Bevisa att Gud existerar [Sammanfogad tråd /Mod]

1. What's up with all the seemingly gratuitous suffering in the world? Children die of starvation, natural disasters seem to strike at random, murder and rape happen daily. Surely God could do something distinguishable from chance and human effort about these things?

2. How can a loving God send the vast majority of people that have ever existed to hell to suffer eternally when they couldn't have possibly gained the knowledge of Christ necessary to be saved?
3. Why does prayer have no effect whenever it's tested scientifically?

4, How were people saved before Christ? Did the millions of people that weren't born at the right time or place to be part of "God's chosen people" even have a chance?

5. Were the many atrocities reported in the Old Testament really the mark of a perfect, infinitely intelligent, all-loving God?

6. Why did God require a human sacrifice of his own son, who was also somehow God, to forgive us for something we did, yet only those who ask are forgiven? It seems so completely arbitrary, as if people had taken the idea of "atoning sacrifice" that had existed for centuries before Christ and stepped it up a notch. If God was really behind this, why didn't he make something a little less similar to pre-existing views, a little less strange than a guilt-transfer-sacrifice, a little more inclusive than something that requires specific knowledge of Christ?

7. Why were the gospels, supposedly eyewitness accounts, written several decades after Christ's death? Why do three of them borrow so heavily from each other, to the degree that some verses are obvious copies?
Why do the writings of Paul, written before the gospels, mention little to nothing of Christ's actual ministry on earth?

8. How do you reconcile the multi-year, stylistically different ministry of Christ in John, in which Christ openly declares his messiahship, with the single-year, parable-centered ministry of Mark, where Christ seeks to hide his messiahship multiple times?

9. Why did God create a universe that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't seem to require him - the universe is billions of years old, and we can explain a great deal of how we came to be through entirely natural methods - there are no 'miracles' needed to explain the existence of so many living and non-living things which exist, even though we may perceive them as wonderful or complex at first sight.

10. Why did God choose to favor one of millions of species on a planet orbiting one of the billions of stars in the Milky Way, which is itself one of billions of galaxies? Why did he initially favor just a particular desert-dwelling tribe of that species, who initially spoke of him as "their" particular god, in a way indistinguishable from the way so many other peoples have treated their deities throughout history?

11. If there is one true word of God in existence, why does it seem to have great difficulty displacing the competing false words-of-God throughout the world?

12. Why do the followers of the one true God in one place show no significant advantages in things like prosperity or lifespan or protection in disasters over followers of false gods, or no gods, elsewhere?

13. If God seeks to hide evidence of himself from humanity, then can people be blamed and punished for not believing in him?

14. Are God's commands morally good in and of themselves, or are they good because they are commanded by God?

15. Why are some of the least believing countries in the world, like Norway (26% atheists), France (33%), and Japan (64%), among the most developed in the world? If God was real and needed for a correct view of morality, wouldn't one expect their lack of belief in God to lead to decline and instability?

16. To what degree can you trust the gospels on things like Christ's divinity and resurrection when they were written decades after Christ's death; borrowed heavily from each other; contradict each other and other parts of the Bible on things as important as the scene at the tomb, Jesus's last words, and the death of Judas; and mention extraordinary, highly-notable occurrences, yet are backed up by no non-Biblical material written around the same time?

17. Is it possible that a God could exist, but that the religions of today are simply man-made diversions that do the real God no justice?

18. If you knew nothing about the world, how would you learn about it? How would you build up knowledge about what's true, what's false, and what you just don't know? What conclusion would you come to about deities and religions?