Faith Objections

Question 1

Science and belief opposed

Answer 1

Reasonable question. Last 100 years science advancement. Taught science, Bible declined.TAUGHT IN SCHOOL

Evolution, many Christians disagree.

Science/God, Christianity strengthens as the more science discovers, clearer universe not accidental but rationally ordered and elegant mathematics work at universe level down to smaller than atom. Principle argument there must be an author of this. Philosophers have agreed this for years. Cosmic accident.

Question 2

Faith is irrational

Answer 2

Oxford English dictionary def of faith is a belief based on evidence, testimony or authority. Faith must be rational, reasoned, based on good evidence like law court & witnesses. When you trust someone or something not every aspect of your trust is proven (doctor visit, we trust their authority. C has good evidence to support it. Not proof but enough evidence for a reasonable assumption. Follow the evidence (black holes, wind)

Question 3

Suffering

Answer 3

1 Not too be treated lightly

2 Bible shows God always rescues His people from suffering in the end (story of Israelites). illness takes time to mend when treated, we must have a long term view.

3 Look at the physical to understand the spiritual. God has given so much evidence! The fall introduced sin and we have to live with the consequences of sin in a sunbed filled world. (Liken to your child)

4 The fall introduced sin which brought about suffering. God set a rescue plan through Jesus who (Heb 12:2), He could have come off cross but chose to remain, die, rise and is in heaven having paved the way for us. Future grace, new bodies. In eternity this is nothing. Importance of salvation. Almost all I know come closer to God through suffering.

And at the center of history, he stakes the cross of his beloved Son. Jesus’s death is no accident. It is not even Plan B. It is the lynchpin around which all human history revolves, the central peg of reality itself. This brutal death of an innocent man—bearing a world’s weight of sin and guilt and suffering—is the focal point of the story. Indeed, it is the lens through which we visualize the narrative itself. But it is not the last word

Question 4

Christianity is great for you but not right for me.

Answer 4

Ask why? Round answer to: 5th century Protagoras “Things are to every man what they seem to him to be”, as in today relativity. Next century Pluto pointed out statement illogical, if statement true then it proves itself false because Prot is proving that everything is relative therefore so is the statement. If anyone says there is no such thing as fixed truth you can ask “Is that true?” It can’t be true for me that Jesus died on a cross to save us but false for you!

Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”

Question 5

Bible composed over 1000s of years by many authors not reliable.

Answer 5

Over that time, many authors in diverse historical settings, different languages have produced a remarkable, unified story. Not micro managed but brought together from diverse documents over time…..they blend together and……

According to author, David Pawson, “There are over 700 (735 to be exact) separate and distinct predictions in the Bible, some are mentioned only once and one over 300 times (the return of Jesus to planet earth). Of these, nearly 600 (596 to be exact, or 81 per cent) have already been fulfilled, quite literally. Some are happening now, before our very eyes, like the second return of the Jewish people to the land promised to them ‘for ever’ by God (see Genesis 13:15 and Isaiah 11:11).

Not one prediction that could have been fulfilled by now has failed. The chances against this are astronomical. To take one example: Ezekiel prophesied that the city of Tyre would be stripped down to bare rock and thrown into the sea, a fate that has befallen no other city, before or since. Centuries later, Alexander the Great did just that, to build a causeway out to the offshore island whence the population had fled in all available boats on his impending arrival. The statistical chance of this happening has been calculated as one in 1039! – The remaining 19 per cent are largely concerned with the end of the world as we know it, so it hardly surprising if they have not been fulfilled… yet.”

The other clues are historical evidence. David well documented. Jesus also and in many other documents and writings.