Just a few questions

[holley]

Hi all, I am new and I'm glad to be a part of this community.

I just had a few questions that my youth group couldn't help me with. I have an atheist friend that I grew up with. He is a smart guy, but I just don't think he believes anything in the bible. He has asked me a few questions that I, or anybody at my church, just can't logically answer. Also, I am just out of high school and biology was one of my favorite classes. But my mom and step dad always reminded me that it's not true, that we did not come from monkeys and that it's just a theory. I never told them but they would teach a lot about Evolution and after a while a lot of it started to make sense. My dad (not my step dad) is also an atheist. He is also very smart, he got his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and is a theoretical physicist. He encourages me to get involved with science and learning how the Universe works. But I don't live with him because my mom has full custody of my two brothers and I. But I still like to seem him every so often.

I really like science and evolution has shown me a different way of how things were created, but I am worried that god might not forgive me for my thoughts and/or trying to learn more about science.

So I guess I had a few questions:

• Why do good people die?
• Why does God allow suffering?
• Can the Bible explain evolution?
• Can Evolution and God coexist?
• If God can create the Universe, why can't he fix amputated/severed appendages in animals?

I'm sorry for these questions, but any insight would be greatly appreciated. I also have many more questions, but I won't burden them with you now.

[Marcus Cairns]

Re: Just a few questions

Why do good people die?

Good people don't die they rather go to heaven to live eternally with Jesus!

Why does God allow suffering?

He doesn't only the devil do This is scripturally inaccurate. Unsaved Trash would do well do learn omre about the Bible before presuming to answer these theological questions before our pastors do.

Can the Bible explain evolution?

Evolution doesn't exist

Can Evolution and God coexist?

Like I said Evolution doesn't exist.

If God can create the Universe, why can't he fix amputated/severed appendages in animals?

Because Jesus works in a mysterious ways See above.

Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

[Levi Jones]

Re: Just a few questions

So I guess I had a few questions:

• Why do good people die?

So they can go to Heaven.

• Why does God allow suffering?

To punish people for their wickedness.

• Can the Bible explain evolution?

No, therefore evolution is false.

• Can Evolution and God coexist?

Absolutely not. God is right evolution is wrong.

• If God can create the Universe, why can't he fix amputated/severed appendages in animals?

He can. He simply chooses not to.

[Talitha]

Re: Just a few questions

I may as well close this Thread right now.
All questions answered beyond any doubt

[James Hutchins]

Re: Just a few questions

Hi all, I am new and I'm glad to be a part of this community.

I just had a few questions that my youth group couldn't help me with. I have an atheist friend that I grew up with. He is a smart guy, but I just don't think he believes anything in the bible. He has asked me a few questions that I, or anybody at my church, just can't logically answer. Also, I am just out of high school and biology was one of my favorite classes. But my mom and step dad always reminded me that it's not true, that we did not come from monkeys and that it's just a theory. I never told them but they would teach a lot about Evolution and after a while a lot of it started to make sense. My dad (not my step dad) is also an atheist. He is also very smart, he got his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and is a theoretical physicist. He encourages me to get involved with science and learning how the Universe works. But I don't live with him because my mom has full custody of my two brothers and I. But I still like to seem him every so often.

I really like science and evolution has shown me a different way of how things were created, but I am worried that god might not forgive me for my thoughts and/or trying to learn more about science.

So I guess I had a few questions:

• Why do good people die?
• Why does God allow suffering?
• Can the Bible explain evolution?
• Can Evolution and God coexist?
• If God can create the Universe, why can't he fix amputated/severed appendages in animals?

I'm sorry for these questions, but any insight would be greatly appreciated. I also have many more questions, but I won't burden them with you now.

Hi Holley, how old are you, 14? The world is a mysterious place and all sorts of things happen, many of which you do not need to know about.

But if you have a thirst for knowledge, I suggest you read a Good Book, one with fantastic stories. One with valuable lessons. One with near magical powers, This book is the KJV Bible.
God does everything for a reason. He kills mommies and daddies, he makes uncles act funny when they are alone in a room with you, He even burns down Churches, can you imagine that? All for a good reason. Some times, we know what the reasons are, like inappropriate touching, or hitting a sibling on the head with a hammer, perhaps playing with a can of accelerant and matches behind a Church. But even though you or someone else did these things, it was all at Gods direction. So when mommy gets drunk and crashes the car and you loose your legs, it is Gods way of reminding you what a bad mommie you have. If he fixed your legs, you'd forget all about your bad mommie once your daddy marries the lady from next door.

