First of all, I apologize for not reading it all. I am one of the those people who saw Jesus when I was a child. I have heard the Father speak of "the battle against good and evil has been here since the beginning of time'. God battles evil by delivering souls through His Son, Jesus Christ. I have seen the Holy Spirit. I have talked to angels, demons and the dead.
If the Christian God really exists then he must be an evil bastard.
Why the hell would your God allow there to be so much pain and suffering right here on Earth?
Innocent people and animals suffer here for no reason.
If all of this is the work of some God then he must be very evil for allowing totally innocent people and totally innocent animals to suffer like that.
While I'm not supporting the theory of evolution because I think the theory of evolution is pseudoscience or at best a very incomplete theory, I think that Creationism or Christianity or any variation thereof is simply wrong and not compatible with the evidence we have.
If your God was really Omni-loving and Omni-capable, then he wouldn't make things such as Hell, natural disasters which hurt many people, diseases, disabilities, torture, animals being eaten by other animals and many other things which cause great suffering to innocent people and animals alike.
To me it doesn't follow that because the world is so magnificent and complex that it had to have a creator.
By this same logic, God has to be even more powerful and complex and would have to have a creator.
Complexity in itself in no way is proof or evidence of a god creator. It is only evidence that the Universe is very complex by our standards.
Supposedly man after he dies lives on in gods eternal heaven in eternal happiness.
But if this is true, why did he create sin and punishment on Earth? Or even yet why did he create Hell?
Why not create a world with men that are motivated to be all caring and loving beings, just like him, with no desire to be selfish, greedy and mean? Or better yet, why not send everyone to Heaven immediately without allowing incredible pain and suffering here on Earth?
Religious fanatics claim that humans have chosen to be evil because of their 'free will'. But this is totally questionable because to me, 'free will' does no imply or require evil conduct.
free will n. 1. The ability or discretion to choose; free choice: chose to remain behind of my own free will. 2. The power, attributed especially to human beings, of making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances or by an agency such as fate or
divine will.
A good benevolent god could have created man as a loving caring creature with free will but without any desire or ability to commit evil.
God has apparently already created other limitations on man's 'free will'. He created hunger pains to force man to eat and drink. Why?
He created suffocation panic to force man to breathe? And a powerful sex drive to
force man to procreate? (Frequently in excess of mans ability to feed and care for his creations!
Why create greed and selfishness which encourages man to steel, lie, subjugate, manipulate, abuse and even kill other human beings?
This is supposedly to keep man in line and force him to follow god's wishes and commands.
But in my opinion this is a characteristic of a dictator and slave master not the characteristics of an all loving and caring god.
Why does this all powerful creator, all loving and caring intelligent designer, create Plagues, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Volcanic Eruptions, Wars, Cancers and hundreds of debilitating diseases and serious body malfunctions?
Why does God permit millions of both young and old to starve to death or die of miserable diseases? Why punish millions of INNOCENT CHILDREN in this horrible way?
There is a parasitic worm in West Africa that bores through the eyes of children and causes total blindness for the rest of their lives.
So this is the work of an all caring and loving god???
Why does this all powerful and caring god permit totally "innocent children" to die at birth? Or worse, be born lacking eyesight, a fully developed brain, deaf and dumb, missing limbs etc.?
Why are some born idiots and others with super intelligence? Why are some born into wealth and others dirt poor?
Or why are his human creations designed to deteriorate into a miserable and devastating old age?
Why did this all powerful and loving creator create things like sharks, jelly fish, octopus, lions, tigers, rhinoceros, poisonous snakes, stinging and poisonous insects, poisonous plants etc.?
Why did this caring benevolent god create animals (including man) that need to painfully kill and eat other animals to survive?
World War I claimed 9,000,000 lives of people of many religious faiths.
World II indiscriminately claimed over 20,000,000 lives of people of all ages and religious faiths, plus a vast destruction of property and more millions maimed for life.
The recent Asian Tsunami has claimed the lives of 250,000 men, women and children of all religious persuasions. Over 100,000 of these were totally innocent children!
There were three major epidemics of the Bubonic Plaque - in the 6th, 14th. and 17th centuries. The death toll was over 137 million men, women and totally innocent children.
The influenza of 1918-1919 killed at least 25 million men, women and innocent children indiscriminately.
Diseases like malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis, etc. maim and kill millions indiscriminately every year. More millions die of starvation and malnutrition.
These afflicted the young and old, atheists and those of all religious persuasions.
Meanwhile MAN, and NOT God, has learned to create shelter, heat and cooling, purify water, world wide electronic communication, power and transportation systems including flying through the air.
Man has also developed defenses and cures for hundreds of serious diseases.
Perhaps your loving and caring god is actually a cruel, heartless, mean and torturing tyrant.
If he treats us so cruelly during life, why do you think he will let us enjoy peace and happiness eternally in his Heaven after death? And why does he keep all this a secret by preventing communication with our dead parents, siblings and friends?
If there is a god that created the Universe, he is obviously not an all-caring and loving god. Nor is he an "Intelligent Designer".
The objective evidence is that, if there is a god creator, he has NO concern about the welfare of the creatures on Earth.
The objective evidence is that no God created man but quite the opposite; that man created Gods!