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  Inquisitive Atheists - Is the Christian God Logical?
The Christian god is the god that I am presented with most often and is the god most US citizens hold to be the one true god.
God knew we would fail; knew that He would have to drown all but a few of the entire species at some point; knew that He would send a majority of us to Hell in the end.
God is responsible for placing the Tree of Knowledge in the garden and for allowing the serpent the opportunity to tempt the gullible humans who knew of no good or evil, knew of no lies and liars.
www.geocities.com /inquisitive79/godlogic.html   (1924 words)

  
  Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christians of this stripe maintain that a centralizing impulse in the church, present from the early days of the church through the rise of Constantine, represented a departure from true Christianity.
Christian spirituality blossomed in the Roman Empire between A.D. 100 and 300 in spite of official efforts to suppress it.
New Christian denominations and other organizations are usually the result of these self interperated renewal movements that seek to bring back some aspect of the Christian faith but lack in the fullness through misguidance of freethought.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian   (1349 words)

  
 Why the Christian God is Impossible
Christians consider the existence of their God to be an obvious truth that no sane man could deny.
God gives humans the opportunity to accept forgiveness for their sin, and all who do will be rewarded with eternal bliss in heaven, but while they are on earth, they must suffer for his sake.
The all-powerful God could have, by a mere act of will, eliminated all of the problems we humans must endure, but instead, in his infinite wisdom, he has opted to offer this indecipherable amalgam of books which is the Bible as a means for avoiding the hell which he has prepared for us.
www.positiveatheism.org /writ/imposs.htm   (2155 words)

  
 Rejection of Pascal's Wager: God and Christian Theology
God the Father is the source of all that is (Pantokrator) and also the father of Jesus Christ.
The belief in the existence of God is, of course, fundamental to all Christians.
The second is the argument on the impossibility of the concept of God based on the argument that the attributes bequested upon God by Christian theologians are logically contradictory.
www.geocities.com /paulntobin/god.html   (1824 words)

  
 Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami: Where was God?
Kettle asks the question, "What God sanctions an earthquake?" He seems baffled to find an answer based upon a religious worldview, in which a God of love is said to preside over the universe.
God's purpose for the creation of the earth was to provide a place for human beings to live.
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
www.godandscience.org /apologetics/tsunami.html   (1180 words)

  
 The Skeptical Christian: God-Of-The-Gaps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
God is mysterious and is not able to be tested or measured scientifically.
Since God can be defined as possessing certain characteristics, it is easy to show that God is the best explanation if the characteristics of God are necessary in the solution to the question (for example, this seems to be the case in the origin of the universe, see HERE).
Since God is not considered an answer to anything, we are therefore forced to limit that explanation from the pool of possibility.
www.skepticalchristian.com /godofthegaps.html   (1675 words)

  
 Why the Christian God is Impossible - ExChristian.Net - Articles
Christians consider the existence of their God to be an obvious truth.
God's sentencing of the imperfect humans to an eternity in hell for a mere mortal lifetime of sin is infinitely injust.
The all-powerful God could have, by a mere act of will, eliminated all of the problems we humans must endure, but instead, in his infinite wisdom, he has opted to offer this indecipherable amalgam of books called the Bible as a means for avoiding the hell which he has prepared for us.
exchristian.net /exchristian/2003/02/why-christian-god-is-impossible.php?show_id=90286350   (4011 words)

  
 Evil Disproves God?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
That is not to say that God has a lot of power, it is to say that the grid of natural and human power which *we* must contend with is not a restriction for God.
The Christian gospel does not primarily know God as one who is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, the Christian gospel primarily knows God as the one who is revealed in Jesus Christ.
In this sense, the Christian position is midway between an overly optimistic heroism which conceives the conquest of evil as a human possibility in the natural world and an overly pessimistic Stoic resignation which sees evil as something to be endured rather than conquered.
www.users.fast.net /~bekkenhuis/page10222.html   (2261 words)

