Jereme K

Why don't we find fossils of giraffes as they are today? Why haven't we found fossils of chickens as they are today? If these animals have always existed, shouldn't we find their fossils?

Instead, we find their "cousins" or "relatives", which are intermediate forms.

Before you make the mistake of saying that the bible claims that you re not supposed to add or take away words of the bible, Revelations 22:18-19 is talking about that current book/scroll, not the whole bible, which wasn t even canonized until after 300 a.d.

Knowing something and having faith in something are two opposite things. You either have faith in something, or you know something. How can you have both?

John 14:7

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father s side, he has made him known.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

If you have a close relationship with God and you talk to each other, why do you need The Bible or a preacher? You can get the message straight from the messenger himself.

Do you have any scriptures to back up your arguments? If so, please provide them. Thanks.

Either evil doesn't exist, or there's a paradox that God wills evil, which is good, making it not evil to begin with.

Does God perform evil?

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things

Paradoxically, how can anything be evil, if everything God does is good, and everything that happens was willed by God?

Other religious groups such as Muslims and Hindus have had their own near-death experience. Does this prove that their god(s) exists?

The Protestant, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, or Assyrian Church of the East Christian Bible?

No, these are not translations, these are Christian Bibles. So, which one did the Holy Spirit inspire? Which one should you be reading and interpreting?

The Bible is supposed to be a very important and dire message for mankind from God, yet the message is so unclear, there are multiple theologies and thousands of denominations resulting from it.

Does God really want his children divided? Did the all-knowing God not know how to give his message clear enough to where no interpretation is needed?

Christians claim to have a close personal relationship with God, yet they disagree on how old the earth is. If you need to be baptized or not. If you should or should not speak in tongues. If you can or can't fall from grace. Whether Jesus is human, God, Michael the archangel, or Adam. If you are saved by faith alone or both faith and works.

Do they really have a close personal relationship with him? Are they really communicating with God?

Some may say that he talks/speaks but some don't listen, or that he gives signs but some don't see or notice them. This just makes God a failure.

He knows they won't listen or see something yet tries anyway? Does this mean his attempt failed? Does this mean he didn't try hard enough or that he doesn't know how to tell them something they will listen to or send them something they will see? And why would he even say or send something if he knows they wouldn't hear it or see it to begin with?

Even though the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, she was a sinner. His father may have been holy but his mother was not.

How would this have kept him from being born with a sinful nature?

Since you are saved by faith (Romans 3:28, 5:1, Galatians 2:16, Galatians 3:24), where does it come in if God forces salvation on you?

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.

God's grace saves you because you have faith. How is this true if you can't desire good before God calls you to salvation? You must have faith first before God's grace.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death...

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin...

James 1:15

...when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

In order for Christ to die, he would have needed to have sinned. It is said that he did not sin but rather took on the sins of the world. If this is the case, he still died as a sinner whether he did it himself or not. According to the Bible, sin brings death. If Christ died as a sinner (even though it wasn't his own sin), how could he have went to Heaven? Did Jesus forgiv himself? Can God still forgive a sinner after death?

* Matthew 18:19 (ESV)

Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven

* 1 John 3:22 (ESV)

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

* Mark 11:24 (ESV)

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

* 1 John 5:14-15 (ESV)

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

* John 15:7 (ESV)

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

1 John 5:18

* "We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not" (KJV)

* "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin" (NIV)

* We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning (NLT)

* "We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning" (ESV)

* We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin (YLT)

So what does it mean to be "born of God"? The first verse in this chapter of 1 John explains "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him." (ESV)

Thus, if you believe that Jesus is the Christ and love the Father, you are born of God; and those who are born of God, according to the scripture, does not sin. Are you born of God? Do you sin? Are you really born of God?