Questions For God

Dear God, if you truly exist, I have a few (dozen) questions for you. Why don’t you answer them for me? Please any of your followers are welcome to answer these too.

 “God… Sorry if these questions sound a little sarcastic. It’s just that I’ve been asking these for a very long time and I haven’t heard from you yet. Are you listening?”

1.  Why don’t you show yourself? You supposedly made us and want us to believe in you, right? Why the big mystery? You’re also omnipresent, right? Why don’t you show yourself to all of us at once and have a personal discussion with us? You can pick the date and time, we’ll all stop what we are doing, I’m sure.

2. Did you really make Eve from one of Adam’s ribs? Why didn’t you make her from dust just like Adam? And, why do men and women have the same number of ribs if you stole one from Adam to make Eve?

3. Why do you make your followers suffer so much? Why do they die at the hands of other religions? Can’t you put a stop to this? You’re omnipotent, right? Can you ‘show us your stuff’? 

4. Was physics different when Noah built the ark? I mean, seriously… how did he get all the animals from all over the world… and the dinosaurs, etc. on that boat? How did he get penguins to the Middle East? How did he get them back after the big flood? Why didn’t the dinosaurs eat all the sheep? 

5. Why is there war? How does it agree with “Thou Shalt Not Kill”? Why are there so many wars in Your Name? Didn’t you even order Moses to do a lot of killing? 

6. Why did you make us such sinful creatures? You are all-powerful and all-knowing, right? Why did you give us the ability to do things you call sinful? Why, then, do you punish us for doing exactly what you created us to do?

7. Did people just make up heaven as a place to go when you die because they were too afraid to tell the children that when you die… that’s it? End of story… game over?

8. How does ‘immaculate conception’ work? We really don’t understand that one down here. Are you just covering for some out-of-wedlock behavior?

9. Why do you want to destroy everyone that doesn’t believe in you? Why make them burn in hell for eternity? Couldn’t you have been a little kinder and just given all these people the capability to believe in you? Don’t you take any pride of ownership in what you created?

10. Why did you tell us in the Bible that the Earth, Sun, moon and the Heavens are fixed on pillars and cannot move?

11. How are we to believe that we were created from dust? There’s lots of evidence that we evolved from other creatures. Should we just ignore this? Should we be happy to have been created from dust rather than a fish?

12. Why do we find evidence of all the creatures that lived before us, yet most of them are not mentioned by you? And, why do we not find evidence of some of the species you mention in the Bible like fiery serpents or giants that towered over us like we were grasshoppers?

13. Why do you punish babies for the wrong-doings of their parents?

14. Why do you give us the capabilities for logic and reason, yet do not want us to apply these skills when it comes to you?

15. How old is the earth? The universe? You gave us plenty of evidence that they were not created 8-10 thousand years ago as your book says (and your followers try to force on us). You are omniscient, so we won’t bore you with our findings because you already know, right? Are you planning a 2nd edition to the Bible to correct these blatant errors? Was the devil on your editorial staff?

16. Why does the bible have an “Old Testament” and a “New Testament”? Didn’t you get it right the first time? If you are infallible, why did you need an update? 

17. If there are so many religions and each thinks their beliefs are the only right ones and that everyone else is wrong, then most people are wrong – and if one religion is right, most people on the planet consider that one wrong. So which religion is the one that is right? 

18. Are we free to make our own choices? If we are, how can we say that you opened up an opportunity for us? Wasn’t the opening of that opportunity the result of someone else’s free choice?

19. Did Adam really live to 930 years of age? Seth 912 years? Enos 905 years? How are we supposed to believe this, when over history, man is living longer and longer due to cleanliness and medicine? Were things cleaner back then? Had you not created all the illnesses and disease that you’ve given us now?

20. Why must I be forgiven for my sins by you, who has committed sins far greater than those of which I am capable? I have not unleashed a flood, killing the entire planet’s population save for a handful of people who worship me unquestioningly. I have not asked a man to sacrifice his son to prove his loyalty to me. 

God I still have more questions for you but am going pause for now and  let my dear readers ask their own questions. And, yes of course your fellowes are free to answer any of these questions. 