  
 A Problem I Have With the Christian God - Christian Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Obviously the God is the basis of Good acts as the Bible states then we must select the first option, becuase the second would imply the existance of another Creator, a creator of absolute of Absolute Morals and Good acts which would contradict the single-Creator caluse of monotheism.
God is either an amoral computer and thus has no morals or is not truly "good" for he is imperfect and defines himself as good.
God is allowing us to choose, and it is hard since we are born sinful, but God gives people the power to overcome that if they seek such things.
www.christianforums.com /showthread.php?p=30897203   (3220 words)

  
 Full Armor of God - The Christian Arsenal
Christians today are taking the ideas and practices of our culture and forming their Christian beliefs around them.
When you walk in the righteousness of God, it is a weapon of defense against all those slanderous accusations, and outrageous strategies of the devil.
God has given us the authority to use His words because we are all ambassadors of Christ.
www.christianarsenal.com /FullArmour.htm   (1752 words)

  
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If the God of the Bible is truly God, then there is a dilemma; for God to be God, he has to be omnipotent, responsible for the creation of everything; this includes evil; if he did not create evil, then he was not wholly creative, and therefore cannot be God.
God sends ten plagues on Egypt because Pharaoh won't release the Hebrews, but he deliberately hardens Pharaoh's heart so he refuses to release the Hebrews in the first place, making these plagues necessary - God admits this is so he can perform 'his wonders' (Exodus 11:9), ie.
God says that if a man strikes 'his slave', male or female, and they do not die immediately, the man shall not be punished because 'the slave is his money (ie.
www.uib.no /zoo/brage/bible/2tcrgod.html   (887 words)

  
 Evolution and the Christian God
We must frankly return to the Christian view of direct Divine agency, the immanence of Divine power from end to end, the belief in a God in Whom not only we, but all things have their being, or we must banish him altogether.
God, Christians claim, became Incarnate to in order to share in the suffering needed for the universe to make itself, and in order to redeem that universe.
God doesn't care how anyone came to take those steps, or who that person is. The important thing, to God, seems to be that one of El's creatures is responding to El.
www.bluffton.edu /~bergerd/essays/evolution.html   (1649 words)

  
 Author John R. VanBuskirk
Christians and Muslims share the belief that Adam was the first man, that we are all children of Abraham, and that Moses was sent by God to rescue the Israelites.
Christians, on the other hand, joyfully accept the revelation that we are God's sons and daughters and that we are heirs by the Creator's design.
The God of the Christians wins without a doubt because there is no greater strength and determination than that of a father who is protecting his children.
www.medjugorjeusa.org /muslimchristiangod.htm   (3318 words)

  
 Free Bible study: "When you need help, ask God" at Christian Journey, Inc.
God has always wanted to commune with us from the beginning of time as He did with Adam in the Garden of Eden.
God is so good to us that He's always there to help us when we call on Him and He also sends help to us and puts things in motion before we even realize that we need help.
God is our Father and like any good Father, He is there to protect and shelter us and attend to our needs.
www.christianjourney.com /godsword/needhelp.html   (966 words)

  
 Christian Reconstruction
Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God which we have to hear and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
By examining a series of basic Christian beliefs we have seen that there is more than one kind of secular humanism to be reckoned with in our time.
Christian liberty means that we are free of the ideologies of the right or left, and even free enough to say a human "Yes" or "No" or "Yes and No" to the passions and proposals of one or another when faith and facts warrant it.
www.serve.com /thibodep/cr/cr.htm   (682 words)

  
 Godonline christian community music and lyrics
A fossilized tree stump "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
God online is a privately run and owned christian community to the glory of God through Jesus Christ our saviour
www.godonline.co.za   (614 words)

  
 The Hebrew/Christian God = The God Of Islam
Perhaps it is not common knowledge that the Christian God is the same God of Islam.
God told Hagar that there would always be enmity between the legacies of Isaac and Ishmael.
It is true though that the one true God of Heaven is the God of the Christian.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/june/article063.html   (707 words)

