Featured Controversial Questions

I'm not a mod of course, but imo you should be free to express your questions. The problem, I would think, would come if you were claiming your objections to be absolute fact in an attempt to take down Christianity. But it doesn't seem like that's your goal, you're here to get answers, correct?

 

I think that it is forbidden to speak against dispensationalism on pain of being left behind, huh?

 

Is it a matter of ethics? Go with your good conscience. God is Love. And your good conscience is his direct voice and line to you.

Like if some divine being demanded me to sacrifice anyone as in the means of killing them, he's going to get NO from me.

But consider for a moment you are practically friends with God. Death ain't actual a thing because you live on the thread of God anyways. So Abraham knew God can bring a person back to life.

Hebrews 11

17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 18it was he to whom it was said, “IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED.” 19He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.

 

If God would give His own son to be sacrificed in a cruel death, it should be strange that He would ask Abraham to sacrifice his son. God’s act was out a love for humanity; Abraham’s act was out of a love of God.

 

I think that is part of the whole story contrasting how the Pagans of the time did do child sacrifices. Even when they left Abraham said:

Genesis 22
8Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

In a sense it portrays Jesus as the Ram that takes our place in Issac. We see God taking responsibility.


You have to understand OT anthropomorphically attribute things to God. Even Jews today get troubled by what God "does".

There is tons worst things. Like God ordering killing of every living being, Men, Women, Children, cattle, family dog.
God killing a guy for not getting his brother in law's wife pregnant.
Guys burning their daughter in sacrifice to God for winning wars.
God sicking bears on children to tear them to pieces.

Some might like to say God is privileged to do evil in the guise of "Justice".

No God is Good, actually good, and can be demonstrated to be good.

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

 

Anthropomorphism. The writers will attribute to God human-like actions and communications. Things we might read literal may be figures of speech and not to be taken literal. Some stories figurative. Some hyperbole.

Noah's ark, Your looking at God wiping out everyone on earth except for 8 people and roughly 17 million animals in one boat.

The idea of just seeing 100,000 different animals in one spot would probably blow my mind.

Kill count wise if flooding the earth means the entire earth for 40 days.

In the story mentions taking 7 pairs of clean of all the clean animals only one pair of unclean. But whats clean or not doesn't get identified until later with Moses. And Noah is 600 years old.

I think the emphasis is God is giving us a way out from all the evil and the destruction evil brings on itself.


Your questioning all this stuff is not wrong and taught in scripture. Your commanded to examine it.

1 Thessalonians 5

21But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22abstain from every form of evil.

 

Where do you get your number for the animals on the Ark?

 

I would love to hear your questions on Job. I identify with Job so much in my own life, which has been hard and cruel, so it remains one of my favorite historical narratives.

 

Well some traditional Christians may not like this, but it was the LORD God by way of His preincarnate Son through whom all things created were created. This requires temporal being which only the Son of God can provied. He being both God with the Father and being someone other than God too, being the Son of God. That is why He being the LORD God could truthfully say to Abraham, "Now I know," Genesis 22:12. See Mark 13:32 and and what Jesus explained, Acts of the Apostles 1:7. God is fully omniscient, but as the Son purposely limited in His omnscience regarding some yet future things, otherwise being fully omniscient of everything that is created, Hebrews 1:3, John 1:9-10.

 

xD i double the species of animals googled. Not to be taken seriously.

 

Thank you for picking it up, I was hoping for folks to research a defense of God themselves.

I don't think things like the 2 bears ain't going to catch 42 people, tearing, cutting through, could be splitting formations allowing an escape. Elisha is generally a kind and loving guy. Tearing even mauling does not equal killing.

The point I was trying to make is indeed we can get the wrong impression. Lets vilify our interpretation before we vilify God.