People have been worshipping Zeus for thousands of years. People still do in Greece to this day. There’s lore about him, people have “seen” him in visions, dreams or hyponagogic hallucinations or whatever you want to call it, and there are hundreds of stories about him.
Same goes for thousands of others Gods. People have felt them in their hearts, seen them and sacrificed for them.
What makes your God more likely to exist than all of the others?
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Zeus never written the bible……….he never spoke the universe out of existence!!!
God did!
the FSM talked me yesterday
don’t you dare compare his noodlienesss with your fake gods
There are no Gods but derailed Worshipers.
My God can beat up all those puny imaginary deities because that is the way I invented him.
unthinking blind belief assures the existence of your particular god
Faith is not a matter of debate.
Mine wants me to drink beer and find z-grade internet porn whenever I want to – therefore it must exist because I do that all the time…
Christianity is not just a religion; it is a relationship with God. It is a trusting in Jesus and what He did on the cross (1 Cor. 15:1-4), not on what you can do for yourself (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Buddha didn’t rise from the dead, nor did Confucius or Zoroaster. Muhammad didn’t fulfill detailed prophecy. Alexander the Great didn’t raise the dead or heal the sick. And though there is far less reliable information written about them, people believed in them.
The scripture is right when it says in 1 Pet. 2:7-8, “This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this became the very corner stone,’ and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense’; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.” (NASB).
The Mathematical Odds of Jesus Fulfilling Prophecy
“The following probabilities are taken from Peter Stoner in Science Speaks (Moody Press, 1963) to show that coincidence is ruled out by the science of probability. Stoner says that by using the modern science of probability in reference to eight prophecies, ‘we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 1017.” That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. In order to help us comprehend this staggering probability, Stoner illustrates it by supposing that “we take 1017 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man.”
Stoner considers 48 prophecies and says, “We find the chance that any one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10157, or 1 in 10,00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000.” 1
The estimated number of electrons in the universe is around 1079. It should be quite evident that Jesus did not fulfill the prophecies by accident. He was who He said He was: the only way (John 14:6).
Why don’t the Christians on this section ever swarm to the really important and well-thought-out questions like this one?
True. The Bible states that an alter (monument, statue,worship site, etc.) was even erected with the title “To an unknown god” They didn’t want to leave any god out. They had fear of making some god angry for not making such an alter to him/her/it so they made one to try to make sure that no god was left out.
How many actual and real gods can there be? Those other gods–did they do miracles? Did they help people? Did they come to earth to preach and teach? Is there such a place as heaven (paradise) for the people that believe in and honor such other gods? Did the other gods come to earth to suffer and die so the people could be forgiven and go to heaven? Jesus sacrificed Himself for our forgiveness. I know of no other god image that some people may have that has done such a thing.Jesus (God in the flesh) died to save us. It’s not the other way around. We can’t save ourselves and neither can any other god.
I know of few, if any, worship places (churches) to some of the gods you point out. There must be a reason for it.
Good question. As you said, there are “stories” about Zeus. But there is plenty of evidence of an intelligent Creator in the world of living things.
For instance, ever tried to swat a fly? Not necessarily easy, right? Know why? It has to do with the fly’s navigational system. It has a single vibrating rod in its abdomen, and as it changes direction in flight, it senses the changes in the vibrations of that rod and is able to dodge you, fly and land upside down and backwards. What would the Air Force pay to have flying and navigational systems that good?
How did the fly manage to evolve such a system? Even if it evolved a flopping rod, what good would it be without the muscles to vibrate it? And the unusual vibrating motion? And the nerves to send the signals from the rod to the brain? And the section of the brain to interpret the signals? And the correct instructions to interpret them? And the correct instructions to the part of the brain that controlled the wings as to what to DO about those signals? All AT THE SAME TIME. ALL USELESS UNTIL COMPLETE, giving natural selection no advantage to select during all the early “developmental stages”. Wouldn’t that be a remarkable coincidence? I ask people, “Could YOU sit down, right now, and write the code for such a set of instructions? And if your ten billion well trained and coordinated neurons put together can’t do it with an education and a computer, is it really sensible to think that flies did it by themselves?” And how could natural selection select a half-developed wing that still can’t fly? No “advantage” to select!
The fly has a complete navigational system that is self-constructing (in its egg), self-reproducing, self-programming, self-correcting, that can fly upside down and backwards, avoiding dangers and locating and recognizing fuel (food), that requires even MORE entire, completely developed systems that even large groups of highly educated humans cannot or are only now beginning to be able to copy (and only by intelligent design), all microminiaturized into a space smaller than the head of a pin, with the code for it in characters that are the size of molecules (I wonder how many characters per inch that works out to? Pretty hi-tech data storage).
So I ask people, “In your experience, how many complete flying and navigational systems do you know of that have happened completely by accident, with no intelligent thought or design?” “Did you ever read the story of all the thought and work needed to design and build a flying machine, as told by the Wright brothers themselves? So how scientific is it to say that it just happened by blind accidents in the case of the lowly, incredibly complex fly?”
All of the animal and plant world is full of examples like these. Your body is, too. Johns Hopkins University made the newspapers by making one enzyme. It must have been pretty hard to do. It was no accident. But your liver manufactures over nine hundred enzymes, all necessary for you to live, and no one thinks about putting THAT in the paper. “Could have happened completely by accident” (which is what evolution equates to, isn’t it?) But if 900+ enzymes could happen so easily, simply by accidents of evolution, then why put the university in the news because it was able to produce ONE?
This isn’t defending the indefensible things done and taught supposedly in God’s name…
Best regards,
Mike
You can have a relationship with the God of the Bible.
There is an unbroken thread of faith in and obedience to Jehovah that is recorded from the first couple -through the generations of Jewish faith out of which came the Christian faith -the same God is in control of the final destiny of this earth and the human souls who are on it – and he is preparing a new earth to replace this one. There is a continuity in the prophetic messages given to God’s prophets from ancient to modern times – even in this educated & scientific era!
God speaks to his people in many different ways, and makes himself known in many ways. His ways are both predictable and unpredictable! He is both overt and covert!
Christ and God’s angels have been seen in real visions (not dream or trance states)
Encounters with God are the most powerful and transforming experiences that a human can have in this life.
God has intervened in human history all down the years of the human life. Even primitive peoples sensed God but Jehovah was not yet revealed to all races and people groups.
The religion’s credibility (Does it have support for its claims)
My Belief has more credibility than the others
My support for my claim would take up too much space but I have a link for my stated “credibility”
i just believe in one God the only one out there
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