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"Why would you ask questions about the bible to someone who was very clearly not a Christian?" See that"s why I hate people like you. People who do not have the ability to think, rationalize, reason, use common sense, use logic because you, your god, bible and religion does not require a single fricken child"s chew toy already thrown away for the scrap irons on a used con-dumb would ask such and unintelligent uneducated question because the answers are so point blank obvious. "Only a theologian or someone who has studied the bible intensely would be able to answer all of your questions." Absolutely 100% false. And that shows how little, if anything, you know about your god, in which you cannot even prove exists, bible in which your god would never use text as a form of communication, the worst form of communication possible as stated in RD1 which only shows his stupidity therefore he"s in no way a god, and religion. "Secondly, resorting to name calling is very juvenile," Again absolutely 100% false. When you and or anyone flatly invents excuses and or flat out lies for something in which they clearly know nothing about for the subjects they they think that they have knowledge upon and they really don"t and yet they pretend that they do, then they flatly deserve to be degraded, humiliated, and dehumanized. You will learn that if you get to college because its taught there. And if you pull that crap to your teachers = instant F. If you pull that crap to your friends and loved ones = no friends and loved ones as so so so so many idiots here on debate.org have which is a HUGE red flag. And really, what moron wants to spend and or want to hang around with somebody like that? No one. Sorry. I don"t deal with it. And I don"t need am not required to prove myself unto you to be a kind person. But then again, you believe in your god. Oh and btw, I didn"t mention jesus. You did. Regardless he was a false prophet. Simply put, god did not give him powers of any kind to prove him to be the messiah. All jesus did was self proclaimed himself to be the messiah. Sorry. That doesn"t work. Not only that but this jesus character broke several of god"s laws such as working on the sabbath in which required the death penalty and jesus, again, did not have any powers granted by god to change any of god"s laws. So he"s a false prophet. The jews have it right. christ is false. christianity is false. The NT is false. "If God was really as horrible as you say, then why would He send His Son to suffer" Oh I get it, suffering is a "good" thing. Now tell me since you are so stunningly smart and since NOBODY on the planet who is sane will agree with you, what GOOD is there in suffering? And what can children especially learn from suffering except for absolutely 100% nothing? Oh and btw, there are millions of children who are raped, beaten and tortured by daddy as an example sticking his you know what inside of them sometimes twice per week while he punches them in the face from 4 years old all the way up from who knows what and your god creates these children per the millions every single year to suffer sometimes for decades as I knew someone who did from 4 years old all the way up until 17 and that was only the start of her horrors. Your christ had it easy as he died on the cross for a mere 17 hours tops. You have no idea, none, no concept of what true suffering is. Now I am going to ignore everything you"ve stated about christ, because this is not about christ. This is about god. Oh and duh if your god was just and true, then this suffering would not exist. Your christ teaches the beginning of suffering. Buddhism teaches the end of suffering. Gee I just cannot possibly imagine which is better? "First all those people died because they were sinners without faith." OK I"m ending this debate because you in no possible way know that. Not only that since you believe that then you must hate me, and you think you shouldn"t be insulted to the highest degree possible, yeah right, and you not only condemn me to death but billions of others, You also have no idea what sinning is because it doesn"t exist in your bible as its a hypocritical contradiction" Does every man sin? Yes. There is no man who does not sin (I Kings 8:46; see also 2 Chronicles 6:36; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; and I John 1:810) No. True Christians cannot possibly sin, because they are the children of God. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God.. (I John 5:1). We should be called children of God; and so we are (I John 3: 1). He who loves is born of God (I John 4:7). No one born of God commits sin; for Gods nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God (I John 3:9). But, then again, Yes! If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (I John 1:8) Matt Dillahunty "What is sin and why should I care about it? I understand why I should live an ethical life and treating people in certain ways, we have secular foundations for moral systems. But sin from the christian perspective is a crime against god or god"s nature itself - right? If god makes the rules and you violate it, that"s a sin. Well what if god makes a rule that you should kill your child, does that make it good? Caller " Yeah that"s where I do things that are not aligned in what the bible says." Matt "Yeah. But are they good things? Do you have good reasons to have that the things you are doing are not immoral? Like do you have an example? Like don"t confess to a crime or anything. For example the bible is opposed to homosexuality. Do you think there"s something immoral about those who are homosexuals?" Caller "Uh there"s none that I can think of." Matt "Yeah me neither. And so if the bible"s opposed to it add the bible is the word of god, and the Koran is opposed to it as well and the Koran is supposed to be the word of god as well, and there are two holy books and let them argue over who god is and what god thinks and until they can come up with a sound secular justification for homosexualiy being immoral then I don"t need to pay their views any money because its just an opinion at that point." Bye. I"m also going to state this since you are uneducated and ignorant enough to believe in faith especially to a terrorist god in which you clearly know nothing about" "Why would you believe anything on faith? Faith isn"t a pathway to truth. Every religion has some sort of faith. If faith is your pathway you can"t distinguish between christianity, Hinduism, judaism, any of these others. How is it that you use ---reason--- in every of the other endeavor in your life and then when it comes to the ultimate truth, the most important truth your"re saying that faith is required and how is that supposed to reflect on a god? What kind of a god requires faith instead of evidence?" Matt Dillahunty "Faith is the reason people give when they don"t have evidence." Matt Dillahunty "Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong." Richard Dawkins "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." Richard Dawkins