Christianity can be proven as fact

Pro: "In Matthew 13:19 Christ tells them literally what the parable meant. Why did He tell THEM? They seek God and do not seek to stand against Him. Christ is clear. Those who do not seek God will not ever and are not meant to ever understand. This is how God speaks in the Bible, in the language that He and His child only speak. This is a concept that the secular world does not understand, and according to God cannot understand". Pro claims that God intended for the bible to be difficult to understand for non Christians. This seems a strange thing for a god to do. Surely it would be logical to make it clear and easy to understand. The fact Christians themselves struggle to understand the bible, hence the 33, 000 denominations also refutes pro's claim that the bible is easy to understand for God's "children" as pro describes Christian's. For example pro being a protestant would disagree on the interpretation of many parts of the bible with for example a Catholic. The following website outlines a few of the differences between the two denominations. http://www.gotquestions.org... Pro makes the following claim: "Matthew is tracing the primary/ biological, lineage while Luke is tracing while taking into account occurences of levirate marriage". He provides a link explaining what levitate marriage is but fails to show that this is what Luke's geneaologies is based on. His assumption it is based on levitate marriage is unsubstantiated and without evidence. It certainly cannot be proved as fact. What is a fact is that the two gospels have contradictory geneaologies. Pro makes a claim that the contradictory accounts found in all the gospels over who found the empty tomb Jesus supposedly rose from can be explained by them being partial accounts. Even if they were partial accounts the significant differences in all four accounts refute such a claim. A scripture inspired by a god could not contain such significant contradictions. Pro offers his opinion over what a Christian needs to believe to obtain salvation. However this is merely his opinion. The 33, 000 denominations all have their own views on what is needed and the 2. 2 billion Christians in the world often come to individual opinions over what is needed. Quite simply one individuals opinion is not an effective way to prove something. Especially when the individual does not actually know with certainty what happens after death as they are yet to experience it. No Christian can prove an afterlife exists as they are yet to die. Afterlife is simply a theory with no supporting evidence outside of religious scripture compiled by the many thousands of religions humans choose to believe in. Even if an afterlife exists it is impossible to know which if any of the world's religions have the correct interpretation of it. If Christianity was a fact it would seem strange that misleading verses about handling serpents would be included in its holy book. It seems strange that allegories of any kind would be included in such important information. Christians come to their own conclusions over what parts of the bible are to be taken literally and which parts are not. It is clear that they all have to guess which biblical stories are real events and historical accounts and which ones are merely allegories. If it was clear what parts of the bible were intended to be taken literally and which parts were not then you would expect much less variation in how individual Christians interpret the bible. The council of nicaea had to consider the fact that if the gospels they chose did not look favourably on the Romans then the Roman rulers at that time may have condemned the council and restarted movement's to persecute Christians. The council members were also citizens of the Roman empire so likely had natural bias towards it and it's cultural history and values. No evidence exists proving that any god had any influence on the council. Claims the holy spirit influenced their decision are simply unsubstantiated. As it cannot be proven the holy spirit exists it is impossible to varify it's alleged influence on the council of nicaea. The presence of 56 false gospel books also casts serious doubt on the validity of the bible. If Christianity was true you would not expect any other gospel books to exist. As Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet means it's unsurprising a Muslim cleric believes he existed. The opinion of this man has no relevance to whether Christianity is true or not. Muslims dreaming about Jesus is also irrelevant. People dream about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. Dreams don't make things real or prove anything. The rapid increase in human population in recent times has been caused by increasing birth rates and decreasing death rates. This has been caused by a variety of factors; 1. Improved medical knowledge. 2. Antibiotics. 3. Improved surgical techniques. 4. Vaccines. 5. Improved education on health related issues. 6. Human technology development allowing the species to dominate other species of animals that used to compete with humans for resources. The human population is six times greater today than it was in 1800 as this link shows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org... Before 1800 and the medical, technological and educational advances made by humans population growth followed a more gradual trend. This point made by pro does not prove Christianity in any way. The fact a rapid increase in human population in the last 200 years has occured is completely irrelevant to this debate. Pro claims the theory of evolution has been disproved. This is a false claim. The following link provides 5 proofs of evolution, disproving pro's claim. http://evolutionfaq.com... The theory of evolution is supported by an overwhelming majority of scientist's. The following link shows this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org... Therefore pro has made a false statement. It is misleading to use an example of one scientist when 99. 9% of scientist's accept the theory of evolution is true. The following link even shows that many Christian denominations accept the theory of evolution is true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org... The pope, supposedly the figurehead of Christianity globally accepts the of evolution and the big bang theory are true. http://www.independent.co.uk... A major flaw in Christianity is that accounts of Jesus"s life in the gospels were written well after the events allegedly occurred. The crucifixion of Jesus is believed to have occurred around 29 AD. The best estimates date the gospels as follows: Mark: AD 68-73 Matthew: AD 70-100 Luke: AD 80-100 John: AD 90-110 http://en.wikipedia.org... The large time lag between the life of Jesus and the documentation of his life indicates the eyewitnesses of Jesus"s ministry were dead by the time of the gospel writings, either of natural causes or as a result of the Jewish-Roman war that began in AD 66. The band of Jewish followers of Jesus, led by his brother James, no longer existed. The only Christians remaining were the Romans and other gentiles who were followers of Paul"s concept of Christianity. Consequently, the gospels are told in a manner consistent with Paul"s theology and also with an anti-Jewish, pro-Roman bias. One of the best examples of this bias is the exoneration of Pontius Pilate and the condemnation of the Jews for Jesus"s death (Matthew 27:24), a fabrication of the first order (and one that has had tragic consequences for Jewish people for the past two millennia). Another is the story of the Roman centurion who was allegedly commended by Jesus for having more faith than anybody else in Israel (Matthew 8:5-13).