If Christianity is true, why is there so much evil in the world?

PostmodernProphet said:
obviously your standard would not screw people who did not follow your standard.....but if they follow your standard they are not following God's standard
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And how is that??

Are you saying that all the Native Americans who died, prior to the Americas being "settled" were denied entrance to Heaven??
 
kudzu said:
Luke the Greek physician never met Jesus.. Paul AKA Saul wrote some 13 letters in the Bible.
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Luke was a scribe who worked closely with both Peter and Paul........you have no proof that he never met Jesus........Paul did not write any of the gospels which is where the words of Jesus are recorded.........you brought him up in a discussion of the words of Jesus......this is why you are irrelevant......
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
And how is that??

Are you saying that all the Native Americans who died, prior to the Americas being "settled" were denied entrance to Heaven??
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I will leave it up to God to figure out if they had opportunity to believe in him or not, but yes......obviously.......if God's standard is John 3:18 and they do not meet it then yes, they would be denied entrance......but its not what I'm saying........I did not write the Bible.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I will leave it up to God to figure out if they had opportunity to believe in him or not, but yes......obviously.......if God's standard is John 3:18 and they do not meet it then yes, they would be denied entrance......but its not what I'm saying........I did not write the Bible.......
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Sorry that you believe that way; but it's your FREE WILL to do so. :D
 
Frank Apisa said:
Damocles, you insist you are working within the premise of the OP...and I will take you at your word. But I cannot even understand the supposed premise that you seem to find so essential.

What does "If Christianity is true" mean?

"Christianity" obviously is "true" if the phrase means "exists." Christianity "exists." There is no "if" involved.

If the phrase means "what the the Christians churches teach"...we have a long haul before the question can be tackled, because various elements of Christianity teach remarkably different things. Fact is, Paul seems to teach something quite different from what Jesus seems to teach. Catholic teaching is markedly different from American Baptist teachings...as is Presbyterian from Methodist. There is no agreement on what Christianity is all about.

So I don't see how this "conversation" has gone on with over 200 comments without that being sorted out.

I brought that up in the other thread. You never commented.

How are you interpreting "if Christianity is true?"
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I interpret it as the Bible including both old and new testaments being true. This would be why I include details from the stories in that book.
 
kudzu said:
Luke and Paul never met Jesus... Mark was a teen-ager when Jesus was carrying out his ministry on earth.
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Mark was a follower of Peter, and therefore is called an Apostolic Man... However he is likely part of the 72 followers that were sent out two by two to preach the gospel. It isn't like he didn't know Jesus. Luke was a student of Paul who had a personal relationship with Jesus after his meeting on the road to Damascus. Likely again some of the two by two group.

Luke 10:1 (NIV)

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
 
Damocles said:
Mark was a follower of Peter, and therefore is called an Apostolic Man... However he is likely part of the 72 followers that were sent out two by two to preach the gospel. It isn't like he didn't know Jesus. Luke was a student of Paul who had a personal relationship with Jesus after his meeting on the road to Damascus. Likely again some of the two by two group.

Luke 10:1 (NIV)

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
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Paul had a supernatural relationship with Jesus.. so he would be like any ordinary Christian.
 
kudzu said:
There are NO recorded sayings of Jesus..

There are reports 80 years after the fact about what Jesus said when no one else was around.. like his conversations with Satan in the wilderness or his interrogations with Herod and Pontius Pilate.
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We've got poetry written down at least five hundred years later which shows clear signs of the appropriate grammar for the assumed time of composition; people had better memories back then. Homer survived as very long time indeed before being written down. And I'm only interested in his words, not imagined stuff.
 
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