you're right. except #3 is not right. please tell me who is doing this and i will stop them. i want names.

Names? LOL. How about almost every Christian in this forum for starters.

If you don't hold the premise that the Bible is inerrant, there comes a point when you're not even considered a Christian anymore. Your loose definition of "Christianity" does nothing to clarify what is meant by belief. I believe certain parts of the Bible are true. What does that make me?

And that's just the example of inerrancy. What about God being omnibenevolent? If you feel God is capable of evil, can you even call yourself a Christian at all?

First off it depends on what you mean by inerrancy. Secondly it depends on what it is that you are referring to as inerrant.

the bible is a book of faith. what is written in the bible was written by humans, but with divine inspiration. it is very simple to be a believer in the new covenant(what the world calls Christianity). you have to believe that salvation is thru Jesus. but believing by itself is not enough. you have to prove your faith and beliefs by your actions.
any person that tries to describe God as evil or kind is arrogant, and severely overvalues their importance. God is not a human. God is greater than anything you can imagine, but people want to try to humanize him. worshiping a humanized God would be like worshipping a monarch.
i have never thought of God as good or evil.

lol at god being greater than anything humans can imagine when humans imagined him

This is something I never understood. It seems to me that actions are only good for proving yourself to other humans. The god you describe would see right through actions and only care about your thoughts.

Now isn't this convenient for preserving God's omnibenevolence. You spent all that time trying to show why my #3 point was invalid, and now you just strengthened it! If God were indeed evil in any way, how do you suggest we'd ever go about knowing it? You just asserted that trying to find out is wrong. Annnnd, we're back to the ill logic in points #1 & #2.

Have you ever thought about the reason why you worship God? Do you even know? If there were no threat of damnation or promise of eternal bliss, would you still worship?

Assume is the problem word here.

Mathamatics...

Some problems are solved by asumming a solution first then preforming an iterative process.

we all have free will and we all change our minds relative to our experiences. what you believed 10 years ago is not what you necessarily believe now. we also encounter issues that test our generosity, kindness and faith. how can you know if someone truly has faith unless it has been tested. with freewill, in the last moment you can cave in and lose it all.

[/QUOTE]Now isn't this convenient for preserving God's omnibenevolence. You spent all that time trying to show why my #3 point was invalid, and now you just strengthened it! If God were indeed evil in any way, how do you suggest we'd ever go about knowing it? You just asserted that trying to find out is wrong. Annnnd, we're back to the ill logic in points #1 & #2.[/QUOTE]


your morals are relative to your upbringing and culture. God is outside of these things. the definition of good and evil must have an origin. and that origin is God.



[/QUOTE]Have you ever thought about the reason why you worship God? Do you even know? If there were no threat of damnation or promise of eternal bliss, would you still worship?[/QUOTE]


im am luckier than most because i have seen proof of God. while i had forgotten my childhood i still believed in a God. but my faith was put on the back burner. when i remembered what i had seen when i was a child, i realized i had already seen proof of God. something that most people will never see in the entire lives.

im am lucky because i have seen, so my faith is easy to maintain. those that haven't seen or experienced God or the Holy Spirit have it much harder. i am 100% certain there is a God.

This is sort of a strange question for me to answer because I agree with theists on a lot of things. However, my answer is that I probably don't.

Yes. I believe this because I strongly believe that human beings are irrational. Since I believe that humans are irrational, it's only natural for me to believe that Christians (and of course non-Christians) are irrational.