Ask a Christian

Since people of other religions are doing this, I might as well give it a shot.
As for my religion, Christianity was summed up as this:

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.

Feel free to ask any questions.

What are your views on the theory of evolution and the evidence that is used to support it?

I believe in evolution, but not that it has to take millions of years. As for the evidence supporting it, I think it is substantial, but I will NEVER trust Carbon 15, because of it’s extreme inaccuracy.

I’m going to ask you the same question I ask every other person who asks my opinion on a specific religion that one adheres to:

Why Christianity and not some other religion? Why “God” instead of, say, “Zeus” or “Ra”?

Because, unlike Zeus or Ra, God had a reputation. He was actively interacting with humans, while punishing those who defiled his name.For instance, back in around 500 BC A king named Belshazzar realized that according to Jewish prophecy, his country, Babalon, would be destroyed during his reign. he counted down the days until the days until the day the Jews were to be set free. When that day came, nothing happened. Belshazzar was so excited that he threw a feast, during which he drank from the cups of the Temple of Solomon. As they were enjoying themselves, a disembodied hand appeared out of nowhere and started writing on the wall. No one understood what the writing meant. When they got a Jewish prophet to interpret it, the interpreter told Belshazzar that his kingdom has been given to the Medes and Persians. That night, the Medes and Persians destroyed Babalon and killed the king.
One final note, I believe that Zeus and Ra exist, but they weren’t gods. They were demons.

Then how do you explain the gigantic amount of fossil evidence left behind by species that lived long before man (such as the thousands of species of dinosaurs).
Obviously many of these animals never lived in the same place at the same time.
How do you explain the massive amounts of fossil evidence that show the evolution of species like fish to (amphibians, then) reptiles, reptiles to dinosaurs, dinosaurs to birds, and so on?

If evolution didn’t take millions of years (by the way, it took billions of years), then you are suggesting more than 90% of all species that are now extinct lived together in a period of just a few thousand years.

Sorry to say this, but that’s just stupid, COMPLETELY impossible and contradicts all evidence.

Why do you believe that he “actively interacted with humans” including “punishing those who defiled his name”? The Book of Daniel was written long after the fall of Babylon.

Also, why do you believe that Zeus and Ra are demons?

I’m not trying to be dickheaded here, I’m just trying to figure out why you believe these things.

I thought this thread already existed… anyway…

Why aren’t monkeys still turning into people? Why aren’t people turning into something else?

Then you can’t be a true Christian (conflicting theories - the Bible clearly lays out what happened and there was no evolution)

Make a “Why worship ?” Thread

How do you know that they lived before man?

It’s true, there are no wombats in America or skunks in Australia.

Just because there were flying dinosaurs doesn’t mean that they evolved into birds, just because crocodiles have hard scales doesn’t mean they are fish.

Where are theses time spans from? Carbon dating has been proven inaccurate

Evidence that

What is your view towards Mormonism?

I’m sure someone could explain these better than me, I’m probably not the most qualified to do it, and I may get some things wrong. If I do, can someone correct me?

Because as far as I am aware, it wasn’t specifically monkeys we evolved from. More correctly, we share the same ancestor who we both evolved from. People aren’t turning into something else because any mutation that could happen, is being re-bred into our vast population. Even mutations or any other detrimental aspect that can arise in humans can be bred back in, since the mentally handicapped or otherwise disabled can still breed (unless proven sterile). Also, most mutations are not necessary to survive, since we take care of our mentally/physically disabled and elderly, even those who cannot contribute to society, we take care of. Also, evolution for the most part can take a long time.

From what I hear, tonnes of people inside the Christian religion can vary in their specific beliefs. I.e. catholics, and the other different versions of Christianity. From what I hear, even every individual person may have ever so slightly different beliefs from someone else. What may be a ‘true Christian’ for you, may be ‘a devil worshipper’ (probably not, but it’s an example) for someone else.

He’s a christian, he said to ask him questions about his faith, so we ask him why he has said faith, over other faiths.
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I’m pretty sure I know this answer, it’s just slipped my mind atm. And i’m to lazy to look it up. :stuck_out_tongue:

IIRC, it is believed that some of the dinosaurs evolved into birds because some of the dinosaurs evolved feathers. I’m not entirely to sure about this one, but I personally do not claim to have all the answers. Christians say they have all the answers, since they all have the same book, the Bible, which tells them the answers. Atheism has no big bumper book of the way everything has happened and will happen.

See above.

Sorry if I’ve left things out, i’ve tried to answer them as best as I could. Once again, i state that I probably am not the best authority on these matters.
Also, isn’t this an ‘ask a christian’ thread and not ‘ask an atheist/people who question christians’ thread?

CatzEyes93 closed it when it became seriously off-topic.

Let’s take this to the evolution vs creation thread, yes?

Words cannot describe how dissapoint I was to see this thread back from the grave.

Amen to that… :stuck_out_tongue:

Some of the questions (looking at you Cameron) are just pure facepalm. I thought you had to be over the age of 5 to register for here?

trolololo

Yes, they base their faith on the Bible, but they take phrases out of context which

You need to be a qualified atheist to answer questions now?

I wasn’t really giving a specific example, it was more the idea.

So if humans aren’t still evolving because of the population size, what about other small species with lesser populations?

Anyway this:

Yes, there are various types of Christian churches, but they all base their beliefs on the Bible which is a canonised set of books and Catholics aren’t actually Christians - they worship Mary and not God.

In short we don’t have all the answers, you just have to believe some things.

It’s my way of answering these types of questions

And I can see why already, it interests me why none of the other “ask X religion” threads

As above

This thread if to ask a Christian questions, not abuse people answering said questions.

Carbon dating IS NOT used. Radiometric ( amongst other tools ) is used.

EDIT: Also there are subtle changes relating to human evolution. Remember it does take many generations. You do not need qualifications to be an atheist, but it does stand to logic that if you don’t know all the details of a concept it is best to say so, and not BS your way through repeated common responses (See: carbon dating argument ) . We didn’t evolve from any modern species ( monkeys included ). We evolved from more primitive primate species. There are all sorts of different stages found in human evolution, like Homo erectus, homo habilis, and Australopithecus to name a few.

Finally, the questions asked to Christians so far seem to be ‘Why is your religion the right one?’ ( in general, not a specific quote ). My question is, what makes Christianity correct when it clearly utilizes mythology of religions proceeding it? What do you have to say when historical evidence shows the evolution of Christianity from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion?

What makes you think it is so easy to see that animals are not evolving? By the way, what makes you think humans are not evolving? Evolution takes thousands of years to generate new species. It is slow and not evident.

I believe new characteristics are being developed in humans, however. I will need to make a research to find sources, so hang on a little bit :slight_smile:

Well, if you are a catholic Christian, you should know that the catholic Church does not have any official position regarding the literal interpretation of Genesis (and therefore the universe’s age as well), nor whether the origin of species is evolution or instantaneous creation. They say these questions are “left to science”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_evolution

I just thought you should know.

That isn’t in the least bit true. The catholic church DOES worship christ, not mary. Catholic refers to the following of both the new AND old testaments ( IE the universal christian faith )

I was going to write a long, boring post counterarguing all your points but I realized beforehand that it would be futile. I hope you are trolling.

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