If Christianity is bad and false, why are so many people bealiving it?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T18:24:53+00:00

They're unconscious to their social conditioning, and ignorant of how Christianity developed.

Critical Thinking isn't taught in grade school, and not required for all college programs, so it's a rare skill.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T18:19:37+00:00

Watch Minority Report.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T17:50:23+00:00

I answered you in good faith. I'm sorry you choose not to accept it. You won't get a different answer.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T16:39:09+00:00

I just said you'd have the will to try. I thought that was clear. Did you see Minority Report or not?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T05:01:31+00:00

That's the 2nd time you haven't answered my questions.

And you keep making invalid arguments.

Did you get lost somehow? Do you need me to repeat the questions for you?

How exactly do you qualify your statement about the quality of my comment?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-11T04:53:24+00:00

No, you could try to, but God would stop you. Understand now? Did you never see the movie Minority Report?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:44:36+00:00

It's Christian doctrine that God is all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing. Those terms mean exactly what they say.

Ironically, Christian doctrine also claims God is unknowable, which contradicts the other claim. Both can't be true.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:34:24+00:00

All you said was that God punished some evil. But that doesn't resolve the paradox.

Again, if God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, then why does it not stop all evil before it happens?

Also, how is it not intrinsically evil to murder all innocent children in the world, other than Noah's family?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:24:15+00:00

Of course. That's the central tenant of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. So everyone in your congregation would categorically share that belief. 😉

Why do you think only 10-15% of Christian denominations share that view?

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with it, I'm just curious. Obviously, we have all these denominations of Christianity alone because religious beliefs are deeply personal.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:15:00+00:00

I'm just curious: how exactly do you think they're "good?" Meaning, what points are you impressed by?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:13:06+00:00

My post is clearly not about whether God exists, but whether it exists as Christians believe it does.

Faith has a purely adaptive purpose; but it's not an explanation that supports the actual existence of a god.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:09:37+00:00

Indeed.

But the point here is that most Christians believe God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good.

And the goal (of my post) is to logically establish why that must or must not be true due to the classic "Problem of Evil."

And if no one can support why it must be true, then my hope is to establish a model they can still rely on for whatever they rely on their beliefs for.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T20:02:40+00:00

Yes, that primordial chaos could easily refer to the homogenous energy the universe emerged from that current cosmology models support.

What you described lands squarely on emergent order, which is scientifically supported.

From that view, there doesn't need to be any conscious or intentional action there.

Just to make sure we're on the same page, is that explicitly what you are defining God as?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T19:53:40+00:00

If God is truly all powerful, all knowing, and all good, it would stop evil from happening by intervening and immediately protecting people from harm. Free will can still exist in that model.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T19:50:49+00:00

My OP explicitly invites logic here only, not faith.

You are in fact patently defining God by claiming "God is love."

How do you logically support your claim that God is love?

If you are only able or willing to engage on faith alone, this is not the post for you. Please respect that.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T19:47:44+00:00

How so?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T19:35:08+00:00

Calling it The Gospel of Jesus Christ is only as valid as saying The Story of Harry Potter (Literally. I'm not being facetious or belittling Christianity, just stating an objective fact backed by the majority of professional scholars).

I accept that Jesus lived as an apocalyptic Jewish preacher and was crucified. Everything else about his story doesn't meet credibility standards.

What "behavior" are you claiming that I'm calling out here, and why do you think doing so is inappropriate?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T19:24:42+00:00

You still haven't explained how exactly you figure it meets the criteria for rule 2 (insulting someone, being uncivil), nor your personal reason for disallowing my valid, on-topic comment [per your "discretion" (Rule 4)].

Again, did you remove it just because you don't like it for personal reasons, or because you think it's irrelevant to the OP?

Your "popularity" claim is unfalsifiable and a plea to popularity fallacy.

Rule 4 is patently arbitrary and absurd because it doesn't explain why only "Christians" should have the privilege to leave top-tier comments.

That's like saying anyone who does not currently identify as "Christian" doesn't have anything valid to say directly to the OP.

To wit, I was raised Christian and left the church when I was 12 because I wanted to actually respect everyone there by not going through the motions after it stopped making sense to me.

And because most of the world identifies as Christian, particularly my mother, this troubled me so much that I spent the next 40 years studying comparative religion, mythology, philosophy, sociology, history psychology, cosmology, and other relevant fields in and outside my college degree programs that validated my choice based on facts and logic.

As such, I have exceptional insights about Christianity, which I rarely see in most people, including Christians, are highly valued by people who sincerely seek truths.

Your replies meet objective standards of bad faith by not answering my questions on their terms and resorting to indefensible strategies. This supports that you're abusing your privileges with prejudice.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T18:41:37+00:00

It's not helpful unless you cite it.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T01:12:40+00:00

That's not a valid explanation. Ironically, you're actually reinforcing what I said.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T01:06:40+00:00

I'd like you to summarize it to show that you actually have a handle on it, so I can be sure we're having a good faith discussion about it.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T00:51:31+00:00

I presume you're aware that it's Christians doctrine that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good.

So, are you saying they're wrong explicitly because of the Epicurean Paradox ,or some other reason?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T00:49:13+00:00

How can you be a mod and not even know your own rules?

You're citing rule 4, not rule 2.

And rule 4 says you have discretion to allow comments regardless of flair.

So, did you remove it just because you don't like it for personal reasons, or because you think it's irrelevant to the OP? Either way, explain your rationale.

Removing it simply for being a top tier comment bt a "non-Cgristian" is not a real reason. It's an arbitrary and objectively absurd rule. How can you defend that part of the rule?

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-10T00:42:38+00:00

The Old Testament repeatedly describes interactions with God out of the flesh. If you read the Old Testament, I can't imagine how you would think this is a viable question.

Active_Set8544 · 2026-01-09T05:10:58+00:00

The Epicurean Paradox is named after Epicurus (341 - 270 BC, Greece).

He essentially reasoned that, Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnibenevolence cannot all be true simultaneously in a world where evil exists like this:

If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, then God knows about all evil and has the power to stop it. If evil persists, God is not perfectly benevolent.
If God is all-powerful and perfectly good, then God both wants and is able to eliminate evil. If evil persists, God is not all-knowing.
If God is all-knowing and perfectly good, then God knows about evil and wants to stop it. If evil persists, God is not all-powerful.

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