Sunday, February 9, 2020

Questions on Christ



1
Why God brings Death?

God is not the bringer of death, death is brought by Devil, and life by Jesus

John 10:10 New International Version
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
2
Why doesn't Jesus kill the Devil? It will cease all the bad in the world.

Devil has planted the seed of evil in man, judgement on Devil also will bring Judgement upon man, the seed of evil continue to grow, but yes it will happen but mankind is not ready for it, it needs completion/fulfilment of sin for God to bring Judgement upon the world, there is still some good left in the world so God is graceful.

Matthew 13 New International Version (NIV)

The Parable of the Weeds
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
3
Claim-  "I am going to create Man and Woman with original sin, Then, I am going to impregnate a woman with myself as her child, so that I can be born.
Once alive, ill kill myself as a sacrifice to myself to save you from the sin I originally condemned  you to."

Answer:
Hundreds of claims like this tries clever use of words to spread wrong doctrine, to find the truth we need to break it down.

“I am going to create man and woman with original sin” - False claim, Man & Woman were not created with Sin, they remained sinless until they disobeyed

“I am going to impregnate a woman” - False claim, the word impregnate has a wrong meaning that someone physically had sex, but its not the case, this can be in other mythology like Greek, Roman, Hindu where Gods are born out of a sexual relation, it’s not the case here.

“I’ll kill "myself" – False claim, the sentence tried to paint as if Jesus killed himself but Jesus was killed as prophesied earlier, refer my blog on few of the ones, there are about 200+ fulfilled in the life of Jesus

https://wayoftheredeemer.blogspot.com/2015/06/isaih-prophecies-suffering-of-christ.html

4
Why God condemns people

God didn’t condemn anyone, man brought upon it himself, God is the eternal and unbiased Judge he has to go by what is just, holy and righteous.

If a parent asks his 18-year-old son not to play with fire, and he ends up burning himself, the son shouldn't complain that the parent kept combustible material in house, he has to only blame himself. The thing is its Satan who coerces you to sin and he is the one who will accuse you to be judged.

Revelation 12:9-11 King James Version (KJV)

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
5
Why didn’t God just undo what happened in the Garden of Eden?

Undoing/Saving/Redemption of the world of the is what is happening for all these time, God is trying to save man and he sacrificed himself to get it done. But man in him pride rejects God what he can get free and runs after sin, vanity, idiocity and false doctrines of this world. Things can be destroyed easily but building it back takes a long time.

God will tell you to give up pride, he will not delete it for you but will surely help you if you ask him, he didn't create robots
6
Isnt Devil needed for God to operate, its just part of the same problem isnt it?

God doesn’t need devil, he loves us that he is gracefully waiting for us to change, would you agree if a human judge lets go a murder walk free, you wouldn’t but if he truly repents and pays the price in jail, then yes he has paid his dues to walk free if he changes his life, similar justice applies here as well

Though this is not clearly stated in Bible, this what Biblical scholars say God created Angels and Man, Angels were super powerful beings, but God created a fragile being called man and said he puts all of creation under his authority, even the Angels

Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

At this point the good angel Lucifer, who was supreme among the angels felt that he cannot submit to man and he deceives man into disobeying God so that he will rule over mankind and not the other way around. God then casts Lucifer out of heaven and Adam/Eve out of Garden of Eden.

The difference on judgement for Lucifer(Satan) and mankind is different, Lucifer is damned for hell for he knew the consequence of making man sin against God but man was deceived so God has worked out a plan to save him from eternal condemnation and he has taken the responsibility and paid the ultimate price of painful death and sacrifice on cross to save mankind so that whoever believes in him will be saved.
7
Why did God create man in the first place?

Let’s assume that God gives you an option , like you can have a child of freewill or a robotic child that will do exactly what you want it to do that doesn't have free will, I am sure you will choose the former right? may be some people would like robots but God is love and he prefers Children whom he can love and expects his Children to love him back
8
Well isnt Bible just a collection of myths?


if you go by science then concept of God itself is a myth but coming to the context of religious text, there is a huge difference between Bible and rest

1. The first few chapters of Bible describing creation of world is considered mythical by non-believers but after about 5th chapter onwards every single place, country, race mentioned has geographical accuracy, same cannot be said about others

2. Anything after the period of David has strong archaeological backing as well, with both names of Kings of both Israel and its warring nations Persia/Babylon(Iraq), Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Greek, Roman and even smaller towns are precisely mentioned with dates that match with recorded history
9
Isnt All regions same, all paths lead to God?

Bible is the only book that is consistent, coherent, continuous and doesn't conflict with itself. It makes a lot of logical sense when i scrutinize it myself, i did it before believing it. You tried to scrutinize Bible I was able to give logical answers except the miracles, because they cant be proved now unless a miracle happens now. But try to scrutinize any religion like Hinduism, I can ask tough question that nobody will have answers, like on Birth of Ganesha, Muruga, Ayappa or crazy boons that gods give to Asuras, but ill only get a knife to my throat :')

Coming to Religion of Peace, there is a famous joke, which goes, like question it and you will have a piece of you over here and a piece of you over there :) but coming to questions there is strong difference on how God handles prophets in Bible and how Allah handles Mohammad. God of the Bible is 10 times harder on his prophets than on people but it was other way around in Koran, Moses was denied entry into Israel because of a disobedient act of hitting a stone for which he died a lonely death in desert. Famous king David after he committed adultery even though he repented, God took his son and put a sword behind his back for three years and he had to run from cave to cave in hiding till his punishment ended But Mohammad seems be have relaxed rule than what is given to others, like while rest of people can marry 4, but he can marry more or even without a ceremony that too with his adopted sons wife. Others shouldn;t torture but he can torture others for money, i could go on and on like this but thing it doesn't stand up to even human standards of justice let alone Godlines and most importantly Heaven of Bible has no virgins its only holiness of God but heaven of Koran has 70 virgins for a Jihadi.

Coming back to the Bible, the prophesies of end times are getting fulfilled ,no country destroyed ever has before has been reinstated but its just a repetition of Biblical history right from the beginning, every time Israel disobeys God, God would send them into slavery, Israel has been so far taken as slaves multiple times by Persia(Iraq), Syria/Assyria, Palestine. God would send his prophets to preach and when they repent and turn back, God would reinstate them back in Israel, this has been going on throughout history but Israel never truly changed and when Jesus himself came they made the ultimate sin of Crucifying the Lord and Jesus himself prophesied that not a stone will be left on Jerusalem post that, and in less than 100 years Romans destroy Jerusalem to the ground and Jews scatter all over the world until after WW2 where in end time prophecy of rebirth of Israel gets fulfilled, its not that they changed to goodness but the devil will be revealed as Anti-Christ and fulfilment of sin that the entire world will follow him and God will bring Judgement upon this world.
10
My religion has better literature and the hymns are more divine than Bible

if God should be chosen based on literary works then Homer should be a supreme God :) God of the Bible has the habit of taking the most suppressed to do great things, Moses was born a slave, David was not considered worthy by his own father, and Jesus took many of his disciples from fishermen

1 Corinthians 1: 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”