I don’t know how much I can write here but I can go from Genesis to Revelation and explain both the problems I have with Christianity and the questions I have. I am a young 77 years old and have been seriously questioning things for only 4 years. Actually, there have been questions there for most of my life, but it has become more serious to me. So, I’ll start by talking about the fact that we are God’s “failed experiment”.
- I’ll start by saying that it is obvious to me that God’s creation of the earth and mankind is an “experiment”. How else can you explain the fact that He keeps getting caught off guard as you move through the Bible. First, he is caught off guard by Adam and Eve disobeying him and being reduced from immortal to mortal beings while being kicked out of the garden.
- Then we move up to the time of Noah (and yes, I believe there was a worldwide flood). And now God is sorry He has created man. Specifically, He says “The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled”,
- So, instead of going ahead and destroying all of mankind (knowing that they will sin again), He saves Noah and his family to replenish the earth. And so, what do we have today? A small percentage of the earth’s population are “born again” Christians and the rest are supposedly headed to Hell (more about that later).
- So, then He lets thousands of years go by before He decides to send a Savior. So, for thousands of years, millions of people go to Hell because He’s not ready yet to send His Son to save people.
- Then, during these thousands of years, He sets aside the Israelites to be His people. He gives them a whole bunch of terrible laws to follow and kills them off if they don’t obey. In other words, they have NO free will!
- The Israelites continually disappoint Him and so he sends Jesus to save them but ultimately only a few are saved, and the rest exist today without a savior. Another failed experiment.
- As for other cultures, He allows them to set up their own nations so he can have the Israelites go in and kill them all off.
- And there is much more that I can say about this “experiment” but will leave it at that for now.