For Bill and others

[benCA]

1. How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the universe?


2. How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of Biblical stories, places, and people?


3. Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible is of Divine origin?

4. Explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion (Psalm 22) 1000 years previous to crucifixion being established as a form of capital punishment?

5. How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

6. Account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48 (of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in one person, i.e Jesus.

7. How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it occurred?

8. How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the number and proximity to originals of its many copied manuscripts?

9. Are you able to live consistently with your present worldview?

10. Wouldn't it make better sense, even pragmatically, to live as though the God of the Bible does exist than as though He doesn't?

11. If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the 'Good Book'?

12. Did you know that the Bible has been the number one best-seller every year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

13. From whence comes humanity's universal moral sense?

14. If man is nothing but the random arrangement of molecules, what motivates you to care and to live honorably in the world?

15. Explain how personality could have ever evolved from the impersonal, or how order could have ever resulted from chaos.

16. If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men (Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?

17. How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and society to this day?

18. Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers been believers? Have you ever wondered why thousands of intelligent scientists, living and dead, have been men and women of great faith?

19. How do you account for the origin of life considering the irreducible complexity of its essential components?

20. Why does the Bible alone, of all of the world's 'holy' books, contain such detailed prophecies of future events?

21. Is it possible that your unbelief in God is actually an unwillingness to submit to Him?

22. Does your present worldview provide you with an adequate sense of meaning and purpose?

23. How do you explain the radically changed lives of so many Christian believers down through history?

24. Are you aware that every alleged Bible contradiction has been answered in an intelligible and credible manner?

25. What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that carefully document the veracity and reliability of the Bible?

26. Why and how has the Bible survived and even flourished in spite of centuries of worldwide attempts to destroy and ban its message?

27. How do you explain the empty tomb of Jesus in light of all the evidence that has now proven essentially irrefutable for twenty centuries?

28. How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 500 witnesses to a living Jesus following His crucifixion (see 1 Corinthians 15:6)?

29. Is your unbelief in a perfect God possibly the result of a bad experience with an imperfect Church or a misunderstanding of the facts, and therefore an unfair rejection of God Himself?

30. How did 35-40 men, spanning 1500 years and living on three separate continents, ever manage to author one unified message, i.e. the Bible?

31. Why subscribe to the incredible odds that the tilt and position of our planet relative to the sun are merely coincidental?

32. If every effect has a cause, and if God Himself is the universe (i.e. is one with the universe, as some non-Christians suggest), what or who then caused the universe?

33. What would be required to persuade you to become a believer?

Ben,

1. The experts deem the Universe CHAOTIC. If it was orderly as you proclaim, we would have had it figured out long time ago.

2. Not one main thread in the Bible is documented by archiological evidence. Names and Places mentioned in the Bible are valid, but they do not back up the story. Example,
no evidence of Moses and the Jews having lived in the Sinai. The cities mentioned did exist. Those who wrote the Bible were clever fockers. They used a little trickery.
Mount Ararat exist right where it's supposed to be. No evidence of Noahs Ark. Further, the story don't shake out.
If Noah saved the species on his Ark, why did he sacrifice them after the alleged flood. I mean that defeats his intentions and Gods will.

The rest of your points can only be considered if one is willing to accept the Bible as infallable. Which it's not.
Therefore, the rest of your points are not worthy of an answer.

Bill

[benCA]

Bill,

1. To you Bill orderly means if everything is handed for in the plate to figure out. Brain, is something right here on earth and doctors don’t have it figured it out. And according to you, if it were orderly, we would have universe figured. Good logic Bill.

2. No evidence of Noahs Ark? thats not true! As for sacrificing, what you're saying is that why whould he sacrifice animals if they need to be used for reproduction, is thats where you leading?

as for the rest of the points, you simply don't have enough knowledge to answer, thats what I get.

[CastleStormer]

He NEVER answers the questions, and yet accuses us of doing the same. It is a waste of bandwidth.

Great stuff Ben! I salute you.

Ben,

I answered the questions that were worthy of answer. I do not deal in Woo-Dooism. Tell us about the EVIDENCE related to Noahs Ark. Yes you are correct about the Sacrifice. It seems that if there was a NOAHS ARK, sacrificing the animals would have been contrary to the mission.

Bill

[benCA]

Dix, how do you come up with that stuff? lol

[benCA]

Originally posted by B_Ungaro
Ben,

I answered the questions that were worthy of answer. I do not deal in Woo-Dooism. Tell us about the EVIDENCE related to Noahs Ark. Yes you are correct about the Sacrifice. It seems that if there was a NOAHS ARK, sacrificing the animals would have been contrary to the mission.

Bill

You know what Bill, you claim its not worthy. But it just goes to show how much debating with you is useless. I’m not trying to offend you; I’m stating the obvious. But lets finish our debate on Noah’s Ark. As for sacrificing, what, it’s not possible that animals were born during the flood? if Noah Ark really been found, read this
http://www.trustthebible.com/ark.htm
I'm not going to post it here because it'll take up too much space.