1. I have been ernest many times in my pleas to ask something of God and I've never received a whisper of a voice back. I've wanted to talk to my Dad, but have never heard any voices talking back. I would venture to say that if I had heard either, anyone upon hearing of that would think I'm 'mental' and suggest I see a psychiatrist, no? How about priests? They say they 'talk to God' and that God 'speaks' to them, but they never claim to have actually heard an actual voice. If all this time the real audio communication is only one-way, how is there any proof that anything is on the other side?
2. Sure, there are stories of miracles, but in your life or mine or anyone we know... When was the last time there has been an unequivical miracle happen that cannot be explained away as anything else but a miracle?
3. When people get a touchdown, they thank God. When they're rescued from a burning building, they thank God. When they're rescued from a prisoner of war camp, they thank and give all praise to God. What about all the people that pray just as ernestly and don't get rescued? Is their faith less and they deserve to die? Why is it all so arbitrary?
4. All the sacred texts are written by men (and some women).
5. Which God is the true God? There are many faiths and many denominations within most. Which is correct? Is there only one and if so, what happens to all the rest that believe perhaps just as ernestly? Who's to say that it's not someone else's and that you've been wrong?
6. When people die, their bodies rot and they never come back. How can dead people talk? How can they, who would be in the best position to know, communicate back that there is indeed a Heaven or whatever the next phase is?
7. Rewards for evil people are the same for nice people. Many innocents die young while murderers and rapists and abusers live long, vile lives. There are no correlations between good deeds and long life. The richest rewards in society are for those that are aggressive and trample over others to get there. There are no repercussions in this life and no proof that there is after death.
8. Where does the Bible account for dinosaurs or stone age man? It doesn't. They existed, so why the omission unless they weren't known about?
9. a.Why do we continue to think we are the center of the Universe? Life started here, somewhere in the Middle East, is the suggestion since Ur of the Chaldees was in what is modern-day Iraq. Certainly, some of our earliest cities were there (though there has been some suggestion that cities dating back from the same time were found elsewhere around the world). So, with in all the vastness of space (billions of stars in a galaxy, most with an off-chance of a solar system, and billions of galaxies in the Universe), how can we be so egocentric as to think it all started here?
9.b. If it did start here: Earth has been here for what, 4.5 billion years? Nothing beyond single cells has been her for more than perhaps, what? 450 million years, at the most? When the Bible talks about animals and Man given life, did God make the Earth and the vast Universe and all it's countless trillions of stars and then take a break for several billion years, finally getting bored enough to make Man a few thousand years ago?
9.c. If God did make a set number of animals and insects and the like, why have some gone extinct? Why have some new ones been created through evolution since then? Why is there evolution? Wasn't God's designs good enough? Why are there so many signs of evolution? And, on a whimsical note: Why do so many people disbelieve evolution when the very science of Biology is based upon it?
10. Miracles. Why are there none that would give evidence of the power of God on Earth? Sure, auspicious things happen, but they always have alternative explanations available.
All that said... It will all mean nothing at all if something unequivical occurs, something that cannot be explained away. If even a single occurence happens that can have no explanation other than God...
2. Sure, there are stories of miracles, but in your life or mine or anyone we know... When was the last time there has been an unequivical miracle happen that cannot be explained away as anything else but a miracle?
3. When people get a touchdown, they thank God. When they're rescued from a burning building, they thank God. When they're rescued from a prisoner of war camp, they thank and give all praise to God. What about all the people that pray just as ernestly and don't get rescued? Is their faith less and they deserve to die? Why is it all so arbitrary?
4. All the sacred texts are written by men (and some women).
5. Which God is the true God? There are many faiths and many denominations within most. Which is correct? Is there only one and if so, what happens to all the rest that believe perhaps just as ernestly? Who's to say that it's not someone else's and that you've been wrong?
6. When people die, their bodies rot and they never come back. How can dead people talk? How can they, who would be in the best position to know, communicate back that there is indeed a Heaven or whatever the next phase is?
7. Rewards for evil people are the same for nice people. Many innocents die young while murderers and rapists and abusers live long, vile lives. There are no correlations between good deeds and long life. The richest rewards in society are for those that are aggressive and trample over others to get there. There are no repercussions in this life and no proof that there is after death.
8. Where does the Bible account for dinosaurs or stone age man? It doesn't. They existed, so why the omission unless they weren't known about?
9. a.Why do we continue to think we are the center of the Universe? Life started here, somewhere in the Middle East, is the suggestion since Ur of the Chaldees was in what is modern-day Iraq. Certainly, some of our earliest cities were there (though there has been some suggestion that cities dating back from the same time were found elsewhere around the world). So, with in all the vastness of space (billions of stars in a galaxy, most with an off-chance of a solar system, and billions of galaxies in the Universe), how can we be so egocentric as to think it all started here?
9.b. If it did start here: Earth has been here for what, 4.5 billion years? Nothing beyond single cells has been her for more than perhaps, what? 450 million years, at the most? When the Bible talks about animals and Man given life, did God make the Earth and the vast Universe and all it's countless trillions of stars and then take a break for several billion years, finally getting bored enough to make Man a few thousand years ago?
9.c. If God did make a set number of animals and insects and the like, why have some gone extinct? Why have some new ones been created through evolution since then? Why is there evolution? Wasn't God's designs good enough? Why are there so many signs of evolution? And, on a whimsical note: Why do so many people disbelieve evolution when the very science of Biology is based upon it?
10. Miracles. Why are there none that would give evidence of the power of God on Earth? Sure, auspicious things happen, but they always have alternative explanations available.
All that said... It will all mean nothing at all if something unequivical occurs, something that cannot be explained away. If even a single occurence happens that can have no explanation other than God...
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