Why did it take so long for Christ to come to earth to atone for our sins? People had been living for thousands of years before Christ. Did all the people before Christ go to hell? Of course, you'd have to believe there is such a thing as sin.
And out of the hundreds if not thousands of gods before Christ you'd need to believe Christ was the son of God. Many of the ancient gods (before Christ) had the same (or similar or some of the) characteristics of Christ. Really? Yes.
Reality check: The writers of the New Testament took god-like characteristics from ancient gods to formulate Christ's "god-like" qualities. Oh dear oh dear, your minister or priest didn't inform you of this?
Isn't it simply that non-Jews created Christianity for the obvious reason that people wanted a God that anyone could worship regardless of their race?
Which brings up the question, why would an all powerful, all knowledgeable God, who knows past, present and future choose only one race of people to worship him? Aren't we all Gods creatures? Why would an all powerful God discriminate based on race? And then... (deep breath) we are to believe that God changed his mind and said... "Well, now that I think about it, maybe discrimination is a bad thing. Okay, at this point in time, any race can worship me."
Of course, this brings up an entirely new point. Why would an all powerful, all knowledgeable God, who knows past, present and future need to be worshiped, anyway? Geez... there are so many questions and too few answers. And the "God works in mysterious ways" is a catch-all cop-out phrase used when Christians don't have an answer for people who ask logical, rational questions about the Bible and their God.
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