Christianity: A Perfect Religion

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Christianity is a curious religion. Having the most historically accurate holy book of any religion, and yet the most unbelievable stories mixed in as to be true. I concede that there is a god but whether he is a good god or just one god can never be proven in a million years without him coming down and showing us all. I don't believe christianity is a perfect religion in any stretch of the imagination. I want to talk about psychology, history, and science proving my views on christianity.

Now without a doubt a god does exist. It is nearly impossible to have a universe as finely tuned as ours by simple chance. Take gravity for example stars have a gravitational force, our Sun is a star. If the gravitational force was one millionth of a
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Okay good. Outside of the bible there is no proof that God the god of christianity is real. The bible is surprisingly accurate in its history of the world. But we don't take stories of gods seriously in the old greek writings even though they include historically accurate accounts of places and cities. I concede that even the worldwide flood is historically accurate but even native americans have an account of the flood as do tribes in africa. The possibility that the old testament is mostly a work of historical fiction is too great to not be talked about. In genesis we see Cain after murdering Abel being marked by God so the peoples of the earth would not kill him. (genesis 4:15-16) Where did these people come from God never mentioned that he created more people from dust. I doubt the inbreeding of Cain, Abel,Adam and Eve and possible daughters went so far as to have towns of people in four chapters of the bible. There are other stories in the bible that could have easily been twisted through time of verbal teaching to make them more dramatic or godly. Take the walls of jericho for example, the people of israel come and besiege the city and by some twist of fate an earthquake shakes the walls of the city down. I find this easier to believe that than they marched around the walls and god brought them down. In my opinion the old testament should be read with a large grain of salt. History is written by the victors and always is made more …show more content…
These three aspects of God are baseplates of who the God of the bible is. If this is true then why can i look online and see starving kids. Christians say its gods plan, i find this excuse infuriating and cheap. If God is all good and all powerful than he could never let an inocent child die from starvation, arguably one of the worst ways to die. God says he will provide for his creation but how is letting a baby die providing for them. Over everything else the real world can not have an all powerful all knowing God. if God is all knowing and all powerful than he knows that a four year old girl was raped and he did nothing to stop it making him not at all good id argue if God is all knowing he must be evil. If you are walking down the street and you see a person stabing another person behind a garbage can andy you could rescue them and you didnt what would that make you? That act would prove you are not a good person, and yet God watches everysingle murder, rape, molestation, and theft and has done nothing to stop them. Now if God is not all knowing than he could be all good stoping the evil things he has the ability to. Also if God is all good all knowing but not all powerful then he is seeing everything and cant stop it in which case i would pitty God seeing evil and not being able to srop it is the worst feling anyone could have. But the bible says God is all powerfull

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