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Why didn’t God make his original message clear?
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Since Jesus arrived on earth with his new message, many ‘prophets’ have surfaced - Mohammed, Joseph Smith, and Charles Taze Russell, to name but a few – and the millions that follow these people are all convinced that their own brand of religion is right. Since logically they can't possibly all be right, there is undoubtedly still much confusion, so wouldn’t it have been more sensible of God to dispose of the necessity for new prophets by making his message absolutely clear in the first place?
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Well, you can always pray for an answer!
For someone who wanted his message broadcast, the god ofChristianity took preciously littlle care. Four volumes, three of them nearly identical, all written at least 80 years after the events, and lengthy explanations and expansions of Jesus's teaching written by one, probably several, people ,but ascribed to one , again written much later, are hardly evidence of serious care and intent.
For someone who wanted his message broadcast, the god ofChristianity took preciously littlle care. Four volumes, three of them nearly identical, all written at least 80 years after the events, and lengthy explanations and expansions of Jesus's teaching written by one, probably several, people ,but ascribed to one , again written much later, are hardly evidence of serious care and intent.
Religionists dared not make up a clear message for their god(s) to promulgate because that would have left them with no vagaries, evasions, "interpretations" and obfuscations to hide behind when their beliefs were challenged.
Creationists, you will notice, never ever explain creation, so ensuring that they can never be challenged on specific points concerning the process. Where rational people strive for clarity theists prefer the fog and the mist.
Creationists, you will notice, never ever explain creation, so ensuring that they can never be challenged on specific points concerning the process. Where rational people strive for clarity theists prefer the fog and the mist.
Is it because God also created Hell (or at least allowed Hell to be created)? Since I have it on good authority (ie. a voice in my head that I call, “God”) that He hates building things that nobody bothers to use, He specifically made His message ambiguous and spread the dissemination of this message over long stretches of time (in human life-span terms) and over a large geographical area so that it was absolutely guaranteed that most people would get a garbled version of the message and hence, find themselves ultimately in Hell – therefore giving Hell a purpose for existing?
Is that the right answer?
Is that the right answer?
//How should it be put forward so that you would believe in it? Give some idea.//
He could at least make his intentions clear here.....
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Birdie, // Is that the right answer?//
ha ha! I haven’t the foggiest idea. If God can’t make his mind up, you can hardly expect me to know what he’s talking about. ;o)
Keyplus, You haven’t answered the question, but have, as usual, asked another question - so I’ll put your own question to you.
After Jesus brought a new philosophy, Mohammed emerged with his version, but since then others have surfaced with important updates which differ significantly from Mohammed's old adaptation. This is clearly a concerted effort by God – who never speaks for himself - to make himself understood, so why don’t you believe anything the messengers who came after Mohammed have said – the more recent surely being the most well-informed?
//How should it be put forward so that you would believe in it? Give some idea.//
ha ha! I haven’t the foggiest idea. If God can’t make his mind up, you can hardly expect me to know what he’s talking about. ;o)
Keyplus, You haven’t answered the question, but have, as usual, asked another question - so I’ll put your own question to you.
After Jesus brought a new philosophy, Mohammed emerged with his version, but since then others have surfaced with important updates which differ significantly from Mohammed's old adaptation. This is clearly a concerted effort by God – who never speaks for himself - to make himself understood, so why don’t you believe anything the messengers who came after Mohammed have said – the more recent surely being the most well-informed?
//How should it be put forward so that you would believe in it? Give some idea.//
Obviously, vetuste, the various branches of the Christian religion didn't read the same book or there wouldn't be different branches differing in their interpretation of what it says. We may take it, even at the simplest level, that the Pope is against contraception because that is against the teaching in the book. We may take it that the Archbishop of Canterbury isn't, because it is not against the teaching in the book.
Earlier Popes, indeed earlier clerics, thought that God had made the Earth the centre of the solar system, because that is what the book said. If they can be so wrong on the reading of plain fact, how are we to trust them on meaning of teachings or know what God's will and plan is?
Earlier Popes, indeed earlier clerics, thought that God had made the Earth the centre of the solar system, because that is what the book said. If they can be so wrong on the reading of plain fact, how are we to trust them on meaning of teachings or know what God's will and plan is?
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