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Yes I am. I'm still an altar boy and have been one since I was 5. I go to church with my parents. I know you think I'm very old because I sound so mature and sensible but I just got my GCSE results last month. If I were in the US, I'd still be in High School. Naturally, my religion is the same...

I was doing a comprehensive answer. I explained why all of us including me misunderstand the Bible and assume it's so terribly authoritative when a proper study of it will reveal it's flaws and weaknesses. I gave 2 examples of serious consideration which will erode its apparent authority. I...

Your question is in the past tense. It's applicable to me. I have been an altar boy since I was 5 and after hearing the reader saying 'This is the word of the Lord' after each reading, I naturally thought that the Bible was REALLY God's word and hence authority. I have been an altar boy for...

No, only a very young child who can't think straight. Read what I wrote again. What you said is a total misrepresentation of what I wrote. I was objecting to the injecting of reason to the existence of everything. I was saying that is wrong. To inject reason is wrong. This is what I wrote...

I am very sure I have asked questions repeatedly. There can be no doubt in your mind that I have questions galore. You even replied that I didn't want to look at the answers given. I explained that all you do is to give hints and to give me a reading list without answering my questions. Anyway...

After all that has been said on this thread, I'm ashamed to see the words 'the love of Christ'. But some of us can be pretty shameless, I'll allow that.

There's no need to discuss further. We are poles apart. Faith has the effect of making people hardened. I think it's the desire to exculpate God that makes people think this way. Normally, a Christian, like all other people, is a good person. He will think it's evil not to pull a drowning baby...

I'm so glad my church doesn't accept your kind of theology. I saw a programme recently of an interview with the past Archbishop of Canterbury. He was asked if he believed in hell. He said that hell was the world we're in now. And the reporter then replied, 'OK, you don't believe in hell.' Of...

Oh my God! This is even more heinous than I thought. So you are saying that God is merciful in letting the children starve slowly to death because if they grew up, they would end up in hell after they're dead? This is extremely irresponsible. It will make people reluctant to help quake victims...

Of course you know the answer. Try again. A baby drowns in a pail of water. He struggles and finally becomes weak and dies. What did God do to stop the suffering? Graham Staines and sons were burnt in their car for hours. What did God do to prevent the suffering of a missionary and his sons...

Thanks for this post. You raise an interesting point. I complain about the starving children and God not doing anything to help. One argument some Christians come up with is to tell the complainant that he should contribute to the poor children himself. Some will even say that God does nothing...

You say God doesn't sit and watch and does nothing. When a toddler falls into a pail of water and struggles and eventually drowns, what does God do? When God's missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were burnt in a car and they screamed and tried to escape but were beaten and forced...

Again, you step to one side and do not address my point. Is this deliberate? I am not disputing that an omnipotent God can overcome death and suffering. I'm saying that of course he can. It's because he can but DOES not alleviate suffering but sits by and watches children being burnt to death...

He means the Bible as compiled at the Council of Nicea, ie the books that we now call canonical. I am... St Truth

As I have always said, if there is an answer, state it. Don't give a reading list. I say all this because I embrace truth, for I am... St Truth

You are wrong to say that. You can't be more wrong than that. I am dying for an answer but so far nobody has given one. Just look at your own post. You hint a lot. You give me books to read but you seem totally unable to state a single cohesive answer. And it's not as if you are lost for words...

I can answer that one. Only a child would think there has to be a reason for everything. That is why a 3-year-old will always ask his dad, 'Why is ....?' The child might ask, 'Why do I have a mouth?'. And the patient mother will say, 'So you can speak'. This childish thought continues sometimes...

Hi withwonderingawe, My grandpa told me to use the Authorised Version since my earliest years. And he's right. The KJV is written in the most beautiful language ever. Many of our English expressions come from the KJV and sometimes a misquotation of it. My literature teacher also tells us to...

You totally missed my point. I was not talking about death. I was talking about God sitting by watching a baby suffering for weeks of starvation before dying. I'm talking about the video I once saw of a street lynching. A young boy being burnt slowly to death. He kept screaming for God and for...

It would mean the God of the Bible doesn't exist. It would mean our Christian God, the Holy Trinity doesn't exist. Because omnipotence is a necessary property in our God. Take that away and he no longer exists. For I am... St Truth