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Questioning God, Gods, and Spirituality

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1. Why would God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to one of his 'fallible'
children? He knows men are sinners and are untrue doubt a professor would
allow one of his students to teach a class if all the other students' futures were at
stake. If God loved us so much and he wants us to be with him, why would he put
our eternal souls at risk like that?

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2. If Satan is the ultimate trickster, how do we know that Satan hasn't tricked
Christians into worshipping him as God (Yahweh) and are actually rebuking the
"real" God in his own name?

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3. If god cast the devil into hell and hell is a place for eternal punishment from
which even god cannot grant a pardon, then why do the preachers tell us the
devil is walking up and down the hallways of high schools tempting teenagers to
do drugs and have pre-marital sex? A warden who allows his prisoners the
freedom to go out and kill and rape would be terminated for incompetence

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4. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the
church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If
Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't
find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book?

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5. If the Universe is everywhere by definition, why do theists ask where it came
from? How can there be anywhere for the universe to come from if the Universe
is already everywhere by definition

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6. Does God think? If so, he cannot be all-knowing. Think about it.

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7. If a soul is non-physical and the human body is physical, how does a soul stay
in our bodies?

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8. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation?

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10. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right
back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother

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11. Why is it that theists tell me that I have to examine every part of the universe
and not find God anywhere in order to say that there is no god, when in fact all I
need to do is not find God in one location since he is supposed to be omnipresent?
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12. If the Garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did
Eve even want to eat the apple? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a
person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing?

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13. Romans 6:23 says "For the wages of sin is death" Does this mean animals sin
as well? Or unicellular organisms? Do plants sin? Because they all die as well,
not just humans. Why does an animal die, if it doesn't know the moral difference
between right and wrong?
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14. Why would an all-powerful god become flesh in order to sacrifice himself to
himself so that his creation might escape the wrath of himself? Couldn't god, in
his infinite wisdom, come up with something a little more efficient?

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15. If we are the children of god, and yet we have never seen him, does that make
us the bastards of god? Not to mention my mom didn't marry God

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16. After 9/11 a lot of people have been tossing around "God bless America".
Why do they keep saying this? From the looks of it god hasn't blessed anything.
If god had blessed America, the 9/11 event would've never happened. Theists
seem to give the answer of "everything is part of gods big plan". If everything is
part of god’s big plan, why are we after Bin Laden? Wasn't he and other
terrorists just carrying out gods desired plan? So it seems that Bin Laden/
terrorism isn’t our enemy, but god.

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17. Christians say that God is NOT the author of confusion. Can you say, Tower
of Babel? - The Screaming Monkeys

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18. Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are
they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to
go to hell. Either that or god expects unborn fetuses to accept Jesus.

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19. Why does God have emotions (jealousy, anger, sadness, love, etc.) if he is
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Emotions are reactionary, how can
God react to us if he is all-knowing and has a divine plan?

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20. If Jesus Christ is allegedly the omnipotent god made flesh.....how is it that he
did not inherit Original Sin? Remember, he is allegedly Man and god in union,
and if truly man, as well as god, he must have inherited Original Sin. ???

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21. If God is the father of Jesus, what is Jesus' DNA like? Does God have sperm?
If he doesn't, where did Mary get the DNA from that was needed to make Jesus?
This would make Mary asexual and Jesus would then be a girl. No Y
chromosome.

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22. I never got the remote controlled car I prayed for as a child, but if I want to
go to hell, will God grant my wish?.... Gee, thanks God!
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23. In the "Last Days" Jesus is supposed to appear in the clouds. How are the
Christians on the opposite end of the world going to see him? Are there going to
be millions of Jesus'? What about people that work underground?

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24. A true Muslim man is not supposed to do anything that the prophet
Muhammad didn't do. If one remembers there was a big debate over whether or
not Muslims should eat Mangoes. If this is true why in the Hell were these
Islamic Fundamentalists flying airplanes?

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25. If the earth was covered by a complete global flood, every living creature
killed except those surviving on the ark, why are there many completely unique
animal species in Australia that are found no where else indigenously on the
earth?

