Christianity

First, I will re-answer the previous #1 because I had little space to do it after answering the rest [I didn't answer them in the order presented]. 1) a) Of course he is able to stop them, GOD can do anything as you have already proven. b) First I will repost what I said, if he "forces" us to do something, then we aren't given free will which has been established since the beginning of creation. In addition, if he "forces" us to love him, it is just rape. GOD wants us to love him, but does not force people to love him. Read John 3:16 [how he loves us by bringing his SON here (who is really him)], Romans 9:18 [How if you have mercy will be given mercy], Matthew 5:7 [says the same about mercy], Matthew 5:4 [Those who mourn will be comforted], etc. etc. there are tons of Bible quotes on how GOD loves us, how he will treat us fair and equally, and how he won't force us to love him but how he loves us and wants us to love him. As for the first half of "b" which I am addressing now, you should read the book of Judges. Israel was punished greatly for going against GOD, or read 1 Kings 13:1-4 where GOD basically ruins Jeroboam's hand. So why does GOD let these things happen? If he didn't, how could we be judged for our sins? Or how could we learn from our mistakes? Or if he stopped us, would it make a difference? Let me explain, if you have cats and you tell them to not have sex and you move them apart, as soon as you are going to leave they will have sex right? So even if GOD stops them, they will keep doing it anyways. Read Romans 1:22-32 or the entire chapter, it talks about the same thing but not about cats. In addition, how would we learn something is wrong without being punished? For example, a kid poops on the floor. His parents do nothing about it. When he goes to school and poops on the floor, he doesn't know it is wrong - he was never punished for it. However, once the teacher scolds him, he realizes it's wrong. If we are not punished, we will never learn anything. In addition, remember Romans 8:29-30, GOD knows what will happen before it happens and has basically preplanned all of existence. He already knew who was going to die at what time. Moreover, he punishes accoridngly [quoted this in the previous round]. Also, if you think Christians get a "nice and easy" death, which I hope I get, if you read Revelation we get treated pretty badly before we die because of how evil the world becomes. c) I already talked about how the Bible quote on "Wisdom" is not even from the Bible, it's from that website as I cited before. However, pertaining to the rest of this question, I already answered it earlier in "b". I will now answer "a" which was another question that I didn't have enough characters to answer. It was at the end of my opponent's first argument. a) I would highly doubt it, especially with all the Bible quotes telling us not to live in the flesh. So I'm going to say no on this one. Just read John 4:24, it says GOD is spirit, not flesh. Now these are answers to the newer questions you have posted. 1) This is with the original Question #1, I will put them here now so it is easier to read. For Deuteronomy 8:2 and 13:3, that is very simple. Without me even having to have a bunch of Bible quotes, let me put it this way. You are sitting in front of GOD, and he says "You are going to hell." and you ask "Why." In the Bible GOD judges you based on what you have done, if you have never done anything, then you can't be judged for it, even if GOD knows you're going to do it. Basically, it's like me grounding my child for swearing because I know he swears when he plays videogames, but he has yet to play videogames today. Or like punishing people for crimes before they commit them [remember that movie?]. So yea, I just kept it simple. We can get more in-depth if you really need it. As for the 2 Chronicles 32:31, I answered that with the above statement. If you want it more in-depth, just ask it in the next round. 2) I will gladly talk about this, but will briefly cover it. This will take a lot of explanation and evidence. The symbolism you can find in other religions relate to the symbols used for demons in the Bible. For example, just a sample [because this will take too much characters to go in-depth], if you look at this: http://ancientmedicine01.files.wordpress.com...... the symbol for "Heart" which is on the Jewish flag, is the symbol of moloch and remphan. Can I prove this? Read these Bible quotes first: Acts 5:25-27, Acts 7:42-43. Now to quote Acts 7:43 "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.". So what is the star of remphan? Click on this : http://www.bing.com...... or just look up "star of remphan" in any image search and the same symbol on the Jewish flag, that is in hinduism, is there. So who is remphan? well click on this: http://en.wikipedia.org...... acording to this remphan is an egyptian idol. There, I just showed you a connection right there. It's a brief example, but just something to get you thinking. You should do research on babylon, which would make this a lot easier for me to prove. [and take a lot less characters]. 3) I answered this one previously. Also, I did not dodge the question, as I stated I ran out of characters. If you don't believe me, just count them all or copy and paste my argument into your box when you debate, and look at the characters remaining. As for the starving children, I already pointed to Romans 8:29-30. GOD knows what you will do regardless of the situation. It may be hard to comprehend, but in the future because of their situation they may find GOD, or regardless of what GOD does they may never find him. Pertaining to them starving however, that is mainly humans' fault. GOD does give us free will, and humans have purposely starved other's for their own benefit of money and power. In addition, there are many countries with starving children, an example is Ethiopia, that have the Bible preeched to them. It's not as if the opportunity isn't there, but GOD does not rape us and force us to love him. As for Heaven and Hell, here is what I find funny. People think it is okay, if they are right [being atheism], that people can get sent to prison for life. If you know anything about prison, it is never ending torture both mentally and physically by other inmates. They think its fine for them to be sent to prison and not destroy the outside world. However, when it comes to Heaven and Hell, there is a big difference. Not really, when if you think your current life now is all that matters, prison is the equivalent to Hell. 4) Okay, I"ll wait till then. 5) First off, you misunderstand the definition of Mysogyny: 1.hatred of women: a hatred of women, as a sexually defined group Nothing that you have posted talks about women being hated. Also, the line right after that in Genesis 7:3 says "Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;" which is not in correlation to your point. In addition, what is marriage in the first place? Marriage is when a man owns a women and becomes his property. Thats what the definition and origination of it is. Does that make every married man a mysogynist? No, obviously it does not. [http://www.historyofmarriage.org......] - "...women were treated as mere "property"." The Bible clearly defines different roles for men and women, as stated in the previous argument. Also, I posted and showed how men are to treat women as themselves, or as how Christ loved the church. You know how much Jesus did for the church, right? I have disproven that it is mysgonistic, so please move on. Now I am out of characters. I will post the rest of my response for 6) onward in the comment section, and at the beginning of the next round for convenience. Please try to narrow the questions. I am constantly runnning out of characters.