Questions for Christians

1) 'It is not the place or job of Christians (or anybody for that matter) to judge if a person deserves to go to Heaven or Hell.' - Actually, it is very clear in your religion who does and who doesn't go to hell: 'According to the Scriptures, a person's eternal destiny is based on whether or not they receive the gift of salvation offered by the Lord Jesus Christ. All men are sinners and are in need of salvation, else they will be under judgment in Hell for all eternity. However, Christ has purchased our salvation through His death and resurrection. He now offers this free gift of salvation and the promise of an eternity in Heaven to all men. We receive salvation by believing wholly on Him and trusting in His finished work and the veracity of His offer. There is nothing we can do to merit salvation nor any other means of entrance into Heaven except through accepting Christ's offer. ' (source: http://www.baptistbasics.org...) Let me highlight it for you: 'All men are sinners and are in need of salvation, else they will be under judgment in Hell for all eternity' and 'We receive salvation by believing wholly on Him (Jesus) and trusting in His finished work and the veracity of His offer.' These are all fancy words for: 'If you are not a Christian, you are going to hell'. I am quite sure Anne Frank wasn't a Christian, therefore according to your religion she is supposed to be in hell. I want to point out your answer was hard to read and understand, and it was lacking explanations and details. It looks like you are trying to avoid the question, because I can't understand if your answer is YES or NO. 2) a) Your example is not valid. David's son was Jewish (and because Christianity didn't exist back then), as a child or a grown man - according to your religion he would go to heaven. I would love to see an example from the bible of a non-Jewish baby who dies and goes to heaven. b) Let's say infants, babies and little kids DO go to heaven. 1) Do they stay in that age in heaven? 2) What about their families? Could they be happy in heaven when their family suffers in hell? *** Comment: 'I will go to him' is not translated very well - in Hebrew it is 'I am going to him', which in Hebrew can mean either what you said, or just as much can mean: 'I am going towards death' 3) YOUR analogy is ridiculous. a) If Hitler said to the Jews: 'If you choose to burn a synagogue, deny your Judaism, and become a Christian I will not put you in a death camp', would it still be fair for him to put the ones who did not take that 'deal' in the camps?? A gift is a true gift only if it has no conditions. It's like saying: If you'll agree with me, I will give you 2,000$. b) Like I showed you in (1), if someone is not Christian he goes to hell according to your religion, which means the only thing that matters is the religion of the individual, and not anything else, just like Hitler and his camps. 4) a) Will you be happy in heaven if your loved one was suffering in hell? b) Does a real father deny his children? If your children will hate you, will you hate them? 5) Your argument's examples are extremely weak. 'Perhaps through the tragic death of someone who died slowly trapped under rubble in an earthquake, God knew that authorities would be shocked into requiring new construction standards for earthquake-proof buildings, thereby saving many future lives. ' If there were no natural disasters, there would be no need of earthquake-proof buildings, and furthermore, the whole mighty intelligence god can't find a better way to do that? If a parent kills his child, and as a result some people get inspiration from it and go volunteer in a children's hospital, can you say it's a GOOD thing that parent killed his child?? 'Maybe he permitted it so that some other person, facing death or illness in a hospital and seeing the reports on television, would be inspired by the persons courage to face their own challenge with faith and bravery' - Well if god causes natural disasters, he probably causes illness and other deaths too, right? Same as before. 6) a) You admit that prayer doesn't work and doesn't effect anything. 'Prayer isn't so we can change Gods plan'- that means if a kid has cancer and you have your whole church pray for him - it's not going to do anything. b) So I guess God picks and chooses some people for conversation, because he didn't talk to me AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE (including Christians). 7) I actually don't see it as a paradox. It's a very simple question. Just like in the bible, when God talked to Abraham and told him to kill his only son, if God told you to kill your son/daughter/mother, would you do it? (because 'we cannot know what the outcome of every single little thing that happens will be'- maybe if you kill your mother it will make someone reunite with his mother after hearing this story) 8) Same as above 9) You're saying that it doesn't matter at what age we die, and it does matter. 10) a) ' it would be impossible for us to be here without a God' - It actually is possible (the big bang theory, which is scientifically proven), and even if you don't accept the big bang theory, how is it possible for God to exist from nothing? b) Moral law - This is of course, untrue. There is no absolute moral law. Just a few examples: -Slavery: used to be the norm but is no longer -Sati: an Indian tradition in which widows are burned with their dead husbands. -Eating Animals There are of course more, but I'm running out of time. The morality in the bible is not the morality today, and the morality of Asia is not like in Europe. Today, most countries share most of their morals, because of communication, law, and development. c) The number of seconds: I didn't understand your writing, it would help if you rewrite it. If you mean the odds that a planet like Earth would contain life - may I point out that the number of stars in the universe is BIGGER than the number of grains of sand in our planet, so it makes sense that at least one planet will have life on it. It's like the lottery - you have to be extremely lucky to win, but it's logical that SOMEONE wins. Imagine a lottery of ALL the people in the world (about 7 billion). Each has to pick 100 numbers, and the one that chooses the exact numbers in the right order wins. I didn't calculate it, but it's reasonable that at least one will win, right? I am waiting for your rebuttals in the next round! Good luck.