Well God as pretty much made it clear what is bad and what is not.
Technically, God didn't write anything.
If you believe in religion, God inspired man to write the books of the bible.
People don't choose to be gay, which is a well established scientific fact.
Actually, it's not a fact, it's a well established and widely accepted theory, just like the theory of evolution. It may be touted as fact within the les-bi-gay communities, but since nobody has found the area of the brain and the way that it looks that determins sexual preference, and monitored it inside a developing child/feotus, I don't think that we could call it fact, there simply isn't the evidence to prove this.
4) It says in the bible "god" CREATED man. Then he went on to create women. Those are both genders, right? What gender is "god?" I think I saw "he" in the bible. Which would obviously mean he is a man. Why wouldn't he create woman first? I might be mistaken. If I am, what sex is "god?" It can't be both.
You saw he in the bible because the bible was written mostly by men, the same way the jesus is always white has long hair and a beard because he was mostly painted by renaisance artists,
in all likelyhood jesus would not have had white skin, (he was born in an arabic country), whether he'd have had long hair or not is debatable, but to be honest, I have long hair, (kids often call me jesus cause I look a bit like the paintings) and I can't really imagine wanting to have long hair and a massive beard in a really hot country.
The number of beasts in the ark
GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
GEN 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, GEN 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
now you're confusing two by two, (as in walking in a line two wide), with going in matching pairs,
e.g
cow cow
cow cow
cow cow
cow pig
pig horse
horse horse
horse horse
horse horse
that's a line of three varieties of animal, two by two and yet yes also seven of clean and two of unclean beasts.
If I told you there was a giant hamburger monster which brought up cows from the seas a million years ago, would you believe me?
well now you're just ripping off pastafarianism.
God was not made. This is really hard to believe and wrap your mind around. The best of the best preachers have tried and it's very hard.
you're not meant to question the eistance of god, or where god came from, god is eternal, and everlasting, you don't question, you just believe. -that's how faith works.
What I claim is true only happened 2000+ years ago. Can you prove me wrong?
I can prove you wrong with just as much reasononing as you can prove yourself right.
ok, here are the facts, about 2000 years ago, there was a census, all people went to their home towns or something like that, amongst there was a woman who was pregnant, and a man.
there was a person born who was named jesus. we know this as it is recorded.
the fact that a man named Jesus existed is fact.
now you believe that he was the son of God, you say that's a fact, and that the proof of that is in your belief.
I say that he was not the son of God, my proof of that is in my belief (or lack thereof).
You have faith that Jesus existed and was the son of God, I have faith that Jesus existed, but was just a regular man, (if not a gifted story teller/magician).
Prove me wrong.
you can point to miracles, if you like, but the first thing that I'll say is David Blane, -very good trickster, which I think that Jesus may have been.
You can point to the lessons and stories of morality, and I can point to a whole host of authours who have also written stories with a moral ending.
anyway, the challenge is down, I don't believe that Jesus was the son of God,
there must be some evidence or proof beyond a few good stories and a good way to lead life,
(and lets face it, a religious life would usually be a morally good life, where generally good things would happen, you'd feel good about yourself and the world etc -so there are a lot of benefits to leading a good life).
I don't have the gift of prophecy. Which is why I am not going to become a preacher.
you really think that preachers have the gift of prophecy?
that's even harder to stomach than the whole jesus son of God thing.
Someone rows up reading the bible, goes on to preach it to other people and you regard them as some kind of prophet?!
bible scholars are not always good people (let alone great people).
Now, I could point to the fact that the pope was in the hitler youth, but lets face it, he was young, and it's what all the cool kids were doing, so instead I'll just point to handfulls of preists abusing their congragation.
Why is it when logical questions are asked about religion, we are always told it's belief.
because religion is founded on belief, you have to accept and believe in God before it can truely make sense,
(drink the kool aid!)
I have just disproved everything you guys have said before and what was said in the video.
I have to admit to having not watched the video, but I can't see an aweful lot of proof here, you found a handfull of contradictions in the bible, in books written by different people at different times.
now yes that may be true that there is not an unchanging word of God, -but deathbank already pointed out that it's even written in the bible that there are things that change.
it may also be true that you could argue that the bible is written by man, for man and has nothing to do with God, -but again that's just a belief.
as for saying that God doesn't live within you because you can't do anything miraculous.
perhaps you can, just that since God lives within all things, perhaps they can all do it? or are you saying that you want to feel special? god needs to give you the power of creation, (wait he already did that -you all know what I'm talking about!).
so what do you want? the ability to create sparks from your fingers, telepathy?
why don't you consider walking on two legs a miracle? very little other creatures on earth can do this? how about speaking, isn't that a miracle, God lives within you and you can speak, God lives within everyone so everyone can speak, but god doesn't live within snakes, so they can't?
Well, Islamic prophets have predicted things thousands of years before their time. They predicted the world was round way before it was discovered.
Actually I believed that Islamic astonomers discovered that the world was round, not predicted it, what your quote should read is that islamic prophets said that the world was round before the rest of us believed it and made measure ourselves to discover this. it wasn't a prophet inspired by God (or Allah if you're a muslim prophet) it was a scientist.
Yup. It is. If God did not want it, it would not be done. Then again this is not to say everything that happens is what God wants (like a little boy being hit by a bus).
God does not want this. It is just what is going to happen. Life is all planned out for all of us.
Now that is truely the worst reasoning I've ever seen.
if God didn't want it then it wouldn't happen,
but if bad stuff happens it's not necessarily Gods fault?
but the good stuff, well lets all thank god for that, why not thank God for cancer? why not thank god for death disease and accidents, surely God created all of them?