[Dillon]

Re: Just a few questions

I'm sorry for these questions, but any insight would be greatly appreciated. I also have many more questions, but I won't burden them with you now.

Hello, friend, and welcome to the forum. While I see that your questions have been answered, they are missing an important piece to their answers which involves reading between the lines. The reason for many of your questions (a common thread almost) is really questioning why God is not omni-benevolent. This has been answered before, so I won't repeat what has already been said, but this is something to consider when responding to your friend.

[holley]

Re: Just a few questions

Good people don't die they rather go to heaven to live eternally with Jesus!

He doesn't only the devil do This is scripturally inaccurate. Unsaved Trash would do well do learn omre about the Bible before presuming to answer these theological questions before our pastors do.

Evolution doesn't exist

Like I said Evolution doesn't exist.

Because Jesus works in a mysterious ways See above.

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So they can go to Heaven.
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To punish people for their wickedness.
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No, therefore evolution is false.
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Absolutely not. God is right evolution is wrong.
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He can. He simply chooses not to.

Hi Holley, how old are you, 14? The world is a mysterious place and all sorts of things happen, many of which you do not need to know about.

But if you have a thirst for knowledge, I suggest you read a Good Book, one with fantastic stories. One with valuable lessons. One with near magical powers, This book is the KJV Bible.
God does everything for a reason. He kills mommies and daddies, he makes uncles act funny when they are alone in a room with you, He even burns down Churches, can you imagine that? All for a good reason. Some times, we know what the reasons are, like inappropriate touching, or hitting a sibling on the head with a hammer, perhaps playing with a can of accelerant and matches behind a Church. But even though you or someone else did these things, it was all at Gods direction. So when mommy gets drunk and crashes the car and you loose your legs, it is Gods way of reminding you what a bad mommie you have. If he fixed your legs, you'd forget all about your bad mommie once your daddy marries the lady from next door.

Hello, friend, and welcome to the forum. While I see that your questions have been answered, they are missing an important piece to their answers which involves reading between the lines. The reason for many of your questions (a common thread almost) is really questioning why God is not omni-benevolent. This has been answered before, so I won't repeat what has already been said, but this is something to consider when responding to your friend.

I'm not 14, I'm 16.

This is pretty much the same response I get from my pastor and my youth group.

I know your answers come from the bible because we're taught not to ask questions, but can anybody give me a logical scientific explanation without citing the bible?

Would it be terribly wrong of me to ask for evidence?

[Dillon]

Re: Just a few questions

I know your answers come from the bible because we're taught not to ask questions, but can anybody give me a logical scientific explanation without citing the bible?

Would it be terribly wrong of me to ask for evidence?

What exactly is it that you want evidence of? Let us review your questions:

• Why do good people die?
• Why does God allow suffering?
• Can the Bible explain evolution?
• Can Evolution and God coexist?
• If God can create the Universe, why can't he fix amputated/severed appendages in animals?

What possible "evidence" that doesn't come from the Bible could answer any of these questions that are all directly about God and his doings. And why would you, as a Christian, want these philosophical and biblical questions answered without citing the Bible?

Since the Bible is the only source of knowledge we have about God, it is a fallacy to expect answers about Him elsewhere.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Just a few questions

I'm not 14, I'm 16.

This is pretty much the same response I get from my pastor and my youth group.

I know your answers come from the bible because we're taught not to ask questions, but can anybody give me a logical scientific explanation without citing the bible?

Would it be terribly wrong of me to ask for evidence?

Sorry for the mistake Holley. Tell me Holley, are you an honest girl? Do you lie?

Science, as everyone knows, is made almost entirely from 'theories'. A theory is nothing more than a guess and often made by a fast talker trying to bamboozle you with flash, glitz and chicanery. Facts are reality. So unless you want me to fib, I cannot use 'science'.

(No passages from the Bible here, OK?)
However, if God wants you sick/deformed/a family member or other significant person harmed, He will do it. If He feels they deserve to be healed, He will do that too. But God does not inflict serious injury on a whim. He saves cold and scratches, broken arms for that. It he rips off your legs and tears out your colon in a combine accident, you better believe He did it for a darned good reason. He would not bother going to that extreme only to heal you a month later. Pointless, don't you agree? Instead, he might shatter your knee and put you in the ward NEXT to the guy who had his legs ripped off and his colon in a bucket by his bed, just to show you what He COULD of done to you.
True story, when I was a child of 15, I lived a sinful life. God gave me appendicitis. I was bedded next to a man that had been attacked by a bear. His face was gone. For five days, I had to look at that horror. God taught me a valuable lesson that week.