  
 Does Logic Presuppose the Existence of the Christian God?
To speak of the Christian foundations of deductive validity could mean that the Christian God created the deductively validity and without God's creative act there would be no deductive validity.
The argument that without the Christian God it would be a mystery of how logic applies to the world has been shown to be without merit.
I infer from this that for Bahnsen implication and presupposition was identical.
www.infidels.org /library/modern/michael_martin/logic.html   (2603 words)

  
 Christian Witnessing
Christian witnessing is merely sharing our heartfelt faith in Christ - what He's personally done to change our individual lives!
The heart of Christian witnessing might be best expressed through the words of a teenager on fire for the Lord.
God did not put us on this earth to do "stuff" and be "perfect," no, instead, we're here to make a choice, and learn to love our Creator and Father in heaven through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ.
www.allaboutgod.com /christian-witnessing.htm   (742 words)

  
 Christian Blog, Blog: is it difficult Reading the Word of God, ChristianBlog.Com, Christian myspace, Christian Blogs
Being a Christian, I reckon that we got to read the Bible, study the Words of God, live with it, meditate on the words, day and night.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Holy Spirit speak the truth of God to my heart, may I be sensetive to your instruction." God will more than honor a prayer like this.
www.christianblog.com /blog/smilingangel/is-it-difficult-reading-the-word-of-god   (937 words)

  
 A Nation Under God
Christians needed to take bold action to restore biblical principles and erase divisions between religion and civic life.
Christian Reconstruction claims it has a reconstituted covenant with God and the right to a new dominion in his name.
In this worldview, the mandate for Christians is not just to live right or to help their neighbors: They are called upon to take over or eliminate the institutions of secular government.
www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2005/12/a_nation_under_god.html   (2758 words)

  
 Christian Reflections of Scott Thile
Millard Erickson writes, "One's view of God might even be thought of as supplying the whole framework within which one's theology is constructed and life is lived" (Erickson 263).
She knows that God is the essence of my life, but she does not grasp that my view of God is completely different from hers in spite of my attempts to be clear.
In our view God, the Son, is Jesus Christ, the second person of the trinity, and we would further define Jesus Christ as he walked on earth as fully God, and fully man, or God incarnate.
campus.murraystate.edu /staff/scott.thile/Christian/God.html   (781 words)

  
 Seeking God - Christian Forums
Disbelief in, or denial of, the existence of a God.
That said, I deny the existence of a God or anything related to the imaginary supernatural world outside the mind that does not exist.
I know there are many people even on this forum who really tried, perhaps have been devout Christians for years, but who sooner or later found out that Christianity didn't work for them after all.
www.christianforums.com /t4680185-seeking-god.html   (1413 words)

  
 Comparison of the Greek God Apollo to the Christian God
The Christian God is often described as being very anthropomorphic, usually being described as a father and as a creator, which imply human characteristics.
God conceived a child with a mortal woman but that was not through sex but through placing His holiness in her womb.
Apollo is merely a lesser god in a hierarchy of the Olympian gods and not the sole power in the universe.
personal.monm.edu /twillefo/apollo.htm   (637 words)

  
 The Judeo-Christian God
The history of judeo-christian Europe is one that is measured by its never-ending wars and religious conflicts among the followers of this judeo-christian god.
I am saying judeo-christians do exactly what everyone else does but use their judeo-christian god as an excuse to be among the worst barbarians in the history of the world.
Today where the followers of this god have the most political power they are impose their anti-science, anti-art, anti-intellectual primitive attitudes upon everyone.
www.giwersworld.org /opinion/jcgod.phtml   (1079 words)

  
 GOD - All About GOD - a community of seekers, skeptics and believers
God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him.
Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible.
All About GOD and Focus On Your Child (a division of Focus On The Family) teamed together to create these helpful parenting resources.
www.allaboutgod.com   (886 words)

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