Quote Originally Posted by LaidZeppelin
My big problem with God and all that is...doesn't it seem a little too convenient that thousands of years ago people saw miracles and burning bushes and giant man eating whales (stomach acids would digest you in seconds, not to mention other digestive processes apparently absent from completely hollow fish) and now nothing. Anything that doesnt make sense is simply explained by saying. "god works in mysterious ways or sense you arent God you cant understand it" thats BS. I thought God gave me intelect and rationality so i could understand things like that. Our GOD GIVEN rationality tells us to reject concepts that dont make sense within our physical world... I think that the Bible was written by many naive people, like greeks who thought there was a SUN GOD or GOD of WAR. Remember it was only 600 years ago that man thought you fell off the end of the earth if you sailed to far...and we are to take the words of men 1800 years or so ago as facts...Also very convenient that when Jesus rose from the dead only 12 guys saw him and a couple ladies i think. He couldnt of gone to market that would of gotten the message out that hes meeans business...

one thing that you do have to deal with though is this: the followers of jesus were willing to die, often in terrible ways, and be persecuted for their belief; it would be hard for me to understand that if jesus died and that's it, that they made up a story about him being risen, and then went and dedicated their lives to the lie, got persecuted, and most of them killed in terrible ways