(1) Evil Spirits: Jesus believed in Evil Spirits.
We know now that conditions such as Epilepsy, deaf and dumb, etc. are physically caused, not caused by Evil Spirits.
Why did Jesus not give instructions on anatomy or the brain?
In other words enlighten the people.
The argument might be that this can be excused because of the primitive times in which Jesus lived, and people could not understand the modern explanation.
Or, the argument might be that people were meant to go through the learning experience to find this out for themselves — so, to make better people of them. For their own good!
These arguments do not hold!!!
The discoveries of the science, including anatomy and the causes of illness, were and are made by very few people (scientists), and therefore people are not experiencing this kind of growth. But, people generally are benefiting from these discoveries that they did not make. They don’t have to struggle for information.
People also benefit from this knowledge even if they cannot understand it. So, there would have been no difference in Jesus (God?) helping people by providing helpful medical information and scientists doing it.
Why did Jesus not do it. Either he is not God, but only a man of his times or he is a criminal God, with hardly any compassion.
(2) Second Coming: didn’t happen during his generation as he promised.
(3) Genealogy: Compare Matthew and Luke — both are the genealogies to Joseph, Jesus father (virgin birth?), not Mary’s. This also is a factor in the bible not being divine.
(4) (a) History: of Christ — mad and bloody deeds done in the name of Jesus Christ (Jesus said whatsoever you do in the my name ….. ) .
Examples: bizarre debauchery and bloody deeds of vicious corrupt medieval Popes, 4 centuries of absolute madness during the crusades — millions of Christians, Jews, Muslims slaughtered or starved. 6 centuries of terror perpetrated by the Roman and
Universal Inquisition called “The Holy Office” (not abolished till 1965) — countless 1000’s imprisoned, tortured, burned at the stake. Censorship, imprisoned or martyrdom of scientists such as Galileo, Bruno. Witch hunt mania. All in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God, and Savior of the World — Done by Protestant and Catholic. Horror of Jametown. Nazis atrocities by Christian nations of Europe. Hitler in “Mein Kampf” refers often to the Lord and his abominations of the Jews.
This is the legacy and the relentless outcome of the core doctrines of Christianity in all the different forms (all Christian denominations come from a common source and believe in the same basic tenets) . Some blame these things on Satan working in human beings (even in Holy Men), but they were still done in the Name Of Jesus Christ.
(4) (b) Proselytizing: Historically persuasion with rack, sword and rifle. Paul laid down the seeds of such inhumane behaviour on the part of the Christian Church:
2 Thess. 1:7-9:
“And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
from heaven with his mighty angels. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and
from the glory of his power”
Now: it depends on being “one up” on the proselytized, who is usually disadvantage psychologically, socially, or economically, or else in a state of military subjugation.
This process never takes place between equals, it is always a case of “get ‘em
when they’re down”. The smug missionary gloats when he wins another soul for Christ.
The televangelist derives more tangible financial rewards from predatory raids on the lonely, the poor, the elderly, and the uneducated.
(5) Trinity: Is Jesus God? Are the following true? 1=3, 3=1, 1=2, 2=1, 2=3, 3=2.
This is not a mystery, it is a falsehood to fool people.
According to the Bible the three are not equal, as claimed by the churches.
(6) Jesus is nowhere to found in the Old Testament.
(7) Jesus unfair justice. Jesus proclaimed Hell to anyone who did not believe in him as being God. Hell is a place of eternal flames and torture — never ending.
(8) Many more issues on this site.
God: {Remember many believe that Jesus is God}
(1) Suffering: If God created the Universe and all that is in it, then he did not make
it perfect, at least not for humans. Otherwise there would not be suffering — genetic diseases, infectious diseases, natural catastrophes, death, suffering of innocent children , etc. etc.
This blame has to lie in God, not Satan. Satan was also created by God.
If God can see all things, he would have foreseen Satan, and not included him in Creation.
For plants and animals: Plants often don’t need animals, such as mammals including
man, but animals need plants. Herbivores don’t need carnivores, but carnivores do need Herbivores. It is better for the weak if strong do not survive. e.g. In catching salmon, bears tear them to bits while this sentient creature is still alive and experiences it all
— the same with the fish by an eagle. The way we live Earth may be like we might visualize a heaven, but not so for other creatures (and for many other people).
A fish heaven would be where nothings eats them. The same with a given plant, etc.
Somehow to me this suggests a God that doesn’t care about the sentient beings on
earth.
Suffering and pain, the Bible, and Jesus
(2) God of the Bible: many issues on my website.
Bible: {the only source of information on Jesus}
(1) The brain is never mentioned. The heart, kidney, and bowel are the
centres of emotion and cognition.
(2) Abortion is never mentioned.
Other issues:
(1) Abortion: Zygote is living, so are sperm and egg cells. These are wasted naturally in large numbers. The people that are anti-abortion, should they not protest this loss too?
What about the natural abortion of most fetuses?
Naturalism and Religious Experience 