After my slamming of the evolutionists in a previous rant, I thought it only fair that the Dawkinsians would have came back with something at least witty or even damaging to the Christian faith. NOT! ...SO instead I went looking on their behalf and found a good video that poses "10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer" ...it is somewhat circular, but to be honest it is where many find themselves when considering the Christian faith. My thought is that these questions are not made to be answered, and they are posed in sarcastic fashion... and are only rhetorical in nature...
...my personal favorites !:] The video is below and in the VIDEO section to the left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHJ4ztnl...Q1: Why won't God heal amputees?
A1: Amputees can have a limb sewn back on and it could heal... yet, that is not really what is being questioned here. Amputation is not necessarily life threatening, and in itself can be life preserving in cases of gangrene. Everyone that was healed or raised from the dead in the Bible, eventually had to die... IF one understands the point of living in this world is to experience God, one would not be limited in any degree being and amputee. But for the serious, don't take my word for it take Nick Nick Vujicic's... God has answered Nick's prayers...
he may be limbless but he is limitless!
http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/
Q2: Why is there so many starving people in our world?
A2: God the Creator of life has given more than enough food on this planet, to feed it's population many times over. THE problem lies not in the ability to feed these starving masses, rather it lies in the greed of people that keep the necessary food from them. "Poverty" is the main reason people starve, meaning that if you don't have the money you die. It is this love of money that will stand back and watch little children starve... not the availability nor productivity... only greed!
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Lear...
Q3: Why does God demand the death of so many innocent people in the Bible?
A3: NO innocent person received the death penalty, every reference in the Bible demanding the death of an individual could have been avoided. NO one was entrapped into a death sentence. When God gave a law to the Jews He demanded that it was observed, the death penalty was easily avoided. Also these laws in the Old Testament were given to the Jews, and have never been in effect for the rest of the world (Gentiles)... we never have been under these laws, furthermore as Christians we are under grace, and no such laws apply nor have ever applied to us. Also, at any time the people of Israel could have left the commonwealth and joined themselves to other nations if they did not want to live by the laws. They were never prisoners of their nation nor their God!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
Q4: Why does the Bible contain so much anti-scientific nonsense?
A4: There is no proof that God couldn't or didn't create the world in 6 days 6000 years ago. As He created mankind in maturity with "age" built in (as man and woman, not children) ...so too He created their world mature with grown plants with seed in them. Consequently there is also more evidence than not of a global flood with soil layers and fossils put down by water all over the Earth. Science attests that tectonic plates have been pushed up and down... easily allowing for the highest of mountain peeks to be covered at one time with water. As to Jonah being in a fish's belly for 3 days, there is even a contemporary report of someone surviving like that. To merely assert that the facts that the Bible has stated is fictitious, would need slightly more than that to prove that indeed these were false... one would have had to be there. As to miracles, I don't need to explain them away... there are many things that we cannot explain... but to right them off as coincidence and "phenomenon" is equally speculative... however there are a few things that show that these Biblical accounts are more than plausible.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/jo...
Q5: Why is God such a huge proponent of slavery in the Bible?
A5: IF one even took the time to read the context and stories of such slavery in the Bible, one would find the reference to the slave's "retirement plan" ...how long they were only allowed to serve, or if they wanted to voluntarily serve longer... and so on. OTHER nations would brutalize slaves, and would never set them free... God's plan for slaves covered their treatment and their eventual release. The question is based on false assumptions. To assume that slavery does not exist today is to be blind... it is just off-shore, and conveniently entire nations are in slavery to the "developed" world.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aiia/a...
Q6: Why do bad things happen to good people?
A6: Since the fall of mankind their ceases to be a "good" person... that being said, God never promised that "good" people would have it better than everyone else, actually it says that God causes it to "rain' on the good and the bad. Jesus was the best that this world had, and His life was marked with suffering and pain. The question is based on false assumptions, however if one calls upon the Lord, one soon finds Him there to comfort and give strength to bear up under trials.
http://www.christiananswers.net/parentin...
Q7: Why didn't Jesus' miracles in the Bible leave behind any evidence?
A7: The best evidence of the miracles is the Bible it's self! With all that man has done to destroy and eliminate it's effects... the Bible stands a paramount achievement to the miraculous preserving power of Jesus Christ. This single book is the greatest Testament and testimony of the life and work of Jesus Christ... and those who live and believe today are the very living miraculous testimonies of His life changing power and message! Jesus said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." Mark 13:31
Q8: How do we explain the fact that Jesus has never appeared to you?
A8: Well, if you call on the Lord for salvation He will do more than appear... He will transform your life into a new and better you. AND He will communicate with you by His Spirit. This is a proven fact for the many millions that have taken Him at His word. "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."
(Jeremiah 33:3)
Q9: Why would Jesus want you to eat his body and drink his blood?
A9: This question shows the ignorance of the heart of these questions, Jesus explained when they couldn't understand His saying: "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." John 6:63
Q10: Why do Christians get divorced at the same rate as non-Christians?
A10: I am running out of space, so I will differ the details to an article I found on the topic. "More Divorce Among Believers?"
http://www.gty.org/Resources/Questions/Q...
Seek and you shall find... Jesus