I was bored, poked around on the internet and googled "christian discussion topics" and this was the first thing that came up, love how they try to do this to people though, anyway, thought I'd add my own thoughts and comments, it's obviously by some atheistic author trying to destroy or discredit Christianity and Religion, by a "Bo Bennet" I think, trying to sell his damn book called "The Concept" anyway this is what comes up first thing (go figure)...
Does God Exist?
God exists, but far more likley as a concept than a being.
A concept or idea is a thing and a thing is being or is alive or exists. Some ideas or concepts or whatever we might destroy, create, or change, or whatever, some, not all, but is a still a "thing" that "exists" for as long as it exists, but that is another discussion for another time.
Can Life Have Meaning Without God?
Certainly. In fact, without the idea of divine meaning, we are free to give our lives our own meaning.
Yeah, everybody loves that, to bad it isn't true and will only end in disaster.
Is the Universe “Fine Tuned” for life?
Tuning implies a “tuner”. Something that must be tuned must also have been out of tune (imperfect) to start with. The initial laws and conditions of the universe are not bound to any laws, and therefore work because they are, not because they are tuned.
Everything was/is (already) determined/predetermined from the start by a predeterminer, programmer, etc, and does operate on or by laws, by a lawmaker or designer that made and/or designed, or whatever, to work and/or operate or proceed, or whatever, according to those laws that govern them.
Do Objective Moral Values Exist?
No, they don’t. Morality is a human-created concept that changes over time and different among cultures. The ideas of “right”, “wrong”, “good” and “evil” are nothing more than subjective ideas that exist only in our minds.
Again, too bad isn't true and will only end in disaster, absolute moral values are/were, long ago or were forever and always known and created by a moral determiner, who determined them cause he knows and always has known them having been through this "song and dance" many, many times before.
Do Miracles Happen?
While nobody can say for sure they don’t, it is extremely unlikely that they do, or ever did. It is easy to demonstrate the psychology behind miracles as well as debunk claims today.
Science actually says 100% belief (psychologically) can alter and change and even dictate and again, change/alter reality if we were actually capable of it. And capable of it "today"...
Do We Have Freewill?
Virtually all people, religious and non, accept that we have some type of freewill. The fact is, we are much more bound to determinism than most people think.
Your contradicting yourself, we are either free or not free, to choose/determine our own morals, beliefs etc, or we are not, so, which is it dude?
Can We Choose What We Believe?
Belief is many deterministic factors that are outside out control. So if we are not completely free to believe just on the basis of desire, the idea of salvation based on belief is flawed.
Again, you contradict yourself if your going to say that determinism is true, fact is, people who will believe or are predermined to believe (a certain way), by a predeterminer, are saved on the basis of that belief whether they chose it or not, got a problem with that, then take it up with the God you don't believe in.
Is Faith Really a Good “Virtue” to Have?
Faith, or believing in something with no evidence, is dangerous in many ways.
Define "evidence"...? A lot of people actually do believe or came to a belief based on some sort of "evidence" some just not the kind most atheists or the rest of the world would accept as "evidence".
What Does it Really Mean to Be “Spiritual”?
Spirituality does not mean believing in another world filled with beings and creatures; it is about having control over your emotions and inner happiness.
Wrong, spirituality means believing in spirits in some shape or form, whether our own, or ones in people, or other kind of "disembodied" ones, or ones not bound to the physical, in some shape or form, period.
Does Heaven and Hell Exist?
Our modern-day concepts of Heaven and Hell are so mythologized, that they are very little like the afterlife portrayed in the Bible. But even the Biblical afterlife ideas are widely varied and based on ancient beliefs. If such places do exist, we have absolutely no idea what they are like.
We know heaven is a very good place to be or go, and hell is a very bad place to be or go, for either good or bad people, as for their actual form, it/they are presented to us in a very symobolic/meaphorical, ect, "way" that is often subject to interpretation, but does not mean they don't exist.
Is There a Point to Prayer?
Study after study, prayer has been shown to have mixed results -- just like one would expect from any factor that had no effect on the outcome. Prayer has its benefits, but they have nothing to do with the divine.
Mixed results from mixed people, and how can you think you can know it never has any affects on any of the outcomes? And again, how do you think you can know it never has anything to do with the divine?
Do Christians Today Really Know About God?
Not at all. Most Christian’s idea of God is the “Gentle Jesus” of the New Testament, and remain (deliberately) ignorant of the Vengeful God of the Old Testament, as well at the Jesus who threatens eternal torture and suffering.
Well, we can agree on this one for the most part, doesn't mean it/they/him doesn't exist though, or never existed, or never did miracles or the supposed "supernatural" though, as proof of their power, presence, person, and existence though.
Do We Need God?
We, as a species, do not need God. But many people do need the idea of God.
The idea of God or a God or gods is no different from the "reality" I guess you could say, of them, so, do we need them, or not? There are never any absolutes ever without them, everything is subject and subjective without them, and that will only destroy us, and, they've been through this "song and dance" already before, as i stated earlier.
Can We Rely on the Authority of the Bible?
No, we can’t. The Bible is far from a historical and scientific textbook.
Yes it is very historical and that much has been proven, and it's not meant to be a scientific textbook. We can greatly rely on the truths it teaches us about ourselves, humanity, and the human condition.
Is Christianity True?
Much of what Christianity is based on is believed by many, to be historical fact.
And...? Your saying that is wrong...?
Christianity is really based on theologized stories with little, or no historical, factual, or scientific basis.
Bull, just plain atheistic bull, sorry. There is plenty of "that" to back it up, sorry.
God Bless!
Can you believe that searches ans such on the internet and such just "automatically" goes or directs people to this kind of bull or these atheistic/humanistic perspectives automatically, it "upsets" me sorry, cause i know a lot of people are just buying this crap at face value and are not even questioning it...?
Is there some sort of conspiracy against Christianity and Religion or something?
I thought searches were supposed to direct you to "neutral" sources first, this is definitely not neutral...
God Bless!
