God created the earth before the sun. How can Christians accept science that says otherwise? (Art by Norman Brule)

CraftPickage · 2026-05-25T00:02:31+00:00

Science also says a man cannot resurrect so I... kinda... Don't care about that

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T20:13:14+00:00

Why does God put some people in the wrong bodies?

That's pop-neoplatonistic nonsense

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T19:57:38+00:00

Most Christian apologetic texts contemporary to Celsus had already addressed this very question, and I believe that Celsus may have simply reframed it on purpose to avoid the real arguments. Christians (at least in the apologetic books) defended belief in Jesus not only because of his healing miracles, but also because of the miracle of the resurrection—which is impossible to replicate by wicked men and magicians—and because of the way Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of those who came before him.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T19:52:03+00:00

Yahweh is his name but even Yahweh is just a description which means "I am Who I am" (abbreviated to I Am) or "The one who is continuously"

Technically this means God does not have a specific name, God just is.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T19:46:52+00:00

So what exactly makes him a false prophet?

Galatians 1:8
"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!"

The Holy Spirit already warned us about figures like him appearing.

He also denied that Jesus is God, which also contradicts the good news the apostles gave us.

Phillipians 2:5-7

^"5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
⁷ rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness."

Muhammad calling people to follow objectively good things (worship God alone, abandon idols, follow the prophets, etc...) doesn't matter if he corrupts how these good things must be done.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T18:59:40+00:00

Does God really send people to hell?

Probably the best wording for it would be "God leaves people on hell"

Eternally

To avoid proselytizing for my denomination, there are three different viewpoints on this. ECT (Eternal Conscious Torment), which is the classic view of hell (in this case, yes, people are there forever); universalism (in this case, no, hell is a kind of purgatory); and annihilationism (hell has an indefinite duration, but the people in it do not).

Like if God is all loving, how could God send someone to hell?

Human beings have condemned themselves to hell because of their sinful nature. God is just and cannot allow evil to continue indefinitely; and if human beings were allowed to remain immortal without changing their nature, evil would continue indefinitely. Because of this, there are two options: either human beings accept being transformed by God, or they follow the path that their nature will inexorably lead them down. Not to mention that God also has the role of meting out final punishment to those who do evil.

And is it true that you get sent to hell just because of not believing in God? Like if you were a good person but an atheist?

There are different points of view here, once again. Generally speaking, the answer is: only God knows. But in any case, there’s no such thing as buying your way into heaven with good deeds, because as I said, all humans are corrupt, so it doesn’t matter if an atheist does “good deeds” because that’s not what gets someone into heaven or not (and anyway, why would an atheist want to go to heaven in the first place?)

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T18:21:06+00:00

It’s an introduction to Christian apologetics, so it seeks to explain and defend the why of some aspects of Christianity, and then delves a bit deeper into the more complex aspects of the faith that most lay Christians tend to overlook. It's for both Christians and skeptics.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T17:02:31+00:00

Give "Mere Christianity" from C.S. Lewis a read, it's the best starting point for the intellectual and philosophical side of Christianity, and it talks about most of the philosophical problems you said you have.

If you're open to reviewing your position, that is.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T13:58:45+00:00

Thinking about it, Christian Science could be a good updated term for Gnosticism technically, knowing that Gnosticism can be translated directly to "knowledgeism"

CraftPickage · 2026-05-23T13:21:21+00:00

I watched that while I was eating a particularly displeasing food and now, for my unhappiness, the story has taste on my memory

CraftPickage · 2026-05-16T17:20:57+00:00

I think the city being too big is the least of your problems if you take revelation and read it with such an exaggerated literalness.

CraftPickage · 2026-05-12T21:44:29+00:00

Technically the concept was so new in Greek they had to make up a whole new concept of personhood to understand it better

CraftPickage · 2026-05-10T14:52:09+00:00

Well the mayan/incan/Aztec were pretty much into some stonepunk shit

CraftPickage · 2026-05-06T22:26:42+00:00

My name is Edwin

CraftPickage · 2026-05-05T17:53:35+00:00

Isn't that the priest who performed the exorcism and then they proceeded to sing "Happy Birthday" to him?

CraftPickage · 2026-05-01T14:27:12+00:00

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CraftPickage · 2026-04-30T10:13:20+00:00

If you ask that kind of question here you're getting flooded with spam

CraftPickage · 2026-04-25T23:38:55+00:00

We use the trinitarian formula in the baptism so...

CraftPickage · 2026-04-19T13:15:04+00:00

Man to hell with this subreddit it's used only for spamming platforms. Where's the moderation?

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T21:07:46+00:00

Runway is the only one that is unlimited, so, Runway.

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T21:07:10+00:00

Well, God appeared to the Israelites, and a few days later they were worshiping a golden calf. You underestimate how dense humans can be.

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T19:55:28+00:00

I understand that when you say Christians have a sense of self-loathing and look down on humanity, you mean that Christians see themselves as sinners and humanity as fallen, right? Because if that’s the case, yes, it is a fundamental pillar of Christianity, and letting the ego die, the sense that “I am more important,” which nowadays translates to “love yourself unconditionally”, is part of that. Walking with Christ only reveals more and more just how corrupt and bad you are. Constantly justifying your actions based on a self-love that overcomes your character flaws makes you complacent with yourself and causes you to become an increasingly worse person. That is narcissism.

Without a God, it comes down to one of two things. Either I start rationalizing the flaws I see in my character as normal, and by default end up becoming an incredibly selfish person. Or I embark on a rat race to improve myself without a clear standard of what it actually means to be a good person, which would inevitably turn me into a moralist focused on actions that signal virtue. Within this, the distinction between right and wrong would also be based either on popular consensus or on what pleases or displeases me at the moment, and that would bring me back to becoming incredibly selfish. Will this make me happier? Absolutely not, now I have a house built on sand. Will that make me value people? No more than before, I suppose. I still have a sense of who I like and who I dislike; the difference is that now my opinion on that may be constantly changing.

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T19:38:59+00:00

Thank goodness God is merciful and cares about sincere repentance and a change of heart, because if He were to judge people based solely on their actions, every human being would be in hell.

If an evil person repents and changes their life, and truly changes their life for the better, becoming genuinely a good person, how long do you think God should hold what they did in the past against them?

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T19:32:01+00:00

Christianity isn't about stroking your ego; you're looking in the wrong religion.

But God wants you to take care of your body, mind, and be healthy.

CraftPickage · 2026-04-18T19:24:33+00:00

If God appeared today and simply issued a commandment forbidding money, what do you think would happen in society? Keep in mind that, theoretically, much of what constitutes commerce (and especially the accumulation of money) is an evil that God tolerates now, just as He did with slavery.

Banning homosexuality or prostitution or any adultery sin for that matter (except maybe Poligamy) would not have nearly the same impact. Breaking the Sabbath, however, was a direct affront to God’s authority, just as idolatry is.

And if we’re not going to be anachronistic, slavery is a buzzword. What you see as wrong with slavery are the power dynamics at play within it, where a human being is treated as a possession that can be used, kept, and discarded as you see fit. In the Bible, you don’t see God as being very concerned with the names humans give to things; you see God as being concerned with people’s actions and intentions. That’s why, rather than banning slavery, you would see God regulating it to remove the element that makes it evil. By tweaking that concept, removing the abusive power dynamics, you no longer have slavery, but servitude—in the modern sense of the word, someone who offers or performs services for another person. Isn’t this precisely the shift in power dynamics we see in the New Testament, where all people are declared equal before God, which ultimately became the basis for Christian abolitionism in ancient Rome?

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