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26. If god is omniscient and "god is love," why would he allow a child to be
conceived, knowing that that child would one day reject him and spend eternity
burning in a lake of fire? If I were god, I wouldn't allow it; I have more love for
humanity than he does.
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27. How can Heaven be utter bliss when you know that people you love and care
about are burning in Hell? -- The Infidel Guy - ANSWER: - When we get to
Heaven there will be no pain. God erases our memories of our loved ones that
may be in Hell because he doesn't want to experience pain.

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28. Revelations takes place on Earth. What if we colonize the moon or Mars or
inhabit a self-sustaining space station? Do we escape "judgement"?
ANSWER: God will get them too.

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29. Many people believe in ghosts. My question is, "Why is it that people see only
ghosts of people or pets? Why not Neanderthals or better yet dinosaurs? That
would be one hell of a ghost to see a Brontosaurus parading downtown.

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30. If god did open the sea so that Moses and the Jews could run away from
Egypt, why didn't he open the concentration camps gates?

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31. Why are we granted free will if our duty in this life to our god is to do as we
are told? We are to follow rules upon threat of punishment. Is that free will?

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32. Isaiah 40:28 says, "...the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither
is he weary?" If this is true, why did God rest on the seventh day?

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33. Every time I go to a funeral the preacher and guests always say that "God"
has called that person to Heaven or they say, "God said it was time to come
home", or some such variation. If God is calling these people "home", why are
we putting the murderers of these victims in prison? How can we punish a man
or woman for doing God's will?

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34. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

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35. Traditional Jews utilize Yahweh or (YHWH) as Gods name because his true
name is supposedly unpronounceable. My question is how can it be possible that
people are using the Lords name in vain when nobody really knows what his
name is?

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36. Why is God predominately called a "he"?

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37. If you are born retarded, then does that mean your "soul" is retarded as
well?
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38. Planet Earth, we are reliably informed, is several billion years old. The last
dinosaur expired some 70 million years ago. Homo sapiens, the only form of life
according to Christian doctrine, that is of any interest to their god is not more
than 100,000 years old. How in the name of all that is reasonable did the Judaeo-
Christian god occupy himself for all those millions - billions of years until
humankind came along to keep him so busy?
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39. If man is modelled after "God" does that mean "God" has a penis?

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40. Why can't we wait until we get to Heaven to worship God?

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41. What is the purpose of prayer? What can a finite being on Earth possibly tell
an omnipotent, omniscient deity that he doesn't know already?

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42. If God has a plan for you and his plan cannot be thwarted, do you really have
a free will?
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43. If the "soul" is everything that is you (the essence) then how come when
someone gets into an accident, they lose memories, functions and can be
paralyzed? Why should "brain damage" matter if this "soul" is so important?

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44. Christians like to talk about what Jesus sacrificed. If Jesus was the all-
knowing God, then when he "died" didn't he know he'd be in heaven in less than
3 days to rule? If Jesus is alive and ruling today, what did he sacrifice?

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45. If the omnipotent God wants us to know him, why doesn't everyone know
him?
God knows that men are sinners, untrustworthy and evil, why does God leave it
up to fallible man (clergy..etc) to teach others about his word? Why would he put
our eternal souls at risk if he loves us to much?

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46. Where is Hell and Heaven? It was believed that heaven was in the sky until
modern astronomers showed otherwise.

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47. If God's design is so great, why do men have nipples?

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48. How did Adam and Eve know it was wrong to disobey God if they hadn't
eaten of the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) yet? You can't blame them if
they didn't know.

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49. If God has such a tremendous problem with uncircumcised penises, why did
he make man with foreskin in the first place?

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50. If God is all-knowing is there anything we can do to shock him? If not, why
does he react so often to what we do?

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51. If reincarnation is real, why is it that our population is growing? Where
would the extra "souls" come from?

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52. Why does the omnipotent, omnipresent God need help from man or angels to
spread his word or do acts?

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53. How did Jesus ascend to Heaven in the Flesh when Paul says that flesh
cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven?
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54. If God wants us to live right and choose "the good," why did he create evil?
(Isaiah 45:6,7) Not to mention he already knows which people are not going to
choose "the good" so why create those people in the first place? It seems that
many people are born to go to Hell.

