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I went to church last Sunday with my Partner, she is a Christian I am not. During the Vicars sermon he made the statement that Moses wrote Genesis, he later made the statement that Moses wrote the first five books of the old Testament. I was surprised that he was stating this as fact, and did...

My question is on changing acceptance of different behaviours, or changing moral interpretations, from the Bible to the modern world. I want to use the example of slavery, and how the church has completely changed its attitude to slavery compared to that in the Bible, and to compare this to how...

ibwaz having a chat with my partner this morning, she is a practicing Christian, and she wondered about forgiveness and judgement. As she’s now gone off to church and I’m shortly off to the pub then football I thought I’d ask if there was a consensus. If belief gets you into heaven but you...

I listened to the sermon at my partners church the other day and the subject of election was being debated. The speaker seemed to be saying that god "chooses" the people who will be believers and therefore saved BEFORE they are born as part of his master plan. Hence, no matter what is said to me...

As an Atheist one of the main reasons I cannot believe in God is the total absence of any evidence that he has any current involvement in the world. I see appalling wars in various parts of the world, with prayers in every church for peace, which never comes. Oppression of Christians in...

1. If god is all powerful, all seeing and all knowing how did Satan get to trick Eve without god knowing what he was doing? 2. If god is all powerful and everywhere at the same time, why doesn’t he sort Satan out? 3. Do you believe Satan exists, really? 4. Tell me more about how Satan is...

I go to church with my partner and they frequently pray for people who are unwell, asking god to make them better, this leads to a number of questions. 1. Why do people pray to god to make a person better? Will god do so in Christian beliefs. 2. If yes, why did god make them unwell in the...

Here is an extract from the dreaded Wikipedia on Islam and Christ: "In Islam, ʿĪsā ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم‎, lit. 'Jesus, son of Mary'), or Jesus, is understood to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God (Allah) and al-Masih, the Arabic term for Messiah (Christ), sent to guide...

I am dating a Christian, we are both divorced and in our 50's. Some people in her Church have made comments about being in a relationship outside of marriage, in fact the Vicar gave a long sermon about sex outside marriage and same sex relationships the other week. I am at a loss to understand...

I ask this because I went with a friend to a church recently and the sermon was on "Is gender fluid". The Vicar was arguing from a Christian perspective that there are only 2 genders made by god and that people who feel they are the other gender or who have a genetic problem requiring gender...

I ask this because of a comment from a friend who said he didn't believe the bible was intended to be taken literally and had been misinterpreted.

I am not sure how much this has been covered on here, but I was astonished to see the POTUS re-tweeting stories from one of the most extreme right wing group in the UK, Britain First, without making any attempt to find out who the group were or whether the stories are true. Britain First is an...

Here's one of the prime reasons I would never be a believer in Christianity as I was taught it. 1. The only way to salvation and eternal life is through belief in Jesus Christ 2. Therefore all who do not believe in jesus are doomed to eternal damnation 3. Christian doctrine teaches that...

My Christian girlfriend often says to me "God has a plan" or "it's all part of Gods plan", do Christians believe god has an individual plan for everyone, and to what level is the plan. Personally I think it's ridiculous, if god exists he gave humankind free will, didn't he? As we are now "an...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone I read with horror the article from Science mag, what on earth are we humans doing to the planet, if we lose the insects at the base of the food chain, we lose everything above. We all need to change our ways and to lobby our...

I write this from the UK, with the benefit of BBC news and our news papers so I will have missed some of the background, but it seems to me the Mr.Trump is deliberately raising tensions and the threat of war with these two countries because he seems to be stymied in his domestic agenda. North...

We were all absolutely shocked and appalled by the terrible events yesterday in Las Vegas. In discussing the incident with my work colleagues, someone said that, as usual, everyone is praying for the victims, praying for America etc. and we wondered what possible good is praying AFTER the event...

With tensions rising in Korea and two unstable leaders facing off, the concern must be that the US is the most belligerent nation on earth, has been involved in more wars than any other country, and frequently the outcome is appalling for the countries America was supposed to be helping. Since...

I'm labelled as an atheist, maybe I should amend it to agnostic, because whilst I personally have no belief I always say that there may be something so far beyond our understanding that we label it "God". I acknowledge that the how the universe started and how life started are unexplained, and...

I ask this question out of genuine enquiry. Although I am a non believer, I regularly go to church with my partner (she is a committed Christian), and I listen to the sermons. I have never heard any thoughts of prayers or talks about the destruction mankind is wreaking on the planet, the loss of...