Man O' God

We know that Jesus' followers were so convinced of His resurrection that they went out loudly proclaiming Him as the Messiah even though they knew it meant almost certain death. Reasonably, you would have to conclude that they were most likely unwilling to die simply to perpetuate a hoax, so what really happened? Even disciples who had been skeptical of His message before His death suddenly became the staunchest of supporters.

If you're going to make the absurd claim that there's no evidence that Jesus ever existed, then you might as well know now that there is more ancient manuscript evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ than there is for Alexander the Great. No serious scholar supports the idea that Jesus never lived, regardless of who they believe Jesus actually was.

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There isn't anything about Mayan language, art, architecture, technology, or religion that makes them look in the least bit Jewish to me...so this seems pretty obviously untrue. They can't seriously believe it, can they?

Let me get this straight, humans don't have free will? If this is true and our actions are the simple outcome of chemical reactions and unalterable facts of physics, then what is the point of holding someone accountable for crime? In fact, there must ultimately be no such thing as crime!

Based on your own logic, I pose this question: Why do so many of you ask "Why does God allow evil in the world?" when it is quite clear that quite a few of you don't believe in evil? Without free will there can be no evil or good, just preordained outcomes to chemical reactions in our brains or apparently random occurrences in the environment which in fact are simply following the laws of physics and are therefore unavoidable.

I have heard the claim that religion is behind 90% of all wars many times, and yet an objective look at the reasons for most military actions clearly points to non-religious motives.

Please list wars fought over religion and your reasoning for each. Thanks.

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The Book of Mormon describes two distinct Semitic migrations to the Americas. Surely if this were true some DNA evidence would be left behind. Thanks for your help!

Kudzu grows wild all over the Southern U.S., and has proven very difficult to get rid of. Why don't we capitalize on this and try to make ethanol out of it? It's not like the stuff isn't renewable enough!

They have a stack of differently colored nanos being lifted off one at a time, but the same song is playing on each one. Who is she?

I have a 1997 Chevy Silverado, and the wipers seem to have a mind of their own. Sometimes they do what the switch is telling them, other times they will speed up, slow down, or stop themselves wherever they happen to be at the moment. Any thoughts?

If the Ark of the Covenant is in Axom, Ethiopia as some believe, then what (if any) role does it play in the present and/or future?

Seriously, people have recorded a lot of various evidence for God's existence on Y! Answers, but it never makes a dent. The same atheists are still here denying that any evidence exists. Do you not read the answers at all?

I wonder, over the course of history, if more Christians have been killed for their beliefs or have more people been killed by Christians for not believing?

Which do you think it is? Cite references if possible!

In the 1860's, there was a common belief that some more "basic" animals could simply form out different substances. Maggots could form in rotting meat, worms formed from dirt, certain toads could form in mud. The belief was called "Spontaneous Generation" and was used to explain a lot of things science didn't understand yet.

Darwin applied this same silly superstitious belief to answering one of the most important questions ever asked...How did life begin on Earth? He said that in a pool of some unknown "primordial soup" the correct conditions existed for the spontaneous formation of life.

Here's the best part....you believe it! Why???

They didn't have special effects or mass media back then, so I would think the people would be harder to fool back then. You didn't see a stranger being "healed" on tv...it was the neighbor you'd lived next door to your whole life. And yet atheists won't believe any of these ancient accounts, supposedly because these ancient people were too stupid to be credible witnesses.