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55. I hear Christians all the time speaking of a war between Heaven and Hell, if
this is true does God have limitations of power? Man only conducts wars because
of our limitations of power and foresight. God has both all-power and all-
knowledge, no reason for war.

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56. The Bible is full of phrases beginning with, "and the lord saw". Didn't he
know before hand?

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57. The Bible states that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the
Earth. It says nothing about the Universe. Some would say "the Heavens" was
space, if so, when did God create Heaven? If "the heavens" is the spiritual
Heaven, when did God create Space?

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58. If Christians say they know God exists and that he will work miracles, what
do they need faith for? Faith is not knowing.

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59. Brain transplants will eventually be possible, where would the soul be then?
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60. If God really wants us to know him, why doesn't he place the knowledge of
him in our minds at birth? The same way many theists believe that God implants
our sense of right and wrong in us a right birth.

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61. If God was Jesus' father (not Joseph), then why is Jesus' family tree traced
through Joseph?

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62. Christians say that since we and our universe are an intelligent design, that
we must have been created by god. But then god is an intelligent design also, so
who created him?

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63. Why does almost every description of God also equal non-existence? (i.e.
incorporeal, immaterial, ineffable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, etc.)

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64. Why can't God appear before everyone at the same time? Everyone in the
world would then know he exists and not believe. And please, don't say he
already tried that. Surely a God knows exactly what to do to convince a measly
human of his existence.

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65. According to the New Testament Matthew 5:17 says "Do not suppose that I
have come to abolish the Law and the prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to
complete. I tell you this: so long as heaven and earth endure, not a letter, not a
stroke, will disappear from the Law until all that must happen has Happened."
So since Jesus has not returned the "Law" is still in effect, so why aren't we still
burning witches, stoning adulterers and disobedient children, killing
homosexuals, ostracizing people that work on the Sabbath (nurses, doctors etc.),
flinging blood onto the horns of the alter, pulling off the heads of small birds,
and don't forget human sacrifice to God (Leviticus 27 P,28)?

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66. If believers can accept that a God has always been here. Why can't they
accept an equally plausible argument that the non-conscious Universe has always
been here in some form?

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67. If the story of Noah's ark is true. What did Noah do with all the feces? There
wasn't even adequate ventilation. Hell, what did the meat-eating animals eat?
And where were the dinosaurs and Unicorns in all this?

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68. What loving god accepts sacrifices of his own creations? Especially his son? --
Reverend Heresy
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69. Was Jesus God in human form? If so was God saving us from himself? Kind
of selfish eh? That's what the Christians unknowingly proclaim when they
acknowledge that Jesus is God.

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70. Many Christians claim that man can't judge God's actions as evil because he
has a divine plan and is GOD. This being the case, then it would stand to reason
that one cannot judge whether God is good either. Wouldn't God be amoral? It
appears that morality is a subjective concept that varies from culture to culture.
Therefore, how we judge God either way?

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71. Why would a god make non-believers and punish them for being what he
made them to be?

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72. What is God's plan? The omniscient, omnipotent God doesn't need plans.
Plans are a limitation of power. We make plans because we are not all-knowing
or all-powerful. In order for God to have a plan, or design, is to make him as
humanistic as you or I. Limited.

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73. Many people believe there is a soul. If you can supposedly see, smell, taste,
touch and hear without a body then why do you have one? Wouldn't a body be a
waste? Why aren't we just "souls" floating around in the first place?
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74. How could the all-merciful/loving God watch billions of his children burn
over and over again for eternity?

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75. Before reading and writing were invented (5000BC), on what basis did God
use to judge the people who died before the Hebrew and Greek text (BIBLE)
were written?

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76. How could souls burn? Aren't souls non-physical entities? I've heard of
spiritual burns before. Sheesh, God sure goes through a lot of effort just to
torture the children he loves.
How can one hold to the barbaric belief that something has to DIE in order to
appease a god for a bad deed?

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78. Christians always say that everything is part of god’s big plan. If everything
is already planned out by god, what difference does it make if they pray or not?

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79. Why does SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) occur? Why would God
allow a baby to live for such a short period of time? Why not just let them not be
born in the first place?

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80. Why didn't god forbid Adam & Eve to eat from the other magic tree?

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