Hello.  I find it rather interesting that you all hate Christians so much.

Are you proposing something better than what Christianity offers?  I don't

think so.  I haven't taken the time to read your entire site, but everything

I have seen so far has misrepresented the Bible, and consequently God

himself.  You mentioned that you think it is ridiculous that people believe

every word of the bible to be true.  Well, I ask you, would you believe

something that is not true?  Or is it just that you cannot comprehend the

entire thing being accurate and true, in all things??

I read a book a while ago written by someone who set out to disprove the

bible, based on something that he could prove.  In Genesis 10 is found the

table of nations.  This is the bible's account of where different races,

people groups etc came from.  This man decided that if he could prove, with

acceptable external evidence that even one of these claims was wrong, that

the bible would be flawed, and not worth believing.  I forget exactly how

many years he spent on this, but it was close to twenty, and he traced these

names into the people groups and nations they are today, and was able to

prove 99.5% of them accurate.  The remaining .5% there was no surviving data

on, and remains unproven.  From here he went on to other parts of the bible

that can be historically proven, and didn't find one single thing he could

prove wrong.  And you say this book was written by a bunch of idiots?  How

can you say that without ever having met them?  Christians believe that the

bible is the inspired word of God.  This means that although it has been

written down by men, God inspired each and every word that was written, and

so it is infallible.  So my point is that the information and the proof, if

you need it, are available if you are willing to look for it.

About creationism, firstly, evolution is not a science, it is a belief, and

in many ways requires more faith than Christianity does.  Creationism is

also a belief, but, interestingly enough there is much more scientific (by

this I mean proven by scientific means) evidence supporting it that there is

for evolution.  Much of the "evidence" you find for evolution has, on deeper

investigation, turned out to be made up.  Take for example the skeleton

pieced together to form the "missing link."  Turns out the parts came from

different places of the world!!  hmm.  sounds fishy to me.  There is much

geological evidence pointing towards a massive flood, all over the world.  I

dunno, call me crazy, but it seems to me that if all this evidence exists to

prove the bible's validity, shouldn't we take into account what it has to

say about other matters as well?

You also mentioned that there are so many versions of the bible, so how can

we believe it??  Well, the majority of these different versions you are

referring to is undoubtedly taken up by the myriad of languages other than

english that the bible has been translated into.  It is true there are

several English versions of the bible, but I think you will find if you

compare them that they are all very similar, and mostly just differ in

wording of phrases or ideas.  Another interesting thing: if God doesn't

exist, and the bible was written by a bunch of guys who got together over a

beer, how come it is the single top selling book in the history of the

world, and has more published copies than any other piece of literature?

Would people be spreading it around if it didn't do something for them?

People come up with new religions all the time.  How come these don't "take

off" like Christianity has?  Could it be that Christianity can actually

change people's lives and give them hope?  I would say yes.

One last comment:  You say God doesn't exist; you can't see God himself or

evidence of him.  Well, if God were limited to being something we could see,

he wouldn't really be all that great would he?  He is far bigger than you or

I can ever comprehend, and doesn't have to limit himself to being visible.

Personally, I am far happier to know that he is not living on a mountaintop

somewhere, but instead inhabits the universe.  As for evidence, the

complexity of life, and the beauty of creation seems to imply that something

created all this.  If you actually think about it, what are the chances of a

747 evolving out of your local garbage dump?  or even your shoes tying

themselves.  You may have heard these analogies before, but compare this to

humans, not to mention everything else, evolving from a little speck of

stuff.  Stop, and really really think about that for a minute.

You know that when you say God, or even any sort of deity doesn't exist, you

are basically saying that 99.9% of humanity that has lived so far is wrong,

because 99.9% of people who have lived have believed in at least some sort

of god, if not in the God of the Bible.  Basically, you know better than the

entire rest of the world, everyone else has been deluded all along, and a

good thing you came along to tell them about it.  Does this seem a little

shortsighted or ego-centered to you?  Do you believe in any sort of spirit

world?  I challenge you to do a bit of research on that.. there is plenty of

evidence of spirits, good and evil in this world, that might blow your mind

a bit.

Have a nice day.

J*

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