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Questions for Believers

Just a few questions for believers.

Why have faith?

    Why is it that faith is only required for God, faith healers and psychics? Faith is not required to know gravity, or electricity, or the wind. Why God?

    Why use faith to determine what is true? Would you use it anywhere else? Should doctors use faith to diagnose disease? Or faith to determine which treatment to use? Should juries use faith to determine guilt or innocence?

The Nature of God

    An omniscient God
      An omniscient God would know everything that has happened and everything that will happen. His knowledge could not be wrong. There is not a single event that He has not foresaw.
    An omnipotent God
      vs. disease
      Can God make a spherical cube?
      Can God create a rock so big he can't lift it?
    An omnibenevolent God
      How can an omnibenevolent God allow suffering?
    A perfect God
      If God is perfect how can he create defective beings? Yet we allegedly are defective. We had to be drowned by flood (Noah's Ark), destroyed at Sodom and Gomorrah, and burned for eternity in Hell.
    Who created God?
      Believers often argue that "something can't come from nothing" in their defense of creationism. According to this argument, if comes into existence it must have a cause.
      (This is not necessarly accurate. It may indeed be possible for something to come from nothing. Quantum processes, for instance, are thought to originate without a cause - something from nothing. We simply cannot state with certainty that something can't come from nothing)
      However, if we continue with the argument that something can't come from nothing, where did God come from? If beings require a creator, who created God?
Souls
    Where are souls located in the body?
    Souls have no pain receptors, no heat or cold receptors, so how will they suffer in Hell?
    Memories and awareness are only evidenced in the brain (i.e. amnesia, brain damage, comas, etc.). When the brain becomes damaged awareness and/or memories fail, sometimes to never be recovered again. The brain dies at death. How will souls be aware of what is happening to them in the afterlife? How will it remember? Where will it store that information?
The Afterlife
    Muslims and the 75 virgins.
      How will virginity be determined on a soul?
      What will muslims male souls do with these 75 virgins?
    Who's in Heaven?
      Gandhi
        Some believe that only people who accept their religion will be going to heaven. If God is Christian, Jewish or Muslim, what about Gandhi? A man who lived his life in peace, who fought and died for the freedom of his people is going to hell. But Joe Schmoe next door is going to heaven because he attends the right church?
      Hitler
        If Hitler asked the Christian god for forgiveness before dying is he sitting in heaven right now? (Hitler was not an atheist. Please see Hitler for a detailed discussion of his religious views.)
      Anne Frank
        A brave young woman who helped hide other Jews during the holocaust. Is she also doomed to hell for not following the right god?



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