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No child of an
incestuous or adulterous union may be admitted into the community of the Lord,
nor any descendant of his even to the tenth generation. (Deuteronomy 23:2-3).
Consider the first statement. If a faithful Christian were to get in an
automobile accident with a resulting injury to his genitals, he would not be
admitted into Heaven. The second statement is even more ridiculous than the
first. An innocent child, through no fault of its own, is born a bastard. He may
not be admitted into heaven. But more than that, none of his descendants may
ever be admitted. These are not characteristics which are normally associated
with justice and goodness. These are petty, cruel actions. This is not the only
discrepancy in the christian Bible. Judah's daughter-in-law, Tamar, is said to
have been a harlot (Genesis 38:24). Because of her harlotry, she became pregnant
(Genesis 38:25). She had twins and named them Perez and Zerah. These are the
descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron was the father of
Ram, Ram was the father of Amminibad, Amminibad was the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon was the father of Salmon, Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the
father of Obed, Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of
David. (Ruth 4:18-22). Therefore David, King of Israel, was a descendant of a
bastard and subsequently should not have been allowed into the community the
Lord. This is a huge contradiction, as David is such an important figure in the
bible.
The contradiction involving David pales in comparison, however, to the
one of the very definition of a supreme being. In Christianity, Christ is
central in atoning for the sins of mankind. Had there been no sins of mankind,
there would be no story of Christ. The nature of sin must then therefore be analysed. It is accepted by Christians that god created everything. If this is
true, then this same god created evil. It is written in the Bible that god is
all-knowing (1 John 3:20). God is, in effect, omniscient. If god is omniscient
and creates, he then knows all possible outcomes of all possible creations of
all possible universes. If he created our universe, he chose what its destiny
would be. In doing so, he chose the paths of our lives. Thus, we can conclude
that the universe is completely deterministic to god and, by being a creator, he
cannot allow freewill to exist unless the universe is no longer predetermined to
him. If this is true, then humanity is merely a collection of automotons. If
this is not not true, then god cannot be omniscient.If the Christian god were
omniscient, then he could foresee his own future. If this being knows its own
future, he does not have the power to change it.
Considering, however, that god
is omnipotent, there is a major conflict with his omniscient nature. If god were
able to change his future, that would mean that god would not be able to foresee
when he would make sudden changes in his future and what changes would result,
eliminating the possibility of his being omniscient. Therefore, these qualities
cannot be held simultaneously by one being. It is important now to look at the
possibility of omnipotence. The Christian god is perfectly good and omnipotent.
Yet evil exists. If god is omnipotent and perfectly good, he could and would dispell evil. Three possible conclusions arise from these statements. God is
perfectly good but evil exists, so he is not able to dispell evil and thus is
not omnipotent. The second possible conclusion is this: that god is omnipotent
but evil exists, and god is therefore not perfectly good. The last possible, and
most feasible, conclusion is that god does not exist. It can easily be seen that
Christianity is a religion based on falsehoods and has many intrinsic flaws.
They are seen by the fact that the followers of this religion do not conduct
themselves in the manner proscribed by their most holy texts. These errors
reside in the facts that these same texts are contradictory, and that their very
god cannot possibly exist. These errors and omissions are then covered by a
vague concept: faith.
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