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Debunking Christian Circular Arguments and Assumptions
Silly
Tidbit Questions
For your
amusement now here are some other tidbit questions I’ve brought
up in the
past. Some
are obviously silly questions, and others are even somewhat
geeky. But if
you take Christian fundamentalist theology literally and seriously,
then they
become valid questions.
1) How exactly did
Satan become 100% evil?
I mean we are told that Lucifer wanted to be God, probably because he
wanted
some freedom and control over his own life, and so God threw him out of
heaven
and condemned him and the other fallen angels to hell for all eternity
without
any chance of salvation. However, consider this.
How was Lucifer's
motive any different than those of an adolescent teenager, who desires
some
independence, get his own room, own his own car, have his own bank
account,
etc.? I mean if your child suddenly wanted a little freedom
and control
and asked for those things, does that make him all of a sudden
transform into a
100% evil villainous being, with his every thought and intention bent
on
killing you and everyone you love????? Think about it.
2) Why doesn't God
provide salvation for Satan
and his fallen angels as well? Why didn't Jesus die for them
as
well? Since Satan and his fallen angels know that they're
going to hell,
why don't they try to repent then? I mean, if God provided
Salvation for
them, wouldn't it make his Salvation plan for mankind much easier, by
eliminating competing forces? Wouldn't that also eliminate
all evil
temptations and forces from the Earth as well?
3) When Satan
tempted Eve to eat the fruit of
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he took the form of a
serpent.
After God found out about it, he cursed the Serpent to crawl on its
belly. Now if snakes on this planet are all descended from
that serpent,
then consider the following. a) Were snakes originally beings
that stood
up and walked? b) Why curse an innocent whole species of
snakes, instead
of just cursing Satan alone? After all, Satan took over and
possessed the
snake, so it's not like the snake was doing it of its own free will.
4) Why does God
allow Satan to exist? Why
doesn't he annihilate him into oblivion? Does God thrive on
competition
from Satan? If so, why?
5) If God is all
powerful, why did he need six
days to create the Earth? Why couldn’t he have
created it in seconds or
hours, like on "Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan," where they used a
Genesis torpedo to instantly make a lifeless planet blooming with life
and
vegetation?
6) Why did God
need people to write the Bible
for him? Why couldn’t he just write it himself, or
just materialize it
out of thin air for the world?
Why rely
on fallible human beings who may or may not let follow through? Why
go through all that trouble and risk,
when you are all powerful and can just manifest anything instantly?
7) If the design
and order of the universe
indicates a maker or designer, then why are 99% of the world's species
extinct,
according to scientists? Was that planned and ordered?
8) Why does an all
powerful infinite everlasting
God have to rest for one full day on the seventh day after six days of
creation?
9) Why did God
create the other planets in our
solar system? Why did God create the asteroid belt between
Mars and
Jupiter? What purpose do they serve? Why does God
need to make
Jupiter, a useless object, 100 times bigger than the Earth?
10) Why does God
turn stars into black holes and
quasars? What use are they to either God or man?
11) Why does God
need to form man out of the
dust of the ground? Why couldn’t he have just
materialized him out of
thin air? After all, he created the universe out of nothing
too. On
the show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" the villain called
"Q," could create and materialize things and people out of thin
air. So why couldn’t God materialize people out of
thin air too?
12) If God is all
powerful and has control over
every atom and molecule in the universe, then why did he need to tell
Noah to
build the
13) If God is all
powerful, why did he need 40
days and nights to flood the Earth in the Noah's
14) Why did Jesus
have to be born of a
virgin? Why couldn't God just either form him out of the dust
of the
ground, or materialize him out of thin air as well?
15) If Jesus had
to be crucified on the cross,
why did God have to use people to do it? Why didn’t
God just take Jesus
to the moon or something, crucify him there himself, then tell everyone
on
Earth about it? Wouldn't that save him the trouble of having
to use the
persecutors and Satan and having to hope that all goes as planned?
16) If Jesus is
God, why did he need to walk
from city to city? Why didn’t he just teleport
himself like the “Q” does
on “Star Trek: The Next Generation?”
17) If
God used
to literally and audibly speak to people in the Old Testament times,
why
doesn't he do that now? In fact, why doesn’t he
physically appear to the
world nowadays and say "Hey world, I'm God and I exist, now listen to
the
Christians ok?" I mean that would convince practically the
whole
world if he'd just do that wouldn't it?
As a friend noted:
“If I were
God and I wanted people to believe in me, I’d at least show
up once in a
while.”
18) Why does God
need to ask people questions if
he's all knowing? For example, after Adam and Eve ate the
forbidden
fruit, God comes and asks "Where art thou?"
19) If Jonah had
been thrown off a spaceship
into outerspace in our solar system, would it have been beyond God's
power to save
him? What could God do, use a comet to carry Jonah back to
Earth?
20) If you got
hyperspaced into another galaxy
millions of light years away, would the God of the Bible know where you
were?
21) Why is it that
most Christians believe that
there is no life on any other planets in the universe? Where
do they get
this? The Bible says nothing about that topic. When
pushed for
reasons, Christians usually respond with "I just know, I can
tell." Why?
22) If there are
life on other planets in the
universe, then does the God of the Bible govern them as well?
If so, then
is each planet with intelligent life given the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good
and Evil as well to test their inhabitants? Do those aliens
on those
other worlds need to be saved as well? Did Jesus die for them
as
well? If so, how would they know about it? Are we
supposed to send
astronauts to tell them? Or did God send a separate Jesus to
each planet
with intelligent life to die for each of them?
Sorry if
these questions
sounded silly, but I just
wonder why an all powerful being who has absolute control over every
atom and
molecule in the universe can't do things a much simpler way, and
whether there
are limits to what he can do and know.
For some
more humorous fun,
see these anti-Christian
tracts which are a parody to the ones from Chick
Publications. Some of
them are hilarious.
http://exchristian.net/tracts/tracts.html
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