Frankly, Just What Good is Christianity Anyway?
Apart from the hobby / fellowship nature of Christianity and apart from the apologetic mental gymnastics believers use to keep this ancient concept of reality spinning on the modern stick of logic; just what does Christianity offer over and above that the basic secular world does not give?
The stimulus for this post was a church bulletin I saw announcing “Flu Shots” and listed the times Christians could receive their secular protection from this virus. But why would God fearing, Jesus believing, Bible claiming church members need the same secular protection just as the non-religious / anti -religious secular world would?
I’m an atheist who, as a former Christian, overtly has renounced both God and the Bible. I work with sincere Christians who received free flu shots given at work while I refused it. Over the course of last winter, a number of these Christians became sick with the flu (both those who got the shot and those who did not) and were out of work for a week while this non-believing secular atheist never even got a cold that year.
Paul states in 1 Corinthians 11:30 (For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.) as a supernatural reason why many believers at Corinth were sick and even died was that it was a curse from God for misusing the Lord’s Supper. (This Biblical “Fact” implicitly states that God was active in either attacking his own faithful or, as in the case of Job, used Satan to do his dirty work.)
In short we are told that God actively engages the health of his “children” (remember, he is the Dad…”Our Father who art in Heaven…”) as proof he exists even to the point of sickness and death.
So just what good is Christianity other than a mental apologetic argument used to peddle magical promises to uninformed people understood as “Lost" or "Unsaved” to the believers.
Preachers (ordained and endorsed by an ecclesiastical authorities and lead by the Holy Spirit ) and Christians are arrested for sex crimes, thefts, murders, frauds and just about any and everything the worst anti-Christian could be arrested for even though most minsters make a very good living announcing (preaching) the “absolute truths” of God.
In conclusion, Christians are given a Great Commission by Jesus to tell both the wrong religion and the non-religious world that they are indeed wrong and must submit to the promises of God (as stated in the Bible). If one rejects the Gospel of Jesus, then God will also attack the non-Christian (just as he attacked or allowed the Christian to be attacked in Corinth) at the Great White Throne Judgment; this despite the fact that Biblical promises for Christians for the here and now are failures (just as I’ve pointed out above) .
Now Christians, it’s time to pull the only strings you have to make God appear logical and loving…use your apologetic mental gymnastics and to tell us at DC just why the reality we live with everyday is not the truth and that that mountain Jesus tells us can really be moved and cast into the sea can be done if only we have the oh-so-pure Christian faith (but the size of a mustard seed).
And finally, if the Bible has promises which, in order to keep them true, must be understood as allegories, exactly what is the difference between an allegory and a flat out lie? Or, to put it another way, if God and the Bible are caught with their proverbial pants down, can you apologetic defenders now convince us at DC that you and your God of absolute truth have the gift of deception…that the Bible REALLY does not say what it means?
The stimulus for this post was a church bulletin I saw announcing “Flu Shots” and listed the times Christians could receive their secular protection from this virus. But why would God fearing, Jesus believing, Bible claiming church members need the same secular protection just as the non-religious / anti -religious secular world would?
I’m an atheist who, as a former Christian, overtly has renounced both God and the Bible. I work with sincere Christians who received free flu shots given at work while I refused it. Over the course of last winter, a number of these Christians became sick with the flu (both those who got the shot and those who did not) and were out of work for a week while this non-believing secular atheist never even got a cold that year.
Paul states in 1 Corinthians 11:30 (For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.) as a supernatural reason why many believers at Corinth were sick and even died was that it was a curse from God for misusing the Lord’s Supper. (This Biblical “Fact” implicitly states that God was active in either attacking his own faithful or, as in the case of Job, used Satan to do his dirty work.)
In short we are told that God actively engages the health of his “children” (remember, he is the Dad…”Our Father who art in Heaven…”) as proof he exists even to the point of sickness and death.
So just what good is Christianity other than a mental apologetic argument used to peddle magical promises to uninformed people understood as “Lost" or "Unsaved” to the believers.
Preachers (ordained and endorsed by an ecclesiastical authorities and lead by the Holy Spirit ) and Christians are arrested for sex crimes, thefts, murders, frauds and just about any and everything the worst anti-Christian could be arrested for even though most minsters make a very good living announcing (preaching) the “absolute truths” of God.
In conclusion, Christians are given a Great Commission by Jesus to tell both the wrong religion and the non-religious world that they are indeed wrong and must submit to the promises of God (as stated in the Bible). If one rejects the Gospel of Jesus, then God will also attack the non-Christian (just as he attacked or allowed the Christian to be attacked in Corinth) at the Great White Throne Judgment; this despite the fact that Biblical promises for Christians for the here and now are failures (just as I’ve pointed out above) .
Now Christians, it’s time to pull the only strings you have to make God appear logical and loving…use your apologetic mental gymnastics and to tell us at DC just why the reality we live with everyday is not the truth and that that mountain Jesus tells us can really be moved and cast into the sea can be done if only we have the oh-so-pure Christian faith (but the size of a mustard seed).
And finally, if the Bible has promises which, in order to keep them true, must be understood as allegories, exactly what is the difference between an allegory and a flat out lie? Or, to put it another way, if God and the Bible are caught with their proverbial pants down, can you apologetic defenders now convince us at DC that you and your God of absolute truth have the gift of deception…that the Bible REALLY does not say what it means?