queer wrote on Oct 6
th, 2008 at 8:15am:
I got this from another forum I use and thought it was funny, its so true too.
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
6. God didnt have sex with mary, god is the baby.
5. see answer to age of earth above (number 9).
4. the catholic church in its thelogy does not believe you have to be catholic or even christian to go to heaven, john paul said this himself. Christianity offers a guide to a closer relationship with god on earth, it is not a free pass into heaven.
3. toungues, healings, raised people form the dead are all well documented, i could turn this around to you and say "despite all the documentation and witnesses to these miracles you refuse to believe them because of yoru own predispositions."
2. i dont think you understand the concept of prayer, god is like a parent he will only give us what we genuinly need, not what we constantly ask for, however if we keep asking, like any parent it can have an affect. many christians would say that many of their prayers are answered.
1. Christianity by definition is not measured by knowledge but by faith and love in God and christ, i dont really see how your point is relevent. Oh and for the record I am yet to meet a person of my age with as much knowledge of the bible or church history.
oh and the old testament was written in herbew as far as i know, perhaps greek in the latter part. the new testament greek and perhaps aramaic i am not sure.
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