about 90% certain now that the link was a level and I got leveled trying to re-level.

How old is the Earth according to the bible?

It can't be clearly stated, since what God considers a "day" is not clearly defined. It says in the bible, one day is as a 1000 years to God, basically implying that a day is nothing to God since he's eternal and not bound by time.

Aren't you an atheist? Do you believe these answers or is just what you've heard from christians?

I don't know anything about the writer of those answers, but i would be pretty surprised if >25-50% of christians didn't agree with them. every religious person deep on the inside is a pletho, just intelligence tells some people to hide it better.

Pretty much all of these questions are completely pointless and it basically comes down to "Why doesn't God respond to things in the way I expect Him to?" The poster says his questions can only be answered with "weird, forced, uncomfortable answers," but it is the questions which are forced contrived.

1. This question is based on the assumption that the only way a prayer can be answered for an amputee is if the missing limb is replaced. As a Christian, I naturally believe that the physical aspects of a person are not the complete person and this "other part," which you may call the soul, the spirit, or whatever term you like, is much more important than the physical aspect. The loss of a limb does not force something to happen in a person's "soul," as it is independent of the physical body. Just because a limb doesn't heal does not mean that the prayer is not being answered.

2. God does not want children to suffer. The children suffer because of our own selfishness in not being the generous, self-sacrificing people that God calls us to be. As I sit here, I am very comfortable with what I have, have much more than the basics I need to survive, and I still feel that this is okay. Sure, I may feel bad for these children at times, but I do not give everything that I should. This question is asking why God cannot solve the problems that we can but are too selfish to fix.

3. I don't have an answer to this at the moment. Many parts of the Old Testament have things that I'm still trying to figure out and understand. However, the answer to this question lies in one's interpretation of the text.

4. This is partially explained by lack of scientific knowledge on behalf of the original author. Also, the poster is taking figurative stories and trying to make scientific claims from them. More importantly, these claims are not even central to the teachings or messages.

5. See 3.

6. Firstly, this question is so vague that it is difficult to answer. Define "bad things." Define "good people." Plus, this question once again presupposes that I can determine what is good or bad for a person in regards to all aspects of their characters. Furthermore, it also completely neglects the whole idea of Satan.

7. Jesus left evidence of his miracles in the links on his Youtube page. I also heard that some guys wrote about them in some book, which was how people used to record things at one point.

8. We believe that the Trinity of God is all-powerful. We believe that there is a part of each person that is beyond the "physical stuff." How is it a nonsensical response to say that the presence of Jesus works through our spirit, which in turn works through our physical body, especially when you realize that working through our spiritual part is much more important than just stopping by in the flesh to say "Hi."

9. Jesus is a cannibal obviously.

10. Really? ... Seriously?

+1

No, the question is based on the assumption that an all-powerful god CAN regrow a missing limb.

so God can remove a tumor, but he can't replace a missing limb? or is it that God only choose to do "miracles" towards believers that can also occur naturally in non-believers as well?

or are all miraculous healings to theists, atheists, and satanists, alike, attributed to God, whether you pray for them or not?

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And this all-powerful God also realizes that there are much better ways to improve this person's well-being than just having a limb regrown.

You are saying that the only way the prayers can be answered is if the limb returns. I am saying that this is a faulty assumption.

He's asking why prayers asking for the regrowth of limbs are never answered with a regrown limb.

You are still expecting one outcome for the prayer to be answered. That outcome doesn't happen, so you conclude that God doesn't answer prayers. This is faulty because you're not acknowledging that prayers can be (and are often) answered in other ways.

This isn't that hard to understand...

You're still missing the point. The question is WHY does an all-powerful god CHOOSE to NOT grow the limb and instead does smth else? Is regrowing the limb somehow worse than the other options?

First of all, I'm not expecting anything. I'm clarifying his question. Second of all, nobody is assuming the prayer isn't answered. He is asking why the request isn't granted when people claim that other similar requests are (those similar requests also sometimes occurring naturally).

I agree, I don't know why you insist upon complicating it more than necessary (okay, I do know why).

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Every time I see a post by Jib.... I hear JIB JAB in my head.

Scientists admit they could be wrong, why do christians feel they are special and can't be wrong under any circumstances?

Wow....pretty bold. Are we saying ALL Christians do this

Sorry, I might hurt some feelings. Ill rephrase my question:

People that believe in some deity with no proof whatsoever and at the same time claim they can't be wrong. Why do those feel they can't be wrong?

ANYONE who thinks they can't be wrong...just proved otherwise.

WTF is wrong with the theists (Stu said smth as idiotic the other day)? Seriously. W T F.

Originally Posted by Jibninjas View Post
3. Why does God demand the death of so many innocent people in the bible? Who said that they are inoccent?, you?


How about maybe because they deserved to die instead?
bunch of heathens




*........waiting......waiting.......*

BINK

edit: I agree