That's mightily presumptive of you to claim that your specific Christian sect is superior to the others. I''m sure the Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Mormons, Seventh Day Aventists, Methodists, and Anglicans would like to have a word with you uppidy Jehovah Witness folks. This just further resonates with my claim that religion is/always will be inferior. And yes Jehovah's witnesses are a SECT of CHRISTIANITY.
I'm getting really sick of your limited thinking on this issue. Let's see what
www.christiananswers.net has to say about what you have just proposed as to the reasoning behind the points I've already made.
1.) Why does God allow innocent people to suffer?
Answer: Tis is a real difficulty, but atheism is certainly not the answer, and neither is agnosticism. While there is much evil in the world, there is even more that is good. This is proved by the mere fact that people normally try to hang on to life as long as they can. Furthermore, everyone instinctively recognizes that "good" is a higher order of truth than "bad".
We need also to recognize that our very minds were created by God. We can only use these minds to the extent that He allows, and it is, therefore, utterly presumptuous for us to use them to question Him and His motives.
How is this a ****ing answer to the question again? It's an assumption on why humans suffer, it is not an answer. What about people who commit suicide because they feel they have suffered enough or too much? God certainly is not getting there in time to either save them, or stop them from having those thought completely. Nor is he actually giving them their life back after committing the suicide in the first place. Once again another apolgist answer for the shortcummings of GOD.
They also go on to state that babies...and the mentally challenged are sinners as well.
Their quote: As far as babies are concerned, and others who may be incompetent mentally to distinguish right and wrong, it is clear from both Scripture and universal experience that they are sinners by nature and thus will inevitably become sinners by choice as soon as they are able to do so.
So let me get this straight. A rational loving GOD is going to hold a baby or mentally challenged person to the same standard of sins even though he designed them with no capacity to understand right and wrong in the first place? This is exactly why religion is idiocy on a massive level.
I really don't need to go through the rest of the question as this faulty logic flows through your entire statement. Your GOD holds accountable those he designed, created, and let come onto this earth with no understanding at all of "good" or "evil". He is going to judge them the same way eventhough he is fully aware of the conditions he placed on them in the first place. Not only is this requirement on babies who clearly have on knowledge of anything...but also those born with learning disabilities?
Once again your GOD is a cruel sick **** from which there is no escape from his insanity.
2.) What evidence do you have there is a GOD? What hard evidence other than scriptures or your deep belief. When I hear a tree come out and speak to me that GOD created it...I will believe you until that time nature is not an answer.
3.) You believe human creation was spawned by 2 individuals. So it also stands to reason that to you and your kind believe INCEST is perfectly natural and even moral. I'm not even going to go into what this states about your sense of morality, which is blatanly corrupted and sickening.
4.) People chose not to save themselves when they knew they were about to drown because they knew they were wicked? So I tell you a flood is coming...everything is about to be wiped out...and you stay on the ground for moral reasons? That is such lame bullshit. You'd hope your ass on the boat, and if GOD didn't kill you..you'd then be telling me you getting on the boat was GOD's way of forgiving you and pushing you to lead a better life...rather than just simply saving your own ass.
5.) You believe that after you are pronouced dead. That something inside of you keeps on living. Your soul...how long does it take a soul to get to heaven by the way?
6.) You just contradicited yourself. If GOD cannot die, then that means Jesus did NOT nor COULD not have died on the cross for anyone's sins. You really are this mentally challeneged, aren't you? Now you said in the post above that GOD is 1. Not 3, but 1. Now you'd then have to believe that GOD assumed human form through Jesus. So If GOD cannot die..and Jesus is really GOD in disguise. That then has to mean...that he did not die on the cross...which means through Jesus there was/is NO salvation whatsoever. That means no sins we're ever forgiven...that means no sins will be forgiven...simply because GOD in fact as you stated DID NOT DIE. That means the entire time he was walking around talking about how he had to die...HE WAS LYING out of his ass. Because after all, HE didn't die. Which then means there was no assention into the heavens.
7.) Raising bodies from the dead? Alright assuming that is true for the moment...how could Jesus have possibly died. It would stand that a GOD that can't die..would be invulnerable to TORTURE and DEATH as well. But if you believe he bleed, and died...then that means it wasn't GOD...was just some guy.
8.) God created a perfect angel with free will, yet got pissed off when he decided to take his thunder? So GOD in all his glory didn't see this coming? Or better yet...perhaps he made him so he could turn against him...because without there being a fallen angel..there could be no snake to manipulate Adam and Eve which would completely **** up the story. After all, if there is no snake there to tell them to eat the fruit..then they don't eat it..then man is perfect. Then there is no need ever for GOD to assume human form transform into Jesus and forgive sins. You people have no brains when it comes to storytelling do you.
9.) Now why would a great, good, loving GOD allow for a harmful, evil, demon to rule over the earth if he wasn't truly doing GOD's good dirty work?
10.) Judas did not choose to betray Jesus. He had no choice. If he would not have betrayed Jesus your story get's ****ed up. Because then Jesus by not being ratted out by Judas goes off and does whatever. He doesn't get caputred by the Jews or Romans..and there is then no dying on the cross..which means no salvation through Christ. Once again you folks have no brains for storytelling...the right way.
11.) Rape in the Bible...Judges 21:10-24 NLT
So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So the Israelite leaders asked, "How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever. But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God's curse."
Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, "Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, 'Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.'" So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.
Rape in the Bible Numbers 31:7-18 NLT
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings - Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba - died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
Rape in the Bible...Deuteronomy 20:10-14
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Rape in the Bible...Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker?
Rape in the Bible...Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
It is clear that God doesn't give a damn about the rape victim. He is only concerned about the violation of another mans "property".
Rape in the Bible...Samuel 12:11-14 NAB
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]
This has got to be one of the sickest quotes of the Bible. God himself brings the completely innocent rape victims to the rapist. What kind of pathetic loser would do something so evil? And then he kills a child! This is sick, really sick!
Rape in the Bible...Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB
When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
Once again God approves of forcible rape.
Rape in the Bible....Judges 5:30 NAB
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil.
Rape in the Bible...Exodus 21:7-11 NLT
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.
Rape in the Bible....Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.
12.) You know in this day and age...if a father of two daughters got drunk and had sex with them...and then claimed he was too drunk to know it was his daughters. He would be considered a pedophile as LOT was...you know that right? He was too drunk. Once again another religious apologist point of view.
13.) Holy Spirit...impregnated Mary? Wasn't Joseph already married to her? Or just plain with her before GOD decided he wanted to tap that ass?