14 Questions Asked About Christianity

When it comes to God and Christianity, do you have questions? Nearly everyone does–believers and unbelievers alike. We have all at one point in our life asked some deep questions about God, Heaven and Hell. 

Amazingly some of us have asked ourselves  these questions thinking we are alone. That's not true, I wrote this article to remind you that you are nit alone at all. 

Here are some questions most often asked about the Christian Faith and God. 

* How do you know there is a God?

* If truly God existed, wouldn't there be just one religion?

* How can there be a God when there is so much evil and suffering in the world?

* How can a loving God send people to Hell?

* How can any rational person believe in the Trinity?

* Don’t all religions lead to the same God?

* How do Christians get off saying their religion is the only one?

*  What would Christianity be like if there was no Hell or Heaven? 

*  How can Jesus ask us for forgive our enemies but sends his own to hell? 

*  How is the Bible different from any other history book out there? 

* Heaven's supposed to be this really great place, right? So how come a third of the angels got pissed off?

* How can you reconcile belief in God with science and especially evolution?

* Why are there over 30,000 Christian denominations all claiming to be the "true Christians"? Which one should I follow and why? 

* Why did God create the forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge? If He didn’t want Eve to eat the fruit, why create it in the first place? 

Please feel free to add your own questions!! 

I don't have the answers to these questions, but if you do. I would love to hear them. Just provide them on the comment box below!!!

Some Mind Blowing Facts About Christianity

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - C.S. Lewis

Christianity is an Abrahamic religion . Members of the religion are called Christians. It is a monotheistic religion, meaning it has only one God . It is the largest religion in the world and is based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus was a carpenter and preacher in ancient

Judea . He was executed by being nailed to a cross (or crucified ), under Pontius Pilate , the local Roman governor at the time. His life and followers are written about in the New Testament , part of the Bible . Christians see the Bible, both the Old Testament and New Testament as sacred.

Hey, am not here to share with you the history of Jesus or Christianity rather to present you with some mind blowing  facts you’ve probably never heard about Christianity.

* There are about 2.18 billion self-identifying Christians throughout the world, giving it only slightly more followers than Islam and making it the largest religion in the world. 

* In 2011, World Christian Encyclopedia counted 33,830 different christian denominations.

* Did you know the early Christians were called “atheists” by Romans because they didn’t pay tribute to pagan gods. 

* Slightly more than 13 percent of Christians believe the Bible to be completely true.

*There are about 316,000 missionaries worldwide.

*Almost 160,000 Christian followers are killed each year simply for being Christian.

*Jesus is mentioned more times in the Quran than Muhammad. (Source)

 

*God is never mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Esther.

*There’s an empty place next to Muhammad’s Tomb, Islam’s main Prophet, reserved for Jesus. ( Source)

* A Church built into a cave is the largest church in the Middle East.

*Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months’ pay of a working man. 

*Going to church is good for you: Services lowers your blood pressure, a study found.

*There is a sect, offshoot of Christianity, that believe Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.

*The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the world today. Roman Catholics make up approximately half of the world's Christians.

* There are approximately 800 million Protestant Christians worldwide today.

And approximately 160 million of the world's Christians are Orthodox.

* Each year approximately 78.5 million Bibles are distributed worldwide.

*According to the Vatican, you can reduce the time you spend in purgatory by following the pope on Twitter.

*At least 20 million people died during the Taiping Rebellion in China, led by a man who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, and who attempted to impose a theocracy based on his interpretation of Christianity.

*Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran.

*Vladimir The Great, Prince of Kiev, considered converting to Christianity or Islam. He sent envoys to study both religions, but upon hearing that Islam forbade alcohol, he got baptized.

*The keys to the holiest site in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, are held by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. This arrangement has been in place since 1187 CE.

*The Bible is available in 2,454 languages. 

*The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.

*Swearing on the Bible that is done in a court room is actually forbidden by the Bible.

* There’s no physical description of Jesus in the Bible.

* When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few pages of the Bible.

* Possessing Bibles, watching South Korean movies and distributing pornography may be punished with death in North Korea.

*Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random to be guided by whatever verse they see first.

*There is a pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka that is holy to four religions for a “sacred footprint”: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity.

These are some of the facts about Christianity I have for you.  Please feel free to share some facts about Christianity you find amazing on the comment box below, and also let me know what you think.